Senor Feesh

Fresh? Wow, I feel like I'm in the 80s Thanks guys, I've already had my mind popped a bit by some of the things I'd missing in WoR which others didn't (won't post here because spoilers).

Nuts! Where do I get The Silence Divine? Or is that as-yet unreleased?

This looks like it could have legs. I'm a bit too out-of-practice at thinking Realmatically to offer any meaningful critique at the moment though.

I dunno, I read that line and simply saw Jasnah as a feminist rather than a lesbian. Considering the gender divide in Vorin culture, and Jasnah's general attitude towards the status quo, I think this is less of a stretch.<br /><br />You could be right, but there's far too little data to base that kind of speculation I feel.

I don't know if this will help at all, but: I have similar issues as the others. I'm on Windows 8.1 and use IE 11 in Fullscreen mode. I can get rid of the problem by clicking the light-switch icon in the posting box and reverting to good old BBcode (allows me to quote etc.) The problem, at least for me, seems to be with this style of PHPboard in general, and not limited to 17th Shard. EDIT: It's not limited to Fullscreen mode (same thing happens in Desktop mode). Chrome works fine. So for whatever reason, IE doesn't get along well with the latest version of PHP.

That's pretty interesting actually. Also worth noting that the bottom two and top two Voidsurges have a line connecting them, as well as connecting each with the next Voidsurge in the sequence. Compared with the rest of this chart and the KR chart this is unusual, as all other surges are linked only to Orders. It may or may not also be relevant that these four Voidsurges are surrounded by spiky-bubble-things extending from the central gemstone where the two 'surgeless' Orders are on the diagram.

No mention of the God Beyond yet? Any speculation as to what that might be? Just to clarify, I seem to remember that Shadows was set in the same system, but on a different world, to Roshar. Can anyone confirm for/against? If that is correct, the God Beyond may have been Honor (or one of the other three), and Shadows could maybe be the Tranquiline Halls? Probably a stretch.

Hi everyone; I don't know if I ever made enough of an impact that my absence was noticed, but I dropped out of the site when the Words of Radiance spoilers started landing so I could preserve the experience for release. Well, now I've finished WoR (and Shadows for Silence) and I'm back! Before I left I considered myself pretty up-to-speed on current interpretations of Realmatic Theory, but with all the months I've missed I expect I'm going to be feeling like a newly-bonded Spren all over again. If anyone has any suggestions for good threads to help get me up to speed, I'd really appreciate Looking forward to being a part of this wonderful community again

Yeah, I tried doing a Theoryland search for Coppermind, Kwaan, Ruin, none of it came back with the right hit. It might be in the annotations I guess? That's a lot of trawling :/ Doy! I found it. It's actually the unmodified text in the Conventical of Seran.

Hmm, thanks for that. Not quite sure which is correct now. I'm inclined, from the second quote, to think that I was wrong. Thanks for the help!

Hi guys, been away for a while (deliberately staying away to avoid any WoR spoilers, I'll be back once it's out and I've read it). Ended up in a minor argument the other night with some friends. I seem to remember it being explicitly stated somewhere, that while Ruin cannot affect text written in metal, he is capable of altering the words stored in Coppermind. My friends disagree, and maintain that the prophecies must have been altered when the words were pulled out of a Coppermind and written down again, then incorrectly re-stored after being changed. Which is correct, and if I'm right, does anyone have a link to where I can prove it? Many thanks

May you have twice the number, Jackal I loved that series, but I did feel like it lost something in Song of Susannah.

So, I've been around less than usual lately (although I don't know if I'm active enough for people to have noticed ) but the reason is this game. It's got its claws in me deep. I've played other card games in the past which have had power creep that means you have to have the most up to date sets to stand a chance (Yu-Gi-Oh, World of Warcraft, I'm looking at you), and others where you spend a horrendous amount of cash on buying boosters hoping for that killer card (Magic: The Gathering being probably the best known). Netrunner sidesteps these problems nicely by virtue of being a Living Card Game (LCG) which means that all cards are available to the entire playerbase easily - sets are released to a prescribed list, so you know exactly which cards exist in every box (simply choose the sets which fit your playstyle best and combine the cards you want - with certain restrictions). What really makes this game for me though is two things (which are really the same thing) - the thematics, and the asymmetrical play. One player takes the role of one of four faceless megacorps - huge global businesses attempting to advance their own dubious agendas - whilst the other plays as the titular 'runner, attempting to break into the corp's servers and steal their data for their own reasons (there's three runner factions also, with different ethics/agendas). The Corp player must protect their servers from outside access by means of installing Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics (or ICE) between their precious data and the wider net, whilst slowly, turn by turn advancing their agendas to completion. The runner, by contrast, uses a rig of special hardware and ICEbreaker software to attempt to crack the Corp defences and steal the Agendas before the Corp can complete them - but the runner does this without knowing which servers have genuine agendas, which are booby trapped, and which simply contain revenue-generating assets such as ad-campaigns. Obviously there's a lot of special cards that allow both runner and corp player to spring surprises and change strategies, and decks are built accordingly. There's also a program called OCTGN which has a virtual version of the game (although I'm dubious as to its legality). So yeah, I'm totally hooked on this... currently I only have the core set (working on fine-tuning what I have before I make up for the weaknesses with expansions), so if anyone else plays, let's talk shop! I could always use advice, and I'd love to hear what people think of my decks (and I'd be willing to offer a novice's opinion on your own deck, although how much you'd get out of that I'm not sure )

