Steeldancer

I will note this is exactly the reason I don't like day 1 lynches! Now none of us are safe! And joe is gone! THIS IS TERRIFYING AHHHHH Bracken mourned the loss of his friends, and wondered whether friendship was the meaning of life.

I noticed the likes coming in. I think we appreciate it, I know I sure do. Your RP was fantastic too! This coming from a guy who does not enjoy MLP. And I'm sitting here having all sorts of fun.

Yes it was confirmed.

Omg no please. Lol. But is it possible?

Far away, Brackens head lifted. Was that... food he smelled? Could he possibly leave his work to join the party? Maybe he could find some proof for this book he was reading (which advocated that amazing food was the one true meaning of life). After all, what was the point of finding the meaning of life if he didn't bother to enjoy life? Goodness that first book kept coming back to haunt him. Certainly it was an important part of the Ultimate meaning of life... So Bracken left his library, leaving Wormy in charge of the library. He knocked gently on the door, hoping that he would be let in anyway. He was hungry, anyway. It was time to eat! (This may or may not analog to real life right now lol)

Lol warform. Is it possible he could become a squire???

I bet Brandon will do something cool with it

Wormy came up to Bracken with an invitation to Prisms party. He stared at it longingly. "Could partying be the meaning of life?" Asked wormy. Bracken gasped. This was something he had not considered. He summoned a pencil and sent a polite refusal to prism with Wormy. It was time to study out whether Satisfying Desire was the meaning of life. Certainly it required some thought... he felt bad about not going, but his work was SO important. He promised himself to go to one once he finished his work.

I figured it out guys! Thanks for helping out a newbie being a newbie

And of course when I go back to the beginning they had already made that suggestion *sigh* well I developed it as I was tearing down the tent, independent of the thread. And please any help with PM making? It keeps telling me that they cannot receive messages

I'm struggling to make a PM. It keeps telling me that the people I'm sending it to can't receive messages. I checked the spelling for all their names. Help?

well turns out we are heading home early! I couldn't use data where I was because I was literally across the river from Canada and because the towers in Canada go north south I would get international charges despite still being in the US. Which is stupid. Anyway despite having more time, my battery is dying, so I don't have time to really analyze the thread. Ok anyway I don't want to join this random bandwagon, simply because I'm against day one lynches. I get that if we don't lynch someone the generosity person dies, but I would rather just keep out of it for the moment. As for strategy, I think it might be smart for the Honestly pony to scan a unicorn and somehow use them as a spokesman. The honesty power is (in my opinion) one of the most powerful and useful powers for the village, and the Elims will totally be all over trying to kill them. So if they use a trusted spokesman, they can protect themselves and distribute the information they get. That was all that I could come up with for today. A little more background on my RP: Bracken is a librarian. He doesn't really enjoy politics, but is of the firm belief that discovering the meaning of life will help to reveal the changelings, as (in his opinion) they do not understand the true meaning of life. And so Bracken embarks on a soul searching quest to reveal the ultimate meaning of life... Bracken sat in the library. His friend and assistant, Wormy, sat (or whatever worms do) on the table. Of course, he was no ordinary worm. He was a fantastic bookworm. Together they intended to crack the mysteries of life. "So many possible philosophies on life," Bracken breathed. "But life does have meaning. And I will find that meaning." And so they plunged into the first philosophy book. This book declared the virtues of making the most of life before you die. It advocated for protecting the weak, serving the ones you rule, and that the journey is more important than the destination. "But what is the journey that is most valuable to life? Are all journeys equal in value?" Bracken asked Wormy. "Clearly not, otherwise there would not be such pain in the world," said Wormy. Bracken wrote down a few notes. His personal belief was that his own purpose was to understand. But that was not the ultimate meaning of life. So, on to the next book. That one gave a good framework for the meaning of life, but it wasn't enough. Love is what the next book proclaimed. But Bracken was not satisfied. Love did give some meaning to life; but he had heard of Changelings falling in love! That could not be the true meaning of life then. He needed to find something that was clearly missing from the lives of the changelings. And then, maybe that could help in the battle. So, he continued to search. He knew that the search would not be short. As the first book had said, it would not be worth the answer to life if the journey was not hard. And so Bracken and Wormy continue to look for the ultimate meaning of life.

Thanks! I'll try that. did this work? Awesome.

I hope this is in blue. I've been camping so I won't vote for now. I'll try to create a PM before the end of the day, but I don't know if I'll have time. I'll be active next cycle for sure. I apologize if this isn't in blue. I'm on mobile.

Yes... that is odd that it has the evil. And adonalsium did invest around the cosmere. But I'm theorizing about the shattering, not the investment.

