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18 hours ago, RShara said:

Kelsier in the ice dancing competition.... *dies*

Someone make fanart of this right now.

On 1/21/2018 at 1:34 PM, Leyrann said:

But hey, knowing Brandon there's going to be 200 unexpected but heavily foreshadowed plot twists and in the end Azure takes up Cultivation, Rysn takes up Odium/Passion and Kelsier takes up Honor.

If Kelsier shows up in SA I'm going to throw a party.

In seriousness though, I imagine at least one of our protagonists (hoping Kaladin) will become a worldhopper/more cosmere aware. Likely thanks to Hoid. I've always felt that SA was sort of the "main" series, but I guess that can't be accurate considering the amount of books that still have to be written (20/38 by my estimation). 

I'm not sure why there would be a 15 year gap in the series. Possibly the first half will end badly, and recovering/having new heroes will take that long? Maybe everything will be solved and then problems from another world will show up? I dunno. Odium seems to be the main cosmere villain, so I can't see him actually being defeated. Maybe he gets banned from the system, though from my understanding travel in and out of the Rosharan system is very difficult.

On 1/18/2018 at 5:25 PM, 1shylu said:

Random Questions OB WB

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When Lift converts food into investiture by metabolism, is the flatulence investiture as well?  *laugh* can Kaladin/Vasher use that Invesititure?

What happens when you throw unsheathed Nightblood into a perpendicularity?  Can Lift drink from it?(and use nightblood?)

Is a planet core - beads in shadesmar?  Can i dive through the planet or is it one giant rock soul bead?

Can breath be used on a bead to send an object or even a person around in the PR?

 

I don't think that last one would work, don't they say that physically moving them is ineffective? I assume they're tied to their location in the physical realm or something.

Replying to an old point; you technically could allomantically affect a shardblade, because they're god metals. However, they're very heavily invested, so duralumin would likely be required.

17 hours ago, Meandering Monotreme said:

Granted, but every other foreign language in a star wars film sounds to you that they are shouting "Houdini" all the time.

I wish that I could look through any other person's eyes at will.

"Houtini" means look over here. I'm not sure why I know this.

On 12/14/2017 at 0:00 PM, Stark said:

Oathbringer question:

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Seeing as sword-nimi obliterates things in all three realms, are the fused struck by him killed permanently, or can they be reborn again?  If they are permanently killed, are they able to 'smoke out' of their host bodies before impact to escape?  If they are able to smoke out, would sword nimi be able to cut  the vaporous/intangible spren form of them and kill them anyway?

 

If he could do that, on his home planet, if you swung him between two people transferring Breath between them, would he be able to cut the Breath mid transfer?

 

This was sort of addressed, but Nightblood doesn't kill spren the same way he kills people. He just destroys people in all three realms. But spren are sentient investiture, so he drains them in the same way it drains people. Thusly, you can permanently destroy a fused with Nightblood, but you may have to stick it in them for a while. This is also part of the reason Nightblood is so heavily invested, as it keeps most of the investiture it drains. He also is slowly reducing the total investiture in the cosmere. You might know that. 

Yeah, the OP or whoever can edit the title should probably add that.

Anyway, my favorite scene was-

Minor OB Spoilers

2 hours ago, Lord Mistborn Skybreaker said:

Granted, but he never stops singing “your welcome” in your ear.

I want an upvote.

Granted, but I'll never upvote anything you write again.

I wish for the willpower to do anything! 

Uh, I thought there was a max HP of 10, but Dalinar appears to be at 11. Whatever, he's awesome enough.

Hurt Megan, heal Elend

Nightwielder - 6

Conflux - 10

Firefight- 6

Megan - 8

David - 10

Mizzy - 10

Elend - 11

God King - 10

Gavilar - 10

Dalinar - 11

Elhokar - 10

Sebarial - 9

Raoden - 7

Eventeo - 2

9 minutes ago, Herowannabe said:

Uh... it’s been written. That’s the link I put in my last post. 

Oh. I knew that. Thanks

4 minutes ago, Herowannabe said:

Be prepared for The Lord Ruler has been discussed. See page 1 of this thread. I think someone did eventually write it  somewhere in the past 6 pages...

I shall look for it. I was thinking of the idea for an Inquisitor choir with TLR singing in a bored tone on his throne.

Although, You're Welcome could work, with him talking about saving everyone from Ruin. I may write that.

