Blaze1616

I actually enjoyed the show. It wasn't terrible, I learned some interesting things, and overall would not classify the hour as a waste of my time. We knew it wasn't going to just be a Fantasy-fest with Brandon and Rothfuss monopolizing the time, and Brandon even said he wasn't sure they'd even bother using his footage at all, so the moment the show had a much more horror-like tone than I had originally thought, I knew he wouldn't get much time, and I was truly surprised to see they did include him.

You beat me by three minutes...

Now that's not a bad idea.

Out of curiosity, why not just tell her that you're going to get a single bedroom? Put your foot down. Be assertive. Cuddle with Bruno after the ensuing storm blows over? Eh, it became less of a good idea the more I typed...

The AA author has always been Khriss, so I don't see why that would change now. Khriss is from an unpublished work, if you don't know.

Yes but that answer doesn't actually answer my question. And I know, those are the Tia plates I mention in the question itself. But those are stationary, and we only see Aon Tia ones. I want to know if it can be done with other Aons, and if they can be made portable. Obviously. I'm very spoiler sensitive, these are all questions for the signing line itself. I'm not planning on posing one during the general Q&A, mostly because I know all the standard answers already.

That's devillish. Unless he gives the attribute, he's essentially saying we'll see the earing again...good enough for me.

I'll be attending the Lansing signing, hopefully recording the signing, though the employees of the store have not been very friendly so far. I'm super excited. Anyways, here's the questions I've currently got lined up. They're questions I asked on his AMA that didn't get answered, as well as some about SoS. I'll be asking them in no particular order. Let me know if I shouldn't ask any of these questions... Obviously I don't think I'll get to ask all of these, but the store did say I could go through the line more than once, so yeah. If it wasn't clear, this is the thread I'll post the after-signing report stuff into.

We were told three times? I don't recall any of them, please do share. Considering even the kandra within this novel were convinced she was using hemalurgic spikes to gain the abilities, remember that it was MeLaan who said she'd have to be falling onto the new spike each time she wanted to swap powers, I feel a contradiction coming on, or the revelation that I've completely missed something... And I understand your point about insanity, but I still disagree. I wouldn't say she was at the point of no longer exhibiting normal perception, considering her perception of the situation was actually pretty spot on, and her social interactions were generally within the realm of normal. I'd argue her only issue was the decision to incite the riots, and of course the murders. But then, given her goals, I wouldn't say they're all that outside the realm of normal either. This is how I'm thinking of it. Paalm is working under the belief that she's at war with Harmony. When at war, you do what you must to undermine the enemy. That's what she was doing. To undermine Harmony, she had to keep him from being able to see, hear, and act, which is what she was striving for. Her final blow to the god would have then been to dismantle his prized city, utilizing those he found most precious; the people of Elendel. Seems pretty sane to me. Nothing rude about your reply, we're all friends and fellow Cosmere scientists! Criticism should be welcomed, and if I didn't want people disagreeing with me, I shouldn't have posted the theory That being said, I completely disagree with you. I'll not touch on the arguments presented by Argent, so I'll touch on other things. First off, just because there is a Shard representing the emotion of odium does not mean that every time hatred pops up in a book we need to prescribe it to Odium. It's not like hatred is such a rare emotion. If I were in Wax's position I'd hate Harmony too at that moment. Don't let your emotions for Sazed cloud your judgement on his performance as God. What he did might have been for the best in the long run, but it was pretty crappy for Waxillium Ladrian. Stormlight Spoilers As for Autonomy, Argent hit the big point about Autonomy not meaning he avoids conflict or meddling. Autonomy simply means being free of external control, something that fits with Paalm wanting to avoid being controlled by Harmony.

I also like to think that, since Sazed was a bit of a scholar, he wanted to see how two separate societies would advance.

My point was you guys are acting like Shallash and Ialai don't both work, but they do. Sh-ah-ll-ah-sh Ee-ah-l-ah-ee I'm not understanding why you don't think they both fit under the same rules. A Palindrome is a palindrome. It's a single word with a single definition. They all fit, because they all fit within that single definition.

