The Technovore

Granted. You discover that ‘stick’ is actually the descendant of “Trunk the Stalwart”, hero of the 236th Desolation. You must now live with your hand’s nervous systems being inverted. (I.e. grab something with your left hand, it feels like your right hand is holding something) I wish for a storybook story

(Okay I can live with splinter—*spren start pouring out mouth* I CHANGED MY MIND) Granted. You must now advertise Taco Bell on the corner of State St. and 4th. I wish to be able to successfully pull off the “bad boy” look.

Granted, you are now on the run for blatant tax fraud. I wish for cookies that don’t stab my mouth with metal.

Okay then, good to know with the magic systems! I guess that’s kinda common sense when you think about it. I like the Epic idea a lot too, since it doesn’t require too much of a change in backstory and with Epic powers you can pretty much do anything you want. Thanks guys! I made his Epic weakness Shrek for two reasons: 1. I want it to be obscure enough that people can’t make my already powers-dependent boi utterly defenseless whenever they like, and 2. If they were to do that, they have to suffer the indignity of having their character associated with Shrek XD Sorry if copying my character here again wasn’t the right call, still pretty new to this and I figured I’d make it easier for Mr. Character Judge to see that I fixed him Also I had him Epic’d by Invocation instead of Calamity so he could stay true to his character without having to deal with corruption. I assume this is okay, since Invocation *is* a character mentioned in a Sanderson a Book that gives powers.

Alrighty then, guess I’m doing this, this guy may be overpowered, depends on what y’all decide his limitations ought to be. Now, I’d like for his ability to not be limited to non-investiture items, because if for some reason he can’t pull out a shard blade to deflect someone’s attack, that just complicates the narrative surrounding how his powers work. I argue that it can balance out because (like Mr. Tarangavan’s excuse ;P) Johnny’s not looking for a fight. Add to that the fact that he has no innate abilities, so even if he’s suddenly holding metalminds, he won’t be able to use them. Purely a defensive/support character. If y’all insist that summoning magic stuff is a no-go, then that’s cool with me.

Granted. The consequences of suddenly having a helicopter in your property that has no registration, no purchase history, no manufacturer’s markings, and a total lack of branding and explanation when you have no idea how to fly a helicopter play out accordingly. I wish to be an edgy, off the grid vigilante that partners up with his snarky AI sidekick that manages his nanotech-based alien War-Suit to bring down the various underground crime rings and shady government programs in the US.

Granted. once again. Boon and Bane. Are you sure you want to do this? i wish to know what Alleyverse is and what joining it entails.

Granted, but you must now travel the world for the next 9 months carrying the horrible burden of not being able to speak of it to anyone on pain of being thanos’d if you spoil ONE. SINGLE. DETAIL. I SWEAR TO ENDOWMENT.... I wish to be not-poor.

Granted... that is literally both the boon and the bane I wish to be a full-blooded feruchemist

(Lol I haven’t been on here in a year it’s nice to see this is still going) Granted, but no one in your family can remember him, causing endless shenanigans and unecessarily complicated emotions. I wish for a fully-functioning hyperspace-capable starfighter with a teddy bear on the dashboard. (The teddy bear is crucial you see.)

@Kingsdaughter613, you broke the game! Is okay, I fix. Would you rather die right after Stormlight 10’s release date is announced, never getting to read it, but knowing that it was amazing, or live to see Sanderson die before he finishes his work, only to get replaced by a vastly inferior author?

I only read the first page of comments, and this has probably already been covered, but I think the main reason she introduces herself as a "Dustbringer" and not "releaser" is because of the fact that she is not a Knight Radiant from before the Recreance. When Radiants were a fully organized group, they had their internal politics and viewpoints, and their vices and "preferred titles." This is thousands of years later. I doubt there's even a single person on Roshar that's spoken all the Oaths. The politics between orders simply don't exist yet. She's likely been told by her spren that she's a "Releaser", but everyone else calls them "Dustbringers". Assuming this woman isn't thousands of years old and one of the originals, she probably wouldn't have a problem using the term. It's what people call the Order. To call it anything else would be confusing and pointless. This is, of course, assuming that she actually is Knight Radiant.

Highprince Murdered! Kholins Prime Suspects. Is this Man Responsible for a Devasting Civil War and Regicide? The Man behind the Harmony. Human has Personal Conversation with God Himself! You won't Believe What They Talked About!

