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He did. He was seen with his wife, I believe.

Also, Yata, Edgli is female, not male.

We have seen Taldain as well now. So that's five out of ten. The Aether world and the 'Dark One' world are two others I believe. Odium is on Braize, so should count. So that leaves 2 unaccounted for. First of the Sun, Threnody and Ashyn are Shard worlds, but not part of the ten Major ones.

10 hours ago, Glamdring804 said:

Don't Radiants-to-be need to be spiritually broken in order for them to have the specific spirit-web topography to start using surgebinding? Perhaps the Heralds needed to be in a similar state, or possibly a more extreme version of it, in order to hold the power. This could also explain how the desolation so were a trap for Odium. By torturing his enemies, he gave them the power they needed to defeat him. 

Actually, its Connection. You have to have a fairly strong Connection to a Shard to take up its power. That's why Kell had to use the Elsntrian fabrial hack to take up Preservation.

Nazh is from Threnody. That's why I suggested it may once have been a choice, based on his statement there. Thanks for looking up the quote.

It should be noted that at one point Threnodians may have chosen to become Shades. The evil may have been an event that caused those Shades to become badly warped.

I really hope I'll be able to go... this is the first time a signing has been close enough to get to, and I don't know when he'll be this near the city again. Sigh...

On 6/17/2015 at 6:38 PM, kinxer said:

Gold can obviously be found in jewelry, though (despite the OP) I feel it's necessary to say that most gold jewelry is less than 75% gold. One could also very meticulously and slowly get gold from electrical connectors in devices.

24 karat gold jewelry is basically pure gold. I doubt it'd be used for burning though. The personal insight isn't worth losing your jewelry.

There is another Mistborn error, where it quotes an old WoB about Vin and Elend's final fates. SH made the decision there quite clear.

It's not the only one. There's one about Vin and Elend maybe returning someday, which is now outdated too as we know they won't be.

When you give your son a toy Stitch and he decides to name it Ati and you are beyond thrilled. Then you have to explain why it's so awesome to your husband... 

Also when you try to plan giving birth around when Brandon is coming to a signing.

Just a heads up: I finished painting my previous piece and am now working on the thumbnails for this story. Part of what I love in your story is the celebration of DaDa and it's nature. So I'm planning to let the art be a fairly big focus and utilize some actual dada images and works in the comic.

I'll try and figure you out how to send you the thumbnails when they are complete.

Also, the prologue actually takes place closer to 5000 years before SA begins. The years are Rosharan and are slightly off. Scadrian years are closest to Earth standard.

My point was that the interpretation is inaccurate. Only half the sentence was quoted (the other half is about pregnancy, making the meaning of the first half clearer.) It was also out of context; it is Eve's punishment and not an especially nice thing. With that context the whole thing takes on a different cast. The male Dominion is a punishment, and leads to pregnancy implying the Dominion is in intercourse. I highly doubt Brandon was talking about sexual domination when he crafted Devotion and Dominion! Therefore, despite the initial impression it doesn't really apply. Unless you meant in the sense that one flesh refers to marital relations? Both quotes do reference that.

Considering the wide variety of possible interpretations for Autonomy it is conceivable that he would leave his opposite alone.

A LOT depends on how the concept manifests. Remember; Ruin could have been a lot worse than it was. What we got was the best interpretation Ati could find, though someone with a stronger personality might have found a better one; someone with a crueler nature might have found a worse one.

Also, if he increased his hearing, he could listen to the heartbeats which would tell him if they were lying too.

Actually the Dor is fueled by both Shards power and Dakhor, Aons, Forgery, etc. are all variations on a single system. Now if only I can figure out how to find these WoBs twice...

I'd take Feruchemy here on Earth. Wakefulness is useful both ways and being able to lighten my self would be nice right now. Health and Luck are great. Zinc would allow you to ace any test. Quite a few others are exceedingly useful, and can be quite subtle.

Era one I'd take allomancy. Being a Feruchemist would be too dangerous. W&W Id take both and be twinborn. Steel/Gold maybe. Modern and Space I'd choose feruchemy again, since all the metals should be widely available at that point.

I saw that you ranked him as such. I was wondering why? I'm also not sure what you mean by ranking him 0.

Why isn't Kell included? Also, Allik, Leras and Ati? Poor Fuzz...

I think they are too alike to get along. Each sees the worst of themselves in the other.

Also worth considering is how often we get a cold. Every time that happens it put some wear on your body. The lack of those illnesses on Roshar - until Demoux introduced it - would likely lead to a longer life span.

And there is more to maturity than mere age; your average 12 year old today couldn't hand pregnancy and birth, but go back a few centuries and they did. In cultures where certain life stages are expected to occur earlier the mental ability to do so also does. At least one theory of psychology holds that mental age has more to do with social factors than physical ones. At the very least it is a combination of many aspects.

Interesting. Actually, preprolouge Dalinar seems a little more like Kell to me. Chasing down a man while bleeding from three arrows so he can recruit the man who, incidentally, shot him? That sounds more like something Kelsier would pull off, not Marsh. 

Young Dalinar seems to have loved fighting and was quite foolhardy and immature in many ways. Then Gavilar died and he changed greatly. Interestingly, Kelsier seem to have matured some too 

We may want to wait until we know more of the Blackthorn before rushing to make comparisons:

The power does seem to have intermingled though. Since a lot of this determination seems to be based off one's perspective I'd say that 16,15, and 14 are all accurate depending on how you view the matter.

On that part yes. He would want her to stick around. And if she didn't want to, well, he would be happy to volunteer. He hadn't changed THAT much. 

51 minutes ago, JUQ said:

He beat up Kell because he had no choice.

He only really had to knock him down. He kept doing it because he could.

How a Shards power manifests has a lot to with world it is invested on. It isn't a choice exactly. Ruin and Preservation are weird because they created Scadrial; other Shards did not create their worlds and so have less control over the manifestation. 

I also believe I read a WoB ages ago that the the magic on Sel was different before The Shards were splintered. So there is that too.

Id also argue that relationships are about Connection, and that ties to a land and people are Connection (which seems clear from BoM.) We know from SH that connection is spiritual, not cognitive.

With regard to the Biblical references, keep in mind that those are translations and Old Hebrew is insanely complicated. (Seven 'houses' or tenses. Male and female terms and singular and plural forms of both of those. Oh, and a million exceptions to every rule...)

In Jewish mythos Adam and Eve started out as a single person (she was attached to his back. Yes, it's weird.) Also each person only has half a soul with the other half being with their spouse. This actually works rather well with your theory.

The second quote is a mistranslation though; the actual words used are very unusual. (One, I believe, appears twice in the whole Old Testament and both times in Genesis.) And it's also talking about intercourse; the woman will want it but be too shy to says so and the initiative will then come from the man who rules her in this manner. It's tied to the first part, about the lengthening of pregnancy. So the translation is actually closer to craving and cannot really be switched to devotion since it's referring to the physical sensation of desire, not an emotional one. (The commentator used is Rashi, who is referencing Tracate Eruvin. His translation is drawn from a word using the same root in Isaia. Other commentators may differ. I'm too tired to look it up right now.)