Argent

Walmart weekend trip it is then!

It feels like I've asked this before, but I can't recall with certainty, so I'll just go again. For those of you who buy the posters Brandon puts in his store, do you also buy frames for them? I imagine you do, 'cause taping the posters to the walls sounds like a terrible way of doing things. So where do you get your (presumed) frames? I got a few some time back, and even the cheapest ones of suitable size ended up being more expensive than the posters themselves...

As far as I know, his Bulgaria trip (which he mentions in the same breath) is confirmed - the publisher that invited him announced it as a done deal a few weeks back. It's plausible that Poland is in the same boat.

I don't need this kind of hype 10 months before release!

It's from the end of the Chicago AU signing.

Eh, I'll get it. I did have issues with the first volume, and I don't imagine the second one will be much better, but it's the life I live

Why would you break it?!

Mistborn: Secret History should be a treat for you - I believe it is available in Arcanum Unbounded too.

It's complicated. The most useful thing we know about aluminum is that it is magically inert, i.e. investiture can't affect it. As an extension to this, you can also use aluminum as a sink for investiture - you can just keep on dumping it, and it won't do anything.

My money was on something to do with the Shades too, but I never spent much time thinking about it. It just has a creepy vibe similar to what I get from Hemalurgy.

He did murder Alendi, and it only went downhill from there. Interesting though. I am a big fan of Rashek WoBs.

Flattery will get you nowhere!

Never apologize for bad puns. Aim to make them even worse instead.

Hey, look at that - the Stabby award winners (and finalists) for last year got announced. Here are some relevant entries: I've read (and loved) 3/5 of the best novel finalists, and the other two have been on my to-read list. I've been hearing about this Pierce Brown guy, whose Morning Star won the award in this category, maybe I should read him... Arcanum Unbounded was, unfortunately, not even a finalist in the Best Anthology category. Sad days. Isaac Stewart's Cosmere constellation map, however, was a finalist for Best Artwork. Happy days! Most importantly, this site - yes, this site, the 17th Shard, was a Best Fantasy Site finalist! Crazy days! Go take a look at 'em, maybe you pick something up - whether it's a new book to read, or new wallpaper to use for your desktop (real talk, this is pretty sexy).

Well, being an Unmade didn't last long...

Oh, of course. I didn't mean to say that I consider this thread to be a duplicate of mine. I just wanted to offer my own thoughts on the topic by being lazy and not writing them again

That's a fair point. Halfway through this paragraph I was going to say that the two should be pretty much the same - though I imagine the longer a person has been dead, the more difficult it would be to re-link them. It would take more investiture, in other words. All of this up to the point where the Cognitive Shadow has passed into the Beyond (which is probably a less correct representation of what happens, I suspect the Cognitive Shadow is destroyed, and the Spiritual aspect of the person passes into the beyond). Using the brain as an indicator might be accurate, but this time I would actually avoid getting tangled with such technicalities. Because it's not that important. As for the Lord Ruler surviving stuff, I have two somewhat contradictory comments. On one hand, we should be careful about what we believe. In-universe lore, especially about such a mythic figure, is bound to be shrouded in exaggerations and inaccuracies. On the other hand, we have multiple accounts of Miles Hundredlives eating a shotgun blast, and even a dynamite stick. We also have Wayne's experience during the "rotten tomato" maneuver. Both of those suggest, I think, that someone with sufficiently large reserve of Feruchemical healing can kind of preemptively dump it into their body and allow it to heal them from an otherwise fatal injury (fatal not only in the sense that it would kill them, but also in the sense that it would disable them in such a way that it would prevent them from consciously using healing powers). In a way this reminds me of how Kaladin (and to a lesser extent Vin) healed after being strung up (and in Vin's case, after she fought a bunch of Inquisitors). What I am getting at here is that the body seems to know how to heal itself even if the brain does not - or cannot. So in this context, I don't think decapitation is that much of a problem for a Feruchemist who walks into it prepared. This might be an overcomplication of what's actually happening. But I imagine it is more or less correct.

Alright, so that test I took, the one I was super impressed by - it's the Insights Discovery. Doesn't seem to be very useful to individuals though...

The timeline doesn't match though. There is a place in The Bands of Mourning where Marasi, Wax, and Allik talk about the Sovereign, and they establish that he arrived in Southern Scadrial about 10 years after the Catacendre. Spook would've been no more than 30 around that time, and history reports him ruling for a century.

That much investiture though? Enough to be equal to a Splinter?

Perhaps I can refer you to a similar theory of mine?

I think that's too specific. All the other Oaths we've seen have been much more categorical in nature, so I would expect something similar from the Truthwatchers.

It's also interesting that this thread is not marked with a star for me in my unread feed.

This specific anagram ("a mind a soul") has reared its pretty head a few times over the years. I personally do not believe it to be significant, as (given the context) it sounds much more likely to me that the name was inspired by Adonai, which (according to my Google Fu) is the Hebrew name (word?) for their God. Is it possible that Brandon started off with Adonaisium and, being the clever guy that he is, realized that if he changed the "i" to and "L" he would get a clever anagram for free? Sure. But I think starting with the anagram is convoluted and less likely. As for Hoid's comments... I wouldn't read too much into them. Or, rather, I would but I wouldn't accept any interpretation that's not backed up by a ton of other sources. I, for example, think it more likely that he is referring to Adonalsium's Shattering instead of the breakdown of the name itself, or any possible anagrams we can come up with.

Eh. I may have accidentally made it impossible to participate fairly in this... <<<