Treamayne

That's why @alder24 said I ninja'd him - we were likely replying at the same time. . .

WoBs: Hope that helps.

Copy that - but I did label them A, B, C, D for that purpose. . . Granted those were just a quick example mocked up in Excel.

Maybe I'm not envisioning what you mean then. In my experience with layout and design there are four primary basic methods for formatting small tables (of course the options can spin out of control - I only meant the basic protoypes - please see attached examples): A: Borders for everything - this is generally the most difficult to parse on the large scale as different users will have widely varying experience (UX) based on device, browser, settings, etc. (platforms).The lines will tend to crowd the text as scale changes unless you so heavily pad the separations that you nearly double your used space B: No lines - This is generally the most intuitive and scales best on differing platforms, but is dependant upon how much data is being conveyed and can feel crowded with multiple rows all being multi-line C: Cycled background shading - this tends to have most of the benefits of B, but handles the multi-line rows better, with the possible expense that if the differening shades are not distinct enough, you lose the benefit with differing platforms D: Faint Horizontal Ruled - this can gain the benefit of single background color throughout, while still separting data, but has many of the problems associated with "A" - if you don't pad the HR properly, it can be lost in the text on some platforms and if you don't differ the shade enough, it can also be lost through color homogenization on some platforms. Does that help? Are any of those examples similar to what you were envisioning?

My apologies. I will say, however, that I strongly disagree. Adding lines would be much more difficult to read and parse (except, maybe, if they were very very faint), unless it's the heading/sub style such as is used on taxonomy pages as a color bar with alternate font color just sets off each H1, H2, H3, etc.

My apologies. Then, do you mean something like this?

Can you please clarify? I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what it is that is bothering you. I don't see a significant difference between your link and the normal infobox. Please see attached: Mayby edit the attached image or screenshot how you think it should look? Comparing the other wiki, they seem to use just bold font to seprate row names from content with no background color (assuming that was the item with which you disagree).

I break down my reading recommendations here, as well as my reasons for such. @alder24 is correct in that there is no single "right answer" as there are too many factors to weigh. However, having recommended and helped a score of people into the Cosmere, I've had friends try a number of different paths. The one that has yielded the most consistent satisfaction and comprehension of "the stories behind the stories" (which you may or may-not even care about) is starting with Mistborn Era 1 (which you have) then Elantris, Warbreaker and Emperor's Soul in whatever order intrigues you most. Continue from there with personal preference, noting in the linked post where I mention which stories have spoilers for other stories. Unlike Alder, I would not suggest continuing to Shadows of Self and Bands of Mourning right away. But every person's reading order is personal choice - just know that you risk missing some references or understanding some of the context without the grounding that books named above provide.

When I was about 7yo (1982 - yes I'm old) I played my first RPG - TMNT and Other Strangeness 1ed (for those of you counting, yes that was long before there was a mainstream TMNT anything*). At that point I had heard the name Tremaine (also Trumane/Tremayne) but had never seen it spelled. So my first character was Treamayne (mutant tiger). Treamayne has also been a character of mine in Palladium's Heroes Unlimited, Villains and Vigilantes, OWoD (VtM, WtA, MtA, WtO), and a few other games that only lasted 1-2 sessions (AD&D, Call of Cthulu, Paranoia, etc.). The name is spelled wrong, so it tends to be available everywhere - and I use it everywhere (forums, discord, email addresses, etc.) and have been using it since my old BBS days in the late 80s.

The Brain Games episode (S7e5) on this is both fun and illuminating, though IIRC they mostly focus on senses like vestibular, proprioception and other somatosensory systems.

Assuming those are Horneaters they are specifically shown to not be in Roshar's Shadesmar, since the "land" part was water-based in form instead of beads. Also, probable Iriali and Chouta had already emigrated to Scadrial "years" before the events of TLM.

Correct - that correlation is closer to Soulcasters; as well as the Regrowth fabrials seen when Nale heals Szeth and in the visions when the unnamed Radiant heals Dalinar after he fought the mignight essence in WoK (Ch 19 - Starfalls) and another unnamed radiant uses a regrowth fabrial to heal wounded in the OB vision (Ch 38 - Broken People) when Dalinar takes Navani and Jasnah with him. There are likely to be 9 or 10 such fabrials - one for each surge (9 if the "transportation" version is the Oathgates)

Understood - my point was if you are looking for spren colored silver - you'll not find a match. You likely need a spren that is see-through or crystalline in nature. . .

I think that is supposed to be crystal - not silver. Edgedancer's eye color is clear:

Platespren are something naturally drawn to members of an order by virtue of their powers, traits and/or oaths. Windrunners naturally draw large numbers of windspren as they fall-with-style, Lightweavers natually attract many creationspren as they practice their art(s), Elsecallers naturally draw many logicspren as they cogitate on problems - conversely Axies' interlude told us how difficult it is to attract a captivityspren (he has not accomplished it once in centuries of being jailed) - and the only time we have seen one was in WoR when Kaladin was jailed (likely because Kaladin felt trapped - while Axies never thinks being jailed is a big deal). I think rather than looking for random themes and colors to find the missing unknowns, it's better to review the text and see what normal spren repeatedly near a Radiant (Lift/Lifespren; Dalinar/Gloryspren, etc.)

