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I don't know if you are aware of it, but there is also a novella(?) The Lightning Tree set in that world featuring Bast, if you needed another thing to tide you over a bit

i rather liked the IHOP version for a more cosmere relevant version: if you spiked Lyft with both allomantic and ferruchemical bendalloy, so that she could compound it, would that make it so her powers were essentially limitless and/or could she directly convert that investiture into stormlight to power her surgebinding

Pride and Desperation? if Zane hadn't snapped yet at the time, Straff could have been desperate for a mistborn in the family, and proud enough to want/assume that his legitimate son would be it. that said, it does seem more likely to be something else

Also, I seem to recall that Breaths are sort of stickier than other types of investiture, like stormlight. so it may be harder to drain breaths than an equivalent amount of stormlight/metal/etc

I did read wikipedia summaries for some of the books after Children (the last one I read), and to be honest, it sounds like things sort of get a bit out of control. clones and spice-trance invisible people abound.

this, all day long. every time I fight a Hynox I end up doing this. i do the accidentally opening weapons instead of bows pretty frequently, though I am usually good about arrows vs shields. my biggest complaint at this point is that the Divine Beasts feel pretty small. I think I would like at least one or two full size dungeons. I love the shrines, and the mechanics in the divine beasts are interesting, but I'd like something a bit bigger. I understand that that would be hard to do in a way that fits organically into the world, though. and all that said, that is not a very big complaint. so far (2 divine beasts in) I am still loving the game, though the addiction level has dropped fro that first couple weeks.

Yea, LeGuin is one I recommend to anyone who asks me for fantasy recommendations. Her sci-fi is pretty good too, most of it, at least.

on the Flash musical episode. while I don't think that was Grant Gustin singing live, it probably was actually him singing, and in show it was presumably supposed to be Barry singing live (though I agree it definitely sounded like they recorded it separately). In fact, I would be surprised if any of those songs weren't actually being sung by the cast, even if the sound was recorded or remixed separately. something like half of them have been in actual musicals and most of the rest were on Glee. there is a lot of musical talent there, for some reason. more importantly though, while it wasn't perfect, and the ending (both of the inner musical and of the episode itself) was cheesey, it was also the most fun the Flash has been since...i want to say the Christmas 2015 episode, so since the middle of season 2. on Arrow: yea, that was a very very dark episode, but a very effective one too. I like prometheus as a villain now that we can see his identity. the actor ratcheted the intensity up to 11 for these last couple of weeks, and it is working.

this has always been how I view it. it is sort of interesting to consider how the timelines split, and what is happening in each one, but it mostly doesn't make any difference.

to add on, Paalm was also never fully right in the head, so to speak. she has some sentience, but isn't really at the level of a full kandra.

I've been watching Supergirl. In fact, this season, I would rank it 2nd after Legends of Tomorrow. Flash and Arrow are fighting for 3rd place, and I think Arrow is winning that, which I would never have guessed after their 3rd season.Flash's first season, but here we are.

the first 2 Shannara books are easily the worst, at least of the ones i've read. sword is a blatant Lord of the Rings knockoff, and elfstones is just sort of generic. Wishsong is much better than both, though still not up there at the level of Tolkein or Sanderson or Rothfuss

I can't understand how people can be so far already. I've played for something like 20-30 hours at this point, and I have gotten 4 towers total, and haven't even tried to get close to any of the divine beasts. every time I start advancing the plot, i get distracted by something and it takes some time to make it back. this week i spent a couple hours dealing with eventide island (don't have much time during the week due to work) also, I've been playing on an actual wii u pro controller and have been loving it.

I did that a while back when I last read through the series. i'm honestly not sure it is worth it, in part because the resulting megabook is something like 2000+ pages, but also because the gaps between a given character's POV chapters gets even longer. though there is a neat bit where you get to see the same scene from 2 different perspectives, separated by almost no time. I don't think I had even noticed that both books contained it when I read them separately.

It is an anthology of a bunch of different authors from different genres so it stands to reason that you'll get a variety of quality, plus some stories which migth be good, but don't hold your attention because they are about things that you don't care about. Its been a while since I read through it, but I remember liking most of the stories to some degree.

the shortest answer is that a nicrosilmind can contain the ability of ferruchemical nicrosil. the medalions have 3 parts: 1. nicrosilmind for F-Nicrosil, 2. nicrosilmind for whatever ability they wish to grant, 3. metal to use as a metalmind. so part 1 grants the ability to tap itself and to tap the other ability.

