Silus - Shard of Flame

I disagree about Harry Potter. I reread the first one a few weeks ago and was astounded by how well it's held up on quality. The characterization is flawless, and the sense of immersion is fantastic. Even under the eye of an wannabe author like myself. Of course, that might be the nostalgia talking, but I don't think so.

Eerongal "I got a message for ya. Ambro got himself a boat, he wants to see ya down at the docks." Jay'el You see Eerongal over by a merchant stand, talking to a vagrant.

Adding a poll.

The only differences between Szeth and Kaladin are that Kaladin uses a spear where Szeth uses a Shardblade, plus Kaladin, as a Windrunning novice, can't use Basic Lashings.The differences between Vin, Kelsier and Elend are even more minute, since they all the same powers and weapons. Spook can't measure up to them because they have almost eight times as many metals as him that they can use in combat. Raoden has the problems I outlined before, as do Jasnah, Shallan, Dilaf, Galladon, and Hrathen. Adolin and Dalinar would be identical fighters apart from skill level. Susebron is overpowered with so much Breath. Why is Kiin even on this list? He's a normal guy! Really, it boils down to the same problems. Not enough variation between competitors to be really interesting and lack of knowledge of certain types of powers, particularly the Sel characters.

Chaos cleaning? Paradox!

The problem is that I'm not even sure we would have enough people to fill a bracket in an interesting way since a lot of characters have serious overlap in their powers. Kelsier, Vin and Elend are all Mistborn, and the Inquisitors are basically Mistborn when it comes to combat apart from some Feruchemy. We also have some serious knowledge gaps. We don't really know enough about Soulcasting, Aons or Dakhor magic to really include them. I mean we "know" how Aons work, you draw the Aons in the air and they do stuff, but we don't really know enough about the straight and basic mechanics of it to effectively use it. Same with Soulcasting. Then there's some real problems in terms of power balancing. Aons are pretty darn impractical for combat unless you've been practicing like crazy like Raoden, and even then he was defeated rather decisively. Mistings wouldn't fit because they get outclassed pretty quickly by just about everyone. And Awakening only works if you're a master with a good chunk of Breath like Vasher or maybe Denth. I just don't see it coming together very well. Am I biased, yes, but that doesn't mean these aren't real issues.

So, there's a couple of things to go over that I need feedback from you guys to figure out: 1) My original intent was for the bracket to be filled by not just characters from Brandon's books, but from everything, like the Suvudu Cage Match, except not just books. We'd be bringing in stuff from everywhere, like comic books or video games or TV shows or anime. BUT, the other option is to have it be exclusively characters from Brandon's books, which I think is squandering some really cool potential, but this IS a Brandon fansite, so I'll let you be the judge of that. Either way, you guys pick who goes in almost entirely. (I have those I want in, myself. XP) 2) I'm not sure the judging of rounds should be vote based or more of a general consensus. General consensus concerning who would win would cut out the fandom squabbles that Suvudu struggles with so much, but wouldn't work so well for a Brandon-centric bracket because it would take longer. Voting speeds things up, but can lead to an unbalanced vote due to fandom loyalties. I want this to be very much a logical process. An honest "who would win" debate. Any other issues I'm missing? Any comments or recommendations? Post em here!

Ditto.

You may think he has free time, but I'm pretty sure you would be wrong. There's a reason he only teaches one class a year.

Wait, what does this have to do with Lerasium mistings?

I would like to announce that I have created the bracket for the 17th Shard Cage Match! Tomorrow I will write up the post to open it and the fun will begin!

Odium = Rayse has not been confirmed, jus' sayin'.

Problem with the moving continent theory. The storms break against the mountains, that's why there aren't any storms in Shin.

My best idea is that it's part of something we have yet to see. Lame, I know.

Posting here to update my positioning type stuff. I run the Nexus RP (link in sig), and have Mod powers on that board. So if you're coming here to stalk me, you should know that.

It's not so much too many chefs as one chef taking the feedback of his customers and translating it into changing the recipe, something only he knows how to do.

I don't know how that would even work. The AWESOME POINTS flow out, not in!

I voted on all the library computers. *feels accomplished* Wait, we're still behind? NOOOO!

Puck, you get 10 AWESOME POINTS for being able to take a joke.

Oh, man, this is close! May go down and vote on all the library computers if I need to.

Feather, you get 5 AWESOME POINTS for that.

I'd say that Puck and Chaos would both evaporate out of time and space if that happened. Sooo...is there a downside? I kid! I kid!

consume their chi As did I, Emeralis. Take 10 AWESOME POINTS for the Hyperbole and a Half reference. It's probably my favorite blog after Brandon's.

lolz Not quite like that. DANG, Eero, that's one heckuva pic, you have a gift for picking out weird stuff. And it's definitely more of a community run thing, and it's not limited to books. Plus, it's not vote based, more like people debating who would win in a fight, what Suvudu Cage Match wishes it could be.

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