Walin

Dude, this thread is an upvote engine. At least, for genius theorizers like SLNC and PhineasGage. Okay, I'll say my piece: I think that Kaladin is good for Shallan. He's attractive to her, and the fans ship them a lot. A lot. However, Adolin is much better for her. He tries to put her before himself, and has tried to help her realize that one personality is enough. At the end of Oathbringer, he seems to treat her multiple personalities as distinct people, which is kind of anti-whole. So, neither of them are super healthy, but Adolin's better. As much as I regret to say it.

Nice! Hope the transport goes well (and hoping I don't jinx it that way).

Awesome! Like, super awesome! Lift awesome! But I think this belongs in the Creator's Corner. This is really cool, don't think that the topic movement suggestion is a criticism. What did you use for the Shardblade? What kind of paint did you use? What signing are you planning on giving Brandon this majesty?

So near the end of Oathbringer, Dalinar hears Evi’s voice forgiving him. I think it’s reasonable to doubt that Evi could have remained a Cognitive Shadow for more than a few days. She has to be a Cognitive Shadow to communicate with Dalinar because the Beyond (after death and a ‘fading away’ of Cognitive Shadows) is inaccessible to even Shards. So, a couple of theories: —The voice was the Nightwatcher being devious and pretending to be Evi because Dalinar needed it to avoid collapse, eventually. Pretty plausible. —Evi didn’t actually have to be a Cognitive Shadow, because Dalinar’s Unity now and that could maybe unite them for a bit. A little less plausible, but still very acceptable. —Brandon is going to have to change canon or something because this was just too cool, and its conflict with canon is not (as Ivory would put it). Unplausible, but you never know. Something this awesome is bound to have its imperfections.

Elhokar’s death hit me the hardest. I was just expecting narrative causality to save him, but then he up and died. And Moash looked Kaladin in the eyes after he did it. The whole two pages really shook me, actually; it didn’t seem like it was really Stormlight. I just had the itch to finish Oathbringer as fast as possible to get away from the surreality of it. By “shook me,” I mean that it made a “the rules have changed” moment, which I really wasn’t expecting and made me wonder who would die next, which was unsettling. However, Elhokar’s death only had emotional impact to me because it wasn’t what he deserved. He had a good arc going and Moash just stabbed it in the eye like it was Sadeas.

I think you just try drop a brick on them. Tapping so much chromium grants narrative causality almost unlimited power, and we didn't say "nearly infinitely lucky" meant "immortal via luck." If their goals, or the thing that would be considered "lucky" for them can be granted by the turn of events that kill them, the Skimmer will definitely die. I tried to game the system with that answer (Mentioning narrative causality in a serious theory thread like it's valid). Let me try a different one. Massive electromagnet...wait just checked Wikipedia, and chromium is antiferromagnetic (not magnetic) below 38 C, so unless the compounder has a spike for F-Brass then this is out of the question. I thought this would work better than a Pull or Push because we don't know whether Investiture resists magnetism, too. Be a Compounder yourself--double Iron. Tap weight to an incredible amount when you're close enough (like, within a few hundred feet but hopefully closer), and they may lose a lot of blood from damage as a result of the uneven gravitational attraction (not quite spaghettification, but equally lethal). Unwieldy in a city where buildings may tear you apart faster than you kill the Super Skimmer, but it's worth a shot. Range: a few hundred feet, working in all environments (cityscape, flat plain, etc). However, requires death. Hit them with a flamethrower or some kind of heating device that throws out energy with both conduction and radiation--they may get behind some luckily placed obstacles that block radiative heat, but bathing them in flames could maybe balance that out. Range: tens of feet; high chance of failure. Where chance is involved, you can't push your luck. They'll Pull their luck. Definitely unadvised in corridors where flames could conceivable weaken structure, get blocked, and rebound. Ideal for solid, flat plains. Cripple them somehow, or wait until they are injured. If they have a broken leg, now's your chance. Activate the sinkhole on which they are now standing. They won't be able to jump out of the way fast enough after their realization of the trap. Range: tens of feet; high, HIGH chance of failure. More of a way to kill a regular Spinner who stores a lot. Get them to die because of their choices, like making them the protagonist of some story who walks into inescapable traps to save people they just met. Make the trap legitimately inescapable. They will then die. Range: however big your trap is. If they tap luck, but don't make life-or-death decisions on a whim, they don't deserve their powers. Make the area frictionless. Next, remove gravity from the equation. Fight them in space. Then, hit them with a swarm of high-inertia sharp objects. This is a good tactic from Era 4 Mistborn, for performing summary executions of traitors to the Ones Above. So, equip all rooms with a releasable airlock and independent artificial gravity systems. Range: most of the spaceship you're on. They may hang onto doorways, so install automatic sealing gates for every room. The Compounder probably wouldn't want to live on such a ship, so you won't be able to do this without trickery. That's all I can think of right now, and though they're pretty creative, they aren't that effective.

Remarks getting smushed by the Thunderclast, only to cut its hand off and stand up with basically no damage. Lift being sympathetic with Nightblood about hunger. Pattern being horror-movie-savvy and suggesting Shallan run because they saw some scary pictures—not on the walls (which actually could indicate a dangerous area) but in her own notebook. Syl hiding in a trench coat to avoid detection. The Unmade in the Oathgate making a mini Stranger Things area. Amaram becoming gem-Venom (from Spider-Man 3) because everything about him has been consumed by the gemheart, but he still has his face. Makes me think it was just in case that scene gets in a Stormlight 3 movie. There were so many funny quips...

