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She can change it at all.

Whaaat?

To me, Dalinar's display of superhuman strength during the chasmfiend hunt (when he stops the claw from turning Elhokar into a flatlander) is a pretty clear evidence he is on his way of becoming a Knight Radiant - or at least a Surgebinder. Naturally, I want to find out which order he will / would belong to. I've seen at least on theory that he fits the Stonewards profile, so that's what I looked at first. From the updated chart, we know the Stonewards' first surge - surface tension. Their second one is something they share with Order #10 / Ishar's order (though that's irrelevant). So, surface tension. To me, this sounds like a defensive surge - it feels like you would be able to use it to create armor, or shield, or defensive equipment out of everything. Including towels. So that covers the Stonewards' "wards." It stands to reason that their other surge gives them the "stone" part of their name. At this point, I play a quick round of the association game - the word stone makes me think of earth, firmness, stability, (inner) strength, slowness. Knowing Dalinar's only display of Stonewarding (stopping the chasmfiend's claw), stability and strength kind of match the profile. I can't really decide between the two, but if I choose stability, then Ishar's order is left with stability and gravity - and I just can't figure out how those two will play with each other. So I choose strength. It fits, I think. Stonewards sounds warrior-y. Dalinar is warrior-y. Strength and surface tension would give a warrior a nice combination of offense and defense in a very up-in-your-face warrior-y kind of way - very physical, very classical. Hence, superwarriors. P.S. I suppose endurance could also work for that second surge. I still like strength though.

That's kind of what I was going for with the "super warriors" idea.

Nevermind... If I add the site to my bookmarks, it shows up. I don't know why I decided that the favicon should show up before the URL. I now feel dumb.

@Kurkistan, right, I was poking holes in my own ship. @Aztec, that's a good call - especially considering that Jasnah doesn't exactly call anything; her Soulcasting-at-a-distance is more of a sending than calling. Although Elsescholars doesn't really roll off the tongue... But it also makes sense, because the only pseudo-member we know of is not exactly interested in mainstream scholarship.

Oh, this is exciting stuff! Of course Jasnah would be Transformation & Transportation - I would say that I called it, but I was only entertaining the thought (because of the "lightning scene" - Soulcasting at a distance). The Dustbringers will be an interesting one to think about, I need to reason it through at not-one-PM. Kalak's order will also be interesting. Surface Tension and Transportation - I wonder if that gives them teleportation. Probably. Palah is also a curious one, though I can't even begin to fathom what you would do with Growth and Light. Lightweavers weave the light, the appearance, the form of something to transform it into something else (though I fail to see how that differentiates from them from the Elsecallers). So, Palah's order manipulates the light, the shape of... living things? Could physical transformation be possible under Surgebinding? Her essence is pulp, after all... What else... Stonewards have Surface Tension. That should give them the wards aspect. So the other surge should be related to stone, earth, stability, weight, something like that. Strength? Really (physically) powerful warriors who augment their physical attributes with Surgebinding? EDIT #1: Heh. If the Stonewards' second surge turns out to be something like "weight," I am calling Ishar's Gravity + Weight order the Fatties EDIT #2: Stormfather, Ishar's essence is flesh!

How come we don't have one? That glass piece shard would be nicely, I think.

Literary powers, activate!

Oh, you... I go to two signings, report over 30 (40?) questions and then you come along and steal my thunder! And the worst part? I am excited about it!

They also read quickly, so you could stick them in a gap between bigger series.

I like the show a lot. The last episode felt more than a little contrived (Ward shows Sky ONE move and she finds herself in the EXACTLY SAME SITUATION in the field? Yea, right...), but other than that I love it. It's fun, it's got Marvel lore, AND it's got Coulson.

I am not entirely sure what you mean by the Shaod being a Splinter. Splinters are essentially sentient pieces of power. Seons (though they are kind of a bad example, since its their Aons that are the Splinters), Honorspren, Divine Breaths (another proof that I stuck at simplifying definitions...) - they are all chunks of power. The Shaod... maybe the thing that causes it, the thing that - for the lack of a better term - infuses (Invests?) the people of Arelon is a Splinter. Without further research this sounds plausible.

Or you could come with an . Though probably not a dress :-P

Without endorsing anything, because I rushed through ES and didn't pay much attention to the Realmatics and Shard lore, I think the first of the idea is similar to how every person in Scadrial has a little bit of Preservation in themselves; maybe not enough to use Allomancy, but enough to have the option to, under the right conditions (Snapping, lerasium, a-wizard-did-it). Similarly, every person in Sel - or at least some of them - has the potential to use Aona's Investiture, but soulstones give the ability to breach the gap, so to speak, regardless of their native affinity (or lack of thereof).

I don't know, I might be used it. "When X does this, yada yada... Later, when they do that, words, words..." sounds perfectly fine to me.

Yes, but I find my version to be much more answerable :-) RAFO rating is lower.

/bow Another question: is the process that determines whether an Epic will become a Gifter completely random, does it depends on the person somehow, or is it something else?

A few Wikipedia searches suggest that writing about characters and events contemporary to the book(s) go in present tense, while stuff that's history even for the books go in as past. So Vin would be present. The creation of the kandra would be past.

Ender's Game left me the feeling that I am not doing enough with my genius...

Multiple Mi'ch disorder!

If you get a chance, and want to ask, see if Shardblades *have* to be swords. Like, could a Shardspear or Shardaxe be even theoretically possible.

Wait, are you boy-Darnam or girl-Darnam? (we should also be careful not to stray much further away from the topic. Shame on you, Rose, you should have told us)

It's possible, but I don't buy it. I maintain that the only reason we associate Gifters with (relative) goodness it's because those are the only Epics we see who are *could* be good, aside from the fresh ones which we haven't seen any of. Yet.

Steelheart should be relatively easy to pull off. Or Prof.