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Sounds like if you were fighting a Shard, the afterlife would be an ideal place to store your army.

I couldn't make it through the first one, personally, though it had a pretty interesting magic system played to good effect. Taste is subjective, obviously.

If Honorblades are a subset of Shardblades, maybe all the sharblades we've seen on Roshar in the present (barring, maybe Szeth's) are of Odium. If "three of sixteen once ruled" maybe the Delosations weren't against Odium himself and what we see in the recreance is 1/3 (or 1/2) of the Knights Radiant who relied on Odium for their power abandoning their blades and plate once they found out that their god had betrayed and killed Honor. ...just an idea.

Maybe there's a Spren inside it. We did see in the illustrations that the gems in Fabrials trap and use Spren. Maybe this is something like that.

I have a 3DS. I like it pretty alright. My favorite has definitely been Super Mario 3D Land. I also liked Mario Kart 7 and Kid Icarus Uprising. I have Zelda, but I honestly can't play through that game for the fifth time. I *do* appreciate the massive graphics upgrade it received. Maybe I'll get back to it on a rainy day. Right now I'm playing Pokemon Black 2, though that's not actually a 3DS game. In the near future, I'll probably get New Super Mario Bros 2 and Paper Mario. And Super Smash Bros 3DS when they finally make it.

I really, really liked Red Country. I think others might not. I'm prepared for others to call it derivative of Abercrombie's other works. Not without cause. It's very similar in its themes and clarity of purpose to Best Served Cold. Much of the book is a travelogue like Before They Are Hanged. There are a good number of returning characters, Cosca, Logen, Friendly, and Shivers chief among them. More than just that, many of the things that readers probably really wanted out of a new Logen book are lacking. While both Logen and Cosca return and play substantial roles, it isn't their book, and most of the PoV is filled in by the new characters Shy and Temple. But I really liked it. I think it's my favorite after Best Served Cold. I'll post more in-depth thoughts later.

Did they? Ruin and Preservation have been established as creating human life on Scadrial. It was the whole basis of their dispute. Maybe on some of the other worlds have refugees from Yolem, but then the other worlds don't have myths about humans coming to Their world from somewhere else, heavan or otherwise. They also aren't so inhospitable to baseline human and earth flora and fauna.

I've always taken the weirdness (read: normality) of Shinovar amid the rest of Roshar to mean one of two things. 1) "The Expulsion from the Tranquiline Halls" is a term for the Shattering of Adonalsium and the residents of Shinovar, with their large (read: Western European) eyes and grass and chickens are refugees from Yolen. Cultivation gave them a little plot (read: nation) to live in. And that's what it might mean that Honor didn't create everyone on Roshar. 2) There was a time before the Highstorms when Roshar looked a lot more like Earth. Which would be a little cheap as that was kind of the deal on Scadrial. But then again, you don't really get humans on planets that don't look like Earth. I assume.

Whoa, cool. Did I stumble upon something previously unknown? I'm chuffed.

Red Country

You'd have to be very convincing, true. There's probably some connection between the mind and body's aspect or there would be know way of knowing if castration would take when it came to the feruchemist.

Just took some. Doing so forced me to read the whole publisher's page. Looks like it's the "First International Mass Market Edition: July 2012" ... but published in the US. What's that? The price is in US and Canadian like always. I checked Amazon.ca to see if this was the Canadian version, but it comes out there on October 30th as well. Now I'm even more confused.

For that matter, could you brainwash a bloodmaker into thinking he's supposed to be three hundred feet tall with a million arms and he just scabs over as his body frantically burns healing to make himself "whole". ... or you know. Extremis from the Iron Man comics. Same idea.

It crossed my mind, but it's definitely mass-market sized and there's no indication anywhere that it's an ARC in the front-matter. What did strike me as odd was that the copyright date is 2011. Shouldn't it be 2012? Or does the massmarket copyright go off of when the Hardcover was first published?

Mass-market paperback. I suppose that post doesn't make any sense without that specification. Not really a big deal... which was why I didn't think anything of it at the time. Yeah, it was a thoroughly unremarkable event. I was mostly just surprised that the mass-market wasn't out yet. Seeing it a month ago, used and resold, seemed pretty normal.

Maybe Hoid needed the moon scepter because it's actually *made* of part of the moon. Is the moon Odium's body? Wouldn't one of the inherent problems with world-hopping through Shadesmar be that you wouldn't be able to go somewhere where there weren't living, thinking things. Like, say, the Moon.

Sorry if that was confusing. I'm sending books to my girlfriend's brother now that I have Amazon prime and I can basically ship anywhere for free. He's read Mistborn so I was going to send him Alloy. But I couldn't. It's not out yet, officially. This confused me since I bought it second hand at Housing Works during the first week of September. So not only did it break shelf date, but someone else bought it, read it, and flipped it. Naturally, I'd assumed from its presence in a used book store that it had been out for some time. So I thought it was amusing. Especially what with my recent history of acquiring new books early, I find out that I got this one very early quite by accident and didn't realize until a month later.

I bought it. A month ago. Used. ... What is happening?

Good luck! I don't know if I agree with your worldview but I respect a man of ideals with integrity even if I don't agree with them.

I was going to post a picture of another b&n in the new york area where I saw it, but I can see now it's everywhere.

Oh, he's *that* guy. I kept wondering why they kept referencing *that* guy if he was never going to show up. Sounds like Hoid can be a bit of a dick sometimes.

Agreed. With the notable exception of Way of Kings, I prefer the UK cover art over the american ones. Even Warbreaker. Especially Elantris. I really love that series seem to get specific colors highlighting the white. Stormlight is red. Mistborn is blue. Elantris is green. Warbreaker is purple. In 10 years, that's going to look mad distinctive on the mammoth bookcase marked Cosmere.

Oh sorry. The joke was because the Castlevania games all have titles basically like the ones suggested. Symphony of the Night. Harmony of Discontent. Etc.

Or he could just call it Castlevania. Hey-Ho. Am I right?

At the two-thirds mark, I'm very much enjoying this book. It's definitely a novella, but this gives the narrative a lot of focus. The magic is confusing at first, but as you begin to see it in action, its power and limitations become much more concrete. I like the main character. She reminds me of Vin, if Vin had met Kelsier in the days before the pits and learned to find worth and meaning in being a thief instead of being a revolutionary. References to Elantris are few, aside from mentions of the Jindo and Svorden. It introduces not just one but two new magic systems, though I expect that the second system might be very much related to what Derethi Monks can do. You'll see why. One more thing: This is "Realmatic Theory: The Book" to the point that I wouldn't be surprised if, post-shattering, Realmatic Theory was initially created on Sel. It's more or less required reading for how Forging works. It also adds some insight into the Realmatic consequences of Soulcasting. This book might also answer a question that Kwan was studying before he met Alendi.