Andrew C

The key thing is that the characters are wrong about how to track Regalia, and the book states what the characters believe, not what is actually true.

I don't think Phaedrus expected Megan to do that. Why would he bother to block walls rather than just making a force barrier over the entrance and exit? Megan would be human around the fire.

Instabam takes photos of food, which explode when thrown.

It's the obvious contraction.

A simile is like a one-legged cat. You can kick it around a bit and have a cheap laugh, but you feel horrible afterward.

Yeah I'm pretty sure Calamity is a high epic. Damnation, I keep going to type 'calamnity' with an n for some reason. Blood and bloody storming language.

I feel Steelheart was written with a movie adaptation in mind.

Yeah, this sounds awesome

Spoiler, in the form of a metaphor

Firefight didn't exactly start slowly, it was all action until someone drank the Kool-Aid.

She had no protection from short range physical violence and was never claimed to have. 'Old Age' is generally a term for any illness associated with the body breaking down over time. I'd include cancer that strikes an elderly person under that umbrella.

Look at the transformation Megan goes through in the final scene after facing her fears. I suspect that Dawnslight, not Firefight, was the first post-fear Epic.

Warning: Spoiler tags contain Firefight spoilers! I agree that that was his . I'm expecting, however, that his weakness is .

That is a fascinating possibility. That said I cannot help but suspect it is related to Tia somehow. If Tia being threatened is not his weakness, she is dead within the next two hours after the events of Firefight as she is probably the only person that can stop him killing every Reckoner everywhere.

He doesn't fit physically, but all of the talk of 'winter is coming' (and by winter, I mean 'the end times') - I think it fits. Could well be wrong. Now all we need is for Oblit to kill a couple of major characters unceremoniously in the first three chapters of the next book. On another note though - other than the hair, Oblit reminds me of China Mieville lookswise. Maybe the looks of Mieville and the personality of GRRM?

I always assumed that one AS (probably head of the Brown at some point), or a small cabal of them, decided that the Oath Rod's ability to prevent rogue channelers justified these costs, and that they worked to destroy all records of the cost of the Oath Rod. (Of course the ability of Shai'tan to unbind these oaths was a secret known only to the most senior Darkfriends). It would not surprise me if these AS were either Darkfriends or manipulated by them. After all, what better way to hide your cabal of rogue channelers than to give the world 'proof' that noone could become a rogue channeler?

GRRM, because he just want to kill everyone?

I can't respond to this without spoiler issues.

Please. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

Regalia is far, far, far too old to be played by Gina. Gina could probably play a 55 year old with makeup, but a woman in her late 70s? Not a chance. As for Megan, I imagine an unknown actor I know personally (whose name coincidentally happens to be Megan) playing her. I could be wrong but I'd always imagined Megan as a very small person (height and build) and so far too short for Jennifer Lawrence to play.

Maybe the alternate universe in question is the Cosmere, and the Shard of Temptation accidentally got pulled through...

OK, so it's never revealed for certain. I'd thought it was going to be something related to symbols of justice. My best guess is that her weakness was aging, which is actually a somewhat powerful weakness to have. Can only die of old age is an interesting reversal on the normal immortality trope of 'can only die from violence'.

If Calamity were a shard, I feel it would be Temptation, not Fear. "Here's infinite power. The price is only your soul - oh and a weakness." I'm going to need to read the book again, but I'm not sure whether David is now a post-fear High Epic like Megan, or a human that was saved by Megan. What I really want to know is what happens in the six hours after the book finished. Phaedrus is going to go on a Reckoner-killing rampage if unstopped. If Tia isn't his weakness, she's probably #1 on the list. Finally, Prof's history. I think it's pretty certain now that his Rending involved him going postal and killing his students (something I suspected from Steelheart). Like Steelheart, finding his weakness will be essential to killing him.

I thought this too, although Megan changing reality by pulling an unhurt David back to RL works too. I called Calamity being an Epic before the book started.

As for #18: - Much as Tavanast's words in the final chapters of book 1 imply that Dalinar should seek to coerce Odium into some form of supernaturally binding contract involving a champion, I expect that Odium will attempt to entice some of the Radiants into committing a clearly dishonorable, unconscionable act in some form of hostage situation. Basically, Kaladin or someone else will be told by Odium "I'll give your humans 1000 more years if you kill this child in cold blood." It's a variant of http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten where the clear 'right' choice from pragmatic morality is to eat the kitten, but where doing so will allow Odium a much more complete victory later on. 27 - I think this refers to the chanting that summoned the Everstorm. POV any soldier or hanger-on of the Dalinar-led forces there. 30 - I strongly believe this is Kaladin saving Elhokar. All is withdrawn for me. - Withdrawn - he's suffering extreme depression at the time, and Syl has withdrawn her powers. I stand against the one who saved my life. - Moash I protect the one who killed my promises. - Elhokar fits this fairly well. I raise my hand. The storm responds - "Raise my hand" is a metaphor for 'act decisively'. He acts decisively, and 'the storm' - his Stormlight powers - respond. 34 - I strongly suspect that this is a precursor to Stormlight running low on Roshar. However, it could refer to a *large* number of Larkins appearing somewhere. Also, it's not clear whether "Stormfather" is used as a curse by someone fighting for Honor, or as a reference to the actual Stormfather by someone fighting against him. 35 - If my interpretation of 18 is right, this is saying "Because Kaladin (or someone else loyal to Honor/Tavanast) didn't 'eat the kitten', a deal with Odium is rejected and an opportunity to contain Odium is passed up."