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I just noticed something in the epigraphs:
QuoteHave you given up on the gemstone, now that it is dead?
That's interesting in the context of this thread and the above WoB.
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I agree that the kandra will regrow the body part, because while Shardblade cuts soul, or maybe more precise would be to say it cuts the Cognitive idea of one's body, kandra body in its natural state is indifferentiated. So even if you cut through an arm, it wouldn't cut a idea of an arm, it would cut just part of the kandra. And kandra can deal with their bodies losing and adding mass, do I don't think it would do anything permanent.
The funny part that everyone misses and which I just realized while reading about chasmfiends, is that bones in kandra are objects, not living matter, so the Blade would physically cut the bone into two parts.
Which means it would be noticeable (the arm getting another point where it bends instead of just going dead) and in many cases a Shardblade cut will reveal that something's of with that person.
Harder question: a Shardblade cutting a Sleepless (mimicking a human) through "arm"... I have no idea.
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So we know that Hoid had been a Dawnshard, probably related to survival/protection/peace/life/something like that. We also know that one of his names is Topaz, because of an ancient gem he once wore (but doesn't now). And, assuming that Rosharan symbolic has anything to do with Cosmere as whole, topaz means something related to Taln, dependable-ness and similar.
It's a long shot, but what it that topaz was (or was a name for) the Dawnshard?
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12 hours ago, Frustration said:
Uhm, I think it's more we're more open about religion on average but I can't say.
Thank you for replying.
Backing from potentially controversial topics, I watched some Shad's videos from the corona time (didn't have the mood earlier) and the idea of an immortal running around in full plate (well, chainmail at least) + two daggers is quite funny. I'm pretty sure armor+daggers would make a lot of people scream "bUt thaT's uNrealistic!"
Where do you think the line lies between effective fighting and looking cool? Would you accept a movie/book character in armor (more than leather or [whatever the fabric thing was called in English]), fighting with two daggers?
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Wait, the "1984" is a title, not the date of production?!!! Wha--- I thought "well, for a movie made in 1984 it's not that weird" but now--- oh. OH.
(Yeah, I'm out of the movies&series loop movies this much.) Thanks for mentioning this video btw.
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3 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:
It's a podcast Shad occasionally comes onto. They get a lot of unwarranted hate for various reasons, the most recent being they don't like the Mandalorian because it's filled with plot holes and contrivances, all the characters intelligence is no more than a baby's, plot armor is through the roof, barely any actual characters, they are mostly just props, etc, etc. If you have seen Shad's video on Mando, you get the general drift.
I do not suggest it.
Thanks. I haven't even watched Mandalorian, I'm not a big SW fan nowadays. I really enjoyed Force Awakens, but I'm happy that I didn't see further parts (especially that I hoped for ReyxFinn). It all just got too incoherent.
I have a vague feeling that for some strange reason liking newer Star Wars stuff on the internet when you're conservative, or not liking it when you're a liberal, is a no-no. And that's really weird to me. (Also, I'm not sure if "conservative / liberal" are the right words.)
3 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:You don't seem like the type to like it, the humor can be strange, and you honestly seem too...
Tumblr-y? Female/feminist? Kinda SJW-ish? I feel like that's the general direction and I admit to being a bit in that direction. It's complicated. But emotionally, aestethically, I'm often something like that, yep. So your intuition about what channels I'd like is probably good (for yt book/movie criticism, I like Dominic Noble who is also kinda in that direction and, for something lighter, Screenrant who is simply funny and you may like him too).
Anyway, I do like Skallgrim sometimes (he's less interesting than Shad and I don't like his voice a lot) and some Lindybeige and generally rather enjoy swords-and-stuff videos, which stereotypically speaking I shouldn't like. A lot depends if the video is informational. I love learning stuff.
3 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:not sure what word to use, but yeah, I don't think it's for you. If you want to try it, the channel is Mooler. Good day to you, sir.
As I said, I'm not a sir (this photo and especially the Sleepless effect on it make me look androgynous, but I'm a woman). Anyway good day to you too.
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11 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:
Hope you're not referring to EFAP
I have no idea what this is, so I don't think I'm referring to it.
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9 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:
Hmm, I did suggest traditional, which I guess you can say is a naive view.
Hm. Funny thing is that I'd call myself "traditional" compared to internet average.
