Kingsdaughter613

Depending on the how the nicrosil hack works, it may not work for other worlds. And I agree about the black market; we know we'll have a programmer and a swatt team in the modern day... having them run into a black market/crime syndicate would make sense.

I keep thinking the second 'sun' is actually a neutron star. They emit little light but a lot of radiation; the light they emit is unusual and could be described as 'dark light'; and they do occasionally appear in Binary systems. Thing is, the inner star would then be Dark Side's as neutron stars have more mass but less area than regular stars. (They are basically black hole failures.)

Bloodmaker medallions and thug medallions would be wonderful for emergency care... I suspect that there will be a LOT of regulation on how abilities may be bought and sold though.

Sweat has water in it, and since simply holding sand doesn't turn it black I'm guessing something is going on. Otherwise the sand would blackened if it was touched.

The sand didn't seem to be much of an issue on her trip, so it may be that the lichen causes it to act differently. Our sand doesn't have a micro organism allergic to water attached to it after all, and sweat contains water. Personally, I've never had an issue with desert sand, but then I tend to wear long loose clothes which are good for that sort of environment.

As noted above, the issue may well be the setting. Poland doesn't really have anything analogous to the Wild West era of the U.S. which may lead to some disconnect. It also has a very different history; in many ways Elendel is 'Britain', practically forcing all trade to go through the city and taxes being a big complaint, while the other cities are the 'Colonies'. Not a perfect analog at all, but close enough to resonate unconsciously with most Americans, or countries with a similar history. The ones who colonized too, for that matter, as we are on the side of the Imperialist in the Adventures books, which is a nice twist.

Actually, having visited a desert (in Utah of course!) REMEMBERING to drink can be the problem. Because sweat evaporates almost instantly you don't feel as hot as you do in technically cooler places that are more humid. I kept having to remind myself that even if I felt cool it was a 100+ degrees and I had to drink regularly. So Khriss may not be feeling as thirsty as she is.

I'm talking about Dayside lichen. Dark side certainly has some, but I can't discuss it here. Only in the prose forum. And photosynthesis actually seems to be pretty important to the process.

Then I'm going to go with UV rays are killing the lichen or the characters are wrong about sand not charging on Darkside.

I wonder why I can read Marvel comics without a problem? Strange...

According to the intro Dark Side has a 'sun' of some sort. I'm leaning toward a neutron star of some sort... It is possible that just like different metals do different things on Scadrial, different light sources do different things on Taldain (while remaining one system.) The lichen can also die for more mundane reasons; UV radiation on Dark Side is much stronger than Dayside. Another possibility is that, since no one has actually brought the sand over to Dark side, the characters are laboring under a a misconception and the lichen will grow. (I actually find this most likely, due to prose spoilers. Also due to Brandon liking it when his characters are wrong... just to trick us readers...)

Paraphrased because I can't remember the exact words but "Short English guy with hairy feet has to throw his Uncle's ring into a hole in the ground.' Best LotR description ever!!! Also, how often is a VOLCANO described as a 'hole in the ground.' This naturally lead me to come up with 'seven kids go looking for their Dad's stuff.' Spoiler: everyone dies (pretty much. Except the one guy who went for a walk on the beach.) I LOVE the Silmarillion. Now I need to create ones for each part... Ainiluindale: God creates the Universe and music. No, this is not the Bible. (Unless you are an obsessed Tolkien fan.) Valaquenta: We name a lot of people, mostly forgettable and unimportant. Children of Hurin: Guy sleeps with sister and everyone dies. Lay of Leithian: Girl dies because of a boy. Nirnaeth Anoiedad: Everyone cries a lot. Awakening of the elves: People wake up. Aule and Yavanna: Tree hugger and Industrialist quarrel. Did I mention that I love this book? Several of those are out of order as I'm writing them at random. Thanks for the inspiration Alcatraz.

I didn't get this on the kindle, but I have other comics that I did. I had no issues reading them. It showed the full page, then double tapped to see individual panels, or to zoom on double page spreads. I have read them on two generations of the Kindle Fire. Most of those comics were Marvel, some recent, some Golden and Silver age reprints.

