Channelknight Fadran

Merlin and Invocation are here to learn as well! What a perfect segue to begin the next lesson. Lesson Number Two: "Wassing" The word "wassing" is by far the most important word in all of High Imperial. Translated roughly to english, it means something among the lines of "was doing." Because everything said in High Imperial is said in the past tense (Rule Two of High Imperial), the term "was" basically means "am." The word "doing" is, of course, a gerund verb, but still means the same thing. "Was doing," in short, translates to "am doing." "Wassing the teaching of High Imperial" means "Am doing the teaching of High Imperial." If you're attentive, you'll realize that you never describe yourself as doing the action in that sentence. "Am doing" rather than "I am doing." This is because Rule One of High Imperial: "Whatever you're saying in High Imperial is implied to having yourself as a subject." So there you go. Lesson number Two. Use your Wassings wisely.

Taldain is screwed! I say this before I do any research because I tend to be wrong about these kinds of things. The original idea for it all came when I was watching Game Theory on Youtube because I was bored. I recalled a certain episode from the very channel about gravity’s relationship with centripetal force. Put simply, your weight here on Earth isn’t actually your mass multiplied by gravity. Your weight here on Earth is slightly more than your mass multiplied by gravity because another force—centripetal force—is preventing gravity from taking complete hold of you. I hope you feel better the next time you weigh yourself because you’re actually slightly fatter than the scale says you are. Now, I was considering this relationship, and then I suddenly remembered something from the Cosmere. An anomaly, to say the least: A planet trapped in one spot between two stars. According to Arcanum Unbounded, “Taldain is a tidally locked planet trapped between the gravitational forces of two stars in a binary system.” As a concept, this is pretty cool, and the fact that the planet is held in place by equal gravitational pull from two masses makes sense, at least in a pinch. However, most planets in the universe tend to orbit and star and spin about an axis. Ours (Earth) is one of these. Our gravity is 9.8 meters per second. However, this gravity is fighting alongside this factor. Factor: Earth is spinning about an axis at 465 meters per second at the equator. What does this mean? Well, what this means is that there’s a lot in play that gives us that sensation of being pulled down. In the diagram above that I heartlessly stole from the internet, we get a pretty good idea of what centripetal force does. If that blue dot were you and the axis the Earth’s axis, then by spinning around, your body will attempt to launch off the planet at thousands of miles an hour and be instantly cremated by the buckets of radiation lying around in space. However, your hundred-pound-worth of human flesh is kept firmly on the ground by another force: gravity. These two forces keep each other in check to make sure we aren’t glued to the ground by gravity or launched into space by centripetal force. So what does this mean for Taldain? Well… not much. While centripetal force does keep gravity in check, nothing’s that much different without it. Assuming Taldain has the same gravity as Earth (which is plausible, as Sanderson’s gravity system is incredibly similar to ours), then 135 Kg at the equator with centripetal force amounts to about 134 without. If Taldain happened to have been spinning about an axis but suddenly stopped—which it didn’t—then there would’ve been some chaos (people at the equator being hurled due east faster than the speed of sound, either dying from hitting a mountain or getting severe whiplash followed by enormous tidal waves promptly eliminating everything), but seeing as how that never happened, then it can be assumed that Taldain is safe, right? Wrong! Taldain’s two stars are completely different from one another. The “Dayside” star is a huge supergiant star that provides constant noonday sun to the inhabitants. The “Darkside” star is hidden behind a mess of rings which prevents most of its heat from reaching the Darkside. What does this mean? Well, on the Dayside, everything’s regularly hot and dry, as shown by the abundance of white sands. On Darkside, however, everything’s cold and wet. And what happens if you put something super cold next to something super hot? You get wind! See, cold air is more dense than warm air. When something dense has the opportunity to disperse, it’ll take it. So the cold side of Taldain is going to constantly rush over to the warm side of Taldain, causing massive planetary winds that’ll blow through any barrier cities. Oceans? Forget about sailing. Those waves are going to be massive. However… I’m going to give Taldain the benefit of the doubt here. Thousands of massive storms on the border between Dayside and Darkside isn’t actually very realistic. There would be high winds, yes, but there’s never any drastic temperature changes due to the fact that either side has a consistent heat source. It’s quite plausible that equilibrium had been achieved and maybe winds barely even show themselves. It’s possible that Taldain is fine as it is. However, I have one more trick up my sleeve to hopefully destroy Taldain as we know it. And that has to do with nothing more than the planet itself; how it was created. Creating a planet that just so happens to be in the perfect habitable zone for not one but two stars is a very strange anomaly. There aren’t a ton of ways to explain this but there are a couple methods. Method 1: There were once actually three stars in the Taldain system. The one in the middle was of significant less mass than either of the other two. In fact, its mass in comparison to those of the dwarf star and the supergiant was so miniscule that its outer layers were actually sucked away by the other stars. The supergiant simply ate these outer layers, chomping them down like a bag of cheetos. The dwarf star, on the other hand, created a ring out of the collective stardust that it consumed. Once the outer layers were consumed, the star cooled, and what remained became a planet. I find this option intriguing and actually quite plausible—not like the next method, which is unrealistic but also really destructively cool. Method 2: There were also once three stars in the Taldain system. One, however, had a lot more mass than the other two. This star did the opposite of the Method 1, and instead of getting its surface stripped away, chowed down on the stars nearby. Eventually, something (I dunno what) happened, and a ton of its mass was stripped away to form its moon. Over the process of time (a lot of time), this star cooled into a planet, but it continues to strip away at either star, as is the process of receiving Investiture from the shard Autonomy. This option is incredibly unrealistic because if anything Taldain should have the other two stars orbiting it, not the other way around. However, that could actually be a possibility, in retrospect—instead of being trapped between two stars, two stars are trapped by Taldain, who orbit it at such a perfect rate that they appear to be in the same place 24/7 Either way, though, I haven’t spelled doom for the Taldain people. At the end of the day, my clickbait title wasn’t true. Taldain is perfectly fine. Unless I’m wrong, which I usually am about these things! Feel free to inform me about other forces caused by a lack of centripetal force or the consequences of being nearby a supergiant star! Until then, I’m going to continue teaching my seminar on High Imperial. Sincerely, Channelknight

