DreamEternal

Arrrgh! It is here! They are crawling on my brain! The metal, the metal! We are dead!!! *goes uncouncious from overdose*

Drugs, mannn!

Ythvinaj Khriniahnya, priest of the Great fire, please forgive me if I misunderstood something, but I have a question about your faith and its pratices. If I understood rightly, your people is the only one with true souls because only the Element of Spirit held the power to bestow them. Yet, the other elements, who you also worship, created souless beings in the image of your people, althought inferior. If so, is true peace between those with full souls and those with no souls possible, if there is no intermingling or direct contact to avoid the possibility of the stealing of souls?

Make things up as you go! Then write them down to avoid inconsistency. That is what I do when I write myself into a worldbuilding hole.EDIT: On a completely unrelated topic, I've just found out I have a big chance of being accepted by the best university in Latin America. Or what is the best for now, the government has been cutting funds. :/

If he predicted the big duel with no godmetals drugs, then I expect him to travel back in time and hand Mr.T the Diagram with them.

But if Dalinar was reliable enough to not pass out from drunkeness, Gavilar would probably have told him he expected an assassin and include him in his plan like he did with Sadeas.

The almighty does not speak in ALL CAPS. The Stormfather does. Althought I am sure the god of divine hurricanes is a reasonable fellow .

I have no idea how to help you, but wish you luck. Just remember that if you feel you are not interesting or special enough, you shouldn't worry. Everyone feels like that, and yet often things manage to work well anyway.

There is no need to apologise, I've been called much worse things than my official name before. It is just that being called zenith-37 is a reminder that I am a tool, a exotic piece of pyromantic enginnering who looks like a telen. Sometimes I wonder what would become of me if my father figured out a form of long-range instant communication more efficient than telegraphs. My name was choosen by myself, after one of my teachers. I wonder what he would think of it. My father never called me anything other than "mortal", or "37" when I upset him in some way. As for the way a zenith looks like, we are externaly indistinguible from telens. We have a body configuration and general proportions almost identical to humans. The size of some bones and position of some muscles vary slightly, but not in a considerable way. We are on avarage smaller than humans, and height variations are smaller. We also rarely acumulate fat, and our muscular mass varies less compared to how active our lifestyles are. Despite being smaller, we are much heavier than similar sized humans. We incorporate much metal in our bodies, you see, and have denser tissues. This makes us very resistent, but also renders us unable to swim and fast movements exaust us faster. Our skin is grey, generaly varying from almost white to leaden, and some in individuals the tone may vary slightly in different body parts. Males often have thin lines curving along their faces, colored either slightly lighter than their skin, if it is dark, or slightly darker if it is light. It is also thicker and less flexible than that of humans, and must be sanded* regularly to not grow a brittle metalic carapace where pathogenic fungi can trive. When properly tended, our skin gives off a silvery shine in the right light, and displaying it is often a sign of wealth. The only fur that grows on our bodies are our eyelashes, and most see the habit humans have of taking care of and shaping their hair to be eccentric at best. Other than the previously mentioned lines or "strips" some males have, telens, and by extension zeniths, have much less pronounced sexual dimorphism than humans, and many of your kind have trouble telling males and females of our kind apart. Our eyes can be copper-red, blood-red, violet or dark grey, from most common to least common, and are similar in structure to those of humans, but have more trouble seeing in the dark. (* *Not sure if it is the right word. Had to use google translator. "Sanded" just sounds weird. *)

Worst idea ever. MeLaan is like a shapeshifting Wayne, she will probably make things so embarassing Steris will kill herself.

No 0_o. Where did you people get the idea it was? It is from a WoB.

