Prince of Ravens

On my last read I thought of this too. Somethings are just too ... counterproductive to be actions for "saving the world". In one of his visions, when Dalanar talks to Nohadon, there is talk about a ruler who started a war before desolation. I think this is an old trick used by Odium.

Shardplate always came to my mind looking like this: And this flame stance in my mind although it is most likely looking like classical dueling pose.

I think shardplates are pieces of souls of Radiants. When they gave up their armor they became drabs. From the Dalanar visions you could see that Radiants were stone faced and emotionless when they left their shards in front of that fort. But your hypothesis have it's merit.

I can stand behind this one. Some people are just too ... downvote happy if their opinions do not match. I will share what I have with those who have nothing.

That is like asking parent which child he loves most. If some one put a gun to my head and force me to make selection I guess it would be something like this: 1. A Song of Ice and Fire (gritty ... brutal ... so metal \m/) 2. The Lord of the Rings (how could anyone who claims to like fantasy genre exclude it from a list like this?) 3. Stormlight Archive (there is a lot to come but this world just clicked with me, all the tropes I love ... and few I love to hate which as good) 4. Wheel of Time (Yes it is slow but that gives it character! And size does matter ... in regard to book sizes that is) 5. Powder Mage ( I don't how this got on my list, it is not that good but novelty of gunpowder fantasy just makes me all warm inside, need more of this)

He died once ... it didn't take because he is femaleparentfornicating Maiar of Valinor. He is a spirit, angelic being, what ever you want to call him. He was sent to Middle Earth with four others to counsel Men, Elves and Dwarves in their struggle against Sauron. He was forbidden to use his power, just to counsel them. That is why he doesn't go all "RAWR UNLIMITED POWER!" *lighting from fingers* That doesn't stop him from attack Durin's Bane ... with a sword ... and winning

Is this even a contest? Gandalf is Maiar, servant of Eru Ilúvatar aka God aka Creator of ALL. He is not a man, he is freaking angel taken human form. What are guys even talking about? How can mortal wizard challenge servant of the Secret Fire and wielder of the flame of Anor?

My English is so bad? Or are you pulling my leg? Of Course you are the other person who voted for Snasnah, otherwise you wouldn't find it offensive that when I voted I said my reasons for doing so are pervy imagination. Than you said: For some reason my post got reported for honesty. And than I responded with: Hinting that it's not ship that is pervy but myself. But point swooshed somewhere high overhead .... And you are still confused. So let's just move on?

And I am just gonna sit here and roll my eyes. It was a joke. Not very good one, I admit,but seriously. I was joking on my account. Can't even quote my self since post got deleted. I guess confessing that your personal reason for voting for two ladies is just pervy imagination was after all a very bad idea. Because someone else voted same but for different reason and that can't happen. Having same opinion for different reasons? Madness Let me make my self clear. I did not say that all who voted or are going to vote on that option are pervy. I said that MY PERSONAL reason is because no one else voted on it (at the time) and because I am pervy like that (I am sure I said "I" here ). Is that somewhat more clear? Geez, way to blow something out of proportion lady. But I guess it is my fault, people always take me too seriously and I am anything but that ... ever. It is my curse. People will always misunderstand me. And I have to repeat my self. And repeating myself makes me eat the wrong flower.

Because I know my self and in my head it's pervy as hell.

Well spren are pieces of God, Gods are Shard Holders of Adonalsium, right? In Roshan that is Honor. So Nightblood as awakened object is made by forgot how many breaths. Breath comes from Nalthis world which basically makes it a spren of Endowment, right? Am I making any sense here?

DeployParachute I love how you concluded your post and I agree with you. I voted for Shallan and Jasnah just because I am pervy like that and because no one else voted for it. But I think I could ship Kaladin and Shallan just fine. Bubbly and shiny on one side and grim and cold on other side.

I will drink the wine till the cup is dry. I will kiss the girls so they'll not cry. I will toss the dice until we fly, to dance with Jak o' the Shadows.

Could be. But Adolin could turn out to be even Stoneward for all we know. Hints are too esoteric for more concrete stuff.

