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Nice idea. I was thinking he was the rioter though. Also the soother was still able to soothe the crowd after Marasi captured her without his help wasn't she?

I disagree. There certainly seems to be outside shardic influence occurring in SoS. I think Hoid wants to be around anytime shards are interacting.

Fair - Still a restricted topic

Right, to me it seems similar to Vin's burning of pewter before she understood what she was doing. She was burning trace amounts in her blood to the same effect. Vin, however, was a very strong mistborn with a very small amount of investiture from the trace pewter. Wax seem like he is the opposite; a very weak ability with pewter granted from his earring with a very large amount of investiture that he can pull from the mists.

Dang, this is getting into territory outside the sphere of this forum then.

Interesting, does this info come from unpublished works or wob?

Is that PM group for people who have read White Sands? If so could someone please invite me? I read it quite some time ago.

Um...who is Frost?

Perhaps the shard's intent itself does not allow it to influence its holder. Kind of a catch-22 there.

So I know that they are distributing Aether to people who ask for it. Just like Peter will send you a copy of White Sands if you ask. My question is can someone who already has it provide a link (or email it)? When Peter sent me White Sands he said that I could give it to people but not post it anywhere. Only reason I ask is that it took me 6 months to get a reply to my request for White Sands, and I'm sure that with Brandon becoming more and more popular I prefer not to bug the Sanderteam, but would very much like to read Aether.

That's how I would perceive it. Perhaps it's backwards to say there has to be an absence of all fear and worry. It is likely more correct to say that the presence of any fear or concern at all means that you can't harm him.

I really hope Prof is redeemed. The book alludes to two separate possibilities: A - Exploiting Prof's weakness and capturing him, keeping his weakness in effect long enough that the corruption fades away. This was alluded to by David talking about doing exactly this to other Epics. The problem I see with it is that how do you know if the corruption is gone as opposed to an Epic pretending to be better just to be let go? Then murder-fest. B - Prof himself spoke about having to put down a friend who has been corrupted like putting down a rabid dog. There is symmetry in Prof himself having to be put down. I would be sad, but it would make for an extremely compelling ending.

I always took this to mean that David's father got at least a little worried when he shot SH. And that was enough to negate the weakness. My take on it has always been that in order to trip SH's weakness you have to be utterly convinced that SH is no threat to you at all. Even Prof who is pretty ridiculously powerful was worried enough about fighting him that he couldn't exploit the weakness. Same goes for every other High Epic who faced off against SH. No matter how confident they were, even with a Prime Invincibility, they were at least concerned enough that they couldn't trip his weakness. In fact in the years since David's dad, the only person who was confident enough that SH wasn't a threat to trip the weakness was SH himself. So I agree his threshold is extremely low. There is no margin for error.

I'm fairly certain that is what she meant. However there was a line earlier in the book where she was talking about the spyril and said that the procedure usually resulted in the death of the Epic that was being harvested. Maybe she can do it better with Calamity's help. I don't know.

It's also possible that [he] in fact looks nothing like an angel, and that is simply what David's mind perceived as Calamity's powers began to touch him. That might even be what Calamity wants people to see when he gifts them. We have no idea the scope of Calamity's abilities. Skewing what people perceive when they look at him (either through a telescope or any other means ) is well within what he could be capable of.

I also thought that setting up the gun for remote firing was a large stretch. How would she know which room to aim it into? What would have happened if prof had put a larger field around the entire room? How much time did she spend plotting and setting that up before running in to save her love? It doesn't fit together very well. Someone mentioned that she should be carrying around a suicide pill. That seems like a pretty decent way to go.

It's possible that nothing would negate SH's powers entirely. After all if his weakness was just being in the presence of someone who was not afraid of him then his powers would never work, since he was not afraid of himself. However it is entirely possible that his powers simply wouldn't work on someone who wasn't afraid of him.

Do not forget the Pink Pinkiness!

In rereading your post I can see now that we are saying the same thing.

Unless she did what David did and got over her fears before she became an Epic. (I don't think this is the case, just stating the possibility)

I agree again with that number person. I don't think we ever actually saw Megan successfully use any of Prof's powers. I think what we saw happen with David was legit - ie: he's not an epic (although this is Brandon we're talking about so who knows) Perhaps now that Megan has beaten her weakness she could give up her powers if she wanted to as well? Or maybe there is only a single opportunity event to do that.

Done. Also I think that in the case of the Kool Aid it is not the actual substance that she fears exactly, but rather it is symbolic of the traumatic event that occurred. Same with Mitosis. He's not actually AFRAID of his own music, but his experience trying to become a musician was traumatic to him and his music symbolizes that for him.

"Ok, ok. Let's see. I point. They die. Diefinger! No, that sounds too German everyone will want to know what it means. Hm. I point at people, and bam! They become skeletons. So I point and they become way less than they were. Point...less. I am Pointless!"

Perhaps facing your weakness cleanses the corruptive (not a word spell check?) nature of the powers. Actually getting over the fear entirely causes the weakness to go away (no weakness Epic)

....a potato in a mine-field. You weren't sure what to expect when you started, but it wasn't that.