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Maybe it would be used to prevent Dalinar from being fully under the control of Odium if he ends up becoming a Fused. Perhaps he will be able to use the 'reincarnation and a single surge' powerset, but while he is not bound to Odium he still needs to kick someone out of their body. Dalinar as a spren zipping around everywhere might be fun. Alternatively it could be to 'fix' Nightblood's iffy understanding of how to destroy evil, but that seems a little too obvious.

I can see him asking for some item that allows him to externally adjudicate good/evil, or perhaps just accepting without a bargain a sword which was designed to destroy evil under the impression that command was way less buggy than Nightblood ended up being.

Can someone please explain why Silverlight is in Perth? I don't know how to search a single thread, and 274 pages is a bit much. I live there and I see no correlation except perhaps the isolation. I wouldn't say many of our universities were too well regarded in a national/international context except for certain courses, and it's arguable that many of them are going downhill before Covid hit and caused layoffs/course cuts. Also, why does Australia cop the disease based magic system?

Maybe not all that extreme, but I feel like Skybreakers could use Division to turn rock into sand then Gravitation to make it 'fly', therefore creating sandstorms. Might not be too bad seeing they deal with highstorms every few days, but we know from the Everstorm they were very much relying on the storms coming regularly and from a specific direction.

Thanks for that, it was doing my head in. Now I can go full Binging with Babish on this series. How do I search Arcanum? I've been having real trouble with trying to find a WOB on something without getting a bajillion results that don't relate to what I want. Also, is there a way I can confine searches to a specific forum on the Shard? I'll try to see if others have commented on a certain character and I get gazillions of hits from the roleplay forums or something.

Well now I can't stop imagine unsheathed Nightblood as the 'Finish Him/Fatality' voice from Mortal Kombat.

Possibly not vego/vegan friendly discussion We know most Rosharans call any bird a chicken, and they call knee-high ant-like things 'axehounds' despite having no dogs and therefore no hounds. Has it been established whether hogs (which presumably become what is referred to 'pork') and minks are what we would consider to be such? After looking up the Rosharan flora/fauna section of the Coppermind, it seems clear that hogs and minks are mammalian. I had some fun thinking of what invertebrates could be referred to as 'hog', but it did clear some things up. Partly this came about from imagining the food being served at feasts. I was wondering 'should I imagine a braised pork belly for this'? Could 'hog' refer to anything approaching human sized, or is it actually a pig? It'd be interesting if they just have cows and sheep wandering around but it's an alien enough world that we just don't notice. Similarly, are minks just the little weasel/ferret type animals we have? I find myself wondering if anything small (possibly predatory) like a house cat could be referred to as a mink. I find it funny to think that they do have small dogs but just don't call them that, although I'm sure Wit wouldn't have made those cracks about not recognising hounds if there were some running around. Maybe it would be like someone used to all canines being wolves being transported to our time and seeing a chihuahua or a pug for the first time.

As the title suggests, does anyone else get the feeling Kaladin is approaching Savanthood? Especially when it comes to the use of Gravitation. Windrunner 'flight' is really just 'falling with style', but at several points he is close to if not indistinguishable from a character like Superman with true self-powered flight. I actually had to put the book down to imagine how it must feel to be doing a loop-the-loop when you aren't propelling yourself but just adjusting which way you fall. What drawbacks would a Gravitation Savant suffer? I would imagine it as gradually losing the 'ground = down' connection, so you're constantly having to lash yourself to the ground in order to not float off like a lost balloon. If this happens I hope Kaladin never sleeps outdoors or goes outside during the Weeping. Edit: I know that Radiants are meant to suffer from the effects of Savanthood less, but I took that to mean that they still suffer the same effects, but it just takes longer to feel them. Kaladin has spent roughly 18 months flying constantly, he'd be making decent headway towards the threshold if not getting dangerously close. Mistborn spoilers:

Both of our current Bondsmiths seem to have gained their nahel bond through coercion, rather than the spren making the choice like many of our other Radiants. Dalinar coerces the Stormfather, and the Sibling rejected Navani until the situation was 'bond or die'. Is there a reason for this? I would guess that it's meant to ensure you have a strong enough personality in order to be an equal partner with a force of nature. Dalinar seems to be trying to convince the Stormfather to show a little more mercy. However, that could go so terribly sideways it isn't funny. Imagine if Sadeas or Moash or Amaram had become a Bondsmith.

Basically how I imagine Nightblood (with a tiny bit of the Australian 'Inner Health Plus' commercial, but I can't find a version which isn't either potato quality or horribly clipped) Funniest Moss Moments | The IT Crowd | Part 1 - YouTube

Kelsier is the 'go out and fight for what you believe in' adoptive dad, and Sazed is the 'advice after a rough day' adoptive dad.

