Aethling

You will probably find seeds of any shardrealm religion in Mistborn simply because Sazed mentions so many. That said, I am of the opinion that humans are native to the Mistborn world. It is specifically stated in the text that Ruin and Preservation joined together to create humans. It does not say they imported them, it states they created them. Warbreaker has the story about how the Vo came to the area and that Siri's people are a spinoff of him and the culture that developed from those that came with him. Centuries could have changed the origin point in the lore. Way of Kings is very explicit about humans not being native. Elantris is a little shaky in my memory, but the religion origin story in it could be used to trace back the people to an origin point.

Hadrian is the one that does not like to kill innocents. Royce wouldn't mind killing anyone at the beginning, but he does mellow out over time. I do like this series, but it has a few issues with time as portrayed. Still, it isn't like he forgets his characters like some authors I have read.

Simply because she is a heretic, most of the world probably wouldn't really care if she was killed. A fairly large part would probably want to make the assassin a hero. She does keep notes, but a fire would take care of most of them. Fire on a ship would be even better. I have real doubts about where the high princes would go to war over the death of an unmarried, heretic sister of a relatively weak king. Dalinar, undoubtedly, but most of the others would probably just laugh at the idea. She doesn't even have the backing of a husband's family to go along with her own. Any biography written about her would most likely be written by an an ardent or a female follower of the very religion that she has thrown away. Biographies of this sort rarely treat the subject in a good light. She would probably turn out th be the villain of her own murder. Imagine a Catholic priest writing a biography of Martin Luther or John Calvin at the height of the Reformation. Imagine a Puritan minister writing a biography of an accused witch during or shortly after the Salem Witch Trials. What about an Iranian Muslim cleric writing about the life of any Israeli Prime Minister? You might get lucky and have another heretic take up the challenge, but that would almost immediately invalidate the work in the eyes of many. Put aside the writer bias and just look at the sources they would be writing about her from. Her own notes are hardly inspiring except to another heretic. She is somewhat of a black sheep in her own family. Rumor an innuendo would rule even if she did have a semi-fair biographer.

My impression is they they were not all that scared of the one many they could see, but of all the ones they thought might be hidden.

I am not sure it is power she was after for the first few books. Knowledge would be better, perhaps. That she grows more powerful as she gets more knowledge is just normal. Even when she is being aloof to the boys, I believe it is largely her trying to assume the air of Aes Sedai. Still, one of the best scenes in the entire series is where Rand puts her in her place when he visits the hall. I have never seen a fixed age for them, but then I haven't really delved all that deeply. Rand was born roughly 20 years before Eye. It is mentioned several times that Egwene and Elayne are roughly two years younger. If I remember correctly, Nyn is supposed to be about six years older than the boys. That makes Nyn roughly 26, Rand & Mat & Perrin roughly 20, and Egwene and Elayne roughly 18. At least with the girls, some later comments tend to make them shade younger, but that is mostly cultural comments that they admit do not take place at the same age for all of the girls. Moraine is roughly 42, so that would put land probably late 40s.

It would be so nice if we could just jump forward two years and bring back a few copies. That might almost be worth the cost of developing time travel.

Well, he was also explicit in saying he would not be doing any outriders, at least that is how I took part of it. Everything must come to an end. We are really blessed that they got such a good author to finish up the series. He is not exactly the same as Jordan, but we wouldn't want or expect that anyway. I honestly believe that he breathed new life into the series, and the series is by far better for it. We will never know how much the ending would have been different had Jordan survived to finish his series, but I can't believe it would have been any better. The only reason I have read any of Sanderson's works was because some guys at work recommended WoT to me. I am very grateful for them doing so. The good thing for both WoT and Sanderson, is that as long as he keeps writing his own works, people will be attracted to WoT just so they can continue reading his works. That alone should keep the series alive for several decades past the release of the final book. That said, I expect SLA to rival WoT by the end of that series. Unless Sanderson slumps or regresses, it should reach that status easily.

