king of nowhere

as they are described, there is nothing to suggest they are anything special. only checkov's rules dictate that they must indeed be the trophies of a worldhopper. It would acctually be a nice twist if it turned out they were a bunch of sand from the nearest beach, some blond hair taken from her last lover, an ornamental knife, a pink rock found on the ground, and a flower from the field behind the warcamp.

can you weld something to plate? I don't think we see any instance of it in the books. anyway, i think molten metal could solidify around irregularities in the surface, so it should be possible at least in a few points. still, it wuld not be a good weld

I don't think so. they are familiar with lifeless, so they won't find them scary. Look at our world. Industrial machines kill many more people than zombies, but have you ever seen a move about an assembly line getting up and killing people? (no, terminator and other robots do not count: we don't have the technology to make those). In fact, I dare say that on nalthis zombie moves would never have much success.

He explicitly mentioned that shardblades were inspired by some rpg videogames with oddly oversized swords. and the summoning came because otherwise his characters would keep getting stuck on doors.I don't know about the rest. So, maybe he wasn't influencced by anime, but for sure he was influenced by stuff that was influenced by anime. Anyway, I'd really, really love to see roshar in a realistic way on a movie with good special effects. or, even better, on an oculus visor. Annd after watching all that poor adaptation of dragonball (it was so bad it became sort of funny) I don't think I could ever take an anime seriously. Well, league of legends has anime-style graphics and I play it, but I had to keep playing for, like, one year before it stopped bothering me.

Now I'm seeing the stormlight archive portrayed like dragonball Z. In my head kaladin is screaming to summon his stormlight aura while an aghast szeth remarks that he's over nine thousands, all complete with the announcer's voiceover telling the recap of the episode and trying to create suspence for the next episode while the characters are frozen in ridiculous poses. Shame on you. (dragonball fans, don't hate me. I've never read the original so I cannot know how it was, but the version they did for live tv was pretty terrible)

Can I turn it into something without a cutting edge? Say, like a screwdriver or a wrench? because I'm sure in that case a universal mechanical tool would be pretty useful.

Depends on the technology level they have. I suppose if they have the power to annihilate a planet they can also protect themselves from the heat of the explosion and form the massive rain of debris - several of which will be planetoid-size. Personally, my suspension of disbelief could accept it, if it is reasonably explained. if it was established that the inner moon had orbital defences capable of turning a planetoid to dust on short notice, or maybe a deflector shield capable of withstanding energies billions of times greater than the tsar bomba, then it would be realistic for them to survive such a cataclismic event up close. Of course you need then to be consistent. if the two moons are at war, and both have weapons capable of annihilating a planet, you have to explain why they haven't used those against each other, for example.

One possibility is that the voidbringers mass raped during their conquest, and the half-breed children were discriminated and so went to live by themselves. I don't think it's likely because sanderson generally avoids that kind of topic, but otherwise it's very realistic. there are several real-world instances of a conquering army leaving a distinct genetic trace that can still be seen after a millennia. Another possibility is that the interbreeding happened before odium showed up.

awww, does it mean that we can expect new books too come out less often? Oh, I would totally nderstand if brandon want to take more time for his family, it's fully his right, and with the sales he has by now I suppose he doesn't have problems with lack of mmoney if he stops selling books as much as I did. but still, from the perspective of a fan who can't get enough of his work, it sucks.

If sanderson himself has worked to the script, and is enthusiastic about it, I'm going to trust him on the matter. Anyway, while a movie can't keep the same plot as a book, the main reason I'd want to watch a movie of a book is to see the setting and the characters and the visual effects. so, I would most love to see roshar, but alas, that would take too much money. the ashworld and luthadel's cathedrals come next in the list of what i would like to see on a screen. the other books don't have a strong enough visual component in my mind.

The guys who had optioned the mistborn movie were working with sanderson on the script to fix that. I remember that or iron and steel they would eliminate the blue lines (which would overly complicate the image) and instead make metals glow blue. there were other solutions described also. in general, it can be done, and mistborn 1 can be adapted to a movie of reasonable lenght. So I think that would be the best series to convert to a movie. still, they haven't found anyone willing to produce it until now.

in which case you can expect technology to overcome those limitations within a few decades, centuries at most. I'm too tired to look right now, but i think all allomantic metals except gold are pretty cheap with today's technology. and our technological use of them eats up millions of times more than allomancy would.

why do you expect shallan, who clearly has no combat experience, to go up against one of the most deadly character sanderson ever wrote? If it was szeth against vin, now that would be something intersting to see. Of course, given the specific kind of powers shallan has, she might be able to win if she could prepare the terrain first.