It's not Elorin. The artist just isn't that great.

Sandlings eat the sand lichen. We are allowed to talk about sand lichen now that Brandon put it in the newsletter, right? Also, the sandling may not have been trying to eat Kenton. Perhaps they are territorial and it just wanted Kenton out of his sand?

Taldain is actually inaccessible for unknown reasons. At least in the current time. With regard to the magic system, I'm pretty sure I read a WOB a while ago that said the process of photosynthesis has something to do with the magic. With regard to lichen growing, it may just need Sunlight. I actually think Dark side magic will be harder to transfer as, judging by the above WOB and the book intro, it should use some sort of plant that would need a high UV concentration to grow. Possibly this 'black light' too.

I am a graphic novel reader and I enjoyed it. You really can't read it like a novel though. Graphic novels are all about the images (or should be.) I think this one suffers from the awareness that this was prose first. The words are telling as much of the story as the images. Some of my favourite graphic novels have entire pages without words because the image is telling the whole story. The first page really annoyed me because of that. DON'T give me a verbal description of the sand. It takes away from the image. The wind comment was extraneous. If there is wind show me! (I honestly think a better intro would have shown us the sands of Dayside, a brief glimpse of nightside, and a full double page spread of Taldain in space between two stars.) The art style does work, but isn't my favorite. We'll see if they stick with the same artist throughout. These books often switch and I'd like to see more styles. All in all this was a good fun read. I did prefer the prose, but that had less to do with this being a graphic novel and more that this wasn't handled as well as it could have been. It felt like they were trying to squash a novel into a graphic novel, instead of letting it BE a graphic novel. Which is a pity, because then it could have been a great book instead of a decent one.

Khriss' entrance made sense to me... because I'd read the prose version. She's pretty arrogant and spoiled and sheltered here. The loss of her early chapters is probably my biggest con, as well as the abrupt transitions to Ais. They both needed a better intro.

Only certain elements of the MAG are. They do get some input from Brandon, so they are usually considered worth keeping in mind until Brandon reveals more.

Shardblades are Splinters. Nightwatcher and Stormfather are particularly large ones. So are Seona, Skaze and Returned. The Bands were close to being a Splinter, but didn't quite make it (that was how I recall it anyway.) Splinters are fragments of Investiture that have gained sentience of a kind. Sometimes a Splinter can become a Sliver but it does not seem to be common. [spoiler\] The Stormfather is the Cognitive Shadow of Honor and is thus a Sliver as well as a Splinter. [/spoiler]

All Returned are Splinters of Endowment, so you may want to add that to your theory.

Allomancy and Feruchemy are abilities written into the Sdna. Kell's Sdna didn't change so he is still an Allomancer. But using Allomancy requires the ability to ingest and burn metal which requires a body. Kell doesn't have one. Once he's gotten a new one I don't see why he would have any problem using his abilities. If the above is about accurate it leads to some interesting questions regarding less physically oriented systems of investiture...

Or perhaps Traumatic Brain Injuries damage the cognitive aspect?

Indications to me are that Tan is not a psychopath; he's psychotic. Mental illness opens one up to all sorts of influence, Shardic and not. It ALSO means that misinterpretation is very likely. It's entirely possible that Tan happened to come across Kell, Marsh and Saze having an argument, shattering an already weak psyche. Or he ran into Kelsier in the Mist (he's been known to visit people) then came across Marsh, and then his mental instability allowed him to hear/see something be shouldn't have. That Tan saw something is almost definite, but I think it's a bit early to say he's beeping directly manipulated by any one of the above. For that matter it could be our interloper's influence as well. Personally, I want to know if he was burning electrum

My theory is that the spike is Atium and is conning Kelsier's soul into thinking it has a Connection to the Physical Realm. Then he just crosses over using Sazed's perpendicularity. This theory doesn't have much basis, but I love the idea that Kell is running a con on his own soul. It just fits him!