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for number 1 Vin had no idea what giving Elend the lerasium would do, and no way to guess that it would be somethign she would want to hold on to. also she was sort of desperate at that point, and probably not thinking too logically.

thought about it, but I don't really want to. Probably will if I can't find it some other way.

well, finished the first 2 Ryria books, only to find that the library doesn't have the third. or rather, the only version they do have is audiobook, but I don't have the patience for audiobooks. this is exceedingly frustrating. I'd like to finish the trilogy before I move on to something else

Short version: yes, for the most part. Metals from anywhere can be used for the metallic arts, for instance. but for other types of magic, it is harder. it is hard, if not impossible to use stormlight to fuel awakening, for instance, but if you had a cache of breaths, you could presumably use them to awaken as you normally would. likewise for other systems, it is difficult, but not necessarily impossible to hack them to use different types of investiture as fuel, but most won't work that way by default. Selish magic is the hardest one to use offworld, probably, since it is tied to the user's physical location (e.g. aons get weaker as you travel further from elantris)

I'd be in favor of expanding them to professions other than academia, which is the only place I've seen that has it. because you are right, sometimes a week is just not sufficient for everything you want to do.

I think the connection part would more or less work, but for the investiture part, they would probably have to have a metalmind that was already filled by someone who already had that form of investiture (at a minimum, it may be even more complex than that). what we have seen of nicrosilminds they provide specific abilities, like ferruchemical iron. so if you took a f-iron nicrosilmind to sel, for example, and did what you suggest above, you would possibly have sufficient connection to use selish investiture, but the investiture you tap from the metalmind would still be f-iron, not one of the selish varieties. If someone somehow was able to provide you with an unkeyed nicrosilmind filled with the ability to use Aons then, what you are talking about may work.

I thought the difficulty with awakening wasn't that it was offworld so much as that he didn't know how to hack it to use stormlight as fuel (and/or it can't use stormlight as fuel). I don't think we have any reason to believe that a worldhopper with a stash of breaths couldnt awaken just as well on another world as they did on nalthis.

i'll second this. I read though the homecoming series which is pretty bad, and the alvin maker series, which I like the alternate history setting, but thats about it, especially later on.

Well after seeing Lightbringer come up about a dozen times in this thread, I figured I would try it out...but its already checked out, so i put in a hold, and started on Ryria instead. a few chapters in to Theft of Swords now

beat me to it. though honestly, that soundtrack might only work for Cowboy Bebop. Trigun's soundtrack may have some more generally useful numbers though

I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate Denna, but Kvothe's obsession with her is annoying. I can't really figure out what he is supposed to be seeing in her. to that extent, her character annoys me Not finding the post right now, but I'll second whoever said Rand from WoT. he starts going downhill in book 2 or 3 and is pretty much utterly horrible until very near the end. if we didn't have Mat, Perrin and (in the later books anyway) Egwene chapters to take the focus from him, I think the series would be unreadable. Also, I don't know that I'd go so far as hate but Elend always kind of annoyed me, at least in TFE, and somewhat in HOA as well. I can't quite nail down why exactly, possibly just that his relationship with Vin doesn't seem natural to me in the early book, and that his mistborn strength seems unfair in the later one, but he just bothers me. I think he is OK in WOA because his part in that story makes more sense.

I'll second The Name of the Wind and add The Slow Regard for Silent Things by Rothfuss as well. I'm also partial to The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

To be honest, I've generally found Orwell's non-fiction(ish) works to be better than either Animal Farm or 1984. Homage to Catalonia about his time fighting in the Spanish civil war and Down and out in Paris and London a somewhat fictionalized account about his experiences as a working poor man in Paris and a tramp in England are both far more interesting than either of the other two. the first half of Road to Wigan Pier about life in poor mining communities in Northern England is good too, though the second half of the book is just an essay on socialism, which I found too dry.

I vaguely remember the mention of the assault. don't have the companion, so that would be why I didn't recognize the rest

ahh, I don't recall that bit.

think you are mixing up Cadsuane and Siuan with this one. but yea, I mostly agree with the rest. Cadsuane had a much harder job than Tindwyl did.

to be fair, Elend was a much better student than Rand ever was. and Rand was somewhat crazy. If Cadsuane had gotten to Rand before the events of book 1 things may have gone somewhat differently between them.

not every single page. there are a handful of book exclusives. That said, as much as I tend to enjoy the webcomic (today's included the phrase "a universe where snakes are wide instead of long" which is just such a completely absurd image I can't help but love it) the What-if articles are definitely better.

finished WoR reread last night. will probably reread Edgedancer this afternoon, though I probably don't need a substantial refresher on that one before Oathbringer comes out.

Zircon and Ruby are both also used. it could be that ruby and garnet are close enough in color to be counted as the same, and zircon, based on a quick wiki search, varies a bit, but seems like i tends towards reddish (unless Brandon was thinking of Zirconium, which of course tends toward clear, and is used as a diamond substitute) so it could be something along those lines too.

Finished Way of Kings reread last night ( a bit later than I should have based on how tired I was at work today) and going to start up WoR today. its always interesting the little things you miss (or at least that I miss) going through the first time. like Wit saying: It never stood out to me before, but it takes on new meaning after reading Edgedancer

I have family in both the Inidianapolis and San Antonio areas, and have already begun planning how I am going to arrange a visit in 2024

got about 80% near me, which was pretty cool. it was about as dark as if a thin cloud had drifted in front of he sun. my desk at work is across from a westward facing window, so I barely had to get up to go check it out, which was nice at least

I didn't see the full series, but I think the ones I saw were split in 2. so the full series would end up around 30 books if they did that for all of them

I saw some European Wheel of Time versions like that, where they split an already preposterously long series even more. don't understand it for the life of me. I guess they'd have to split Way of Kings and Words of Radiance into 3 book each over there.