Sure buddy. Here you go. It's under his "Info on Shadows of Self" spoiler tag. I have to disagree on both counts. My impression from the Marasi scene at the end was that the new spike was one they found that they had not expected to find alongside the one they did expect. Perhaps I'm misremembering, and perhaps I'm not fully understanding Hemalurgy correctly. I also thought that in Hemalurgy, there were only single pairs. One type of spike place in a specific location would steal one type of investiture. I'd say Paalm was very sane. Here's a quick snippet of a definition: For her to be cold, methodical, logical, and calculating, as you put it, she'd have to be sane. Nothing she does really proffers the label of insane either, and the means with which the "good guys" discuss her insanity imply that she'd be unstable. But throughout the whole book she was very stable. The only arguably insane thing she did was murder people, but she wasn't murdering blindly, instead specifically targeting people to further her goals, which I would not call insane at all. After all, murder =/= insanity.

Right, however I don't think TenSoon would have said something like that were he knowledgable of him holding some spare Ruin. I'm thinking that option 3 is the most likely of the 3 I listed.

All right, I tried to keep that title from spoiling anything, considering the reader knows Paalm has at least one spike the whole book, but let me know if it needs to change. So we've all been clamoring with theories, and rightfully so, particularly about Paalm and her wonderspike. We also know, thanks to Chaos, that the spike is from a Shard we know. As many have detailed in other threads, the likely candidates are Autonomy or Odium, as none of the other Shards we know of are 1) alive or 2) give a flying lick about Scadrial or Harmony. In addition, we've all been curious as to how Paalm could speak to Wax's mind in a way similar to Harmony, and many have been saying this ability is due to the wonderspike. I apologize if this has been stated before, and if so please point me to the source. Hypothesis 1: The spike is of Autonomy, and not Odium. As a result, the spike grants Paalm her autonomy in regards to Harmony. Reasoning: Paalm kept her sanity. This means that she had more than one spike within her. I know what you're thinking: Blaze, that's obvious, it says so in the book, as they found that polka-dotted spike in her along with the one granting her allomantic steel! Correct, and I'm saying she keeps her autonomy because of that spike. The spike grants her the ability to be autonomous of Harmony. We know that Preservation had some access to the spikes, even though Hemalurgy is of Ruin. Harmony says outright that while Ruin could speak to spiked individuals, it was Preservation who could hear those people's thoughts. So why, then, would this new spike be invisible to Harmony? Sure, it being of a different Shard might prevent Harmony from controlling it, but that doesn't mean Harmony should be blind to it. Hypothesis 2: Paalm got her hands on that extra bit of Ruin, either directly or indirectly from Harmony. Reasoning: It was made very clear in the book that Paalm had Ruin's power to speak with hemalurgic people. She couldn't hear them, only speak to them. As I've said, this is specifically something Ruin could do. In addition, Paalm's plan of "overthrowing" Harmony is exactly the plan Ruin would use. Her whole purpose was to bring Elendel into chaos. There could easily be other ways of doing so, given her more expansive knowledge about the situation, but she specifically focuses on bringing Elendel to its knees. Now, we know that Harmony has an extra bit of Ruin due to Preservation's gambit to keep Ruin in check prior to and during Era 1. We also have a very coy WoB of "Well I wonder what Harmony could possibly be doing with that extra Ruin?" My theory would suggest that Harmony did one of a few options: 1) He gave this power directly to Paalm. This seems rather unlikely, but it would fit with the theory. Perhaps Saze did so as a means to convince/force Paalm to kill herself as Lessie, just a thought. 2) He gave this power to kandra as a whole. None of the other kandra have spoken to Wax using this method, but it too is a possible reason for why Paalm would have the ability. Perhaps the little bit that Paalm gets is enough, or perhaps she managed to take some from other kandra. We don't really have enough information to judge this possibility further, aside from TenSoon's comment which seems to contradict this possibility. He says that Wax is Harmony's Ruin, while he is Harmony's Preservation. Perhaps TenSoon wasn't given part of the power, but other kandra were, though that feels a bit like straw grasping to me. 3) Harmony discharged the Ruin into someone/something else, and Paalm got her hands on it. The first thing that jumps to my mind are the Bands of Mourning, as it offers us an easy lead into the next novel, as well as providing a base story line to follow throughout the trilogy. In addition, the Bands are made of atium, so perhaps that's the reasoning why Harmony can store some Ruin in them. I can't really think of any other possibilities as for where Sazed would store the extra Ruin, but I am a bit rusty on my Era 1 knowledge for important artifacts. tl;dr: The extra spike is of Autonomy and grants autonomy from Harmony. The ability to speak to spiked people's minds came from that extra bit of Ruin that Harmony has hidden somewhere.

