Voidus

2 minutes ago, I think I am here. said:

That makes sense, unless you could see into the future you wouldn’t be able to know whether you’d actually stolen someone’s destiny.

The idea of destiny and how you can’t Spike it is really interesting to me. If somebody had spiked the destiny out of Sazed and put it in themselves, would they have become the Hero of Ages?

See the weird part is that we know that seeing the future in the cosmere isn't completely reliable, especially the further into the future you go you can only see possibilities, not a single predefined destiny.
So does Chromium steal simply your possible futures? Or a single possible future? Or does it have access to something more reliable than Shardic future sight?

8 hours ago, I think I am here. said:

Might steal destiny.

Ok, he's just messing with us now .

But I find the 'might' so confusing. We know that this isn't some canonical mistake by the in world table makers because otherwise they wouldn't know what a lerasium spike would do anyway, so we have to assume this a perfect table, which means 'might' is true. What does this mean? Does it mean there's a chance of failure when using the spike?

It could just be that the actual effect is less clear. I mean if you did spike someones destiny into yourself how would you be able to tell? Whereas all abilities being spiked into you would be pretty obvious even though Lerasium itself is far rarer.

Another interesting point for me at least is that destiny isn't capitalized here, unlike Identity, Connection, Fortune.

The smaller distinction of any (Atium) vs. all (Lerasium) is also interesting, confirming a few theories that Lerasium can likely steal more than a single power from someone at a time.

Skyrim: Link to the OOC page
Hogwarts Link to OOC page

I was mostly trying to get people to read the RPs for now but yeah, good point

Canberra is definitely not the largest city.....the whole reason it exists is because Melbourne and Sydney needed more conflict resolution skills and less rivalry.

That's the capital of the country though, that makes sense. But sydney is the biggest in NSW, Melbourne in Vic, Adelaide in SA, Perth in WA.

Time to be that guy: Portland isn't the capital of Oregon It's Salem! But Portland is by far the cooler city. 

Well this is what happens when an Australian talks about US geography.

How can the largest city not be the capital? 

I wish I could do either. Darn living in another country!

Upon further questioning it was revealed that Lift had defeated the Voidbringers in book 7 by eating all their dinners, depressed that they had no dinner they all complained to Odium and left Roshar forever.

"Exclusive new story"
>Froths at mouth

I WANT MORE CHAPTERS!!!

Does anyone know when/if there'll be international versions of the ebook? Only available in the US for now

I hope I get some in time to protect myself from the chalklings at my door!

And they have fewer spikes.

Well on the plus side they'd be less susceptible to being controlled by Ruin XD