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Lesson Number One: Basic Grammar and Speech Types. In High Imperial, there area few important things to note. 1: Whatever you're saying in High Imperial is implied to having yourself as a subject. You can specify a different subject. 2: Everything you say in High Imperial is in the past tense. 3: All verbs in High Imperial are to be written in gerund form. "Thinking," "Issing," and (of course) "Wassing." So there you go. Lesson number one.

In quarantine, we all have plenty of time to try new things. I, personally, have been attempting to learn some of that sweet, sweet High Imperial. It's the perfect language: It'll confuse anybody who isn't a Mistborn fan, and will impress anyone who is! So who wants to learn some High Imperial? Welcome to the Academy! -Brandon Sanderson

Fadran lies on the bed, looking up towards the ceiling. "I don't believe it, Ave'. There are more people like me!" There are also dangerous monsters you have to kill, now. Avelyn replies. And you still have to go to school. Fadran bolts upright, turning towards Avelyn. "What?" That one person. Avelyn says in her 'duh' voice. Leona. She's doing homework right now. Looks like you still have school to do. "Oh come on!" Fadran flops back down onto the bed. "I can't even avoid school by getting magical powers and fighting voidstingers? That's lame. This education system is crap."

Darth Maul isn't dead in the canon, but unless you've watched through all of the Clone Wars series and Rebels series you wouldn't exactly know that. As for Jar Jar... he's just so annoying. I recently (well.... relatively recently) rewatched Phantom Menace and everything about him just ticked me off. His walk, his voice... UGHGHGH. Nonetheless, to each their own. Glad you hate the prequels though; that is the right opinion in my... opinion.

