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  1. Sand Master
    1. Tyn, because Sadeas is an eel. 2. Tien, because he's awesome. 3. Axies, because he's hilarious. Shallan is too, but Axies's attitude just nails it. 4. Wit. Even funnier than Axies. 5. Dalinar, because (much like Kaladin) I think he embodies a lot of aspects that many people should aspire to emulate. 6. Navani, because f&*% Amaram. 7. Kaladin. Same reason as Dalinar, plus he's just plain cool. 8. Tough one. Probably Syl, just because it is really interesting to watch her go from mindless windspren to her current state. 9. Eshonai. The feels man. 10. Teft. He's one of the main reasons Kaladin decided to keep fighting after he realized the bridgemen were bait. 11. Lopen. I mean, come on. He's The Lopen! 12. Lirin, for having to put up with Roshone for all that time (and presumably between then and now as well). 13. Ishikk. He knows how to just relax and enjoy life, while Nalan goes out of his way to kill a guy who gives away free shoes to homeless kids. 14. Lift, because she's awesome. 15. Renarin, because any highprince besides Sebarial and Dalinar deserve contempt. 16. Another close one. Sebarial is funny and he's a cool guy, but I think Zahel has him beat on this one. Incidentally, did you make it 16 matches on purpose?
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    That's amazing. I never would have thought to look for that. Good eye!
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    Studio Ghibli Style Kaladin/Syl
    These are all fantastic. I ship Shalladin more than Shadolin but still great!
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    Kaladin Gloomblessed realizes he's not alone
    This is possibly my favorite scene in SA so far. If not my absolute favorite, definitely up there, and this is a great illustration to go with it.
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    Honor is dead
    Nerding out over here. This is so good, and one of my favorite scenes as well.
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    25 Essential Expressions Dalinar
    Flirty Dalinar.... Incredible.
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    I read the whole thing (Dark Talent, not the whole series of course) the night it came out, and I had to shove a pillow in my face to keep from laughing so loud that I woke the whole house up.
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    I was in a bit of a hurry when I first posted here, so here's some of my less important reactions: Footnotes are genius. Freeza might run the Librarian military (as it's mentioned that they have the attitude of, "if we can't have it, we'll just blow it up"). "You're not my mother, you're merely the woman who gave birth to me - and I'm surprised you didn't find a surrogate for that endeavor!" --> You're going to need burn heal. I didn't know how much I wanted to see Alcatraz wearing a tuxedo until it happened. So suave! This may be the first time an inanimate object has been guilt-tripped into self-destructing. Entire paragraph that makes sense but is written without the letter E? I... I don't even know what to say. How do you even DO that? "This place was odder than a river-dwelling species of mammal from the mustelidae famiy." Odder. Otter. The puns, man. "Puns are obviously the highest form of literary genius that an author can display." I'm starting to agree. "'...we did have Douglas eat the M section in the fiction archive. That might sow a little chaos.' 'Honestly,' Douglas said, 'sparkles? Hasn't she ever met any undead?'" Fiction. M. Undead. Sparkle. Stephanie Meyers. Twilight. Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz is so clever! The not-triceratops that keeps saying things over and over in different ways? It's a Thesaurus.
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    Just finished reading. I freaked out for a good five minutes. My throat is quite literally sore now. I expected that there would be more books after he said, "Oh this would be foreshadowing if my autobiography were going to go beyond this final book. But it's not." But I did NOT expect this ending!! Even through the author's afterword and copyright info, I thought it was all a ruse, that the story would continue in secret past all that. In a way, I was right, but not how I thought I'd be. Okay, let me break it down into manageable pieces. First, Grandpa Smedry. So glad he's not actually dead. Yet. Was really worried for a minute there that he might be. Second, Attica. Wow. Didn't think they'd actually kill him. I mean, he was a crappy father (really just a crappy human being) no matter what the Shaper's Lens showed Alcatraz. If I had to choose between him and Alcatraz being sacrificed, I'd choose him. But still. we usually don't see the books end in death like that. It was extremely jarring. Great scene, very powerfully written. But horrifying at the same time. Third, Bastille. So we'll get at least one more book in this series, this time from Bastille's perspective. Should be great. Also, did anyone notice, in her letter at the end of the book? She signed it "Bastille Smedry". I think we all knew that was coming, I'm pretty sure even Alcatraz referred to "our house" at one point when talking about Bastille, implying they lived together. But that's a pretty big confirmation regardless. Also, I theorize that, in the same way as becoming a Smedry gives you a Talent, now it also makes you an Oculator, given what we've seen happening to the Smedrys who weren't already Oculators. Which is of course what Bastille has always wanted. All in all, I loved this book. It made me laugh hysterically, made me shout out in shock and excitement, and almost got me to tear up a bit. Can't wait for the next one.
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    Oh I can't wait to see Szeth confront Taravangian. I get that he's acting in the way he does because he feels that it's the only way to save humanity, but in a way he's even more despicable than Sadeas at the moment. I can't wait to see the fear in his eyes as he realizes that one of the most dangerous men in the world, who he used to slaughter dozens of people, is coming for him.
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    I saw this in the more recent topics in the thread and thought "well clearly this person (OP) hasn't read WoR." Then I saw the date it was posted.
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    Wasn't the chart you showed here like a Voidbinding chart or something? I know the Surgebinding chart is this, which is similar, but with inverted symmetry.
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    Specifically replying to where you mentioned that so much was lost during the Desolations: if I recall correctly, didn't the Recreance, when the KR all "betrayed" humanity, happen after the last Desolation? If so, wouldn't that imply that they had this sort of fabrial technology (if indeed that's what it was) after the last Desolation?