My wild guess is that Adolin will turn out to be Willshaper. “And now, if there was an uncut gem among the Radiance, it was the Willshapers; for though enterprising, they were erratic, and Invia wrote of them, 'capricious, frustrating, unreliable,' as taking it for granted that others would agree; this may have been an intolerant view, as often Invia expressed, for this order was said to be most varied, inconsistent in temperament save for a general love of adventure, novelty, or oddity.” -There are no known Willshapers at the moment. Which is not evidence but still supports that hypothesis. -The way Adolin fought his duels. You can say that it was varied, inconsistent and erratic. -Biggest clue that he will turn Radiant after all is that he no longer feels Thrill. -He likes fashon which is just other way of saying he likes novelty. -Way he explains why he finds Shallan attractive is that she is different or oddity among Alethi. -His talks with a sword and refusal to name it(she/he?) ... So he would get used Spren. That could be useful.

Well that depends. Is language in that fantasy world English or are we reading it in English by some form of translation convention? If we know that they don't actually speak English few words left untranslated would make world seem more alive. Of course you can go all Tolkien and invent new language and new script. It is left to you how much you are committed to world building.

I understand your position and I can respect that. Some people just don't care about sex or reading about it. So don't think my next comment is anything against you, it just reminded me of the comment George R.R. Martin made. See one of this I had to put censure on it just to keep it proper ... other ,which is so much worse, I didn't have to. We have to ask our selves where did we go wrong as society that books filled with blood and gore, betrayal and murder, wars and struggle are considered "clean" but if you add sex to than it turns in to something "unclean" and "dirty". Don't mind my ramble. I am just killjoy at the moment and had to argue semantics and figure of speech But I have to agree on sex scenes which serve no purpose. Having lengthy descriptions of sex just for sex sake is cheap way to keep readers attention. Sorry I couldn't help you on the topic question. I don't really pay attention if there is sex in the book or not ... I just read. Only sex scene I really wanted to read about is in Dresden Files and Jim Butcher cheated in last book. Poor Harry goes years with no lady friends.

Do what I do at the times like this. Find answers in other languages. Less speakers of that language the better ... than you mangle it and create new word. It would be inspired by blend old foreign word but it's reincarnation would be awesome made up word with meaning Let's see: English branded, let's transle it to some slavic tongue. Like Serbian. That would be žigosan. Ž is pronaunced like g in mirage. Zhigosan? "Hey that guy over there is one of the Zhigosan" "Really? We better move out before he decides to burn some poor cleanskins like us." Works ... sort of.

Still developing.My first idea was to keep to six, three defult which are same for everyone and three others to make uniqe style. But at this stage nothing is written in stone. There are blades and weapons made from that material but they can affect only one realm. If they are in materium (physical realm) they are just like every mundane weapon all tho absurdly sharp. Not so absurdly to cut stones and metal with just one swing but still superier to steel. But if some how you could use it while in eternium plane you could really sever persons connection to their eternium image But I already stated restriction on visits to eternium, so technically possible but hardly unlikely. (love it how I speak of this thing as it is real:rolleyes: ) People can leave such weapons in eternium plane with no ill efect to it until summened. Belive me if you can but summing blades is a thing I was dreaming about since I was six years old. I blame video games for that, not on some hidden psychosis. So I am not entirely inspired by shardblades Oh and since crizglass is only inorganic thing which has dual nature (it exist in both materium and eternium) only way to destroy such weapon is to destroy both physical version of it and it's image in eternium. That would be great but such system would be better with no restrictions to number of organs. Well only all of them would be restricated. It would be double edged sword to use. With every power gain you get debilitations as well. It would force people to find balance like you said. In the end only imagination of the user would be the limit. It would make self training hard with a lot of room for deadly mistakes. Turning your blood into jelly because of inattention could be possible result. And that would work just fine in to my story so far. Since one of the new vetrosek users is interested in to forbiden kind of medicine. Laws for cutting dead humans is in effect everywhere, enforced by church mostly. Medicine is advancing but slowly, pharmaceutics is more advanced than surgery. One of the first shows of something wrong is her shrugging off poison which should have killed her. She unconsciously counteracted it with her ... "organ bending" (term which just came to me and which I definitly will never use again )

Will check it out. Modern setting with sort of super heroes, sounds relaxing.

