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Depends. Mashed out in small pieces? not much. whole? a totally different story...

Well, some people outside fantasy circles believe that we all are into occultism and black magic. Some people still think D&D players are satanists. So, spamming that kind of advertising into a site of fantasy nerds make kinda sense, if you ignore everything about us.

Oh, rust! ... ... ... ALL HAIL THE LORD RULER! If you can't beat him, join him

when she reincarnates, she keeps most of her memories. it's only the more recent memories that are confused. so she remembered perfectly being firefight. she didn't remember much of david. at least that's the way i understood it.

yeah, i don't see adolin becoming a bad guy. granted, i didn't see it with either, but that was a completely different case. also, adolin has too many good people around him. unless shallan suddenly decides to romance kaladin, thus depriving adolin of his newfound girlfriend and fire-forged friend. and no, i really don't see that happening. they may have strained relations, that for sure.

on roshar, probably yes. one of the chapter heading said something about a broken soul having cracks where investiture seeps. on other planets, probably not. protagonists have a broken soul simply because they can have better character development

I never felt it was a children book. It felt more like a mixture of terry pratchett and harry potter to me.

except he was expecting to write it already one year ago. he's too busy writing other books to write alcatraz 5. pity.

sanderson said in some signing that rithmatist was originally planned as a cosmere novel, before he changed his mind about having something similar to earth there. that means he already had a good idea of which shard was there. now that shard ceased to be in rithmatist as it got kicked out of the cosmere, but it will probably be on some other planet we haven't seen yet. Any idea which shard it is and if it could be in one of the new stories?

yes, you probably can do it. not a nice thing, thoug. EDIT: also, I'm not sure how much storing memory would affect the personality. I mean, only memories are stored, not the kind of guy you are. while it is true that what kind of guy you are is largely influenced by your experiences (and thus memories), it's not so absolute. results vary from being mostly yourself, and any difference with your pre-reincarnation self are undistinguishable from normal character development we undergo with life, to being a very different person who just happens to have the same memories. Also, you need full feruchemists for that, and there aren't any of those left anyway.

store feruchemical chromium in your everyday life, then tap it to win silly internet videogames. Or, even worse, to win videogames in single player.

Well, I'm not a great expert in that specific field, but from what I know there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of genes that, among other things, will change your height, and they also interferes with each other and environmental considerations. Say, several genes will each make you a couple cm taller, and you can have all of those, or none, or something in between; another gene maybe will make you taller if you live in a cold climate but shorter in a hot climate, another will make you taller if you have another specific and apparently unrelated gene, another will make you grow more during adolescence if you eat certain kind of food... I don't think anyone has the complete map of that. And then much of it will depend on how much you eat as a kid. I figure allomancy and other magics that are somewhat genetical but not predictable would work in a similar way. maybe there are 20 genes associated with allomancy and you need at least 15 to get a power. maybe you need some specific combination.

clearly allomancy and feruchemy are much more complex than dominant/recessive genes. they are likely the result of several genes, just like height is (you don't just have a gene for tall or short). Also, we're dealing with spiritual dna here, which may have different rules of passing out. Well, it HAS different rules of passing out, because allomancy got diluted from passing to the original mistborns to the later ones, while genes don't work that way.

the lopen is an order all by himself, with the power to summon cousins to do his bidding EDIT: we may tentatively call his surges cousingbinding and favorcalling here an example of how his power works: -kaladin can fly with the power of stormlight. lopen cannot, but he has a cousin who has a cousin who owns an airplane factory, and owes him a few favors, so he can loan a plane and fly. -Kaladin can fight like a little god with the power of stormlight. lopen cannot, but after all they've been through kaladin is practically his cousing, so lopen can get kaladin to fight for him.

