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When the answer to a physics problem is 16 Newtons and you wonder if Preservation is trying to send you a message.

He must have run trough most of his zincmind in the first July 1st and 2nd, because his movements on the 3rd were highly predictable--very unusual for Lee--and the Union army had prepared for them, pretty much annihilating his main offensive. (Some of his division heads may also have been filling zinc, given how several of them ended up moving diagonally to the direction they were supposed to go.)

Thread made. Here it is for anyone who wants to drop famous dead people into the Cosmere. Historical Figures Misplaced in the Cosmere - General Brandon Discussion - 17th Shard Forums

This got started in You Know You're a Sanderfan When... Part 2. The idea is to decide which power set historical figures from the real world would have if they were dropped into the Cosmere (preferably into roles similar to those they had in their actual lives). I think it should stay limited to the Cosmere, because if we add Epic abilities and Smedry talents, people could basically just make up custom power sets for their favorite figures. We started with Roshar and the Radiant orders, but all Cosmere settings and magics are open. It also started with American Civil War figures, and I'm not sure if it should be opened to all time periods at once. It would be a little hard to follow random jumps from the U.S. Civil War to the Roman Empire to World War II to the Shang Dynasty. I'm thinking theme weeks, Sunday through Saturday, each week following a certain time period. For example, this first week the thread will stick to the American Civil War, then the first person to post after noon on Sunday, May 24, 2015 will pick the time period to use until Sunday, May 31, after which the first poster picks the period until June 7, and so on until the thread dies. I'm not sure about this system, so if anyone has a better idea I'd like to hear it (preferably within the first few days). So here's what we've got so far: Kairos (sorry quote didn't work right): I think Stonewall Jackson has a better claim to the Stoneward. Come to think of it, that seems eerily close. Maybe he was secretly a Radiant, and it was his squires who accidentally shot him.

Spanish is relatively easy for English speakers, Mandarin pretty storming hard. Esperanto is supposedly the easiest second language to learn for speakers of nearly any European language, I'm giving it a shot this summer, so I'll see if that's true.

Good point. I was reading about Jackson yesterday, I should have thought of that. King Linkholin of Alethkar: "If you do not intend to use your army anytime soon, Brightlord Clelleln, I should like to borrow it for a time." Clelleln: "I cannot attack today, majesty--aside from the Vedens' superior numbers and hidden Shardbearers, my men, my horses, and even my chulls are all exhausted." Linkholin: "Exactly what have you done with the army that could tire a chull?!" You know you're a Sanderfan when you have used Cosmere words so often that spell-check just gives up and accepts abominations like "Linkholin" and "Clelleln" without question. Would anyone else be interested in a thread discussing what Cosmere power sets various historical figures would get? If one already exists, could someone please direct me to it?

He might have made an okay Lightweaver too, given that his very name was a lie. Sherman would probably make a good Dustbringer, given their association with destruction and his "scorched earth" campaigns. Lee would be a decent Stoneward, "I will stand while others fall" applies pretty well to his defenses in Virginia.

When you can (and often do) turn discussions on the Civil War into ones about the Cosmere.

"The Troll King's Dream" by Julia Ecklar for the Lord Ruler. "The Female of the Species" by Leslie Fish, lyrics adapted from Rudyard Kipling, for Vin. "Going Back" by Julia Ecklar for the more violent skaa rebels. "The Carter's War Song" by Heather Dale for the Alethi people. "The Face Within" from Heralds, Harpers, and Havoc for Vasher. "Swordsman" by Michael Loncor for the Blackthorn. "Brun" by Garmarna for Straff Venture. "The Captive" by Heather Alexander for Siri, at least at the beginning of the book.

Alright, Aleksiel, I think that theory is pretty much done. I might be able to split hairs for a while if I had really been set on the idea, but the hair splitting wouldn't get anywhere and would be a huge waste of time.

Wow, you beat my final English project from last semester. My only Sanderson references were The Final Empire and The Way of Kings. (Almost all of my other references were fantasy, though--Jim Butcher, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, some others.)

It could work that way--and probably does; but in that case, the Megan we saw at the end of Firefight still had to have been cleaned of the corruption by facing her fear of fire. In an identical world, Epics would still be evil, and the main point of this thread is whether Megan was pulled from a world where they aren't--see my previous post on what a Megan from such a world would be like upon waking in the "real" world of the Reckoners.

Didn't Av say that she gives what she thinks the supplicant deserves, not necessarily what they ask for? Also, it might not be necessary to have both attributes at once in order to use them together, simply more convenient. He could, for example, make a heart-guided revision to the Diagram in his compassionate, empathetic state that fixes a flaw his intellect couldn't see. Rules established during his high intellect states have, however, stopped him from making any important decisions while stupid. From this angle, the split doesn't really prevent the boon from working, only makes it take longer. The prohibitions that keep him from doing things while compassionate are his own storming fault, not Nightwatcher's. They could even work in his favor, preventing his compassionate self from burning the Diagram in horror until it was too far underway to stop, allowing human feeling to enter the picture only after it becomes useful. Honestly, I like some of the other ideas more than my own, particularly Pathfinder's. I just think that continuing to debate the idea is a good way to find its strengths and weaknesses--information that can be used to form more accurate theories later.

Done.

Personally, I thought that the capacity he needed was both his extreme intellect and extreme compassion, the accompanying curse being that they never happen at the same time. That would be a really vicious curse, much worse than seeing upside down--possibly worse than not remembering your dead wife, although that is still likely to turn out to be more important than it seems.

Minor Words of Radiance spoilers

When anyone who carefully searches your room will find the Catechism of the Back of the Religious Painting--written in an obscure, coded shorthand incomprehensible to all save him who wrote it, of course.

It might work, but be sure that your foil is made of pure aluminum. Almost all rolls of foil are, but watch out for those irritating impurities that make metals Allomantically useless. When the white board at work asks employees to recommend a new holiday and you write "Koloss Head-Munching Day."

Jasnah?

Awesome jacket. Here I was impressed that my coat can hold a Mistborn hardback in each pocket.

Extremely annoying, especially when I used Way of Kings and Mistborn as references for a rather long paper and had to keep using the name in parenthetical citations. Upvote of understanding. (I have since added "Sanderson" and many Cosmere words to my computer's dictionary.)

Sorry about leaving it hanging (again). Things came up the day after I got it, and I didn't have time to compose a new one. I'll prepare my boasts ahead of time now. (Got one for the next time already.) Talenelat'Elin? Ashe?

You know you're a Sanderfan when you entertain yourself during the speeches at a school dinner by doodling Allomantic and Feruchemical symbols in coffee on the event schedule--along with the odd Aon--and are ashamed to see, upon consulting the metal charts at home, that you drew one of the lines backward on the Allomantic atium symbol and your attempt at the Feruchemical iron symbol only vaguely resembles the real thing. (My Aons were almost perfect, though.)

Wayne from Alloy of Law?

Steelheart?