IndigoAjah

I really don't think it would be that hard for a people who have de facto survived the ending of their world to survive a magic infused hurricane-monsoon. For one thing, the nobles live in Castles. Wouldn't be great over decades, but during the war? Fine. Humans (and their slight deviations we see in these books) are incredibly quickly adapting creatures, and humans with a ton of magic and post-industrial tech and magitek are even less helpless. We also know next to nothing about how long an everstorm lasts etc. And I think there is a near zero % chance of Stormform, inherently corrupted Parshendi ever fighting on the same side as the Alethi. Once again it's trying to artificially interpret would COULD be the case to find any situation that doesn't see Roshar get curb-stomped - rationalisation, not rationality Finally, if Harmony is the Shard on Scadrial, I cannot see him allowing an Everstorm to continue

Allomancers would not be powerless on Roshar - we have likely seen Allomancy being used there. Another reason the conflict is quite one sided

Vin, definitely. Tony is awesome and would stand a chance, but Vin's powers have the advantage and if it gets to close combat, Stark is screwed Oh, and if we are giving Vin medallions, or Atium, or Bendalloy? More one-sided. Unless Tony gets to do some serious recon and fully prepare

Still don't actually think Roshar would likely win EVEN with that impossible condition added Because, as soon as all creatures can be used, a) Kandra are still game breakers meaning Scadrial should win without any actual battles being fought, esp as, unless some Radiants have powers that aren't suggested by what we currently know, Roshar don't have a way to discover or control them The Lord Ruler c) the rest of Roshar's troops are still underpowered against Metalborn and thus soon Scadrial will have plenty of Shards to kill said Chasmfiends

More from the glorious Locke Lamora: “I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, ************. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.” “I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this rust is all finished. There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, ************?” “My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.” “When you see the Crooked Warden, tell him that Lock Lamora learns slowly, but he learns well. And when you see my friends, you tell them that there are more of you on the way.” From other stuff: Jaime Lannister: "Only a fool makes threats he's not prepared to carry out. If I were to threaten to hit you unless you shut your mouth, and you presumed to speak, what do you think I'd do?" "There are no men like me. Only me." Sam Vimes: “He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.”

Are we including weapons like sticks and knuckledusters in that list?

Guess you missed the bit where Szeth makes multiple Shardbearers at once look like pathetic children? It does pretty well against depowered, spear-armed, unarmoured footsoldiers, yes. So would normal plate. Against magic, the exact situation we are debating here, it has been laughable

As of W&W, no, because Scadrial have industrial age farming which leads to a MASSIVE population rise in the real world. In the earlier era, maybe, depending on the size of the planets amongst other factors. Either way, I think any era Scadrian army would still easily beat a Rosharian army 3-4x larger so I don't really think it matters that much, that's how one sided this conflict is

Why should Odium get involved? We can see logically how Kandra, Inquisitors, Koloss etc can be used by Scadrial without Ruin's input, plus later Ruin and Preservation are joined together and they have worked together before. Odium, it seems from all we have seen, is inherently opposed to Honor and Cultivation and I cannot see how they would ever work with him Also, it may well be that we are underestimating shard plate. I personally think that you, and a few others, are HUGELY overestimating it, given how poorly it fares in the series so far

Also, even if Kandra couldn't kill people, you send in a Mistborn or a Ferruchemist assassin to do the actual killing Roshar, of course, could use Lightweavers to do a similar if less expertise form of espionage

I watched Antman the first time last week. It was excellent. Also watched X-Men Apocalypse. It was mediocre

Western comics - read Kingdom Come, Sandman (if only one, I'd say this) or Books of Magic

a) Kandra only can't people because of a contract that by W&W Era doesn't exist. We know they CAN kill. We've seen it. fair point, though they still have a role to play, and it depends how many you have c) think it will take a few horrible defeats to get the chance to learn this d) Noble Allomancers DEFINITELY fight. Demonstrably, in every single book. Male and female.

