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Am I the only one who couldn't stand Darker Than Black? It was cool and fun in the moment, with the crew getting through the impossible odds, but then at the end, all of the sudden it's like the writing team realized that they actually needed to end it all, and the only thing they could come up with was to Am I the only one who felt that way? /tangent

When you not only have MAG, but also have been using its gameplay techniques to stage cagematches between built-in story characters like Vin, and extrapolated ones like Szeth. The conclusion is that Szeth is overpowered, and then you spend more time than most people will ever have trying to come up with a reasonable balance.

Are we seriously debating Dragonball and Chuck Norris here? Hold on while I do a reality check, I think I might look down to find 12 fingers.... nope. Oh well, worth a shot. I would assemble an army of sliders and pulsers, so we could grow food and plan at extraordinary rates, all of which would make life a whole lot easier here. Honestly one of each would work fine, but the idea of creating a whole village that temporarily lifts itself from normal timespace is just too awesome to pass up.

Hoid is not a Sliver and has never held/does not hold a Shard. Those two Words of Brandon basically sunk this theory when it came up a while back. EDIT: And though this doesn't really mean a whole lot of anything, Hoid being able to use most/all magics isn't proven. He has breaths because anybody can have those if given, he has allomancy from Lerasium, built to give it, and as my biggest point here, he has Lightweaving because he's from Yolen, the planet that started it all. Even if magic is mostly planet-exclusive, being from the Shardic centerworld probably lets him use them all. Also, in a postscript that means even less, Hoid was just some guy with Lightweaving abilities on Yolen, working as a quasi-storyteller. It doesn't mean much, but he 100% started as a normalish person, and I'm guessing that means him not being a Sliver can only still let this be true if Adonalsium holders are something else entirely.

Well, we have WoB that Adonalsium was shattered intentionally, though we do not know the intent itself. Knowing this, it doesn't surprise me that 16 people were there to pick up the pieces within the timeframe allotted. By which I mean, the amount of time it would have taken for those pieces to either come back together or start killing things. I'd place it at about a week with that many.

Well, unfortunately, we don't want to end the planet, we want to kill and survive zombies. I'll stick to FTL Chuck Norris powers, and maybe the ability to become immune to bites. You don't turn Chuck into a zombie, he turns you into him. Fortunately, they'll quickly combust under the pressure of being something so awesome for more than a few seconds at a time. It's better than shardplate!

After spending years watching the movies and hanging around terrible websites, I would construct several hundred soulstamps that would, even if only for half a second, transform me into the cognitive ideal of Chuck Norris himself. Within that series of half-seconds, assuming cognitive shadows cannot do everything, I could plausibly escape any danger, hit with any shot I fired, and carve more soulstamps. Oh yeah.

I agree that I preferred a dragon-free Cosmere, but I'm holding to my faith that Brandon can take anything and make it unique and awesome. Back on topic, we should also take into account the placement of Shards. Brandon said that Ruin and Preservation happened to come together thanks to opposites attracting. Where would they have been planned to go if they had chosen ahead of time?

Am I the only one who sometimes feels that Brandon doesn't actually create his stories, and is merely uncovering what was there all along? It's just so magnificently detailed, it baffles me every time somebody reminds me that his worlds aren't actual things we're glimpsing.

Yes, he's surrounded by Parshendi getting beaten to a pulp, and somebody is coming in from the outside to save him. Before it was Sadeas trapped in the middle, and he was the savior. Now he's trapped, and he delusionally thinks Sadeas is coming.

I guess the real trick now would be to try and absorb Preservation out of Harmony and not get Ruined as a result.

Guys, guys, let's not get into First Ideal arguments, that has its place elsewhere. The point has been made, the wording of Kaladin might be a little wishy washy, but Brandon says the words themselves don't matter, only the idea. The point of the Windrunners isn't to decide guilt and innocence, that's the Skybreakers. They just keep everybody alive so that they can live to kill Voidbringers another day, and the ideal is saying as much. He will protect everybody, not just those people he thinks deserve protection. I also refuse to rehash his 'argument' with Syl, because we've gone over that enough times, and she can't provide any answers he doesn't know. Also, even though this is no longer visible, can people please stop with the spoilery titles? Just because it's in a subforum doesn't mean that the front page can't see it.

