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2nd, "I will protect those who cannot protect themselves." 3rd, "I will protect even those I hate, so long as it is right." So, the 3rd could include the 2nd, though it wouldn't tend to, I suppose. You could hate someone who could not protect themselves. Now we're talking ideals so, "You can't save everyone," doesn't seem like it would fit as a direct motivator idea for an ideal. I would think more, "I will protect even those who I cannot save," though. Journey before destination: trying before accomplishing, if you will. ("Am I not supposed to want to help people?" is ambivalent: it's, "I currently want to help people but seemingly have to give up wanting to, to swear the next Ideal," so it could be that the interlocutor is just mistaken about what seems to be so, here.) Let's say the 5 Ideals tend to follow this pattern: universally identical 1st, then the next 3 correspond to three parts of the 1st. So, "Life before death," goes with, "I will protect those who cannot protect themselves"; "Strength before weakness," goes with, "I will protect even those I hate"; "I will protect even those who I cannot save," goes with, "Journey before destination." Now the 5th Ideal, hmm...

Jasnah reminds me of Hannah Arendt so I think she'll end up marrying Taravangian

Proof: Sanderson is such a powerful writer (he has the equivalent of 16,000,000 LogoChromatic Breaths) that he has placed invisible spoilers in SECRET HISTORY that you have to click on with your finger to read, but only if you know they're there. But if you Intentionally click on the spoiler buttons in the printed book (while using Plagiary), secret passages will appear, explaining the truth of the story. So there's a second Secret History inside the first one, and in the second one it explains that Vin didn't actually go to the SR but just pretended to in order to give Kelsier the necessary push to do what he needed to do. THEORY: It is possible to have a Breath level numbered using imaginary numbers.

The real reason Vin didn't see Kelsier is because she was seeing Elend already.

Do you think that, either in the Fall series, or in a mirror-image Genesis/W&V series, people from the Shannara world will ever fight the Void in itself?

The Lord Ruler, the No-God, and Sauron walked into a bar. Then the world ended. Now sadly, I have only read the first 3 "2nd Apocalypse" books, one that I bought at a thrift store, the other two from the library. I could probably interlibrary-loan the Aspect-Emperor ones. What's weird is that I don't think I actually like* any of the characters, ultimately, except sort of Achamian. All the others are disturbing to me on some level, like even Kellhus when he's like "well you've got to execute 40% of your city for defying us," seemed gratuitous and Also I liked Zin *I also don't agree with the author's philosophy of no-free-will, seems a little elitist at least as far as the application goes, though I also feel like I understand where he's coming from with his proposal.

Proof: the Cosmere is the fantasy equivalent of the Dark Tower series. The author of those showed up in those as a pivotal character. Ergo, Brandon will show up in the Cosmere as a pivotal character. King was a representation of one of the Beams holding up the Tower so Sanderson will at least be a representation of a Shard. But since he'd be the Shard who created the Shards, he'd technically be Adonalsium in the same way that 0.99999999... = 1. Theory: Lift is a Herald of Lift.

I had been toying with the idea of writing a Lovecraftian fantasy epic, and what do you know! It already happened Srsly though this series is like for cereal rerderculously gerd, ermagherd, is that an Inchoroi in my pants or am I just happy to be reading this?!

That's not true, how else is Sanderson going to surprise us with the ultimate twist?

Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts, blind... Accompanion, an. Geometrical beings formed from the matter of adepts in the College of Geometry. They are shaped like the Aristoic Solids. Can be Knotted together under some circumstances, most famously to construct the Apostate's spaceship. Apostate, the. Paramark Alkisten. Alongside the Heretic and the Schismatic, one of the Desecrated. Responsible for opening the Silver Door. Aristo the Hopeful. Ancient hero-scholar who founded the Academy of Vients, the greatest College of Geometry in history. Chalcedonianism. The specified orthodoxy of the ur-Church. Named after the city of Chalcedon, in which the thirteenfold elaboration of the fourfold Nicean doctrine was proclaimed. Colleges of Theurgy. Divisions of the Universities devoted to the analysis and development of magic. College of Archaeology [study of first principles or arche]. A Rationalist faction who use magic to empower their faculty of reasoning. Their highest rank is that of Apodictician. College of Psychology. An Empiricist faction who use magic to heighten their senses. Their highest rank is that of Beatified. College of Geometry. The theoretical antithesis or balance of the other two colleges. They have no highest rank but are divided by a sequence of choices: first, whether to pay the Cost of Accompaniment, and if not whether to wield Graphs or Knots. Their magic directly affects external matter more than inner perception or thought. Cost, the. Magical price for the use of magic. Archaeologists slowly lose their sight, hearing, etc. Psychologists slowly lose their ability to engage in abstraction. Geometers sacrifice part of their bodies to form Accompanions, Graphs, or Knots. Desecrated, the. Three human mortals regarded with ultimate anathema by the Nicean-Chalcedonian ur-Church. Graphs. Magical patterns that influence an object's movement. Gnosticists, the. Faction headed by the Heretic, g'Ém Tserr'e. Prevented the world from being devoured by Hell, at the cost of the world's destruction and the death of every living thing. Servants of the Empty One, the god-foe of the God of the Lørd. "Hell is the light of God." Enigmatic apothegm or prophecy pertaining to the role of the Desecrated in the Second World. Lørd, the. The first-created of the Nicean God, through whom the world was made. Mandated the penalty of Hell for the worst of sins; theretofore the Nicean God had only forged Heaven and the Void. Later he betrayed the Nicean God and gave the keys of Heaven and Hell to the Apostate. Niceanism. The general orthodoxy of the ur-Church. Named after the city of Nicea, in which the division of the afterlife into Heaven, Limbo, the Void, and Hell, was proclaimed. Second World, the. A new world created by the Lørd to settle affairs in the afterlife following the ur-Eschaton. Silver Door, the. Mysterious region of space through which the world passes during its orbit of the sun. Opened as a portal to Hell by the Apostate, before the destruction of the world by the Gnosticists. [... to be continued?]

Maybe they look like some plasma form. Like... plasma globes? I say this due to the Shards of Sel being like a "plasma storm" in their current state.

Elend on the HoA cover is the most handsome depiction of a main guy character in the cover art of any of the books, so I don't care if he was as flat as a Cartesian grid

True, so much happened in OB I forgot about that

What can I say, my love life is as fictional as Kaladin's

I shall spare thee, then.

RUIN'S CAMPAIGN SLOGAN Would you like to destroy some everything today? Platform: 0% population growth. Privatized medicine. No vaccines. Capital punishment for all crimes OR Purge Day (or both). Increased supply of fuel to CERN.

I fell for four guys total, in my life so far, I have a theory why it won't be any others more, but now #3's name was "Drew" and I first read Sanderson's work back then and for other reasons Sanderson's stories are important to this part of my life, so when I read OB you can imagine I was all like but at the same time I wonder if Drehy is going to do anything really interesting ever.

This is not a joke a not is this?

I think the "el" part refers to divinity, since "Elithanathile" is the "true name of God," and "el" is also "God" in IRL-Hebrew, which is relevant to the IRL comparison to Vorinism. "Nah" might mean "bond," but "Zah," IDK. EDIT: So "Nahel bond" would be like "ATM machine" or "PIN number" I suppose

It was all part of the secret plan to defeat Voldemort when he Returned. Cultivation set it all up. But Harmony Potter took up the Shard of Wisdom (all Shards are Horcruxes of Adonalsium btw!) so he Ascended, and will become the Greater Scope Villain of Fantastic Meats and Where to Eat Them. Ssshh!!! *I've said too much! The secret project revealed!* *dissolves into a puddle of hufflepuff*

Well technically it's not called "a divine bond" on any world in the Cosmere, since they don't speak English EDIT: Also, on Sel they don't know that the seons are remnants of a divine being.

So, it amounts under the general circumstances of the Cosmere (the Shards being functionally divine) to "bonding involving the Shards," so all the bonds would be Nahel bonds, in a sense.

Since all we have to go off is the Threnodite system, I suppose we don't want to wither, is what.

I'm at least saying that the Swimming Ramen Creature is the true God, not the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I'm willing to debate the Levitating Tortellini Entity, too.

Still, given the similarities between instant noodles and the Internets ("a series of tubes"), if Taldain has the one (and radios!) how far can they be from the other?