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pssh, have you ever tried to wield a sword?? They are pretty heavy, and I'm not weak by any means. Also you have to take physics into account with a Koloss sword. If a Koloss sword is twice as long and twice as heavy as a regular sword, it would take much more than 2x effort to move it as easily as a regular sword. I'm not a physicist, but I'm fairly certain that something to do with levers and the fulcrum point, and the length of the sword....

Right, but that's not the point I am trying to make. I understand why someone who is small and not muscular would benefit greatly if the strength boost of burning Pewter is like this: Normal Everyday Strength + Strength from Pewter = X. In this equation Strength from Pewter is a constant. If Strength from Pewter is a huge number, then it basically makes Normal Everyday Strength not a factor. For example: Let's say I have a Normal Everyday Strength of 10, and Strength from Pewter equals 100. So, total strength is 110. Let's say my friend Logan has a Normal Everyday Strength of 20, and gets the same 100 from Pewter. So total strength is 120. In that scenario it makes perfect sense as to why someone who is smaller and less muscular benefits more from Pewter. (which is what Ham explained to Vin, or something like that). Logan, who is much stronger than me & also weighs much more without Pewter, will not be able to jump as high as me or be able to move as quick with Pewter. From that quote/WoB, it states that the equation is actually: Normal Everday Strength + Burning Pewter = 2 * Normal Everyday Strength That would mean I would have a total strength of 20 and Logan would have a total Strength of 40. Meaning the person who was stronger before gets a greater benefit. Which is not what was explained in the books. Which is why I am confused.

Right, that's how I understood it to work. Which is why I am confused that BS made that statement. I'm guessing that there was some form of miscommunication.

I can vouch for Dragonriders of Pern... They were AMAZING...when I was in middle/high school. I recently tried going back and reading them again, but I found that I could barely make it through a book without cringing. There are only really 3 topics they touch on Love: mostly between dragons and their riders (its also a pretty idealized/childish form of love, too obvious) Master Robington: OMG Master Robington is missing, rouse all the Dragons!!!! OMG Master Robington is coming, lets get some wine for him... Thread: grrr thread is my enemy and I am a manly man for letting my dragon destroy it, oh and I love my dragon. OMG thread is coming, I'm supremely afraid, oh wait there is my home where it can't hurt me... Don't get me wrong, there will always be a place in my heart for that series, and I have almost all of them on my bookshelves. However, I would not recommend them to an adult who reads books on the Stormlight Archive level.

Windrunner's News post "Around the Cosmere: Theories and Coppermind" has a lot of tantalizing information in it, but one tidbit has me confused... "o In Brandon’s mind, burning pewter approximately doubles your strength, while flaring triples it. He has not canonized how much either of these things enhances reflexes or healing." I seem to recall that when Ham was training Vin in burning pewter, he explained things a bit differently. I'm at work so I don't have any books with me, but I thought that he explained that a person that is super buff/muscular will not be that much stronger than someone like Vin, a malnourished small girl who isn't strong at all without pewter. I specifically remember the part when they were talking about why being less muscular is good because burning pewter gives you a certain amount of strength. So if a scrawny thug and a really muscular thug were in a jumping contest, the scrawny one would win because he/she is lighter, and her/his Pewter strength can get he/she higher off the ground than someone else who is burning pewter and has a lot of muscle. Basically, if burning pewter only doubles your strength, I would find it to be pretty worthless if I was a scrawny person. If you can barely manager to wield a regular sword (I'm assuming regular Vin couldn't), then burning pewter would certainly not allow you to easily wield a koloss sword as if it was a wooden stick (Vin burning pewter). Thoughts? Am I completely crazy? If I doubled my strength, my friend Logan could still kick the rust out of me...

Counter thought: Wouldn't Ruin want Odium to continue his destruction? Once everything and everyone is destroyed, nothing will change anymore, and Preservation would be pretty happy.

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That's because Kaladin see's himself as a slave still. Good point though, if I identify myself as a cool leather-jacket wearing, cigarette smoking, scar having type, then it won't heal. That raises another question. If you are a long time smoker, and you are fully aware of the state of your lungs, and you all of a sudden get the ability to inhale stormlight, would your lungs heal?

Gets a cool scar to let women know you are Bad-A, stormlight healing.

Not the same but along the same thought. Nightwatcher: Ask the nightwatcher to be more physically attractive. Nightwatcher makes everyone else ugly.

