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it deinitely isn't on a pure atomic level - if it were then base metals in alloys would be burnable separately, and alloys wouldn't make any sense allomantically. beyond that, I don't know enough about metallurgy or the chemistry of metal alloys to make an informed guess.

I was thinking the opposite of that - an aluminum coating over a metal you could burn is useless because it means there are extra steps involved before you can burn it. what I was thinking is closer in line with the original proposal, the main caveat is that instead of making the entire earring post out of the burnable metal, you'd just coat the post with something you could burn. that would stay hidden, but it also has the beenfit that when you've burned through it the whole earring wouldnt just fall off. there would be less of it available, since you only have a relatively small coating isntead of the whole thing, but allomancy doesn't require a lot of metal for most things, so it should be enough for a burst or two.

im on something like my 4th or 5th read through (well up to book 8ish anyway, there were long periods of waiting for the next book to come out when I would reread the ones already out) and I honestly didn't even notice that, that's how little he matters

I mean Floran Gelb is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. honestly, this is a case where it probably would have made more sense for it to just be a new minor character rather than one we've seen before. I don't recall him being particularly notable after Tanchico.

not to mention that metal piercings that fell off when you burned too much would suddenly becomes projectile weapons for enemy mistborn/lurchers/coinshots. also, not everyone wants piercings or has access to someone who can do it safely (it does carry a minor infection risk, after all). everyone can swallow liquids, anyone who can't manage that is probably not going to be much use as an allomancer in most situations anyway. also crafting most metals into piercings takes a lot of effort, even the easiest is far more than just getting a file and shaving off some flakes. all that said, I could imagine plating an earring or something with your metal so that you had an emergency supply in a fight, if your vials were lost, It could be a good surprise against someone who thought you were out, but its not something I think you'd want to do every single time you wanted to burn your metal - its just far far too much effort.

had to look it up to be sure because I thought I remembered him but wasn't positive. he's the guy from Bayle Domon's ship who got kicked off because he was sleeping on his watch when Rand, Mat, and Thom jumped aboard after Shadar Logoth in book 1. and yea, Daughter of the Nine Moons is a Seanchan thing, but you won't actually see her for a while.

I'm in the crowd that would put Shadows for Silence as second place. and there seem to be quite a few of us. makes me wonder if there is something specific about those 2 that causes that.

Yea, I don't think we actually get the text of either letter. maybe a snippet here or there, but I doubt even that. just the general feel

I haven't played an FF game since 12, and that one looked better than any of the trailers I saw for 15 or any of the 13 and its sequels

I've been warned against Goodkind, and some of the quotes I've seen from him (though none I recall, this was a while ago) made me think that was a solid choice. more recently i've been considering checking the library for him to give him a fair shot, rather than just basing that decision on hearsay, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

This is pretty close to how I feel, though I think I give the edge to Way of Kings over Words fo Radiance. barely. Oathbringer is good, and has a couple of absolutely fantastic pieces, better at its heights than the other two, but overall i like it less than the others.

that sure is a strange way to spell "The Emperor's Soul"

If memory serves, the Aes Sedai is mentioned by name, and if you dug around a bit in the prior books you'd find another reference to her that would make it obvious, but either way you'll get the explicit answer eventually. in book 6, i think. its the sort of thing thats easy to miss unless you already knew to look for it.

I forget if you have enough info at that point to piece together who she was before she went into the Waste or not.

I'd tend toward ferruchemist/coinshot. that gives you 1. unmatched speed, 2. extra maneuverability as a coinshot, 3. a ranged attack. coins on their own might not cause problems for plate, but with enough weight stored in ironminds you could overcome that. then between steelpushing and steel compounding, you can stay out of range of your opponent, and probably mostly behind their back. if needed, you may even be able to get up close when the enemy is off balance and deliver pewter-enhanced blows. between all of that, I think you get a solid hit in and/or the radiant runs out of stormlight before they ever have a real chance to hit you. someone upthread suggested a leecher might work too, and I think that could be, less because of what allomantic chromium does and more because it seems like compounding fortune might be able to grant significant future sight.

