Kingsdaughter613

Nope. TPBM plays bananagrams.

Well, at least that solves the missing work issue. WTWTTSWY get arrested by Bridge Four for graffitiing the Ghostblood symbol on random halls in Urithiru. Also for graffitiing lots of Spears.

10 surge surgebinder would not, just like a Mistborn/Full Feruchemist would not. Too many powers prevents it.

Ollivander turned to Kelsier. “You,” he stated, “are going to be difficult. Phoenix feather could work, but we may need something closer to the veil...” He trailed off, looking utterly delighted. ”Here. Yew and Phoenix feather, fifteen inches. Give it a try.”

Interesting idea, but Aluminum would purify them of foreign Investiture, not damage the Connection to Preservation. You could probably use an Aluminum spike to wipe Elariel’s powers though. Maybe your family had you spiked with one when you were young? That would actually work...

Ollivander smiles, fixing the lap with one elegant sweep of his own wand. “Ah, yes,” he said, as he wrapped the wand, “Elm and dragon heartstring. 10 and 3/4 inches. Malleable, but with a strong core. Quite a crafty wand. It will serve you well I’m sure.”

One really interesting thing is that to kill the naturally Ruinous Kelsier you’d actually need anti-Preservation light. Which is a nice bit of irony...

SoScads (and some NoScads) have Germanic accents.

Thanks both of you! And @AonEne that’s exactly what I imagined! Thanks so much!

You’re right. WTWTTSWY get sent to the principal’s office for lying?

Don’t worry. I wrote it this morning. I’ll either post it after Hoidit, or I’ll do it right after the 11AM deadline (because Kell is always late, lol!)

Can I point out that this, along with fain branch Mraize has, heavily indicates that Kelsier somehow managed to figure out where Yolen is in 300 odd years, while the various Cosmere scholars couldn’t despite searching for much longer? While stuck on Scadrial?! I don’t know if I’m more impressed or terrified.

@Narcoleptic Axolotl if you don’t respond by tomorrow I’m going to assume you found your wand and switch to Kelsier.

Eryn laughed softly. “Remind me of Sovereign. Like people to know he responsible, but not like it proven.”

It is very hard to beat a Mistborn with Atium. Mistborn.

Kelsier smirked. “And proud of it.”

The issue is that they’re still going after Spook’s descendants and the numbers don’t make sense. My great-grandmother had a hundred descendants at 92 from only five children. She has a lot more now. But this woman’s numbers are also worth noting: https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/08/07/holocaust-survivor-celebrates-104th-birthday-surrounded-by-400-descendants/amp/ 400! Descendants in 100 years! From FOUR children. And Spook had somewhere over a dozen. Assuming no wars or massacres or plagues or famines and low infant and maternal mortality, you can actually get fifteen million quite quickly, even starting from a small population. And the original Survivorists were pushing repopulation. Even if they only started with 500-1000 individuals, if you have high birth rates you’ll hit the millions very, very quickly. Population growth is exponential. If you have 1000000 people and they each have two children, then you have 3000000 people. If each of THOSE has two kids you have 7 million. (1+2+4) And if each of those has two kids then you have 15000000. (1+2+4+8) Or: if most of your original million survives to see great-grandchildren (very possible if we assume people have their first around 20) we get from 1 million to 15 million in four generations. Assuming the first child is born when parents are 20ish, that’s around 80 to 100 years. So if we start with 500 people who can have kids and each couple has four - 2500. Those 2000 have four kids - 6500. Those 4000 give us 8000. 14,500 - 500 (old people die) = 14000. 8000 gives us 16000 = 30000 - 2000=28000 16 gives us 32 = 60000 - 4000 = 56000 That’s the first 100 years. 32 gives 64 = 120000-8000=112000 64 gives 128 = 248000 - 16000 = 232000 128 gives 256 = 488000-32000 = 456000 256 gives 512 = 968000-64000=904000 512 gives 1048 = 1.952M-128000=1.824 million. We end the second century with over a million people - and over a million children born. And that’s with having no great-grandparents. I already showed you what happens next assuming two new children per each individual of the previous generation once you hit 1M. Now consider that the average woman, if she starts having children around twenty and does not use birth control will have anywhere from 7 to 14 pregnancies on average. And on Scadrial, most of those kids survive to adulthood. And consider that Survivorism probably does not approve (if it doesn’t outright forbid) birth control due to the whole ‘survival of the species’ thing. Only reason there aren’t hundreds of millions of Ashkenazi Jews is because we were regularly massacred. This isn’t a factor in the Basin and neither is hunger and infant mortality rates are low. Honestly, the Basin should have way more people than it does, but 15M from 500 in 350 years is quite reasonable.

Gets an improbability generator. Inserts a whale.

Proof: there is nothing more awesome than the Lopen. Theory: (Dawnshard)

Works for me. Honorable. New Word: Mystify Antonym: Revelatory

Something from Dragonsteel, supposedly. A bone of some kind, I think Brandon said?

Just go to the menu and click Shardcast. It’s the first one.

Thanks!

But that isn’t what the book says. Just that they’re from direct lines. My husband and I can trace a direct line to the Nodah B’Yehuda (1713-1790), and so can a lot of other people. All of Ashkenazi Jewry can trace (in theory) direct lines to Rashi (1000s). When you have a small starting population, with little to no genetic influx, you quickly end up with a situation like Ashkenazi Jewry, where you have millions of people who are genetic cousins. All of Ashkenazi Jewry is descended from 350 people with a fairly even admixture of Middle Eastern and European ancestry. Today’s Ashkenazi Jews, despite having lived in Europe for centuries, still have around 50/50 DNA. (Which is why I look very Middle Eastern and my BFF’s daughter looks Caucasian, but has an epicanthic fold.) From what we can tell, the Basin began with a similar sized population of a few hundred people - many of whom were already related (due to being parents and their children). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/ashkenazi-jews-descend-from-350-people-study-finds/amp/ Elendel’s nobility seems to be even more closely related then the general basin population (who are likely closely related as well). So this really doesn’t add up. If it wasn’t for the Holocaust the Nodah B’Yehuda would have over a million direct descendants today; as it is he still has thousands. And he didn’t have nearly as many children as Spook. My great-grandmother’s 100th descendant was born 30 days after she died; she had five children and she was 92. Spook had upwards of a dozen; by the time he steps down he should have had at LEAST 200 direct descendants! What would make sense is if they were taking women who had the bloodlines least adulterated with Terris DNA and the highest concentrations of pre-Catascande noble DNA, but that isn’t what the book said. As a complete aside, I’ve also noticed that a lot of writers seem to have a really hard time envisioning a population numbering in the millions that are all genetic cousins.

I mean, I’ve theorized that Kell is controlling a willing Kandra using his original bones via Soothing/Rioting and compounded Connection (which, interestingly, would probably count as a kind-of avatar), but Brandon doesn’t seem to be going in that direction at the moment. It’s entirely possible that’s where he’ll end up though.