By "naive" I meant more of "he assumes that nice people don't do wrong things, would likely defend some really bad people because they were his internet friends" and stuff like this. Trusts that other well-spoken white fandom guys are all good people - kind of naive. The Dalinar in tWoK kind of naive.
Generally, Shad has some Kholin vibes to me. (And I don't mean Gavilar in RoW prologue, I mean the good guy Kholins)
9 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:He's open-minded, though, which I find to be the most important part. Being naive and stubborn is a bad combination.
I agree. One of the things that I admire in Shad is being able to say he was wrong about something without being a jerk about it.
9 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:I'm going to have to disagree on this. Wanting Fantasy to start to follow things like physics is something I really enjoy and brings something new to the genre and forces the writer to get creative. Restrictions on writers can end up creating new ideas that haven't really been done. I myself am trying to write a fantasy series and am trying to bring as much real-world science into it as I think is appropriate. It's obviously not holy realistic, there's magic, but how that magic works and is used is fairly scientific, and I think that brings something new and also makes it so writers don't depend on the 'MAGIC' excuse when writing.
I'm all for restrictions and hard magic, but there's a difference between internal logic and real-world physics. I'm not sure if I'll have the time to rewatch his videos and find the quote, but there was at least one video which gave me a strong impression that Shad considers Shardblades to not make sense, because they lack mass. I'm talking about this level of wanting realism. (I think it was before he helped with the book, and he might have been talking about lightsabers not exactly Shardblades).
Sorry for lacking quotes, since my kids had online lessons I watched much less YT, so it's been some time since I saw those videos. I just remember that there were a few comments about realism that I disagreed with. Maybe it was in context of ttRPG, I tend to have strong opinions of those and the phrase "realistic RPG mechanics" is a sure way to make me suspicious. (Fate and narration-supporting mechanics and verisimilitude based on group trying to keep it, not on bloated physics-simulating rules - it's what works for me)
9 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:The circumstances are just ridiculous. You need to hear his rant to know why it's funny. It's just so stupid and you wonder why nobody saw it. The guy doesn't even have a name, in the credits he's called Handsome Guy. It's so bad and dumb, you can't help but laugh at the absurdity.
Wow. Sounds like parodying superhero tropes, I have a hard time imagining someone would do this with straight face. But in the 80s everything was possible...
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1 hour ago, Aspiring Writer said:
As for the questions on language, low key isn't really used as a little. It's meant to mean restained or showing less emotion. Like saying 'I low-key want to eat a cake' casually, without putting much emotion into your voice. I hope that made sense. But yeah, saying he is low-key sexist does not mean a little sexist, just that he is sexist. Maybe less vocal is all. And again, think sexist is the wrong term here as well.
Storms. Sorry, I seriously thought "low-key X" meant "in the general direction of X, but not as much". OK, he's not sexist then, but I wish there was a smaller word to use here. He feels genuinely like a good guy, just sometimes stupid or naive in certain areas. That's what I meant.
And very smart in other areas, like castles and swords and stuff (until he starts talking fantasy and expects it to follow real-world physics, I have a problem with this too, I think it's just too narrow idea of the genre).
Storms, I'm really critical of people… He's one of my favorite YTers, you know.
1 hour ago, Aspiring Writer said:he is making a video on Wonder Woman 1984 and the fact WW basically raped a guy. XD That is going to be a hilarious video.
Huh, really? Ugh. I don't watch a lot of movies, didn't know that.
I don't think video about something like this could be hilarious. Interesting, probably. Informative. But I don't think hilarious.
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19 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:
That's a pretty big claim.
I said "low-key". This means "a little", right? Sincerely asking, I'm not a native speaker and sometimes mess up the emotional tone. Anyway what I meant is that he's not sexist enough to stop watching him or make a drama about it or something similar, but still has some opinions on gender roles that I think aren't true or helpful. He's a gentleman, not a "nice guy", but still, he's a bit… old-fashioned? I don't know how to explain this better.
I don't remember exact examples, he said some things along the line of "women are delicate and meant to be protected" and this made me roll my eyes a bit. I still like his videos. Just some parts are kinda… not something I'd agree on.
Also, I'm not American, so I often say for example "stupid" instead of "not great" and I don't mean "this person should die and never does anything right", I just mean "this wasn't correct".
19 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:Well, I have no idea, but he is Christian and probably attracts other Christians.
