DrakeMarshall

Right now I am working on a WoR trailer description so I don't have one for one of the mistborn novels... But trailer for The Well of Ascension totally needs to start with the line "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted." If that was the opening for a trailer I saw in a theater...

Hm... If you want to use silhouettes, one could very easily do something cool for hero of ages. Ruin and preservation's colors are black and white, respectively. One could highlight vin and find a way to make the contours surrounding her imply something of ruin... Or draw something more symmetric, and then have a silhouette of Sazed in the middle... Or perhaps one could make use of the metallic symbols in the novels.

Well... You see that Koloss crouching in the corner over there? He was a regular customer. Don't worry though, he's mostly harmless. Just don't eat his horse.

^This. If I saw that trailer it would be storming incredible. Also for the WoR one, I don't think you need the flashes of text... I feel it would be cooler just to show the scenes you listed and let the viewer make sense of what is going on. I really like this one. It is a bit less revealing but gets a lot of the visuals. Also, edit: "A magnificent sword is plunged into a rock with eight others sticking out. A space for a tenth one is left empty. Lirin’s voice: "The Ten Heralds were sent to teach mankind.” Kalak is shown walking away from the Blade. Kal’s voice: “But they were demons.” Lirin’s voice: “That would be the Radiants, Kal. You’re mixing them up. They’re the order of knights the Heralds founded.” *Flash of the two Radiants from Dalinar’s vision fighting the dark creatures.* “Who were demons.” “They were not demons, they were just men who had too much power.” *Radiants shown standing in front of the fort from Dalinar’s vision, summoning Blades, looking grim.* *Fade to black*" I like this one as the opening scene the most. In a little bit I might try my hand at one for WoR. Also... I think one for Mistborn: The Final Empire would be incredible.

Hm... So black is the color of combined investitures? That is... Interesting. That all but confirms that nightblood is not just a metal object that has been awakened with Nalthis powers... Some other shard's magic has likely touched nightblood.

One way or another, the Bondsmiths seemed to be not very numerous. Given that most radiant types only bonded one kind of spren... It does make sense that all bondsmiths bond the stormfather. It is possible one might bond the nightwatcher but that just seems unlikely to me. And an odium godspren like one of the unmade... Probably not something a radiant bonds to. I wonder if a voidbringer could gain a new form based on one of the unmade... That would be scary.

Perfection you say, hm? Granted. Did you know that all pianos are tuned to be slightly off? This is because, if they were tuned to be perfect in one key, they would be horrible in another key. So we sort of compromise when we tune them, and have them off in all keys just a little bit. Otherwise, the piano will sound unnatural. Similarly, did you know that, while people tend to value symmetry in a human face, if somebody mirrored an image of half a face to make a perfectly symmetric face... People would say it looks quite uncanny? Perhaps you see where I am getting at... Your bane is that your instrument playing is so perfect, it sounds unnatural. The pitches you play are exactly mathematically correct, and your timing is accurate to the femtosecond, but this doesn't seem quite right to normal humans. I wish to be able to store feruchemical awakeness.

Hm... Well the way he said "the greater cosmere" makes me think that he went to a different planet, not somewhere on Roshar. If the annotation to that WoB is correct, than the WoK doesn't happen in paralell to another cosmere novel, so I don't think we can really know where hoid went. Perhaps the point of that line was to name drop the cosmere, though it isn't out of the question that it holds more plot significance than that.

Favorite Character: Kelsier. This might be biased by the fact that I recently started rereading the original mistborn trilogy. There are a lot of close seconds, specifically Shallan, Wayne, Vin, and Kaladin. Favorite Magic System: Feruchemy. The idea of being able to store up attributes like that seems absolutely wonderful, and the rules for such a system are quite simple and intuitive. Allomancy and surgebinding are both cool and flashy, but I really like the idea of feruchemy. Favorite Series: The Stormlight Archive, just two books in, is probably my favorite series (not just Sanderson series either). The books were storming amazing.

Wait it's free? I wish I had known that . It's a good book though. I don't think we should say any more about why you bring up warbreaker at this point but it is worth a read.

Oh. Well then I guess it can be done. Cool.

Surge of abrasion and steelrunning is... Storming amazing. Also gravitation+abrasion might have a very similar effect. Anyway here is a handful of thoughts. Surge of transformation and any allomancy. If you were precise enough, you could soulcast objects into the right allomantic percentages, right? You obviously couldn't soulcast a god metal, but the others are probably reasonably attainable. Maybe with the exception of aluminum because it seems to interfere with investiture... Those limitations aside, this would help anyone metalborn, especially if they happened to be offworld, since no other planet sells allomantic alloys with the same quality as Scadrial. And considering that transportation is paired with transformation if you are an elsecaller, being off world with this surge isn't so unlikely. Surge of gravitation and steel allomancy. These abilities share some redundancies, but it strikes me that together they would give you quite a lot of control in flight. The lashings have the advantage of requiring no particular anchor to propel yourself from... Steelpushing on the other hand requires a metal anchor, but it seems like it can be done more reflexively and precisely, letting you quickly throw yourself out of the way of something or navigate something more complex. Plus steelpushing can let you deflect projectiles and launch your own, and the surge of gravitation would let you win any steelpushing match. Surge of Cohesion and Surge of Abrasion. These two powers seem to be complimentary, even though none of the radiant orders actually have access to this pair. One lets you alter an object's friction, the other lets you make an object stick, so they are a bit like opposites. With some precision, there are a lot of tricks you could perform, like sliding along a surface and then making a sudden stop, or spraying stormlight across a floor behind you as you slide across it to instantly make it hold people. Also... Iron compounding twinborn, while technically a violation of your rules about compounding listing, is a particularly dangerous combination. You see, it is possible in second era scadrial for somebody to naturally be born with this power... And with it, one would have the power to collapse a building without hardly any effort, because you can pull on any metals and have limitless weight to stack against surrounding objects.

