Eagle of the Forest Path

... a self-aware lifeless? Bring out your torches and pitchforks, folks!

Yes, but the missing chasm line in Aons made the Dor unable to fully transform people. The Dor is located in the Cognitive realm, so you could say that the Reod caused a blockage between the Cognitive and Physical realms. I'm not saying Reod Elantrians and Mistwraiths are the same, far from it, but there is some overlap.

Could you specify which DPD you mean? I mean, I doubt it stands for Dynamic Parcel Distribution in this case, but that still leaves a lot of options. (Dallas Police Department for instance)

This makes me wonder what happens when you hemalurgically steal a human attribute that is being enhanced by feruchemy (or allomancy I guess). For instance, a copper spike can steal intelligence and memory (according to the coppermind). So if you use it on a Sparker ferring who is currently tapping loads of mental speed, can you steal the enhanced intelligence or only the amount the target would naturally possess? Same thing for an iron spike in a Brute, a zinc spike in a Pinnacle, a tin spike in a Windwhisper or Tineye... Though I have a hard time imagining why someone would want to spike an allomancer or feruchemist for their human attributes instead of their powers.

Belgium/ Brussels France/ Paris The United Kingdom (of Britain and Northern Ireland)/ London The Netherlands/ The Hague Germany/ Berlin Italy/ Rome Austria/ Vienna Spain/ Madrid The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg/ Luxemburg Ireland/ Belfast NOT Switzerland/ Bern WLIU Name 10 named dragons from fiction (no 'the great dragon' or 'the black dragon' from whatever)

Descriptions of a specific thing can bring an extra dimension to a story, in some cases, even if they aren't particularly important to the plot. For instance, if the specific is an indication of the general. If you get a detailed description of a single house, you can infer from that what most houses in that culture might look like, giving an insight into the world an author is trying to build.

Or were humans. Kelsier was a cognitive shadow when he became a Sliver of Preservation. Slivers and splinters do seem to be mutually exclusive, though as per this (admittedly somewhat dated) WoB

There may be other ways for a person to get stormlight, though. We know there's fabrials that can drain stormlight from an infused sphere, there may be a way to put it into a person too. Larkins can breathe in stormlight and we don't know what they do with it either.

Thanks Chicken! (or do you prefer Plague?) Yeah, in the first story I was less focused on doing a story that could be extended, so it works better on its own. I guess the second one had too many elements that would be explained in the hypothetical rest of the story. The reason I prefer the "inque" story for possible worldbuilding is that I just don't see much promise for the 'gearings' from the first to be expanded upon as a magic system. But I can see a whole lot of things that could be fun to do with magical tattoo type things. (I know those have already been done... a lot! But I think I could do it with a twist) So I've written up a third story (nearly completely on my own time, too!) It's also a setup for a longer story, but I tried to avoid a plot that's too complicated to tell in so few pages. The working title is "The Oracle" (I suck at titles BTW) Since it's Brandon Sanderson that inspired me to try writing, here's the annotation: I hope you read my story, I hope you like it, and if you don't, I hope you'll tell me why. Edit: By the way, does anyone know if it's possible to do first line indent here?

Nitpicking here, but a flower pot would make a terrible cooking pot, since ceramics are (nearly always) thermal insulators. The story is interesting so far, can't wait to see where you take it.

...So was I... unsuccessfully, it seems...

Let's look at this by comparing with Mistborn. People related to elend that Vin killed: his father his brother his fiancee his god Now in SA, people related to Adolin that turn out to be radiants: his father his brother his fiancee ... There! Conclusive logical proof that Kaladin = god.

So you'd have one really healthy twin and on really fat twin... not so awesome for one of the two.

This is basically why Marsh is using Atium compounding. He's not afraid of dying, but he's terrified of what'll happen next.

That which the Nightwatcher giveth, the admins can taketh away.

Making it very likely he majored in math! Or am I misunderstanding how American higher education works?

Really? That's sort of ideal, considering what you want to do. In general, I advise you to start by copying things you like. That should allow you to get a feel for how the images fit together. Try out different a few different styles and find which one works best for you. And the anatomy thing, that is indeed really important. More so than the style you eventually settle on. I also suggest starting off on paper. No matter how good you are with a computer, it's still slower than a pencil. So with pencil and paper you'll probably make more progress, at least at first.

Does this include pregnancy?

Use illumination to create the illusion that a dun sphere is actually infused.

Riiiight, the wealthy have to pay more taxes. Because that's how it works in reality too. More likely it works somewhat like an inheritance tax. Having breath isn't taxed, but passing it on is. Probably taxed in money and not in breaths. That might explain why everyone* doesn't simply pass on their breath before dying: because their heirs couldn't afford the tax for passing on even a single breath. *everyone dying from old age or illness, that is, unforeseen deaths obviously aren't ideal for passing on breaths Edit: on the other hand, Hallandren doesn't seem bureaucratic enough to me to be able to accurately (or even broadly) account the number of breaths in circulation.

Apparently, that wish got granted.

For longer stories, I think the snowflake method can be really useful. Edit: I'm talking about the steps outlined in the article, not the software the guy tries to push on you at the end.

Sir Ian McKellen as the voice of Pattern I'd actually pick Tom Selleck over Liam Neeson for Dalinar Mark Sheppard as Sadeas A.J. Cook as Jasnah John Hurt as Taravangian Bradley James as Elhokar Emma Watson as Syl

Organs can be interesting too. If a Kandra has digested a squid once, could they then mimic humans with the ability to spit ink?

So work has been really slow lately and I decided to try out some writing prompts to fill some time. I ended up with two pieces of text that I don't completely hate, so I thought I'd post them here. I might try some worldbuilding on the second story later. I have absolutely no experience writing fiction, so I'd appreciate any feedback you'd be willing to give me. Though if you don't like it, please don't just say 'it stinks'? Please point out what you didn't like and maybe offer a suggestion for improvement? So here goes nothing... Gearheads (because I didn't want to call it 'untitled n°1') Inque (a.k.a. untitled n°2)