I thought the Looney Tunes thing was Renarin getting smushed into the ground, then popping right back up. There are so many moments where Looney Tunes would be an appropriate comparison to Stormlight.

@Orlok Tsubodai Ok. I won’t sign up unless absolutely necessary for player count, though I’m pretty sure that won’t be a problem for this game

Relnig Blant. Or Relnik Blant. Probably not Neato Coolbeans, that’s an Era 3 kind of name. I was just saying Neato Coolbeans would be a funny character name, but this LG is too serious for that.

Well, I’ve never shaved because right when I started growing a mustasche, it became No Shave November. I assume though that razors need to press against the skin for a good cut. Shardrazors would have to have good, rounded edges next to the blade, I’m guessing; regular razors don’t have that, I think Lots of hedging up above, definitely.

This is coming from my phone, so I won’t have any pics, just captions: (Inigo Montoya on the bridge, staring) After reading the preview chapters and waiting six more days, I don’t know what to do with my life. (Wesley) Have you considered waiting another day and reading Oathbringer all the way through? (Socially awkward penguin) Gets Oathbringer OH NO DON’T READ IT IT’S FULL OF OB SPOILERS (Bad Luck Brian) Reads Oathbringer, falls asleep, has epic dream about it Remembers the entire dream, but it was super non-canonical and it mixed with all other thoughts, so must read OB all the way through again to sort it all out

Preordered it via Amazon. I read the preview chapters, just hoping I’ll get the book on time. Part of the reason I read the preview chapters was so we could stagger reading between me and my identical twin, but we’ll have to share by the time I get halfway through anyways.

Sick, yo! I kind of forgot that cremlings are basically cool crabs with six legs and no pincers (or are those songlings?)

I’m thinking about the superconvenience or inconvenience of this, just because you could get cut real easy—and then, to cut the hair for real, you may accidentally shear off some skin. Morbidity aside, I’m just thinking that it would be hard to cut hair without the resistance and springiness of flesh to press razors against; if they just go right through...wait, that was still morbid.

I’ll sign up because I was asked, but I think I might go inactive due to this being an LG. Neato Coolbeans— ... Okay, so Relnig Blant was a guy who considered himself an average noble. He was part of a standard House, and could carry on conversations passably. However, he was a little eccentric (as his name may suggest) and never had the chance to get in the ‘in’ crowd in the inns, and this time of intrigue seemed like the perfect way to move up. As a side note, I’m hoping to get a chance to play Neato Coolbeans with a straight face (or at least with the name being acceptable in the setting of the game).

Whooh! What a ride. Haven’t been active on the forums for a bit, good to be able to post here again. I’ll need to read through the backlog before making any analysis or review comments. EDIT: I'm not going to make any analysis, whoops for indicating that I would

That’s a good explanation; I was just going to say that the Tor upload says it’s not canon.

@Toaster Retribution The best usernames are either a fake word or a nonsensical combination of real words. I haven’t used a username like that in a while, I just know a lot of good usernames like that.

I guess changing my status from toast to waffles to be more appropriate to Scadrial (and thus Harmony) wouldn’t help, since toasters have a waffle function... Wait what’s retribution?

Incoming rant— Words of Radiance spoilers ... I agree with @CaptainRyan that he was a product of his generation. In Alethi culture, he was following the ideal. However, he didn’t seem to grasp that when the world is at stake, the games must change. He thought that powher was all-important, and survival was only secondary. If his course didn’t change after Sadeas wouldn’t ever follow a path to redemption. Unless you’re talking about death-bed repentance like Darth Vader, which doesn’t make up for the far past, just the immediate history.

Great I found it! So I’ll necro this. I had the thought that you could make Elantrian buttons (the pressing kind, not the shirt kind). Like, all the Aonic machinery is already scratched in, but the button serves as a thing that makes an essential dot in the Aon (only when an Elantrian presses it, and only when they’re intentionally using the button to access the Dor). That would make Elantrian tech activation simpler than the way I assume the normal way they used to do it. Unless by “activating the light plates by touching them” Galladon meant literally that—no Cognitive commands required. The button thing would be most useful for weaponry, to deactivate the safety, etc. For other tech things, I think a kind of slider (like making the distance line for Aon Tia) for toggling power (like lights, stoves, hoses, etc.) would be the essential, use-every-time-you-need-the-Aonic-thing part of inscribed machinery.

Thanks! I’ll rezz that one Aonic thread once I can get a good addition ready; I made a new topic here because I wasn’t entirely sure how similar this question was to the last necro topic (so I could put a sort-of self demonstrating question) and also because I forgot there was that last topic. Whoops.

After Lightflame’s “103% Correct Prediction Of What Will Happen In Stones Unhallowed” topic was brought back from the grave, it reminded me of some other great topics. I kind of want to rezz them, because the search function is difficult to use for me (it doesn’t seem to do a keyword search on the topic title no matter how I change my inputs, etc. like that) and it would be great if it was in the first one or three pages. For a related second question (explicitly stated this time), is it better to make new topics for new ideas or append them at the end of old topics? (Such as my “Aonic Plates?” topic that had some potentially good points to append to the end of the “Functional Aons”/“Elantrian Tech”/(I forgot), or new additions to the Amaram/Helaran theories that have spawned at least three threads.)