king of nowhere

your licence plate is 6 letters of your choice? then i would have gone with "kelsier" or "adolin" or "roshar". seeing that, i'd never figure out it is referring to adonalsium if i didn't knew it beforehand.

I got a few words of sanderson quoted at me in another thread, and they gave me and idea on how kelsier may have returned from death. So, method 1, probably easier. we know that enough healing power can take back someone's soul from the cognitive realm. we've seen it in the case of wax, whose body was badly broken, and who had only died a few minutes prior. Is it too much of a stretch to assume that even if there was no body whatsoever, healing would just create a new body from scratch? or from bones dead a few years back, at least? So, someone would need to create an hemalurgical spike for Feruchemical gold. Then that someone would jump into shadesmar with the spike. I think also not too mucch off a stretch to assume that kelsier's cognitive shadow could be spiked by the cognitive shadow of an hemalurgic spike. Then he'd just need enough of a storage to make a new body. would likely need compounding, maybe some nicrosil trick, but nothing insurmuntable if the first two assumptions work. Kelsier held preservation, he knew fully well the deeper intricacies of the metallic arts. Method 2 is more spectacular, but trickier too. It would require an hemalurgic spike to be made out of kelsier's cognitive shadow, while having no identity. if it is possible to bring a spike in the cognitive realm and spike a cognitive shadow, that can work. then someone alive should burn the hemalurgic spike. We don't know what it does, but we know that What if the consequences are that you become the person who was killled with the spike? Then someone could have burned the spike, and he would have become kelsier, or most of him - with some traces left of the guy he was before. Kelsier was worshipped, so there would have neen plenty of volunteers to try it out, too. Sorry if those ideas have already been proposed and debunked, but i couldn't find them elsewhere. Here are the relevant brandon quotes.

This night I had a dream regarding hemalurgy. there was a guy who was spiked, then he woke up thinking it was all a dream. But in truth he was spiked for real, the spike only existed in the cognitive realm and didn't leave any (obvious) trace in the physical, so it was a way to influence someone without that someone knowing. When I woke up, I got some ideas. 1) would it even be possible to make a cognitive hemalurgic spike that would be hidden somehow in the physical realm? 2) would it be possible, while in shadesmar, to spike someone in the physical realm? If so, would it be possible to do it in a way that the victim perceives it as being a dream? 3) all spikes we've seen have been protruding from the body, clearly visible. But a metalmind can be fully embedded in the flesh; could a spike be completely inside the body, hidden from the outside, possibly even unknown to the one bearing it? If 2 and 3 are both true, then my dream would at least have a bit of consistency. 4) When you burn a metalmind, you can get an effect different from what you'd get by burning the base metal. That's because the metal is invested. A spike is also a bit of invested metal; could you burn it for some peculiar effect? Yes, I know burning your own spikes is too impractical to be done, but you can burn someone else's. If this worked like with fferuchemy, then burning the spike would grant you the power you'd have gotten by planting the spike in you, multiplied, but it seems to easy to have hemalurgic compounding.

maybe the guy who will receive the book is a sanderfan already... but yeah, still a good day

i remember the same, but i wonder, since the brain, source of cognitive activity, is in the head: will it be the body that regrows a head, or the head that regrows a body?

Oh, and I'm having some problems with the "my content" section. So, I used to just click on "my content", see all the threads I posted in, and see if there was anything new posted in them. Now, it does something similar under "see my activity", but it does only show my latest posts, not if somebody else replied to those threads. In the old forum I could with a quick glance see which threads had something new. And if I go to "manage followed content", it's empty. Maybe because I never actually set something on "follow", since the "my content" page was fine. So, what is the best option now? I put my settings on "automatically follow everything I post", which should fix the problem for the future (I hope), but it won't help if someone revives an old post. I'm never going to notice that if it happens. Any suggestion?

