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Consistency before ambiguity; progress before stagnation. I will work for the greater good. I will do what is fair. I will allow others to reap what they sow. These were made with a harsh mentality in mind. You kill someone, it's fair to kill you. Consistency then demands that I do so for all. Reap what they sow allows me to suspend that in times of war. That kind of thing. I suppose I COULD agree to these, because I can impose my interpretation on them. But I would vehemently oppose others who lived by this. I couldn't accept an organization that ran without focus on kindness, mercy, understanding, hearing both sides, second chances, etc. Edits: Well, I suppose I should do some that aren't so serious. I will not respond to stupidity with mockery. I will allow others the right to be unreasonable. I will not correct those who I perceive to be wrong, even if it would be for their own good. I will act when I should. I will not take the malhonorable advantage I see in a fight. I will work as hard as I should. I will not continue to be serious after I said I would stop it. I will remember the names of those I meet. I will paint patterns on the leaves of plants I touch. I will not consider practical jokes. I will complete all things that

Hm. If investiture is caustic and always consumes/destroys something, I see a problem with the fact that the loss/power rate isn't even among the different magics. To start with, we're comparing apples per lawn chair to plants divided by wavelength. You lose color in awakening, but physical speed in steel feruchemy? The other issue is that many of them seem too attached to their individual magic system. It makes sense to have imperfect feruchemy, and it makes sense that allomancy consumes the metal (otherwise you could use it forever?); color based changes on Nalthis where color is affected by many things just 'fits', and Aons are single use rather than continuous-- --Except for the Aons that were continuous, such as the "lamps" that were inscribed. But, for discussion's sake, let's assume Investiture is caustic. What would that do to a Shard?

What Order would I be? I don't know what most of them value, so I can't answer that. Well, Windrunners are cool and would eat Edgedancers for breakfast (adhesion beats Slick any day), but Skybreakers are probably my favorite as far as powers go. What I would really like is Gravity and Progression, but I'm generally opposed to Spiking. Although, I'd Spike some of the more obviously evil characters. So, I'm going to take Skybreaker and grab the Truthwatcher Honorblade. =)

My desktop disagrees...it's 9 and a half years old... .............and my laptop is worse But yeah. There's no suggestion such as get this exact brand and model. What you really wanted to know is what kind of processor, RAM, and graphics card you need. For that, I recommend checking the games you want to be playing. After that, what's the cheapest way to get them? As for external storage, you're looking at $50-70 for a 500GB 3.0 external HD. I would imagine that there are cheaper versions, especially as your older computer might not have 3.0 USB and you probably don't need 500GB for games, but for whatever reason I couldn't find that.

Life before death; strength before weakness; journey before destination. I will maintain the peace. I will help those in need. I will break the peace when it is worth the cost. I will punish those who are led by greed to break the peace. I like the "I will help those in need." Obviously, everyone will come to me to complain and to beg. It forces the question: what counts as "in need"? Do I pay off someone's gambling debts so they aren't picked up by slavers? What if they have a family that needs to be supported? Do I help obtain medicine for someone's elderly relative? What if it was a child? How do I know when someone has come to me seeking the easy way out of their troubles? How do I know when someone has come to me with prepared lies out of greed? The world is never in black and white. Amaram was not pure, the voidbringers are not pure evil. Maybe Odium, I'd like to know his thoughts and motives. A few others I like: All things exist in a balance. If I fail to recognize that, I will lose more than I gain. When the balance tips too far, things start to fall off. When I try to push something off, that too will tip the balance too far, and it will have unintended consequences. If I try to remove ignorance or violence or hatred, I will lose more than I gain. [Love it. What I'd give to have a spren to remind me.] I will not act without both compassion and understanding. Even if I have to kill someone, I should do it with compassion for others and an understanding of my actions. I am a stick. I am a stick.

I am a stick. I would like you to become fire. I am a stick. Yes, but I think you should become fire. Warm...bright...doesn't that sound good? I am a stick. Look, you've got nothing going for yourself now! You've been abandoned on this beach. I am a stick. .... I am a-- Yes, yes! I get it. You're a stick. I am-- Shutup!! ... ... I am a stick! Well you're not going to be one for much longer! I am a stick! You will be fire! I am a stick! ... *sigh* I am a stick.

Hm. I have to admit, I like that theory. I don't think Sanderson would have put that in by accident--not when he knew what he wanted each of the surges to do. And the hemalurgic spike is a very interesting possibility. Here's the passage: .....well, I don't know what to think. She's quite clearly dead. Blood, knives, lifeless eyes. And yet she's not. The Ghostbloods admitted to killing her at the end, but their word doesn't mean much. The question I want answered first is how did she escape? I don't like the hand sinking into the wall. I suspect Jasnah is or will be a world-hopper. Perhaps she has other powers. Perhaps they were from hemalurgy. Perhaps they were from an honorblade. Yeah, I want to know how she escaped. I think answers will come with that.

I have a few points to contribute here. 1.) We can assume that Taravangian will stay his course as per the Diagram, but we don't know that. The developments at the end of WoR (4 Radiants, a united Alethkar, assassin dead, Everstorm unleashed) may make him reconsider. He might have an alternative plan in the Diagram, he might realize the Diagram's predictions are now broken. Personally, I think he will do his best to get the world back on course. 2.) Weirdly, (and probably put there by Brandon so we can follow Mr. T's thinking) the Diagram also includes things like "There has to be an answer. What is the answer?" and "but where, where, where, where--Obvious Realization--[...]can we make to use a Truthless? Can we make a Weapon?" I don't know where this fits in, but it would make me worry. Still kind of does. Why waste time writing it? Super-Taravangian should not have written it like that. At the very least, he should have said "Make a Truthless; make a weapon." I hope for their sake that BS simply had a different idea of how such a mind would think than I do. 3.) If he continues the path of the Diagram as revealed to us, there will be conflict. Part of the First Ideal of all Knights Radiant: Journey before Destination. Taravangian uses the philosophy of the ends justify the means, the KR are founded against that principle.

Taravangian's assistants and scholars were able to decode enough of the Diagram to understand the plan and have him execute it. I suspect that Pattern would have a far easier time than a team of scholars. It might take a little bit, perhaps a full hour to decode the easy bits and 24 hours to get the vast majority (what they've managed so far), and he could probably have the whole thing fully understood (well, translated) in a week. I do wonder whether Pattern could take in all of that information and see the patterns and then extrapolate far better than Taravangian has managed to do since then...

Allomancy is cool, and I would love Feruchemy even more, but... Surgebinding. Specifically, Windrunning. Gravity has been my favorite power (or, at least one of them) for a long time. Right alongside airbending and shapeshifting. Although if I got to pick two individual surges, Gravity and Progression. However, I'd want all the perks that go with being a surgebinder. At least Honorblade, preferably full KR. But oh, I would so love to have Gravity. Oh, and why isn't Kandra an option?

I really want the suspended circular pole with the line of forbiddance pointing downward to be a thing. It seems odd that chalklings can interact with the springrails and push against that force. If one was fighting a single chalkling, could you then just kick at it? Can you put force on a chalk drawing? And are chalklings seriously stronger than people (or at least as strong as, Springrails again)? But whatever, that's how they work. I would imagine that one defense could then be to pin them to the ground--they can't move through a wall, so take a tent stake and stick it into them. As for whether the lines are perpendicular to the surface or to the planets gravitational pull, I say surface. We see people drawing lines on walls, which I believe went out into the room. Rough ground would likely make the line unstable, and there's not really much use for a tilted line, but it is something to consider.

Summoning a shardblade is too much work. Just duralumin an ironpull and duck.