The Silverlight Scholar

Mistborn spoilers

A simple way to make it powered, but not totally reliant on lashings would be towould be to just replace the chills in the current set up with boulders that could be lashed sideways as many times as needed to achieve the desired speed. Of course, this would not be nearly as efficient as just having a half dozen Windrunners flying around lashing the bridge directly. Which brings up the question, why didn't they do that? Are the fabrials that they are currently using more stormlight efficient? Is the amount of stormlight consumed really an issue with Dalinar on board? What do you guys think?

As much as I hope this doesn't happen, my bet is that we have Gavilar's cognitive shadow floating around somewhere and he will end up possessing somebody and being Odium's champion.

I don't have the book in front of me but isn't there a scene in Oathbringer where Dalinar is hiding the Jezrien's Honor Blade in the piping of Urithiru and remarks that it doesn't have a gemstone?

"I will protect those who have been forgotten" Just think about Kaladin becoming an Edgedancer from a surge standpoint at least. Kaladin would be able to control the amount of air resistance during his flight which could lead to some insane maneuvers or just plain old ignoring terminal velocity which could help with lashing to travel long distances. If Kaladin became an Edgedancer he would also be able to heal and possibly revive all the people he failed to protect, which could help him cope with having failed.

I just got my copy last night, and after doing a few solid read throughs of the rules, I have a two questions. In co-op mode, with the adversary quest "Contest of Champions" there is the option for players to choose to side with Odium. What happens if every single player decides to join Odium? Also, I could not find anywhere in the rules that anyone who has the "Odium's Champion" destiny card, MUST side with Odium if given the chance. Does this mean that theoretically, you could play a game where three knights radiant choose to side with Odium, and Odium's own champion is the only one who has to try to fight him at the end? Cause if that could happen, that is just plain hilarious.

Do we have any idea about a release date?

I remember seeing a joke about Sanderson making spikes that stole writing speed. But not Shards that stole writing speed.

@Frustration do you mean Spikes? As in hemalurgic spikes? Cause I have no idea how shards would directly steal writing speed.

Are we sure that aluminum burns instantly? I was under the impression that it just burned very quickly and we never saw anyone have enough of it to burn that we could see it last for longer than a split second.

He did. I was just wondering if this meant we had any new information on the subject. From the last State of Sanderson

I was checking on the Stormlight 4 draft progress bar when I noticed a Mistborn Screenplay progress bar. What did I miss? Do we have any more information on it? Are we finally going to see the Cosmere on the big screen?

@king of nowhere I picked up on the trust theme but having the others pointed out was really helpful. I also never would have thought of trying to tie in Sanderson's laws of magic and how those are used in the book. Have an upvote!

Taln's temple in Theylen city?

My school is weird and has given me the opportunity to run a book club on a book of my choice. I would like to do a book club on Mistborn as it is relatively short (It is not Stormlight) and self-contained. However, I was hoping that I would be able to get some ideas for some of the more complex literary devices (themes, motifs, symbolism, things that literature teachers seem to like.) Any help I can get in making the book club a success would be greatly appreciated! Edit: something appears to have gone wonky and this thread was double posted. If somebody could either delete this or tell me how to delete it myself that would be great. to keep things from getting confusing, just respond to the other thread.

The Shards all have/had holders, previously separate and sapient creatures who merged with a huge chunk of investiture. What was special about the shards that allowed people to do this? We know that any sufficiently large piece of investiture will gain sapience if left alone for long enough. We also have not seen anyone really merge with any amount of investiture besides Vin and Sazed on Scadrial. My best explanation for this is that any time anyone else held a huge chunk of investiture, the shard connected to it was either alive or shredded into tiny bits by Odium. Does this make any sense? Thank you in advance.

Um, actually, Denth didn’t believe Vasher beat Arsteel in a fair fight. Brass is the allomantic mental pulling metal used for dampening emotions.

Um, actually, Instabam is the one with potato powers. Nightblood was awakened by Vasher with the command “destroy evil”

That makes me wonder how much consciousness Night blood has. Also, does anyone have any idea what Nightblood would do if he was being wielded by someone who thaught that Vasher (or anyone else Nightblood likes) was evil?

Frost?

Kaladin

So... not easily available to a California high school student, got it. Well gues I know where I am going to college. Thanks for the information!

Does anyone know where to find a full copy of Dragonsteel? Correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure it was part of his Masters Thesis at BYU and so should be in their library. I tried checking their online database and it says that students were not required to submit a digital copy until 2009. Then I searched through the records that they had for 2005, which is as near as I can figure to the year are he graduated. Does anyone know if its just not there, or if I am even looking in the right spot?

Navani

There is a possibility that with the restoration of Elantris, the proper Aon sequence may be able to pull them more fully into the Physical Realm. However, this would probably region lock shardblades to Arelon, or possibly even the area immediately around the city if Elantris.