I'm Christian too, but I don't think other denominations of Christianity and similar (I'm not sure if LDS is Christianity?) don't seem to have this correlation with fantasy/SF. Sure, Tolkien and Lewis were religious, but I don't think there's a general trend for Catholics or Protestants to be more into fantasy than, say, atheists. And Shad lives in Australia, so it can't be just that he went to BYU or something like that. IDK.
Maybe other denominations are just shy. For example, most of my Catholic friends aren't very much into fandom and many of my fandom friends are atheists or at least not very Catholic, so it doesn't feel natural to mention the other "part" of me when I'm in a group centered about the other "part". I don't know. There are definitely things here that I wish I could learn.
OK, maybe let's talk about werevolves or something. And castles.
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11 hours ago, Vessel of Theory said:
It makes me very happy to see that people care about Adolin, even though he didn't get to do much in RoW
Dead woman screaming at everyone in his defense and a ton of shocked honorspren …?
I agree he didn't get a lot of screentime, but the time he got was IMO very impactful and emotionally satysfying. Compare him to Dalinar, for example, who had similar or more screentime, but much less awesome in this book.
@GroundPetrel I think this WoB gives more detail about the overall vibe of Honor as Shard.
QuoteThe other bulk of it is, the level to which Kaladin tries to protect, the level to which Kaladin exemplifies the Ideals of the Windrunners, and indeed of the way that Honor would have all Knights Radiant act, is so over the top, in alignment with the way Honor would like it to be, that it could even be considered unhealthy. Remember, Honor didn't always encourage healthy relationships with things like the power, particularly later in his existence. So either way, Kaladin is just kind of extra aligned with that intent, if that makes any sense.
I think Kaladin is officially the Honor-est person in the book. I love Adolin, but for a happy future, I think he's much more likely to go worldhopping (Adolin Kholin, the interplanetary fashion critic! I would love to see him roast Wax's fashion choices. ).
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16 minutes ago, GroundPetrel said:
Honor is also clearly flexible enough to recognize good actions > lawful actions (see: Lift, Lightweavers). Preservation is the static Lawful Stupid one, I personally think that Adolin's actions do fit within Honor's purview.
I agree about Preservation, but still hold my opinion about Honor. Lift is much more in sync with Cultivation, and various Radiant orders have various degree of Honor/Cultivation. I don't think Lightweavers are strongly of Honor.
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1 hour ago, GroundPetrel said:
Honestly, I think that murdering Sadeas was justified in that case, Sadeas was more than happy to put his personal power and his personal meaningless victory over Dalinar, ahead of the future of his entire species.
I'm not saying that it was evil, I'm just saying it was (the murder and the exact manner of doing it) quite un-lawful, speaking in D&D alignment terms. And Honor isn't a Shard of general goodness, it's a Shard of oaths and rules. I'm not saying it's bad, but it's definitely lawful. That's why I don't see Adolin as well-aligned with its Intent.
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@Vessel of Theory I don't like typing the same thing twice, so here's a link to my thoughts on Adolin (+ other stuff) and on who'll get the Shards. Adolin is just… he isn't connected with Honor a lot (exhibit one: backstabbed Torol Sadeas) nor with Odium (he is emotional at times, but nor passionate enough to fit with Odium), nor is he particularly Connected to any Shard IMO, except maybe Cultivation.
PS: I don't feel like we have a character fit for the unified Roshar Multishard. Maybe Venli after some more character growth. But now I don't think we have a good candidate.
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On 30.12.2020 at 9:13 PM, teknopathetic said:
I would bet Adolin dies. This frees up Shallan for the back half and keeps the number of characters lower. It also thrusts Renarin into the forefront.
As much as I don't like him to die, I agree with you that it's highly probable, and Adolin is the most likely to die of all main characters.
Also, if anyone gets Honor (I really don't think Honor+Odium), my bets are on Dalinar and Kaladin.
I think Odium will stay with Vargo for the next 5-6 books, until he dies (well, dies more) and it gets Splintered or merged into some Multishard. Unless… Thaidakar, maybe?
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Oh, there's a Shad thread. Nice.
I watch him quite often (Skallgrim more rarely), I like listening to various yt channels while doing stuff. And Shad got me interested in how castles actually worked. He's got a great voice and I really like his manner of speaking. And he can admit to being wrong. And killed a snake with a sword as a kid (Shad had a sword, not the snake, but still it's something). (And is low-key sexist sometimes but I like him anyway.)
As opposed to others in this thread I'm a woman (married, with kids, in case you wondered).
Anyway, maaaachiculations!!!
