Bunyod

A fanfic would contain characters, magic, plot elements, and/or setting from the work of another, most likely published author. You would write in their world, so to speak. An example would be if I started writing about Vin's adventures between Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages. An original work of fiction would contain all the things I mention above (plot, setting etc.) except they would all be an original work by you, and not contain any elements borrowed from other authors.

This is original fiction. Sorry, I was having the difficulties with world creation. Therefore, I stopped writing. I have some questions to ask. Which would be best action by me?

1) First, draw the whole world map, assign races to map locations, depict main factions in writing, and have a quite good idea of how this whole fiction would start, develop and finish and then write it.

Or,

Having an idea how the whole thing would start and finish is enough?

2) Found out that creating the magic system is a whole lot of huge problem. Therefore, decided to minimize it by limiting destructive magic to magical items (artefacts, like shardblades) created long time ago. And allowing only the magic which heals living beings. Will it diminish the storyline?

The whole thing is a process. But hopefully, it will be done.

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- "Mother, he is opening his eyes".

- "Thanks Heavens, my son is alive", said Marsha coming to the bedside where a youth was lying. He was of average height and sturdy. Strong muscles of his body indicated that he may have been a soldier.

- "Mother, you have to admit yourself, this is not your son. This is not my brother Mat, who was lost in open sea last year. Mother, please..." Adele couldn't continue, as tears poured from her eyes. She was worrying for her mother. Her mother once was a cheerful and delightful woman. This past year made her age very quickly making her look twenty years beyond her age. She was becoming more mournful day by day.

- "Adele, storms in the sea took my Mat before he could fulfill his duty, I know that, honey", said Marsha looking thoughtful. -"However, they gave me this boy. I think, this is not coincidence. Maybe my Mat's soul lives in him. Look at him Adele. Don't his eyes look like Mat's?" Adele made herself look at a stranger whom villagers found three days ago almost lifeless near the shore. The youth lied helpless on the bed. Then, understanding of this situation struck her. Caring for this youth will help healing her mother's wounds.

-“Water, please” youth whispered while sitting up on his bed. Marsha gave him a cup and started brushing his hair with her gentle hands. – “What is your name, son? Do you need any help?”

-“My name is Barlas Darthoridian, as for help, I’d appreciate if you can let me stay with you”, started the youth, and he told Marsha and Adele his story. His mother was an elf and he never knew his father, but his features strongly suggested that his father was human so he decided to come to Griffin Empire and learn about humans.

Learning that this youth was half elf, Adele was a little bit shocked and several questions started circulating her head, but as soon as she opened he mouth, Marsha sternly looked at her and said with a smile –“Honey, let Barlas rest. You can ask your questions later. He is still tired. Barlas, my name is Marsha and this is my daughter Adele, we’ll be honored to have you as a dear guest.”

*******please feel free to correct me, and give me sugggestions if you think i need to change something************

Thanks Zas and Rioter,

Just to clarify, is this original fiction, or a fan fic?

what's the difference?

which made me fight it with spear

I would like to announce that 80% > 39%.

very nice!

Didn't see you.

Hey there Bunyod

on the main navigation (the one with Home and Forum) there is a Gallery link, if you go there you can upload images to the site in any of those albums, they will then appear in the Gallery page on your profile.

Joe

Thank you very much.

I would like to announce that I know who's got the best Reputation to Posts ratio here. 39% of her posts got upvoted!

Ok, I just gave you a hint. It's a lovely lady.

Best medicine to feel good

Vin from Mistborn

If you want to see how Roshar looks like...

@Telcontar

You make a valid point on actions, but I have a question for you. Doesn't this mean someone coud fake their way into becoming a Surgebinder? They wouldn't have to believe in their actions, only follow an attribute and you suddenly have an evil character with good guy powers. It seems the intent of Honor in the magic system wouldn't allow just your outward actions to give you power.

This is priceless!

I don't see why Hoid needs to be a sliver of any Shard let alone 16, Vin was a sliver and there was barely any change to her (She was able to fully use the mists, that's it)

It's possible, but so are plenty of other options, I just don't think there's enough information to say that it is even probable

1) So, what you mean is before Brandon Sanderson shows us Hoid's nature in one of his books, all our opinions on Hoid are worthless. Is that it? Correct me if I'm wrong.

It is just my personal opinion, my personal explanation of Hoid's powers and mystique that Hoid is a sliver of 16 shards. If you have another one please share.

2) Again, if you don't like my theory, please share your own.

I just have a hard time understanding the posts where a person states: "Nah I don't think it's not even probable" Here, we all share our understanding of Brandon's books. This way theories evolve. People start looking a bit differently to the implied facts and events in the books. What's wrong with that?

You both got tired of writing?

Can anyone explain me what is this game all about? Is it a story written by many people or what?

Yeah, unfortunately it's built into the forum software that we can't do that. Sorry.

Is it possible for me to see who downvoted me twice recently?

Its not good for them buggers to hit hard the newbie here.

Sorry but that's also not possible.

Here is a hypothetical situation for you admins.