It has been addressed. When vin opened the secret chamber leading to the well of ascension, there were huge metal railings encased in stone. she woul have sensed them very easily without the stone in between. So, having solid material between you and the stuff you want to pull makes things more difficult. a thin wooden wall is negligible, a few meters of stone are enough to block anything short of a duraluminium pull. possibly different materials affect in different ways. no idea for liquids. kelsier did something similar with iron bars, pulling on one end and pushing on the other to make them rotate. It probably takees lots of practice. so a lurcher should be able to do so. no idea if he sees one massive line or several. maybe depends on his skill to actually push in different places. I don't think so. there probably aren't enough pewter burners around. Also, the strength granted by pewter is not nearly enough to substitute an industrial line. other times the machine simply does some complex task that humans could not do efficiently. think about the macine for making textiles; a pewter burner would never be able to replicate that, and would only get some additional dexterity to help. Again, I think you're overstimating the amount of allomancers available. Still, "pigeon holing" would be a reality. No one forces a zinc feruchemist to become an academic, but he would have an advantage in pursuing that career. The police and army would certainly have uses for physical skills. It's not much different from the real world: tall people are more likely to become stars at basket. And we're not really sure how much of the intelligence required to work in the university comes from hard work and how much simply comes from having the right genes. Anyway, in the real world we can work to improve ourselves, while there is no way to gain allomantic powers (ok, hemalurgy or lerasium, but that's not the point), and that would be the main difference. It would be expensive to hire a soother or rioter for that, but it could be worth its price. probably big companies with big working spaces would find it cost-effective. the police may also employ some soothers to sedate riots. That is one of those unpredictabilities that are in culture. I think it could go either way., and it probably goes either way in different societies. Some nations would require coinshots to register as human weapons, other would not. Some would consider criminal to use soothing on others against their will, others would consider it merely unpolite, to others it would be acceptable Just as in the real world some nations require you to register and take extensive esamination and paperwork to buy a gun, and other nations let you buy a gun in any shop without questions asked. Or in some places it is the most natural thing in the world to have premarital sex, in others it is frowned upon, and in yet others it is a criminal offence. I'd say not many. a technology requiring a very special person to activate is not suited for mass production or large scale application. I'm sure there would be some niche uses, but I can' really figure them out right now.

he theory has merits, but I doon't like how drastic it is. I just don't like the idea of odium being able to mind control all the kr. Also, wouldn't they leave some information about that? IIf nothing else, just as warning for those who would try to bind a spren after them? I suggest however an alternative interpretation: odium was able to subtly influence the kr, and used that influence to persuade them to quit. As for why so many of them left together, maybe they hadd some heated discussion about it and afterwards several left.

Is it the one played 2v2 where when you take an opponent's piece you give it to your teammate who can place it on his chessboard on his move? That one has a different name in every country. Alas, you remind me that I haven't enjoied one in years. Still, i fail to see how it counts as a smedry-like talent.

the way to test this theory is to have someone burning atium and looking at the electrum burner to see if his shadows split. Without atium, there's no way to confirm or deny the theory.

Let's see - my laptop crashes if it is touched on the left side (it took too many hits and must have sme weak contacts) - i brought my bike to the mechanic three times in the last year, the last one because I somehow broke the handle (I cracked the metal in 2, don't ask me how that happened) - i also broke several mouses - during my undergraduate thesis in chemistry, i broke more glassware than basically anyone else. and several other minor stuff So, I have the all-powerful breaking talent. I only need to figure out how i can control it and then i can take over the world

Being cold-minded is not necessarily a sign of lacking empaty. It can simply mean that one rarely let emotions interfere with his judgment. I myself have often been accused of "not caring" because when confronted with a problem I deduced I had no way to solve it and had already taken all reasonable measures to cushion its eventual impact, when the expected "proper" behaviour would have been to swear and worry a lot and get into some pointless argument. Specifically, this happens every time my father worries that I may lose my job as a result of the economic crysis, to which I simply reply that it's beyond my power to control, but that I have good qualifications to get a job and enough money saved to carry me through several years of unemployment So, don't confuse "being cool-minded and detached" with "not caring or being dismissive". As for the slave debts, while frauds are certainly happening, I figure the systemm works and you're actually freed if you manage to pay it. kaladin states that with the wages they get, slaves get between 10 and 50 years to pay the debt (rosharan years, which are longer than earth ones). furthermore, even if you manage it, you're a darkeye of 10th nahn, you will be without a job, you won't own anything except your clothes and suddenly you won't have an owner giving you food and shelter, and you won't have the rigth to travel or do much. If you find a job and manage to rent a room, you're in the same condition as you were as a slave. You'll probably be too old to join the army, and if you did, you'd be more likely to be killed than to be promoted. Basically, you're better off as a slave. I figure most slaves wouldn't even try to pay their debt.

