king of nowhere

Maybe to get into the stone of tears mat and the aiels would have had to carry a bridge... Well, it's not like kaladin didn't whine at least a bit about it. And he didn't even have the "i'll go crazy and kill everyone who ever loved be" as an excuse for it.

i'm surprised no one mentioned electricity cables. they are perfect spikeways for lurchers, and an advanced civilization already has them in place. At least until lurchers decide to organize a meeting, a dozen lurchers try to hang from the same cable and they all crash to the ground. the survivors are killed by the mob of people who lost electricity because of their stunt

Not really. the koloss was implied to be much stronger. Vin had agility, so she could dodge the koloss blows. if they went into arm-wrestling, the koloss would have won easily.

a 10x strenght is inconsistent with the books. I don't know if anyone has good data on it, but my guess would be a 2x. kelsier flaring pewter get caned on the ribs by normal people and barely avoids cracked bones. that's not 10x. if kelsier had 10x strenght, he would just punch one of the shields and thus shatter the arm of the guy holding it, or pick people and throw them around like they were pebbles.

the initially planned ten books would become 20, then 40, then the 40th book will be split in three parts. but it will be so awesome we won't mind and will be happy to have more to read. Every time i look this thread i can't help imagining sanderson reading it and thinking "damnit! now i must change the plot"

- warbreaker adapted as a b-movie exploting softcore pornography: most of the film will consist of Siri kneeling naked in front of susebron. - assassin's creed: the final empire. Lead altair on the rooftops of luthadel to assassinate the corrupt nobles. - alethi vs parshendi: the strategic videogame. - Die Leiden des jungen Adolin: an introspecitve novel on the pain of the young kohlin as all his attempts to engage are short-lived. Eventually, adolin will commit suicide. that's all I can think for now.

I had a similar argument with my brother shortly ago. He said that since they were marked as "young adult" they were not worth reading, while I argued that I read every other book by sanderson and he never, ever let me down, so it's worth a shot. Well, I decided I want to read them. We'll wait until WoR comes out to make a big order and save on shipping expences (across the atlantic is quite a lot). Plus, I have to agree with this. Now that I saw that line, I MUST read it.

Sazed mentions a few times having a second set of copperminds hidden somewhere. his regular copperminds are for everyday use, but every time he tap the memory into his mind to access it, it starts to fade, so his ordinary coppermind are a bit fudgy. He even mentions, in one chapter from well of ascension, that he will have to rememorize some data that is fadding ebcause he accessed it too many times. So he has a second set of copperminds, stored somewhere safe, to never be used except to pass the memories to the next feruchemist, where sazed will tap the clear memories from those copperminds and redcite them to the new keeper. That's what I was intending with "passing it". I used that expression because it was shorter, and I thought there was no need to clarify as we all knew the details involved. EDIT: by the way, with the god metals alloys, there's quite a bit of speculation. We know you can alloy lerasium with every allomantic metal to make mistings of that metal, in addition to a unique allomantic effect. It was also speculated that you could alloy lerasium and base metals in a different way to turn people into mistings of the lerasium allloy. And a different composition to turn people into mistings of this second lerasium alloy. And so on, the alloys could be infinite. Sanderson said somewhere (no idea where to look for it) that the number of god metal alloys is not infinite, but he seemed to imply there were more than the known 32 alloys (16 for learsium, 16 for atium). In that light, it is quite likely that you can make alloys of lerasium with another metal in different composition to have different effects. So, the idea that the lerasium-atium alloy 1 will turn you into a seer, and the lerasium-atium alloy 2 will turn you into a feruchemist, is still on the table. the idea that there is a lerasium-atium alloy 3 that will turn you into a misting of atium-lerasium alloy 1 is less likely, but still possible. There's been a lot of speculation, little certainties. The only sure thing is that those alloys will hardly be important to the story, as god metals are incredibly rare.

