Invocation

I was listening to my YouTube Mix the other day and re-reading Well of Ascension, and something decided it would be a good idea to throw the song Stronger On Your Own (by Disturbed, I listened to them once and I can never escape) right up alongside an interaction with Zane and Vin, and honestly? Ironic. Go listen to the song and tell me that doesn't sound like a song for their whole deal. That got me thinking. What songs do y'all associate with particular characters/interactions/places in the Mistborn books?

Jeez, that didn't take long for the Skyward names to show up. Welcome to the both of you, @Doomslug and @Callsign: Necrosis. To answer the original question, just show up. Weigh in on things. Ask questions. Don't worry about looking stupid (we've all asked a bad question or five), just learn, read, and expand your knowledge and book collection. As to how much time I spend here, more than I should. You don't need a massive knowledge of the cosmere to get started here (I had only read Mistborn and Way of Kings when I first signed up), so you're welcome to come hash things out. As always, read the books eventually, because a fresh perspective is useful, but in the meantime, just enjoy yourself.

I can't quote anything right now because I'm on my phone, but Rig 1) was a special case, seen as a prodigy by the engineering people and 2) those were old-ish wing parts, scavenged off of scrapped ships that couldn't be repaired. Another thing about their mindset on why they don't do your idea: they don't have time. By any stretch of the imagination. Adding something that complex would require a recalibration of the apparatus that makes the ships to accomadate the new mechanisms, bulking the ships up, which means every pilot for every ship has to go through a new round of training to adjust to the new patterns of airflow and movement drag, not to mention that the time it would take them to recalibrate is time that they can't produce ships. That's time they don't have. It would, ironically, be beneficial to allow more ships to be destroyed and less rings acquired in the short term, because then the Krell might leave them alone, all the while they can be building this stuff in secret just below the surface. Yes, the rings are a bottleneck, but there's always going to be a bottleneck one way or another. Too many rings, not enough material for the rest of the ship portion (even discounting test ships for the idea you're suggesting) or not enough pilots of caliber enough to use these new ships correctly. Test ships is a whole separate issue. What do you think the Krell are going to do when they realize the humans might not need to raid for the acclivity rings anymore? If they have a stockpile, they have the ability to reverse engineer them, which puts them over the line of where they need to be to stay alive in the eyes of the Krell. Even if they didn't do that, they probably wouldn't succeed on the first try. The moment a new ship from the humans comes out, the Krell are going into full Can-Of-Raid procedure.

Part of it might be that they didn't see that as an option, since they may not have known how to attach an acclivity ring to a ship mid-creation instead of just making it all at once, or they just didn't have time, since that would probably increase resource drain and time to create the ships, whereas the next attack could come at any time and they needed to churn ships out ASAP.

Or maybe they met the Skybreakers. Wouldn't that be something Vasher would do? Try to infiltrate a semi-hostile Invested group and figure out their secrets?

Do it. I let go of my book-buying ban specifically for this and didn't regret it.

Near Kholinar, in a bend in the Windrunner River. A few towns are there, good routes to Kholinar trade too. Also Kaladin would totally found his own house so he could protect the people in his lands.

Fair enough, I guess.

If you're referring to Vasher and the rest of them not knowing what a Shardblade was...no, they knew. They did what they did on purpose (minus Nightblood's vague command and the addition of Ruin's Investiture).

Yeah, I just couldn't find it because I'm on my phone.

That's always possible.

Well, there was a WOB about what happens if there's aluminum breaking the edge of the bubble when it's forming, so I'd have to say it would probably either do some funky stuff with condensing inside the box or just violently rip.

If we're going by traits the holders of the Shards have, this could be Harmony.

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff like that mixing around, and that's a pretty solid idea. Good catch.

That's a good point, I didn't think about it maybe being all three moons at once.

It would fit more with the tower, since the moons are, in Rosharan myth, people, complete with gender.

Yeah, this is another can of worms that's been opened and trawled and discussed for quite a while now, each depth being explored. Scion of the Mists is right, work your way through those and you'll probably run up against everything you could want to know about this.

Autonomy just kind of... does stuff. This is one of the other reasons it's probably not just Odium doing things: on the other hand: Also Odium has been messing around on Scadrial for a while now: As to the thing about being pleased with their domains, there was also a portion that said something along the lines of "If you had approached the correct one of us with your plea, you might have found favor" or something. Autonomy is currently a lot of people at once, Avatars of themselves split and are kind of all doing their own thing: I think that's hilarious. I've been meaning to ask a similar question for a few days now, I am glad someone else did and you replied. Bavadin is now instantly super interesting to me! Brandon Sanderson Bavadin is awesome. One regret of finally moving on from White Sand (and doing the graphic novel, instead of doing an entire trilogy myself) is because I won't get to show her off as a character for a while. It should still happen, mind you, but I have enough on my plate right now that I just can't do it all. Argent Eh, it's alright. The more we wait to see her, the more practice writing you will have when you do write her, and the more awesome she will be to us Are we going to see her in White Sand first though, or elsewhere? I've also been talking with a couple of friends about Ambition, who happens to be a Shard I love unconditionally just because of his?her? mandate. So I should ask - how tight-lipped do you intend to be with information about it? Can we prod for a little bit of trivia, or is it too early for that? Brandon Sanderson I'm going to be pretty tight-lipped for now. Let's at least let White Sand finish first--you will find her in there, though her touch on the story (directly) is light. She prefers to allow her personas to become the focus of attention. source Let's just say there's a lot of shenanigans happening.

This is a can of worms that we've been struggling with ever since Bands of Mourning released. We know that there is an outside influence on Scadrial, we know that it is from a Shard we know. Other than that, theories have been abundant, with the general thing being that it is Autonomy, because 1. Odium is locked on Braize/Roshar and 2. Autonomy has avatars that do things on multiple worlds. Of course, with Branderson's twists, it'll probably come out of left field.

Probably not many. I think most of the more devout people would have fled Newcago to a less dominated area, for fear of standing out to an Epic that doesn't take kindly to that kind of thing.

I mean David has only minimal experience with some of this stuff, plus he's bad enough at metaphors/similes that he would understand just enough to mess it up horribly.

I think Ivory or one of the other spren would know if something like that had been happening. Ivory specifically because of that spren-type's connection to knowledge and learning, but he was insistent that that situation could not be.

Feruchemist and Fifth Heightening.

A lot of people have thought this, even pre-Gibletish conversation, but there is always another secret.

Yeah, that's fair.