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Is the best way to follow answers to look at Brandon's user page, refresh it, and click on "context" each time? It's what I'm doing and it seems good enough, but I'm really new to Reddit and don't know if I'm overlooking other methods.

Here's another thing; bullets are made to be fired out of barrels, and can be aimed this way, and are aerodynamic when used this way. Those are advantages over coins, but only when they're used with a gun, or at least a barrel. Maybe an Allomantic powderless gun is possible, but Allomancers Push from their center of gravity, not the end of a barrel like a gun does, so there would be tricks in its implementation I don't know enough physics to figure out.

Rysn should have better odds than Sazed at being healed. Sazed grew up as a eunich and was never an adult, or even a child, in any other state. Rysn made it into adulthood being able to walk. I wonder if "the Cognative aspect of Rysn's body" is Rysn's own mind, or if it's separate. In TES we saw a window that preferred to be stained-glass, even after being viewed for years, by everyone, as broken and poorly replaced. Can Rysn's body hold the same memory and preference, even if Rysn accepts her disability? Or for conscious beings, do these Cognative things just get merged into the person's own mind?

Dalinar doesn't think of it as a fabrial; he tells Navani that the ancients didn't have fabrials. He could be wrong of course. I figure it's an honor to craft something for the Radiants, almost a work of religious art, so they don't get cheap work. A little metalwork isn't much compared to the value of such large gems.

I figured it was a perfectly non-magical gem-holding device, like a wallet for KR gems. Not unlike Jasnah's fake soulcaster actually, except the KRs wouldn't be faking anything.

Did Shai benefit from divine intervention similar to Raoden? Background for asking: The Elantris annotations tell us one bit of extreme luck on Raoden's part was a form divine intervention. Emperor's Soul happens on the same world, and Shai also has some extreme luck. Even for an artist as skilled and dedicated as herself, it's remarkable to succeed under her time constraints, and especially in her last-minute changes. Gaotona refers to her artistic transcendence as "awesome, yet unseen," suggesting the divine. So I wonder if there's any connection.

I was over-complicating it when I used URLs as the example. You can make a post with some of this %27 %27 %27 %27 %27 %27 %27 and then preview and post, or post and edit, anything like that. The first time through they're fine, but the second time through they're converted ' ' ' ' ' ' '

Spoiler warnings are about which forum it's posted in. That stuff will always be spoilers in the forum it's in. But here in Stormlight the Stormlight stuff isn't a spoiler. And in Cosmere none of is it spoilers.

The interview is full of Way of Kings spoilers. I'll see if I can quote out just the Mistborn part here in a sec.... Ok there's too much to quote, but if you search for "The following questions may contain spoilers for the Mistborn novels. You have been warned." and only read under that point, I'm pretty sure it avoids other series info.

I can post the URL once and have it work. What goes wrong is if I edit or preview a post with one of those URLs. It comes out wrong the second time, and has to be manually corrected every edit or preview. It's not a problem for little posts, but it would be a problem for a large FAQ that contained some of these links, to have the maintainer have to fix them on every edit.

I wasn't using WYSIWYG, and still had this bug. From a technical standpoint, I don't understand why it's bothering to convert % codes in posts we make. I thought % codes were only used in URLs, and the converting is done by the web server when it handles the request. Maybe it's some overactive anti-XSS security feature? If it's not just a bug.

I just had this problem trying to link to Navani's Notebook on the Coppermind. Correct: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Navani%27s_notebook Broken: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Navani's_notebook Type out a URL with a %27 in it, the substitution for the Apostrophe. a. For example connect http:// and coppermind.net/wiki/Navani%27s_notebook into a URL. (If I posted it all as one string, it would get auto-converted. So I split it.) Preview it. a. The hyperlink in the preview will work, but b. The text in the edit box has been changed, with %27 converted into the ' character. Preview it again, or post it again. a. The hyperlink doesn't work correctly now. 2b looks like the part where things go wrong.

I just had a nasty thought. There are 6 levels of power depending on how many oaths you've spoken, with Kaladin at 2 and Szeth at 0. It's already enough that many people give Kaladin the advantage, but how much worse is it going to be at 5 vs. 0? Szeth would become irrelevant. He needs a way to power up too. So say they're close to capturing him, or have run him out of Stormlight or something. Then Odium chooses him as a champion, and he gets an explosion of light like Kaladin did when speaking the Second Ideal. Heck, what if Odium is Szeth's spren already? Instead of being guided to protect and lead, he's being guided to hate. But regardless of mechanism, there has to be some way for Szeth to power up, and the assassination attempt is the worst possible time.