We have to remember that all of the two rivers folk are either late teens or mid-20s. Nyn is by far the oldest, and she is still only mid 20s. Egwene and Elayne's maturity levels are about right for most of the teenagers I have known.

Well, they released an entire pool of pure saidin and the greenman fell. I always felt the blight issue was more the power of the greenman returning to nature, but the immensity of the power released may have had a side effect of weakening the taint of corruption. Later on Egwene gets humbled by Rand's raw power. Everyone kept telling the wondergirls how powerful they were. Each being one of the most powerful in thousands of years, but Rand handles Egwene and Elayne like they are babes still in diapers, and that is without a pool of pure saidin to use. Factor in that Rand channels largely instinctively, and he is way more powerful. He easily handles several forsaken.

Two forsaken dead. Humanity's champion comes to light. Horn of Valere discovered. Not the biggest blow Rand and group will do, but pretty substantial.

Jasnah tells Shallan they are a type of spren.

There you go. Directly on point. Honestly, I have always been leary of relying on interview questions for solid answers. Until it actually appears in the text of a volume, he could change his mind, which he has done on several occasions that he has admitted. Still, until something comes out in the text, the interviews will have to be good enough unless it is contradicted by an annotation.

I must have misremembered. She says she could follow Perrin across half the world as long as he still has the coin.

Could simply be paranoia too. By that time he has fought pretty much every country on the planet and undoubtedly experienced assassination attempts.

She explains it in the text. Rand and Mat spend their coins before they have developed a strong connection. She actually states that Perrin kept his coin long enough for her to find him even if he did not have the coin.

Doubtful. I can't remember how to do a spoiler tag, but one scene in the text of the trilogy actually brings this up.

Well, the Illian thing as well. Could also be foreshadowing the Aiel and Sea people prophecies. Remember that him becoming a titled King becomes important in the later books. Egwene uses it to her advantage. Vin sees one of the false dragons with a crown doesn't she? Mat and his "wife." Could be any number of different interpretations.

So far, the boys have undergone the attack. Elayne has expressed her interest. Avi and Egwene are developing a friendship. One of the things I love about this series is the way that Jordan wove all the threads together. He may spend half a page describing the carpet, but the threads are amazing.

To me, it is their link to Rand. If they can get their hands on either of the Two Rivers girls, they have big bargaining power. Elayne was an afterthought that Liandrin didn't even want along originally.

Black prism may fit that idea perfectly then. The use the magic to construct all types of things. Lamps, buidlings, boats, gliders, bombs, etc.

You tried The Black Prism? Magic isn't all that common, but it does not appear to be all that rare either. The Elenium trilogy by Eddings centers around a small group, but magic is fairly widespread with all the different users. I have never read Butcher's Codex books, but I think the main character is a non-magical one where magic is everywhere. Still, that is just from what I have read about the series, not from the books themselves, so that may have just been wrong information. Most of the books I have read with magic have magic as a rarity. If everyone has the ability, or it is fairly common, it loses being special.

Only ~200 pages left now. Rand has left the group and is on his way to Tear. Faile has joined up with Perrin. All three of the wondergirls have left the White Tower (AGAIN). Avi and Rhuarc have been introduced. Mat is on his way to visit the queen with a note. Really getting interesting in the stuff going on.

Almost finished with TDR here.

Regardless of how bad a king he is, the country is still unified. It could have easily fell back into the seperate Duchies (I am calling them Duchies here because I can't remember what they are truly called). Each HP going back to fighting his own kind would truly have been terrible, and that much has been avoided by the pact and Dalinar's guidance of the king.

That would be the logical assumption, but doesn't Siuan specifically counter it in the text? At one point, one of the major AS specifically states that the only real link between the DR and the horn has to do with the horn being blown at the last battle. Currently doing my reread in preparation, and that may change later, but through DR, that is the way it is standing. Also, the eye was pretty much destroyed when the Greenman fell. Rand channeling used up the pool, which by the way is eerily like the shardpools in Sanderson's work.