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2 hours ago, Ookla the Crimson King said:

We've known that Warbreaker predates The Way of Kings for years now, as Brandon stated some time back that its sequel Nightblood was planned to be the nearest book taking place before WoK and almost ten years ago we had a WoB that Brandon's Cosmere books were published in chronological order (until MB2 came along) which means that by default Warbreaker must happen before WoK.

I was talking about him planning a novella in between WoK and WoR

2 hours ago, Ookla The Frustrated said:

RoW release party

do you have a rough timestamp for that/ i'd really appreciate it.

10 hours ago, Ookla The Frustrated said:

He said he might, and WB is before WoK

whoa when did he say that? this is news to me.

1 hour ago, Ookla The Frustrated said:

We might get one eventually, though it would have been nice to have it in cronological order.

are you sure? I cant imagine what he'd write one for. iYou could sort of pretend WB is that novella though. even though its wayy too big.

if only we had an SA novel in between tWoK and WoR then the structure of SA Arc 1 would mirror each SA book, of being 5 parts with 4 interludes between them.

37 minutes ago, zachar1a said:

Hello everybody! I just finished my first read of the way of kings and hav started on words of radiance. I am excited to get more in depth with this world and its characters.

Welcome! who are your favorite characters so far? and how are you liking Words of Radiance?

10 hours ago, Frustration said:

It's a planet it's mentioned in Arcanum Unbounded

where in Arcanum Unbounded? I don't remember seeing it.

On 11/9/2020 at 5:44 AM, Danthemystic said:

1. A story about whatever the hell Vax is. 

do you mean Wax? or is Vax someone else?

"alright, so you know how a lot of fantasy has just a bunch of random magic that make's no sense? well the magic in this feels like you're getting a physics lesson. theres actual rules and an insane amount of creativity in it.

The one thing Sanderson excels in is setup and payoff. the first half of his books can be a little slow, but man when you get to the end, you physically cannot stop reading. there are things in books that have boon foreshadowed in previous books from literally a decade ago. and when the payoff hits, it feels Incredible"  

that's probably how I'd try to explain it.

37 minutes ago, aneonfoxtribute said:

Its one of the best visual novels I've ever read. Leaps and bounds ahead of E17. I didnt hate E17 but I had really big, really glaring issues with it that weren't there in R11 at all.

As for playing it, I have links to a fan translation since it's not officially released. Though it was a pain to do even then so in the end I had to ask some people on a Discord and they got me a pre-patched version

you think you could send me some of those links?

4 minutes ago, aneonfoxtribute said:

I say it counts as reading. I did say that I was reading Remember11 after all

how is remember11? is it worth it? it's honestly a bit of a pain just finding a way to play it. (also I haven't finished ever17 so no spoilers thanks)

On 11/16/2020 at 1:24 PM, Gisaku75 said:

Sazed: Elsecaller, Truthwatchers

I would place sazed in the bondsmiths. He's bonded together a few Shattered things.

2 minutes ago, StormingTexan said:

Reading this new book that came out called Rhythm of War. Hope I like it. 

huh never heard of it, who's the author?

idk if this counts as reading but I'm reading a screenshot lets play of a visual novel(Ever 17). here is the lets play if you're interested.

will this actually be, the final post? probably not idk

man this place is so wonderful

happy trans awareness week yall!

any plans of including highstorms in the game?

I'm pretty sure holding investiture is would be like gaining mass, it makes bodies tend to resist magic. I don't think we've ever seen intent affect that, and i doubt it would.

15 hours ago, HSuperLee said:

I don't think it works like that. If it did, I'd expect Wax to be able to push his own metalminds, which if he could do, he just needs to store up a bunch of weight in an iron ball and then launch it around and no other allomancer would be able to push on it. I feel like we'd have seen it if he could do that.

but I don't think that's a fair argument because I doubt that a feruchemist can affect the intent of a metalmind. hell, does a metalmind even have an intent?  

1 minute ago, Krox said:

We do know very little, and it's a little while since I read it - what would the commands be? "Show future" perhaps, and the birds Intent to help their owners survive?

i dont think the commands need to be specific words. even in awakenings, once you have enough breath verbalizing commands stops being necessary. It's possible that the command is just "show future" but it could have something more to it, like it could be "show danger"

31 minutes ago, Krox said:

This is quite neat!