Why do they call it the scar? In silverlight? Yeah it's a large group of red stars, which is curious in and of itself. But why the Scar? They must have a reason for not calling it the "red star group" or something. Now hold on that for a moment. Khriss says in Secret Histories that they cannot find the original homeworld. Now she knows of yolen, as evidenced by the Scadrial Essay. But she might not have been there. Now why wouldn't they be able to find it? They've probably had a while to look for it, and yet they can't? That's weird. Now we know yolen still exists. Furthermore people are still alive on it, because of the communication between Hoid and frost the dragon, who lives on Yolen. Furthermore, they have communication with yolen (or at least Hoid does. Which really doesn't tell us much). And isn't the 17th shard run by Frost? So it's only Khriss that can't find it. Combine these together with what happened in the Cognitive realm on Sel, and my theory emerges. I think the scar is literally a huge mess of cognitive landscape. About 8× the mess on sel. With covering such a huge area of space, cognitive and physical, it would probably be a pain in the butt to find yolen. Especially as the cognitive area would then be defined as dangerous as Sels is. Now it is fairly reasonable to assume that Hoid knows a way through, via experience or Hoid-sense. So he can either send a messenger or go himself. Which is odd. If he did that, why wouldn't he just go talk to Frost face to face? It's more likely he would send a messenger, or he has some sort of letter-sending-magical ability. Essentially my idea is that the cognitive and physical realms got really screwed up by the shattering. Which makes me wonder what happened in the spiritual realm (as it isn't location dependent). Could that be why Hoid has such unusual spiritual strength, and why he said that frost is "immortal now"? Could all yolen people have such unusual spiritual properties? (I am also assuming that being smashed with a shard would overwhelm these abilities, which is why Ati could die, and why Hoid fears being caught by Rayse). A couple more tangents to the thoughts. I have an idea based on this about adonalsium. First, 2 WoBa *blegh there was another one somewhere that basically said that if you took all the shards of adonalsium, you wouldn't have Adonalsium. If someone could find that, it would be fantastic!* Based on the idea that you couldn't get adonalsium if you put all the pieces back, imagine if you shattered a piece of glass. Now there was a force controlling how it shattered, so it shattered into 16 parts. But is that all? Perhaps those were the 16 equal biggest parts, but I think there was also the little pieces of glass that scattered everywhere. Perhaps even a majority of Adonalsiums power shattered into little tiny bits, and the 16 are actually a minority of the overall power, although I don't have any proof whether that is likely or not. Now all these tiny shards would go all over the place, changing the people, the planet, and the local physical and cognitive realm. This would be uncontained, leading to the stars turning red, the cognitive realm going screwy, maybe even giving hoid his unnatural Spiritual durability. One more tangent- perhaps when they shattered Adonalsium, they also shattered his cognitive aspect? Large bits would give the shards their intents, but the little bits would be scattered, thus losing the cognitive aspect of adonalsium. Another possibility for why they wouldn't be able to put him back together if you had all 16 shards. I know this is all speculation, but it seems fairly probable to me. It might be where Odium learned to stuff investiture in the cognitive realm, and why Khriss can't find Yolen.

Now the other reason I don't like the theory is because I have my own theory! That the Scar is caused by investiture blown off of the shattering of Adonalsium. The only other red star in the cosmere is threnody, which was also exposed to "injured investiture." All the other shatterings were contained (in the cognitive realm or vented through spren). I find this cooler and more likely. Another possibility is that the red stars are warnings of some sort, a sort of " stay away from here" whether for Fainlife or the Evil. Both of these I find more plausible and frankly more awesome than "fainstars." Because all those stars turning red would give a scale to just how HUGE the shattering of adonalsium would have been. It must have been devastating for Yolen... in fact I just had a realization. That I will go theorize on.

Well we don't know, do we? This forum is meant to encourage speculation. And frankly (though I don't subscribe to it) the idea that Hoid might be trying to reforge adonalsium is perfectly logical. Otherwise newbies wouldn't so often be coming up with the idea. Until we get definite proof, no theory should be put down. However I totally am against the whole fainlife infecting stars thing. As someone pointed out, you can burn it away. So a star, which is 10000× better at burning things would not be infected by a moss. Also, in the chapters, it only infects living things! Stars aren't living. I didn't see a fain-rock in the liar of partinel, and until fain life is proved to be able to survive fire, survive in space, spread through space, and corrupt inorganic balls of nuclear fusion, I do not subscribe to that theory. Because it is illogical.

Probably not, because it is not the extended use of magic that has warped their souls.

What I think happened was he had early feruchemists make them for him, and he manipulates them to use his feruchemy so he doesn't have to go back and fill them back up again. So I assume he has an identity one. Otherwise that would be dang inconvenient for our man Hoid.

It's almost like the God Emperor of Dune, in knowing human interactions so well he can basically read their minds

And we won't really find out until Szeths book. Which I find myself hoping is book 4

All I know is that it would be storming amazing.

Well thought out. This totally makes sense. And it might be because of belief that prevents the highstorms from really advancing over the mountains. Or not. For now, it doesn't matter.

Actually I was wondering that too. I imagine she'd ' ascend to the shard of Awesomeness. And the cosmere would tremble.