I really want to write a Lord Ruler villain song, but I can't figure out what tune to use. Any ideas that would work with a choir and a lead? Be Prepared would work for something, but not this.

Let's see.... Hoid is great. 

Waxillium Ladrium is too, and Wax and Wayne are a great pair.

The simpler ones- Vin has been mentioned- are good.

Stormlight Archive has a lot of great traditional fantasy names, Elokhar and Kaladin for example.

Sixth of the Dusk is weird and unique.

Excellent quiz! VEry enjoyable, and the questions were worded very well.

44% Willshaper

39% Skybreaker

29% Elsecaller, Lightweaver, Dustbringer

*Low numbers for everything else*

Yay, the coolest orders are my top ones!

Willshapers have transportation, which apparently lets you go into Shadesmar physically easily. So, presumably not requiring perpendicularites and good at Worldhopping/general stuff. They also have the Surge of Strong Axial Interconnection, which is confusing and vague.

This is sooooo cheating, but someone wrote a piano piece specifically for the Shallan/Kaladin chasm scene in WoR. And it's amazing, especially with the art that's on it. Here, listen: 

Let's see.... well, I read Wheel of Time before even hearing about him. Then someone suggested Mistborn, realizing that it was the same author who had finished WoT. I had liked the last few books better than the rest of the series due to the pacing, so I decided to take a look. To be perfectly honest, I ended up skipping a large portion of the first Mistborn, only reading it after completing The Well of Ascension. I loved books 2 and 3, so I looked for more Sanderson books. I found Way of Kings and Words of Radiance, and read those. At this point I hadn't realized the cosmere existed. I then read Elantris, and in my reading online after finishing it heard of the Cosmere. I immediately read Warbreaker and every page on the Coppermind. Then I noticed I actually owned The Cosmere Compendium, and had set it aside because I headn't read the books by the author. I read that, then eagerly awaited Oathbringer. I finished it withing a week of it coming out, and here we are now.

4 hours ago, Totally_Not_A_Worldhopper said:

In my head, the announcer was Hoid. I can just imagine him insulting people as they fight and generally being hilarious.

Good idea. We need a Cosmere arena fight, with Hoid as the announcer. It can be part of the Cosmere Musical (see other forum thread).

On 12/1/2017 at 2:57 PM, Herowannabe said:

“Fixer upper” was thought up by @Oudeis, if anyone does it it ought to be him, or at least with with his blessing. 

 

BUT, here’s a little diddy I’ve been working on for a while. When I first stumbled across this thread my initial thought was “someone really needs to do a parody to the song ‘Gaston’ from Beauty and the Beast.’”

Well, now I present to you:

”Lightsong”

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The scene: Llarimar enters the bed chambers to find Lightsong still in bed, pretending to be sick 

Llarimar: 
Colors it grieves me to see you, Lightsong
Sitting in bed like a lump
Ev’ry priest here’d love to be you, Lightsong
So quit acting like such a chump
There’s no one in court as admired as you
You’re everyone’s favorite god
Ev'ryone's awed and inspired by you
Ev’n if you are kind of odd…

No one lays like Lightsong
Doubts his faith like Lightsong
No one else hears petitions all day like Lightsong

But please trust when I say you’re a deity
Perfect, a pure paragon!
So could you please try to demonstrate piety
And perhaps emulate our God King, Susebron?

Llarimar and Priests:
No one’s sunk as Lightsong
In a funk like Lightsong
Llarimar:
No one tries quite as hard to get drunk as Lightsong
Lightsong:
I pretend that my wine is intoxicating!
Priests:
My what a god, that Lightsong!

Give five "hurrahs!"
Give twelve "hip-hips!"
Llarimar:
Lightsong is the best
Always quick with a quip!

Priests:
No one jests like Lightsong
No one rests like Lightsong
Llarimar:
No one else resists Blushweaver’s breasts like Lightsong!

Blushweaver:
For there’s no god I’d rather be dating
Lightsong:
As you see I’ve got charisma to spare 
Blushweaver: 
But at times he can be so frustrating 
Lightsong:
That’s right!
When it comes to politics I just really don’t care!

Priests:
No one’s cool as Lightsong
Ridicules like Lightsong
Lifeblesser:
No one makes a god feel like a fool like Lightsong
Lightsong:
I’m especially good at humiliating!
*tosses a reversal sphere over his shoulder*
Priests:
Five hundred points for Lightsong!

Lightsong:
When I was alive I did so many things
Like juggling and sailing and stuff
But since I died I can’t remember a thing
And I simply have had quite enough...!

