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Yeah you can't easily increase the overall amount of breaths in circulation easily, but a bank would be able to increase the percentage of those breaths that they own fairly easily once they had enough to loan out. What I mean is something like 'you get fifty breaths from the bank. In ten years, you have to repay seventy breaths to the bank' idea. Family members breaths could be used as collateral, I suppose.

Yeah, that. I mean, what would happen if you had a crazy amount of breaths, so crazy that you could awaken a shard blade, if possible.

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Hm. I don't think so, unless the chalk was damaged too much. I think it'd be cool to have tank chalklings.

I had the idea of banks giving breath loans.

What would happen if you had unlimited breaths, and tried to awaken a shard sword?

I think anything can be explained by X = Y because of the shards.

Wow, it looks amazing!

I am a truthwatcher. I took it a second time and got windrunner Edit: I agree, the quiz might need a little bit of work, but I really enjoyed taking it. I think my favourite question would be the choice of artifact.

It's always interesting, because on one hand, you want to freak out and talk together about everything, but on the other hand you want to be careful and test how much the other person has read so you don't spoil anything.

I think the magic system would be based off the idea that If following the devil, you can consume your own souls investiture to perform magic. If following God, you can pray to him, and he may use his power to grant your prayers. BUT, he doesn't grant every prayer, because he needs to stay more powerful than the devil? I don't know, maybe the devil is Odium, and God is Harmony, or whatever.

I agree. I always thought that Preservation and Ruin were odd to call opposite, because the definition of preservation means to keep something the way it is already. Ruin is to destroy. If they really were perfect embodiments of their names, then neither would want to create humans. I feel something like Creation would be a more apt name for something that was the opposite emption of Ruin. So it probably isn't fair to say that the shards are two-dimensional characters without any desires apart from the emotions described in their name, or that these emotions are all coupled to a perfectly opposite emotion. Edit: I just had a look at all of the names of the shards, and realised they actually do have a kind of opposite feel to them. Either way, they aren't two-dimensional. Odium - Honour Devotion - Dominition Ruin - Cultivation Autonomy - Endowment Preservation - Ambition

Ah, I didn't know that. It makes sense, though, because I remember being confused when I read Hoid's 'insult' / 'inslut' comment, because they weren't supposed to be speaking english.

Yeah, that was just linking with my idea that maybe muscle memory could be stored in a similar way to regular memories.

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Just double checking on something I am kind of confused about. "The only way to allow someone else to use a metalmind that you stored an attribute in would be to dump your entire Identity into an Aluminum metalmind. This way your metalmind is not "keyed" to your specific Identity. Any ferring/feruchemist capable of tapping that attribute should be able to access it this way." If this was real, and you could store the ability to play piano into copper, you could have one person who can do everything.

So, where are you going to go from here? More of his other books?

Yo. Yes, they are both part of the Mistborn series. Welcome to Sanderson's work. Once you join, you never leave. (Sinister giggling)

hm. I didn't know that.

Thankyou so much for this simple explanation.

@Oudeis I am just theorising here, but if a line of vigour hits a line of forbiddence head on, it bounces back on itself, destroying itself instead of firing back at the Rithmatist who drew it. Of course, we haven't seen enough battles to know, for sure what happens, I think. I think partial circles work. A line of warding doesn't immediately become ineffective if it is breached at one point, from memory.

I felt the same as Feloxia. I just read fantasy book after fantasy book, looking for something that could compare to Harry Potter. I needed something fresh, something engaging, with awesome magic. I needed something funny. I heard about Sanderson on my mission. The way people talked about him, you would think he was a writing god. People who had read his works and Harry Potter, had said that they liked his works better. So I was kind of disappointed, in a way, reading some of his works, because my expectations were so high. I struggled to get through Elantris, so I picked up Steelheart. Reading Steelheart was one of the best reading decisions of my life. It was everything I was looking for in a book. I have read some of his other works, but that stands out. I'm looking for Alcatraz at the moment, because I think it will be an amazing read, too.

^^ @ethan sedai That reckoners one is hilarious. Harry Potter Lord of the rings Eragon The cosmere

@StrikerEZ I don't care how you spell words in America. I hope you didn't think I wanted Americans to spell words in America a certain way. That wasn't the point.

@CrazyRioter It doesn't really take a whole lot of effort. It's probably got to be the easiest edit you can do to a book, because all you need to do is get the computer to run through, looking for specific words and change them. gray = grey honor = honour color = colour etc. I think they did that with Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone when they turned it into american english. And that was with a book that didn't have a magic system that revolved around aluminium, colour, honour, etc.