Let's say member A for some reason doesn't like member B. A creates other profiles C, D and E.

Then, with these 3 profiles he downvotes B's points.

I hope, you'll be able to fix this situation.

Dear Admins,

In a user profile page there is a section called "Gallery"

It would be nice if we could upload our images there, instead of uploading them in other sites and then using URLs.

Of course I'd understand if its impossible due to too small hard drive space in your server.

Unfortunately, I never indicated my opinion as towards Hoid's status as a diamond. It was an interesting comparison. But you do raise the question: If Adonalsium was so great, what caused it to shatter in the first place? An equally great power?

Rankings:

The Highest Power (who is capable to shatter Adonalsium). To me its - GOD ALMIGHTY

Adonalsium and other diamonds. To me this level represents ARCHANGELS

Shard holders / Hoid level. ANGELS

Heralds level. SAINTS

Surgebinders, Soulcasters, Allomancers level. GENIUSES like Einstein

Ordinar human beings. ordinar JOE

P.S. Being religious and looking at Brandon's books from this perspective, now I have no problem when WOK delirious shardholder named "Almighty" dies.

Odium, I have to say thank you to you! Its your thought process made me look at it this way. Earlier, I was sort of having problem with WOK "almighty" being dead

It most likely, if this theory is correct (of which I am, unfortunately, in doubt) that it then went straight into the hands of Taravangian. After all, its more likely for a King to have enough money to sate the merchant, and desperate enough to instigate such a high value simply for speed of delivery/obtainment.

Consider this. Taravangrial has spies in Shin with whom he has an instant contact. Spy informs King that a citizen of Shin was turned into Truthless who possesses surgebinding abilities. Immediately king's people contact the first merchant ship sailing to Shin with specific information: "Bring us that truthless" Merchant does as he was told and gets rewarded. Szeth will be turned over to Parshendi through intermediaries. And Gavilar dies.

About Hoid:

5. Hoid is something else entirely.

Sliver of 16 shards is indeed something else entirely.

I was thinking of Shards like diamonds all through your post. In order to break diamond... hit it with another diamond.

Let me know if I understood you correctly.

If Adonalisium = diamond

We need another diamond to shatter it to 16 pieces.

Therefore, you are saying that one may assume that Hoid = diamond.

But this math is a bit wrong as Hoid in his letter gives us a clue that he is on a level of shard holders as he knows them personally, i.e. his level is not the whole diamond level but a shattered piece of diamond level.

I have no idea if I'm making sense here.

Welcome

you'll find this place marvelous.

Happy belated birthday Shiv.

Hi everybody. English is not my native language. Actually it is the third language I've learned. Therefore, please don't judge me harshly. I decided to use this thread as a means of writing some story. If you have time please correct my mistakes or add stuff where you seem necessary and where I put '...' in your answers. Then, I'll edit my entries to fix the problems. Of course, this thing may be short lived if I find out that I do not have any talent at all Anyways, thanks for your time.

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- "Mother, he is opening his eyes".

- "Thanks Heavens, my son is alive", said Marsha coming to the bedside where a youth was lying. He was of average height and sturdy. Strong muscles of his body indicated that he may have been a soldier.

- "Mother, you have to admit yourself, this is not your son. This is not my brother Mat, who was lost in open sea last year. Mother, please..." Adele couldn't continue, as tears poured from her eyes. She was worrying for her mother. Her mother once was a cheerful and delightful woman. This past year made her age very quickly making her look twenty years beyond her age. She was becoming more mournful day by day.

- "Adele, storms in the sea took my Mat. I know that, honey", said Marsha looking thoughtful. -"However, they gave me this boy. I think, this is not coincidence. Maybe my Mat's soul lives in him. Look at him Adele. Don't his eyes look like Mat's?" Adele made herself look at stranger whom villagers found three days ago almost lifeless near the shore. The youth lied helpless on the bed. Then, understanding of this situation struck her. Caring for this youth will help healing her mother's wounds.

Windows all the way!

Hmm, but then, they can be both. Magic could be the very thing that can make the Parshendi's armor Shards.

In your case we may end up having with thousands of shardblades. Not good. I like my artifacts being very rare.

TLR used feruchemy to cheat the system. Being a sliver was not the source of his power.

Yes, that's true.

But just combine the powers of 16 and you may not need to cheat to multiply your powers by 1000 times. Who knows?

So far Moiraine is winning.

The problem with this theory would be:

Mixing up pure awesomeness of the process of creating rare magical items with the process of mere biological mutation.

Don't know about you, but I like the first process !

Brandon Sanderson is a Twinborn, with DOUBLE SODIUM!

If

Mistborn = Twinborn

Then

Mistings = Twinings Tea

Tea does not taste good with salt

Your theory is fault.

I think tin would be more interesting for that purpose, enhanced sense of touch and all.....true pewter might help you last longer, but tin would make it better while it lasts.

NICE !!!

But tin would increase all the senses not only sense of touch... Maybe you wouldn't want to use tin... I've noticed that there are ladies who do not like the smell of sweat. And the lasting experience will definitely make you sweat.