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I agree with @Ammanas that SoS is perhaps the strongest one of Era 2 to date.  However, it was a slog to get through, and very few characters whom I'd liked came through looking pretty.  Wayne in particular bore the brunt of this, I found, but both Harmony and TenSoon took severe hits to their respective pedestals as well.  (Especially because manipulating someone to kill their wife unawares is stormed up, even more so when circumstances preclude all other alternatives) It's "Waxilium Ladrian and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Weekend."  

1 hour ago, NotSteve said:

Shouldn't Sazed be the most powerful shard because he holds two shards? Or is it like allomancy where the OG's are way more powerful?

Sazed is the most powerful Shard.  However, he is also the most inexperienced.  Which is something that Trell is exploiting the rust out of.  

1 hour ago, NotSteve said:

Also I feel it is far more likely that Hoid is from Scadrial because the Voice says that it has remarkable technological progress. And since even if you would say other planets would achieve FTL before Scadrial, it would actually make more sense then because he is from the future and would have a general knowledge of the past and would be able to know where to go.

Hoid's not from Scadrial, nor does he have the ability to travel back in time (so far as we know).  He's from Yolen, and is using Fortune (used in Chromium Feruchemy, but which we haven't seen in-depth yet) to determine where to go and what to do.  Which "Voice" are you speaking of?  

RAFO until The Lost Metal.  Is the short answer.  The long answer is "1.  Store Identity in an alummind while storing the relevant power in a nicromind.  2.  ???  3.  Profit."  

2 minutes ago, ElephantEarwax said:

I was reading SH and when Kel was listening through the window, one elder said, someone was worrying about fortune being stolen. I have seen ideas where fortune being feruchemical, but I believe they drank it. Could it be that there is a shard Fortune somewhere and it was shattered and captured, or they have a piece of the shardpool from Fortune. That seems plausible, and that explains how they could live so long+stay in the cognitive realm(if they are dead?).

Fortune is a Realmatic concept that is used in Chromium Feruchemy.  Other examples of "drawing upon Fortune," as Elrao stated to Alonoe, are sadly unpublished as yet.  The Ire's tipple of choice is simply liquid Investiture (note its similarity to the mysterious liquid that Hoid applied to his oar/"boat").  More information on those who "died, but did not" as Preservation so obtusely described them can be found in Elantris.  

1 hour ago, Calderis said:

That's the part that bothers me in the explanation though. Ruin's ability to control someone with a single spike is very limited, and preventing pain seems to be against the intent. The combination of those two factors is... Problematic. 

He can build up, if that construction can topple and take out two other things.  Dulling hemalurgic pain so that his victim can continue to destroy should be child's play. 

16 hours ago, ryshadium90 said:

It seems that out of the participants to this thread, your minds have all jumped the Honor Chasm and refuse to acknowledge that you have exited the Physical Realm. I need to find some bridgeleaders with more spaz than this.

As one very wise liespren once said, the mirror might be a good place to begin your search.  

Just now, Calderis said:

As far as I knew, that exists entirely because some people don't want to type out/can't remember how to spell Adonalsium. 

What makes you think there's more to it? Not trying to criticize, just curious. 

Nothing, just fishing for things.  Adonalsium's benevolence and anthropomorphism in particular. 

1 hour ago, King Cole said:

What is it?

"The 17th Shard has taken to calling Adonalsium "Uncle Andy."  How accurate a moniker is this?" 

27 minutes ago, King Cole said:

I have some questions about adonalsium that I need for a theory im working on.

1. Did he create humans

2. Did he stand for good/evil

3. Did he use his power often

4. Did a "mind" possess him? 

1.  In several places, yes.  (See: Sixth of the Dusk for one example of non-Shardic humans)

2.  Don't know.

3.  Probably.  

4.  Don't know, although I have a question in mind for GenCon that might shed some light.  

17 hours ago, TheBlueShifting said:

I love the reasoning! Naturally, I won't give much information but I will say I find your reasoning about the availability of the Pits interesting. But Harmony was able to find him quite easily. He was much faster at adapting to the power than Vin was. I've actually been wondering if she was aware of and visited the people who died while she was in charge of the power. I mean she could have, but I'm thinking she was far too focused on Ruin and Elend to think about it much. 

There's only two perpendicularities on Scadrial, both were drained by the end of WoA.  The pits have the dual advantage of regrowing faster and being reliable enough to worldhoppers that infrastructure for ease of use was already in place (by WoB).  Also, I suspect it's much easier to use the Pits by accident, than it is to use the Well under similar circumstances.  

As for Vin, I don't believe she's the type to take the time for that walk with the dead.  Not when, as you said, there were bigger fish to fry in the Physical Realm.  

Hibiscus flowers with closed-in petals, like a crocus or a tulip.  And of course, in every color under the sun and then some.  That's my idea of them, anyway.  

1 minute ago, Toaster Retribution said:

What is kinetic investiture?

Kinetic Investiture is the in-universe, fancy term for any Investiture that is being actively used.  When Raoden's drawing an Aon, the glowy white lines are Kinetic Investiture.  

On 7/2/2017 at 7:12 AM, Oversleep said:

It has? All I recall is this:

Given their interaction, is not surprising Kelsier would have a beef with Hoid but there is not much to imply that Hoid does hate Kelsier.

