The One Who Reads

I'm really torn about the film to be honest. The good: No backflips and spinning in the fights Loved the special effects and the directors restraint in using them. The lightsaber looks slightly more practical with a crossguard (bit of a stretch). A stormtrooper who isn't just another disposable mook! Some good laughs especially the 'troopers backing away when they hear a tantrum in progress. "we'll use the force!" "that's not how that works." The bad: R2-D2 ex machina hey that pilot dude is still alive Death star V 3.0- still vulnerable to X-wings Lack of security cameras in death star (ray's ability to escape detection seems the most obvious example of "HEY LOOK HOW COMPETENT THIS FEMALE CHARACTER IS, SHE DON'T NEED NO MAN TO RESCUE HER" Sure star wars has a reputation to address but its just ridiculously improbable and unnecessary, just have her walk out of her cell and find Han et al. After giving us Finn and establishing the troopers as victims of the first order everyone (including Finn) still treats them as sub-human. No moral dilemma here they're just stormtroopers like your buddy Finn. Untrained sword fighter beats experienced swordfighter but this is only a minor one as realistic sword fights would not work in films.

The first two started blurring together for me in the last book, but don't worry there is like two reasonably sized book series between you and that.

Everyone is ignoring Hrathen here

*Tugs braid*

My comments in red (because it stands out not because I disagree )

Ok let's first look at the production of hydrocarbons. 1) Small organic lifeforms die in the upper levels of deep water low energy conditions, fall to the anoxic sea floor and are covered by fine-grained sediment. 2) Continual deposition of sediments and organics builds up a layer of organic rich mud called sapropel. 3) The paleoenvironment changes (e.g. an outbuilding landmass) and deposition of coarser sediment (which will form a porous and permeable reservoir rock) begins burying the sapropel. (increasing temperature and pressure and beginning the transformation to a source rock) 4) An impermeable layer is added to the top, the cap rock. 5) Faulting, folding and other tectonics creates a structure that will intercept and concentrate oil into economically viable reserve as it migrates upwards. Hydrocarbon production is reliant on the enviroments of deposition not really timescale, we get lots of oil formed in the Jurassic at 180Ma-140Ma (or rather the source rock is that age) in the North Sea because that was when we had the right conditions in the right order not because 'oil takes 180Ma to form'. steps 1-4 aren't that hard to imagine happening at some point in Scadrial's history, but when Harmony rearranged the geography of the landscape it would have been one hell of a job to not only preserve and move Kms of strata but position near to what would become Elendel. You also have to keep in mind this was also Sazed's first use of the shards and we know from past experience that the first time is the not always easy for a Shard-holder. Diamonds come from deep down brought up in mantle plumes, the difference is (mostly) pressure but the pressure is on a different order of magnitude. If scadrian coal seams generally formed under higher pressure than Earth's we would see a greater proportion of higher grade coal however.

The Way of Kings, the in-world book not SA book one. I loved every quote we get from it.

Aside from the obvious double gold and double steel compounders a double iron twinborn pulling scouting enemy biplanes out of the air is the best I can offer. Honestly it seems that ignoring compounding shenanigans Allomantic~Pewter is the winner here simply for the endurance it grants a soldier.

Not sure how often I will be able to check back on this so if shardbearer or someone wants it then he can have it (I only got it because of his post anyway).

The Wind's Pleasure?

Cusisesch (not sure about that spelling) the Protector?

Perhaps Cultivation / The nightwatcher? After Honour's death she just gave up.

Making yourself a Savant? really scraping the barrel here.

Might want to spoiler that post given that we aren't in the warbreaker or cosmere section. Still very true.

Andrew that made my day In warbreaker it is just another busy day in the brandon avalanche.

