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Please see Pineapple on Pizza Poll/discussion/war thread (currently 17ish pages). Also, the lesser-known Non-Traditional Pizza discussion.

He has an English degree, so he is likely familiar, but I doubt there was any concious inspiration going on. When asked about Hoid's Inspiration (WoBs): He's his longest running character and has evolved much over time. Hope that helps

Added to Adventure Fantasy (based on Goodreads description).

We need more information than that, please. From Post One: Preferably, some reason why you recommend this book to other.

Not specifically.The Aethers claim to be older (or at least equally old) and he has confirmed they at-least predate the Shattering and have something different going on. But their claim to be older entirely is currently neither confirmed nor denied. WoBs: Hope that helps

That is not actually correct. The presence of a Shard will create at least one Perpendicularity (which may or may not be a Shardpool) - however, any very significant coalescence of Investiture in the Cognitive or Physical Realm can also create a stable Perpendicularity (not yet understood in world - hence their debates on the topic). TLM Spoilers WoBs: Shardic intervention is not the only way Patji's Perpendicularity may have formed - it's possible the Shardpool existed before Autonomy began to form an Avatar there at all. Could even be why she formed an Avatar on First of the Sun. Hope that helps

I'm not sure if this is your "Doylist" reasoning, but you keep leaning hard on: Electrum is a naturally occuring alloy - Scadrians could have been using it for ages without realizing it was an alloy at all. Note: Metalurgic Sciences are advanced on Scadrial (compared to the rest of the Cosmere) so they likely figured it out during the Final Empire - but TLR was hiding Electrum's allomantic properties - so why would Nobles like Lord Shezler ever waste time working with it? Having Silver content in Electrum does not matter at all Alluminum's spiritual properties are inheritable by aluminum alloys Silver's spiritual properties are not inheritable - an alloy of Silver will not affect investiture the way that Silver does. If that is not the basis of your "Doylist" reason, please clarify.

Only insofar as both stories draw on some of the same Fairy Tale inspirations. The direct inspirations were Princess Bride and Dragonriders of Pern. WoBs: Hope that helps

Copy all. My apologies.

I would agree with that assessment. However, I still rate Straff above him (IED Spoilers):

I think there is a difference between a villain we are supposed to dislike, and a protagonist or supporting character with whom we are supposed to sympathize. Straff is easily the Sanderson Villain closest to true evil - no redeeming qualities whatsoever. WoB: That said: Lirin, by a significant margin. Stormlight Spoilers

Copy all, I was unaware the commercial release had also taken place - might have been confused with the IED releases. Thank you very much

I do not think it it has been revealed if it is simply a cultural thing or if ther is a precipitating reason. Stormlight Archive Spoilers: Sometimes Brandon just wants to explore how different cultures develop those unique traits - like so many real world cultures (Left hand taboo, showing bottom of feet taboo, etc.)

That would be up to the Mod. i didn't read the post yet, because I haven't read the PDFs yet - but I would expect that any information directly from teh RPG would be in a spoiler tag. That said, the title might be enough, I mostly just wanted to make sure you were aware of the Spoiler Period. I clicked the post without seeing any spoiler tag at all because it was not visible (see below): That said, having "RPG" be the last thing in the title means it does not show up on the summary in the Cosmere or all forums sections - in the past "Tagging a Title" meant that the very first thing in the title is the tag (for example, do a search for [OB] to see how it was done with Oathbringer). So, at a minimum, I would suggest editing the title to something like: [RPG] Speculating on Venli's next ideals Hope that helps

That is no longer the plan for Era 3. She will still be a main character - but "allomantic SWAT Team hunts killers" idea has been changed because it is too close to what was done in Era 2 (that was the plan before AoL became a whole new Era). WoB: Hope that helps

The RPG is in spoiler period - Please keep information in the appropriate section, or use appropriate spoiler tags. Please see: Guidance posted there is: Hope that helps

What are you Reading? Book Recommendations (Organized by Genre, with enough detail to find that book/series - submissions welcome, just post to the thread Please check for duplication - first post explains information needed in the Rec for it to be added to the list on page 1 Hope that helps

I'm sorry, sir. If normal Cosmere "translation" is in effect, then if they were referring to a muscle other than latissimus dorsi, then should it not have "translated" to the appropriate muscle. Do we have any other examples of Object A being called Object B when both names are valid, but different (and not a subset, like some Stormlight Vocabulary) IRL? Otherwise, it's likely it should be one of the following: lat raise delt press overhead press Depending on which part of the back the author intended to showcase. Context - YNP Ch 21: Context makes it sould like it should be delt/overhead press (based on the lean description). Hope that helps

Keep in mind, there are only so many of us editing things - and we are also still working WaT and IED updates as well. Volunteers to help are always welcome, though.

Keep in mind, this applies to Investiture without a vessel or controlling conciousness. The Nightmares were affected by being corrupted investiture stripped of Identity, the Dakwara was a splinter/avatar without a vessel, The Spren of Roshar were changed over time by humanity's arrival because they are pieces of investiture - though Sapient splinters are far less changable. I doubt the mechanic could change something as fundamental as how Souls interact with the beyond (not just because the Soul is not "loose, uncontrolled" investiture - but because we don't know that the Beyond even uses Investiture to have it's mechanics somehow affected by Belief. WoBs: Hope that helps.

The Sharder FAQ has a whole section on Reputation (aka Reactions). Copied below: Note: the "20 per 24hrs" is a rolling limit, if you Rep 5 times around 8 am local - go to work - come home and exhaust your limit before bed - then you will only have 5 available the next morning (not 6+) even though it is "the next day" - because this is a global community and rolling coverage is more equitable than some arbitrary time-zone reset. Additional References: Rep Limit Change discussion Reputation Problems discussion Or, just use the insanely great search tool this forum has (how-to also in the Sharder FAQ) Hope that helps

The release right now is just for the Kickstarter Backers. Backerkit is just delivering the Kickstarter product. There will be a Commercial release later (not sure if that date has been set), then it will be available. Likely in many places (anywhere Brotherwise games are sold). You can still read adn/or engage in Conversation. All Cosmere RPG chatter should be here: Hope that helps

Spoiler Season applies to this information. Please see: Guidance posted there is: You can probably glean much of this information by reading the threads discussing it in those forums. Hope that helps

There is a Trope Page for Isles of the Emberdark. Likewise Paul Atreides Tropes can be found there too. That said, I'm not sure to which Trope you are referring.

Once the conmmercial release is available, you can pick-up just the worldbook for the lore - it's like buying any other book for your shelf (physical or digital). As far as playing, there will probably be a number of games in this forum and the 17th Shard Discord (But I too bought the material with no exptectation of ever playing it as a game)