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  1. Dankworth
    When every time your English professor starts talking about seeing the world through different lenses, you start to think about Shardic Lens Theory, and then drift to Alcatraz.
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    Sorry Hastyr, I have to agree with the others; Megan's name was based on her weakness as a way to hide it, the others' aren't: "Sourcefield" has no relationship with Kool-Aid, "Newton" is unrelated to compliments, "Fortuity" is unconnected to beautiful women, and "Conflux" has nothing to do with dogs. Also, even if the names were linked to the weaknesses, "Limelight" was never really Prof's Epic name. David just made it up on the spur of the moment to make Enforcement waste their time looking for an imaginary Epic. Later, when they had worked this fake Epic into the plan, it was Cody--or maybe Abraham--who was supposed to play him in public; Prof only took the role because Enforcement had seen him using Epic powers to save David and Megan. If Prof ever picked a real Epic name for himself, it would have been back in his "super hero team" days and the only living people who would know it by the time of Firefight would be Tia, Regalia, Murkwood, and Prof himself. That said, it was an interesting thought. Welcome to the Shard.
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    Ah, that makes sense. I wasn't trying to insult the guess, just wondering what reasoning led to it.
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    No. Most of those make good sense, but why did you think of Llarimar?
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    It's not Taravangian. "Cimmerian" and "tenebrous" are fancy words for dark, shadowy, hidden, that kind of thing; "crepuscule" means sunset or twilight; and "cerebral" means related to the brain or mind.
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    In my early youth did the Cimmerian shade surround me Until began the cerebral song with a great ringing of bells And came the divine lords of heaven to treat with me. From that day have I guarded the gates of the thrice blessed paradise, Preserving the divine by barring from them all my kin. Threat to friends called me to edge of the world Where grim crepuscule shrouded me once more in tenebrous murk.
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    Got it, anyone who could be figured out. I've got a lot of homework tonight, so I might not have time to write a boast until tomorrow, but it will be up by early afternoon.
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    I got really lucky. I started "Sixth of the Dusk" this morning, right after guessing Vivenna. I hadn't even gotten to Vathi yet; I just saw "Dusk" and "father," then checked a character list. It was pretty straightforward, but I guess I'm not the only one who hadn't read the story yet. Alright, my turn. Just to be sure, any Sanderson character is acceptable, regardless of which story they're from and whether or not they're central to the plot, right? Obviously if I use a side character I'll pick one who has a good bit of screen time instead of someone who gets one scene: Zane or Tindwyl as opposed to Vin's sister or Prelan Laird.
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    It has to be someone from "Sixth of the Dusk"; the island's name "Patji" means "father," and "the twilight" refers to a person, obviously Dusk.
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    Vathi?
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    Vivenna?
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    Hoid and Demoux
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    Sarene or Raoden?
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    When you see someone wearing a t-shirt that says "Spike Out Cancer" and your first thought is something like "Hmm, a spike charged with Feruchemical gold might work, but too be sure it should be paired with one charged with Allomantic gold." and then you are disappointed to realize that the shirt was about volleyball.
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    You are not alone; I've done that too. I never went so far as as to Google the information, but I always winced at the things that were obviously wrong, and there are a lot of those. I also mentally criticize the grammar and vocabulary in the stories. This is one of the reasons I gave up reading those things; the constant mental editing kind of ruins the effect of the story and the writing is usually worse than that in the papers I edit for my classmates--some of whom should never have received passing scores in their basic writing courses.
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    Horneater folk dances
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    I believe what Darkness was saying was that Prof's powers still worked when he was confronted by Megan, so his weakness could not have been triggered. If his weakness had been activated, his powers would have stopped working--at least temporarily--and he couldn't have made a force-field at all.
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    When one of your relatives makes a Stick joke at a picnic even though they've never read Words of Radiance and you realize that you've referenced the Cosmere so much that the people around you make the references automatically, even if they don't understand them. (Kind of like when I was little; I repeated and laughed at the adult jokes I had seen on Dad's favorite movies, without the faintest idea what they meant.)
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    Maybe she flew him past a window that had a candle burning, thus activating her weakness and dispelling her projection. Kobold King's probably right though; she most likely needs to concentrate to keep her extra-dimensional door/window/hologram thing running.
