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It's a little hard to tell how metaphorical the Rattles are being, but the whole "All who live wish me to let the blade slip" says to me that it's not Vargo or Shallan's mother. There's just not enough of people who know enough to care about those ones.

Don't forget the How it Should Have Ended that was put together recently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ThvBNZdGcQ

Depression is a pretty terrible mental disorder. Throw in PTSD and just the simply memories and opinions his experiences have left him with, and you have an instant KR. Somebody who really, really should have broken and totally given up by now, and has already tried once or twice, but is still somehow on their feet. Thanks for helping me collect my thoughts on why I defend Kaladin, I haven't really been sure why up until now.

When people talk about how having to read a 300 page book is such a chore, and you're tempted to scream them into submission from atop your flagpole-height stack of Sanderson books.

It's funny how the mere mechanics of the Inquisitors were a big set of questions for the longest time, while they themselves didn't ask many.

The Banks? They were the Vanisher's first victims after they became cosmere-aware in the third Mistborn trilogy.

Way back when I thought I was funny, I remember suggesting that the Almighty's double eye meant that meant he was probably a goat. I'm guessing that this could explain how they can do that. ((Seriously though, goats are INSANE. So crazy, they can actually bend reality by just not giving a slab of crem.))

Mary Poppins is almost definitely a Feruchemist and possibly a Forger as well. The flying with the umbrella, the infinite space, her creepy timeliness, it's the only way.

Using carefully and expensively grafted throat muscles, choke yourself do death by tapping Feruchemical Pewter. Alternatively, forge yourself to view the tongue as a muscle that can always get bigger before doing so.

I'm oddly tempted to downvote that instead for some reason. I think the puns thread has skewed my mind... Asking if there's anything nobody else knows about a topic you're interested in is usually a good way to get answers so long as you're not going first.Likewise, asking for negatives on something that has a set number of answers that have been narrowed down outside can be very useful. I guess what I'm saying is that avoiding the dreaded RAFO is a matter of being as roundabout as possible, and not getting jealous when a more direct approach occasionally gets better results...

It's mentioned in WoK that it has to have the visor or it doesn't go transparent. That, and it's mentioned as actually being really hard to see out the sides, good just for not being totally blind. I'd look for the quote, but I don't have the E-book, and therefore am due for punishment as a heretic.

Anybody else find it amusing that Vasher has dark eyes and Night blood?

I fixed your mistake. You still left a typo in there.

Am I the only one thinking that a Seer would be capable of taking down a full Shardbearer? Ten seconds of atium in a 1v1 and you could have a knife through the visor no problem. Now, Atium and Shardbearing...

I guess I'm just left wondering how such a huge realmatic upheaval could possibly occur. With what we know of Shards, they simply wouldn't be compatible with a nonrealmatic format, which would leave Adonalsium to create the realms itself, something I'm not sure a Shard can do. I guess I'm saying that I'm uncertain exactly how this would come about.

I like this interpretation quite a bit.

The problem here being that Investure is almost always tied to a physical object, but never actually inside the physical realm. How were two realms created by so much Shardic power when the only real place such power can even exist in the first place is within one of those realms?

When you suddenly realize that the little ones have daydreams of being allomancers instead of jedi.

Holy crap I somehow passed Awesomeness!? Now I've traded all my Atium for a Shardblade and I'm wondering if it was a good use of my money.

Knowing the Idrians, I highly doubt she could hide having that much breath without being noticed. Just because magic can give perfect pitch to you doesn't mean the normal version goes away. Cooking for a profession probably teaches you a thing or two.

The Allomantic Metals are normal materials that happen to allow Preservation's power through them. God Metals are literally the physical form of Investure. You would likely wind up using just as much Investure to create them (Too much to be practical) than you would get out of them. So really, nothing would stop beyond ordinary physics and equivalent exchange.

Please edit your old posts instead of posting again, it takes up a lot of space. Now, Harmony is going to go talk to his dead friends, something he calls having a Ham and Breeze sandwich.

I won't rehash old metals for the tenth time, so I'll just go on to the much overlooked Zinc and Brass. I feel they've got potential outside of just conversational mechanics, though their main use will certainly be there. A pause-and-select based system on anybody within line of sight wouldn't be that hard, though coming up with ways to make NPCs react would be. For this I'd recommend only having a handful of targetable emotions, like boredom or anger, to allow for stealth missions or combat rioting. Something from countless stealth games called the suspicion meter could be employed, though unlike most of them an NPC that noticed itself being rioted will do what they can do inform somebody. In pure gameplay terms, this means that you've been detected and that you have to kill somebody before your "quest" is considered failed. Being nobility means that Copper shouldn't be a problem. Inquisitors aren't going to kill you for using allomancy, they already know you're allowed to have it. For the most part, this will be left on outside of when you need Bronze or when you're out of the stuff. Atium, as many have said (I know, I'm rehashing like I said I wouldn't), would max out your hit chance and crit chance, but would basically do nothing but negate these bonuses in other Atium burners. Odds are it'll also lead to a lot of cutscene slaughter. For steel, you'd just need the autojump, and ability to select and push on lone bits of metal, and a general outward shove. Honestly I'm getting really excited for this even though I know it's not coming for ages. I should really stop now.

So is this or is this not a confirmation that Stormlight has an intoxicating effect? Because if so, Kaladin is about to become the poster child for "Be safe: Don't drink and fly."

It should be worth noting that Brandon has told us that Adonalsium could have broken into a different set of intents if things had gone a little differently. This implies to me that the intents were already a part of Adonalsium, that Adonalsium was sentient (Like most Investure of that size)and/but balanced in the goal of that sentience. When its spiritual Investure split mostly evenly, and the cognitive aspect that was once rounded broke off into sixteen blends of various base emotions, ones that could have just as easily been other things. I don't think the original holders created the intents. It makes more sense to me if they were already there.