Andrew C

I think that Trell's origin story is legit - Trell was just a forgotten god of antiquity that was invented as an origin story. But that story persisted (thanks, Sazed!) and now any of those forgotten gods could be used by a rival Shard.

So I think it's Odium. Yes, Odium is heavily invested in Roshar, but he's been around the Cosmere before and I don't see him needing much investiture in order to create one spike. Bleeder is *hateful*. Her whole motivation is driven by hatred. Once free from Harmony's control, you'd think she'd approach Wax and explain the situation - instead she sets up Wax to kill her again.

I picture him as the stereotypical 'skinny nerd'.

If I were Brandon, I'd move the customary 'Series is ending, so massacre all the characters' scene into Book 4, just to mess with the people posting here.

Why is it called OCD? That name has no order. CDO. That's it. It is now in alphabetical order. As it SHOULD BE.

You need to sing this. And video it. And post to Youtube.

(Minor WoK spoiler)

My reading of that scene was that Oblit thought he was in mortal peril from the time David hitched a ride, and he fled. David called out to him as he was leaving and Oblit took David seriously. I *really* need to reread that scene though.

bahahahahahaha... That is epic. (accidental pun)

That would be fascinating in a world with only Mistings. Against Mistborn Hazekillers are generally relegated to speedbump status.

I would have thought he'd have told his weakness to Tia in case he needed to be put down. I see no reason he'd tell anyone else. This is, of course, predicated upon Tia not being a closet Epic herself.

If it gets made you absolutely, positively MUST include Mitosis as a scene (epilogue to book 1, or first scene of book 2) and (MITOSIS SPOILER)

Mitosis (minor antagonist in Reckoners) definitely needs the Rick Astley song 'Never Gonna Give You Up'

It's the name Steelheart and the 'a heart of steel starts to grow' that makes it fit the one character so well. Firefight (minor) spoilers

I can't hear the song 'Superheroes' by The Script without the lyrics getting to me... All his life he's been told He’ll be nothing when he’s old All the kicks and all the blows He won't ever let it show 'Cause he's stronger than you know A heart of steel starts to grow And later... He's a got a beast in his belly That's so hard to control 'Cause they've taken too much hits Taking blow by blow Now light a match, stand back, watch them explode I wonder if Steelheart saw this as the theme song of his life.

I believe this is the case too, although I'm not sure whether it is the only mechanism by which it can happen.

Unless the leadership of the Faithful do know what is going on with him... My suspicion is that he's an anti-Calamity force of some description.

YES THIS PLEASE. As for David's survival after getting part disintegrated - I reread the scene and I'm pretty sure that Megan grabbed a dimensional alternative to David. The wording strongly implies this.

That poem is like a kitten in a minefield. You feel terrible for laughing at it, but you can't take your eyes from it until the horrible ending.

Yeah they should get Rick Astley to play the role for sure.

Yeah the 5 mile limit was an elaborate ploy to protect her real base.

If you know the exact distance, you can do it with a pretty small number of data points, 6 or 7 should be enough. And that's to pinpoint in three dimensions where Regalia is, not just in two. If you do not know the exact distance (i.e. if '5 miles' might be 4.637 miles, or 5.556 miles), you'd need an extra couple of points of reference at least. The main issue, however, is false negatives. If Regalia doesn't show up, it may not be because she is out of range. It may be because she is busy drowning a kitten somewhere or something like that.

Yeah he was a bully and a jock. I can't see gang culture being traumatic enough to make him afraid of not people that weren't afraid of him unless he did jail time in one of the world's worse prisons. Given that he was American (I think?), prison is pretty likely. Thanks for reminding me of the name of the Faithful.

Is it just me that imagined the scene where Mitosis is slain to feature a few dozen clones that all look like Rick Astley on one side, and a whole town singing "Never Gonna Give You Up" on the other until all the Rick Astleys explode? Sorry if I just ruined that scene for you forever.

Yeah Nightweilder is sure to have been badly sunburned. Steelheart presumably lived in some sort of gang culture at some point, perhaps in prison (he was known to be a bully) and needed people afraid of him, and Fortuity no doubt has been through a messy, messy divorce. Other book spoilers in tags are minor but real - be warned. I think Dawnslight is something else entirely, although I'm not sure. In Brandon's books religions always matter somehow (MISTBORN SPOILER LEGION SPOILER Stormlight book 1 spoiler . The religion (cannot remember the name, /derp) of having faith in 'good epics' is probably important. As a red comet, Calamity is a good opposite to 'Dawnslight', assuming DL lives up to his name in any way. I would not be surprised if DL continues to oppose Calamity the way he opposed Regalia in Firefight.