Welcome to the Shard. I am reminded of Rober Frost: Most likely Knight does not refer to Night at all. Remember that that is a connection peculiar to English and Sanderson presents these works as if they were translated for us to read and there is no indication that it would originally have had a connection between those two words that just happen to be homophones in our language. If there is an implicit connection, then it is likely to be the one we already know: that humanity did not originate on Roshar (OB), and rather travelled from the stars (Ashyn) via some version of Elsecalling (which is similar to the Surge of Elsecalling, but not quite the same*) If the connection is implied to be for the future, then it is probably a reference to Era 4 - where many of the Invested Societies will find ways to accomplish FLT travel in the physical realm (SotD2_Preview, YNP) - including Roshar and its Radiant Knights. WoBs

Depends on your definition of "control", but mostly the answer is no (especially if you mean the level of control Ruin had over the Inquisitors). You see this in Mistborn Secret History when Fuzz is reasoning with Kelsier and trying to get him to go Beyond. If he had any measure of control he just would have prevented Kelsier from running toward Kredik Shaw until he faded. Control, in the way that the Inquisitors were controlled, requires the Shard to have affinitiy in pushing emotion of some kind (the effect would be similar to Brass and Zinc in the same way that Rosharan Lightweaving is similar to Elantrian Lightweaving or Yolish Lightweaving), the Connection to the controlled, some manifestation of the Shard's investiture creating cracks in the "subjects" spiritweb (examples: done with Spikes in Era 1 / done with Oaths between the Fused and Odium). Without all three - there may be influence, but not control. The extent of all three determines the level of Control (we see Ruin using Marsh as basically a meat-puppet because of how many spikes he has, but we see the Koloss can only be given minimal "orders" because they have fewer spikes and more emotional turmoil). Also, make sure you don't confuse Cognitive Shadows with Slivers, Splinters, or Avatars; only the last of which is semi-autonomous and can still be controlled directly (possibly depending on if the Avatar has a Vessel or not).

I would have thought Concentrationspren: Ripples in the air sound to me like they may be related to Highspren. . . And I would guess that investigating and passing judgement requires concentration. Coppermind mentions: Skybreakers seem rather "focused" to me (so far).

BLUF: Cool extras - for those that care about the writing process. Discussed here and here. Summary: And the other stories in Shadows Beneath are the icing on the cake (especially loved M.R. Kowal's). Well worth the book (or ebook (or both)).

Correct, the references were in regards to the part of the discussion on which topics are in which books (since it was mentioned previously about who would read and annotate areas that may want filters). At the most basic (and easily implemented level) if a book is known to have profanity - the tool (assuming an ebook solution, and assuming a conversion process that edits-out or changes the content for personal copies) would use a search-replace (probably heuristic or regex to get word variants) to "filter" that content. The rest of the utility on accessing the content of those sites would be, for example, looking at the review of <Book> and seeing what content it has already been flagged as having. You might then query the Entertainment section (of this forum) to see if anybody has read that book and is willing to tell you chapter/page/section numbers that contain the content to be filtered (maybe even keywords to set a before-and-after filter ends). Alternatively, if the project were to become large enough, you might be able to ask one or more of those companies if an API can be used to access their database directly to "flag" the filterable content for those books. Mostly they were just examples to aid in brainstorming possible courses of action (COA)s and solutions. For example, if the question was "what content might need filters in the J. D. Robb ". . . In Death" series;" I would be able to say that I have read all the entire series (novels and novellas) and can attest to which topics might meet the filter requirements. Note: (Spoilered for content) Hope that helps

You may be able to mitigate legal risk by making this a Calibre Plug-in. Calibre already supports heuristic processing, and similar plugins exist (example). If you are only providig a "filter" for somebody to apply to their own purchased property - that may change the legal ramifications. Your plug-in could, theoretically, just reach out to grab the "filter data when applied to an ebook in the library - launch the Calibre Converter - and using the tools and filters make a "<title>-edit" epub (or chosen format) version that has been "cleaned." Also, you amy want to look at Sites like these that already have an extensive database of book content for self/family-censors: NPR.org Common Sense Media Book Cave While I am significantly anti-censorship; I am much more pro-ownership. People should have the right to make content they have purchased fit their personal tastes and choices (which is why all of my ebooks are DRM stripped and Calibre managed so that I can change things I do not like - like the Table of Contents in Warbreaker - or these projects).

Welcome to the Forums. Please be careful about double posting (this topic posted twice). In case you may not be familair with them yet, here are some tools that may help: So, just to clarify, you have read everything except SP1 and SP3? Does that also include White Sand? If yes, which version(s)? How about unpublished curiosities like Aether of Night and Way of Kings Prime? Ranking is murky in the middle (top and bottom five are easier than top 10), but roughly: Emperor's Soul Sixth of the Dusk (Shadows Beneath version) Elantris Mistborn: The Final Empire Warbreaker Hero of Ages The Way of Kings White Sand? Well of Ascension? Tress of the Emerald Sea?

Or the Arcanum. Or ask one of us to do so for you so that you can continue avoiding spoilers (as long as we edit the post to only relevant non-spoiler material). e.g.: If after the end of OB you still have questions on the Thrill, we could post explanatory WoB fragments that don't spoil Dawnshard, RoW or SA5. . .

You will start getting some answers this book. It also connects to the comments a few pages back (pg27) in this post.

Then 'Other' it is, since right now ES and SotD are my top two. If just novels, it would be a difficult choice from Elantris, Warbreaker and White Sand.