May have missed it, but I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Monster. It took a long time to truly get off the ground (Episode 3 to be exciting, a lot further in to stop feeling like The Fugitive), but was an incredible experience after it did. And to rehash what's already been said, I bless the string of contrived coincidences that showed me Death Note.

The Reply quote seems to indicate that they gave/allowed Rayse Odium, possibly because they didn't want him corrupting a better intent, didn't stop him from taking what he wanted, or something similar. It just sounds like they had a hand in giving it to him, or letting him take it.

Brandon has said that the actual words you say don't matter, just the feeling you've got. Basically, it's how you say it and what you mean when you say it that counts. Kaladin is saying that he will defend anybody, not just selfishly defending people he likes. It's determination to do the right thing, no matter what his own personal feelings about the situation are. I like the oath, personally, or at the very least its meaning. EDIT: This is the time when I suddenly become "that guy" once again, to the irritation of every single reader. You seriously put a massive WoR spoiler where it can be seen from the front page. Can you *please* go to full edit and change the post title? There's still a lot of people who haven't read WoR but still feel safe from spoilers outside of the subforum.

Pretty sure that you couldn't, since that Investure is used and returned to the Shard immediately. In Feruchemy, you're just changing your own stuff, so no Shards there. For Allomancy, if you took like, Pewter, you'd just give it all back as you burned it for huge results.

Oh wow, I think I'm crying.... that is so beautiful...

Don't forget the Reply letter from WoR (Kinda Spoilers below). Seems to be a point in the chooser's favor.

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/383-the-ultimate-list-of-questions-for-brandon/ EDIT: I've been ninja'd. Have the only original part of my post instead. EDIT again: But be sure to ask about "Does Lift turn food directly into Stormlight, or does the food act like a gate for Stormlight to come through, like the metals in Allomancy?" since that's a hot question, as well as what Feruchemical Fortune actually means.

Welcome to the 17th Shard! I *highly* recommend opening your Sanderson experience with the Mistborn trilogy, though I'm sure others here would argue against it. If anything, it'll help you get better connected with the shared universe of Brandon's works, and let you understand and access most theories much more easily. Your choice in the end though. You have an absolutely magnificent reading experience ahead of you, and I hope you enjoy it!

Sadeas is very much used to wearing a mask, a facade, probably since even before Gavilar. Maybe he was once a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, but over the years his internal self has slowly drifted away from his socially-presented persona. I can't rule out Odium's influence, but I'm thinking he's started to see Elhokar as nothing but convenient cover, and Dalinar as an empty shell of what he once was. The fact that he *still* plans to backstab him even after WoR events tells me that since this from where we first saw him to now, there is almost nothing left of the original Sadeas.

They're the tiny oppressed and forgettable people from Warbreaker. Bluefingers is one of them. I quickly went from Forger to Soulcaster. Did I just decide to stop the encroaching nearsightedness, or was it laziness? The world may never know.

I'm pretty sure that was just Rock mistaking Hoid for one of his own gods, and thinking he was bound by said god's rules. I highly doubt Hoid is incapable of murder.

Use Awakening to make people who don't know about Lucids think they're dreaming, and then fork over their breaths. After doing this to most of a town in one night, I would kill them all and reanimate them to go about their lives, doing all they could to hide their deaths/grayness, but to ultimately obey me. We'd all eventually become a traveling circus, and I could run the fortune-telling booth to steal even more breaths. Eventually, given enough breaths, I would probably Awaken an entire town/city and run the place. Nobody would ever be able to take it over.

I imagine that cutting off your spine's soul, destroying your ability to send the neural impulses that let you tap metalminds, would kill you.