Brightness Enna

Granted. Pastries, cakes, cupcakes, waffles, jello... these all go into your oven/freezer/whatever looking quite questionable, but nobody can deny the amazingness that they are when they're completely finished. The Nightwatcher even throws in the opportunity to have your own cooking show. Your bane is that every shoe you see looks like a modified banana peel, and smells vaguely like bananas too. I wish for every storming spider in this entire storming building were evicted and no pest would ever enter in again.

In Scadrial's future, I see people in government who make special decisions, like judges, being required to have some sort of protection. Some people may wear aluminum hats or whatever on special occasions when they really don't want their emotions messed with but leaving them off most of the time, sort of like what @Pagerunner said. So that. But I also see specialized groups forming for specific mistings/ferrings/other metalborn, sort of like they have specific schools for performing arts or biotechnology today. So I don't think it will become irrelevant. Manipulating emotions is something us non-super powered Earthlings can't live without, and Scadrians have an even more assured way of doing it. It's not going away.

I've always sort of made the comparison in my head that a diamond chip is like one USD. Sure, there's fluctuation, and not everything makes complete sense that way, but it helps me envision relative costs. Using that idea, an emerald broam would be worth $1000. I think $1-$2 is an accurate estimation for cheap soulcast food (I mean, what is McDonalds food but soulcast? )

I don't know for sure, but I suspect not. That is, I don't think that the inheritance would pass over a stormwarden, especially if it was the highprincedom. "Stormwarden" is simply a job/hobby thing, though it does make people uncomfortable and they tend to subvert plenty of tradition. I don't know if a highprince's heir would be allowed to become a stormwarden at all. If both the highprince and heir were deemed ineligible to rule (or, you know, they were both killed) and the next in line were a stormwarden, or had those inclinations, those activities would likely be pressured away by the upper class and those closest to the person, as these activities are seen as shameful.

Well, there's THIS on the Coppermind... but I don't recall having seen anything that relates it to USD or whatever else.

A storm hit just now. The early evening light had been lower than usual, even considering that this morning was the first with frost on the car windows. I was finding my track lighting unsatisfactory, and so I opened the blinds. There's nothing in the lower half of the window - just the metal window well. I can see purple and yellow flowers and lots of bushes, but I have a clear view to the street when a car isn't parked on the driveway. With the blinds parallel to the ground, I saw that the sky was a lovely warm gray, the kind that signals rain must be coming. The air conditioner is on constantly down in the basement, making the entire thing an icebox, but I imagined it was warm. There was more light than you might expect, cloud cover notwithstanding, and no shadows seemed to exist. Just light. Growing trees with copious supplies of barely-orange fall leaves were glowing and swaying in the strengthening wind. It was the kind of weather you wish would stay. The wind began to blow harder, making the delicate flowers with their heavy blooms and thin stalks dance wildly. A few of the weaker leaves on the trees snapped off and traveled east along the road, joining more leaves as they passed more trees. The flowers were suddenly flattened by a gust of wind I couldn't help but imagine as playful, in a giant puppy dog sort of way. I think the wind did more damage than it meant to. A few plastic chairs were blown over, but the wind definitely restrained itself. In the past it has flipped over trampolines, crushed fences, and tossed entire hay bales around. As the sky darkened, splatters of rain were tossed against my window. It really needed a cleaning, as rain doesn't normally travel this close to the wall. I suppose I'm grateful it doesn't - the view might be obstructed by crem icicles before too long, but I do miss the sound of storms that surrounded me when I slept on the top floor. All too suddenly, it was over. The puppy-dog wind found something else to distract it, and the leash of rain it had dragged away followed. The sky stayed monotonously gray, but began to lighten at the edges. Before too long, I suspect the clouds will disperse and the sky will return to its normal fall blue. Perhaps the wind was a runaway from Roshar, and perhaps it wasn't, but I swear my lights brightened as it passed. UPDATE: The sky indeed did get lighter. At sunset, the sun shone through a small break in the clouds, but then it was gone. And the clouds returned. We are now in the thrall of the first fall storm - lightning, leaves, rain and all. It's been so long, I forgot how my car's windshield wipers worked. I didn't have to drive far, thankfully. However, unhappily, the wind refuses to murder the clouds and spill the sweet rain across my windows. I suppose they are too close to living plants. These don't pull in as I always expect them to.

Finished a bit ago. (I am very lucky to have a best friend who buys all Sanderson books as close to their release date as possible (at the actual release, in this case). I'm usually the third in line, and this was short, so I got it quick.) No spoilers: Just awesome awesome awesome. Alcatraz tells you at one point to skip ahead - it's not really a spoiler if you do. Just saying, because I was a little lot hesitant. Don't last page here. Make sure to read the note thingy at the very very end (after acknowledgments, summaries, etc etc) and only AFTER you've finished. It's the only thing that kept me from traveling to Alcatraz's world and kicking him. I probably wouldn't pass up the chance, though. I humbly suggest that you storming read this book as soon as humanly possible Also, I really want to do a cosplay now... anybody feel like dressing up in really strange clothing with me at the next con?

this is awesome. I don't know what else to say about it! So I'm just gonna follow this thread and enjoy the awesomeness as it comes.

