She Who Cannot Be Named

*sigh* I do never get the difficulty right, don't I? We have a winner Kal Dell, it's yout turn. And an upvote for Kobold King for recalling the right name. Jak seems to lead a pretty interesting life. Maybe he gets another column in Sahdows of Self, talking about the exploration of the Pits of Hathsin... erm Eltania.

Third hint: This person is from the cosmere. A one-hunderd percent true story from the explorer himself exists.

You're both pretty far off... Maybe it's been to vague^^ Second hint: Proving to be worthy was my only way to survive this execution.

Only a test of the greatest skill would provide the proof that I was worthy to join them. Who am I?

The blackbane leaf, which Syl gave to Kaladin at the chasm

Kaladin's knives?

Take a cookie Your turn.

I completely missed Ien, probably due to looking for Aons beginning with d... Anyway, I guess it's my turn? At least half of it xD And a noble steed he was.

Lukel or Adien? Their names don't have any Aons in them too...

Correct His name is Bordin btw.

It's time to break the grandfather... ermmm oculator paradox

A trusted servant, told to talk of hidden treasures.

One of the Knights in a vision invited him to join him in Urithiru. This guy? (A Windrunner if I remember correctly?)

SA also has some neat title translations: The Way of Kings (first half) = Der Weg der Könige (just the same) The Way of Kings (second half) = Der Pfad der Winde (the path of winds) Words of Radiance (first half) = Die Worte des Lichts (just the same, again!) Words of Radiance (second half) = Stürme des Zorns (storms of rage/anger) I haven't got the faintest idea, too @ Kasimir: I've only read the Hobbit of the books you mentioned. Maybe you want to give Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl oder some of Neil Gaiman's children books (Coraline or Graveyard Book) a try? They are rather short and not too complicated, and also fun to read.

It possibly is quite a stretch, but to me it does seem like the girl is doing a (Nalthis) version of Soulstamping herself. Therefore... The command replaces the stamp, and the consumed Investiture stems from her own breath? Shallan seemingly "soulcasts" herself to another, slightly differnt version of herself, who she could have been if... (she hadn't been locked into her father's manor for so long)... Similar to Lightweaving, which occurs at least on Roshar and originally Yolen, some magics can be replicated within other systems. (Even though the fuzzing of the girl's aura somehow makes me think that the breath may not be quantised (which seems rather odd?) ???)

Oh, there are a couple more like that... The name itself is not bad at all, but it doesn't really fit the book. Well of Ascension = Krieger des Feuers (warriors of fire) is even worse of a fit.

@ Kasimir: Which books did you give a try in German? I took another glimpse at The Final Empire/Kinder des Nebels, and had a rather hilarious fit of laughter due to all names being literally translated... Apart from the usual guessing game in bookstores. Kinder des Nebels (children of the mist) = Final Empire, Herrscher des Lichts (emperor of light) = The Hero of Ages, Sturmklänge (storm chimes) = Warbreaker... @ dreamingofcheese: gruesome, isn't it? At least we have a very effective ward against such people. ^^ (Or a means of self-defense, at least when you have a physical copy with you) They are missing all the fun. (Even though it's rather funny to watch their baffled expressions when your casually read a normal-sized book (anything with at least ... housenumber... 600 pages) and then they recognise that the book is a different one than the one from the day before... )

I definitely prefer the English ones, altough I started with Elantris and the first two Mistborn novels in German a couple years back. Unable to get HoA, I discovered Warbreaker was freely available, read it and decided that these novels are even more awesome in their original version and stayed with them (In short: I've read all of them in English by now) To be honest, I usually prefer to read in English, with the exception of German authors. Apart from rather strange translations (Shardplate and Shardblade sound rather cool in English, but the German equivalents are reeeeeeally strange. It's not the translator's fault, a noun made up of the combination of two other nouns is simply more commonplace around here. Splitterklinge/panzer... I cannot help but to imagine a set of armour made from some sort of glass/crystal, already with cracks in it... ) and losing subtle hints, the most aggrevating factor is publication of the books themselves. WoR is bound to come out late in October, and that's just the first half of the book, the second one being announced for February. WoK was also split into two books, and apparently many people quit reading after the first "book", because there was no major climax of some sort... In the seldom case that I don't understand anything of the book at all (Terry Pratchett sometimes...) I simply read it in German first and give it afterwards another try in English

thanks @ Quiver: Unfortunatly, I haven't (yet) found any other author in the same leage as Brandon. Terry Pratchett's books are great in mixing technology and magic (especially the ones starring wizards from the Unseen University, or, if you like Science Fiction too, The Long Earth), a more comedic (and literary scientific) approach would be Walter Moers Zamonien novels, or Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next or Shades of Grey. @ Delightful: That's a difficult call, probably WOK / SA generally, due to reading it while it's coming out. But Alcatraz and TFE are a close second. Magic system wise it would be Mistborn (at least until more of Roshar's magic systems are revealed). @ Erai: I'd love to visit Australia sometime, up till now only some of my parcels managed to get there (e.g. England - Australia - Austria being the shortest route and all...) Even though I'm a big Harry Potter fan, my nickname... does stem from one of Brandon's books So shifting letters around may or may not be the right way

... Well, at least mine here on 17th shard (finally *) Most important thing first: Hello to everyone After my somewhat (un)succsessful try to hook friends up on the Cosmere books (some simply viewed them as nice entertainment, unwilling to dig deeper into the fabric of the universe... xD On a more serious note, being from Austria (not the one with the kangaroos) makes this somewhat difficult, as the translations cannot get all the little hints and secrets right, and not everyone likes to read up to 1088 pages in English...) : may the discussions commence (or rather continue xD ). *I've been lurking around in the shadows for quite some time, as I generelly have more of a tendency to read rather than write things. Anyway, here I am now. So far, I've read almost everything of Brandon's stuff (apart from White Sand and some excerpts from yet unpublished stuff) and I simply love it. It may be my inner scientist speaking, but hard epic fantasy ftw