I am a longtime fan of the order of the stick webcomic. The author has lingering healt problems, overcommitted to more work than he can manage during a kickstarter where he asked for 50k $ and ended up with over a million, badly injured his drawing hand with shattered glass, and was pretty bad at keeping schedule even before all of that. I am used to all that. So, hearing people disappointed for the delay in word of radiance... well, it's like if a russian heard an egyptian saying that during winter in egypt it get really cold. Plus, I am a researcher, a job where you cannot keep a schedule because you literally don't know what may happen next. I am used to dates being uncertain. The book will be ready when it will be ready. It will be worth it.

he was a nobleman, but it was stated that his family got ruined by infighting. He had to go into hiding to escape revenges, and he hid in the skaa underground thieves. We get one of his pows in the well of ascension where he also mention he ddid all that was within his allomantic power to make sure the members of the group were loial to each other, because "he had seen what infighting could do to a family". Breeze was a very intersting character, and I wish we could have had more of his points of view

seems strange. As far as i understand, you put X in the metalmid, you get X out of it. You don't get less than X depending on your power. I assumed the weakness of the inquisitors was due to hemalurgy not being the real thing. Also, with so many spikes, inquisitors were a hemalurgic constructs, something different from the mere sum of the powers they were invested. they had specific skills - like being steel savants, which wasn't granted by any particular spike. Or like aging slower than normal humans. In all the series, no one ever mentioned some feruchemists being more powerful than others. no one ever mentioned beng capable to tap only that much feruchemical power. No one mentioned being able to store more or less based on some feruchemical power. You can store as much as you can without becoming ill. You can tap as much as you want as long as you have charges. What you put in the charge, you get back. I would not believe there are different levels of powers of feruchemists without more concrete evidence.

I was going to say pretty much what aethling said. it was from siri's pow, and she probably don't know the whole world. jungles tend to grow around the equator, , so probably hallandren is in the tropical area. east of it is sea. the lands beyond the sea are known but to what extent? maybe on those lands there are jungles too, but they are far enough (say, 1000 km) that people in idris or hallandren wouldn't hear of them. west of hallandren are mountains, and rain shadow would ensure that west to the mountains there would be an arid climate. After that, we don't know what is. Maybe a big sea, maybe a big desertic region. Keep in mind that with the kind of technology they have, knowledge is incredibly scarce. For example, in medioeval europe they knew he world was spheric, and they knew roughly the diameter because some greek matematician made the calculations (surprisingly accurate for the means he had), and they knew europe was very small, but they knew little else. they knew on the east there was a place called china, and silk came from here. that was pretty much the extent of their knowledge. marco polo is remembered for traveling to china, and when he got back hom most people wouldn't even believe him. ibn battuta also traveled to china, and no one believed him for centuries, until someone found his writings and saw that they fitted with other hystorical informations ibn battuta could not have had if he had invented everything. West of gibraltar, they knew even less. they kneew there was a gap of thousands of kilometers in their maps until they went to china. it was far too long to cross by ship, and columbus only tried because he got some wrong calculations saying that the distance was smaller. he was lucky to find america at midway, or he would have starved in the sea. America was discovered by the vikings, and greenland too, but then climate changed, greenland became frozen, and people just forgot. history became mith, and mith faded to legend, and it only took a few centuries. What was south of the sahara desert also was known only marginally. somewhere in the XIII or XIV century someone had the same idea of columbus, but the winds pushed him south, and he landed in africa. one centurry later, a eeuropean explorer reported meeting a man with blue eyes spaking portuguese, claiming to be the last descendent of those men. It is likely no other european came to that place in a century. It means that in the full turn of a century, the europeans that visited south of the sahara desert were maybe a few dozens. So, forgive me this wall of text, (i recently read some stuff about early exploration that fascinated me), I'm pointing out that Knowleadgeable people in siri's time are likely to know roughly how the world is shaped, and where are continents and where is sea, but they are unlikely to know anything else. They may have many other jungles a few thousands kilometers away and be absolutely unaware of their existence. As for the tears of edgli, it would be far from the first plant growing in only one place. maybe there is something in the soil, or maybe they rely on some particular insects or birds to spread pollen, or whatever the reason. Or maybe the tears would grow in a greenhouse if they were properly cared for, but the hallandren have spread the voice that they cannot grow outside of their land to avoid competitors in the dye market. Remember, it was siri's pow. the chinese told everyone that silk grew on plants, and most people believed them for centuries. Of course it is also possible shards are involved in all, but I always prefer the natural explanation to the supernatural one.

