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Taln's Scar can be a neighbor galaxy

For widom I'll suggest just "Wisemen/Wisewomen". Wisdom is not exactly intelligence, even if related to it (as every roleplayer knowsI).

I thought that people refer to each other by District (Hoper, Honorer, Courager, Libertier) for Love's part it's difficult, since the Term "Lover" is already in usage. So I decidet for the term "Lovener".

Actually, that would be good. For all the benefits of a completed universe, it has the big disadvantage of being finite.

The life of a metalcatcher was dangerous. Ri climbed down the small wooden ladder, the clouds around her, the broken disk of the City just visible some hundred meters above. The ladder was built out of smokewood, wood, solid enough to build out of it, but almost as light as air. Fourteen other ladders led down around, a climbing metalcather on each. Most metalcatchers were women or very light men. There was only that amount of weight smokewood could sustain. Love be praised, today there was no wind. Ri absolutely hated it when the wind pulled on her, her clothes, the ladder, the other orecatchers. Yiso had died on a stormy day. Climbed down, and never came back. Probably he hit something below. Probably not. Nobody knew how far the clouds stretched below the City. "Hey, Ri!", said Sari, a young Courager-girl with hair as red as a flame from the ladde to the right "Do you want a race?" "Deal", said Ri "On three. One..." "Deal", said Dolso from a ladder to Ri's left. Dolso was a Lovener-boy [COMMENT: "Lover" is occupied otherwise], with dark hair, cut after the new fashion in severeal stripes from fore- to backhead. "Two" "Three", said Ri, and all three started to climb down as fast as possible. Of course, Sari was first. She jumped the last five meters and grabbed the thin smokewood-bridge. Ri came last and happy nobody got hurt. The metalcatcher plattform was built out of thin bridges in a web of eigthy times eighty meters. The construction looked like it would crash any moment, and sometimes it happened. Less than one year [COMMENT: we do have years, right?] ago, another metalcatcher web crashed, and forty metalcathers died. A Cloudsmith - his name was Jell n'Dorik [let's say the "n' " indicates a CSm], Ri thought - sat in the middle of the web and sustained it - it was possible to build webs without supporting cloudsmith, but they crashed in an instant. Even metalcatchers were no that crazy. The web was build above a stream of ironclouds, the second-most often of all metallclouds, just after aluminiumclouds, but the easiest to acess. Nets tangled down from the wooden web, down in the stream of dark-grey clouds. The ironclouds were fast and heavy, and carried small chunks of iron with them. Ri and Sari and Yiso went to section 5 and started to pull up the nets. The day was slightly better than the average, and they managed to get around one kilogram of iron per net. The work was exhausting, since the nets were big, and it was a real pain to get the small chunks - none bigger than Ri's little toe - out of them. The iron was put in baskets connected by ropes to the city, and the baskets were pulled up every hour. The clouds were uncomfortably hot today, and Ri's back was damp and itched like a party of cloudants decided to bite it togehter. Sari sang the Song of Knight Gonri, who - on the wings of her mighty Roc Fosh'hol - traveled to the City of Darkness, and Killed the Dark Queen of Dlogho, to free it and to some other unheard places in the Clouds. That helped, but not mutch. During their lunchbreak Ri lied on a small plank, and looked to the skies, when she saw it. A cloud-circle of black, with a red glowing inside. She hadn't the time to scream, when a Cloudpriest of Anarchy almost fell out of the sky. The Talent of flying was lost with Liberty's disappearing, but the Anarchist managed to circumvent it, by creating soft Cloudshields below him. The distance between two of those was not more than four meters, and a cloudshield slowed his fall enough to stay controlled before breaking. The Anarchist - it was a women around thirty, with a friendly face, blond hair and slightly mad blue eyes landed just beside the Jell, and beheaded him with a hatchet out of clouds. Then she hacked one of the planks. The brigde-web shivered. Next hack. Section 6 broke almost immediately off, and Yiso fell with it. He did not scream. His face - Ri saw it for a moment - looked almost calm. The ironcloud swallowed him and the others. The Anarchist turned to Ri.

