Kipper

People use it incorrectly?  What a travesty of 'travesty'!

I used to use it incorrectly, but then I took an arrow to the knee was schooled by someone else in a very embarrassing moment.

A good healthy dose of Iron is absolutely necessary for human survival, putting grass into a cookie is just a travesty.

I'm willing to overlook your hateful comments this time because you used the word "travesty" correctly. I bow before you.

Have an upvote, gon.

When you pretend that the small pile of coins on your desk is because of your secret coinshot powers and not because too many small coins makes your wallet annoyingly thick.

You make that sound like such a bad thing...

Warbreaker is a tropical setting, but admittedly it doesn't come into play very often. Still, that doesn't matter because, in my opinion, it is the best cosmere book.

 

...Though for maximum effect, I recommend reading it after you finish the Mistborn trilogy. For... reasons.

 

Anyway, welcome!

You know, until I read this post, I completely forgot about the tropicality fact that Warbreaker has a tropical setting.

I'm not sure what, exactly, you're saying no to, but I would like to point out that even after Preservation died, the mists on Scadrial still "worked"  I'm not saying that there might or might not be differences, and honestly I think the stormlight is more analogous to the mists than the Honorblades are, but I have yet to see a reason why it's impossible for honorblades to cease working after Honor was splintered, even if they were a part of him.

Especially since we know that they work. Szeth used one.

okay why is the bamboo cookie more trustworthy

Because it's bamboo. Ain't no metal in that cookie. It's...just cookie.

Anyone a fan of Dilbert? Or the old-school Looney Tunes?

YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!

Love Dilbert and Sylvester

 

 

One more thing, is there a list of forum commands/posting tips grouped together somewhere, like for inserting images (I saw the button though) and spoilers (no button?) and such? I searched and couldn't find it. If there's not, that might make a good sticky for newcomers.

That's a good idea. You should PM Chaos or one of the other moderators to start something like that...probably...i really have no idea. 

You can't use those on tablet, however

... That's a lot of questions.

I'll probably ask about WalDo, when we'll see Cohesion and Tension, and Mraize's knickknacks.

Sorry for destroying your thread, by the way.

Sorry sorry sorry. I wasn't clear enough. Here is what some of us were discussing on a different thread:

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/22462-portland-signing-116/

Anyway, after completely mucking up that thread, I made a topic here. Perhaps if you read the discussion in that thread, this thread will make more sense to you. This was sort if meant to be a continuation of the other discussion.

That doesn't quite address Titan's concern... he's not suggesting that Mr. Sanderson doesn't full-well KNOW the answers to the questions. He's pointing out how often someone will ask a question about one book, character, magic or item, and get an answer that is clearly in reference to something else. When it's obvious, we catch it. The point is, however, that the existence of misunderstandings proves that they can happen, and we can't know we've caught every single one. Perhaps there were nuances to the question asked that Mr. Sanderson misunderstood, but the answer he gave sounds like it could fit the question, so we think it's fine and let it go.

 

Under most circumstances, I'm willing to accept WoB as canon, especially when it's clear, specific, and unequivocal. In a case like Honorblades, however, when he's contradicted and corrected himself so many times... well, it proves that in the past, we've either misunderstood him, he misspoke, or he simply changed his mind since. Or, one of a number of other reasons that might lead to miscommunication. Since one of those has happened in the past, it proves it's possible it happened again. In an instance like this, with such clearly ambiguous WoB, I feel like picking one or two things that support our personal theory and saying, "This is the WoB that's true, all the others are wrong" doesn't have a great deal of support.

Aaaaaamen.

That...was...AWESOME!!!!

Welcome!

Have an upvote and...Have you ever had a bamboo cookie?

Kindle Fire. That's what I use.

This thread is for discussing questions and theories such as:

Does Elend burn metals at a higher rate of efficiency than Vin, due to the fact that he had a lerasium nugget?

Rip me apart, people

Thanks everyone! I have only recently started to read the Sanderson, almost done with the Mistborn series now... I am quite a slow reader but completely hooked already. I really like the first one especially. 

 

And glad I perked up your day inexorablePanda, what a ...Pandamonium we have here!

Indeed we do.

I have to agree with Moogle here Arthur Dent. I have a personal theory that Honorblades aren't related to Spren at all, but are rather unique and more like Nightblood - heavily invested swords.

You've been confirmed correct on that as far as I know. We know that spren were trying to copy the Honorblades, which, we can assume, where invested by Honor.

That's interesting about the perception of the summoning. Thanks Blaze.

Tall people: In photos we are always put in the back row. Not as noticeable.

Yes!!

Plus, we don't get constant jokes about our height. Though, I am constantly asked if I play basketball.

P.S. I'm so sorry, I accidentally downvoted you. I'll make it up later.

Brandon did say here:

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/1526-effect-of-burning-lerasium/

that if a Mistborn ingested lerasium it would increase their power, which I assume to mean that it would modify the SpiritWeb in some way and "make the pipe bigger."

Sorry it's not pretty, I'm on a tablet.

 

Short people can disguise a children for admission prices

 

short people are better for hot air balloons because they need less hot air

Those last two are good. Have an upvote, gon.

Welcome home to a place of wonder, excitement, and adventure!

Have an upvote and a bamboo cookie.

Cosmere? And did you mean to say silver or sliver?

I know Sanderson is very scientific when creating his magic systems, but I think we're really doing in that first part of your argument is disagreeing over the exact definition of "catalyst." I probably used the term incorrectly, and I'd even go so far as to say Sanderson probably used the term incorrectly, as well. I can't speak for him, obviously, but the point was I was trying to really make is the idea of having a "gate" and a "pipe," where the actual allomancy is fueled by the "pipe" and the metal is the "gate," and the allomantic powers that you actually see can be affected by the size of the pipe and the size of the opening in the gate.

Thanks for that terminology. That visual is going to help me out a lot when discussing Allomancy. I've just been saying "gate" and forgetting about the "pipe".

I checked a bunch of other threads that I started and am forced to conclude that as well.

Were there ever WoB on whether Honorblades are the physical manifestation of Honor?

I was trying to find similarities between Szeth and Elend as burning "fuel" goes.

Welcome home! Have an up vote and a bamboo cookie!

Which is your favorite book?