I will try, altought I'd prefer you called me by my other name. Having a number for a name is a... shameful thing for me.The first thing you must know is that I am not a human. I am a zenith. If I had to choose one of the three races to call my own, it would be the telens, for we were made from them, and are outwardly indistinguible from them. I... we, the zeniths... we see the Emperor as our father, because he was the one who shaped us, but in truth, we are the fruit of a century long breeding program, mutated by exposure to controlled etheric frequencies. Althought the purpose of our creation remains a secret even for me, I managed to pierce some information outside of my father's vision. The Emperor, he is the god of flame, he holds the Axis of Rebirth, watching over the eternal Whell of reincarnation all beings with souls go through. But what about humans and kivir? And most animals? And chimeras? Beings that go throught the whell are the exception, aren't they?. Actualy master Ilui, all of your exemples... is there any way of saying this that won't give you the wrong idea? All of your exemples are of souless beings. Humans are souless. Well, yes. The current definition of souls as etheric constructs excludes you. Wonderful. Then I guess all those times I contacted the shadows of the dead were hallucinations? I... no. Souls are different from shadows or minds. They are more... substantial. Like a second body made of ether. Humans are almost void of ether, because of their lack of connection to the Maker. But their minds remain after death as shadows. I think it would be best to return to your creation. We shouldn't be arguing about semantics right now ... very well. After much research, I arrived to the conclusion that the Emperor wished to create more Axis of Rebirth. Why he would want to do that, I cannot say. The project went on with no great disturbances, but was not a total sucess. The forty zeniths created were taught the arts of rulership and piromancy, trained in the ways of politic and warfare, and tested by the overseeing scientists as they grew, each one prepared in case he or she showed signs of being capable of divinity. After years of effort, only I was judged as having a soul fitting the parameters estabilished by the Emperor himself, and was chosen to stand in his presence to take hold of a small part of the Whell in order to be shaped by its flow, like a river carves paths in a mountain. Unfortunately, he had miscalculated. I almost died, and He felt pain for what was most likely the first time since his Ascension. More than that, my body was broken. Outwardly, I miss a leg, half my left hand, and have many scars. Inwardly, I was blinded to the flow of the ether, and am unable to shape it counciously anymore. All telens are able to summon flame and movement, and use the more exotic piromancy to touch minds and souls. My zenith siblings are able to cloak themselves in illusions. I can't even sense the ether of other people in the room. And unlike a human, I cannot used the Dark Art. However, not all was lost. After the failure of the zenith project, my siblings were turned into agents of the Imperial Information Agency due tontheir talents, and while my experience took some of them away from me, it also made my soul capable of ressonating with the Emperor's more easily, and pick its etheric transmissions, with the right tools. So I was turned into his emissary, articulating his agents and reporting directly and instantly to him from critical locations. And currently, there are no locations more critical than Tevirre. (*This was long. Too long. I am starting to worry.*)

She was said to be one of the best, although MeLaan said she was still much below TenSoon. Of course, he was her mentor, so she may not be fully reliable. Althought I happen to agree that Bleeder was most likely between TenSoon and everyone else.

I myself think she will accidentaly uncover a plot by the Set in her quest for the lost three clips.

You know what is funny? In AoL Marasi was compared to Lessie a few times, but from the moment Steris explained to Wax how the nobility's political games worked, and how twisted they could get, I've seem her as resembling Lessie more.

I think it was because I said investiture is magic, even if it follows measurable rules.

No. Actual Rosharan spren in the Scandrian cognitive realm, doing whatever spren do.

So, we have Nightblood, the dawn of speculative fiction, shady scientific experiments, and martial artist monks in Baz-Kor, a place that has a name unlike anything I remember from the Final Empire. Oh, and people hating on Elendel.

What about hemalurgy? And awakening?

In that case, what is magic?

I hope not. The first Era had enough of having to be a metalborn to be special.

So what do you use the brains for? Wait, don't answer.

So there is no magic in the cosmere? Just because magic follows rules and is like an extra set of laws of physics does not mean it is not magic.

Maybe pewter allowed him to live longer?

I am curious about your people's history and culture. Can you tell me about an influential philosopher or spiritual leader? The more ancient the better.