Admittedly I've yet to read Rothfuss, but I'd heard it had a lot of sex. Is that not the case? Mercedes Lackey is superb; I've only read Zoo City but it was sublime (good enough that I feel confident to recommend her as an author on that alone). Not much sex that I can recall (although there is sexual content in there) and I think a fair amount of language as it's set in an alternate modern Earth. So that one's probably no good for you, but look up her cleaner stuff as HearMonicaRoar suggested. I think Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere should be safe (I've read it often enough that I should be able to say for sure, but memory fails me now). It does have the odd swear, but not a lot, and I'm pretty sure no sex (although there is some sexual tension, no sex scenes on or off screen). DON'T read American Gods. One of my fave books, but definitely falls into the categories you dislike. I keep plugging it everywhere I go, but the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a superb alternative fantasy setting. Swearing tends to be limited in-world sayings (Hammer and Tongs! for example). There are some very few sex scenes, far apart and pretty tame. I can think of one or two across the 8 book (so far) series. Hope any of that is useful

Boom.

damnation, could have sworn I read that somewhere. I'll keep hunting. As to your point, I can see a way that could work in keeping with my unconfirmed quote, although it is a stretch maybe - if a Misting just below the Mistborn threshold mated with a non-allomancer who's very close to the Misting threshold, and the child is lucky enough to get all the Investiture carrying genes (sGenes?) passed down, it would push them over that tipping point. As I said, probably a stretch, but viable. On the other hand, I do kind of like the idea others have posted whereby the specific coding of your sDNA confirms which metals you can use to access, and the amount of Investiture you have controls how much you can channel at once. Does make it harder to qualify why there are no dual-metal Mistings sans hemalurgy though without some arbitrariness of 'no sDNA of this kind exists/can exist'.

Agree with Morsk; using base 10 simply makes sense for humans as we have 10 digits on our hands, it's a logical place to base the numbering system from. That said, once you use base 10, decimalisation is a logical progression, so using percentages isn't too much of a stretch really. 1.6/10 is less useful than 16/100, whilst 160/1000 is unwieldy, and more fine detail than most people would need.

Preservation CHOSE the ratio, and Preservation is held by Leras, who was human. He wanted it to be a distinctly non-natural ratio, as a sign to his followers. source

That's why Elend is a super strong mistborn. Very well, I'll rephrase. The sliding scale of Allomancy doesn't allow a gradiated access to number of metals. From the quote above, I'd assume you go from 'Max strength Misting' to 'Minimum strength Mistborn' if you ever went over the tipping point of Investiture. Darn, I can't seem to find the quote now, but I'm positive there was one that states explicitly that (hemalurgy notwithstanding) you're either a Misting or a Mistborn; there's no middle ground.

Forgive me not digging the quote up right away, but we have WoB that you don't get gradiation with different levels of Preservation in your sDNA. At a specific level of Preservation you get Mistings, then nothing but Mistings until you hit a certain higher threshold where you get Mistborn. At a still higher level you get Well of Ascension power, which is very close to a full Shard.

It's an interesting one. I guess it's worth asking Brandon how an alloy of two focus metals would behave, allomantically and feruchemically.

That seems like quite a logical leap. Preservation and Ruin never merged until Sazed took them up, but 16 was still a significant number. Also, there's a real possibility that Honor and Cultivation have either merged, or are at least working together in some fashion. Endowment is the only Shard we've seen to date to have little to no interaction with another Shard, and we have nothing to suggest a number that has any meaning for Endowment. 16 is in some way important on Scadrial (and perhaps beyond, if Adonalsium was indeed split into 16 pieces). 10 is significant on Roshar. We don't even really know for sure that 10 is significant to Honor (although it's incredibly likely, all things considered) as opposed to another Shard on Roshar. The numbers may even be significant to the Shardworld and not the Shard. I'll be very interested to see how that meta-sub-plot-element (:S) plays out.

I'm having trouble finding the relevant passage right now, but there is a mention in-text of how many palaces there are in the Court of the Gods in Hallandren. I'm sure it's over 20. It's mentioned that less than half are currently occupied; I don't remember if it's the number of Gods which is in the twenties or the number of palaces.

Can you confirm for me where this is written? In the book, Susebron Awakening all the tapestries happens off-screen; we don't actually know if he speaks the command or not. If there's evidence fine, I'm just having trouble finding it.

Remind me, was Elend unconscious when Vin game him the Lerasium? Don't have my Kindle to hand.