BTW, speaking of Shad, what's with the majority of fantasy people, HEMA people and similar being members of the LDS Church? Almost every time I follow someone for fantasy-related content, they eventually mention "as a member of the LDS, I [something]". (Also, that great t-shirt saying "we gave you Battlestar Galactica and Twilight, sorry for Twilight"). Not wanting to be offensive, it's just a mystery to me. Especially that I live in Europe (it's that place with castles and the right timezone and almost no LDS).
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3 hours ago, Aspiring Writer said:
Um, Calamity exists.
Calamity is an OK book at least. It's not his best, but not bad either. The climax is unexpected but hey, it's not Cosmere, let our guy experiment!
As for the topic: I really, really doubt KoW would be objectively bad (pacing, writing etc or something outright offensive or unhealthy). Brandon does a lot of revisions, his craft is very good and practiced, and he's got alpha- and beta-readers. So I can't really imagine this happening.
Subjectively bad… it depends. There are a few things that I'd find bad:
- whole book spent by the narration on validating Kaladin for everything he does - unlikely, he already had his book. And while he is Brandon's fav character (ok, maybe Hoid is. But Kal's scenes are his favorites) and it very much shows, it's not as bad as many other authors would do. And I expect Kaladin to be put on pedestal a lot, he is the main character of the series and I am aware what I'm getting into when opening the book.
- Kaladin solving too many problems that could be more satiafyingly solved by others (I still feel sad for Teft not being the one to… ok, not spoilers, but improve what the ardents did in early part of the book) - I'd sigh and whine on this to my husband and not comment on it on Reddit, because I hate getting -100 karma for one comment even if it's respectful and on-topic. But still, a low dose of it is expected.
- Navani dying - I'd whine on the Internet and hope she's a Cognitive Shadow now and kicks Gavilar's (who I believe to be a CS now)… can I say "ass" on this forum? But yep, this would be pretty dissappointing. Probably the worst thing I can imagine really being in the book.
- Boring climax (revoliving about Kaladin, not about magic and infodumps and team Shallan-Jasnah-Navani) - I'd be frustrated and probably finally write that fanfic about Kal going evil. and then go dissect the illustrations and epigraphs and interludes for more lore.
- Not enough new Cosmere lore in general - well, this happens. Mistborn Era 3 will be next, so I'd wait.
- Shallan dying - it depends if she would got more interesting or more boring before. Shallan fluctuates for me. I'd probably make some popcorn and go see Tumblr rage about her death. Many people would be more angry than me.
- Pattern dying - no, that wouldn't be frustrating. In context of RoW it would be dark-humor-kind-of-funny. And here also probably many people would be angrier than me, so I'd relax by reading their rants.
- Adolin bonding Maya as her Radiant (I don't like this idea, especially after RoW. I really like them both as characters, but nope) - I'd complain with my husband, I think he agrees with me here.
- Too much Szeth PoVs without enough lore - I might skim them. I'm not sure why but Szeth is kinda boring to me. No, wait, he's got Nightblood now. Her* dialogue is great and makes his chapters non-boring. Go girl, destroy evil!
Generally, it wouldn't be such a huge deal. I didn't enjoy WoR a lot, despite it being Shallan's book. I doubt KoW can be significantly worse. And each book has parts I love and parts I… um, learned to not comment about on Reddit, and parts that are just slower and more boring than others.
* I once read a WoB that Nightblood is still deciding on gender and currently leans towards female, and now I like referring to her as her.
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39 minutes ago, Somebody from Scadrial said:
Have you seen the things that flip upside down to help your back?
Huh? I don't have an idea what are you talking about.
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1 hour ago, Somebody from Scadrial said:
Feruchemy, cobalt will store the bodies natural electricity, and any extra, for a time when storing. When tapping electricity will flee the body in any direction.
I see that lightning bolts are a popular idea.
That's a very useful Feruchemy in general, especially in modern eras. (a Ferring od cobalt is called a taser and you can't change my mind on this.)
1 hour ago, Somebody from Scadrial said:Hemalurgy, cobalt will steal a bodies natural electricity, and any extra. When the spike is placed in the receiver, they will gain a greater tolerance to electricity, along with any electricity stored within the spike.
Hm. I thought "meh", but then I imagined it as kandra Blessings. Shapeshifting electric eel FTW.