No Mating

Stick Edit: In all seriousness, I love Brandon because A his works are never what you expect, and B, because he's the most enjoyable to read. His characters are always well developed, you end up loving every single one of them, even the bad guys, and you can't help but smile when they start bantering. (Unlike some authors where you end up intensely hating half the cast.) I always get excited about the climax, I'm always surprised by his twists. He just does it... well. He does it in the best possible way.

I love it. Dark Adonalsium. I'm imagining something like the Stormlight Archive, but on a much grander scale. The shards would have to unite and fight as one, which would be incredibly difficult with Odium. Sazed (and perhaps Autonomy) would take the head and be most proactive in the preparations. It would undoubtedly have massive casualties, as shards take their investiture back up and it causes chaos on the planets they invested in. Sazed holds the power of two shards (I think), so he'd probably end up having to sacrifice his sanity to delay Dark Adonalsium by creating some kind of barrier. Then the shards would have to work on uniting each other. They would likely have to splinter Odium and have either one of the other shardholders take it up, or find a new shardholder for it. I would suggest a new shardholder since they would be able to wield the power without being affected too badly by any other force. They would have to somehow extract the investiture from Sel to give D&D's power to a new shardholder, and then track down and unite anyone left. If it were me I would make Hoid a begrudging shardholder, perhaps of Honor or Odium. Finally, they would choose a holder to take the Shard of Harmony, and when they do, Dark Adonalsium rages forth and confronts them. Then it would all go down either with all the shardholders working together to take down Dark Adonalsium, or, if there's no way to extract the investiture from Sel, they could overload Sel with all of their power, and throw Sel at Dark Adonalsium like a giant Investiture Nuke. The explosion of power wreaks havoc across the entire Cosmere, and from it forms a red star of pure investiture, creating a new breed of magic. This magic penetrates all three realms, and transcends space, grafting itself randomly upon any surviving humans. This magic has no rules, this magic makes no sense, and it gives different powers to each person. But Dark Adonalsium's investiture corrupts the holders of its power, making them destructive and calloused. They rip apart their society, and rule in chaos, until a band of rebels who have made it their mission to exterminate these investiture-holders stumbles upon the secret that can save their world, and the souls of the holders.

When you make everyone around you mad by calling Mull "The inferior Brandon" Cuz I mean come on. We're all sick of him having some storming 12-year-old saving the freaking world right? Edit: lol tmw you get downvoted, making you realize you're making people here mad too XD

It's over Aladar! I have the high ground! No don't do it- " *slices through Aladar's legs and leaves him to die in the highstorm* This sentence right here is why I love this fandom. I thought something very along these same lines. I think the Parshendi (parshmen... parshpeople?) are just as victimized by Odium as humanity. The Parshendi on the Plains didn't turn over to Odium until humanity left them with no other real options, then he just nudged them in the right direction. I feel like the same thing will happen everywhere else, like in Frankenstein (nice guy tries to fit in, but then gets bullied to the point of breaking until he actually does turn monster.) Some disaster is going to happen in Azir, and the Parshpeople will then turn over in an attempt to defend themselves. Or the Voidspren could just be leading them into a trap where they can be turned. I mean... I feel like Odium orchestrated both sides to create the Everstorm. Fueling natural human failings with war-lust and the Thrill, he caused them to push against the Parshendi until they were desperate. Odium can't directly turn humans (maybe, I think), so instead he influences them to put the Parshendi in a place where he can turn them. What's to stop him from doing the same all over the world? Humanity is scared. The Everstorm is destroying their cities, and out of the ashes come a sentient people that used to be their slaves. How are they going to treat them? How far will they push them? When will they push them too far, and cause them to lose themselves as surely as they were lost before?