How would it work on First of the Sun?

i know enough about how exactly the magic of the aviars works to be able to say, but i think that depending on the individual's aviar's intent, their powers will manifest in slightly different ways. and it's also possible that aviars themselves do not have enough sapience to be able to actually influence their intent in any meaningful way. because all the aviar powers (from what we've seen) only manifest in certain specific ways.

So, I've been reading up on Intent and commands and have been trying to make sense of what they are, and what exactly the difference is between then. and I've come up with a bit of a theory.  

basically, commands are molds for investiture, and intents are more subtle ways of affecting of investiture interacts with the world, after it has been molded by a command.  

my basic premise is that for investiture to do anything it must be first molded by a command. investiture, on it's own (without a command) cannot do anything. I don't mean just for awakenings, but for ALL forms of magic, from allomancy to surgebinding. the intent can then modify how that investiture is used exactly. in a very loose analogy, you could think of commands as being a sort of hardware, and that intents are sort of software. where the software is far easier to modify than the hardware, and the software helps dictate how the hardware works. I also believe that commands do not require a sapience/sentience/intelligence, but intents do.

i feel like this is best illustrated with a few examples.

ROSHAR

consider soulcasting. (according to my theory) all soulcasting involves a single command. but the various types of soulcasting are just manifestations of different intents. so soulcasting a material to metal or smoke both involve the same command, but with different intents. 

now consider soulcaster fabrials, all soulcaster fabrials have the same command, and the reason different gemstones perform different kinds of soulcasting is due to the intents of the spren inside the gemstone. that's why soulcasters that use fabrials cannot soulcast things into whatever material they require, because the humans wielding the soulcasters do not directly manipulate investiture, so they cannot will their intent into the investiture. 

or consider lashings, I would say that windrunners (and all other orders) each have 2 commands at their disposal, one related to each power they have. so windrunners have a command for gravitation and one for adhesion. so when Kaladin lashes himself, the lashing itself is a command, but the direction he lashes to is dependent on his intent.

SCADRIAL

allomancy is quite interesting, because I believe that none of it uses intent in any form

consider iron, when ingested allows people to pull metal towards them. and that's it. because no misting is ever directly manipulating investiture, they are not able to control it according to their intents, so they can only use the commands associated with a metal, giving them far less flexibility.

in hemalurgy, there is some aspect of intent in terms of actually taking the powers. you dont really choose what powers you get, that's all based on the hemalurgic command associated with the metal. so intent only affects whether or not you are actually taking a power or just stabbing someone. whereas the command is what effects what power/attribute is stolen.

NALTHIS

the way commands work in Nalthis is that to simply create a command requires visualization. and the more complex the command the more complicated the visualization. now i think there is a visualization involved in both the command and the intent. and the same command given with different intents will do different things, but the command is far more important than the intent.

like say the command "fetch keys", depending on the intent given it will fetch keys it will perhaps fetch keys in different ways, but to an extent. if you say, want to awaken an object to get on a ship to a different continent, infiltrate a bank, get the keys to their vault and then swim all the way back to you, that's gonna take a lot more than just intent

What language is this in?

17 minutes ago, Aspiring Writer said:

The trick to that is to pick one that doesn't change your personality much or one that fits your personality pretty well, like ambition.

ehhhh, i feel like any human's personality comes down to mare than One Single Intent. I'm pretty sure all the shards will change your own intents until you basically become the shard, and the shards intents are too simple and one dimensional to match up with anyone.

I probably wouldn't unless I absolutely HAD to. None of the shards seem OK and I don't think I'd slowly want to be taken over by my Shard's intent. but assuming I was forced into it, I'd probably pick one related to knowledge or learning.

21 hours ago, Honorless said:

Anyhoo! What's your favourite magic system?

honestly none of the induvidual magic systems are that interesting. each of them have their moments of creativity but hemallurgy will probably end up being the most important by the end of the cosmere. im just looking forward to seeing the interactions between magic systems

1 hour ago, Honorless said:

So, who's your fav character?

Hoid, who else? but other than him probably wayne. how could anyone not love him.