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Thanks for the welcome @Scout_Fox! I’m going to try hard to get them done, I think I can manage warbreaker for sure, we shall see. As for the spren I would most want to bond, I don’t think I could handle something like Pattern; would freak me out way too much. I also don’t think I would fit quite so well into the wind runners, so Sil and her ilk I think are out for me. I think I would have to go for an inkspren/Ivory. Logic and knowledge, coupled with traveling and transformation: those are the things for me

With what I have read (mistborn, Stormlight), my current pick for shards would be Cultivation. In my mind, I am more on the side of creation than destruction, so Odium and Ruin don’t seem as appealing to me. I also love to build and grow things, so I think I would have a better connection to that shard than the others.

Thanks @AonEne for the welcome!

@ThreadyBowl Absolutely! Seeing the words and being above to roll them through my mind and attempting my own understanding and inflections is why I love reading in the first place. I don’t like sacrificing that to someone else until I have my own interpretation to judge it against.

Thank you for the welcome! Hardback first, then the sweet, comforting voices of Michael Kramer and Kate Reading for a second go through

I don’t have any experience (yet) outside Scadrial and Roshar, but if I had to pick between those two, I think I would go with the metallic arts. I like how definitive it is; that you are limited by the types of metals and but with the combination of allomancy and feruchemy (and hemalurgic) you have so many different variables. The Rosharan system is a bit too soft for my liking, but one thing I really do enjoy about it is the reliance on progression through personal introspection and growth

I don’t know about ridiculous, but I do have two ideas on firearms. I think it would be interesting to see some sort of “attuned” firearm in Scadrial that is also a hemalurgic spike. Maybe someone has some sort of weapon mounted on their forearms or something like that. On Roshar, I imagine that all the kids make Cremling guns. You know, it’s like a spud launcher but for cremlings. I certainly imagine the Dysian Aimians would not be fans

I mean, Kaladin would have to be up there. He is such a badass. I think of Dalinar as being a bit like Guts from Berserk, so he certainly gets a vote. But I think I would have to go with Shallan, at least from the Stormlight books as my favorite. I love how broken she is and the struggles she experiences from her traumatic past. I also really enjoy Steris’ character. Really all the characters I have encountered in Era 2 I have really enjoyed. As I stated in an earlier comment. I really enjoy that this series is a bit more whimsical. I also finished Dawnshard yesterday and now that I am thinking about it, how can anyone not love The Lopen?

Currently I am working my way through Mistborn Era 2 and am really enjoying those books; about half way through Shadows of Self. These books seem a bit more whimsical and fun than Era 1 did, which I also immensely enjoyed, especially on my second read through. I would have to say, however, that Words Of Radiance would have to be my favorite book so far and the Stormlight Saga in general. I really enjoyed how much internal struggle the characters face in WoR, and I felt the pacing was the best out of the three. The one thing that challenges that for me is the discovery and pacing of Dalinar’s past in Oathbringer. I really enjoyed that aspect of that book. Going to attempt to get through Warbreaker and Elantris before RoW comes out, but quickly running out of time there

Cosmerians? Shardpeople? Shardians?