I used this device for 6 years, and I always liked it exactly as it was, for everything I ever did. I may retort by saying that if you like it bright, you may turn up your device brightness

It's ... bright!! It's so bright that I can feel the environment being destroied just by logging in this site, as a brighter screen means greater energy consumption. Probably one can calculate that for every minute one spend logged on, the pollution lowers the average life expectancy by a small, but meaningful amount. Ok, joking here, but really, it is incredibly bright. It's hurting my eyes, and this time I'm not joking. Could the brightness be turned down a bit? Also increased contrast for some of the light gray or blue features wouldn't hurt. P.S. I went to the oculist a few months ago and she told me that I am normal both for light sensitivity and contrast perception, so it's not a defect of my sight. EDIT: To avoid looking like the guy who always complain at everything, I will point out that there are many improvements I like. But the brightness is too much.

interesting idea, but i'm not so sure. the level of healing tlr possessed could be enough to retain full cognitive and bodily functioning even without brain.

that makes me wonder, because at mistpoint someone is channeling a significant fraction of the power of a shard. it was all well and good as long as one single person in the world was doing it, but with a mixture of medallions and hemalurgy, millions could gain that ability. and if they all reached mistpoint at the same time, the shard may not have enough power to fuel them all at the same time. What would happen then? Also, I agree that the limit iis where you tap enough investiture than you burn yourself. Vin was favored of the mist, and she ascended, but I doubt a normal person could do the same.

yeah, tlr was immensely powerful. his only weakness is that iif you somehow manage to remove his metalminds, he loses almost all his powers and he is totally lost because he has no idea how to use his reduced powers, and all his instincts scream for him to do stuff he can't do anymore. plus, he can't even push back his own metalminds because they are too heavily invested for someone who is not a soulbearer or is not tapping the mists. but anyway, only a coinshot/nicrosil compounder, or a coinshot tapping the mists, can push on his metalminds. and it would require tlr to be sure enough of himself that he won't kill immediately his opponent. where are you going to even find one to challenge him? Oh, about the nicrosil thing, I believe he made some purified nicrosil for himself when he had the power of the well (it would have been a trivial matter at the time). Then, without any way to make more of the metal, he could not compound, but since he was already immensely powerful on his own, and he was rarely using his powers, he could have just stored investiture the normal way.

i really like the art, but i am not interested in the game per se. I am a very straightforward guy, same goes for my friends and tabletop gamers companions, a game of intrigue would be totally wasted on us. plus, transoceanic shipping fees are no joke. So, I wonder if is there a way I could see the art without buying the game?

I looked on the forum and ould not find any news that wasn't terribly outdated. What's the current state of mistborn birthright? Has it been officially cancelled? Not officially cancelled, but will most likely never be made? Or something is moving? Thanks to whoever can answer this

There is a very well-made recap at this link: http://www.17thshard.com/news/features/featured-theories-cosmere-102-r278

as you said, there are scientific issues with living on a gas giant. the first one is that, while a gas giant has an atmosphere that may resemble mist, it does not have a surface. so a person on it would just sink into the atmosphere until he's cooked by the rising temperature or crushed by the pressure, whichever comes first. The second is that gases are stratified by density in those planets, and when you arrive at the oxygen layer - which would be required to support people - the pressure is already high enough to kill. There is also no liquid water on those planets, though there is plenty of water vapor - but the same thing about stratification and pressure applies. Then there are the facts that all gas giants have extremely caotic atmospheres with winds that make terrestrial hurricanes look like gentle breezes, and that those planets emit letal doses of radiations, just off the top of my head. I doubt even sanderson could make it work in a believable way.

the illustrations look great. especially kredik shaw. i may end up buying it just for those. but vin doesn't look much like a fifteen-years-old. she could be more like the vin from hero of ages.

yeah, exactly. He likes to write, and he has several stories in mind, so he's not going to write just one. He loves to please his fans, and the mistborn saga has at least as much fandom as the stormlight archive - you may not like it, but if you ask around what's the best sanderson saga, you'd be answered "mistborn" as much as "stormlight archive". So he is pleasing his fans. In fact, the cosmere is his life's work, and most fans want to see all of it, so he's pleasing his fans more that way than by focusing on one single project. And he stated many times that he finds it much less tiring to write different books. To me it makes as much sense as carrying a load of stones as a way to rest from carrying a load of gravel, but if for sanderson it works, then all the better for us. Finally, insulting other people for disagreeing with you - even if they were only half-hearted, half-jokes insults - is heavily frowned upon in this community.

you can never trust movies or videogames for consistency on those matters. in any fps, whipping someone with a pistol hurts more than actually firing with the pistol. Even in a game like mass effect, which is set in the future. just the same, in every action movie the mooks will unload cartridges upon cartridges of bullets on the hero without ever hitting, but the guy throwing a sword always hits. I wouldn't draw conclusions on weapon damage or armor resistance from those fact.

