Rasarr

You know that website where you can put a picture and it guesses what dog is presented? I put a Dalinar fanart into it, and the result was stupidly hilarious, at least for me. I mean, I'm pretty sure Dalinar can cause damage when jumping, especially when he's in full Plate...

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 15. Cadmium--22 16. Bendalloy--28 17. Atium--12

So, would that mean that he considered Ambition to be more dangerous to him than someone like Dominion or Ruin? Interesting. I wonder if that's because of the Shard or the Vessel.

Oh, okay. Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 15. Cadmium--20 16. Bendalloy--28 17. Atium--22

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 15. Cadmium--20 16. Bendalloy--31 17. Atium--22 @Secrets, is this legal?

Heal Bendalloy, kill Steel. 4. Steel--0 15. Cadmium--21 16. Bendalloy--33 17. Atium--22

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--6 15. Cadmium--20 16. Bendalloy--33 17. Atium--19

I must admit, I didn't think of that. On the other hand, if the various "Voidforms" are dependent on bonding with Voidspren, then wouldn't the descendants of the Voidbringers be regular Parshendi? After all, without desolations, there aren't any more voidspren to bond. Or maybe, by Nale's reasoning, the Parshendi would "inherit" the voidspren? We know too little about the Parshendi and Voidbringers, unfortunately.

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--10 15. Cadmium--19 16. Bendalloy--34 17. Atium--23

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--13 15. Cadmium--18 16. Bendalloy--33 17. Atium--26

I finally got my hands on Arcanum Unbounded today and I've just finished reading Edgedancer, so a couple random thoughts (well, a tad more than a couple): Character development for everyone! Lift gets some, Szeth gets some, Wyndle gets some, even Nale gets some character development! I'm starting to like Szeth. Weirdly enough, going crazy seems to have made him a better person. Or maybe it's Nightblood. I'm trying to picture the other half of Szeth-Nightblood conversations, and it's hilarious. When other mad people call you mad, it's probably time to dial it down a bit (looking at you, Nale). I absolutely thought that the guard captain from the beginning would end up a Skybreaker. Guess point-of-view doesn't mean plot importance. So, are Stormform Parshendi/Voidbringers immortal? Nale was convinced that the Shattered Plains ones were the last vestiges of the previous Desolation, which would put them at four and a half thousand years old. I mean, Nale's pretty mad, but he'd notice that, right? The third Edgedancer oath is... a bit too much like the second one, for me. In my opinion, it doesn't really add anything to the second the way the third Windrunner oath added to the first. Maybe I'm just bad at reading between the lines, though. I really liked the final scene with Lift and Nale. It's not like she could fight him, so that was some good thinking on Lift's part. And the hug was very sweet. Nale's reaction to seeing the Parshmen turning Void-y gives me hope for the rest of the Heralds. I did not expect this to happen, but I'm extraordinarily happy to see Nale snap out of his Radiant-killing funk. My biggest hope right now is that we'll have a "Nale confronts Ishar" interlude in Oathbringer (and I hope if such interlude happens, Nale survives the encounter). I want more Heralds on the side of light! Actually, I want any Nale POV section, period. Doesn't have to include any other Heralds. I absolutely agree with everyone who's been saying that Ishar is a traitor. The prelude, coupled with this, pretty much spell out for me that he lied to his fellow Heralds. Which of course begs questions. Number 1, did he do this because he was tired of constant fighting and Braize-visiting, or is there something more sinister going on? And number 2, does he still remember that he lied, or does he believe his own lies now? I've been pondering as to what happened to those Parshmen who were turned by the storm, and I'm pretty sure I know the answer - Nale killed them. Lift probably didn't stick around in the storm after he made his getaway, and who else could disappear so many turned Parshmen if not a Herald? The only weird thing is that no-one mentions this afterwards.

Eh, I guess we can switch to heal 1 - hurt 2 if everyone agrees - it feels like we've been stuck with those last four for ages now. Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--16 15. Cadmium--17 16. Bendalloy--32 17. Atium--30

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--18 15. Cadmium--17 16. Bendalloy--31 17. Atium--29

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--20 15. Cadmium--16 16. Bendalloy--30 17. Atium--29

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--21 15. Cadmium--17 16. Bendalloy--28 17. Atium--29

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--23 15. Cadmium--16 16. Bendalloy--27 17. Atium--29

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Lerasium. 4. Steel--23 15. Cadmium--15 16. Bendalloy--26 17. Atium--29 18. Lerasium--2

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Lerasium. 4. Steel--22 15. Cadmium--14 16. Bendalloy--25 17. Atium--29 18. Lerasium--5

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Cadmium. 4. Steel--21 15. Cadmium--13 16. Bendalloy--24 17. Atium--30 18. Lerasium--7

So, I finally managed to put aside some time to read State of the Sanderson... and still no Dark One At least there's the Apocalypse Guard (which, IMO, looks far more interesting than the Reckoners) and that Silverlight novella came out of the left field, but is quite a pleasant surprise. Also, did we know that Snapshot is Reckonersverse? And can anyone tell me what "Soulburner" is?

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--22 15. Cadmium--13 16. Bendalloy--23 17. Atium--29 18. Lerasium--8

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--21 15. Cadmium--12 16. Bendalloy--22 17. Atium--31 18. Lerasium--9

Heal Bendalloy, hurt Atium. 4. Steel--20 15. Cadmium--12 16. Bendalloy--21 17. Atium--32 18. Lerasium--10

Yep, turned out that Marvel have thought of the same concept in 1985 Haven't read AU yet, so I can't tell, but I liked the Rithmatics magic. Super simple, and yets you get super creative.

Rlain was in warform, though, wasn't he? He didn't actually take on stormform, because he was afraid of what Eshonai had become. The Aimians and the Listeners being related is an interesting idea; they exist currently on two opposite ends of the world, though I'd presume this wasn't always the case. Perhaps Aimia is like Australia, in that it's a separate land where everything evolved on a path slightly different from the "mainline" evolution. Maybe Aimians are the Neanderthals to Listeners' Homo Sapiens (though with less murdering) . There are two types of beings which we know are capable of seing the future in fairly decent quality - Cultivation and Truthwatchers (though I know some people say that futuresight is something unique to Renarin, but let's assume for a moment that all TW can do it). Considering the song obviously comes from after the Knights Radiant became a thing, some Truthwatcher prophesizing to Listeners is a viable possibility. This being said, I think Cultivation is more likely, because I don't really see the situation where a person whose powers are a sore point for the Listeners comes to them and says "Yo! One day, you'll be able to do all that cool stuff too!" and is believed enough to be included in what's pretty much their national epic.