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Plus his aspect gives him a lot more wiggle room as far as actions go.

Thanks for the quote. Yeah, that wouldn't make much sense as a metal spear. So much for spike theories I guess, unless you intend to use hemalurgic loopholes to squeeze Kelsier into a new body. That's for another time and thread though.

They identity spike themselves and then compile it into one shardholder. A Cosmere-wide battle over who will act as the mind of God, and who can put the most demigods in place for the final move. It's like a game of chess, except the board is a massive cube and both sides can move each other's pieces. I love it.

Why the heck the rebels would charge their allomantic god with a metal spear is beyond me, but okay.

Also, here's the lyrics to the joke song, as well as a debate about Poopspren: She's into superstitions, Windrunners and chasmfiends. Each storm-brought premonition, makes me wonder what I've seen. She's into new sensations, new kicks in the pale stormlight. She's got a new addiction for every day and night. She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in highstorms. She'll take your breath away with each song that she performs, like an arrow to your brain. Come On! Upside, inside out she's livin la vida Roshar She'll bind and lash you down, livin la vida Roshar Her dress is green as broams, her eyes are light as a star She will wear you out, livin la vida Roshar. Come On! Livin la vida Roshar, Come on! She's livin la vida Roshar. Woke up in Kharbranth City somewhere down beside the sea, She took my spheres in ten quick heartbeats In a blaze of cold stormlight. She never drank the water and made me order orange wine Once she's had a taste of light she'll never be the same Yeah, she'll make you go insane. [+]mistborn 134 points135 points136 points 17 daysago (17 children) [–]mistborn 17 days ago You got it wrong. I'm not busy because I'm writing other books, I'm working on the licensing deals! Cardboard shardplate! Official Bridge Four loincloths! "There's spren in my poop" toilet paper! [+]BrianMcClellan 23 points24 points25 points 16 daysago (0 children) [–]BrianMcClellan 16 daysagoMoichendising, Moichendising, where the real money from the movie is made! [+]AlphaNeonic 16 points17 points18 points 16 daysago (0 children) [–]AlphaNeonic 16 daysago Don't forget Szeth's 'lil Assassin Playset, complete with Oathstone and tissues to mourn your victims. [+]DeleriumTrigger 8 points9 points10 points 16 daysago (0 children) [–]DeleriumTrigger 16 daysago Pre-ordering poopspren toilet paper [+]Rutthed 10 points11 points12 points 16 daysago (7 children) [–]Rutthed 16 daysago Serious question: are there poopspren, and how would they fare in indoor plumbing situations? [+]mistborn 41 points42 points43 points 16 daysago (5 children) [–]mistborn 16 daysago Well, it depends on how you're defining spren. In the books, they don't make a distinction, but there are several varieties. At the basic level, everything has an identity--a soul, you might say, but more than that. This is based on how it is viewed, and how long it has been viewed that way. Feces would have this, but wouldn't have a very strong cognitive identity because of its transitional nature. Other types of spren, the type that characters see and interact with, are cognitive ideals or concepts which have taken on literal personification over time. These are usually related to forces or emotions, and don't relate to this particular topic. And that's far more than I ever expected to say on this... [+]FellKnight 14 points15 points16 points 16 daysago (1 child) [–]FellKnight 16 daysago Never have I been more interested to read about poop...

Don't know if anybody else saw this, but it's probably one of the most amazing things you will ever read. http://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/1bflq6/dreamworks_has_acquired_the_film_rights_for_the/

Was Wit's persona in any way influenced by the Fool in the Assasin's Apprentice?

Problem with that is that Rashek had spikes too. More that Kelsier did, in fact.

Heck, maybe he told a lie or something like that. Probably a big lie, concerning windrunning or something big like that, making him a literal Truthless.

Good questions for Brandon, those. And unlikely to be RAFOd to boot.

My problem with it is that neither Kelsier nor Vin mentions it enhancing their lines of sight.

Hehe, that's how they kill themselves with style. They shoot forward at 9000MPH and turn into swiss cheese

Ah yes, just finished reading that actually. I guess that's confirmation that tin doesn't work on the blind?

There's a small chance Rashek is still around somehow, but I kind of think he'd want to move on. He's free from shardic influence and he's worn himself out over a thousand years. He deserves a rest.

I've always wondered that, and then just decided that blind people don't get enhanced sight. :/

Some people are really good at hiding emotions, so it's not really that reliable. And Inquisitors asking every other person how they feel sounds impractical. I stand by the theory that they can see, just not push. I mean, we already know they see the metals inside of people, the spikes shouldn't be a problem.

Yeah, it was duralumin. Powerful enough to sense what emotion he was manipulating.

I imagine it would be pretty faint, but now that you mention it, TenSoon had four spikes, so she probably would have heard him. So that's yet one more theory down the garbage disposal. Double steel just barely enough to see the spikes but not affect them? Maybe some innate ability for creatures of Ruin to spot one another?

It certainly does o_O So, Odium makes you hate by messing with your identity. That's.....freaky. It's like emotional allomancy but with your cognitive aspect itself being fundamentally (Hahapunny) changed. I could see that being very dangerous. No wonder Hoid's afraid.

It could always be a part of the contract to reveal yourself if confronted by an inquisitor... Don't forget that the kandra have their blessings, a passive use of investure that they can't turn off. A double bronze would probably be able to at least faintly hear something coming from them.

It's the part where you see all your own worst qualities reflected back in your face, or worse yet something you enjoy about your life is annoying as heck from an outsider's perspective. It's kind of like what Miles does with gold actually. I find this kind of self-loathing to be a bit of a benefit since it lets you improve yourself.

Welcome to Splinterhood. No Alraine people?

Heck yes! Um, that makes getting the right percentage of metals really difficult. If you're smelting an impure metal, get ready for a slightlylessgodly metal explosion.

I really like this, though it hinges on how bubbles within bubbles works. Either Brandon goes the way of instant travel between Cosmere planets, or he messes with timewarp interactions and screws everything up yet again. Still, this is similar to something I'd been imagining a few weeks earlier. I really like it.

More evidence in favor of either a nonsentient attacker or a smaller, subtler adversary.