Deoradhan

At the moment, I'm playing entirely too much Star Trek Online.

Lightsong, Breeze, Sazed, Kelsier, Vasher, Hrathen, Kaladin... Oh, jeez, there are so many awesome Cosmere characters.

Hi, Mr. Sanderson. Thank you very much for doing this Q & A - I concur with the sentiments of many before that it is much appreciated. Assuming I haven't run out of time, (roughly 10:00 MST here), I have a few questions I'd like to ask. So, onto the actual questions 1. Assuming Hemalurgy walks across multiple shardworlds, what would happen if a Hemalurgist were to kill a Returned God, and spike themselves with the resulting spike, given Hemalurgic decay? 2. If Sel is so dangerous to move to via Shadesmar, how is Galladon able to worldhop? 3. What would happen if an Awakener were to give their breath to an Allomancer? Would the Allomancer be able to use it for anything? What if the same thing happened, only with a Surgebinder instead of an Allomancer?

Hmm, sounds interesting. Could anyone send me an invite to this thing? My email *should* be up on my profile page. On that note, I've been playing a lot of the browser-based Nationstates game again. I made an uber-capitalist nearly-fascist state, which is quite fun to roleplay as

That would be extremely cool - M2TW, at least, has so many fantasy mods for I'm certain it would be eminently moddable in that direction. Lately, at least, I've been playing a 'Hyrule' mod a lot. Its quite entertaining

Best friends with a single person, provided the sentiment was reciprocal. Two people can take on the world, if both can trust each other fully. On that note, would you rather be the head of a dangerously incompetent but vast, powerful, and influential organization, or one that was small, competent, and efficient, but set against the whole world?

So, for a while, I've been a fan of The Creative Assmbly's Total War real-time tactics games. You command a historical nation, and in epic real-time battles with thousands of troops on all sides, conquer your way to glory. So, I was wondering if any other 17th Sharders play any Total War games, and if so, which ones.

It did. This was due to the combination of several massive bugs, and being more difficult then what X-COM's superhuman was supposed to be. Its ridiculously difficult.

Rewriting the thing I did for NaNo last year for NaNo this year. Should be interesting/fun

This is going to be awesome. X-COM is epic, and I have no doubt Firaxis of all studios will be able to to do it justice.

Either Grey, Brown, Green, or some mixture of all three, for me. I love history, enjoy the challenge of politics & negotiation, and happen to have a lifelong interest in tactics. That said, the Asha'man Green Ajah would likely be very entertaining, due to all the pretty explosions... Eh, the wheel weaves as the wheel wills. I'll make no further comment.

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I would like to announce that I have been officially accepted into University, doing a combined degree in History and Economics.

Bears the ability

Without Pun-Pun - it'll be less boring that way. Would you rather be dunked repeatedly into rancid butter, or a pool full of ants?

I personally pronounce it DEE-oh-rad-ann - which is probably inaccurate. I picked it off a list of Gaelic words found on the internet, knowing only that it could translate roughly into 'wanderer'. If anyone here actually speaks the language, correction on pronunciation would be pretty cool.

Another thing that could be interesting to consider is the matter of ecological drift. If I recall correctly there are horses in Shinovar - and presumably, other 'terrestrial' life as well. I wonder what could occur if the two ecosystems were to interact, in the unlikely event that the mountains between Shinovar and the rest of the world were to be eroded by sufficiently strong highstorms. On that note, I'm also curious as to greatshell biology. Most terrestrial crustaceans have very simple lungs, limiting the maximum size they can grow to. If I may be permitted to speculate, I suspect that Roshar has more atmospheric oxygen than Earth. In part, this is suggested by the presence of Greatshells - and additionally, the Highstorms themselves. Given that, I concur with Windrunner. I'd really like to see what Rosharian(?) aquatic life looks like. If the atmospheric oxygen is concentrated, there should be even more in the water - permitting even more ridiculously huge things.

I used to play CoH a lot, under the global name StarWraith14, bur, unfortunately I've ran into some compatibility issues lately. Like you, I was on the Guardian server. I'll give the new installer a download - maybe it will work now.

Quite true, hence why I mentioned it was probably drawn from a blend between the Shards. Forgery may be more of a 'pure' Dominion system. Of course, I could be wrong. Like others here, I'm curious to find out why there are 4 magic systems from 2 shards. And thank you for the warm welcome. Yeah, it's pretty fantastic, although I'll admit to being a tad bit intimidated by the depth of discussion occurring here. That being said, earlier post has been edited to remove spoiler tags, now that this is a spoiler thread

All I have to say is that this looks awesome. Kind of wondering about whether the ramifications of the catastrophe will be explored, though if so, this will be more awesome then it already looks.

It could be possible that it has to do with the Shards from which the power is derived. Possibly, the aforementioned magic systems are more of Devotion then they are of Dominion, and Forgery is what a more Dominion-based magic system looks like. If I recall correctly, wasn't there a scene towards the end of Elantris in which talk of DakhorDor was phrased in terms of devotion by Dialf? Moreover, the hierarchical system of Shu-Dereth feels like a hybrid between Devotion and Dominion. Individuals lower on the hierarchy are meant to be devoted to those higher, and those higher hold dominion over those lower. Even DakhorDor itself can be seen as derived from a mixture. It requires extreme devotion to undergo the horrors of Dakhor monestary, and grants you dominion over yourself. Contrast that with what we know of Forging, and my point becomes clear. Forging grants Dominion over the object being altered. It can be used to change the nature of anything from stones to human beings. Forging seems more emblematic of Dominion then Devotion - although at present, there is an unfortunate derth of evidence Maybe I'm just shoehorning this in, though.