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Shadows of Self Chicago signing (Oct. 12, 2015) #9 Share Copy Play/Pause Dragon13 Is it possible for a Shard or Shardholder [Vessel] to reproduce, other than by creating Splinters? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Dragon13 Any chance we've seen the offspring of-- Brandon Sanderson RAFO! *laughter*

I still do not understand your premise. Why would he not consume the bead? I do recognize we are now speaking in hypothetical.

Eating the bead sounds easier.

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I agree that the image is funny.

A group of wealthy investors wanted to be able to predict the outcome of a horse race. So they hired a group of biologists, a group of statisticians, and a group of physicists. Each group was given a year to research the issue. After one year, the groups all reported to the investors. The biologists said that they could genetically engineer an unbeatable racehorse, but it would take 200 years and $100 billion. The statisticians reported next. They said that they could predict the outcome of any race, at a cost of $100 million per race, and they would only be right 10% of the time. Finally, the physicists reported that they could also predict the outcome of any race, and that their process was cheap and simple. The investors listened eagerly to this proposal. The head physicist reported, "We have made several simplifying assumptions. First, let each horse be a perfect rolling sphere . . ."

We don't actually know how that works. It could be that Elsecallers move area not mass and as such the lightweavers will go with them. I also don't see the skybreaker carpet bombing lasting against the much more numerous windrunners.

My point is that they would be intermixing with several different groups on the field using cryptic code to communicate with each other and changing as needed. This basically guarantees that they will have fighters left when all but one other team has been eliminated meaning that they have at least a 50% chance of winning any given mach up. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. Variant translations. A military operation involves deception.

Assuming it was some kind of free for all battle lightweavers could intermingle with say the elsecallers and help them soulcast any areal attack until all the flyers were down. Alternatively they could also join the stoneward fortifications and use soulcasting to imitate that order in order to survive bombardment.

No. "I will listen to those who have been ignored!" "What?" I believe what we are seeing is based on the order's proximity to Honor whose power moves through the world of Roshar.

aaannd Rshara with the WoB.

She chides him for a number of things but her point is that he does not have enough respect for human life which is arguably true.

I challenge you to give me an example of a war in witch no civilians were involved in any capacity.

Well Odium does not want to call himself Odium despite that being what basically every source of objective information calls him. The name just sort of stuck I guess. Harmony named himself that based on what he though of the intents he was wielding and it caught on. Odium can try to change his name but I suppose people are not buying. Remember each shard has a nature associated with it based on its intent and that intent interacts with the world in a certain way. Endowment likely got her name because the people who know about her felt the gift of breath and returned from her. I imagine similar patterns were followed with the other shards.

My idea was that they use their abilities to disguise themselves as members of other orders or civilians not to have them hide under illusory rocks.

If they don't care about friendly fire.

Larkin are an endangered species. You can't just turn that around whenever you want to. An effective lightweaver would avoid suspicion and Cryptics can hide behind the Lightweavings themselves.

Societies with gay couples have found solutions to that problem. Fostering children from a relative for example or using a surrogate mother.

Seons like spren can be considered splinters. If by splinter you mean bit of a shard that broke off at some point(terminology varies). Kandra are not splinters they are organic beings with a bit of hemalugy added on.

Keep it up Sandman! Sandman! Sandman! Sandman!

We know of two Larkin. How exactly do these Windrunners get their hands on so enough larkin and who exactly administers the test and who is the test on?

The problem with rating books is that it is possible to thoroughly enjoy a 2/10 if you are in the right mood. I personally think that Elantris is not his best work although I do like the final twist(I would have liked it more if I had a clearer visual but I don't think that way).

Weirdly to me memes will always be a legit psychological phenomenon as apposed to those internet things that I am apparently immune to.

Ahsoka is amazing one of the best Star Wars books to date. Master and Apprentice kind of annoy me because they don't realy get at any of the stuff I want them to and more importantly does not fit in well with my understanding of the characters. Thrawn is better(the new ones). To be fair. It is not like anything anyone did in the movie made any sense.