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Alespren will obviously prove to be the downfall of Odium, Unite the shards, and turn everybody into Power-Rangers!!! Seriously, considering that Fabrials use captured spren to work.... the ability to control spren by "defining" them could be huge.

That's a common mistake. Paolini self published. His parents founded a "publishing compony" to handle some of the legal (taxes, printing rights, etc...) sides of the "buisnes". They did NOT own the company when he finished the book, they founded the company so he could publish it. Which is simular to how Brandon sanderson is the president of Dragonsteel Entertainment.

I haven't seen this theory put out there (though I may have simply missed it), so I thought I would Post it. How are Spren corrupted? What if Odium, or a lackey, simply wrote down "x spren is a servant of Odium"? I'm not sure if this would actually work, but it seems like it might!

Galladon?

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Vasher/Vivenna! That is my OTP. Shallarin works, but I lean more towards Shalladin myself. He would be drawn to her because of her sense of humour (which would remind him of home/his mother). And being drawn drawn to dangerous men is fairly common, and Kaladin basicly has danger written on his face!

At the moment my attention seems to be on the Shonnen Trinity: One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach. I'm both watching the Anime and reading the Manga. I also reasently watched Fairy Tail from beginning to the most current Anime Arc and finished with the Manga. I didn't like the Anime of Claymore (mostly because of how they ended it >| ) but I loved the Manga. One manga I suggest to anybody I think can stomach it is Berserk! The feel of that story has had a big impact on some of the stories I've written.

There is a fair amount of assumption in there. Two hander swords weren't the sole provence of big, muscle-bound thugs. I would suggest you take a look at http://www.thearma.org/about.htm as they have a nice collection of essays about the use of the Longsword. Men who could wield the "Zweihander" (that is a modern term for the truly LONG swords used in Europe) where paid twice the amount of a normal solder because they had to both unusually strong AND unusually good. The reason for the latter is improper form can throw you off balance no mater how strong you are. Also, if you study Martial culture, they believed skill in one weapon transferred easily to another. Filipino Martial Arts believe learning to fight with a stick will teach you to fight with a blade, or even with no weapon at all. Masters of Arms in Europe said that if you could use the longsword, you could use the side sword, axe, or even a pole arm. The biggest thing though is that a Shardblade wont work the same as a normal sword, even if it's the same size. So I'm not convinced that they would tailor the swords so much.

Elantris: Raoden (Hrathen was interesting the first time through because I didn't know what he would do. He is boring now that I know.) Mistborn: Kelsier Warbreaker: Vasher Alkatraz: Grandpa Smedry ;D Way of Kings: Kaladin (Shallan is a close second)

I pronounce Szeth..... Szeth. I'm really good at sliding from one consonant to another without a vowel between, so I don't find it hard to slide from an SS sound to a ZZ sound. Kaladin is Paladin with a K. Sarene is Sah-Ree-Nee; if you pronounce quickly, with a Japanese style even cadence (NO stress), it actually sounds good.

Wasn't there a Writing Excuses episode in which he reveled that he was an evil cyborg from the future, who then killed the weaker, inferior version from the present time?

I voted even though I'm a man. I chose blue because you get to choose your own cause. The blue take up elements of all the Ajahs, but are focused on their own thing. Not sure what my cause/mission would be, but I like that I could choose one. Again, I'm a man so there are certain surgery/soul-migration things that would be necessary.....

First to paragraphs are spot on. The rest is total bonk. You CANNOT skip ANY books. Some are better then others, but ALL of them include something important. Some of the later books are less important for Rereads, but they are ESSENTIAL in your first read. They seem slow in that the number of plot-lines make it impossible to be concluded in one book, so there is less of a sense of accomplishment, but the idea that they can be skipped is ridiculous. Period.

It could also be the sheer amount of power. I'm not certain if rand could repeat what he did with the Eye at the Gap using Callandor. It may be a form a traveling that uses FAR more of the power then he or any other Channeler has access to.

That is what covers usually are.