The biggest problem of standardizing investiture is that it's so freaking complicated. You have genetic allomantic strength, the fact that stormlight leaks from spheres. The allomancer/feruchemist/radiant's strength. The amount of metal burned, the efficiency of investiture per gram of metal. Breaths would end up having to be the only real way to measure investiture, all other forms would have to somehow be converted to or from breaths for a decent scale. Of course, there are other ways to eliminate variables. If it's possible to create a gemstone that doesn't leak at all, then you'd be able to definitively measure the stormlight held in a certain size and type of gem. If you could have a Lerasium Mistborn burn a gram of each metal, you'd then have a measurement for the amount of investiture in a single gram of metal, burned at 100% efficiency. You could then determine every other allomancers strength by comparing their power output to that one measurement. Obviously setting any of this up would be impossible in the Cosmere worlds as they are now, Roshar doesn't have advanced gem cutting technology, which I assume would be needed to create a perfect gem. (if that's possible. It might be impossible, just like it's impossible to create a perfect heat machine) Scadrial doesn't have any more Lerasium Mistborn or 1st generation feruchemists. But, if a certain time-traveling scientist could create those scenarios and circumstances, we could create a standard for investiture.

When you see a fellow Sanderfan on the bus and show your Roshar tattoos to them. (not that that was me, but MAN that guy's hardcore!) Bruh I WISH the Laurels in my Ward read Sanderson. But I mean, a Sanderfan Priest can only dream, right? When you realize that whenever there's a rainstorm you're bizarrely energized and wonder if there's some Rosharan Magic going on. (plzletmeberadiantplzletmeberadiantplzletmeberadiant) Also when you get in a Sanderson vs. Riordan holy war with your fellow nerd friend. (The guy's a Riordan peasant I swear... ) I mean, I read Riordan, and I loved it, but man Sanderson is SO much better!

Welp, guess I'm dumb then XD

Makes sense, with the Cohesion surge, maybe it's just a Bondsmith's ability to combine powers with other Radiants

Okay, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this (Because I'm not about to read 16 pages of posts to find out) But the whole scene with Shallan shooting out a map of Roshar suggests to me something AWESOME. Radiants can cross-Resonate their abilities! Dalinar's Abilities are Adhesion and Cohesion, both having to do with objects binding together, what if the Cohesion surge temporarily bonded him and Shallan together, so Shallan could use the Stormfather's knowledge to perform her Lightweaving! Can groups of Radiants from different orders do things no one even imagined is really exciting to me! EDIT: Also this bit: That moment notwithstanding, I can honestly say this book has been brewing in me since my youth, from the Chapter 8 preface sounds like it could go for Sanderson himself just as well as Jasnah(/Dalinar/Hoid/Super mysterious author-itorial enigma).

This struck me pretty powerfully too. He seems to have accepted that he's probably going to end up being the Rosharan equivalent of TLR by the end of this. He's definitely the true king of Alethkar, and it seems that he's done pretending he's not. The familiarity that Dalinar saw in the champion (I'm going with the assumption that it is, indeed, the champion) also struck me and made me immediately think of Adolin. What if the murder of Sadeas has started Adolin on a dark path? What if he ends up alienating himself from the rest, going down a darker and darker path, until Odium's like "hey, want a ton of power?" and he's like "Sure." Boom. Tragic turn to the dark side. The worst part is that if this does happen, Adolin will probably accept the power so he can "protect" his loved ones, a la Anakin Skywalker. Also, can I just say that this whole "episodical releasing" thing is awesome? It's like a book club now! EDIT: I'd also like to say that the paragraph addressing the squires was probably the most jarring thing Sanderson's ever given me. Sure, as Sharders, we all knew about that. Sure, for us Sharders, that's nothing but a nice confirmation. But for the people who aren't Sharders, who are just everyday, casual readers, that's going come as a major let down. I mean, you had an awesome, dramatic cliffhanger scene where Lopen started glowing, then in the next book, the fact that he has BOTH arms is addressed in just a couple simple sentences? I mean... it seems like the whole "squires" concept is a bit more important than 2-4 sentences glossing over it in the first chapter. But I'm willing to forgive it. I mean, come on, it's Sanderson people!

Lifeless, if my personal self gets to go to the Beyond. It'd be nice to know that my body is being used for useful things. BUT if becoming a lifeless means obliteration of self, or diminishing of self, I'd rather be a Shade. Even though my existence would be heck it would be better than obliteration. WOOPS responded to the wrong one. Non-magic Daysider. My existence would not be guaranteed to suck, which it likely would if I was a non-magic one armed man living on the Battleground of the entire freaking Cosmere. Would you rather be the poor, unwilling sap that gets chosen as Odium's champion, or the poor, unwilling sap that gets chosen as Honor's champion?