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  1. AndrewStirlingMacDonald
    Before panicking, let us remember that no film can ruin a book. The worst it can do is fail to do justice to its source material. In general, I prefer a picture that takes some liberties. If it is a beat-for-beat replica of an already-amazing story that already exists, why does it exist? That said, I really hope that it happens. If nothing else, it will exponentially increase Brandon's readership.
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    Welcome to the forums. Have an upvote!
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    In an interview, Brandon said that Vasher was imitating honorblades when he created Nightblood. There has been some lively debate about whether that means he actually knew about Honorblades (and had presumably visited Roshar) before the creation of Nightblood. There are some compelling arguments that he did, such as the unusual size of Nightblood (which is much closer in size to an honorblade). If this is indeed the case, I could imagine him, as one of the five scholars, visiting Scadrial and borrowing the idea of the Mistcloak (or perhaps inspiring it, as has been suggested earlier).
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    Just want to point out here that metabolizing food to fuel investiture is not unprecedented. It is something that all of the Idrian royals are able to do.
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    Yes, Shash is also a letter on Nalthis. It is the first letter that Siri teaches to Susebron.
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    I've never done wiki editing before, and my experience participating in this has left me very excited. I'm thinking about doing a completes wiki article for Tindwyl next.
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    Growing up I always felt like Marvel had the best heroes and DC had the best villains, and this is more-or-less how I still feel. There are exceptions, of course. I love Batman from DC, and I love Magneto from Marvel. As far as cinematic media go, I really enjoyed Chris Nolan's take on Batman, and I've generally enjoyed the MCU so far. I think the best part of it has been the Daredevil series on Netflix.
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    I play keyboards and sing. I also compose and arrange music for orchestras and small ensembles, so I play a little bit of everything. I love playing piano, and I also have a Hammond B3 and Leslie speaker cabinet of which I am very fond.
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    Sazed has a few moments where he worries that Tindwyl will reject him because of his inability to please her sexually. He even says it aloud to her at one point, and she tells him that she is no longer interested in sex anyway.
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    It wasn't exactly a question, persay. What I said was: "I'm really interested about the ways that time and space work in the cognitive and spiritual realms, and about the mechanics of Realmatic theory in general. Can you tell me something about those mechanics that you haven't talked about yet?"
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    In my signed copy of Alloy of Law:
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    Sorry about that, my mistake. If I blurred out the language would that be ok, or am I better off just not putting them up at all?
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    I have had several great text conversations about Sanderson, and I will share them here. I will issue a warning here at the top that I will spoiler away the spoiler-laden ones. Here you go: Spoilers for Elantris:
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    Prof and Megan at Salt Lake Comic Con
    Love those tensors, did you make them yourself? I'm thinking of doing a prof cosplay later this year...
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    Ah, fantasy horses... http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/when-i-started-writing-game-thrones-i-didnt-know-w-292
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    I really want to see this come to fruition...
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    I believe the narrative bits in the Mistborn Adventure game (as well as the two current expansions) are considered Canon as well. And don't forget "The Hero of Elantris," that one isn't available from Amazon anymore, but you can read it on Brandon's website for free.
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    I finally made it down to Children's Book World to pick up the copy of WoR I ordered for the signing. They had signed bookplates in, but no steehunt cards. The lady mentioned that they were hoping to get him back sometime this year, but I'm not sure if that was an official "We're working on it" or just a general hope.
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    I may have a WOB that could apply here: When I ordered Alloy of Law I asked for him to tell me something about the relation of the cognitive and spiritual realms to each other and he wrote something like "The Cognitive Realm is linked to location, the Spiritual Realm is not. This affects the magics." EDIT: Annnd just realized I double-posted. Sorry 'bout that, I'll add the contents of the first post below here so that a mod can delete it if they want. You should totally post some cosplay photos, there is a section in the "gallery" for cosmere cosplay...
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    Any other cosmere questions? I've read all of the canon cosmere stuff, so I'll answer whatever I can.
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    Yes I am! I'm looking at Philly right now.
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    I wanna be the Stormfather.
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    I'm on my 4th attempt to read through these, the first attempt I've made since Brandon took over the series (getting to his ending books is my motivation for trying again). I'm a little bit discouraged by what I'm reading here (consensus seems to be that 4-6 are the best), because I have never gotten all of the way through book 5 without getting so bored that I couldn't bring myself to pick it up and finish it. I'm partway through 4 now (they just got to Cold Rocks keep) and I am having such a hard time motivating myself to pick it up and read it every day, it just seems boring, like the story is going nowhere. In contrast, I really enjoyed books 1-3 every time I read them. Is there any way that I'm going to enjoy the rest of the series based on already feeling bored and frustrated by book 5? This is a series that I've always WANTED to love, but just couldn't manage to ever do it.
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    I think that this might just be my favorite forum. Even though we don't really speculate about the future turns of events in the series, I feel like I've gotten more insights into the characters - their pasts, presents and possibly futures - here than anywhere else. Thank-you to maxal, kari-no-sugata and everyone else who is participating in these fascinating and insightful conversations!
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    I think it is also worth noting that Brandon says in Warbreaker's annotations that the nurse is a drab, which would seem to indicate that she is from Nalthis. EDIT: Nope, I'm wrong. I'm thinking of Mab the cook. My bad. In that case, I'm on board, now. Nurse Worldhopper FTW!
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