1) no, cause feruchemy is not of ruin. It has been speculated that an alloy of atium and lerasium would turn people into full feruchemists and alloys of atium, lerasium and a base metal into the ferrings of the relative metals, but as far as i know it is pure speculation 2) not sure on that. I think that it would be useless for feruchemy, since feruchemy is not stronger or weaker in a person, it only depends on how much you tap. But it would work for allomancy. for example, you could lose the ability to steelpush for a while, and then have stronger pushes. 3) it's unlikely we'll ever see mistings or ferrings of god-metal alloys. they are just too unpractical. especially if you consider there are several dozensgod metal alloys, and not aenough of those metals to experiment. 4) I suppose you get multiple memories. Sazed had 2 copperminds, one for use and one to pass to the next keeper. to do that, he had to learn stuff twice. with copper compounding, he'd had to learn stuff only once, and he could fill 2 copperminds and still remember the stuff.

Well, the only thing we can say is that there will be no new main character, or at least that character won't have apow in the first half of the book. I think it is a deliberate effort on Brandon's part to keep the number of characters and plotlines under control. I'm sure he said somewhere that was a weakness in the wheel of time that he's trying to avoid.

I am always awed at the crazy amount of writing Sanderson can do. Really, he relaxes from writing by writing other books. It's like after runniong I rested by running in a different direction. II don't know how he manages it, and especially how he manages to write so much and so good, when one would expect that more production meant less quality. I'm glad to see all hose new books I will be able to read in a few years, but I'm sad for the mistborn movie.I really would have liked to see the scenery and the fights in a movie - that's what movies are for! - but it's probably not going to be produced. The movie industry must totally ingore the concept of "adult fantasy" or "modern fantasy". I guess they refused to produce it when they learned it was to be a fantasy without any elf or dwarf. Oh, steelheart would probably be awesome too (i only read the prologue, how do peoplee mention it like they already read it all when it won't be publkished before september?), but just not the same thing. Also, it probably will eventually go nowhere, just like mistborn or the wheel of time movies.

I think in AoL time they know allomancy enough, and wax and wayne are experienced enough, that if that was possible, they would have done it. The better explanation then would be that the pushing is also slowed down. I theorized that the pushing has a certain speed itself, and you cant push faster than that (otherwise duraluminium push could reach relativistic speed, or at least go to the point where the thrown item melts for friction with the air). so pushing from inside a bubble would do little good. Also, you can't line up, because you can't move much. So it is an advantage, but not a dramatic one.

It still would not work. Because of the acceleration involved. Clearly, if you want to run at the speed of light, you have to start from zero. You have to accelerate all the way from there. Such an acceleration is impossible in more ways than i can describe. For example 1) your shoes would not have enough grip on the floor. Your legs would move very fast, but they would just skid on the floor. In fact, simple attrition between your legs and the floor mayb be enough to set you on fire. 2) assuming 1) do not apply, your legs would accelerate so much that they would rip themselves apart from the rest of your body. In general, since the force is applied by your feet on the floor, it must go from there to the rest of your body to convey acceleration, and such an acceleration would rip you apart. It would be like hitting with the feet a running train, only thousands of times faster. 3) assuming 1) and 2) do not apply, the acceleration would be such, that all of your brain would end up as sub-atomical glue pasted on the back of your skull. the acceleration from a car crash is already enough to damage the brain, nd this is millions of times worse. People talking about reaching speed of light in "normal" ways just have no sense of scale whatsoever. They don't understand how fast is the speed of light. If you wanted to accelerate to it, even assuming relativity would not apply, you would need 1g of acceleration for a FULL year. And as much time just to decelerate and stop. If you try to accelerate faster than that, the human body probably can take 2g for prolonged times, maybe 3 or 4, but no more. It would kill you. Either you do some dimensional warping, or you have inertia dumpeners or other high sci-fi stuff, but you can't just put a roket and go to light speed like they do in star wars.

no, you cannot go ftl with steel, because attrition with the air would burn you to cinder way before you can reach that speed. think on what happens when space veicles reenter the atmosphere.

I'm sure I've seen a complete chronology somewhere, giving the exact amount of time that passsed between, for example, elantris and mistborn. However, I don't know where to find it back.