ahh, gotcha. can't say i'm particularly excited about that. don't have hyrule warriors, though i did play a bit of its demo. Its not bad, but not really my style.

good point about the graveyard interaction thing, I should have thought of that. W/B probably makes sense for the Kandra. for Sazed, though, I don't really see the connection. to me he is fundamentally interested in accumulating and protecting knowledge, which is a very blue pursuit. and he isn't really a good example of most of the things that I would generally associate with Green. some of his ferruchemical abilities, pewter in particular, come close, but aren't his focus, just something he can do. so he is definitely blue, and I could see an argument for white, or maybe red, given his status amongst his people and on the crew, and even black when he goes through his depressed phase and becomes a bit more nihilistic, but green i just dont associate with him. unrelated: id probably do mistwraiths as G/B - sort of wild scavengers with some graveyard interaction. mechanic-wise they should be a flip card, but im not sure how youd handle the blessings for that, seems like doing it accurately would be overly complicated, but doing it in a simple way wouldnt feel right.

Think Id do Sazed as Blue/white or even possibly just Blue. I'm not sure about the green alignments for any of the characters either, none of them really strike me as being particularly green. I'd also add Tindwyl as mono white. and Kandra as generally being blue/white shapeshifters, and Koloss as being probably mono red. maybe red/green or red/black, but I think mono red is more likely for most of them.

ah, they finally announced something more solid on that? or is this distinct from the BotW 2 that had been announced a while back? I'll check out what info is available later on, but if its even half as good as BotW, then i'll probably look into finally picking up a Switch.

It's basically like a videogame level. the people in the visions react realisitcally, for the most part, but there are limits, and the visions themselves will always try to raliroad him along to the point they want him to get and/or the thing they want him to see.

I did notice they hadn't come back. as to the post count, I'm wondering if maybe deleted posts don't decrease post count? that's the only explanation I can come up with - that they have a few posts that were deleted. might also explain why they haven't come back

The Godwars Trilogy by Angus Wells. I picked them up at a used book sael for less than $5 total, and I read them all the way through, but even from the start it was pretty clear just how bad they were. Just for an example, one of the main characters gets mad any time anything is 100% straightforward. if a prophecy or hint is even slightly obscure, he starts ranting about riddles - and this trait manages to get worse the farther into the series you get; it's like he gets dumber as the series moves along.

that's always been my intepretation, yea

the one that digs at me the most is when they assume any woman using the power = Aes Sedai. so to the whitecloaks, Damane = Aes Sedai, which is so astonishingly wrong and, quite frankly, dumb. I also think you're giving them too much credit. thinking Perrin is a darkfriend because he killed 2 of them is one thing, but there is every chance that they'd have indicted him in their own minds on no evidence except his eyes or the fact that he spent time in the company of an Aes Sedai. Yes its technically a reason, but its a reason so bad that its almost worse than if it were just random. People attackign and killing at random generally know that behavior is frowned upon, people who can rationalize it away as being for a higher cause even on such flimsy pretenses as the whitecloaks usually give they think they are better, not just better than the average bandit or whatever, btu better than the average person. their bullies with a sense of entitlement, and that makes them worse than just normal bullies. the other thing about the Seanchan is that you've mostly seen them through the lens of how they treated Egwene, and by extension other women who can channel - which is horrific. that was like 90% of the focus on them in The Great Hunt. but if you go back and look at how they handled everyone else - it just isn't that bad, except for the nobility anyway, who require unreasonable amounts of deference. but like if you were just living your life on Toman Head in some village then the Seanchan invasion was basically no worse than any other invasion, better than some, since their soldiers are more disciplined than many. This is the last I'll say on this, since we are takign up a bunch of space in this thread with it but basically Seanchan are the worst, and are very very bad in the specific cases where you are a woman who can channel or where you have to intereact with, or even just be near, their nobility (the blood and the high blood), but outside of those cases, the average whitecloak is worse than the average Seanchan.

the Seanchan are almost certainly the worst, especially their nobility and the sul'dams; the handful of commoners we meet outside of that group are generally more tolerable. from the whitecloaks, Geofram wasn't too, too bad, but he's definitely the exception, not the rule; most of them are bullies, at best.