Yes! Three for the ship! I can officially put it in my sig now. And oh I'm gonna

Why, yes. Yes it is. *cackle* Granted. You now can travel through time. Any which way. Your bane is that now you cannot see chairs any more. Couches and benches and stools, fine, but not chairs. They're there if you can find them, though. I wish for fire powers

Granted. They fall on you from your own personal raincloud for the rest of your life. Your bane is that you become hopelessly allergic... ... ... to carrots. I wish for constantly working wifi for everybody at school, including me

It's totally time.

@Spoolofwhool I agree, WoA is pretty vague. But that's because the book itself has a huge scope, and I think @Doctor12 was trying to hit many of the story points and separate arcs. The trailers are awesome though. Also, regarding "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.": I think it's a totally acceptable way to start the movie and/or the trailer. It's what started off the book and I think that it gives only ominous foreshadowing. Sure, looking back it was one of those super-obvious-Enna-you-fool moments, but reading it for the first time was actually a little terrifying for me.

I would say the stop would be more at the beginning of the a rather than between the two vowels. I'm pronouncing all of the u's as "oo", which may or may not be correct... but it's working for me. So here's how I'm saying it, minus emphasis because I'm too lazy to think about it: oo-noo-loo-koo-ahk-kee-na-[aow-too-[ah-tai

Granted. The Nightwatcher hands you a key. The bane is that you are not told what the key is for. You eventually find what the key was supposed to open after years of searching. It's a dusty old storage garage, filled to the brim with books. Notebooks filled by Khriss, a journal of Hoid's, and many many more interesting things, including from the individual Shardworlds. Inside, the books contain the entire history, culture, and anything else you can think of related to the cosmere. (Including a few suspicious-looking comic books depicting everything that goes on inside 17th Shard.) I wish for more time to do my homework.

Not very many authors have been able to write the way I would enjoy, I find I can still mostly like what's going on. Brandon Mull's Fablehaven series, or the first Percy Jackson ones, for instance, are fun stories and above average writing, although they're not as involved or truly epic as Sanderson's are. In addition, although you and I know that these books are truly awesome, some people just don't like epic fantasies. My little brother picked up right away on the Sanderson bug, but my sister barely finished WoK and was about halfway into WoR before she stopped. She says she wants to continue, but she's a slower reader than my brother and I, and she likes to have a lot of things going on, so... I have a few friends who have done similar things. I'm sad and disappointed, but more for me, I guess. Although Sanderson books aren't really a finite resource - it benefits everybody to love them so you can borrow and discuss and love together. All over, I find myself reading other books that aren't quite what I would wish for because (1) I ran out of things to read, (2), they're "classics" or required for a class or something, or (3), my friends are reading them and want me to. We all love sharing the Sanderson light, so sometimes I'll make little deals like "I'll read this series if you'll at least try [insert Sanderson book that they would like here]." It works more often than you would expect, and I occasionally get an interesting new little fandom to play with. The thing is to be positive. There are a bunch of pretty great books out there. Perhaps you could try some in a totally different genre, like Horatio Hornblower or Nancy Drew or the Princess Bride (heartily recommended, by the way.) I love reading and would hate to stop just because some books are better than others. Hasn't life always been this way?

@Doctor12Um, yeah, that's really really awesome! I want to say more (I've been sitting here typing and erasing for a few minutes) but there's really nothing else - this is just plain astounding. And adorable and amazing like you said. Lots of "a" adjectives.

@The Honor Spren http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854564/?ref_=tt_rec_tt Visit at your own risk. The world would have been a better place if they had never made these. Or had a better, well, everything

I read the HP series in two weeks for the first time. I was in 5th grade? Maybe? Since then I've read it ~15 more times (no exaggeration. I didn't have much quality reading material to use before Sanderson), averaging a week and a bit each time. SA took me a lot less. A few days during school, and the case is the same with pretty much every other Sanderson book. White Sands the graphic novel actually took me less than two hours... I hated where it ended. Anyway, I tend to go pretty quickly when there's something I really like!

But wouldn't it just be so much simpler to ask for volunteers like at blood drives? Stupid medical bills... I have some history with those

Granted. (Strangely, I've heard that idea from somebody at my school... Do you live in Utah?) Anyway, your bane is that now there are hard spikes growing from your forearms. I wish for the fall season to last indefinitely in a non-Groundhog Day fashion.

Hey, that's really cool! And horrifying. Hopefully this never happens but given Sanderson's inclination towards difficult circumstances and moral decisions... Well, we shall see. Either way, great job on your mini story thing.

Storms, I can see both sides. In one way, santhids could be the helpful dolphins of Roshar, but that doesn't make much sense to me logically and Sanderson always seems to be somebody to make things logical. So maybe santhids are like, super connected with the spiritual realm and something deep inside that nudged it to help Shallan. It could be sentient, or at least partly so. Conclusion: I have literally no idea

You're totally right! It is. Thanks for noticing.

Granted. She carries around Brandon Sanderson books instead. (Come on, you left that wide open.) I wish to be more allergic to cats