I see what you're getting at, but I feel like Vin and Sazed could be swapped. Vin is dealing with her newfound fame/infamy and generally seems to have more of an arc than Sazed in WOA, so we could have seen her relatively powerless youth mixed with her current 'I'm not the messiah' mentality. In HOA Sazed is utterly crushed and doubting his life as a Keeper and specifically his focus on religions, so a look at his training as a keeper would be a nice contrast to his current crisis of faith.

I'm trying to finish off the Foundation DLC of Control (the main game was my first ever PS4 platinum). I had a bad day at work a couple of days ago, and I felt a little better after flying around and telekinetically hurling desks at interdimensional aliens.

First off, I'm not one of the rabid TLOU2 haters. I think that Abby's storyline was actually a pretty gutsy move on the behalf of the developers, and in many other games she would have been the unambiguous protagonist. It was a good look at moral perspective. It was pretty well established that Joel had a dark past, and it isn't hard to believe someone might be coming after him for revenge. That being said, I think the game had an enormous flaw in that it tries to guilt trip you for moral choices you have no control over. Many of the named characters Ellie kills are killed in cutscenes and often out of self defense. Even the ordinary gameplay is very much kill-or-be-killed. The game was saying 'tsk tsk tsk, violence and killing are wrong, now don't you feel terrible'. Meanwhile, I was just sitting there thinking 'sure, I'll remember that the next time I actually get a choice'. Granted, I may just not be skilled enough to avoid violence, and when I feel like putting myself through the bleak story again I might do a New Game+ and see if I can stealth or run past enemies. The Dishonored series is a much better example of how this could have worked. TLOU2 and Dishonored both deal with taking revenge against a group of conspirators, and you hunt them down one by one. Dishonored lets you take down these targets lethally or non-lethally, and the same applies to the random npcs you see. In Dishonored, the more people you kill the darker the game gets, with characters cursing you as a murderer and trying that much harder to catch you. We could have had the WLF getting more and more ferocious as they are being killed, or had Infected be drawn to the dead (we see Runners eating corpses in the first game). It also would have been a sucker punch to get to know the people on Abby's side after having made a conscious choice to kill them. It already was to an extent, but it would have hit much harder if we hadn't been railroaded into it. I feel the choice of whether or not to kill would have gotten the message of non-violence a lot better than the heavily linear story TLOU2 gave us. I haven't played a huge amount of other Naughty Dog games, but if Uncharted and TLOU can be taken as their general style then it seem like they are definitely a 'this is our story, player agency be damned' type of game studio.

The Order of Knights Radiant seem to have some stereotypes attached to them (e.g. Windrunners/Stonewards are soldiers, Skybreakers are police, Lightweavers are spies), so I thought it would be fun to think of non-traditional Radiants. A Windrunner lawyer might be fun, using loopholes to protect people ('Oh, you've been accused of stealing soulcast grain to feed your starving family? Well, there is this one law from a hundred years ago that no-one bothered to repeal which prohibits theft of lavis bread, and seeing it isn't technically from a lavis plant...'). My D&D group has a College of Swords Bard (me, if you're interested) and an Arcane Trickster Rogue. Our Rogue often uses illusions to lure enemies into traps, and while my character is a general DPS in combat (although he is very flashy a la Oberyn Martell) I do lean into the creative side of Lightweavers, with setting up a bard supergroup in a tavern frequented by adventurers and pretending to be a monster's long-lost master in order to let us pass (which would have worked if my dice had cooperated). An Edgedancer might be the Rosharan equivalent of an investigative journalist. They will listen to the 'insignificant' people who have been ignored and expose corruption or major organised crime.

Pre-ROW, I thought the 4th Ideal might be the exact opposite. 'I will protect myself to protect others in the future', like how search and rescue personnel won't put themselves in a position where they will add to the number of people who need rescuing. I also thought the 4th Ideal could have been something like 'I will protect those I can, even at the expense of others', similar to the ideas of triage that others have mentioned (or even choosing a side in a situation where both might be sympathetic but one side is more antagonistic at that point in time). The 5th Ideal could be either one of those, or it could be along the lines of 'I will allow those who can to protect themselves'. It does have a nice parallel with the 2nd ideal of 'I will protect those who cannot protect themselves'. I think I disagree with the idea that it is encompassed by the 4th. You can still be putting effort into protecting those who can handle themselves while not hating yourself for past failures. Skybreakers get squires at 4th, when they are still completing a crusade, right? If they haven't 'become the law' but still have squires who are sworn to uphold the law, I don't see why the Windrunners can't have squires at 3rd. I do like the idea of 'I will make a world that does not need protection', as it implies tackling systemic issues rather than putting out spot fires (@trav for the inspiration from this thread, not sure who else has come up with this). It would be nice to see some Windrunners who protect without having to stab someone. A Windrunner lawyer might be fun, using loopholes to look after people ('Oh, you've been accused of stealing soulcast grain to feed your starving family? Well, there is this one law from a hundred years ago that no-one bothered to repeal which prohibits theft of lavis grain, and seeing it isn't technically from a lavis plant...').

