DreamEternal

I was under the impression he did actusly make people be born as atium and malatium mistings instead of cadmium and bendalloy. How else natural atium mistings like Yomen could arise?

The shards have minimal influence over their magic systems. They arise from the passive interaction between their power and the planet, and while some minor tweeks like the creation of Atium and Malatium mistings are possible, removing an entire magic system is most likely not. Plus, you must remember that the intent of shards limits their holders. While holding two completely opposite shards gave Sazed some protection from being warped by the power, he cannot act against his intents unless throught increasingly indirect means, just like Leras had to use Vin to kill Ati.

Why the downvote? It was not meant to be serious.

I myself prefer histories with magic of variable hardness. The protagonists use magic that follows rules, but those rules are incomplete and can't explain some minor details, and some phenomenons and entities can not be explained by the know laws of magic at all, and may or may not be understood one day. Truth to be told, while I do enjoy theorizing on the boards I don't like the way Brandon writes magic systems as much as his in depth worldbuilding in other areas indirectly linked to them, like the history of his worlds. What do I like the most in his books then? The tones and themes, that manage to be optimistic without shying away from showing suffering and pain. There is hope, there is light, but it demands a sacrifice. And while he uses clear cut divisions between heros and villains more often than I would like, his characters are interesting and varied and I like characters with strong senses of morality, especially in this time when "flawed" and "realistic" seem to mean "selfish" and "amoral" to so many readers and authors. As for what drives me to read, I don't know for sure. Maybe I feel I belong more to the worlds of dreams than the one of reality.

A perfectly reasonable measure everyone hates for no good reason?

Forgive me for not making my intentions clear, souled one. Your beliefs clearly would render such close coexistence unthinkable, I merely meant a... distant coexistence and even cooperation. Trade, exchange of knowledge, pacts of non-agression.

Well, he probably had learned much if it before joining the army, considering evil!Lirin has a surgical chainsword and Tien discovered fissionspren.I wouldn't put it past him to create his own script based on those stellar sequencies he talked about in order to write that book of his. Or to use gravitation to travel faster than light and introduce Rashek and Renarin to one another .

What can I say? Life has not been... dangerous enough this days.And I actualy liked it more once. It is just that my interest faded with time.

Well, I've never liked Star Wars that much on itself anyway. For me it is more about the great service it did to Speculative Fiction by being so rusting popular.

Sounds horrible. Are you sure it is not an urban legend?

Hoid .Also, I don't doubt Scadrial will become more aware of other worlds by the day. I fully expect them to discover the possibility of shardpool worldhopping before FTL travel if things stay as they are, and if they don't figure out how to do it themselves, build a wall around Harmony's shardpool and force worldhopping organizations to reveal themselves.

Unlikely. That seemed to still be Vin's earring.

My favorite part is the sci-fi mismatch in the Bridge Four scenes. "Hexagramic wards are breaking down." .

Actualy, he says investiture is the means through which he [interrupted by Lift]. I think it was before she used progression to grow the vines. I think he was goingbto say it was the means through which he affects the physical realm or something.

Aura, you seem to know much about alchemy. Could you explain some of the core laws it follows and generic rules that can be applied to all, or almost all, powders and mistures of them?

You all would make horrible Lightweavers.

"Why do we need warships? The basin is alone on land and on the seas. From whom do we need protection from?" -so ironic I feel sorry for them. And I am curious which scientific discovery promises to bring them closer to finding out if harmony has a metal.

And you tell me Steris wouldn't feel so embarassed she'd rather kill herself. Worst. Idea. Ever.

That was not what Yoda said in Episode I, and we know how that turned out...

Such is the way of random, young one. Nevermind that I am seventeen years old .

Oh. I thought it was some sort of inside joke about the Dark Alley and mistborn llamas.

Please elaborate.

Because he didn't think he could trust Dalinar, I believe. It is not like he has set a good record for himself.

Fabrials need to be of the correct shape, however the spren of a greatshell seem to follow them instead of being inside its gemheart, meaningbthe connection may work more similarly to the nahel bond. As for greatshells being thunderclasts, I myself find the idea ridiculous, as the only similarity between both is the arrowlike head. If I remember correctly, thunderclasts had clawec hands, not pincer claws, and were described as being skeletal in shape. And WoR confirmed they arise from the stone itself, possessed by a corrupted facelike spren and a human shaped being made of shadows, possibly a listener form. EDIT: Althought I agree Odium may be able to corrupt some kinds of greatshell.

No. I don't want everyone special to have magic.