Honorless

I don't see why not. They are metal.

Yay! So continuing: 1) This character is a fighter 2) This character is a thinker

You get the Reality Stone. Thanos is coming for you. I wish for the ability to bottle and revisit dreams

Σ(O_O；) How could you do that? (╥﹏╥)

Granted, your phone is now alive ( ◕‿◕✿) I wish for a mini universe that acts like one of Hayao Miyazaki's movies

Granted, but you must also upvote me! I wish for the ability to manipulate the weather

Liss?

Speaking of, I'll also include Eshonai and Tien in that list. Those two losses still hurt. I absolutely loved the interlude characters Rysn, Ishikk, Axies, Ym (also still hurting), Geranid

Do you think it would be the same for metalminds?

BREAKING NEWS: I, @Honorless, won. It's official, I swear it on my honor. You can all rest in peace now, knowing that this is over.

We don't know. I think, the metal needs to be pure and in contact with the subject in order for it to work. Maybe it can be circumvented by using other Allomantic metals as covering, maybe by using coverings that are not metallic at all. Maybe plating doesn't matter at all. We just don't know.

Elantris and Stormlight were pretty weak in terms of representing gender dynamics, in my opinion. In Elantris, the societal aspects were explored somewhat with Sarene but it was strangely like what gamers would call "munchkinry", she expertly sidestepped the issues and that was it, though the fencing team was done well, even the ending. I don't know if I can consider Vorinism as an exploration of the same, it's a bit too out there. Men are illiterate and mostly expected to fight in wars while women control information and culture? That's not sustainable over long term, the fact that men have the Shards would give them military might, a power which can grant them legitimacy in other fields because that is what power does. How did an actual active divide even arise between the genders? Please don't just cough up the quote about it being meant to control who gets the Shardblades and Shardplates, and "proper behaviour" being used to control (like the safehands, against which the women reciprocated by saying what proper manly behaviours are) such a divide is very... meta, I don't know how else to put it. It is still somewhat realistically handled with Stormwardens and Ardents being Vorinism-approved ways of men reading; having the women handle the finances, the glyph system being used by men in fields such as medicine (as we see with Kaladin) and some women like Liss still getting their hands on Shardblade, as well as other women like Tyn, Lyn, Renarin, currently also Dalinar & I think with time, Adolin bucking the trends. Of course, we have real world examples of women wearing corsets, diagnosed with hysteria and mandatory conscription for men (also think of UK's White Feather during WW). Unless we get much more info on how the divide came to be, I don't think I'll consider it as a strong representation. It's sustainability is certainly plausible though, I feel I should point out, if these behaviours get embedded in the culture and of course, Vorinism's rule-oriented structure and the Ardentia meant that women had less of a monopoly on info. I also take issue with his wanting to change Ham's gender. He's well-written as a male character, simply taking a traditionally masculine role and putting a female character there is not good representation. But more importantly for White Sand itself, why would having explored a topic before mean it can't be explored again? It was done well enough in the prose, so it shouldn't have been that he decided that he wasn't good enough at writing gender dynamics yet.

I think they only happen because the body is trying to completely seal the wound. Piercings do heal.

Why was Ais' gender changed from the prose to the graphic novels? And since it was changed, why were the gender dynamics on Taldain also changed from prose to the graphic novels? Wouldn't it have made for a stronger characterisation of Ais if she had to deal with being a Trackt, a Kerztian and a woman within that society? Why change that? Why did we get handwaved gender equality? The Daysiders, the Kerztians in particular were very patriarchal, the Darksiders were more advanced but were still patriarchal like on Earth. Why was this changed in the graphic novels?

Source? I'm pretty sure piercings don't produce any kind of mucus unless it gets infected. I did have a piercing (it healed up because my school didn't allow boys to wear studs) i don't remember anything like this happening. I also know many people with piercings, I just asked them and they said dryness is more often a problem than any kind of excretions

Hmm, the other way round, huh? I'm going to say, no. Burning metals is a different thing than the Rhythms. While a Seeker could sense the Rhythms The Rhythms themselves seem to be something different than the magic systems, something more integral to the Cosmere

@Passion, looks like you accidentally double-posted this topic, could you delete the other one? The Sons of Honor were clearly working with limited information. I find it very likely that he simply didn't completely understand the full situation. Hence, his strange reaction to Szeth and the idea of the Parshendi sending him. If he did know about the original Voidbringers and Ashyn, why wouldn't he assume that the Parshendi would take it as a chance to "revive their gods" or have revenge against the humans?

@TheMathemagician, if you had to choose one Allomantic or Feruchemical power, what would you choose?

Oh, you mean you've read the first graphic novel, @THEpriceOFsoap? Have you subscribed to Brandon's newsletter yet? He distributed the White Sand prose in the latest iteration. Also, don't worry, the graphic novels get better, part 3 in particular, is much better written than its predecessors.

@Karger, and what about the High Aedin belief that only they could bond Aethers? Were they misled? Was the magic changed? Was there something about the High Aedin that made them better hosts for the Aethers? Or was it all just a method to consolidate power? What did you think of the end-scene? What are the chances that these events were foreseen by the Former and he used it to release his sons from millenia of imprisonment?

Yeah, but oh well, this is going by taking Aether as canon, even though it's not... yet Did you get the feeling that the Former might've been lying about the Shentis? That they actually did have some ability? Am I the only one who thought that?

@Karger, what do you think the Fell Twins were?

Welcome to the Shard, @TheMathemagician! What's your favourite magic system?

Oh drats, so no one can think of anything to make the spike go through the donor without exploding except wrapping it in plastic? Hmm... okay, so a Harmonium spike would make even the donors whose stolen attribute would require piercing a non-lethal area one-time donors ( ◕‿◕✿) It can still work

I meant before, during Leras' time. If Harmonium can be distilled now then Lerasium could've been distilled then