Kingsdaughter613

The strength card has very little to do with physical strength actually; that's why it typically depicts a woman in white robes. (This being Scadrial, that stereotype is weaker.) So I'm actually using the scene where Elend gives up his crown; I feel it is the moment where you truly see the strength of his integrity. He could easily have lied about the vote change clause, but he would have had to destroy who he was to do so. Since the Strength card is about internal strength, I chose to focus on his convictions.

Thanks! Passover, and switching my daughter to a new facility delayed things a bit. I'm on the strength card now; I think it will feature Elend. Edit: Did you ever make your deck? I'd love to see it.

I have decided to change the names of the face cards; they are now Skaa, Steward, Noble, Mistborn. I think this works better, and it doesn't confuse things by having The Lady for a trump card and having a lady face card.

Couldn't a Kandra just mimic a sperm cell AND an egg cell? Problem solved, no need for bio headaches. (But the above was super interesting; have an upvote!)

So the second card in the deck is the Fullborn, and it features the Sovereign. Hence the spoilers, since the card makes his identity fairly obvious. My working assumption is that by Era 3 the whole 'Sovereign is the Survivor' thing will be common knowledge. I doubt it was meant to be a secret, and if it was it isn't going to be well kept. All we need is one Southerner casually mentioning to their Northerner friend that the Sovereign had scarred arms for it to be revealed. So onto the card! The Fullborn takes the place of the magician card, and represents power. The Sovereign makes a good fit - he can represent all the metallic arts. On the magician card there is an infinity symbol; I replaced it with the one for the Cosmere. On the table Kell is pointing to are the symbols of the four suits: bands, medallions, spears and metals. Kell holds a spear; he represents that suit as the Mistborn of spears. The bush in front of him has blue Marewill flowers. The sky behind him is studded with stars - another call to infinity. Behind him is Harmony's Perpendicularity. The red lining on his coat is a symbol of power. The blue vest and shirt are the blue skies he helped to restore. His coat is grey for the World of Ash and the white pants are for Preservation, which he briefly held. As for why this card had to have Kell on it... well... The upright Magician symbolizes Power, Skill, Concentration, Resourcefullness, and action. Upside down it represents manipulation, poor planning, and latent talents. And it is one of the most powerful cards in the deck when playing the game if used properly. Also, interestingly, the card once meant a con artist! In other words, it reminded me of Kelsier. This was the last card I did without rough sketching it first. I did the initial image in pencil, then inked it, and colored it with oil pastel. The stars were done by melting crayons with a glue gun. I later used metallic marker to add some shine. The next card is The Misting, taking the place of the high priestess. (As an aside, in world this card was the Allomancer and featured the Lord Mistborn initially. That changed once certain facts got out. Since this was shortly after the game was developed there are not many Allomancer cards and those decks can be worth a lot to collectors.)

It's fine. It isn't the first time someone's made that mistake. Hard to tell without a face to look at!

She guys. I'm a girl. It's theorized in book that a person lacking identity could tap another's metal mind. Then we learn about needing nicrominds. So if I can blank my identity and have access to a nicromind if the right sort I could, theoretically, tap any other metal mind. Getting the nicrominds is the trickier part, but I'm living in the 2000's era Scadrial, so they are available.

I actually took it the other way. Brandon made sure to indicate that they were two separate answers. And the second seemed obvious - of course Kell has things he'd want to forget. We all do! But those memories (along with those we would never want to forget) are often the ones that most define us.

Warbreaker would probably be the best suited for anime - or animation in general. All that color... Mistborn I'm not so keen on. I'm not saying it's impossible for it to be done well, but I doubt it will be. And Warbreaker practically screams animate me! All those colors...

I've actually been wondering for a bit if Asuedan could be psychotic. The mentally ill are more open to a Shard's influence. Obsession with religion is a fairly common delusion. And it is very easy to take advantage of someone who is psychotic. The way it is indicated that her favor could quickly vanish also inclines me in that direction. Paranoia and swift mood shifts can also be signs of psychosis. But if her delusions are focused on religion, and she isn't hallucinating, then it is very likely that most people won't realize how badly compromised she is.

I got a seeker... Interesting. Why is 'Art' not a hobby? And... I ran the test again but switched a few answers (while still being honest) and got a nicroburst. Okay. Tineye this time. Still being honest in my answers. There's more than one true answer. Rioter this time. Hum... So liking coffee makes you a rioter... (it was the ONLY thing I changed from #2)

No, modern as in Era 3. I am assuming the Sovreign = Survivor will be well known by then as the next card is the Fullborn... Bands is sometimes called bracers and refers to metal minds. Harmony's Bands is used as curse, and metal minds have been called bands at times. As with out tarot, the suits can have several names. I chose metalminds for Cups since they are both things you fill. Coins actually is in reference to the shape and is also called Pentacles. Boxing aren't round, though that was my first thought too! (Edit: turns out boxings are round, so now that is an alternate name for the suit!) I can't actually change the suit names now though, since all four appear on the Fullborn card which is already complete. I'll probably post about that one tomorrow or late tonight. The Misting post will probably be after Passover. I'll be working on the Guardian tonight most likely. The Emperor (Strength in our world; not our Emperor which is TLR) will be worked on once the whole holiday is over. Tarot cards come in all shapes and sizes. This size was picked by my teacher. When the deck is complete I will probably scan and shrink the cards to make them more manageable. That's 78 cards though, so I'll be at it a while! (71 to go...)

