Sweetness

^Have you ever been on morphine? You can still feel the pain, but you don't care about it anymore. Now, take that without the accompanying loopyness, and apply to soldiers in battle. That could be very effective.

Maybe the Parshendi threw away his Oathstone so it would be more difficult for Taravangian to find him? Or Szeth's disappearance was deliberate. Kill the Alethi king, framing the Parshendi, then give the Highprinces and Elhokar time to mobilize and basically entrench themselves at the Shattered Plains. All the best fighters go there. That means the way will be clear for anybody who wants to sweep in and take Alethkar from the minor landlords and farmboys left behind.

I think I missed it being stated flat out that Hoid has magic. Of course, very little has been stated in plain terms about Hoid, and obviously he can do something. But I don't recall ever seeing anything about Hoid's magic. (I'm not sure if I'm being facetious or not here, so if I am, just ignore me.)

Sazed holding both means Odium only has to go after one target. And, this has probably been pointed out before, but it could be possible that Odium has more than one shard. I mean, we've identified what, half of them? (Although, frankly, I still think holding multiple shards is dangerous to the host.)

Those aren't really Brandon's books, he just wrote them.

There were atium mistings, so they could burn it. It's (to my understanding) a physical manifestation of Ruin, and that technically still exists in Harmony, so I would assume it would reform. It would just take a while. And I think I remember reading that Sazed moved the Pits, which would indicate that they are still active, but he doesn't want anybody to know about it.

The very first time I looked up the definition for odium, what I got was "a state/feeling of dishonor." I assumed Honor was his counterpoint.

With Straff, it was a display of power, and that's what freaked him. And I don't know if it would affect an army that way. You can only manipulate emotions, not thoughts. So you could make the soldiers angry, but not control who they're angry at. They might end up attacking you instead of each other.

I think it'd serve as a distraction, yes, but not very significantly. Anyone who would conceivably be in a fight with a mistborn would figure out what was going on pretty quickly.

But that would shift the balance, wouldn't it?

No, Saz hasn't got an ounce of Dominion in him.

This made me think of my freshman Art class in high school. Like on a color wheel. Ruin and Preservation are opposed, like say, blue and orange. Whereas Devotion and Dominion are more like green and yellow. This thought has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but it amuses me.

I'm off topic slightly and currently quotehunting to back this up, but I'm almost certain the letter shash is mentioned in Warbreaker too. Knowing Brandon's tendencies at this point, I doubt it's coicidence. Or has someone else already pointed this out?

Oh god. I have spent the last two years with a bag over my head for shame that I couldn't make it through the first WoT book. Now I feel better. Thank you.

Technically, Captain Hammer was the Hero, Doctor Horrible was the Villain. For the record. But Nathan Fillion does pull off the douchebag role very well.

As a Shard, Reason, as in logic.

I'm sorry, I have a deep personal grudge against Natalie Portman for what she did to V for Vendetta. She was absolutely wrong for that role, she cannot pull off the innocent thing nearly as well as people give her credit for. Age aside, it would be exactly the same if she were to play Vin. She just doesn't have the right feel. Although, admittedly, I feel she could pull off Shan well enough. I always pictured Shan as being a little older than Vin and Elend, although I'm not really sure why. I like Alexa Davalos for Vin. Or Lyndsy Fonseca, but she may be a little too pretty.

*feels special*

Pure speculation, but it seems like it would be difficult to hold multiple Shards. Based on what Chaos said, it stands to reason that every time you picked up an additional Shard, you'd (metaphorically) start being pulled from another direction. You'd be ripped apart after a while. Also, a sort of related note. I'm seeing potential for confusion here, but as I understand, "harmony" is not an aspect of a Shard, it's just a name for Sazed. Sazed is the shard, with aspects of Ruin and Preservation. Right?

I was rather under the impression that the soulcasters didn't really do anything. The jewelry, not the people. I remember reading in the book (and I may have to go quote hunting again) that soulcasting was only done in the middle of the night, under controlled circumstances, by a select few. Jasnah didn't need the jewelry, why should anybody else? The jewelry is (in my personal Soulcaster Conspiracy Theory) kind of misinformation. The average citizen believes they need the jewelry to soulcast, so they don't try to do it without the jewelry. See?

I don't think Jasnah is wrong, personally. While we're spitting out random theories, consider this; The Knights Radiant had all sorts of cool magic that has since been lost to humanity. Why couldn't the Parshendi have had something similar? They have Shardbearers. Maybe "Voidbringer" was just a name for a sect, their elite warriors, or magic-users.

The conclusion was that the parshmen were the Voidbringers. I'm looking for the passage now. "Created" was not the correct term, but rather "enslaved." Give me a second. Got it. Page 979-980 So yes, they could well be native to Roshar. But I think this passage shows that the disparity between parshmen and Parshendi is something that the humans did, not Honor. Which I think was the point I was making. I'm not really sure anymore.

Weather Girl, Shiny Toy Guns. Girly techno, it's awesome.

There's nothing wrong with fairies in general. I'm just not particularly fond of them. And I feel like Pat's world would have been just fine without them. He dwelt on them In Wise Man's Fear for too long. Plus they don't follow normal rules, and that bugs me.

Sounds like the Breath system to me.