ElephantEarwax

2 minutes ago, thejopen27 said:

One of the things I'm most unclear about with both Aesudan and Amaram is how conscious their choices were. Did Odium subtly corrupt them over time until their thoughts weren't their own? or were they made an offer by Odium and chose to accept it? I don't know. We have evidence that Odium and the Unmade can corrupt people who have been under his subtle influence into taking actions they otherwise wouldn't when we see the Sadeas troops suddenly and against their will turn against Thaylen City and we see Odium attempt to take-over Dalinar at the confrontation at the breach. 

One of the aspects of Oathbringer I was least satisfied with were the unexpected and unexplained conversions of Amaram from a selfish, petty, arrogant hypocrite to turning to Odium and selling out humanity. He was for the restoration of the Heralds and Vorinism, how did he turn to Odium? Aesudan was a petty, spoiled, vain, opulent, greedy, ambitious queen, that doesn't mean she was scheming with the forces of Odium. 

I believe Amaram was corrupted by the Thrill, Nergaoul, until he was in a place where he could be taken over by Yelig-nar while Aesudan was corrupted by Ashertmarn until she could be dominated by Yelig-nar. Or possibly they were corrupted to the point that they were amenible whe Odium or his agents appeared and offered them immense power and glory. 

Doesn't Odium tell him to swallow the stone, to gain the powers he was promised. I'd say for Amaram he was offered power.

17 minutes ago, digitalbusker said:

On the question of whether the Lord Ruler might have had the foresight to scrub metallic arts genes from his sperm while holding the power: it was then that he created the Mistwraiths, so he clearly thought Feruchemy was an issue already. It's not impossible that his shard enhanced mind came up with "Might be useful to have kids someday, but better not let them have magic or they'll try to overthrow me."

But he knew to remove the current Feruchemists, but he didn't get rid of the gene that the non feruchemists have to give the powers to children, why would he remove his power, but not theirs?

Thank you  I needed something new to listen to at work. I have been listening Jordancon wobs for the last few hours.

14 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

@FeatherWriter Renarin is my biggest beef. 

This isn't a Cosmere beef, but a Reckoners beef. I despise the end of Calamity. Like, David was able to go up to Calamity and just go like “yo, humans ain't all evil” and Calamity just had an existential crisis and fled? No. That doesn't make any sense. And David getting powers. Ughhhh. It could've been done so much better, but it was just kinda there at the end. It undermines how well he was able to take down Epics as just a normal dude. Don't even get me started on all the alternate reality crap. Calamity is Brandon’s worst book, in my opinion. It's so storming terrible. Like, it started off pretty okay and then just went downhill from there.

@Chaos pretty much summed up my feelings on Zane perfectly. Zane and the middle of the book just made WoA so storming boring and slow to read. The end saved it, but that's only because Brandon is amazing at ending books. 

I actually don't have very many beefs that weren't mentioned in the podcast. Also, I definitely agree with @WeiryWriter when it comes to Aonic pronunciations. Actually, this has reminded me of a beef, but it's less with the books themselves and more with the fandom in general. There are CORRECT and INCORRECT ways to pronounce things. Personally, I think it's not okay to mispronounce a name because you think the pronunciation is stupid. It'd be like if I refuse to pronounce Eric (is that how you spell it, Chaos?) as “air-ick” and pronounced it as “eh-rick.” I know I'm exaggerating, but this just really annoys me. Don't get me wrong, I think Aonic pronunciation is stupid too, but I think lots of things people do are stupid, but I can still respect their decisions and pronounce things the way they're supposed to be. 

 

You're coming close to being killed.

I sat and pronounced Eric the two ways for a solid minute.

I finally beat all you at Whose that cosmere character. Thanks for the win @Chaos.

I lived loved this episode. It helped me through roofing a shed. Thanks all.

Edit: I did not live it.

5 minutes ago, Coldshadows said:

Hoid is/was Adonalsium?

Ask this in the Cosmere Queries for a good answer, but no.

Wahoo. More Shardcast.

YAY. I've been waiting and love the podcast.

2 hours ago, Xaladin said:

Good luck getting past the holds before Christmas, lol.

I did. I requested it like 3 months ago, as soon as it was put up.

1 hour ago, Aon Ati said:

I asked for Oathbringer for Christmas, so I can't read it till after December 25th. To keep myself from getting spoiled I'll have to stay off the 17th shard and coppermind. I was prepared to do this. Then I read this post.  AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!! I WANT TO READ IT SO BAD !!!!!!

Get it from a library, It is the best option if you can't buy it immediately. And does anyone know if it will be released in paperback?