The first card in the Tarot deck is the Fool. I chose Spook for the Fool because the card meanings reminded me of him. The Fool represents new beginnings, so I pictured him looking into the new, green world with the old one behind him. Spook, and his world, are starting anew. The blindfold is a warning and a reminder; the Fool can also mean recklessness and naivety. But Spook is raising the blindfold and reclaiming his innocence. So this Fool is a bit wiser than our version, who is often depicted stepping off a cliff. (Not wise enough though... but I doubt most Scadrians know that part of the story.) To me the Fool represents a new beginning in an ending. So I chose to show Spook between an ending a beginning.

So let's talk about the cards! The card backs are made with pink gauze and a metallic lace. (That's how I describe it anyway.) I use glue to attach it to the card. The card images are first done in pencil, inked over, and colored with a mix of marker and oil pastel. The media options were chosen by what I had available in class. I decided to keep using the same materials when I went beyond the Fool. Once complete this should be a working deck.

A little while ago I had a teacher who, as one of our directives, had us create a personal Fool card. And I decided mine would be Spook. I had so much fun I decided to create the whole deck, and now that I'm seven cards in I'm going to start posting them. I'm doing it here because there are spoilers for all the Mistborn books except, maybe, Secret History. The idea of the cards is that they are a deck from Scadrial's modern day. So this is an in world deck, with some cards changing names, others having meanings reversed, or switching meanings. So the minor arcana are: Bands, Medallions, Spears, Metals, instead of Cups, Coins, Swords and Wands. Page, Knight, Queen, King become Skaa, Lady, Lord, Mistborn. All lunar symbolism is gone, as Scadrial doesn't have a moon. More specific examples will come up as I get to the individual cards. Each card will get its own post so I can discuss the process of each piece. I'll also post the different WIPs. Please feel free to let me know what you think! If the major arcana works out well I will continue to the minor arcana.

Thanks! Here's why I wanted to know:

Aluminum ferring, so I could use other people's metalminds with the right nicromind. Steel Misting, because who doesn't want to fly?

If you just finished the trilogy, can you remind me: did Elend have a beard at the end of HoA? I can't remember...

Was Demoux's cold caused by a rhinovirus or enterovirus? This may need a WoP though.

And, of course, the whole 'soul replaced with investiture thing' is an in world theory. I think that WoB is in one of the more recent events on the events tab.

We know how colds effect Roshar- they caused a plague. Gold healing and Stormlight healing use the same mechanism so you can extrapolate the effects of one from the other. So gold doesn't heal colds; Rosharans have no defenses against colds. The most likely reason is that colds are viruses, and I haven't noticed viral illnesses on Roshar. Rosharan medicine seems to focus on bacterial illnesses. This makes sense because most viruses begin in animals and jump to humans. The fauna on Roshar is so unusual that this jump becomes very unlikely. As opposed to Scadrial which is very Earthlike. It is true we don't know what Rosharan diseases would do to Scadrians. But we do know the reverse. If the cold can cause a plague, what would influenza do? And if that cold is the Scadrian enterovirus then will we be seeing Rosharan polio?

Scadrial wins by introducing viruses to Roshar. The resultant Pandemic utterly wipes out Rosharan society. Oops. We already know they have no defense to the cold. We don't know if that cold is a rhinovirus (debilitating if you have no defense) or the Enterovirus which can cause fun things like polio. And if Scadrial attacks en mass then they will be bringing along influenza, streptococci, and viral pneumonia. And since Wayne still has a cold after he heals we can guess that Stormlight can't actually remove the virus, just heal the symptoms temporarily. And those are just the first few viruses I thought of...

He might not be able to take them up fully, but we don't know how much he could do with a Shard that worked with him. 2/3 of awesome power is still pretty powerful. The problem he had was that Preservation would not let him do anything for the most part. He probably could have done things with it, had they been more compatible. (He clearly had power he could control that he wasn't consciously using; that's straight out in the novella.) I also don't trust Ruin; he had too many good reasons for having Kell think he could not use the power. But, as noted, I don't think Kelsier will Ascend again. Or even attempt to. The only reason I see Kell taking up Ambition is to prove that he can put a splintered Shard back together. Then promptly hand it to someone else (someone he trusts) because the point wasn't to hold the Shard; it was the challenge.

@Yata Part of the issue with Kell and Preservation (the bigger issue actually) was that they were a HORRIBLE match. The power was fighting him constantly. He couldn't do anything because Preservation itself wouldn't let him. On the other hand, he could have easily picked up Ruin and considered it. (He chose not to, which is actually the best argument against him taking up another Shard.) Of the Shards we know, Kell could probably take up: Ruin (noted above), Ambition, Autonomy, Odium, and Cultivation. Of those, I think Kell as Cultivation would be the most interesting. He cultivates people and he's very good at it. But this will probably never happen. But yes, he could probably take up Ambition if it was available.