Ok, a few main things I see: 1. Syl seemed to think that the honorblades required "a dangerous amount" of stormlight in order to surgebind, ie there is such a thing as a dangerous amount. so while it is likely true that enough stormlight could overcome TLR's innate investiture, that much stormlight might be too much for a person to actually hold a presumably enhanced person like a herald. this also doesn't account for copper, which likely could offer further protections against outside investiture, like it does against emotional allomancy (we know bronze could, in theory, detect other investiture use outside of scadrian ones, so it stands to reason that copper could protect against the same) 2. are you assuming the herald would be wearing no metal items themselves? even something as simple as a button or belt buckle or even an earring or other jewellery would be usable by TLR. 3. TLR can compound pewter. that is potentially an enormously powerful offensive attack. add in compounding steel and he can hit like a freight train faster than an eyeblink. stormlight enhances, but not nearly to that degree. all he needs is to land a single blow to the head. even a small amount of Atium makes that an almost certainty. edit to add: and when I say he can hit like a freight train, that is literal. compounding iron plus compounding steel means he could hit with the weight and speed of an actual freight train.

Though Vasher with the full stock of the Godking's breaths might stand a chance...or at least might last a bit longer than most. though this now has me thinking: would copper allomancy protect against nightblood's temptation? it seems like what nightblood does to attract evil people to him is probably similar enough to rioting that a coppercloud would offer some protection, and a TLR level coppercloud might stop it entirely.

YEa, first few hours of work today were downright painful. I've only gotten as far as Hateno village, storyline-wise, but have done a lot of wandering around. also a lot of dying. it turns out that certain things do a lot of damage, very quickly. Lynels in particular are devastating.

alright, Game has been out for 3 days now and I have already put in about 15-20 hours worth of playtime. would have been more if pesky things like "friends" and "eating" and "sleep" didn't keep getting in the way. its still a bit early to render any sort of final verdict on the game, but it honestly might be my favorite Zelda game at this point. most of my time has been spent just sort of wandering around this enormous map, and even with all those hours racked up, I have still only seen a small fraction of what is out there, but everything I have seen has been pretty consistently great.

I don't have the book in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure that in Shadows of Self, it is implied that Paalm is using a non-scadrial metal. maybe not a godmetal, but i don't see how it could be anything else.

One thing I saw suggested for Legends is that

Bondsmiths are one of the orders of Knights Radiant from the Stormlight Archive series. for this sort of question, I highly recommend the Coppermind: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome which is a wiki that includes a lot of information for Brandon's various books. It can contain spoilers though, so be a bit wary of that.

well, yes, I'm aware (I thought I mentioned that in the compounding description). just trying to hypothesize what would happen to a person who did not immediately store the new investiture. with something like healing it wouldn't be a problem, I assume, but for nutrition...I doubt a body would handle thousands of food calories being inserted all at once. and I think the coppermind suggests that it stores individual nutrients, but I am not sure how they arrived at that conclusion.

1. Twinborn generally refers to anyone with both a Ferruchemical and Allomantic ability. arguably this would apply to the lord ruler as well, but he is sort of a special case in a lot fo ways 2. the way compounding works is like this. a person who has a ferruchemical and allomantic ability with the same metal can store an attribute to that metal and then burn it. normally when accessing a ferruchemical trait, you can only take out as much invesitutre as you put in, but allomancy does not work that way, allomantic power comes from outside of a person. they are literally channeling a portion of Preservation's power. so when you burn a metalmind, the attribute that you stored to it overrides the normal allomantic ability of the metal (e.g. a burning a gold metalmind lets you access health, instead of the normal gold allomancy of viewing past/alternate versions of yourself), but the power is still coming from Preservation, so you end up getting more of it than you initially put in. you can then store this power to a new metalmind and burn that, etc. giving you access to an almost unlimited amount of the original attribute. 3. burning non-invested gold would not do anything unusual. it would be the same as any other gold misting burning gold. burning both at the same time probably wouldn't do anything special either 4. burning a bendalloymind would not stop time, or anything like that. Ferruchemically bendalloy stores nutrition. so burnign it would basically provide a person with days or even years worth of a specific nutrient all at once. in the real world this could very well kill a person, since a lot of nutrients are toxic in large quantities, but I am not sure what the result would look like in the cosmere. 5. as far as i am aware, the only thing we know about lerasium is that it can be used to establish a connection with Preservation (this is what turned Elend into a mistborn). I do not believe we have an answer as to what it does in any of the 3 metallic arts beyond this.