Maybe the average Mistborn ever, but I don't think we are proposing a time war!

The thing to remember with Vin is that winning fights she simply should not be able to using intuition, guile and combat intelligence is her thing. Logically, a Radiant with plate and blade vs a "normal" (not mist-enhanced) Vin without Atium or Duralumin should win (although she is pretty hard to hit in a one on one fight). But she should have lost a lot of battles. She was at a significant disadvantage in most of the fights we see onscreen, yet she always wins. I mean, logically, Shan should have beaten her (nevermind the other allomancers they had), TLR DEFINITELY should have, Zane should have, the Misting assassin groups had her at a significant disadvantage, she took out 4 Inquisitors out of 13 before needing any help etc. With that track record, it's hard to bet on even Kaladin against her. However, she is also not representative of an average Mistborn

Nathan Fillon as Miles. In many ways, he's Mal Reynolds gone bad Also, Whedon directing

Lies of Locke of Lamora is one book that is crying out for a TV adaptation

I think it would work better as a miniseries. But would take a movie. Feel we'd lose a LOT of characterisation in a movie though

Ati is canonically a red head though! Realistically, as skin colour just isn't an issue in Mistborn, we can make any character any skin colour really. Their racial issues are from a different angle and having a mix of skin tones in main characters, nobles and Skaa could do well to empathise that. In a TV or film (personally I think 6 1.5 hour long episodes minseries per book is the way forward) version, they'd likely want to invent or add importance to more female characters too (unless Vin is just that awesome to carry it all, which she might be) - I would imagine Lady Shan being a bigger character for example, and some flashbacks with Mare in TFE. I can see where Kel being French comes from re the name, but I just cannot imagine him as French

Ruin was outgambited by Preservation, who manipulated Vin's birth somehow into being Ruin's perfect candidate, whilst knowing, I assume, that she was an ultimately selfless person who would willingly sacrifice herself to complete Preservation's plan. As a side note: Vin is amazing. She should be almost a Mary Sue but something about her and the way she is written makes her one of my favourite characters in all of literature

Yeah, Marsh as the second, I think. I just remember it was definitely used later in HoA after the one at the start was Ventured

At least 2 did though, and Inquisitors by definition have A Steel, so any with F Steel should be able to Compound

The idea of social justice and equality is a big one too - there is a feudal system in all of the books I have read (except the W&W books, I suppose), and racism, religionism and sexism play huge parts. As does the idea of being able to balance seemingly contradictory parts of your character (see Vin, Elend, Siri, Vivenna, Shallan, Kaladin etc etc etc). The idea of dogmatic religion often being oppressive but compassionate and open-minded faith having the capacity to save. The dangers of thinking of oneself as a god. What would be really cool is a "reread" thread or set thereof for each series, where we specifically approach it like a literature class, looking for themes, foreshadowing, metaphor etc. Would LOVE to be involved

I mean the real reason is: with 13+ Steel Compounders, unless Vin took off her earring significantly sooner, Ruin simply cannot lose. Not at all. So one way or another Brandon couldn't let him have them, I suppose we pick whichever rationalisation we find least unsatisfying

The implication is that it takes a while to master Compounding even when you know how to - I think there was an earlier discussion on this and that there may be a WOB on it, but TLR took a while, longer than the 2 years or so Ruin had with the Inquisitors, to get it and it has nothing to do with knowledge, rather the mechanics. It may well have been that Ruin couldn't get them to do it in time and couldn't waste time practising when he needed them doing other tasks.ANd on Nightblood, my impression is: Yes. But only if you have a real understanding of the concepts you envisage (which might be tricky for any human) and I would avoid using any concepts as subjective as Evil! EDIT: I'm also not convinced that Ruin cared THAT much about Spiking Elend. He didn't think that they knew where the Atium was yet, could already follow Vin with her earring and might well have done better leaving Elend alone to not reveal that he could influence a spiked person