Shalash is the herald who apparently is going to great efforts to destroy statues and paintings of herself. We see her doing this in an interlude in Words of Radiance, and Szeth notes that the statue of Shalash is missing right before he assassinates Gavilar, which is likely also her work. Nalan (refered to by Szeth as Nin) is the herald of justice. Several interuldes in Words of Radiance involve him and some incipient surgebinders, and then there is his encounter with Szeth at the end of the book... I am afraid I am going to have to return in kind now. Who exactly is Zial? The only name similar to that I can think of is Zahel... If by any chance you do refer to Zahel, he isn't a herald no.

Granted. The nightwatcher gives you a large amber glass bottle full of chloroform with directions on the side for falling asleep. For your bane, the nightwatcher decides to give you narcolepsy because she finds it ironic. I wish for a surprise.

One way or another, most life on Roshar is engineered around highstorms. They have shells to weather the force of them, and most of them have gemhearts which I believe form a sort of symbiosis to let things like massive chasmfiends not break the laws of physics with their size and proportions. A lot of this depends on where things like the listeners came from... It seems like they were there before humans, and I presume honor and/or cultivation made the humans... We still can't know that the stormfather has been around for ages, but I venture to say that there has always been something weird going on on Roshar, even if this is just the presence of spren. Spren are a sort of fascinating anomaly on Roshar... It's almost like the cognitive realm is more alive, and bleeding into the physical realm a bit.

Hm... Granted. You get such a notebook... It magically creates paper whenever you need it. However, due to the law of conservation of energy, the paper has to come from somewhere. Whenever you draw out a new sheaf, the notebook devours a random tree somewhere in the world to make the paper. You make a handful of gardeners really, really confused, and if you use the pages persistently enough, you might even singlehandedly become a deforestation concern. Also, in exchange for this artifact the nightwatcher steals all your pens and pencils. I wish for a hemalurgically imbued earing.

Yes, an altercation isn't all out fighting... This is sort of what I am getting at. There were tensions between the orders, but the fact that they were organized into the knights radiant instead of just a bunch of individual surgebinders prevented problems like that from being a concern. It held the various orders together, which a bondsmith would certainly care about. As for having the power to sever bonds... It is possible Ishar (and all bondsmiths) did have this power yes. It is also perhaps possible that the heralds simply were powerful enough to destroy the untrained radiants that were first appearing in a regular fight, but it does make sense that Ishar had some particular power over the nahel bond.

Granted. Unfortunately, in a vaguely relativistic tradeoff, you lose the ability to control space completely. You can observe the entire history of your current location, but you can't move around or interact with the world in any way. I'm afraid you are also still more or less a living human being, so pretty soon you might starve... I wish for a clearchip.

Hm... I don't actually think that Ishi'Elin actually put in place the system which makes radiants lose their abilities if they break their oaths. The nahel bond requires the oaths I think, so I would guess this was always a feature of surgebinding without an honor blade. Rather, I would guess that Ishi'Elin organized the various surgebinders into what we now know as the knights radiant. This organization undoubtedly had more rules than just each group's oaths... After all, windrunners and skybreakers could get in an all out fight and still each be following their own oaths (WoR notes a time they did indeed have a dispute though it did not escalate). I suspect that Ishi'Elin imposed additional organization on the surgebinders, forming them into the orders of knights radiant, which would be made to work together, and to answer to the heralds.

Perhaps. But certainly the heralds came first and the knights radiant followed not too long after. I can see how it may be however that surgebinders cropped up first, and then the heralds organized them into orders of radiants underneath themselves... This is probably how it happened. One way or another I suspect the history of the heralds will be quite important in the next few books.

If you are asking if the knights radiant were present in desolations before the one we witness in WoR... Yes the most certainly were, Dalinar saw visions of them fighting in previous desolations. Plus, in the prologue of WoK, I remember Kelek noticed some blasted out parts of rocks and the book said this was where surgebinders had fought. Kelek had said something along the lines of "the dustbringers did their job well." So yes the knights radiant were definitely in previous desolations. I believe they probably were formed very soon after the heralds were. Possibly both were formed in response to the very first desolation, the heralds first and then the various orders of knights radiant beneath them?

Interesting. I suppose that makes a sort of sense. Rather than refusing the wish, she just gives you... Something else.

And thus the legend spreads of the dread hateyes, death's assistant, and his legendary lucky hat of mourning Hm...Granted. You may have a Perfectly Normal Beast... Hm... For a fitting bane... Lets say you also get a small swarm of matresses invading your home. I wish that all existing raccoons in the world became sentient.

It is also interesting to note that the heralds seem to still be around in current Roshar... We have seen Talenel, Shalash, and Nalan. I am willing to bet that we have seen at least one other herald that we haven't recognized yet. I highly doubt these three are the only ones who will be involved in the story when all is said and done.

So we know that the nightwatcher's boons and banes have a certain pattern to them, and that she is related to cultivation (like the stormfather is to honor). My question is, has there ever been a time when the nightwatcher flat out refused somebody's wish? The nightwatcher operates within certain loose rules, and it strikes me that over the years somebody would have made a specific request that the nightwatcher simply did not grant.