I really hope there's an extremely good reason to forgive him for killing Teft in order to drive Kaladin to suicide. I don't think I would ever forgive someone who tried to make me commit suicide, let alone murdered someone I cared about to do it. Unless perhaps I'd been bitten by a zombie and was about to turn, but that's unlikely to happen (touch wood).

I haven't seen any info about it, but I assumed that any colours on non-Radiant Plate are painted on, and they are ordinary grey like Dalinar's, which is explicitly stated to be unpainted.

She can be angry with the man who killed her brother, but that doesn't mean she gets to denigrate the suffering of all the others who were stuck in that system. Not to mention that the suffering was partially facilitated by one of her trainee Lightweavers. Regret or not, that treatment isn't acceptable (especially considering the whole book's theme of taking responsibility for your actions, regardless of the circumstances that led you to them). Skar and Drehy have done nothing to Shallan that deserves being accused of being too stupid to escape the suicide mission that they are forced into on pain of execution. I suspect that the detail is overlooked because this action is part of a pattern where she considers herself above darkeyes, and can do things like force them to relinquish their boots on a continent of stone (which had sliced her own feet up and caused her to need boots in the first place), considers places to be 'proper' because 'at least they respect eye colour', and gallivant around pretending to be darkeyed while being shocked at someone pretending to be lighteyed. Her brother's death is traumatic, but he was also a full Shardbearer mowing down darkeyed soldiers by the dozen (another element of the privilege lighteyes enjoy). It's not as if Kaladin shanked him in his sleep.

Order of Customer Service Workers (I wish I could leave, but it's difficult right now). 1) Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination. 2) I will serve the customer and assist them with their purchases and experiences. 3) I will treat customers with respect, even if they are difficult. 4) There will be times when the customer is not right. 5) I am the manager. Can you tell that I'm cynical about my job?

Is anyone else a little disappointed that the core part of the Third Ideal of the Bondsmiths is 'if I must fall, I will rise again a better man' and not 'I will take responsibility for what I have done'? I totally agree that being better than who you were before is an important way to live. Having trained in karate for years, 'fall down seven times, stand up eight' is ingrained into me (and I can pretty much guarantee that everyone in the world can improve on who they are). But at the same time, it is entirely possible to strive for self improvement without acknowledging publicly what you are trying to be better than. I feel like it can be much harder to admit that you have done wrong than to swear not to do it again. Dalinar could have regained his memories and worked to be a better man than the Blackthorn, but that isn't all he did. He wrote a book detailing everything he had done, for everyone to read and judge. For a real world example, say you make a mistake at work. Management put out a memo saying that this happened and why it was not the correct way to do things, but they are not sure who it is. You could easily say to yourself 'well I dodged a bullet there, I'll make sure not to do that again'. But you can (and arguably should) own up to the fact that you were the one to make the mistake and offer your services to fix it. Ideally, the entirety of Dalinar's Third Ideal would be the baseline, but I was just a little disappointed that it went with the option that is potentially easier. When I think of emulating a Bondsmith, I think of both parts, but my thoughts go first to taking responsibility for my actions.

My money is on Kaladin or Shallan (less so Kaladin after he resolved his arc of forgiving himself, although it's been stated several times that advancing in oaths doesn't magically remove the pain). Both have deep pain that they may be convinced to surrender.

From the coppermind: Shallan is only named after Shalash, unless something truly weird is going on, and this thread is about Chanarach. I meant that the ashspren might be drawn to their patron's daughter, but I also acknowledged that they hate humans (not enough for Spark to not bond Malata though).

On the point of Taln breaking, we can quote A Song of Ice and Fire: 'a man who has fought 100 battles can break in his 101st'. I've experienced this with physical injury. I could run and run and run during sport and then finally one particular chase was the straw that broke the camel's back, regardless of whether it's exactly the same as every single other time. I do seem to remember the voidspren working to subvert the oathpact, but I also don't see why Taln couldn't have broken. As for the rest of the theory, 'Shallan is the daughter of a herald' might be something that explains why the Cryptics are lining up to join what I call the Charge of the Lightweaver Brigade. Although why the cryptics would be doing it and not ashpren (i.e. spren of her order) is a bit confusing. I guess we have the whole 'humans killed heaps of us so we hate them' thing for that.