Misunderstandings are awesome. They bring conflict or enlightenment, from both we learn And gives me reason to explain more. Point of human entery in to the world is still open. Scholars called it The Great Gap (a lot of jokes were made about that name ). For some reason eternium particals keep coming but not in the huge waves but in tiny streams. They flow around the world like tiny invisible snakes. Many well versed vetrosek users use their skin to turn them selves in to eternium and use those flows for travel. But that is painful since they comprese their materium organs. Staying longer than few seconds will make them turn permenently which is like dying ... well it is dying. So if you somehow find a way to connect your self with your eternium image you simply go all the way in to eternium plane where only your thoughts sustain you. But that is losing battle, one second of unconscious and you are gone, just few more new eternium particles. For a short time you can do it, but what is the point? Maybe as risky way to get away? Go to eternium plane for a few seconds to dodge the attack? Risk destruction but avoiding certain death. Small chance better than none and all of that. Long story short, you can "blink" a short distance along the eternium corridors (streams which leak in to the normal space from The Great Gap). That is mostly what I imagined. Skin, muscles and bones are defult 3 organs when people open their 3rd eye. I was thinking that other than those three later they gain three more. Which three depends on that persons personality. Intelectuals will go for brain but I was thinking brain is a little bit big concept, maybe certain parts of brain? I really like your suggestion. I guess I should go research human anathomy now. Oh, one of lost techs is crizglass. That is transparent material which has some eternium properties. Kinda like fusion of materium and eternium. Because of that it can exist even in eternium plane unchanged so some of practitioners use it as storage for their weapons. Wow guys I got cold on this idea for a while but I am brainstorming now. Thanks, I needed that. Even if it's still lackluster. I need to add more meat to this.

Hah, funny thing is one of the characters in my novel did just that. Used her new found abilities to become vigilenty. Look at it this way. Your eternium self is you in the mirror, it is not some clone of you, just your reflection. But if you would connect every materium organ to it's eternium counterpart you would shift in to eternium plane and leave normal space. Sort of like making impression in the sand by lieing down. If you want your entire body to leave impression you need to submerge your self in the sand ... so to speak. Not the best analogy? I was hoping to leave most of interpretation to you guys. I have my idea of rules but if I tell you everything I will color your perspective with my own.

I was expecting something racy, like exposed safe hand.

I need critics on my little magic system I have been working on and off for a year and half. Before history humans faught the enemy. Nothing is known about those times, only that we were losing. Than we discovered universe travel. But nothing is simple and everything is simple in comparison to dimension travel. When you open a hole in fabric of space you travel through realm of eternium and once hole is opened you can only travel one way. Like a water leaking through crack. Even more, hole can be open only once and never again to the same universe. So would-be travelers would be traped in brand new world with no way back. One group of humans landed on the world of Zelenkar. What this explorers didn't know is that by their passage they connected that world with space inbetween universes, with the realm of eternium. Their organic nature and complexity of their brains left impression on that medium leaving some kind of projecting. Every human had it's "shadow" or "astral projection" or "mirror image" of them selfs in the eternium. It took many millennia for humans to discover their new connection to the "else", "nothing in between", "eternium", "ethernium", "void". Allright, this is just short explanation of how humans got their powers. Not all of them could tap their image in the eternium. You needed years of practice to open "3rd eye" or "spiritual vision" or w/e else people came up to name it. Dimensinal hole that brought humans to Zelenkar was closed at the point of their entry but not at the point of their exit. So Zelenkar became connected to that realm and many eternium particals kept coming in to the world. Something happend ( I will not elaborated because it is somewhat connected to amaturish book I am writting ) and culture collapsed, history lost etc, etc. You know the drill on lost civilizations and precursers and mistiqe about lost glories. Cliche but still effective. So new people need to discovere their powers to defend world from evil hurr durr. Anyway, what I wanted is to create system which will make every humans magic uniqe but still have rules to govern them and limit their abilities. I wanted to leave mistery and wonder of discovery but still retain some sort of guide lines. Sooo, eternium image is projection of human body. Every organ has uniqe property but you can't connect every materium organ with it's eternium counterpart. You awaken your heart, brain and stomach for example. Heart is pump for blood but when it connects with eternium counterpart it changes blood in one way and gives you ability run longer, closes wounds faster by speeding up coagulation etc. But if you awakend liver instade of heart it would change blood differently. Enhanced stomach will give you ability to metabolise everything, rocks, earth or something like that. And brain works faster like computer, calculating movment of arrows and bolts or something similar. You can throw coin to ricocheting few times and hitting bowmans finger. This are just examples. Every awakend practitioner of "vetrosek" (only one name for art of using eternium power) has it's skin, bones and muscles connected to it's eternium counterpart just by opening it's 3rd eye. Long story short. What kind of mischief can you think of in such setting? What kind of way can it be exploited? I don't really want omnipotency just add spice to the world. Thoughts, critiques, suggestions? Anything can help.

I am not sure. Any recommendation?