I love the word "canonicity". It only gets 250k matches on Google, far less than most typos. But it's the correct spelling! Q: What's the point of these fabrial sketches with Alethi handwriting? A: Navani is a fabrial inventor, and these pages are from her notebook. The Alethi writing translates phonetically to English, giving real information about fabrials, including the ones shown in the illustrations. For example, fabrials are made by trapping spren inside gems. Source: "Navani's Notebook" is the name given to these illustrations in the table of contents. Source: The Coppermind has English-translated images of the pages. This is the easiest way to read them. Source: The original thread where a fan translated the pages includes descriptions of the entire process, and replies from Peter confirming its accuracy. Canonicity: In the book. Even if it does take heroic efforts to translate! Also let me be the first person to say that obviously editors have to rephrase things, and I couldn't care less if you change what I wrote. Thanks for all this work!

I was really surprised when I read it too, enough that I wonder if the report is accurate. Brandon had already said magic systems have been used off-world, but that January report is the first time one is mentioned by name.

I think the names are pretty different. "God King" combines religious and secular authority, and many real-world religions had god kings. "Lord Ruler" is a purely secular title, and even when the Lord Ruler creates a religion, he has it care more about enforcing contracts than anything spiritual.

A fan actually translated the writing system, and both of the fabrial pages! Here it is: http://twg.17thshard.com/index.php?topic=7882.0

The Southern Continent that uses magic differently is on the Mistborn world, right? You might be confusing it with Sel. For my own I'd ask, "What place do Forgers and their training have in MaiPon society? They can't all be professional criminals like Shai ... or can they?"

Here's something equally weird I thought of in response to this theory. Perhaps the pre-Shattering world was a work of fiction; Yolen existed only in the Cognative Realm, and was a product of human storytelling. (Or alien storytelling, if they were weird enough to come up with humans.) The death of the gods and intrusion of Fain life corresponds to a drastic decrease in popularity of the story world. And one of the side-effects of the Shattering was to bring Yolen into the Physical Realm. I haven't read Dragonsteel so it's possible this is easily refuted by information there. Also I don't even like it. But it's pretty hard to come up with anything that fits Hoid's "words on a page" that I like! I almost want it to be a metaphor for being inspired to life changes by a book, like Aethling suggested above. But this is fantasy, and it's a bit of a letdown if something as enigmatic as Hoid's origins turns out to be metaphorical.

Maybe it has to do with this chapter epigraph And at the very end of the Prologue, there's "To Szeth’s people, a dying request was sacred." Shin may be familiar with the prophetic nature of the dying phrases, and Szeth could've learned of the future that way.

You missed what's probably the most important reveal in the entire book as well as some scenes that get talked a lot about in theories. Hurry out and return that book for a copy that isn't missing the end! If you ever do rereads, you'll want to reread the last chapters.

Lately I've been thinking Hoid used the element to get his Feruchemy, and that he uses Nicrosil to shuffle investiture between magic systems. (Out of Stormlight? On a planet with no highstorms? No problem, tap Nicrosil.)

Oh, I completely forgot that part and haven't gotten to it yet in my reread. Parshendi accents could be due to nonhuman physiology, rather than lack of skill. At this point though it does seem completely different from whatever the Heralds are doing.

I just found this when doing some rereading. Parshendi can learn languages super-fast: The first thing I noticed is that Jasnah is a drama queen, having to make her research sound like an Indiana Jones movie. A page or so before she says this too, "The secrets I seek are too obscure to be contained even in the Palanaeum, but I find hints. Tantalizing fragments." We don't see this side of her with Shallan; she's never bragging about how awesome she is there. It must be a family thing. Anyway, on to Parshendi and language! It could be a coincidence, because Parshendi aren't even human. Their brains could just be super-good at languages. But if this is magic, and it's good for learning entire languages in days, mastery of accents should be trivial. Maybe Heralds have the same power.

I keep reading this thread title as "Darth Vader question" when I scan over it in the list. It's happened like 3 times...