Curiosity

I just use "Gak" from Alcatraz.

Conflux didn't seem to know his weakness... So there's a point for the "Epics-don't-inherently-know-their-weakness" perspective.

Shai's Essence mark with the "peasant" personality programmed into it?

Hazarding a guess at Silence.

Well, a magical item is Invested, right? You can't affect magic with magic unless you've got crazy, Splinter levels of power invested in one man. *Realizes he never specified the context of movies and TV shows in the original post* Uh... Yeah. Sorry about that.

When you see people magically pushing and pulling magical items around and your subconscious mind reacts strongly, saying, "Hey, that's Invested! What are you, the Lord Ruler?"

So, Aladar?

Oh. Jasnah? The victim of the informal poll?

Galladon

Yes, I made that a little obvious, didn't I?

When chandeliers with eight-fold symmetry remind you of the Allomantic table of metals, but you're sort of frustrated by the fact that there aren't any with ten-fold symmetry.

I'm still upset that you killed him. He was so... lovable? Tolerable?

A guy throws stolen property into a hole into the ground to make sure that the original owner doesn't kill him for taking it.

No, it's Star Wars.

In response to B question: Recall that on Scadrial, you have three magic systems: One for Preservation, one for Ruin, and one as an equilibrium of sorts: Allomancy, Hemalurgy, and Feruchemy, respectively. There are three Shards on Roshar, so there will be at least four magic systems, possibly seven. I personally see this Ars Arcanum as an indicator that there probably aren't seven magic systems on Roshar (three normal, three equilibrium, and one meta-equilibrium), but rather only four (Honor's, Cultivation's, Odium's, and the equilibrium magic). This probably means Surgebinding is of Honor, the Old Magic is of Cultivation, Voidbinding is of Odium, and the fourth esoteric one (which remains mysterious) is the Feruchemy analog. P.S. Nice B)'s

Can I call him L'Hopital? By rights it should be Bernoulli though...

There wasn't anything in the book to the contrary. I just think that Forgers were seen as untrustworthy thieves so that not many people studied it. However, I do acknowledge that we don't have official confirmation on any of those three claims that I made. I'll add that to the the list of questions I'm amassing...

Alcatraz?

Your speed is now plausible. Now you always Feruchemically store sanity in cotton when you're touching it. I wish for my paper to be done well.

Yeah, Kaladin has a perk called "Strength of Squires", whatever that means.* And Jasnah seems to know exactly where she's going all of the time. So I would venture to say that you might be on the right track.

Hey Voidus, I'm impressed with the Adventurer. The way this guy thinks is so well done, but sort of creepy, like he can't stop playing the game. Quick question: Will we see the day the Koschei dies? I'm super interested in that! And Altermind's weakness is keeping me on the edge of my seat! At least when I get around to reading this stuff. This quarter is busy...

Titan, I think you've stumped us. I've only got Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and (?)University of Pennsylvania(?).

I read three or four of her books before 6th grade, and I enjoyed them quite a bit. My favorite is still The Princess Academy. I do recommend her work, specifically The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and The Princess Academy (first book). After this point, I didn't know she wrote anything more, since I never found anything more in the library... But I did find this wacky book about evil librarians that convinced me to try a guy called Sanderson. Ahem. To the point. I am quieter, homeschooled guy who read a lot when I was younger. Whatever I liked, I reread. A lot. I distinctly remember checking out The Princess Academy from the library at least twice. And I read it two or three times every time I checked it out. Concerning the "girliness" of the book, I do remember thinking at first that it was about a girl going to school with a lot of other girls. And maybe I shouldn't be so excited about it. But then I realized that there wasn't anything wrong with the book. There wasn't anything in it that would give my mother second thoughts about her son reading it. The characters weren't "girly", anyways. No, they weren't dressed in pink and holding tea parties. Yes, they picked flowers and played games, but they didn't talk like aliens or anything. They were reasoning, feeling, human beings. They were people. And their experiences and feelings mirrored mine to a great degree. No, I never talked about these books with other guys, but that's because, at that point, they didn't have any interest in talking about them. I have always been a little detached from "normal" guys. While the other boys went to play baseball, I listened to the moms talk and tried to contribute to the conversation. (Although lack of socialization for homeschooled kids is often a concern of non-homeschoolers, the sheer volume of time that my mom spent chatting with other homeschool moms convinces me that the moms need socialization even more than the kids do. ) My personality and natural aptitudes lent themselves to a more intellectual, emotional set of pursuits than the expected "mud and guts" flavor. But the girls were off playing house half of the time, and in a war with the boys the other half of the time (about the number of crabapples each side had), neither of which were appealed much to me. I wanted peace and a game of Clue. Specifically addressing the essay: I think that Hale has overreacted a little bit. Yes, the school made a poor decision, the nature of which baffles me. But it made me more sorry for the boy who didn't get to go. Because authors are so COOL! They've told you a story! And it was so cool! I want to meet them and tell them it was cool and hear how you made it! ... But now it didn't work out. I'm more sorry for the kid who was pressured into being stereotypical than I am angry at the school. It's a quiet sorrow, a confusion over the imperfection and brokeness of the world. Another example of this is the fact that my university has a strict no drugs, drinking, or smoking on campus rule. And yet it plays music that says, "I've got to be high all the time" in the dining halls. Why? Doesn't anyone see the contradiction? We're human beings who often can't see past our own noses. This is one reason why I personally believe Biblical Christianity, since it explains those contradictions and the solution to this. So in conclusion, although the term "rape-culture" isn't necessarily warranted in this situation, I would see this policy change in my school.

Wait... no one thought that this was referring to the story told about Shallan noticing the weird dude putting powder in his own drink?

Part II, Chapter 19, Tanavast in bold Excerpt From: Sanderson, Brandon. “The Way of Kings.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/T6mBw.l