Michael Portz

I was a bit surprised about the number of people complaining about the not top-of-the-notch writing in the first chapters. Don't you think, you underestimate Brandon and the importance of "Point of View" for him? A point of view is per definition subjective to the person holding it. The language used to transport what is going on is subjective to the person and the current circumstances. If there is a change in the language used for a certain POV, then it has to do with a change in the person or with a change in the circumstances. The emerging question is: What is going on, that the language changed?

Ah, even more explicit, a few pages behind Pathfinders quote:

Thanks for pointing this out :-)

Bear with me, I am rusty, but please refresh my memory: Is there really an automatism surgebinding => glowing shard plate? Or asked differently: Which current time surgebinder actually wears a shardplate and it starts glowing onscreen?

CACKLE***

Hmm .. I thought Seth's Truthlessness was more about the past ("Voidbringers never existed"), than about any future development of Roshar ("Spren are back and bind again").

Part 1 is easy: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Autonomy Part 2 has to do with the ongoing discussion, whether the Trell religion does in fact worshop Autonomy, or, phrased differently, whether Trell = Autonomy

Do we count this thread under the derailed ones now?

Yepp; at least one other example of bodily adaption of metalborn come to mind: a skimmers bones are/should really be stronger at least when tapping weight.

Well ... some metalborn aparently lead a dangerous life anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_toxicity Perhaps metalborns genetic predispostition just makes them immune to their metals toxicity ...

Brandon just tweeted a link to video showing Kredik Shaw in Minecraft; here is the link: http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/kredik-shaw/ Here the link to Brandons Tweet: https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/689923450970836992 And I would be very grateful, if any Admin could please correct the embarrassing auto-correct in the threads title ...

Hmm ... her faith might play a role here, or? I would have to reread AoL and SoS, but I think it might be possible, that she views the earring primarily as a Pathian token, and not as a hemalurgical spike. Did she and Wax (and the "whole group") discuss its properties at all? Lots of research to do, or am I just blind?

Well, the door already exploded, so throwing the bubble would give all the others in the carriage time to react to the gunman. Of course only Marasi herself can safe herself; and of course we know that she is perfectly capable of THAT! So I wouldnt say Marasi would be useless here. EDIT: Stormgate ninja'ed me :-)

http://www.tor.com/2016/01/18/excerpts-brandon-sanderson-the-bands-of-mourning-chapter-six/

Naaa ... Steris by now ist way too tough to kill herself :-) EDIT: Heeding the scissor in my head

I apologize! As was pointed out by several people to me, the post was inconsiderate. It was not meant to hurt people. The levity I felt writing this apparently did not transfer, bear with me. I love all of the characters mentioned, in the end. But while reading their povs each one of them put me on the edge in one scene or the other. And I think this is mostly due to Brandon writing them like real teenagers with all their normal problems, and their own very-special ones added. While my children where in their age, I was much more patient; and I hope I will be again, when possible grandchildren pass this age. EDIT 160109: another typo ... *SIGH*

I would just recommend the OP, to NOT do this; Shaukan-son-Hasweth is right, you are confusing nationalities with genetic inheritance. Being german myself I am not even close to understanding what you mean by "Iriali ----------------- German" and what the difference between a "European" and a "German" might be ...

This, and of course that hierocracy outright forbade the idea, that "being Radiant" was something GOOD. Only the in-book "Way of Kings" gave Dalinar the idea, that this might actually be wrong.

Perhaps children are "broken" per se, as they are not fully formed ... *THINK* *inviteslogicsprenstothekindergarten*

Well ... being broken in one way or the other seems to be a prerequisite for investiture to take a hold on you, doesnt it?

There -as was to be expected- a whole thread about shardblade weight: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/50178-shardblade-weight/

Another wonderful depiction of a wholly unlikeable youth by Brandon ... he just piles them up ... singleminded whiny David from Steelheart, mopey Kaladin, bratty Shallan, plain crazy Renarin ...

And, no, I don't expect any upvotes from 17 yo for that post ... O:-)

Having to walk on his own feet with quite limited speed after rushing with the winds might only add to his frustration with each step. Ever had to walk to the next gas station after running out of gas while trying to reach your date on time?? Believe me, you WILL NOT arrive light hearted at the station ;-)

I picked three of your points to reply to, in the following referred to as the first, the second and the third ;-) Concerning the first point in my quotation of your post: Wasn't the goal of the parshendi to delay Dalinars troop as long as necessary for calling the everstorm? Destroying his troops was never the objective. Concerning my second quotation of your post: I call that the "McGyver Syndrome of professional recipients"; we do expect our heroes and our villains to act flawless. But neither any hero nor any villain will ever match McGyver; there will be bad judgements, there will be bad decisions and there will be outright failures. The more realistic the protagonists are, the more failures there will be. Concerning the third: Isn't "the thing" of shardblades, that -besides being able to cut anything- they are grotesquely big and weigh nearly nothing? You can't compare them to normal metal weapons.