Cephandrius

Granted. You are now an Alethi darkeyed man. In Hearthstone. Without right of travel. And of the tenth nahn. And Kaladin's mom died last week. Basically, you can't read, and you can't learn. So the books on your table get used for kindling in winter. I wish to go through life by improvising at every step and then teling everyone it"s all part of my master plan.

I don't think that specifically is because of the Thrill, at least not 100%. I had the sense that the younger Blackthorn was a bloodthirsty warmonger always looking for a fight because that's just who he was. Gavilar both stealing his girlfriend and being the only worthy opponent left alive after the war would have made Gav a natural target with or without the Thrill. But yes, the Thrill would have made Dal angrier. (Gav = Gavilar, Dal = Dalinar obviously, and so on for Ren (Renarin) Shal (Shallan)... but what could be short for Adolin? and Jasnah's nickname is obviously Brightness Kholin because she's to intimidating and mature for anything else ) I do agree that the Thrill has been around for a while, at least a generation or two, if not much, much longer.

Granted, but whenever you try to drink from it, the water turns to truth berry stalk smoke. I wish to read Hoid's mind.

I disagree. I think she just went insane. But i was reading that prologue written up for I think it was the first half of the eye of the world (they made bits of new material for the YA editions of the series, which were really the first two books split in half). And the whole thing is Egwene going on about sheep and boys and why can't girls open their shirts and I just closed the book and took a nap. This coming from a guy who three years before spent most of a year reading the entire series in preparation for A Memory of Light's release. My girlfriend said she thought she lost me to those books, but it worked out because she married me anyway. (after I finished AMOL, of course.) My point is this: the series is worth it and awesome. But if you do succeed, don't be surprised if you can't do it again.

Granted, but when you use it the fabrial itself turns to whatever material instead of the thing you were trying to transform. (I hope you didn't try turning anything into fire...) I ask a boon of the nightwatcher - Make me a Shard!

So I was reading about how the powers of Devotion and Dominion are all blended and mixed into the Dor. And I had a thought. Even though the two shards are splintered, (with the Skaze and Seons established to be those splinters,) what is to stop some dashing young hero from Sel from finding a way to hold the power? the Question is this: Assuming our young,dashing, kind, shining, and possibly royal and magically gifted hero were to hold both shards, would he have the same troubles Sazed is having with the two shards intents conflicting? the Theory is this: I think not, or at least not as much. The shards of Devotion and Dominion, having been mostly mixed together into the Dor, are just that - mixed. They are no longer separate entities. I propose the Dor is a blank slate of pure power. The intents of Devotion and Dominion are present through their Splinters, The Seons and Skaze respectively, but if one were to try taking up the power of both shards, they would get one megashard without Intent from the get-go instead of two separate shards that fuse over time and fight over intent in the meantime. If we assume the Dor is the mindless power of two shards, and the Seons and Skaze are splinters separated from the rest of their shards, then as long as the new megashardholder does not try to absorb the seons and skaze, they should be able to define a new Intent based on their own personality; and the Seons and Skaze would remain independent beings. Thoughts?

shhh! IT's only a spoiler now that you mentioned that!

I always pictured him as white, because well, I'm white, so that happens a lot for book characters I read. I believe it was star ship troopers (the novel) that really threw everybody off by having a generic space marine character say at the end "It feels good speaking in my native Tagalog" and readers freaking out because they were imagining Doomguy when he was really Filipino because there was no description. And I did see a picture of the bonus cards with some calamity pre-orders and David and Megan are both white in their cards. I didnt see the Prof's card, though - it was there, but I just saw a black blur (it wasnt a good photo, or my memory went bad). so Prof could be a black man in a dark lab coat for all I know TL;DR : David is white, but Prof... I don't know. does anybody have these cards on hand?

I started it now, I see what you mean... At least Bastille seems normal so far, if a bit disillusioned.

that's great to know, I'll put those next on the list. I love "odd" characters, like Wayne or Hammond or anyone with quirks like theirs. Does Alcatraz or Rithmatist have anyone like that? in that case, I'm not hungry

actually, I'm pretty sure he ate that. There's a clue in words of radiance indicating he used it already on himself.

That's not exactly how it happened, but I will say this (minimal spoiler): PS why did you decide to read it like that, especially for the first time? Edit: ninja'd by skaa. I need to get off the phone Edit2: Found the spoiler tag.

My last forum was Golden Sun Realm, a community for the Golden Sun games. All the major discussion about theories and the workings of the games themselves were exhausted years ago, but I stuck around till the last day. And this isn't cosmere, but I've never read Alcatraz or rithmatist, but I did finally read legion (both books) last night. I'm not aware of anything Cosmere I've missed except Aether of Night, which is pending a response from Brandon. So if I eat it, I get powers?

My first and favorite Sanderson book was the Mistborn paperback. The first book will always hold a deeply special place in my heart. I was hooked forever from the second or third page, when I read three words that blew my mind: Kelsier burned tin. I actually stopped reading for a while trying to puzzle out what that could mean and how that would work. I kept going to find out, and was not disappointed.

Hi, Cephandrius here. I've been reading Brandons works for years, and I figured its time to stop lurking and start joining the conversation. I haven't been part of a forum community for a while, since my last internet "home away from reality" shut down. So it might take a bit to get used to this again. But I'm glad to be here!