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  1. Shaggai
    It would be pretty easy to select metals, but the whole "pushes/pulls" thing would be difficult. The good thing about Stormlight is that it could be a variety of genres: An RTS, an Assassin's Creed-style game, even grand strategy. On the other hand, a lot of choices/interactions in the Stormlight game would result in a screen saying, in large red type, "RAFO".
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    Feruchemical duralumin + Allomantic brass + nimbleform. A practically unstoppable assassin.
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    Except that this is Realmatic stuff. That means that yes, objects can want to be something or something else. As for the Stick: Would you say "I want to be human"? No, you'd say "I'm human". Wanting to be something and being something are two different things. The stick didn't want to be anything else. It was a stick.
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    Perhaps some sort of passive Cognitive healing, not requiring any sort of direction? The need to specifically perform the healing is what makes it possible to kill TLR and Surgebinders.
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    For some reason I always thought Iyatil was a listener or something like that.
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    That would go against a lot of other stuff with Feruchemy, though, like how tinminds have to store specific senses and not just general sense magic.
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    Practically anything by Two Steps from Hell works for the Stormlight Archive. Particularly good ones: United We Stand - Divided We Fall - Dalinar Kaladin General Stormlight Archive
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    Nightblood's supposed to destroy evil, not serve it!
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    The Witch-King of Angmar: "You fool. No man can kill me." Kaladin: "Then it's lucky Syl is female."
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    Someone needs to write a crossover in which Gandalf, instead of using hobbits to solve all his problems, uses the Alethi highprinces. Setting: Bilbo's hobbit-hole Gandalf: "We must reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug." A highprince: "Is there a reward?" Gandalf: "The dread dragon sleeps on all the gold and jewels of the dwarves." The highprinces, in unison: "We're going on a hunt!" Setting: Rivendell Gandalf: "To defeat Sauron, we must destroy the Ring. And the only way to do so is to return it to the fires of Mount Doom, where it was forged." *Dalinar summons his Shardblade and chops the entire table in half. A rumbling is heard in the distance as the tower of Barad-Dur crumbles to the ground* Gandalf: "I guess I was wrong."
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    Minor? The baby's practically the Stick!
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    People on Roshar hunt chasmfiends. They have some sort of sanity block when it comes to hunting. I wouldn't use "they're hunted by Rosharans" to mean "they're harmless". If anything, I would consider it to mean "they're so dangerous that it's worth hunting them".
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    I think the problem is that you'd have to know what the ideal stamp was, so you couldn't really make a better stamp than the best one you could think of. On the other hand, you could probably Forge yourself so that you got better training in Forgery, which could give you a recursive effect with being better and better at Forgery. It depends, of course, on what opportunities you had to learn Forgery, so there might be a limit to your Forging skill which would be lower than the natural limits of Forgery. A good enough Forger might be able to circumvent that, though, so it would depend on how good you are at Forgery to begin with and what the limit of plausibility is for you. Once you hit a certain threshold, you could probably go on until you hit the limits of Forgery itself.
  14. Shaggai
    Alds. He was the best.
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    Well, you would have to wait until the last book came out, of course. But then it would be cool.
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    Ocean, for the most part. It's been confirmed that the Rosharan supercontinent is the only major landmass.
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    I think that the Stormlight Archive would work better, because the magic would be significantly easier to develop into a workable system for combat.
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    Whitespines have those tusks. I think they win.
  19. Shaggai
    Your son found and is bonding a Shardblade. If I were you, I wouldn't do anything to annoy him. Annoyed three-year-olds with magic swords can be really, really terrifying.
  20. Shaggai
    Even World War I was a better love story than Twilight.
  21. Shaggai
    You can't perceive depth in an image of Roshar, can you? Although Argent is right, projection is a better term. I'll use that from now on.
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    When you realize that Leggatt from The Secret Sharer is obviously a Duralumin Ferring.
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    Nightblood/Adolin's spren, assuming he gets one and is a Dustbringer. It totally fits. Dustbringers do what is necessary to defeat evil. And their powers are very destructive. Therefore, they destroy evil. It's the only possible ship.
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    The animation projects the intersection into 3d space. Roshar, however, is in effect 2d. Since it's shaped like a view of the 3d cross-section, it's a 2d "shadow" of the 3d section.
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    Nope. Not a 2d slice of a 4d object. A 2d "shadow" of a 3d slice of a 4d object. Which means that either the designer was really into weird, complex, and heavily abstracted math, or insane.
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