Exalted

Hmm. Tennant as Hoid would probably work out, then!

In 2017, I will actually finish out my two D&D campaigns (which have both been running for over a year), and actually write at least a novella-length story. (Both of these were from 2016...whoops.) In 2017, the person below me will read all of the released Mistborn-related books. In reverse order.

In keeping with my profile pic and forum name... Primary Power: Luck manipulation, similar to a chromium Compounder. This technically functions as Prime Invincibility, because he'll almost always be lucky enough to escape injury or, failing that, be lucky enough to experience a miraculous recovery. (Although if you can engineer a situation where no amount of luck could save him, e.g. lure him into a deserted canyon or something and nuke it, he'd still die.) Secondary Power #1: Monster Summoning. He summons random monsters to do his bidding, but if he requires them to fight, they always lose the combat within one minute, puffing into dust. Secondary Power #2: Fine-control telekinesis, limited to 20-sided dice only (like the guy with the arrow in Guardians of the Galaxy, except...dice). Weakness: Being unnoticed/ignored. If you ignore him, he can't affect you with his telekinetic dice, although he can still throw monsters at you. If you don't notice him at all, none of his powers can affect you. If no one in the world is aware of him at any given moment, his powers (including luck manipulation) cease to function. Moniker: Railroad (if you get the joke, you're amazing. If you don't, you're still amazing, but I'll be less able to bask in my self-appointed cleverness.)

Also, the Shards don't really have a huge Physical presence, whereas spren do. Shards are mainly Spiritual beings, while spren are Cognitive beings with a Physical aspect/echo (I think). So the process for imprisoning them wouldn't be exactly the same.

"I have a bad feeling about--" "Shut up!" Absolutely priceless. Also was a fan of the "everyone dies"; sad but powerful. And I appreciated the lack of romance, because too many movies these days go out of their way to shoehorn it in *cough* The Hobbit *cough*. (Additionally, my sentences are feeling alliterative today. And I have no idea why. )

Not really a story, but I'm on vacation right now and found a signed copy of Calamity in a bookstore the other day. And I didn't own a copy before that, so...guess who has a new Sanderson book to reread!

I think part of it has to do with what Vin realizes in TFE: if you only have one metal, you get really good at using it. We never had a Coinshot viewpoint during the original trilogy (the one with the most screentime being Beldre, who didn't use her power very much at all, so she doesn't really count), so the fact that Wax can do things with steel that the Mistborn of era 1 could not shouldn't be too much of a surprise. And of course, iron Feruchemy definitely helps as well.

The nice part is, you can always find your way back to base after a night of exploring! Just follow the holes in the ground!

Not nearly often enough, apparently...

Oh, I can imagine. I never did get the hang of luring mobs where I wanted them to go. Heck, I never got the hang of moving out of a creeper's blast radius before it exploded. I would always try to take one more swing at them than was actually safe...storming creepers.

Nice! It does sound pretty impressive.

...how does one even build a music disc farm? Don't you have to kill creepers with skeleton-dropped arrows or something like that? (It's been several years since I've played Minecraft, though, so I may be completely misremembering.)

Hoid's described as old with a white beard, though. Maybe Demoux? Since

...that is actually amazing. Want. So much.

Odium + Honor: Shard of Lawful Evil Preservation + Ruin: Shard of True Neutral Odium + Autonomy: Shard of Chaotic Evil Hmm...I wonder what all of the others would be...

A bit late to the party, but: Merry Christmas, 17th Shard!

I think you're on to something here--it would fit well with the other Cognitive-healing stuff, like Spoolofwool said. But then, we also get multiple instances of Returned getting injured and not healing: Vasher, Denth, Blushweaver, and even Lightsong (I think?). So maybe it's a focus thing that's not automatic (more akin to gold Feruchemy than to Stormlight auto-healing)?

Rereads! Just got done with a Mistborn trilogy reread, in the middle of an LotR one as well. But those aside, I've heard Jim Butcher is really good, and I have the first Codex Alera book awaiting me on my counter right now. So there's that.

From the Coppermind: So Harmony's probably on board with it as well. And if the world's major god is okay with your life choices, you're probably going to be accepted in most of society.

Odium + Honor, depending on the person who picks them up, could be Righteousness, as in righteous fury. (Brandon did say something about the Vessel being able to influence the Intent of Shard combos, right? Like, Harmony was only Harmony because that's how Sazed viewed the combination.) Odium + Autonomy could easily be Vengeance, but I think something like Supremacy would work well, too. Aloof from the rest of the universe, but hates them at the same time, so he/she/it places him/her/itself above them by nature. Savagery? Best I can come up with for now...

*starts to object that Kelsier is a person, not a force of nature, and thus should be referred to as "he", not "it"* *pauses to think about it* *slowly retracts objection*

I play Magic casually, and I love it. I also used to play Hearthstone, and while I can see why some people would like it, it doesn't really appeal to me because it's not as in-depth and expansive as Magic is. (In Hearthstone, there are always certain decks that are the "top of the meta", and you have to play one of them if you want to be really good at it. Meanwhile, there are way more combinations in Magic, and you don't need to own specific decks to do well unless you play "professionally". And even then, you don't have to be part of the meta to win).

Ah, yeah. In that case, "Protect those who cannot protect themselves" probably wouldn't work differently on Roshar even if the sentient awakened sword could bond a spren. Darn.

Well, we know he'd be able to absorb it through a wielder (WoR spoilers): So I guess the question would be whether he could gain Stormlight fast enough to overcome his rate of Investiture-corruption so that he could actually use it.

There's also one of Hoid's letters, where he states that Ati was a good man (or something like that). Or was that in the WoK epilogue that sparked this discussion?