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You are missing the most likely source - option 1a. WoB: The most likely source is Mined Gemstones - not Gemhearts. The "perfect" part of a Perfect Gemstone is the crystalline structure - and such exists through mining, not a biologic process. Just because modern Rosharans rarely mine their gems (due to 7+ millennia of Crem build-up) does not mean the Desolations and Epochs were similarly devoid of Gem Mines (back when all the known Perfect Gemstones were originally found and named). It seems to be tied to (Mistborn spoilers): Hope that helps

Probably. When I was tested I learned the three primary learning styles were "Visual, Auditory and Kinetic" (90s). Kinesthetic is probably the better conjugation for that context, but I wrote it as I learned it and was not thinking (obviously).

Glad to have you here- Welcome to the Shard. Well, my role in both communities is similar. I'm lucky enough to have easy access to searching the books for references, and I enjoy answering questions (not entirely altruistic - it's how I learn and memorize lore - Kinetic Learner). So, it seems obvious that I should practice looking things up by helping to answer questions or clarify informaion, when I can. I just wish DCC had a forum too. . . I really do not like Discord as a book discussion platform (It's great for what it does, but this is not something it does well). Any reason why you stopped at book 1? Or just not ha the chance yet. I almost DNFed the series. A friend loaned Book 1 to me and, when I finished and found out it was Kindle-Exclusive, I stopped reading. Had I not found teh Patreon as an Amazon-free way to continue the series I would not have done so. Of course, we now have the Ace Hardcovers and trade editions - but, unfortunately, digital remains behind an Amazon-Wall (except the Patreon ePubs).

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. Not an audiobook consumer, so I cannot tell you what they sounded like in Audio, but here are the options in books 1-3: WoK: WoR: OB: Hope that helps

The "Bands" never had anything to do with Rashek - that was part of the misdirect. WoB:

WoBs: Hope that helps

Only until the next update - we have this thread for brainstorming ideas so that the Admins have less work to do when they find time to do an update. . .

WoB yes, but not about Wax. Era 2 would not have had the skyscrapers to be viable. WoB:

Sazed is a Vessel (Like Rayse and Leras). Avatars are portions of a Shard's power that are not separated from the power of a Shard (unlike a Splinter). An Avatar may have a Vessel (e. g. Telsin/Trell) or may not ( Spoilers for SotD/White Sand e. g. Sand Lord, Patji). Bavadin (Autonomy's Vessel) prefers to work with Avatars because her (alleged) goal is to "out-religion" the other Shards (TLM Ch 20). WoB:

Exactly my point. Sazed is investing Wax - but Scadrial is a low-investiture world and it is only small sips - nothing even close to Telsin/Autonomy (and we likely would not want soemthing like that (White Sand Spoilers) WoB:

Technically, we see this happen in every Era 2 book - just not in the "Build an Avatar sense." Being Harmony's chosen sword allowed (WoB):

Funny that Worldbuilding is twice - but they are different, just not labelled so. One is "Roshar Worldbuilding" and the other is "'Author Worldbuilding strategies."

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I do not think it would prevent them from dying due to incompatible (non-biologic) body structure - but we do have a WoB on the second part: Hope that helps

Guessing you also did not heed the warning.. . .

I doubt it's anything so obscure. If highstorms come from Origin; then, presumably, there is some kind of Perpendicularity there (probably intermittenent). With Cultivation's Perpendicularity gone it may be that finding a way to transition at Origin and sail west is one of the methods of crossing back to Roshar's physical realm.

You cut that quote short a bit - OB Interlude 1: This could also mean Worldhoppers: "Light in their pockets" could be off-world investiture, or even unkeyed purifed investiture of some kind "Come to destroy" could simply be coming to fight Retribution and his forces "Infinite Sea" sounds like Shadesmar to me (especially after the reveals in IED) "Night is Darkest" - sounds like post-Night of Sorrows to me Also note: the other Ligthhouse we see in-story is manned by a former Ire Elantrian (with at least some Dor) - Riino Because there is a huge difference between keeping pressure in a vessel (space stations btwn 30-101 kPA [Everest and MSLP]) and keeping pressure outside of a vessel (submarine at 300m depth is about 3000 kPA of pressure). There is a reason submarine engineering does not work for exo-atmospheric design (despite all of those Sci Fi "convert a sub into a spaceship" stories). Hope that helps

Shorter is better - that's why you have a profile for all the things - and can link that profile in your signature. Here are some other threads and details to tide you over until an Admin can respond officially: Question on Signatures Admin Response Important Reminder about Signatures Hope that helps

You can use CTRL+H to find and replace text in word. Changing each -- to — should be fairly straight forward. Changing each underline to italics is not too hard, but not too obvious unless you have had practice. See below: You click in Find and set that to "underline" format using the Format button on the bottom, then click in Replace and set that to "no underline, Italics" also using the format button on the bottom. Click "Replace all" and voila - all changed.

Correct - compressed plot omitting the scenes that gave context to the plot, and only retaining some plot points sans context. I can never knoiw if I might have liked it without a book comparison because I can never un-read the book to see it clean. But I found it confusing because I spent th ewhole time thinking "why cut this, why change that." Nornmally, I don't have a problem with adaptation changes when those changes make sense for the medium (like The Martian - nearly all of the changes made sense because it was a movie, not a book. It was the stupid change at the end (presumably for the comedic value) that ruined the ending of an otherwise fine movie adaptation. if they had changed Ender's age to have a single actor, but not tried to compress a 6 year story into six months - and still kept the defining contextual plot points; I could have liked the movie as much as I had hoped to like the movie. it does, that was the third thing I fixed in my personal copy. That is a requirement of the publication industry (which still does use tools that correctly interpret an em-dash from "--." Do you plan to convert the story to epub, or read as a Word or PDF document?

i did not say it was bad. It's just very different. I did not enjoy it - but that is due to me and expectations, not due to the movie or acting quality. Sometimes different can be fine - I like both the Book and Movie of Jurassic Park (like Highlander, there should have been only one) and recognize they are different but both good for different reasons. To me, Ender's Game was not that. I think that is a word processor function from the 80s and 90s, back when devices knew that it should auto-change a typed double-hyphen into a single em-dash. It was never meant to be displayed as two hyphens in human-readable product and looks horrible (to me). I use an actual en-dash or em-dash when necessary and the space-offset hyphen when expediency trumps accuracy.

It is in adventure fantasy. Somehow it got removed when I hit save (I was having problems pasting it into the spoiler box because the blank line was missing) - so I have restored it. No worries. Just keep in mind that the movie has almost nothing in common with the book other than the title and most character names. The Book begins when Ender is six years old and ends with him a teenager. Since Asa Butterfield could not play that range of ages, they decided against having multiple actors and just ran the plot through a trash compactor - then changed the ending (because, why not?) . . . Granted, the epilogue of the novel version (itself a re-written version of the original Novella) was already non-canon since it was later given it's own book (because it skimmed a lot of detail) - which is why I have that previously-linked flowchart-style Chronology to help make sense of short stories, novellas and novels.