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You'd need to be a subsumer and a cadmium gasper to get true stamina from nothing, otherwise your muscles would eat themselves too much. You wouldn't get tired, but your lungs would probably be dying and your muscles would rusting hurt

I read them all. It was a cool magic system, but after the first book the plot was somewhat confusing

When your parents threaten to take away the copy of rhythm of war they bought if you don't do your chores

I think the second might actually refer to Taravangian, but in a different way. It says that all who live want him to let the blade slip and spill it's blood, so could it be referring to kharbranth. His city is crying, because everyone wants to trade them for the world? It made more sense in my head

Wow. Those are way more in-depth than I thought it would be. It would've been a lot more helpful if he just said that it was flat, and that's what 2d meant, but that's very interesting. I didn't realize that the people's thoughts would have that much effect on the cognitive realm in that way but I guess that's literally how/why the cognitive realm exists. Would it be different in places with less people, or in placed like silverlight, with way more realmatically educated people?

Yeah, like chekhov's gun. Also, early guns were called flintlocks because when you pulled the trigger, it would strike flint and steel which would send lots of sparks

Wow. I was to lazy to pull out a dictionary. Edit: I feel like Cancer would be the perfect name for Odium and Cultivation(hasn't happened yet) For an Odium Ambition mix, maybe Envy? Odium and Devotion could be Ardent(means intense emotion). Odium and Dominion could be Subjugation.

Beyond just ruthlessness, he's insanely powerful and genius even with Wax's advantages (weight change, experience/savant, guns (hazekiller)) so I guess... I think Wax might actually be able to out think him though, what with his criminal catching experience, both in how they think and fight.

I was really curious about this, and so I found some WOB- Question We've had great topics and discussions about this. If all of your characters were in a death match, who would win? Brandon Sanderson Honest truth is Kelsier. This is because of most of the characters, Kelsier is the one that is ruthless enough to get what he wants. Others would not be as ruthless. Kelsier as a character is very interesting to me. My kind of pitch on him to myself was he would be the villain in most stories. Kelsier in a lot of stories being told, in a lot of books that I would write, he's the villain but in this world, at this time, it is what the world needs and he is the hero. That's why I say Kelsier. Arcanum Unbounded Seattle signing (Dec. 1, 2016) So yeah. He'll do anything to win. A surprise could mess him up in the beginning, though

Yep. Still far cleaner than almost any other adult book though. I've never understood how he separated teen and adult. Edit: Wait nvm I think there's WOB that says his multi-perspective stuff is always adult.

He's 10 and wanted to read war breaker and they looked through it and decided nope

I don't think that Kelsier would be anywhere near a bronze savant. Wax could follow any coinshot or lurcher, but he might get messed up by both at once, especially in kredik shaw. But... Wax had practice fighting every individual type of misting (that Kelsier would have at least) and he could destroy Kelsier in a push match, especially with a bullet, and especially with his special ones.

Dare a spinner to store all day and see how messed up their life could be(store everything, similar to wax storing so much that he's weightless) See what you could get away with by tapping atium( how would you be treated as an adult?)

Tin (there are many times where enhanced senses would be great, and many times when you wonder why we have a sense of smell) or bendalloy(literally easiest diet ever )

Also, this is rather important, couldn't really find the coppermind quote but roshar has a very high oxygen concentration compared to earth which is (part of) the reason they use spheres, so combustion and gunpowder... Huge problem, a bit could be the equivalent of a bomb.

My parents started becoming sanderfans(actually just stormlight archive) and now my younger brother got cut off from everything sanderson related when they started censoring material

Well... It's magic not a hallocinogen and I guess he can't function without it, and ruined his body with it so he needs it... Dunno I thought an addiction was mostly mental, and your brain causes the physical aspect. This is a physical need caused by an overused substance so maybe? Like Teft, that's a normal addiction. He gets highs and lows based off a substance (there's more to the definition than that but he fits everything). Spook is more sketchy.

Hopefully

Same as @Matrim's DiceAnd for some reason I always thought of shin as being more Asian, I think I just saw stuff about the eyes and "child like stature"(alethi are tall) and thought Asian, which is weird because I am half asian. Stereotypes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And i totally agree with @Ghanderflaffle because I look white

Just spent the last 20 minutes reading the thread- gotta admit, never noticed most of this, though, I have noticed how often blind people get some super ability that completely makes up for it. I like how mental illnesses aren't the sort of thing you can just wave away though, because I know a lot of people think you can do that, but I've heard several of my friends talking about this and they're really not. Never thought of spook as being disabled, though, since he always referred to it as a penance. I suppose you could call it an addiction, though that has connotations that don't quite seem to fit.

I know there was either a Syl or Stormfather quote about how honor used to care about the spirit of the oath (leaning towards Stormfather, think it was after the vision with the cultivation quote), so to him it was less of a promise you make to do your chores(made to be broken) and more of a "bye I hope I never see you again"? Didn't realize the cultivation line was a Odium quote, that's like trusting a politician

Questioner 1 You said that moving people like that [Cognitive Shadows] or spren off-world, from Roshar is difficult. Brandon Sanderson Yes. Questioner 1 What about physically, say the Ones Above visit them, and they fly away? Brandon Sanderson So one of the things you'll have to be asking questions and theorizing on is what happens if you try to carry a spren around the planet. What happens to their Cognitive sense, right? So you're on Roshar, right? So on the Physical Realm what would happen-- Because on Shadesmar, you have a flattened version. So there are questions for you to be theorizing implicit in that. And one of them is, what happens, you cross a threshold circling the globe, your spren, what happens to them? Because-- Okay? This relates to the question you’re asking. Questioner 2 Wait wait, you have a three dimensional plane coexisting with a two dimensional plane? Brandon Sanderson Well, two dimensional is the wrong term, but basically... Questioner 3 Can you specify the mathematically projection used to create this? *laughter* Brandon Sanderson We'll try to give it to you eventually, but this is the sort of stuff that I do that Peter's like "Oh man..." *laughter* "Alright give me the math Peter." "Ahhh what do you mean? I'm not a mathematician." "Eh, y'know. You're close." It is very convenient to have a physicist and a mathematician in my writing group. Arcanum Unbounded Chicago signing (Dec. 6, 2016) I know that there's gravity and whatnot because when people jump into the bead ocean they fall, and I'm 99% sure you can die in shadesmar (I mean, what's the point of weapons), so with those bases covered, is it possible to die from falling in shadesmar? I think you could, but there are problems with that. It's 2D(somehow, "not exactly") so maybe a different dimension is missing? Maybe assuming that height is the missing one is wrong, but.... I dunno. There's depth to the oceans, height to fly, so maybe length and width are more like one dimension? He says it's flat so... This paragraph was kinda a waste off time?

Does anyone see Autonomy as a mini-God? Created children (patji, trell?, sand lord), then lets them go, with complete agency? As well as what I mentioned earlier, possibly?

I'm going to guess that ftl might have read defending elysium(just the name), so would you see autonomy as similar to PC operative Jason Write? See themselves as defending the cosmere/ universe from the barbarians, or just the most technologically advanced?

You know about how Odium shattered Devotion, Ambition, Dominion and Honor and how he didn't want to absorb them. Say though, if Rayse was like Sazed, and did get two shards, what would the mix name be? (Ruin and Preservation = Harmony)