I think you guys are incorrectly defining a palindrome as symmetrical either phoenetically or syntactically. Palindrome according to Marriam-Webster: a word, phrase, or number that reads the same backward or forward So Laral works. Ialai works. Shallash works. Talenelat works. Jezerezeh works based on the odd rule of 'h' being the Ditto of the Rosharan alphabet.

Yeah I found Chaos's post about it literally five minutes after the post above. Heh...

I think it's a little early to say it has to be either Odium or Autonomy. We still only know what, half the Shards? It could have been any of the other half, minus the other one who is dead, so I don't think we should think it set in stone it's one of those two. I mean, neither are even hinted at in the novel, all we actually know is the local name of Trell. That being said, I do find Autonomy highly suspect, considering Paalm had this new metal in her body, and was managing to stay autonomous to Harmony...so yeah... All he'd need is slightly enhanced hearing, considering Wayne could hear Wax from outside the carriage. It doesn't really mention if Wayne could clearly hear what Wax was saying, but he could at least hear Wax's voice and recognize that Wax was having a conversation with another entity (likely an easy guess given Wax's pauses in speech). So if Hoid has access to either allomantic or feruchemic Tin, then I'd say he could definitely listen in if he chose to. And I'd say him having access to either of those Tin abilities isn't much of a stretch, given what we know about him.

I'm more of the opinion that she had two spikes the whole time. One for Allomancy/Feruchemy, and one to keep her hidden from Harmony. That fits with Autonomy, assuming that's who Trell is. This way she'd keep her sanity, can switch allomantic/feruchemic spikes without necessarily having to go Mistwraith, and also explains how Wax's bullet worked for getting Harmony to take over.

I caught the reference, but figured it wouldn't be important again in this trilogy and was just an easter egg nod to the Sanderfans that were reading. Though it does make you wonder just how advanced the southerners are. Clearly they've reached radios, which means they probably have a bunch of other stuff, like air conditioning and forensics (assuming their general tech level parallels Earth's).

Well, if we feel like digging into the issue a bit, do they ever mention kerosene for lamp oil? Gasoline is a natural byproduct of the production of kerosene, and so perhaps clues lie in kerosene and not gasoline. Of course, I don't recall them ever discussing kerosene, nor where the crude oil came from, so this is likely a dead end as well.

My major reactions, apart from my jaw hitting the floor when the whole "Harmony doesn't know this metal" and the "Another God" things happened, my biggest reaction is Hoid. As much as I enjoyed the Wax and Harmony discussion, I was dying to listen to Wayne's and Hoid's conversation. It never came. I was so distraught. Why, Brandon? Why deprive us of the hilarity that would have been?...why? Anyways, I really liked Steris in this book. Considering I liked her a lot from AoL, I'm now loving her. I really hope we get more Steris in the coming novels. I really do. I also liked how the whole Marasi/Wax romance was dialed way down, considering I prefer the Steris/Wax relationship. Also, Wayne and MeLaan were fun. I'm looking forward to them interacting more in the future. Also Ranette, who had a very small part in this book. I hope she gets explored more in the coming novels.

Also consider that Palindrome names are only holy for Vorinism, if I'm recalling correctly. Having a non-Vorin individual in the family could easily result in such names. And when light eyes are the only qualifier for being of noble-ish birth, it's not so hard to believe some non-Vorin joining Alethkar society.

Sorry, I did a brief glance over the SoS subforum and didn't see anything.

Osmosis Jones anybody?

Eating it every sunday is still no excuse. I, too, have eaten pancakes every Sunday since before I can remember. And you know what? They're still delicious. Try them with peanut butter and maple syrup to spice things up!