Eagle of the Forest Path

I googled it and came up with this: http://nanowrimo.org/forums/writing-101/threads/249609 The answer you're looking for might be in there. My two cents are: never reference a certain religion that begins with Sci- and ends in -ology, it appears they have a tendency to sue.

Hmmm... IMO the "polygamy thing" is the motivation for a large part of the character interactions between those involved. Also, if they keep only a single one of Rand's love interests they'd be p-ing off the two thirds of the readers who preferred either one of the others. The flaming Dragon Reborn couldn't pick between them, I don't see why the screenwriters should.

Since no-one seems to be answering, I'll reveal that the above quote comes from "The Name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco. I'll give an easier one next. "Never say you're sorry. It's a sign of weakness."

A possible justification for Inquisitors not compounding is that their principal metalminds were their spikes. Can't compound from those. (Well, technically you can, but that's basically suicidal)

Since the appreciation of the Northern Lights remains unchanged from what it would have been before the wish, a lot of people take their expanded appearance as a sign of the prophesied end of the world, global religious war breaks out, ended by multiple nuclear strikes wiping out the majority of the earth's remaining population instantly and resulting in a nuclear winter that lasts a few centuries, killing off the minority that survived the initial blasts. I wish to be the sole winner of a large EuroMillions jackpot during the coming year.

You kind of need to specify a time period, there's rather important difference between two marks per day or per week.

Well, yeah. Era 4 Scadrians have FTL travel. If you crash something into a planet at the speed of light, I think it's safe to assume that that planet is toast.

It's because Lightsong gave away his Divine Breath, what Vasher gave away was a collection of Breaths he had stored on top of his Divine Breath.

The Princess Bride. "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."

I think the two armies thing was a bluff. As we discover in WoR, the Parshendi are in a tight situation, population-wise. The Parshendi were on the receiving end in a war of attrition, in those cases it's usually a good idea to make it appear that your opponent's tactics aren't working, even if they are. When the Alethi started bringing two armies on plateau runs the Parshendi did the same as a signal that "Hey, we can do the same, so don't even bother." but I doubt they would have been able to maintain a policy of mobilizing double the warriors per assault in the long run.

It is in fact possible to soulstamp a person so they have the relevant 'areas' in their spiritweb to be an allomancer, but they still wouldn't be able to use allomancy. (There's at least one WoB on this, but I can't be bothered to look for it right now) I believe this is because Forgery can't create the Connection (note the capital C) to Preservation required to draw the power for allomancy. So a Forged allomancer would technically have the abilities (pewter, steel, bendalloy, etc.) but they wouldn't be able to fuel said abilities. If you soulstamp a Thug into a Slider, the spiritweb would change, and the Connection to Preservation would already exist, so that person would become able to burn bendalloy. (The question here is whether they'd still be able to burn pewter, that depends on exactly how Forgery changes the spiritweb, is it additive or, uhm... 'replacive') Now let's say that you've soulstamped a non-allomancer into a Coinshot. If they also have the ability to draw in Stormlight for example (they might be a Radiant's squire) , in theory they should be able to somehow use that Stormlight to fuel their Forged allomancy. Yeah... all of those are basically impossible. First, Forgery can't transplant souls. Changing a humanoid (lifeless) into a sword (or any object) is too implausible, the stamp wouldn't work. Stamping a lifeless so they'd have a soul... might actually be possible, but I doubt it would work on Kalad's Phantoms, maybe on a standard lifeless. Stamping a soul onto an object is even more impossible than transplanting them with Forgery, souls are basically investiture, and it is simply not possible to create (or destroy) investiture. Something I do believe is possible in making Forgey interact with Breath is to change the command of an Awakened object, or stamp an object that contains Breath but has no command so that it does have a command, though because of investiture interfering with other investiture this would likely be prohibitively difficult.

I think Brandon has stated outright that the focus on Sel are shapes/forms. Can't seem to find the source though.

meaning Ela is not used as modifier for Rao, or vice versa

From Miles' description in AoL, I'd guess it's something like being on stimulants, the illegal kind.

If the girl used her own breath for the mindwipe, logically she would have Awakened (or whatever you call it) herself. She'd have given her Breath to herself, so obviously she'd still have it. It'd be getting something for nothing though, so it's not Realmatics-consistent. Just putting it out there.

Shardpools 'd be a subset: All shardpools are perpendicularities, but not all perpendicularities are shardpools.

Less than 1?

Soulcasting doesn't create matter, though, it changes matter from one substance to another. On the other hand, the energy you'd need to achieve that using mundane means is probably off the charts as well; does anyone have access to the Large Hadron Collider's electricity bill?

That would make allomancers the ideal people to use Nightblood, little chance of running out of fuel. Though what that would do to Harmony in the long term...

That's correct. Your turn, Indigo.

"You dumb kid! Stop sneezing, I'm trying to watch TV!" "I'm sorry *atchoom*, I can't *atchoom* stop it, please *atchoom* don't hit me, daddy." "That's it! I've had it! *smack* *slap* *smack*"

Chicken, egg, chicken, egg... chicken?

Sam Vimes in Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. "Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings."

Actually, I don't think any inquisitor can see the point of an aluminium spike...

Go outside, turn around three times and spit!