I think you're reading too much into it. most traditions were born for a reason, but are maintained simply because that's how things were always done. in the past the highprince, the highest autority, lended his shards. now the higher autority is the king. then some princes would loan the shards to some trusted warrior, while others would wear them in battle. seems just an individual thing to me. Yes, most of your considerations are probably right about how the tradition came into being. but now it's just a tradition.

go around the city spreading a general rioting of fear and suspicion. That should make the people paranoid. Then sell them books denouncing supposed conspiracies; paranoid people are more likely to believe them. Soon the internet will be flooded by plot theorists (what do you have to riot to make people more prone to ranting about plot theories on the internet? intersting question), and so even people outside of the influence of your rioting will start beliving your stuff, just because if so many others believe there must be somthing about it, right? All those people buying your books to know about "conspiracies" will make you disgustingly rich. how is that useless? Because afraid, paranoid people with their heads filled with plot crap will soon rebel to the government, and civilization will fall into caos; money will be worthless then, so all the money you got will be at most good for burning it to keep warm during winter. But at least you'll have done something damnation cool! Pro tip: instead of spreadding lies about international plots, only spread lies about national plots; that way, the disorder should be limited to only one nation, and you may be able to pick the right time to escape in a tropical island with your money, after you sold millions of books but before people start shooting in the streets. Just be sure to get the timing right, you don't want your plane to be shot down in the first clashes because you waited too long. But then, other nations will probably realize what you did, realize the danger you pose, and make you pay for it, so expect some secret service assassin to ruin your tropical vacation pretty soon. the only way to protect against that is to make all nations collapse, which brings us back to the previous problem. That was totally inspired by that discussion about people to avoid in dark alleys, btw (yes, I am already into it, but it's better to reinforce the membership to the club at times)

So, all that long post to say that shallan has a good heart? I didn't think that needed proof. Furthermore, slavery is terrible to us, but virtually every ancient society has practiced it, so to those people it felt normal. Good people in those societies were not against slavery, but cared that slaves were treated decently. And, when the slaves are treated well and given basic rights, the distinction between a slave and a poor worker tends to fade. Slaves may even be better of, since they don't risk unemployement and will always have food and shelter, while the poor worker could lose his job and his home at any time. the vorin system of practicing slavery (people are made slaves only as punishments, they have to be paid a bit, they can save money to buy their freedom) is quite enlightened for ancient standard, and I wouldn't dare to expect any better from any preindustrial society. An intersting comparison is the "indentured servitude" system practiced on illium, in the mass effect universe. that is basically slavery for a fixed amount of time, without violence, and with a limited number of tasks the servant can be ordered and lower standards of treatment set. I see that as morally acceptable. it's not really that different from a job contract: you agree to do a certain job for a certain amount of time, and you get paid with food, shelter and the erasing of some debt or whatever was the cause that forced you to sell yourlself. It also look good on the curriculum. So, I have no problem whatsoever with shallan keeping slaves, as long as she treat them that way.

Yes, calamity has something of a shard. Just a coincidence, I think. Or sanderson being used to think in a certain way. No, it would not be great. If worldhoppers were to appear on earth, there would be some huge cataclysm and a collapse of civilization. enough dead people to make the second world war look like a ffriendly disputation between neighboors. Then, mankind will ultimately survive the big treath and recover better than it was before. Like we did after second world war... So, no, I'd rather not see any worldhopper. If you meet a guy who goes by the name "hoid" and seem able to do tr4icks with light, tell me immediately, I'll pack as much food as i can and go live in the bottom of a cave for a few years.

The question is silly. Of course it happened. My general experience about strange sexual practices is that if you can think about it, then it exist and someone likes it, and if you can't think about it, then probably it exist anyway. Personally I wouldn't even qualify it as necrophylia; while the lifeless technically qualify as dead, they still move and react. I would consider them quite akin to real world love dolls, you know, those female-shaped rubber dolls that are used as sexual toys. Lifeless would be an improvement, as they can even move and react. For better experience, warm them in front of a fire before use. As if they were popular, of course most of the population wouldn't want to use them. After all, most real-world population do not buy love dolls. It would also have probably been legal to start it, at least in hallandren, they seemed pretty open-minded folks. The question is, is the minority of users enough to justify a market? MAybe not. Nowadays it would be, with the internet. Internet allows to reach lots of people, so a niche product that in pre-information society was not marketable becaue there was too low a demand becomes viable cause one can sell it via internet and get enough clients. That's true for bridge 4 t-shirts, it's also true for extravagant sex toys. So probably there was no lifless brother in hallandren, and that use was limited to a few rich people with that particular taste. Also, I am sure someone used seons as a webcam to do sexting. And if you need brain bleach for that, you have a pretty low brain-bleach treeshold. I am perfectly ok discussing it, and yet I know stuff that *I* need brain bleach for. I should probably save it as a weapon if I meet one of the people to avoid in dark alleys that someone was listing.