Airsick lowlander!

Well, I think any combination of the Ideals is somehow beneficial, still I doubt they want to become one. Also, it goes a little bit in the direction of Mistborn 3, Era 1.

Their power is only strong enough to make one CP together.

The question is: How many people have cloudsmiths powers? In Stormgate's story it seemed not very common. Also, handle flying with care. The Wis/Just part is uninhabited.

Okay, random brainstorming about powers: Body-based: Healing, Pain-creating, Enstrength, Compassion (as in the story, or is this mental?), Invulnerability, Weight-changing, Shapeshifting, Teleportation... Mental based: Mental speed, Telepathy, Emotion manipulation, Compassion (probably it belongs here), Mental healing, Prophecy... Cloud based: Sight through clouds (but why? Is there anything outside the city?), Flying (Probably freedom, but not Anarchy), Cloud hardening, Temperature changing, Windcalling, Water out of clouds... And yes, 50% are stolen from Brandon.

Let's say each statue can give a given set of abilities, which can be or can be not shared between any amount of statues. Healing, for example, shall be associated with Love and/or Hope and/or Wisdom.

After that cremation another civil war almost started, because nobody could remember how the formular WOSR-5 looked like (the only shablone was cremated, too). It was settled by the invention of the forms WOSR-5a, WOSR-5b and WOSR-36

Let's talk about Cloud Magic. We have seen two things that can be accomplished with it: 1) Freezing people in motion. (Wisdom-associated?) 2) Making people feel, what they do to others (I'll call that "Compassion") (Justice-associated?) I think the energy for it comes out of the clouds (probably you inhale them?), and can be granted by the statues. Also, one person can be granted the powers of more than on one statue.

...and was buried in his documents.

Agreed.

Actually, bureaucracy - despite it's unnerving nature - is part of what helds nations together. Any governement, be it as strong as it can be, will not last long without a working state below it, that pays the army, distributes goods and collects taxes. Edit 1: On the downside: It is slow. And it can freeze developement of something ore someone like Kaladin. Edit 2: Actually, a portal that crosses almost half a continent is the first place, where I'll plant my bureaucrats. Just in case the Kingkillers want to follow the king.

Probably the statues are the first seven of the cloudsmith, now frozen in stone?

Sanderson’s First Law of Magics: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic. Sanderson’s Second Law can be written very simply. It goes like this: Limitations > Powers. Sanderson's Third Law: "Expand what you already have before you add something new." or, in other words "think first deep, then wide". Is explained in wikipedia (here) or on brandonsanderson.com

Upvote for consequently following Sanderson's third law and having good ideas.

You get a "what the damnation are you talking about?" *Inserts big bendalloy question mark*

No, no. In The Letter there is mentioned, that Roshar "bears Adonalsium's touch"; and on Scadrial Ruin and Preservation created mankind together, it's mentioned in Hero of Ages, I think.

Well... Freedom's dark side is basically Anarchy. For Love... there are a lot of ways for love to be more a curse than a virtue: think of obsessive and/or possessive love; and that is just the beginning. And for Courage - the back side is basically Recklessness. (For Justice and Wisdom, I think, the backsides would be Vengeance and probably Madness) I just hope that the back-sides of the other statues other than Liberty/Anarchy don't influence life as much as that one.

I actually read everything this guy was posting about TWoK (he managed to come till Ch. 17), and... it's worth your time, if you are more than a bit masochistic. He calls Brandon Sanderson "Branderson". He calls TWok predictable (well, Mistborn 1 was slightly (emphasis: slightly!) predictable, but TWoK?) without making a single prediction. He calls the names of the countries "randomly generated". Ah, well... Probably I'll make a fun post "let's read the let's read about TWoK...but I think it's not worth my time. Can somebody say what the others were talking about? Most of them now fled fro the righteous fury of the 17th Shard.

I do not. Journey before destination and stuff.

For me it's german, and I didn't undertand until now, that luck in english is really just about chance. In German "Glück" means "joy" as well as "fortune"