he announced on twitter that shadows of self is done. release next fall. the fact that it will still take some 10 months before it is published supports the idea that what was completed was, indeed, the first draft. Looking very much forward to it. wax and vayne have a very special kind of humor that I love.

i guess the drink would depend on the exact metal used, and its form: powdered would give a different flavor than in flakes, or in a bead, and you'd have to find the right taste to go with each of those options. Also, now that I think of it, even alchoolic beverages are mostly water. the purpose of an alcohol solution is to keep oxygen away and suppress water autoprotolysis, but in a 60% water 40% alcohol solution (should be a good estimate for the whisky wax uses) that's not optimal. Now, I have no idea what would be the dissociation constant for water in 40% alcohol is, what the redox potential of the hydronium ion would therefore be, and what's the solubility of oxygen in such a medium, and its redox potential too, so I cannot say if the steel dust in wax's vials would be stable over time. I'm pretty sure I could find the answer from the university, but it would take hours, and I'm not motivated enough for it. You know you're a sanderfan when you feel slightly guilty over not being motivated enough to spend some hours into researching whether wax's vials should have rusted or not.

anyway, i don't see kelsier fitting the definition very much because he didn't lack empathy. not only he felt deeply for vin (i guess even a pshyco can have loved ones, although one of the descriptions said "hurt family and loved ones without remorse") but he also was visibly in turmoil when the rebel army was getting slaughtered. or in the prologue, when the skaa girl was kidnapped. and notice that, even before he knew anything about vin, he was mad at the way she was treated - and there were no noble involved in it. or the kindness he shows to the slave he rescued from the pits. that's why i can't really see kelsier as the soulless manipulator that "pshyco" would imply, despite what brandon says. it is clear that he cares about people, even people that mean nothing to him. yes, he can unleash the fury and kill without remorse, but he's trying to overthrow a god, it's already a task hard enough without also having to avoid killing enemy soldiers. All things considered, I would say that if he is a pshycopat, he is so at a light level, and he manages pretty well despite it.

well, i suppose they were common, millennia ago. aondor has since proceeded past that

well, aons can be understood; probably people always transformed, and after the transformation they discovered that by wiggling a finger in the air they produced a line. lots of experimentation brought them where they are. forging is more difficult to justify. there is also the possibility that the magic systems were completely different before devotion and dominion were shattered, and so the inhabitants of sel didn't learn it from scratch, but they could use the imput of their previous magic systems to figure out the new ones.

yeah, the book mentions that in most cases the two rithmatists working from two circles are better than them in a single circle. I suppose that may still be the case, most of the times. Still, that applies to dueling, not to war. in nebrask, if you consider, there is a single rithmatic circle held by hundreds (thousands?) of rithmatists. so you could argue that strategy is implemented. and if rithmatists were to fight a war, it would be fought in a totally different way - no one would care a wit about defensive circles, the main focus would be putting on lines of forbiddance to protect against gunfire and sending chalklings at the enemy - and the defense against those again would not be a circle (which would protect the rithmatist but leave the rest of the army exposed) but other chalklings, lines of vigor, and acid buckets.

on the other hand, now I'm wondering, why the returned appeared so late? the shards are several millennia old, but returned didn't exist until maybe one thousand years before present. did endowment arrive to nalthis later, or what?

no need for prerelease stuff. already in wor the horses are showing to be feeding by staying very still, waiting for the grass to relax, then they take a few quick bites, and they go back to stillness. thhe horse kaladin was riding, who was licking the rockbuds to trick them into thinking it was raining, was an exceptions. so yes, hoid could just climb there and stand still for a while. yes, that arises the question of how he could know shallan would pass under that tree, but it can certainly be explained in a variety of conventional means; furthermore, we know hoid has the magic ability to sense where the plot will happen and be there for it. it's certainly a much simpler explanation that assuming some new capability. Sorry to shoot down your theory like this after you obviously put so much speculative effort into it.

not at all. I do not know the technicalities, but while normal people use them as synonims, they actually refer to specifically distincct medical conditions. and they are very different.

if terry pratchett had written mistborn, when kelsier confronted the lord ruler CMOT Dibbler would have been there, trying to sell them something to eat.

I was just going to suggest that. kelsier has certainly elements of a psycho. however, it is difficult to gauge how much it is actual psychopathy, how much is adaptation to survive, and how much is necessary ruthlessness. he came from a very bad place, i guess most everyone in luthadel would have some mental disease by modern standard.

I think, after complaining for a while about their respective nobles, they would become good buddies and get a drink together. and compare notes on how to overthrow the system.