Storing Iron (weight): you are walking outside trying to have a conversation and the wind keeps blowing you like 10 feet away. (side thought, you can turn yourself into a Kite!!) Tapping Speed: Try to play a prank on someone by moving them to a different spot, their organs are liquefied by accelerating and decelerating to quickly. Copper: Same thing as smartphones. Everyone is super smart, but only if you are allowed to look it up first. Storing breath: people think you are hyperventilating and try to help you, interrupting your storage.

1. Either he just happened to get those powers by chance, or in book 2 when calamity wanted to change him David was probably thinking of Steelheart or something. 2. "They" is referring to Calamity's race. Apparently there is a race of "Gods" that go around the universes doing stuff. The Reckoners triology is complete, but Sanderson will be writing a series called "Apocalypse Guard" which is set in one of the core possibilities that Megan's powers can reach. So there will probably not be any of the same characters, but it might address some of the questions about Calamity's race. 3. An epic did it, then Larcener stole that power and continued it. 4. They figured out Calamity was an epic in book 2. I assumed it was some superpowerful crazy radiation looking alien thing, I thought it was kinda cool that he hid among humanity as an aloof kid. Turns out I was right, and his attitude and reasoning for pretending to be a human made sense. He was a confused alien, trying to figure out humanity. 5. He was human. Being good or bad is an ideal that nobody can really achieve. He was an epic that faced his fear and dealt with the darkness, but he is still a human and humans can be pretty messed up. We may see more of him, but who knows. You can probably assume that David dealt with him using his awesome new powers. He might revisit some stuff in Apocalypse Guard, he might not. Not everything can be, "and they lived happily ever after". Life goes on, so do stories, but we don't always get to find out what happens. http://brandonsanderson.com/the-apocalypse-guard/

http://brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2015/ Edit: Dang, WeiryWriter beat me to it.

hmm blood flow. Technically an ear piercing heals itself around the earning, so there is no blood flow. When spook was stabby stabbed with a spike, it was in his body. Same with inquisitors.

You could also define Odium as "Many hating or being disgusted by one". So odium hates single things, so he splinters shards and prevents them from becoming 1 Adonalsium again.

This is probably not right, but: Odium is hatred or disgust directed towards someone/something as a result of their actions. So maybe Odium just hates it when Shards take action, and are actively involved in their worlds. Maybe that's why the shards talk about their tendency towards inaction.

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Hmmm, funniest is sort of a vague term for me. Are you asking: which character makes you laugh the most? which character makes you intentionally laugh the most? which character makes you unintentionally laugh the most? The only people you listed that I would consider "comedians" would be Lopen. He is really the only one who consistently makes jokes and intentionally tries to be funny. Wayne does make jokes sometimes, but it's usually to make a point. Personally, I find Lightsong to be the most entertaining, but I don't think he is trying to be funny. He just likes to confuse people. Rock makes "jokes" but he is the only one who laughs. Tonk Fah makes some pretty dark jokes, pretty entertaining. I choose Lightsong. Everything he says makes people re-think their point of view/perspective. I thoroughly enjoy saying things that people get offended by, when in reality they are just looking at it from the "wrong" perspective. Edit: How could I forget Wit/Hoid. He is like that friend who is a cremhole and you aren't sure why you are friends, but they make fun of everyone, and you are just along for the ride.

Sitting around for 1,000 years, not having any opponents anywhere near his power, can make one "rusty" Vin surprised him. Humans make mistakes, and he was still technically just a human, albeit an extremely overpowered one.

I was suspicious of it from the beginning. I didn't understand how it worked because I had no idea what hemalurgy was, but I felt that it had something to do with her extra seeking skills. As soon as Saze started explaining some stuff I knew for sure. Still, I didn't understand the whole ruin speaking/preservation listening/implications of it all.

Wait, you read Words of Radiance before The Way of Kings? oh, and Hello

I thought I got my first editions from his online store, but now I am thinking that I got them as gifts and they might not be first editions!!! Now that will be all I can think about until I get home from work!

It could be referencing all the main characters. That book kind of shows how each character has past selves that play a role in what they are doing presently.

I agree with your agreement. Didn't feel that it was slow, just a lot of important characters. But that Faile-Shaido stuff, that part was not cool

Everyone seems to be hating on the fact that this series is extremely long and slow moving. That's why I love it, my least favorite part about reading is finishing the book. That is what lead me to the fantasy genre where often times you will have a large series. I hate it even more when I finish a series, so WoT was perfect for me. I've re-read it at least 4 times, it definitely holds me over while I'm waiting for other books to be published.