Archaeomancer

Update: I thought I would be safe from spoilers sticking to forums not related to Stormlight, and I was a fool! I will be back in one week after I finish Words of Radiance and Oathbringer.

"Yes, I understand it's magic, but what are the rules??"

@ZincAboutIt I appreciate the welcome! Also, is there a way I would have already unwittingly accepted cookies? Everyone is mentioning it, but I have not been offered cookies... it's worrisome.

Don't worry! I've stayed away from everything I haven't read in the last few months!! (I want an Elantris refresher too, after Stormlight). But thanks for lookin' out! Feel free to watch my fan-girlness unfold as I move through Stormlight!

Aw, @AngryMistspren, I'm not far enough through Stormlight to know!! I don't even know the orders yet.

Well, I definitely will not accept any cookies! Unless they're hemalurgically spiked in Era 2, because I have some questions for Harmony! I would say Warbreaker has my favorite magic system, but Mistborn's is the most impressive to me. Perhaps because I am so unscientific, myself.

I am brand new to 17th shard, but far from new to reading Sanderson. I wasn't a big reader until I was given the Mistborn trilogy box set for Christmas 2012. This began my debilitating binge-reading addiction. Mistborn have been my favorite books since that first readthrough, and as I jumped into other Sanderson books, Elantris and Warbreaker, he was firmly planted in place as my favorite author. I had been putting off reading the Stormlight Archive, because I really like to binge-read full series together, so I typically wait until they are all released. However, I've been looking at that copy of The Way of Kings sitting on my shelf and waiting to be devoured for nine years. It was time. That book has moved with me in and out of college dorms and across the country, and I have just been putting off the glory I knew was contained within. Anyway I started off the year knowing I wanted to reread all of my Sanderson treasures so I could then jump into the new ones. I was consistently buying his books as soon as they were available in paperback, but waiting to read them until I was certain the series were complete. I could wait no longer. I started the year rereading Warbreaker. I took a little detour and read the Kingkiller Chronicles (because Brandon had an endoresment on the cover), while listening to all of Wheel of Time on audiobook as well. I then binged all 6 Mistborn with the Arcanum Unbounded supplements. Two scenes in particular from the Mistborn Secret History WRENCHED. MY SOUL. ASUNDER. So I had to heal from my binge hangover. Now I'm mid-Stormlight and revelling in the glory of a new Sanderson world. So that's what now brings me to the forum! I'm excited to find connections and theories that I haven't made, as well as confirmation of my feelings (yes, it's ok to cry when ghosts of your favorite characters try to comfort the characters you've been living through vicariously). Happy to be here, and hope this first post wasn't too long!

I hear the American voice actor for Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Also with a kind of cloudiness in the sound. Greed was also rather androgynous.