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Her memory and mind improve as her bond with Kaladin strengthens, but her personality is still carefree - which is probably what you are picking on.

Maybe. Depends in what way Ward went nuts - it could be that he practically worships her, but it could also be that he has adopted an "I know what's best for you" kind of mentality.

I believe the ring will look darker during the day. The reason the rings of Saturn are often portrayed in light colors is because they are composed of mostly water (well, ice). Your much rockier ring will be a completely different color - though I imagine the backlight from the Sun will still make them look paler than they are. I am going to guess that you can apply some creative freedom here and choose the way the ring looks based on its composition - make the rocks riddled with crystalline structures, and you could have a permanent rainbow in the sky

Depends how far from the surface it is. It could be anything from a near-solid rock belt, or just a line in the sky. Think many small Moons strung together - if they are close enough, you can tell them apart; if they are far away, you only see either the glow from the reflect sunlight (during the night), or a dark shadow in sky (during the day). Yes, the Lune particles could get knocked off in any direction. It depends only on where the space asteroid was coming from. This depends. If you stick with the "space asteroids hit the Lune, and Lune's asteroids hit the planet" model, I can't think of a good way for the Wanderers to predict where the things will land. A cool thing to exploit is that because of their large size, their eyes (assuming they see in a way similar to how humans see) can collect much more light, and essentially work like telescopes. So they could literally see the asteroids coming. If I threw a baseball at you from the Moon, it would be pretty easy for you to dodge it if you could see and track it from the moment I threw it. You could also give them a magical ability to "feel" stone and/or water (stone or rock fits better, I think) - in a large radius.

Were you thinking about Saturn's planetary ring when visualizing the Lune - because that's what it sounds like from the brief description you provided in the first post. I ask, because I don't think that's going to work - Saturn's rings are made up of mostly (and I mean this as a "billions-to-one" kind of mostly) small particles, no bigger than, let's say a human head. A ring like that wouldn't be able to bombard anything with meteors. Now, if you were thinking more along the lines of the Solar system's asteroid belt, but smaller and around a planet, something like this - it would be difficult to form (easier with a larger planet though), but I could see it happening. The existence of the ring, I mean. As for the Skyfires... maybe? There is a ton of astrophysics here, and being an enthusiast gets only so far, but I am going to guess that it's possible. Even the particles in Saturn's rings brush and bounce off each other all the time, so we know those rings are not entirely locked in their orbits - a ring made of larger particles would have this problem even more often, and I could see meteors being bounced out of their orbits and entering a collision course with the planet below. They will probably lack the combination of speed and size to do any kind of serious damage to the planet, but maybe they would be enough to force a civilization to go ride its gods. As for the pattern those meteors will form, I guess it would look kind of like the ring's "shadow" on the planet. I couldn't find anything that suggests planetary rings can orbit the planet along more than one axis of rotation (i.e. if the ring orbits "above" the Equator, it will stay "above" the Equator - you can't have it wobble to, say, North America), so any meteors - or asteroids - ejected from it would have to fall, more or less, "under" it. I think you can solve this problem by making the axial tilts of the planet and the ring form an angle (45 degrees, I guess?), so that most of the planet is exposed to bombardment at some time during the day-night cycle. Big disclaimer though - I don't think you can have the planetary and the ring's tilts be different, I think the rings form so that they are parallel to the equator. All this being said, I may have thought of a quick hack to get this to work. You could have your planet in a region of space where meteor showers are (a lot) more common than in our own neighborhood, but have those meteors strike at the Luna instead of the surface (most of the time? sometimes?). They will then knock some of the Luna's own asteroids out of orbit, and send them flowing towards Naelus. The humans don't even have to know about this. You just need a reason for the Naelus-bound asteroids to hit the Luna, which is a pretty small target compared to the surface of the entire planet... but you can either ignore that (by letting many of those asteroids just hit the planet and then have the humans believe they came from the Luna), or come up with a magical reason. As one final resource, you can make an account on the Astronomy StackExchange website (or hell, even contact the AMS) and ask people there a question every now and then. StackExchhange users are generally nice, smart, and helpful folk.

