Bow Tie Bandit

...at ENORMOUS expense. I'm not talking Bendalloy here; do you know what it costs to raise a child to adulthood? Food, clothes. The idea apparently is that they get trained to obedience. So you'd need to have people already loyal enough to grow old and die in a year so they can sit in a bendalloy bubble brainwashing a child to be loyal to you. And never being able to move more than five feet in any direction.

Can you imagine a book about that.  if anyone could make a book about a 5 foot bubble interesting i bet it would be Brandon Sanderson.  It would probably include the Bendalloy allomancer losing faith in his mission years in and training the children to attack those who created them.  

Anyways I think I overstretched but I think it would only be a feasible plan to bring the women to term.  Then they would harvest the children abilities through Haemalurgy.  

 I'm more of the opinion they're trying to create something through Haemalurgy, something that would get people offering a lot of money for; whether it be a mistborn or otherwise is up for argument.

On demand Haemaleglic powers.  Buy a power and one of the children is brought to you and you are given its power.   Messy process.  

It is too bad Bend Alloy is so expensive or else they could just find someone to flare it in the room full of pregnant women and then the pregnancies wouldn't take as long.  In real time the wait would be a lot shorter to see the "Fruits" of the their "Labors".   -sorry couldn't help myself-  It wouldn't be the first time that someone  stockpiled a metal and the rest of the world thought was scarce.  I know that it is a stretch but a fun idea to play with.  What could take many generations would might only take one or two. 

Now I have not read Steelheart since November but since I recruited a friend into Brandon's works (he started with Steelheart) I have been thinking a lot about the story and I was wondering about this power of Steelheart's. He can turn objects to steel and he turned the whole city to steel. What is the point of this power? Steelheart is super strong, fast, durable, OP, basically he is an evil version of Clark Kent aka Superman. He can do all of those things and look, he can also turn things to steel. Is it just me or does that power seem really random and pointless? Does it seem to really not fit in with Steelheart's other powers? Does it seem pointless to the story? Why would Brandon just put this detail into the story? This whole concept seems meaningless but this leads to my theory. I believe that Steelheart's ability to change things to steel will serve a great purpose in the two sequels, specifically Calamity the final book. I believe this detail actually will be very significant to the storyline because why else would Brandon just come up with the idea of this antagonist turning everything into steel? I don't know why he would do this although my guess is that perhaps he wasn't yet 100% evil when he did this (and similar to Lord Ruler from Mistborn, he knew something other people didn't). I think in his last moment of decency he turned the city to steel knowing it somehow would do something good or help protect something. Overall I do think Newcago being steel will have significance because it seems so random if it was just turned to steel for no reason. If I am correct, as I said my guess as to why Steelheart did this was some secret final good intention before he succumbed to corruption. Since I have not read Steelheart in a bit, please let me know if there are things I missed and it is explained why Steelheart made Newcago into steel.

I personally like your theory.  It would be very interesting to find out that the only way to destroy Calamity would be using the powers that it gifted to the Epics.  It know that this is its weakness so it also makes the epics uberevil when they do use their powers.  This would mean that the Epics would have to band together and fight it while fighting their amplified inner evils.  Seems like a plausible ending to me.  Steelheart made the city Steel while angry at himself for being so evil.  and this is just an ingredient needed to destroy calamity.  Just a thought.  

Don't hate me for posting this here.  I have been avoiding all non Cosmere BS books because I didn't want to get even more confused then I already was.  But after reading through a couple of pages of this thread and the Oregon one I now really want to read the Steelheart books. just wanted to thank you for opening my mind to non Cosmere BS Books.   

I would ask to see the entire world upside down for the rest of my life.

 

You know, just to confuse her.  ;-)

She would probably just turn your eyeballs upside down just to get back at you.

Touché fatebreaker. I can truthfully say I didn't see that one coming.

Welcome to the land of everything Sanderson and where the people can't stay on topic even in the intro thread! Don't worry, Brandon will not know who you are so he can't judge you for your crazy comments if you end up meeting him. So have fun. Just not without me. That would be bad form.

Immortality. Because that never backfires.

I bet the downside would be experiencing death once everyday or something horrible like that.  

I am sure that a thread like this has been explored but seeing as I could not readily find it have have come to ask it myself.  

If you came the the Nightwatcher, what would you ask of her?

Even better, what do you think would be what you would get?