Given their interaction, and what Hoid knows of Kel's pre-death actions, Hoid could quite reasonably consider Kelsier a reckless psychopath.  

I wonder if Kassar is Rosharan or Nalthian.  

Also, I think I have enough evidence to piece together what happened on Elsric's first worldhop.  When the Catacendre was happening, he'd probably taken refuge inside the Pits of Hathsin.  Whatever remnants of the power had regrown over the year or two since Kelsier destroyed the Pits, coupled with Harmony's ascension, probably opened the door wide enough such that when Elsric wanted to escape the doom he was certain was coming, he was able to pass into the Cognitive Realm.  However, he would have died there if not for other worldhoppers' prior preparations, namely the boats and the liquid Investiture needed to keep them afloat.  So while he was taking refuge in one of those boats, and taking in the show of the Catacendre (as SH showed those changes were clearly visible to denizens of the Cognitive Realm), Harmony showed up.  

Given what we know of shardblades, I suspect it would be difficult, bordering on impossible, to summon it at a distance from its owner.  However, I suspect that the Radiants could pull tricks like that.  (Being cagey because I don't know whether or not you've read WoR)

I've said this before, but Cohesion reduces any non-Shard material to putty in your hands.  The applications, in combat or otherwise, are numerous. 

Where's the option for "It was wrong, but I was cheering him on the entire time"?  

On 6/24/2017 at 6:55 PM, FiveLate said:

My favorite.... Mr. T......because no one can spell Taravangian.

In that same vein... Mr. A because no one can spell "Adonalsium."  

Assuming, of course, that he hides it.  It might be good political leverage to get the Shin on their side ("You gave a Shardblade to an exile and told him to obey anyone he meets?  What were you thinking?").  

What were the cons?

On Monday, June 05, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Stormlightning said:

That's what I was thinking, as I'm pretty sure Brandon has said that. Actually, I think he said the whole world of Sel is. But I don't have the desire to go flipping through it right now to find the korean stuff

I think the exact wording was more along the lines of him putting several Asian-esque cultures onto Sel which made it a rather good fit for Forging's inspiration.  

On 6/4/2017 at 5:09 AM, Idealistic Mistborn said:

I don't have the numbers, I don't think it can be solved easily and I am really bad at computational science, but unless you want a red sky it should be just a litle bit more dense than ours, as I said in the sunset the light pass through more atmosphere so it'd be the equivalent to a "densier" atmosphere, for green it should be closer to ours.

With a red sun it has mainly orange-red light so I suppose the sky should be orange.

How about with an orange sun?  (As opposed to a yellow sun, like Earth's) It sounds like my sky will be green.  

19 hours ago, Idealistic Mistborn said:

Yes, the sky is blue due to Rayleight scattering, it depends on the wavelength, the shorter wavelength, the more intense is the light, and hence making the sky blue and purple, but purple light is absorb in the upper part of the atmosphere, and our eyes are more sensitive to blue(I am not sure about the eyes, but is what I've been told, Can someone confirm it?)

In the sun set the blue light get too scattered because the amount of atmosphere it has to pass through is higher, then the direct light of the sun is red/orange.

If you want a warmer color sky you can change the density of atmosphere or the angle at which light incide.

How dense does such an atmosphere need to be to affect a noticeable color change (e.g. from blue -> blue-green)?  I ask because, as I learned in my "world with a year-long day" thread, a thick atmosphere is one of the things I'd need to regulate planetary temperatures during the night.  EDIT: And how does that play with a dimmer sun than ours?  

Another instance of "Just Pick One":  Day length is about half the year.  I'm currently thinking the entire orbital period is 276 Earth days, which means 137 Earth days to go from dawn to dawn.  Judging from the formulae on that webpage you cited, I need to solve for the sidereal day thusly:  T[sidereal day]=(276*137)/(276+137)=37812/413=91.55 Earth days.  I might change that up later, I'm not certain, really.  And the orbital period itself changed multiple times (during the writing of the post) before I even got to the formula, so there we are.  I'm still thinking only one moon though.  Phases are basically useless because not only is the sun in the same position over multiple lunar orbits, but the moon itself is Invested enough to glow under its own power (Basically this is to allow plants a method of cheating their way through a 3-month night).  I don't believe I'll need a second moon - it seems like it would be distracting, although I might resurrect the possibility of the moon having a moon.    

Theoretically there's some standing room or something, at least for the Q&As.  I'm definitely going to be trying to attend both the Worldbuilding panels and both the signings, despite only getting tickets for one of the panels.  

EDIT: I will also be trying to attend the Q&A, because I want to ask my Dor questions.  

Just in case, however, I'd like to post them here for purposes of wordsmithing (and also if people can ask it in my stead if I cannot):

1. "What percentage of notable features of Sel are accounted for in the Dor?  [Cite Aon Aon and the Forging setting mark as two examples if necessary]"
2. "When an Elantrian draws an Aon, what happens to the end result if an invalid line is included (e.g. if the Dakhor super speed rune was included)?" And lastly, if the answer is anything besides "it would fizzle immediately upon drawing the invalid line":
3. "Would it be possible for, say, an Elantrian to make a 3-D model of Sel using only Dor-capable symbols, and if so, what would that accomplish?"