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i wish I could, it sucks living thousands of kilometers away.

I agree, it's almost certainly Vin. Cool title there.

Just like it was obvious who killed Asmodean?

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Something else I noticed is that when Shallan ended up in Shadesmar (the Cognitive Realm), she was holding one of the little spheres in her hand, without having picked it up, and she was also touching the goblet in the physical world. I think that even inanimate objects have some kind of reflection or representation in the Cognitive and Spiritual realms.

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happy belated birthday Joe!

great way to brainwash, erm, recruit people to Brandon fandom!

Vivenna is immune to Nightblood's compulsion because she isn't "evil" by the internal logic that it works on, as explained in the annotations. And Vasher helped make the sword and knows about it. All the random mooks that got killed by Nightblood didn't have a clue.

I also echo Seventh Tower for a slow reader. Short books but lots of content.

Hello Pv3, nice to see a new face here. I am CrazyRioter, or Andrea if you prefer. Elantris is currently a standalone, but he plans to write a sequel for it eventually. I recommend the Dresden Files and Codex Alera series, both by Jim Butcher, they are awesome.

Duke Nukem Forever has now gone gold. I guess now we have to find something else to make jokes about being delayed. Also, I hope this game proves to be worth it for the people who have been waiting 14 years for it.

I said this back in February in the "powers and limitations of the shards" thread. so, yeah, I've always disagreed strongly with Chaos's theory.

no such thing as an annoying topic as long as it's legitimately trying to discuss the books. edit: also, I think I heard that Brandon said that the earthquake that created the Chasm and caused the Reod was a natural event. Although if Aona had been alive she might have been able to stop the earthquake from doing enough damage to the landscape to break AonDor and Elantris. Or at least helped the people fix the problem sooner. So maybe the Reod was indirectly Odium's fault.

Or Shallan learning to fight from Adolin and/or Kaladin. That one probably won't happen for a few books though.

We don't have a clue how Szeth comes by his powers, although somebody over at Stormblssed suggested it involves some kind of hemlugy-parallel type thing. Kaladin is probably able to get more power then Szeth from the stormlight, he definitely got a power boost from the Second Ideal. As for Nightblood, my gut says Nightblood is already invested and nothing would happen to him if Endowment was killed and Splintered. my gut could be wrong however.

and I think they use that terminology in the book as well?

I agree with zas and happyman, I remember Brandon saying in the Mistborn annotations when talking about Ruin that there is "very little left of the mind that once was.", that Ati's original consciousness has been so throughly shaped by the power of the Shard that it doesn't bear much resemblance to what it was originally. So Ruin is basically a totally different person then Ati, so it makes sense that he doesn't think of himself as Ati anymore.

remember Kal has 3 glyphs, the original 2 he got when he was enslaved and then the shash glyph which he got just before the main story picked up. If I were him I'd slash up the original two and leave the shash glyph, because having "dangerous' written across your forehead is BA.

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Brandon will only say that the dark-glowing sphere is a "major big RAFO." Which means it's important.

ask him which gender Endowment is. It's been annoying me. Also ask if Endowment is the only Shard that has ever been present on Nalthis.

My current favorite of Brandon's books is The Way of Kings. HoA is my second favourite. I agree with the people who said Elantris isn't quite as good as the rest, it's good but not as good. The magic system isn't as original and well-defined as teh ones in Mistborn and Warbreaker (we don't know enough about Roshar's magic to judge the systems there.)

*cracks up* I'm predicting Adolin and Renarin falling for Shallan, and then Shallan falling for Kaladin. And then Kaladin falling in love with Adolin.......ok not that last bit. I just couldn't resist closing the circle. Actually I'd rather see Kaladin/Renarin then Kaladin/Adolin