Hmm. Like @Talanic above, I might have an issue with the science logistics. You might need to do some math (unless you've already done it), because there are a few things that could be a problem: How fast are the Skyfires (Skyfire? Can I make it plural?) moving? The American Meteor Society (AMS) gives speeds ranging from 11 km/s to 72 km/s (~25,000 - 160,000 mph), with an average of about 17 km/s - that's when entering the atmosphere. Most likely impact angle is 45 degrees, while we are at it. How big is Naelus? The bigger the planet, the higher its atmosphere will extend, I think, and the more time your Wanderers will have to avoid an incoming Skyfire. Considering that most of Earth's atmosphere is packed within about 16 km from the surface (and so you would expect most meteors to explode there, instead of at higher altitudes), it will take a meteor just a little over a second to either hit the surface, or explode on its way to it. That's not a lot of time. Even if you take the formal thickness of the atmosphere, 480 km, it's still a matter of less than a minute (I am adding some time because the meteors will slow down due to friction, but I have no idea how much they will slow down). How big do you expect each Skyfire's impact area to be? In other words, how far would a Wanderer have to move in order to avoid a specific Skyfire? How fast are the Wanderers themselves? And do they accelerate fast? I have a gut feeling they wouldn't have much in the way of reaction time. Can the Wanderers just absorb some of the Skyfires? Creatures the size of mountains, I imagine they can easily soak meteorites a couple of meters in diameter (7m ones explode with about as much energy as the bomb in Hiroshima, so I guess that would leave a mark...) Those are all the potential science problems I can think of right now. Other than that, I need to know that you know why the Wanderers fight - I don't need to know the reason, I just need to know that you have one, because this is a very counter-productive behavior from where I stand. Oh, also, why do people live on the giants' shoulders instead of, say, on their feet? Shoulders sound like a less safe (if more comfortable) option. P.S. This Wikipedia page has some solid information, if you haven't seen it - for example, if your world has an atmosphere similar to Earth's, you can use the tables in the linked section to figure out what kind of meteorites your... Naelusians? can expect. EDIT: I should probably mention that I like the idea very much, despite my long critique. It's how I show love, by picking things apart

Kelsier did hold the power of Preservation for a short period of time. Brandon has spoken about this on several occasions, and while this one is not as clear or extensive as some of the others, it is clear enough I think.

Including NotTorosSadeas? For example?

Copyright trolls suck.

Forgot 'bout that...

You made a paladin who shares a name with Sadeas. You are dead to me... Begone, foul demon!

We actually kind of knew that Mistborn can vary the strength of their burn - for some reason the scene from The Well of Ascension where Vin talks to Zane while he "levitates" in the air before her has stuck with me, and either one of them says something very similar to what Brandon said there. I think. I have to ask though, why are you guys keeping the audio private? It would go (much?) faster if you all posted the files somewhere and let the community help transcribe them. You know, like we've always done?

Is there a reason they wouldn't be called gloomspren? The Cryptics, the only spren with a stranger name we know of, are called Cryptics in and out of Shadesmar, we don't actually call them liespren, Jasnah uses that name to illustrate a concept.

*ahem* I've got a theory on that down in the signature.

Eh, I assumed it was just another honorspren. Hunting "monsters" sounds like something honorspren would do to pass the time.

I do not think it is a problem - (this forum's) spoiler policy requires us to tread lightly for, I think, 6 months after a book's release. It's been way more than that for The Way of Kings where Jasnah stipulates the same thing, and even Words of Radiance came out 7 months ago. If you haven't read either one of them, and you are reading this forum... well, it's your fault for running into spoilers. On topic, I thought about this a lot back when Words of Radiance came out, and I don't think this will be one of the plot twists of the series. For one, we already had a "everybody thought the Voidbringers were some evil monsters, but they turned out to be our own Parshmen - what a shocker!" kind of plot twist. And while Brandon has been known to do double misdirection (looking at you, Mistborn), I doubt he'll do it here. The Parshendi's voidforms fit too well - they bond with spren whose Investiture comes from Odium, Shardplate seems designed specifically to counter their abilities, and we have Jasnah's research to work with. If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably not a cyborg that imitates a duck.

