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  1. Argent
    Eh, I wouldn't call either one inspired by the other. You can draw parallels between almost any two books in the same genre.
  2. Argent
    Tirion Fordring from World of Warcraft. The actual picture showed up in the promotional wallpaper for patch 3.2 or 3.3 (I think?) Call of the Crusade.
  3. Argent
    What have you done!?
  4. Argent
    Blog is up. I think they are going to stick to safe questions, but maybe we can overwhelm them with not-so-safe ones and trick them into asking something that's actually interesting.
  5. Argent
    The distinction between joining the unaligned and being an unaligned is lost to me. Your peasant activities fail to amuse me.
  6. Argent
    I can never understand this kind of stuff... Creating and joining online groups just for the sake of being there, giving your allegiance to others. It's not for me.
  7. Argent
    As I mentioned somewhere else a while back, in the original version of The Way of Kings (TWoK Prime), Amaram was dualwielding Shardblades.
  8. Argent
    Yeah... I had to quotes mixed up in my head. I was thinking of the part where she says "I bind things. I am an honorspren." Except I obviously had remembered the second part wrong.
  9. Argent
    Brandon did, in fact, RAFO this when I asked him. From the Ultimate List: Is the rate at which Soulcasting happens fixed regardless of size and composition of the item being Soulcast? E.g. would Jasnah take the same amount to Soulcast a pebble and a large rock? Are highstorms visible in Shadesmar, and if so what do they look like? In Dalinar's vision, why does Nohadon make a distinction between Surgebinders and Soulcasters (reference quote: ""They have leaders," Nohadon said. "There are princes, kings, Soulcasters, Surgebinders. We never lack men and women who wish to lead."")? And my own: At one point Syl claims she is a bondspren - was that just her not having remembered enough to know better? Windspren and honorspren can be treated as spren cousins (whatever that means). Are there other pairs of spren with similar relationship? There should be something in the Death Rattles we can ask about...
  10. Argent
    This WoB makes me think that the spirits of the departed don't go to the spiritual realm. Or at least that's not their final destination, they might pass "through" it. It sounds like you only get to hang around the cognitive or spiritual realms if you are anchored in the physical one. So ghosts, if they exist, could probably be spiritual beings. The souls of the dead, unless somehow anchored, seem to pass beyond the three realms.
  11. Argent
    I kid you not, I've been trying to remember the word pepperpot (because of the one Alice wields) for over two years now. Every now and then I would try to tell a friend about Alice: Madness Returns and I would realize I can't remember the word for pepper-storming-pot. I would then proceed to forget I couldn't find the word, so I wouldn't look it up, and the vicious cycle would repeat... On topic now. I do like the idea now. I am biased towards certain dress styles, so I think the "tassels" would look better on the back (similar to Wax's coat, now that I think about it), but that's definitely a personal preference thing.
  12. Argent
    Putting labels on the three realms is something I was fascinated by for a very long time, but I now think might be a futile effort. The big problem I keep running into is that we all treat the physical realm as kind of the "main" realm - and I am starting to think realmatics don't work like that. Words of Radiance strongly suggests that the cognitive realm is a world in its own right, and its usefulness to the people of the physical realm is only a side effect. Similarly, I suspect whatever beings dwell in the spiritual realm will be developed independently from the physical realm (e.g. if we take the typical approach, they will be more spirits and less souls, because souls are, in a way, the "leftover" of a mortal life and spirits can exist without the need of previous life).
  13. Argent
    I might be looking at this incorrectly, but this looks more like a mistcorset. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a dress like this reveal some (read: all), um... delicate areas?
  14. Argent
    Heh, Shardbook. But yea, that's a kind of impressive level of abuse. One I would not allow myself to commit, by the way. You've committed a dire crime in my eyes, but one which I can forgive, despite its magnitude.
  15. Argent
    Both The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance take place in the year 1173. WoR ends a few days before or after what is essentially New Year's day. Somebody had a detailed timeline here on the forums...
  16. Argent
    Many of his friends, however, make limited appearances. Peter (assistant) and Moshe (editor) both have multiple small cameos - not as themselves, but as names and maybe a personality trait here and there. It's usually like that with Brandon, he doesn't import a person he knows into the world, he takes an interesting and/or distinctive trait of theirs and uses that instead. An example I recall from Writing Excuses was how he got to make Sarene in Elantris more authentic; he said one of his friends was a pretty tall woman and the way she talked and thought about height was one of the ways he made Sarene's... awareness of her height be believable.
  17. Argent
    I wonder about this Thoughtgiver... it makes me think of the Stormfather.
  18. Argent
    Finished The Lies of Locke Lamora a few days ago. Not exactly my style, but pretty solid. Reading the sequel, Read Seas Under Red Skies right now, about a third into it. It looks like it's going to go into a direction I didn't expect it to (hint: pirates), and I don't know how I feel about that...
  19. Argent
    Aye. Though I must confess, I am disappointed I couldn't find a 10-hours version...
  20. Argent
    This has to be the worst follow-up to the iconic line. You are dead to me.
  21. Argent
    What's remarkable is that I hadn't even heard of the Enefel. I would, on occasion, not know what something means, but I will usually at least know that I had heard of it.
  22. Argent
    I was going to go with Stede Bonnet, known as "the gentleman pirate" back in the 17th century, but decided against it.
  23. Argent
    wat
  24. Argent
    Well, in all fairness, we've barely seen the different aspects of Roshar - the two books practically take place in the Alethi warcamps. So we have only one nation, and it's kind of sort of waging a war at the moment. So the only real entertainment we've seen are the feasts the various highprinces hold - dancing, mingling, contests (be they art or dueling), socializing, dating... Knowing how bureaucratic the Azish appear to be, I wouldn't be surprised if they like to engage in less physical activities - puzzles, games of the mind. Debates have to be a thing somewhere. Basic ball sports will probably be popular in the various countrysides, but our only glimpse of that were Kaladin flashback chapters, and he was busy with other things there. I guess animal fights could be a thing in, among other places, Jah Kaved.
  25. Argent
    Interesting. This could be on the right track.
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