I'ma go through the movies in chronological order. Phantom Menace - Trash! Jar Jar Binks, Midichlorians, and a milked podracing scene. The only good part of that movie was the lightsaber battle with Darth Maul. Attack of the Clones - Trash! Jar Jar Binks again, half the movie devoted to Anakin and Padme having meaningful conversations about sand, and the complete destruction of Yoda's character at the end. I might've been able to forgive this one if Yoda had still been a puppet, and had used more force abilities than... whatever it is Yoda was doing in that scene. Revenge of the Sith - Watcheable of the Prequels. Padme wasn't a huge part of that movie, which was good (I like the character, but the actress isn't good). We got a healthy dose of Ewan McGreggor, and the scene where he has to fight his best friend was pretty well done. Again, the battle with Yoda wasn't very good (more force, less gainers), and the actor for Palpatine wasn't very good. Solo - Pretty okay. This movie got a lot of hatred it really didn't deserve. All they really wanted to do was throw in the backstory about how Han got the Falcon, where Chewie came from, and a healthy dose of Lando Calrisian. Its purpose was to be a fun action movie, and that's what it was, so I think it was pretty good. Rogue One - Absolutely AMAZING. This movie was super good! I loved it to its core, with engaging characters, a followable plotline, and a good "reality of war" scene near the end where (spoilers) all the main characters die. The actor of Vader wasn't particularly good, but that scene where he invades the Rebel Alliance ship was awesome. This is quite possibly my favorite Star Wars movie. A New Hope - Dang Good! I'm not sure if you're legally allowed to hate on this one. It was the first Star Wars film, which means that you can't point at anything and be like "I feel like that stole away from the themage of the series," because the series wasn't a thing yet. George Lucas did an excellent job introducing the galaxy, the jedi, and the icons of Star Wars in this movie. Empire Strikes Back - Absolutely AMAZING. A sequel to a movie is supposed to upstage the last movie, but they rarely do. This one, though; this one did. You really get to see Leia as a character and not a damsel in distress, and Han becomes less of a money-driven swindler and now a money-driven, funny swindler. The "I am your father" line is always pretty great, and I really liked the Chewbacca/C3PO friendship arc. Return of the Jedi - Absolutely AMAZING. This opinion is as controversial as frick, but I loved the ewoks. Nothing quite like little furry space bears to cheer up your day! The "Luke and Leia are siblings" thing was well-implemented for its time, I really liked the sort-of-love-triangle, and the completion of Darth Vader's redemption was pretty great. 11/11 movie. The Force Awakens - Okay. I like to cut J.J. some slack on this one because he was handed a HUGE legacy, and living up to it must've been difficult. He had an effective set of villains, a nice crew of protagonists, and a heartrending death scene near the end! I might've cried if SOMEONE hadn't SPOILED IT FOR ME . Also BB-8 was pretty great. Loved him. The Last Jedi - Dang Good! If I don't get hate for loving the ewoks, then I'll get hate for loving this movie. I really appreciated just how well the new director did! He was given a single movie, a jumble of characters, and one dead Carrie Fisher (rest in peace. I love you) to work off of, and he blew it out of the park! People keep talking about how they dislike Luke's grumpiness rather than wisdom, but if you ran away from the galaxy because you felt like you had failed it, then you aren't crashing your ship on an undiscovered planet because you want to enlighten yourself. I like how he expanded on Poe Dameron as a "trigger-happy flyboy," pointing out that cliche among several others. People also hate on Holdo for not telling anybody the plan, but could you imagine telling someone that plan? "We're going to keep running from the entire fleet, then if we get desperate we'll fuel up the unshielded, unarmed transports and make for a nearby planet. You guys will probably all get exploded, and I'll stay here all alone in this ship and try to face down the entire fleet with nothing but my purple hair." The fact that she didn't tell anyone anything was probably better than telling them the truth. I didn't like Rose much (though I'm not entirely sure why). Luke's character arc completion at the end by "facing down the entire first order with a laser sword" and his last sight being that of the two suns was actually quite beautiful. I could've watched him dodge Kylo Ren for hours. Rise of Skywalker - Trash! J.J. Abrams was given the chance to end a remarkable series and he FAILED. There was absolutely no reason whatsoever why Palpatine was even there at all. He abused the opening crawl to introduce the fact that he existed, but even that didn't work! I laughed myself to death when I read that! The whole sith-lord-GLaDOS thing bothered me, and they completely ruined Anakin/Vader, who was supposed to have ended the sith! They started off the movie with an argument between Poe and Rey, but they never expanded on that. They added Lando Calrisian for... what? Aesthetic? He got all of five minutes of screen time. I might've been okay with this movie if they had done the ending well, but they just didn't. They first ripped off Endgame with the whole "I am all the jedi" thing, then the kiss thing just annoyed me. Rey's an independent soul! She needs no man! I did like, however, how J.J. didn't expand on the Rose/Finn love arc, rather pushing them into an almost father/daughter kind of relationship. I was also really satisfied with Kylo Ren's redemption arc, how he completely threw away his affiliation with the dark side alongside his lightsaber. HOWEVER. The movie completely destroyed one of my favorite characters: Hux. The Last Jedi obviously intended for him to have been a power-hungry bad guy, as shown by his willingness to kill Ren in order to take over the First Order. Abrams read off the blaster-pulling incorrectly, assuming him to have been a Resistance sympathizer rather than someone who just wanted to beat the guy who was so favored by Snoke. How does Abrams finish Hux? With a blaster shot to the chest, while Kylo Ren gets to vanish like a jedi after getting the girl. Also he screwed up the ending. He could've picked any iconic thing to end the movie on, and he chose Rey and BB-8 on Tattooine? Not the Millenium Falcon soaring off into space, or R2D2 and C3PO standing next to each other again. Rey and BB-8. So there's that. ~Channelboy

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Tomorrow is May 4th, everyone! Tomorrow is Star Wars day! Star Wars fans, unite! Prepare for tomorrow's inevitable arguments about theoretical force powers, ewoks versus porgs, complaints about midichlorians (or just the Phantom Menace in general), and hatred towards the newest movie, "Rise of Skywalker!" Spoilers are allowed!

Fadran nods, then proceeds to take off his backpack. He rummages through the pockets, pulling out various gadgets and gizmos aplenty. He sets a cup on the nightstand, filling it with pens and pencils one by one. He unties a ribbon from around one of the shoulder straps, pulls out a pocketwatch from the water bottle pocket, and a single pair of scissors from the bottom of the big pocket. After that, he removes a couple lunchboxes, a water bottle, and what seems to be a broken iPhone. He sets all these things up in a miticulous manner about the room, making sure everything has its place. "Done." Fadran says, straightening a pencil. "This room is now mine." Is the lunchbox necessary? Avelyn asks. It's not exactly sanitary. "I've long since cleaned out all the moldy gatorade. It's fine." He looks around the room. "There's a lot of room left. I guess I'll just have to find more stuff."

"Thanks." He looks around. "Plenty of space... lots of stuff to individualize." Oh, not this again. Avelyn sighs, then says to Leona. He always takes ages to personalize things. It has to do with that philosophy with his.

When you flip someone off with your safehand uncovered.

Fadran follows Leona, taking in the view of the household.

Where the heck did you get that?

I, for one, have an affinity for the number 7, because HOGWARTS

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