I also, when reading that there were no mistborn or keepers in AoL, thought Sazed did it to prevent the rising of someone else like the lord ruler who could abuse his power. Someone like miles is already dangerous enough.. However, brandon said that it was caused by the mixing of genes, and if the present day trilogy involves a rogue mistborn, then it means there was no divine intervention to split the powers. As unlikely as it seems, no new mistborn or keepers were born, even if the genetic potential was still present in the population. Yes, not very likely, even if spook was "only" a regular mistborn (his wife also was a coinshot, and if they had a dozen sons...) So I still like the idea that while the genetic splitting played a role, Sazed also saw fit to interfere. BUt did so in a way that still left room open for making a new mistborn eventually, maybe because he didn't think it through enough, or maybe because he didn't want to meddle too much.

I think that rosharan society just likes to use names of the essences fofrom their religion and mythology for everything. Not unlike our own society. I also tend to imagine those forms as reflecting the kind of fighting one does. For example I imagine that windstance involves lots of moving while stonestance will put lot of power behindd every blow, and smokestance will try to avoid direct confrontation when possible.

I'd say you could store a bit into it. however, when it get absorbed into your bloodstream, it will gradually get degraded, so you'll lose it after a while. you can put it on before going on a mission as a sort of ace in the hole, but you can't use it as a permanent storage

A few exchanges in an old thread gave me this idea So, I just thought we could expand on this and make an affectionate parody of the way the wheel of time plot was driven by the main characters acting like total morons. Navani will hear dalinar's plan about becoming highprince of war and will start thinking he's getting arrogant. She will often telling him he is getting a big head, never giving him the chance to explain - not that he will ever try to explain in the first place. Eventually they will breack up, they will then mistrust each other and spend six books nnever talking to each other, not even to exchange informations, despite having risen to control the two main factions in the forces of mankind (Dalinar an alliance of rosharan nations, except for those that were conquered by the descendants of the crew of the wandersail, and navani will have become the boss of an order of scholars/soulcasters including jasnah and shallan, and will spend far more time meddling for power among her organization than doing something actually productive)

I haven't read all the answers because it's lots of text, so sorry in advance if I cover something already mentioned. First, I think such a process would not work for gold or anything else. I think if you managed to create gold (say, by forging that someone hid gold among the lead to evade taxes), and then you tried to do anything with that gold, that gold would revert back to lead. However, in the case of fuel, you are burning it immediately, so it may be possible to get energy out of it before it disappears. Doubts about the possibility that a soulstamp can create huge amounts of fuel from nowhere are more likely. I was considering the fuel as a property of the tank (as in, the tank is full or empty). It is likely that this is not possible. stamps turn something into something else they could have been, and there's no way to turn air into rocket fuel. If "turning an ampty tank into a full tank" is not an accepted transofrmation, then there's nothing to do. But the fact that the strenght oof forgery decays with distance to maipon puts the last nail in the coffin for my idea. Pity, it would have been fun. It is certainly not the first time one of brandon's magical systems get broken to get horribly overpowered effects (*cough cough* lord ruler, god emperor *cough*), and I'm pretty sure there must be some powerful combo to exploit forgery that only awaits to be discovered.

I've been thinking of that. The main cost of space travel is that fuel is very expensive as you need millions of tons of it to lift something into orbit. We also saw that forgery can apparently create matter: shan forges a window to be complete, and a glass pane appears. So, my idea is this. Your first trip into space, you have to do it normally, because forgery requires believability. After your first launch, however, you do the second launch without loading any fuel on the rockets. Then you stamp the fuel tank with "it has been filled". It is, after all, perfectly believable. So you can send stuff into orbit very cheap, but you still suffer the limitations of real world because then you can't pack much more fuel. Stamping again the fuel tank would not work: it's not believable that the ship is in orbit with a full tank. However, you can send in this way a few tonns of fuel in orbit at a time. you soon build some massive orbital fuel storage for ships to resupply there. Then you resupply a ship on that storage. At this point, you don't need fuel anymore. You can just stamp your ship with "got refueled in orbit from that depot", and this time it is believable enough to wwork. So you can have a ship, in orbit, with millions of tons of fuel in it. you can go fast and pretty much everywhere in the solar system with it. Make a new fuel cash orbiting around any planet, and prepare new stamps for every ship, as they approaches the planet, to stamp "got refueled". You can't achieve FTL travel, but you can go anywhere in the solar sistem easily. It's cheap enough that you could start mining the asteroids already with present day technologies. you can make an automatic stamping system to apply the stamps on an unmanned mission. Would it work?