If she's close enough to pull, then she's close enough to duraluminium/pull the back of the armor and push the front, crushing the person inside. No, I'm talking about a range of several kilometers. I don't really know what iron man can do - I've only seen a couple movies - but modern heavy weaponry has a useful range of a few kilometers. A coinshot can't have a range greater than a couple hundred meters, probably much less. Iron man can hover one kilometer above the ground and fire at everything with an infrared signature with lasers or aluminium bullets or something.

Our main hypothesis involve bendalloy bubbles. But yeah, if you count the number of pages he's actually written, brandon is one of the most prolific authors around. unlike others who wrote a single huge series but little else, brandon wrote a lot of stuff. For example, JRRM took fours years between two consecutive books of a song of ice and fire. Brandon is taking 4 or 5 years between books 2 and 3 of the stomrlight archive, but in the meanwhile we got/we'll be getting 3 mistborn books, the reckoners, alcatraz 5, dark sand, and a smattering of short stories. So, not much to complain there. Yeah, maybe that's why he gets better as he keeps writing while others get worse. Anyway, writing - or any kind of creative work - is not like carrying around piles of bricks. Sitting in front of a pc and writing is not a guarantee of making good writing. One needs to find inspiration, or consider carefully where he wants the story to go, and that's not something coming from time alone. Really, the only point I will concede is that he seems to be on tours/signings half the time, slowing down his writing. I'd rather he does less tours and more writing. But it's inevitable when one becomes succesful; plus, it's his life, his choice. He sells the books he's already written, he's under no obligation to make more. I think making his signings and tours and being pandered by the fans helps keep him motivated towards writing more; I have no idea what percentages he get on the sales of the books, but I strongly suspect he already got enough money that he could stop working entirely if he wanted.

vin could probably crush the armor - and the person within - with a duraluminium push. iron man could shoot vin in a variety of ways, and those bullets move too fast to be pushed on. So the victory goes to whoever strikes first. Allomancy has a limited range. Bullets have a much greater range. Iron man can fly up high in the sky. Vin can only go as high as her pushes send her. iron man surely has infrared sight, movement sensors, and plenty of other stuff that is at least as good as tin to find people. In the night, infrareds are much better than tin. So, if both sides are aware of the presence of the other, iron man should win by riddling vin with holes before she can get close enough for allomancy.

wayne and melaan are to each other the only person who understands them. on one side you have wayne. he's very eccentric, and by that we mean "totally nuts". then we have melaan; she is a sort of rebel as a kandra, with a very different attitude from the others. both have very peculiar attitudes towards their role in society. add that they can bond over the whole "impersonating others" stuff, and you have a good mix.

I just got a flash of intuition that led me to solve the barber paradox: Answer: the barber is a kandra and does not need shaving. He also collects hairs for his fellows.

nobles know of them, and it would make sense that they would instruct some selected servants to watch for signs that someone has been swapped. Still, the part about most people not knowing stuff about kandras hold. I was actually thinking more of events from SoS (which I don't want to open spoilers about) than of the ashworld, but the same considerations hold true. I would, if I happened to live in the same continent. Or even in a country where he passed on a tour. As it is, maybe someone else could do the mentioning. And maybe a future book will mention it.

I just realized a small, but very annoying difficulty a kandra has towards maintaining his cover: faking beard stubble. Ok, if a kandra is posing as a common man, he can just retract the stubble every morning and pull it out in the evening. But it won't do for rich people, who - with the sole exception of sam vimes - have servants to cut their beards. Those servants would realize something is amiss if they found their razor clean after the operation, so if the kandra doesn't want to be spotted he has to offer some hairs to be cut every day. And kandras can't grow hairs on their own. For a few days they can offer the part of the hair that wass embedded under the skin of the person they replaced, but once that runs out, they have to somehow find new hairs. How can they get them? I wonder if there is a kandra barber, surreptitiously saving up the hairs he cut to send them covertly to his brethren around...