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    Even if she pulls a slight variant of herself from a near-identical reality when she reincarnates, if she had grabbed a version of from a world were Epics weren't corrupt, she would not be surprised at not wanting to kill David, because she would never have felt that urge when using her powers. More importantly, she would not recognize David or any of the others, or remember anything that has happened since Epics started to appear. Without the corruption, their would have been no disaster in Oregon, no Newcago, no Babilar, and no Reckoners. David would have grown up as a regular kid in Chicago and never met her; Cody would still be a cop in the South; Megan would probably have stayed in the Northeast. A Megan from a world with Epics but without the corruption might have met Prof and Tia at some sort of Epics' convention or something, but would never have seen any of the others or fought any of their battles. That Megan's reaction to appearing where and how she did might have been something like "Where am I? Who was that creep in the lab coat and who are you? ....Why are you staring at me? ...Why am I naked?! STOP LOOKING, SLONTZE!!!
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    I agree that they kept more secrets than necessary, and that it endangered the other Reckoners; but, had Megan not been an Epic, the "Reckoner technology" would have worked perfectly for her, shielding her in the crash and healing her afterwards. A few minutes later, though, knowing that he had been gifted Epic powers would have allowed him to escape without Prof's help, because a torn glove wouldn't have meant anything at all.
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    She said that she'd "...been promised that they will be 'thematically appropriate'..." (p.344) I thought he would get steel powers too and maybe he would have, if he'd accepted them. Interesting thought; since he'd already faced down his fear of the ocean, would he have been able to pick up the powers without ever feeling the corruption, or would he have gotten it anyway, maybe with his weakness based off of his next-worst fear?
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    I agree. Fortuity's powers were weakened by all women he was attracted to, not just the one who initially humiliated him, an attractive woman publicly ridiculing him would have completely negated his powers. (That was the answer to someone's question at a book signing, I think I found it in the thread on Prof's weakness.) For Sourcefield it seemed to be the taste of Kool-Aid--to her mind, the taste of death--that truly negated her powers. The taste and appearance of Kool-Aid and the generic stuff are almost the same, especially after years of being to scared to taste them. Steelheart was a schoolyard bully before Calamity. Many such are people who have been hurt badly in the past and later tried to prevent it from happening again on the rational of "If someone is scared of me, they won't try to hurt me. If everyone is scared of me, nobody can ever hurt me again." So, the only people he would have feared before Calamity would have been those with enough power to not be even slightly intimidated by him--thus his distrust of authority, as seen in his conspiracy-theorist activities. As for Mitosis, well, maybe he was humiliated by a lot of bad reviews about his music, to the point of cringing every time he listened to it and deciding to just give up on music, quit his band.
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    A. It's possible that someone who didn't fear him had to deliberately attack--consciously decide to pull the trigger, and to kill by doing so. If that were the case, accidentally setting off a trip mine wouldn't harm him, as the only deliberate choice to do violence was made by someone who clearly feared him to much to face him directly. (This is also my argument against the robotic automatically firing gun; it was placed and its trigger was set by someone who feared Steelheart too much to face him.) David's father, who didn't fear Steelheart, consciously chose to kill, even if Steelheart wasn't the intended target. When Steelheart fired David's gun, he made the same deliberate choice, even if he didn't realize that he would be included in the blast. By this reasoning, a trip mine would only work if he intentionally triggered it to kill someone else. B. It was never directly stated, but the weaknesses were likely deduced from the notes David and Tia had taken on them, as well as those Tia could gather from other lorists. They probably looked for patterns in what Mitosis and Sourcefield avoided or perhaps destroyed on sight. For example, Sourcefield might have followed a strict all-natural diet and required that all mortals and lesser Epics do the same in her presence and may have once blown up a Kool-Aid factory. Likewise Mitosis could have killed the other members of his band (and maybe any other musicians he caught doing covers of his songs, claiming that others using his creation was "disrespectful") and destroyed any music store that sold his albums.
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    If it were as simple as "fire loads of bullets in his general direction and one of them will hit" the machine guns on the armor units in Steelheart would have killed him.
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