Priests:
No one’s swell as Lightsong
Nonpareil as Lightsong
Llarimar:
No one gets a guy thrown into jail like Lightsong!
Lightsong:
I see war scenes in all of my tribute paintings!
Priests:
My what a god...
Lightsong…!

 

"I'm especially good at humiliating!"

"Five hundred points for Lightsong!"

This is absolutely amazing.

On 3/10/2017 at 11:12 PM, Captains Domon said:

I just want to see Bluefingers sing "Be Our Guest" for no reason at all.

 

Yes.

4 hours ago, Personification said:

@LewsTherinTalamon, that was great. Two things: I believe Sarene is pronounced sar-en-ne and we do have confirmation of Hoid on Nalthis, he was a storyteller in the court of the gods. 

To be perfectly honest, I meant whatever the world in the forests of hell is. I'll edit it, hold on... It's Threnody, apparently, and it's the one world we don't have confirmation of him on. But we think he visited it anyway, and if he didn't, I had an alternate version. As for Sarene... I think it rhymes with "serene", but if it doesn't it actually makes it better because the next line can be something besides what I had. Not sure what yet though.

Tom Hiddleston for Ruin would be a bit odd, I think. I don't think he could make red hair work....

Someone suggested Willa Holland for Vin, which is a bizarrely perfect match.

But I was mostly thinking about Hoid, who is obviously the most prevalent character. Tom Hiddleston was suggested, and that might work... but I was thinking either David Tennant or John Simms, both of whom worked on Doctor Who. They can both do weird and crazy, but I'm favoring Tennant just because I have a hard time imagining Simms giving helpful speeches to anyone. 

Ooh, there's also a bunch of stuff in the Wax and Wayne books;

“That hat looks ridiculous.”
“Fortunately, I can change hats,” Wayne said, “while you, sir, are stuck with that face.” 

“Wayne's a little attached to that hat," Waxillium said. "He thinks it's lucky."
Wayne: "It is lucky. I ain't never died while wearing that hat." 
Marasi frowned. "I ... I'm not sure I know how to respond."
Wax: "That's a common reaction to Wayne.” 

(I promise, not all of these are about hats)

(When I said a bunch, I meant two. I'll think of more later)

I'm going to have to list multiple characters like everyone else, but oh well. It's Brandon's fault for being too good. 

See, there's your favorite character and there's the best written characters and the best characters. My favorite character throughout the series has been Kaladin, for a multitude of reasons. Not the least of which being he's really storming cool when he wants to be (I give you that entrance at the end of WoR). However, Kaladin sort of took a back seat to Dalinar in this book, which is fine. Dalinar sure wins best written, which I guess he should considering it's "Dalinar's book". The way it's slowly revealed how tragic his past is and why he's the way he was is just fantastic, and the Rift is amazingly horrifying. And of course, the scene everyone's already mentioned- "I will not give up my pain" or whatever the exact quote was- was perfect. I'm running out of synonyms for "good".

We also have Shallan, who's slow descent into madness was highly reminiscent of Book 12 Rand. Possibly intentional. She was certainly excellently written, but I can't say her chapters were particularly more interesting because of it. 

Hoid actually gets Invested in the storyline (I shall continue to use this joke) for once, delivering one of the best speeches I've seen in a book. And his Yolish-lightweaving-storytelling scene was to his previous ones as the Apocalypse Quicksilver scene is to his previous ones.

The book also explored various Bridge 4 perspectives in a way that hadn't been done in previous books. I feel like this was well done, but we could've heard from them a bit more outside of their own chapters. Oh well. 

This book does a fantastic job of redeeming Elokhar into a likable character, and actually one of my favorites right up until everyone's least favorite character kills him. I see why he had to die for story purposes, but that timing was horrible. 

Syl remains the best spren, for previously stated reasons.

Szeth and Nightblood have some of the best non-MC (which I shall continue to insist stands for "main character") perspective chapters in these books, which is good because the interludes can be exhaustively dull until their protagonists join the main party. We get to see a subtle-ish redemption arc from Szeth, and Nightblood is Nightblood.

Just now, SLNC said:

Yes.

That would've simplified things for sure.... Fortunately, the books' focus on this seems mostly minimal anyway. Although I have to wonder why there was so much Shalladin stuff if nothing would come of it. Sure it makes sense in a real life scenario, but it sort of feels out of place in OB.