I would ask to know all the RAFO.  I would then end up dumb and paralyzed so I could not share the secrets with anyone.  (

/(Well Written Brandon.... well written)

Sounds like Fatebreaker's intent is to have his barbecue flavored human so if he soulcast then that is exactly what he would get.  At least he has the barbecue flavoring.   

This thread is enough to make anyone vegetarian.  (Said while eating a steak)

As far as I can tell the nightwatcher can only grant a wish that affects the person who is doing the wishing.  If this is true then it makes complete sense why Taravangian would ask for the capacity to bring the voidbringers back.  He is asking for himself to be affected in such a way that he can make something happen.  

Man I hate it when I show up almost a month late to a party to observe.  I hope I get an invitation to the next one so I can observe in real time.  

What is the highest waffle stack that has come out of your kitchens?  I am purely curious and would never imagine using it to climb to the Tranquiline Halls.  If you think about it a waffle tower would be the best form of upward transportation (barring flying) because you could eat whenever you were hungry.  

Could it be that the blood is human because of the intent.  I just remember that in many other part of his books intent is very important.  Like in WoB where awakening is very dependent of intent.  

This would signify that if someone wanted chicken tasting meat they would get chicken tasting meat that doesn't have to be made up of human.  

Song: Space form Something Corporate

Book: Ender's Game

Now I can experience one without thinking of the other.  I will actually start humming the song while reading because It is so stuck there.  

Its funny because I listened to many other songs at the same time but I think it was because the song was about space and the book was too.  

 

 

but it seems to me that they have more important things to be doing with their time and with the attention they gather, and helping people is only a short-term thing in the Cosmere.  

I have to agree!  It would be like micromanaging.  If they spent too much time trying to fix everyone's problems they would not get anything they needed done.

I think they need to be more free to keep jumping between world and pushing things ever so slightly in their favor. 

Also we have to remember that if they do too much that they may create too much attention.  Hoid had people after him in WoR and even though we know that he is powerful we don't know how powerful they are.  If he makes too many waves he might end up in a showdown with some real bad mamerjamers.  

 

 

I'm thinking mostly of a minor words of radiance character (which I try not to hint who he is cause of spoiler policies) of whom we are told he is from nalthis and can use stormlight as breaths. it's like having unlimited amount of breaths. he could easily make an army to make the kalad's phantoms look like a pushover. just take all the bodies that the plateau battles leave  behind, soulcast them to stone, and awaken them (or viceversa).  

I understand the theory but I am not sure that he can awaken other things on Roshar.  He can rig the stormlight to feed him breath but I do not believe that he can then use it as breath to awaken.  (Disclaimer:  I have only read WoR once so maybe I missed him doing this already in all of the awesomeness that the book is)  

Thanks everyone for welcoming me! I wasn't sure this was going to be so much fun!!  But know I know.  

I caught that! At least I learn quick

Thanks for the heads up.

Gasp! Have I been missing things on the forums because I didn't think to highlight everything.

Well then! The adventure shoul be somewhere other then earth, in the past, and please include the weeping angels. That would be awesome. At the end of the episode he would give one bow tie back so I can always remember the adventure. It would be cool if I came back for th season finale for a short appearance. I hope someone here grants wishes because I am now super excited.

Only Bow Ties for me!  I must confess that if another doctor came along and wanted his Bow Ties back I would only give them back if he let me come along for one adventure.  Sadly i feel this is becoming too whovian for the Brandon Sanderson  fan site so i will leave me dreaming at that.  

I would like to join the great Observer's Guild.  If you read my introduction on the introduce yourself page you will see that I have been practicing observing for a while and feel I am ready to start the commenting.  The only time you will see me act out of turn is if there is a bow tie involved.  (I really can't help myself, I am a bandit)  

What I bring to the Guild is a truck Load of Jarlsberg Cheese, and rudimentary knowledge of accounting.  other than that I can sing karaoke and can fly in my dreams.  Please allow me to join 

Thank you

Wow you give me too much Credit.  Capaldi ditched the bow tie, for his own reasons that don't make sense to me, and I (like a bandit) stole the extra bowties that were left over so they would not go to waste.   

Well it was more that I liked to follow anyone on the message boards of the book that I have just finished....but funny enough I did like the simple quality of Swimmingly's comments.  I just finished WoB so I have been looking through those lately.