I think Weeks wanted the magic to be more mystical in the beginning, but much of it will be explained in the first book. Also, yes, it is similar to Warbreaker's - in fact, I think I've heard one of them sharing that he was concerned they were both releasing an epic fantasy book with light- and color-based magic (though there is an year apart between the two releases), but it turned out the magic was different enough to keep things cool.

Brandon is pretty unique in his frequent updates - I monitor about a dozen authors regularly, and occasionally check out another dozen - and none of them are as diligent in informing readers about their progress. Frequently (but not always) you would see authors noting when they hit a major milestone (the big ones being first draft, final draft, final version, and release date), but that's it. So yeah, Spoilderson. With Pat, however, I can take the delay because he updates his blog with other cool stuff and because I know that the reason for his seemingly slow writing speed has more to do with the sheer number of revisions he does than with his actual writing speed. Like, Brandon does between 5 and 10, I think, depending on the book, and some of them are not even full revisions (e.g. going through and just beefing up the dialogue is a revision, but he doesn't revise the entire book in it). Pat does hundreds. And it pays off. The rereadability of his books is amazing - we find new things all the time, and he does this practically just with masterful control of his prose - something that does take hundreds of revisions.

Season 2 Fitz is killin' me. My heart just breaks watching him.

The Sum of All Men is, arguably, the best one in the entire Runelords series, though the next 2-3 are not bad either. If I recall correctly they start declining after the fourth book, but I enjoyed them all (though it's been so long, I barely remember anything...). Let's see what I've been reading since I finished The Broken Eye a little over a month ago: The Android's Dream: I actually remember the book a little more fondly than what my review suggests. It wasn't a bad book, but it was kind of unremarkable. Redshirts: Good read, but also weird. Very meta. Probably the best thing about it was the core idea. The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land: I'll let my reviews speak for this series, but in short - I was really fidgety about this series, it felt very very abnormal. Promises were made and then either broken or left hanging; tropes were ignored, and at times even demolished. I still think of the series as "messed up Narnia with a touch of Harry Potter, and then some death metal" The Way of Shadows, Shadow's Edge, and Beyond the Shadows: I've been waiting a (relatively) long time to wrap up Brent Weeks, and now I have finally done so. The first book was nothing impressive, but it was a quick and easy read; I heard somebody yapping that Warbreaker was practically identical to it, but I don't really see it. The biggest downside, I think, was that the fight scenes were the heart of the book, but Brent wasn't good enough to write them well enough for this to work. The good news is, the second and especially the third book were much better, with the third one walking the border between epic fantasy and whatever it actually is supposed to be. The Warded Man, The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold, and The Desert Spear: So far I am rarely impressed by the series. Two books and two short stories in, and it feels like every one of the main characters was either raped or heavily molested as a child. And while I am not squeamish enough of a reader to drop a book at the first sign of rape, it feels like Peter V. Brett has gone a little overboard with it, almost if this is a checkbox in each character's back story, and he had to check it; I can think of two main(-ish) characters who have to cope with being raped, and in both cases the normally extremely traumatic and scarring for life event becomes important to the characters for a few pages after the event itself, and in one other scene after that. And this is only the biggest of my problems with the series - Brett's style in general is just not my cup of tea. Way too much back story, too many pages spent on events that don't advance neither the plot nor the characters. I am reading The Daylight War now, the third book in the Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle quintet. I just a few pages in, but it looks like more of the same...

If you didn't like it, you didn't like it. There is no big secret to it.

Hey Loch! Stones Unhallowed / Skybreaker should come out in 2016. I am going to guess first quarter. Brandon wanted to have it out by the end of 2015, but I don't think that's feasible anymore.

Well, since we should and you can make it happen...

That's why I am taking the risk only once - even if everyone went and joined the mailing list now, it would still be impossible for them to get this chapter; we didn't know we were going to get it either, so I believe it's fair of me to post it here. But just this once. Also, regarding the chapter, keeping the spoilers at bay I am just going to say this: gloomspren.

I think this may have been a hiccup in the transition to the new site - it looks like you can only subscribe after contacting Brandon. Which, sure, you can just send him a "thank you" email, but it feels weird. I am going to take the liberty - just this once, because this is the first time people on the mailing list have gotten a special treat - to include the chapter here: Obviously, spoilers for Stormlight 3.