Eilemelie

I do not currently have any pets, but I've had a cat named Rocky and two German Sheepherds named Mira and Ilya. Ilya currently work as a police dog.

I've only ever read Good Omens, having kept pushing of reading Discworld because of its sheer vastness. Nevertheless, I'm sad to hear of Sir Terry's passing, and am sure the world will be a duller place without him.

Belated happy pi day! I've been known to memorize pi, but currently all I can remember are the 15 first digits, and even when I knew more my high school advanced maths teacher had me beat... oh well, I guess I'll have to go look at Inky's t-shirt again... Pi-day was celebrated with our local Tolkien society (who happened to have chosen the day as a celebratory one for the Middle Earth new year) and the pies were abundant. There wasapple pie, strawberry pie and key lime pie, the latter of which was decorated in a manner befitting of the date.

I also have a question, and I have checked Theoryland and found nothing alike it so it should still be valid: What methods of taking care of those who have died are used on Roshar? For obvious reasons normal earth burial should be hard to achieve outside of Shinovar. I know we have seen the Parshendi leave their dead where they have fallen (and the Alethi not do it because they remark on it), but are methods such as cremation, sky burial or hewn toombs and others used and if so, does this depend on where you are and what culture you are part of?

So I have finaly read Shadows for Silence, Dangerous Women was on sale at the local SF/Fantasy bookstore. Here's what I thought: The format, however neat it might be for this kind of story, just didn't work for me. There was hardly any time to get invested in the characters, and I felt like everyone else was painted up as darkly as possible just to get us to root for Silence, whom I honestly can say I didn't care much for. The names didn't feel like they belonged in the same world. If we get anything more from the same world that explains it that's ok, but as is I don't feel very content with it. It didn't really feel Cosmere to me, and unless we get more stories taking place here or worldhoppers from/in SoSitFoH I'm going to remain quite confused as to why Brandon felt the need to place it in there. In short, this wasn't exactly my favourite story by Brandon. But I guess he has spoiled us Edit: correcting spelling.

It's fine. I was mostly joking in the original post anyway. Edit: Sympathy upvote appreciated though.

Allow me to quote myself at you:

"It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes." could be interpreted in two ways. One is that the Everstorm comes in a thousand days, this being the one you took for granted, but I'm pretty sure one could also an other one. For some reason the comma puts me on the path of those being two different things; the Everstorm is coming and an other important thing will happen in just 2 Roshar years (to the day!) If my interpretation is true then we will need to look at something that happens the 271st day of 1173. This might be worth doing just to see if there is any reason to believe more in either interpretation. Does anyone have a timeline at hand?

Yes, it helps me keep track on if it's new or something I have already seen, and as such a waste of time and my cellphone's internet consumtion.

So, after starting to become anoyed with it, I went to change the setting for time format from 12 hour to 24 hour, imagine my surprise when I realised that there was none! So I'm looking to see if this could be changed. It would make things much easier for people living in countries with 24 hour standard, like me, especially those of us who like to be up posting after school/work. As currently stands, I have to rethink every timestamp I see and sometimes, when I mess up am and pm, I have a hard time differentiating a post made recently and one made about 12 hours ago... I can't imagine it would be impossible to do as it is incorporated in many other forums - especially multi-lingual ones.

This was all

And just when I thought I'd never have to hear about that again... *sigh*

Correct me if I'm wrong, as I only have my memory to serve me at the moment, but I'm pretty sure the scene doesn't fit the description of being told at a bar in any way.

I've had lucid dreams from time to time. I don't tend to be able to control the setting, though there was this one time when I willed myself into a candy store and left with two enormous bags of candy... I am able to do things I normaly wouldn't be in a dream though, for example I've been able to fly since I was about seven and I can snap out people I don't want in my dreams.

I think I might have found a reason for Jasnah to not have considered herself a member of the organisation of the Knights Radiants. For almost all of the time between her bonding Ivory and where we currently stand, she has not known of the existence of another person with a Nahel bond. Remember, there's a very short amount of time between her getting to know of Shallan's bond and her "dying". If no actions were taken then to refound the Knights Radiant there would be no way of her considrring herself one even at the epilogue - one person does not an organisation make. However,just because Jasnah considers Knight Radiant = member of an existing organisation there is not enough reason to think that everyone else would make the same equation. These are individuals, and they don't live in each others heads like we do (well... not each others, just theirs). We have to take that into consideration, just because one person has this defenition of a Knight Radiant does not mean everyone does. Now if only we could live inside Brandon's head...

the Alethi court;

I'm a native Swedish speaker and I, as well as a proficiency test I took a year or so back, would like to consider myself fluent in English (it put me on the high level for a native speaker my age and way over the chart for someone who speaks it as a second language.) I've also studied a bit of Spanish - five years or so - where I am on a conversational level, if a bit rusty. In my early teens I was - for some reason - hanging around on a Danish forum, but I don't remember much of what I learned then. I do understand it, however, though for a Swede that's more a matter of dechiphering what sounds you are hearing rather than actually knowing Danish, and in College we have had lectures in both Danish and Norwegian (which is much easier to understand - you can hear what they are saying! Nynorsk is a bit of a pain in you-know-where though...) I also know a little bit of Italian due to an interest I used to harbour when younger (I bought a Swedish-to-Italian dictonary and phrasebook) as well as a few words and sentences of Japanese as well as kana, no kanji though... they're hard. This I learned from manga and "learn Japanese"-books I got from the library. Currently I'm trying to get a hang of German from my boyfriend's relatives whenever they are in the country. I would also like to know Icelandic/actual Olde Norse, because trying to translate runes is kinda hard without it, and Latin so I can read medieval manuscripts.

to contain the

The Shard of Bland Food - its world is NOT renowned for its cuisine!

Granted, you now go crazy when you don't. Have fun! I wish for a bar of chocolate that I'm still able to eat AND feel the taste of.

It might (or might not) be important to know wherther or not Honor was still alive at the Recreance. Anyhow, I do believe there is support to be gathered for the fact that he was, and in a quote that has been mentioned several times in this thread nontheless! '"Not just one people," Pattern said, solemn. "Many. Spren with minds were less plentiful then, and the majorities of several spren peoples were all bonded. There were very few survivors. The one you call Stormfather lived. Some others. The rest, thousands of us, were killed when the event happened. You call it the Recreance."' So what Pattern says is that spren with minds, Nahel spren, were less common at the Recreance than they are in pressent day Roshar. Spren should by no means be able to reproduce on their own, so that leavs us two options. 1. Spren of other sorts can gain minds and become Nahel spren. The case of Syl starting out in a windspren state of mind seems yo support this at first glance, but she regains memmories of life before - as a Honor spren. So it is more the case of a mind subdued than the gain of one. 2. More spren came into being at an unknown point in time, after the Recreance, with the splintering of Honor. This forces Tanavast's death and Honor's splintering closer to the pressent and gives him the abillity to see and react to the Recreance - as seen in Dalinars vision. The alternative here would be that he looked into the future and saw these actions taking place, something that he admits to being bad at. Though bad still implies an ability... so it is not foolproof.

I can confirm this as I saw it just days ago. There was also something about shardblades posing no threat to him as the magic he uses heals the soul.

in chull droppings.

Naturaly