Argent

Oh no, not the can of worms!

I am still making my way through The Emperor's Soul GA adaptation, but I expect I'll be giving this a shot. Unless their release schedule for the next two volumes is more aggressive, and I can just wait before getting all 3.

I would be shocked if Nightblood wasn't created on Nalthis.

@hoiditthroughthegrapevine, this is marvelous!

On 7/1/2019 at 10:43 PM, Wyndlerunner said:

An interesting note on the term "Zinc-Tongued Raven" is that not only the fact that it could serve as analogous for our 'Silvertongue' but- Wax also mentions during the party in BoM that ravens are often the symbolic depiction of TLR's 'Wraiths' (Which we know to be Inquisitors). So I suppose that adds a bit more depth to the phrase as well.

Kind of like a silver-tongued devil, yeah, I dig that.

4 hours ago, go_go_gragdet said:

At 45:10: "The Rhythm of Night?"

To all my Listeners out there: https://youtu.be/u3ltZmI5LQw?t=63

 

This one, I like them.

On 6/7/2019 at 11:01 AM, BookishOcelot said:

Theory time: (well, really more of something I found interesting)

When Adolin is healed by renarin, he sees a vision of his perfect self. The truth watchers have a combination of Illumination and Progression. My thought is that progression and illumination combine to show the perfect self, and then bring the healed part over from that’s perfect self. Sort of like (massive Reckoners Spoiler) how

They could use illumination to find the perfect self, and then heal accordingly. This has limits- like how Kaladin couldn’t get tattoos because he didn’t see them as part of himself, or that his brands wouldn’t heal. 

TL; DR Truthwatchers use spiritual illumination and physical progression to heal people. 

I've seen similar ideas in the time since Oathbringer, and my big issue with them is that such complexity just doesn't seem necessary. Progression, like most magical healing in the Cosmere, already uses the patient's Spiritual Aspect to figure out what state to restore them to; adding Illumination, let alone Spiritual Illumination (something we don't really know exists, though I personally think it does) to the mix just seems... unnecessary. But I understand the desire to make Truthwatchers special in a way similar to how the Bondsmiths are, given their place in the Double Eye. 

Half the reason Vin's relationships section exists as an objective is so I can have an excuse to put this gorgeous artwork next to her TenSoon subsection, once that becomes a thing.

3 hours ago, Rainier said:

So what's the trivial connection to Ruin? That Ruin destroys and Nightblood consumes?

What is Nightblood made of? And who might know something about metal alloys and Investiture?

The connection between Nightblood and Ruin is that Nighblood is made of an Atium alloy.

We were referring to this WoB.

31 minutes ago, Naurock said:

"Hi, I'm @Chaos!"

- @Argent slyly looks thinking, "Oh that's cute, you think you're chaos."

If I mess with the intro every time, is it really messing with the intro, or am I just sticking to the script? 

2 hours ago, Chromium Compounder said:

I understand that, and I probably was more harsh than I should have been, but Sixth of the Dusk is the only Brandon story I've listened/read only one time.  I feel absolutely no desire to give it another listen.  I would probably rate it between Lame and Meh.  For some authors that's okay, but his second worst story in my opinion is White Sand, and I'd put that as Okay.

All of this is fair - your tastes are your tastes, and there's nothing wrong with disliking any of Brandon's stories. I only take issue with the way you voiced you... expectations. Wishing he would work on something you personally are more interested in is fine; being angry when that doesn't happen is less so. Especially when it's not really this sequel is 1) not really taking from his time on bigger projects, and 2) not even in the writing phase. The Silence Divine has had about as much written, and Brandon hasn't really spent any time on it in years.

But I trust you get my point, I don't need to keep making it. 

3 hours ago, Chromium Compounder said:

As an interesting side note, I read this in your voice, which I know thanks to shardcast.  It was kind of weird to hear your voice in my head like that, but cool.

That's... definitely interesting  Thank you for listening.

2 hours ago, Chromium Compounder said:

BOOOOO!!! I hate sixth of the dusk, but I'm especially mad that he's doing this instead of working on something that I actually like.  Lost Metal was supposed to be finished LAST YEAR!  He has yet to start it.

A lot of the work for this is going to be done on airports and in airplanes - times when he can't really work on bigger things. We are not getting this instead of something else, we are getting this in addition to everything else. If Brandon wasn't working on this, he'd be working on some other short novella - or sleeping, I suppose.

I am sorry you don't like Sixth of the Dusk, but this seems like a bit of a strong reaction to something we don't even know much about.

On 1/20/2019 at 10:07 AM, Bliev said:

(I’m a her, though, just because it IS pedantic-cast after all. Lol)

Always go full pedantic here!

19 hours ago, Sorana said:

You have my support! The work you do for us it's great! It's an honor to support that!

Honestly, it's an honor to have such a great community. Top tier people.

Thanks, y'all!

The new artist seems alright. I think I am going to enjoy the one who finished volume 2, I really liked their clean style (though that may be more the colorist than the artist, I don't know). Looking forward to Amazon spoiling everything when they release preview pages

53 minutes ago, Bliev said:

It "Felt" right? 

Darnit, that man is everywhere...

Banned.

14 hours ago, Philomath said:

I really enjoyed @Argent‘s ideas about what may have caused a first desolation so quickly. That was really fascinating. I was just wondering if we knew the people from Ashyn were the first people to come to Roshar? Don’t we know that humans on Roshar have come from different places at different times?

I am really happy with that one  It felt right.

2 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

@Argent On Voidlight, in Moash’s last appearance in OB he gets the Honorblade and is given a sphere of Voidlight which he breathes in and feels “Passion” return to him.

I don't know if that sphere was voidlight though, I don't think it specifies in text. 

Just now, Oversleep said:

Just because it was in the table does not mean it was canon. Brandon has said that Feruchemy has 8 Physical metals. On top of that, BoM throws out Feruchemy table out of the window, so I'm not sure what's your point.

These tables are as canon as they can be as of Era 1. What's the issue here?

At least in this context, "powers" clearly refers to the powers granted by individual Allomantic or Feruchemical metals. "Abilities" is much more interesting to me - are we looking at mundane ones, like the ability to juggle, or is it spicier than that, with things like the ability to perform Allomancy? 

2 hours ago, Naurock said:

Wow @Argent, lol. Welcome to ThirstCast!

On the co-written stuff, I quickly soured on the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. I really enjoyed Dan Wells book I Am Not A Serial Killer. I think I could trust them together, because they're also fun to listen to on Writing Excuses.

It's good cosplay, okay!?

2 hours ago, Ookla the NotVoidus said:

This link does not work. 

I don't know, still seems fine to me. You can also get to it by going to magic.wizards.com and navigating to the Story page linked in the top bar.

Story's now up, I've updated the post with a link to the download page.

1 hour ago, Messydesk said:

From 41:20 to 42:20 I'm fairly sure @Argent is daydreaming about Jasnah.

That's me all the time, that minute up there may have just been... more obvious to others.

12 hours ago, whattheHoid said:

P.s.- @Argent In what language would Vessel mean joy? I'm curious, I really like languages. I know what it's not, English and French, the only languages I know. Oh and Latin, as that's a dead language.

That'd be Bulgarian.