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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.

The glow of flame is caused by fluorescing gas. That takes a fair amount of energy. I wonder is some of the matter was converted into energy to superheat the gas so that is would fluoresce like flame; but I'm not really sure. I'm guessing that all the molecules/atoms of the object were replaced with the molecules/atoms of the substance/reaction desired. If some were sacrificed for energy... but I'm just grasping now.

Huh? What do you mean he isn't Surgebinding? Didn't he specifically say that he WAS Surgebinding (in the prologue)? My brother-in-law has my copy so I can't check, but I remember the prologue being the first time the word was used, and it was used in reference to Szeth.

I read a mixture of Sci-Fi and Fantasy for years, but just kept avoiding WoT. Funny enough, it was the covers. I ussually liked slightly darker books, and leaned for more Dark-Ages feel. Just looking at the covers of WoT gave it a Reinasance-ish feel that I just didn't vibe with. But I cept seeing them EVERYWHERE and thought that they must be good. So a started the series and read up to book eight (The Path of Daggers), and couldn't take it. It was partially because that is my least favorite book of the series, and partially I had just read too much WoT and needed to cleans the pallet. It was also because it's the begginning of the slow part of WoT (The calm as the world waits for TG), and there was no Mat to liven things up. I finally forced myself to finish it and read on. I enjoyed Winters Heart because it had Mat, and not for any other reason. The Crossroads of Twilight is one of my favorite books because of Mat and Tuon, but I had to force myself to read the rest of it so that I could get to more Mat (there were some good parts, but not as good as Mat). I finnished Knife of Dreams and went online to find out when the next one is comming out and... . . . . He's Freaking DEAD? and some PUNK named "Brandon" thinks he can finish it? Arogant prick. I didn't read anything of his just cause I was ticked. Then I reread some WoT for enjoyment and began to really worry about the last book... So I read Warbreaker; it hadn't been published yet, but the last draft was up, so I read the PDF... I bought his four other books the next day... then signed up for Audible because I was to busy to read and bought them AGAIN (for FAR MORE $$$) as Audiobooks. In otherwords, I'm a HUGE Brandon Sanderson fan.

I have a feeling that it wont come out until ~Summer 2013...