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Okay, thank you so much!

Do you associate that sound with fire because of bionicle, perhaps? I've asked some people on the discord, and Takell/Takkel seems the most popular. That's interesting. I'll have to do some research on that.

When people think that anyone who disagrees with them is either an idiot, evil, or being influenced by the devil. Last night, I was watching the news with my parents out in the living room and some story came on about kids who survived the Parkland shooting coming to Texas and promoting changes to gun laws. My mom said something along the lines of, "I'm scared for the future, because half of the millions of kids out there have no idea what they're doing." I so wanted to call her out on her BS and ask if she meant the liberal half of kids.

Okay, that makes more sense. There is a bit of external influence on the evolution of the sapient species, but I want to keep it as realistic as possible. I want it that, without the intervention, the species could've evolved there naturally. Hmm...could you describe a bit more how that whole tidally locked thing works? How much of a planet that is roughly earth-sized would be habitable? How many people could possibly live in this habitable zone? Thank you so much for your help!

Okay, here's how I pronounce each of them: Takkal: "tuh-CALL" Tekall: "teh-CALL" Takkel: "tah-KELL" Takkol: "tah-KOHL" Some other names from the language group are Jarrak, Zari, Kyren, Darian, and Vuur.

@Belzedar @Calderis @The One Who Connects I've come up with a couple different names for the Fire race, but I can't decide which one works best. Takkal Tekall Takkel Takkol

"Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do." That's the only one that pops in my head.

The scene when Szeth cuts down the Thunderclast would be storming amazing to see. A less dramatic moment that would be pretty cool to see would be the scene where Kaladin is on the honorspren ship bargaining for Syl's freedom and the windspren show up.

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Okay, so what you're saying is that better scenario is for the aliens to see in infrared, I need them to evolve on a planet that revolves a dwarf star? What other qualities would need the planet need to have in order to develop life? What qualities would the life there tend to have?

Okay, I need your help again guys @Silverblade5 @Glamdring804 @Eagle of the Forest Path @The One Who Connects I'm coming up with an alien species, and I know that I want them to see in either UV light or infrared light. What type of star would be needed for each scenario, and how would that affect life on each version of the planet?

I can't find the WoB right now for some reason, but Brandon has said that what was happening is that the white sand was already drained of Investiture, and because Shallan used Investiture near it (her illusion as Veil, I believe) it turned back to white, which is how he knew Shallan was there.

Hmm, the way that WoB is phrased has me thinking of something. Brandon specifically says that the viruses and bacteria have "evolved in-line with the investiture." To me, that sounds as if the disease magic system is an effect of a different magic system and the diseases developed separately from the true magic system. Possibly, that could be how the Dawnshards were created, through whatever the real magic system of Ashyn is.

Yeah, I can understand your pronunciation of Elantris. If you're really following Aonic pronunciations, it should be "ee-LANE-tryss" and that just doesn't roll of the tongue as well. That's simply a product of the fact that a language based on only using the long forms of English vowels is really stupid. However, I can't agree with you about Jasnah. Her name is literally pronounced "YASS-nuh" or "YAZZ-nuh" because that is how the language works. The 'j' letter in Alethi makes the 'y' sound in English. Pronouncing it "JASS-nuh" is, technically, pronouncing it wrong. Of course, that's just because I get really picky with names. It always bothers me when people mispronounce names, so I hate to do it to fictional characters' names.

So, from tons of signings and in WoBs Brandon has been saying for years that getting spren off Roshar is possible, just really hard. I found this WoB, and I don't know what to think now. This is from 2015, I think. That's really interesting. I don't have much to theorize about this (right now), I just wanted to see what you guys think about this.

THIS I don't know why the fandom has got so obsessed over Unity, but it's really storming annoying.

I do it the long "a" way because that's how Brandon pronounces it. He always says that it doesn't matter how you pronounce it, but I personally have to pronounce it the same way as he does because he is literally the one who created the character, so that is the right way to do it. However, he has said that the in-world correct way to pronounce Sarene is to pronounce each vowel long despite the fact that he pronounces it like the word serene. I don't mind it when people pronounce it other ways, but I view that a bit like someone named Sean telling you their name is pronounced "shawn" and you refuse to pronounce it like that and instead pronounce it like "see-AHN." That's an extreme example, but I hope it gets my point across.

So, I’ve already got the green. I don’t know if I have any mental disorders. I feel like I might have depression, but I haven’t been clinically diagnosed. I was suicidal in the past, but I’m past that now (mainly because the idea of not existing terrifies me, so killing musket is a no-go). I once tried to explain to my dad what it kind of feels like, but he just wouldn’t believe that I could possibly have it. I would try to go to my mom about it, but she’d make it about me being controlled by Satan or something like that. I feel like I could possibly have some form of autism as well because I once read through the symptoms and about 1 in 3 of them matched me. Even if I don’t have any mental illnesses, I know people who do, and I’m willing to support this.

Ah, okay. I get that one. Yeah, magic is kind of hard to make fail in my universe. People can fail at using it, but that’s their fault, not the magic’s fault.

Yeah, they’re meant to be pretty tall. They’re a product of both natural and magical creation. My current inclination towards granite and basalt right now, because I don’t really like the idea of cave-ins lol. It’d be interesting to add them, but I’ll probably go for safety and higher population. (There’s probably a SA joke there) Well, the way the magic system works, it’d be hard to crash an entire ventilation or plumbing system.

Dang it, I wrote this really long post and it all got deleted. I’ll try to rewrite it. Overall, I agree with the OP’s point. If Brandon purposely left out a character after having them talk about feeling left out, who’s to say he couldn’t have done something similar with several plotlines in OB? Was I surprised by how the Sadeas murder/army turning plotline played out? Yes. Did it disappoint my expectations? Yes. Was it done poorly? No, I don’t think so. The in-world explanation for the lack of consequences from Sadeas’s murder makes sense to me. They put Adolin, the person who killed him, as the head of investigation to find Sadeas’s killer. Even if only subconsciously, Adolin definitely hindered the investigation. As the Desolation got worse throughout the story, the characters were no longer worried about something as small as Sadeas’s death (and they were honestly glad he was dead). They simply didn’t have the time nor the resources to seriously continue an investigation which they had no leads on and didn’t really care about. This absolutely infuriated Sadeas’s army, and Brandon constantly showed throughout the book how they were getting angrier and angrier because of this. There’s not much more else Brandon could’ve done to foreshadow the army turning because 1) it would’ve given it away and taken away the shock factor during the climax and 2) the turn happened directly because of Odium’s influence, which is hard to foreshadow. As for Amaram’s turning, I will admit that it was shocking, jarring, and unexpected. Which was the storming point. Brandon could’ve given Amaram viewpoints earlier to show how he was beginning to turn, but that would’ve ruined the shock factor of his betrayal at the end. For both of these factors, there importance in the book was greatly downplayed because, in the face of a Desolation, they don’t matter as much. The old enemies (Sadeas and Amaram) don’t really matter anymore. The true conflict is against Odium. It makes perfect sense to me why these conflicts didn’t get much spotlight-they didn’t need it. As for the issue of the meandering nature of the Shadesmar sequence and the end of the book, I just don’t see it. The Shadesmar sequence was my favorite part of the book, besides the overarching Dalinar storyline. It was so much fun getting to explore Shadesmar, getting to meet the Spren, and seeing Kaladin struggle with realizing he can’t save everyone. Without that sequence, you don’t get any of that progression from him, you don’t get Adolin getting close to Maya, you don’t get to learn Syl’s backstory, and you don’t get to see that glimpse into the world of Spren politics. As for the climax of the book, I felt it was pretty intense. I felt that the characters were in serious trouble-especially when Dalinar almost turned. Could Brandon have cut back on the flashbacks? Maybe (looking at you, Yanagawn). But I think that constant switching between viewpoints helps to create the frantic, frightening nature of that final battle. Overall, Oathbringer was not the book I expected. It was not the book I wanted. It was the book we needed. If you tried to change anything in it, the book would not work in my opinion.

It's about 304 square miles, and about 10,000-15,000 feet tall. They're not sheer cliffs, but it is a very steep angle. I actually hadn't thought about what rock they'd be made of. It doesn't really matter what type of rock they are, except I guess to determine how sturdy it is. What do you recommend would be the best type of rock to use? Yeah, I have a plan for that. The magic on that world really helps with ventilation, lighting, food, etc.

@Oversleep@The One Who Connects@Glamdring804@Eagle of the Forest Path After thinking about it a lot, I've decided I'm scrapping the floating islands world (for now-I might reuse it eventually). What I have decided upon is making a world where the majority of the world's populations live in huge rock spire-tower things. How feasible would it be for a tower with a surface area of about 304 mi squared on the bottom level? How much of the rock could be excavated before it would fall apart?

Yeah, I'll take the spec doc link