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    That makes sense. Are there any accepted or likely theories as to how Plate is manifested for the individual KR? I saw a couple people mention that topic on other forums as well, but again, nothing too in-depth.
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    Forgive me if this has already been discussed. I did a bit of searching and found similar topics, but none that really fully discussed what I was wondering. What I want to know is this: in WoK, Szeth says that Shardplate interferes with his surgebinding, and we have a WoB that says that it's because it's difficult to affect something that's heavily Invested (such as Shardplate). However, in Dalinar's vision we see a KR that uses what I can only assume is Gravitation (flying in from the sky and all) while wearing Shardplate. Not only that, but the Plate glows, which is something modern Plate certainly does not do. Clearly this KR has no problem with the Plate interfering with their surgebinding, so what I want to know is this: why? What changed? Does Plate work the same as Blade, where it's actually a spren (or extension of the same spren as the Blade) that forms it? And only after they die does it become an interference? If this were the case, why are there gemstones built into the Plate? Does the KR just Lash themselves, carrying the armor with them? I suppose this might bypass the Plate interfering, since they're not trying to Lash the Plate directly, but that seems very inconvenient, seeing as how the Plate (not being affected by the surgebinding) would still be dragging the KR down wherever they went. I really don't know, what do you guys think?
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    Oh god.... Odium is Anakin Skywalker!
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    This is interesting to me. I hadn't really known this before, but reading it now makes me feel like Odium is afraid of other Shards. Generally the super-villains don't really fear much, and they're extremely arrogant. Ruin is a good example of this. But Odium seems to, if not fear the other Shards, at least be aware that he's not all-powerful and that he might be "overwhelmed" by one. I wonder if this fear is part of what fuels his hatred?
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    I've read Secret History, and I knew that you still had to travel in the CR to go between planets. But I had thought (obviously incorrectly, but we still don't have a lot of direct information on CR travel so I figured it might be possible) that because everything in the CR has to do with how things view themselves (Kelsier was hurt by Hoid mostly because he thought he would be hurt), a person could travel in the CR without physically walking. Much like in the Wheel of Time, how while in Tel'aran'rhiod one could envision themselves in a place and just be there, I thought someone in the CR could probably do something similar.
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    Ah, I did not know that.
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    Hmm. Very true, though I don't think it explicity says that he wasn't wearing a hat either.
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    When I said "when he wasn't lawkeeping with Wax" I didn't mean before he met Wax. I meant between cases that they worked on.
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    Sand Master commented on nejaa's gallery image in Cosplay Photos

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    Very cool, though I think we all know the swords are supposed to be about five feet long. What's that? Being that long would make it far too heavy? Pffft. You've got Warrior's Lenses don't you?
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    Sand Master commented on EHyde's gallery image in Cosplay Photos

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    This is so cool. I had the chance to go to Comic Con but turned it down because of how ridiculously crowded I've heard it is. Now I wish I had gone, just to have a chance at seeing cool Cosmere cosplay like this.
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    So I'm going to be the first one to punch a hole in my theory, before I even say what that theory is. According to the timeline, the events of the first five Stormlight books happen slightly before Alloy of Law. However, I am seeing too many similarities to simply discount this. Here's what I am thinking: Similarly to Demoux, could Wayne not be a Worldhopper? I was re-reading WoK, and many of the things Yalb says seem just like something Wayne would say: And while inside the bookstore, Shallan thinks to herself: I think it would also not be unreasonable to assume that Yalb is still alive after Shallan sunk the boat in WoR, because we never directly saw him die, and she later sketched a drawing of him and another figure on a beach, which is something she hadn't seen before. I feel like this would not have been in the book if it were unimportant and Yalb would never make another appearance. Of course, Yalb has Thaylen eyebrows and a Thaylen accent, but we all know that Wayne is a master of disguising both his looks and his voice. Now, the holes. As I said in the beginning of this post, the timeline says that the first five SA books come before the Alloy of Law. This does seem to indicate that Wayne couldn't have been on Roshar, or that if he had been it would have been mentioned during the second-era Mistborn books. However, we don't have a lot of concrete information on exactly what life was like for Wax/Wayne before AoL (some backstory, some anecdotes, but not nearly as detailed as the current time in the second-era Mistborn books), so maybe when he wasn't lawkeeping with Wax, he was off Worldhopping? As for it not being mentioned, it is possible (though admittedly unlikely) that he simply never mentioned it to Wax, and never thought about it during his viewpoints in the books because it wasn't relevant at the time. I admit, the timeline makes this flimsy at best. However, the similarities between Yalb and Wayne were way too striking not to say something about it. What do you guys think?
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    I wasn't necessarily implying that he wasn't actually dead, but I had certainly considered the possibility. Kaladin didn't exactly check to make sure, and You're right that it does seem like a lot of effort to go through while only being able to say relatively little to Kaladin, and that's something I hadn't considered before. Something does still seem odd to me about him though. Maybe he's like Sigzil; a Worldsinger that got stuck in the bridge crews, and somehow he knows enough to identify Kaladin. Of course, if that were the case, it wouldn't make much sense for him to not have gotten himself out of the bridge crews in the first place if we're assuming he had the ability to fake his own death. So maybe he was undercover in the army and saw Kaladin passing by, then disguised himself as a bridgeman? Or maybe he just did actually die. Not claiming anything solid here, just trying to more closely examine a character that seemed off to me.
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