Still can't make the formatting work properly but whatever . Vigilance and Regenerate are always nice for fatties even if the regen is expensive (the tap probably kills it) and I think this thread is going to see a lot of fatties

Quick recap (flicking between pages is annoying me) The world is Scadrial The opposite of 'against the law' would be 'legal' or 'in support of the law', perhaps AoL's law keepers? Irrespective of wordplay the law is part of this somehow. It is not: Snapping, Hemalurgy, Zane, The kandra's suicide pact or searching for Atium geodes. I think 'Self harm' is the real hint here, I can't see something that specific being just filler. But what laws have we seen changed regarding self-imposed trauma? The only thing that stands out is Elend banning people from snapping their children (he made it so that you had to be a consenting adult) but we know that Snapping isn't it...

The kandra's mass suicide pact?

Ah I see! I thought you were using self-descriptive to mean redundant, but you meant it literally. The phrasing of the definition meets its own criteria. Just another example of E.S doing its twisty 'philosophy' and confusing me.

Thanks for that! The question came up because I know another French person who read mistborn, they claim that hearing me say the names really confused them. This made me laugh far more than it should have because I misread that, and am now imagining Ham speaking like Fleur. Oh and the Stick was a throwaway comedy scene in Words of Radiance (book two of the stormlight archive) which has become a running joke here.

Hi and welcome to the forums! I have two questions if you don't mind: 1) Would you mind explaining how you (as a native french speaker) pronounce the names of the characters in Mistborn? 2) How on earth can you love Morrowind and Skyrim but not Oblivion? P.S Don't take the cookies.

I could understand you if the quote said that 'true art' wasn't bold but was subtle or vice versa but Gaotona is saying that art must be both. The thing that makes the book a work of art to him is how bold and daring it is but also how clever and subtle the work is. Please do tell me if you meant something else and I've got this all wrong.

I've got the eyes but not the gender unless I want to either be am ardent or an illiterate geologist... or a heretic I suppose.

The thing that is bugging me is how a world without tectonics has large granite batholiths. Roshar has weird geology. But on the subject of crem at first I thought that crem was a suspended or dissolved sediment in highstorm water, as the flooding from the highstorm evaporates crem is deposited/precipitates out forming horizontal beds- the basics of all sedimentary geology. But this theory (like Rosharian geology) doesn't hold water, cremstone appears to be impermeable and very widespread (I can find quotes to support this if anyone wants them) this combined with the huge output of Highstorms means you're going to have the spikiest storm hydrograph ever. No infiltration, no percolation and minimal if any interception by vegetation. Basically the storm throws down huge amounts of precipitation very rapidly into a region with no shown underground water storage (soil moisture or aquifers) leading to flash flooding similar I think to Earth's desert Wadis. Wadis are characterised by poorly sorted beds formed in high energy environments by a mixture of medium to large clasts with a loose matrix. The fine-grained, well cemented and uniform cremstone would (on Earth at least) probably indicate very low energy conditions, not likely in the violent highstorm or rapid post storm drainage. I think it is worth noting however the other interesting feature of crem, despite intermittent short periods of relatively little deposition and not being terribly resistant until it has 'aged' cremstone has rapidly (by geological standards) formed thick layers of rock. Somehow the high storms erode the rock less than they add to it. Given how little crem is deposited per storm in a region and how powerful those storms are that suggests some impressive resistance. Edit: "I would think even granite would be eroded in that process, especially if you include the constant washing and mixing up of sand or similar material in the process like you described" Just to throw my £0.02 in here while granite is pretty resistant stuff over time in the right conditions it will erode like any rock particularly along faults or joints. Granite at the surface is also not incredibly stable chemically as it was 'built' for conditions far below the ground, certain minerals will breakdown at the surface to form more chemically stable minerals with lower physical durability. Without an overburden to provide pressure the granite will also expand, malleability isn't one of granite's strengths however so you will see pressure release fracture creating joints for sub-aerial process (weathering and erosion) to exploit. TL;DR Granite is pretty badchull but Highstorms are also badchull. The deciding factor in how long a granite outcrop would last would probably be how Roshar's atmospheric pressure and chemistry affected the granite.

I think you could include The Emperor's Soul in entirety, the whole novella is an exploration into what "true art" is. in particular this quote: