Sanderson-Savant

I am traveling a lot currently, and as such, I am consuming books at an alarming rate, and now don't know what to read. Please suggest some books for me. Also consider I have already read: all Brandon, Licanius trilogy, Kingkiller Chronicles, Wheel of Time, GRRM, Tolkien,Farseer series, and more. Any help would be appreciated, bonus points for books with nice editions which will look good on my bookcase.

I have a huge love for epic fantasy (loved Wheel of Time), so OB wins for me. However, I still love all of Mistborn, and, as above, I think I prefer SoS over BoM.

We have also seen that with Kaladins scars, how you see yourself is important to how you physcially appear. So when the fused take over, they see themselves as how they always have been, and change the body accordingly. 

For the using abilities bit, I would guess they can't use them whilst dead, and they probably don't use them all the time when they are alive. So I say they have a much chance of being a savant as any other magic user.

"'the most magically powerful number' like 7 is in harry potter" 

I think you meant to say 7 is the most magically powerful number like it is in The Tales of Alvin Maker

On 04/03/2018 at 2:26 AM, Ammanas said:

Ever sense I got my e-reader I think I will be purchasing the majority of my books in the electronic format. I fought the e-reader for a long time, but I love it!

For most books, I will read them first on kindle, as its just so much easier, and then if I like them, they are allowed to go on my bookshelf and make a fine addition to my collection. However, I have ended up with 3 different versions of Elantris on my bookshelf

On the topics of Scadrians, it is confirmed that when a ferring stores weight, they are actually storing mass, and thanks to good old conservation of momentum, going fast through space is a possibility. 

Seeing as the UK edition of 10th anniversary has arrived, I am wondering if we will soon be expecting the leather bound? Hoping it arrives in time for christmas

@Toaster Retribution

It isn't in the original copies, but it can be found, I believe in the 10th aniversary and Leatherbound, after the deleted scenes I think.

I like this theory, but what about shards? We know that ruin, a God and thus a LOT of investiture, could influence multiple ares of Scardrial at once, suggesting multiple trains of thought, which is pretty damnation smart. I think that the whole shard thing agrees with your overall theory, but less so with the human intelligence cap.

You know when your a fan when you have Aon Sao tatooed on you

On 08/05/2017 at 6:00 PM, dashardie said:

The way I see it, as mistwraiths, Kandra are effectively masses of undifferentiated stem cells. When they are spiked into becoming full Kandra, they then have a consciousness to direct that differentiation, hence the need to consume their victims. The digestive process also allows them to mimic the cells of the donor, as well as clean the bones for the structural aspect of a body. I figure that, as mentioned above, they could theoretically have a baby with themselves with enough know-how. Kandra surrogates anyone?

I think people have been suggesting that whilst they could bw use'd as surrogates, the babies might inherit the Kandra's spiritual DNA, so that could make any baby a bit weird

EDIT- didn't see the second page with the original reply, sorry if repetitive

So if they get Kandra spuritual DNA... it might be one really messed up rabit?

You might be missing something people, if the Kandra can copy DNA, who said that they have to make a human baby?

That might take out the issue with spiritual DNA, unless preservation gave away some of himself to rabits.

I'm hesitant to believe this as of the moment, but certaintly love the idea and work the amount of work gone into it

In a turn of events I accidentally spend all night reading and finished it, and it is in fact explained. Treledees says that the God King cannot reproduce, but as the original king, who is the start of the original royal line could, there must be a way, but they are unsure of it. I think maybe I spend too much time on here reading theories...

yeah Yata, I was re-reading and got to the conversation where Susebron asked Siri how long she could hide her pregnancy for, and I mistook that for her being pregnant, just finished that chapter however and realised she wasn't.

Just saying, I haven't done a full search to see if this has been posted, so someone please direct me if it has been.

So during Warbreaker, we know that Siri is a "vessel" for the Gods King children, furthermore, it is revealed by none other than Hoid, that a previous God King only died after a male heir was produced, as his first child was a female, from this I can gather that the God Kings must be fertile (or the priests lied about the previous God King having a female child,and this child was from elsewhere but that seems unlikely). Now, this is a slight problem, as we also know that the other Returned in the Pantheon of the Gods are infertile. My thoughts on this were maybe they were being fed something to make them infertile by the priests, they seem up to that kinda thing, however the Returned can't even get drunk, so it seems unlikely they could be poisoned like this, so I want to know what this discrepancy is.

This said however, when Vivenna first arrives, we see Lemex die to what we eventually know to be poison, so perhaps the Returned could be poisned.

EDIT- remembered that Siri does in fact become pregnant.

Thanks for all the posts guys, got a lot of food for thought

I agree that with whilst kaladin is a great soldier with great potential, in a universe of people like compounders and others, he is far from the most powerful

First of all, I suspect this has already had a thread done, if so could someone please direct me to it.

So, as I was re-reading edgedancer, in chapter 10 where Lift breaks into Nin's building, we see him drop a pretty big reveal

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If the bonds between men and spren are re-ignited ... what comes next will allow the voidbringers to make the jump between worlds

What comes next is Szeth telling Nin that the listeners have now become voidbringers, and Nin disagreeing, but what I wanted to focus on is, where do the Voidbringers from previous desolatioms come from?

In Khriss' essay, we get confirmed that ashyn and Braize are habitable worlds in the rosharan sysem, however Braize is populated by

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Self aware splinters

and for Ashyn

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People here live in very small pockets of survivabillity

Seeing as voidbringers are not splinters (unless this refers to the Voidspren), and I doubt Voidbringers could come from Ashyn or would be considered people, it seems apparent to me that Voidbringers did not come from any of the habitaple planets in Roshar, or atleast cannot anymore, so I appeal to anyone with a theory, where did they come from?

When I first started reading Warbreaker I really wasn't enjoying it, untill the first plot twist, and as I am a plot twist junkey, I really enjoyed it more after that.

Leading to Well of Acension probably being my least (haven't read White Sand however) mainly due to Vin's arc with Zane

We have seen (kinda) Hoid use allomancy on Roshar, so I think that if a surgebinder had allomancy, perhaps through a lerasium bead (maybe a medallion would work too, but I agree with Pattern that hemalurgy might not), they could at the least use their surges and allomancy. I'm less sure with them being able to use allomancy as a way to fuel their own surges though. On a side note, having both powers is probably really cool anyway.

(On phon, away from books, so lack of quotes, might edit later)

I don't think humans existed before, as it is mentioned, I believe that in secret history, that humans are created after the humans on Yolen. However, I think that there is some debate on whether the listeners were around before the shattering, before being co-opted by the cosmeres grump uncle.

"Dude, did you see what that thug just did to that guy?"

"Yeah, he really went ham on him"

So here's something you may like, pick a character, and say what their favourite song would be. Preferably chracters from something Brandon had published, but feel free to choose other characters if you think they are well known enough for people to get it.

To get the list started im going to pick

Shallan: Love the Lie, by Sage Francis

The Lord Ruler: Kill the poor, by the dead kennedys

Enjoy!