StormyQueen

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--54 9. Joel--2110. Melody--25

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--509. Joel--2710. Melody--23

Wayne x3 Shai x2 As for contestants, I personally think that there should be 32 contestants with randomised fights, that way the results can be more unexpected and the result is less guaranteed to be the people with the most votes.

Jasnah x1 Vin x1 Shai x1 Khriss x1 Eshonai x1 ...I shall call it, the girl power team.

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--449. Joel--2910. Melody--27

Jasnah x1 Shai x1 Ashraven x1 Gaotona x1 Galladon x1

One thing that has helped me immensely in songwriting is a technique I learnt a few years ago. Once you know what Yu want to write a song about, like a theme or story, just write down phrases or words that come to mind when you think about this. Then once you have those, build on those again, and try to get more and more poetic as you go. After you've got heaps of phrases, just start to patch them together into a coherent sounding song. For example, say I want to write a song about the plot of Mistborn. I could start off with the phrase 'really epic story'. From there I could move into changing one of the words to make it sound cooler, such as 'story of ages'. Then, take another idea like 'mitborns' lead it into 'mistcloaks' then just fancy it up by adding some adjectives turning it into 'a whirl of cloaks and daggers'. Then, once you have enough, you can just peices it together, adding in some simpler phrases such as 'mist' or something. You could cobble even that into some form of verse/chorus, and it becomes easier to write out a whole song when you have lots and lots of phrases and ideas. Anyway, that's what I do, hopefully it helps somewhat, although for me it tends to be a bit more of an instinctive process. When in doubt, just act like you're some famous poet who is (somewhat pretentiously) describing whatever your theme is.

@ShadowLord_Lith really good job! I only just got along to reading it, but it looks like a very promising premise to write on. Keep writing

Jasnah x2 Steris x1 Vin x1 Rysn x1

The way that I have interpreted it is similar to @Kingsdaughter613 in that they are a collection of city states. However, the way that I see it, the connections between the cities seem to be more like a league; in that, like in Ancient Greece, it's similar to a close alliance, where they can trade and protect each other ect. In this sort of system, or at least in Ancient Greece, each member has its own government who manages the league with the other members of the pact, where in Elendel seems to be largely similar to British democracy. I think that the system that the Basin has is similar to the leagues in Greece, and, as was said earlier that since Elendel is larger than the others, it has political power coming largely from trade and innovation (similar to Athens in the Delian League).

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--44 9. Joel--29 10. Melody--27

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--419. Joel--3010. Melody--29 Do you think it would be worth starting changing the numbers by 2 now? We aren't down to 2 characters yet, but we seem to just be going around in circles and using 2 would speed it up again.

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--39 9. Joel--30 10. Melody--31

Jasnah x1 Elend x3 Breeze x1

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--429. Joel--2810. Melody--30

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--439. Joel--2810. Melody--29

Jasnah x2 Khriss x1 Shallan x1 Elend x1

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--41 9. Joel--29 10. Melody--27 17. Stephen Leeds--3

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--41 9. Joel--27 10. Melody--28 17. Stephen Leeds--4

@Chull #445 I believe that you can vote either way. I know that I am voting for characters I like, rather than their fighting skills, but I think you can go either way

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--39 9. Joel--28 10. Melody--26 17. Stephen Leeds--7

Thus begins the nomination on this marvellous day. Jasnah x3 Khriss x2

Heal Cody, hurt Melody 3. Cody--36 9. Joel--28 10. Melody--26 17. Stephen Leeds--10

Heal Cody, hurt Joel 3. Cody--35 9. Joel--27 10. Melody--28 17. Stephen Leeds--10

Personally,mI don think he would have. (plus it's too painful to think of). I think Kel would have known that Breeze had (mostly) turned away from that life. Proof of that is how long he hasn't been acting as a noble, and living as a skaa, and even opposing the Lord Ruler. While Breeze certainly has some mannerisms of the nobility, his larger scale actions (opposing the Lord Ruler ect) could probably discount this I think Kel would loose a lot of trust in Breeze, probably tell somebody to watch his movements, but I don't think that it would have been completley destroyed, and that it could be built up again.