1 hour ago, Somebody from Scadrial said:Talonite: (cobalt, steel) (physical, external, push)
Allomancy, talonite will act like ambient steel when burned, but like cobalt, it pushes weaker. It pushes all forms of liquids and solids.
Including lightning?
1 hour ago, Somebody from Scadrial said:Feruchemy, talonite will absorb gravity, while this works similarly to iron when storing, you can store gravity in all directions using different metal pieces like tin. This means you can slowly store faint gravitational pulls from distant planets and stars. Later you can use these to fly similar to lashings.
I imagine a Feruchemist lying on a side in a weird angle for hours, storing this… but no, they'd probably find a way to build rotateable metalminds.
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OK, I finally have time for the long post.
Note: The premise of the game was "everything your characters know from the lore is true, also Hemalurgy is more or less by the book, because it's to big to change. Exerything else goes out the window, including the Cosmere stuff, two gods fighting in the background etc." So a lot of things were changed, including that "god metals" aren't a thing here.
Also, I misremembered atium to be Pushing (IDK why) and it being a hint to it's different nature…so atium ended up as an alloy in my game, just very difficult to separate so nobody really proved it even if some Ministry scientists had suspicions.
I'm posting stuff from GM notes, not info I initially gave to players. They eventually figured out vast majority of that anyway.
1. Allomancy.
Allomancy basically had a structure of a directed graph (sorry for maths): technically each person was a kind of a Misting, and could Snap and then could burn their metal and all metals that are below it in the Allomantic order. But weaker metals did nothing without burning some more powerful metal (they changed the metal effects) and also, weaker Mistings Snapped with more difficulty, I think.
I'll tag the metals with letters, eg if a metal is [ABC], than its Misting can burn also metals [A] and [C]. Basically, the more the letters, the stronger the metal and its "Mistings". Also, as a hint I gave the players info on how pulses of metals feel like. Some of the <>s should be bolded, but the forum ate my formatting and it's hard to write those properly, so I'll just paste the numbers from my doc.
[] - nonmetal - (no Allomantic pulse)
Silvery, malleable, rather light. Occured naturally as a foam, near a volcanic island where atium was mined (yep, I changed Pits too). IIRC, it did nothing on Allomancy, but it had some funny properties. Also, its "Mistings" (rare in the Empire, because some poeple had at least some % of Allomantic genes, even if not enough to Snap) were not only non-allomancers, but inherently resistant to Allomancy affecting them. Which lead to a fun surprise when an NPC was unexplicably innmune to emotional manipulation and had no idea why. Oh, and also it could be used to fix insane Allomancers, but that's a long story.
Also, this is the base metal of Feruchemy, used to store "essence" (what in Cosmere we'd call Investiture. Yep, there was no Nicrosil or other era2 metals in the game, I'm not sure about aluminum.)
[-] the narrowing metal - <<<<<<<<<<<<
Base Pulling metal. Narrows the effect of burned metals but makes it stronger. Eg your emotional Allomancy works only on touched creatures, but you can hijack Hemalurgic creatures.
(Generally, metals with - are Pulling and with + Pushing)
[+] - shanium (they named it after one NPC who was an Atium Misting and therefore could burn it) - >>>>>>>>>>>>
Base Pushing metal. Widens the effect of other burned metals but makes it weaker. Eg your pewter or tin also buffs people you touch (as long as you touch them and burn). It was an alloy of shanium, of course (generally, metals are paired with alloys as in the book: +x is an alloy of -x)
[+A] ultra-steel (named by the Ministry who had known about it, but kept it secret) - >...>...>...
Lets you shot lightning at people. Yay!
[+B] renium (named after a PC who discovered it) - >>..>>..>>..
Pushes a living creature, like Steel does to metals. (But works on one target only)
[+C] (undiscovered in game, so not named) >>>.>>>.>>>.
Kinda like cheap atium - shows you predictions of future but only for inanimate things. Essentially, a very good physics simulation, as if you had an AI helping you fight.
[-A] infra-iron - <...<...<...
Destroy a touched metal (metalminds and charged spikes were resistant, IIRC)
[-B] izenium (named after an NPC who IIRC was first discovered Misting of it) - <<..<<..<<..
Weakens a living creature, up to paralyzing them.
[-C] (undiscovered in game, so not named) - <<<.<<<.<<<.
Shows you events that had occured in this place earlier.
[+e] ko-layessium (name based on its base metal) - >..>..>..>..
Makes events around you "less random". (that's not a very precise definition, but worked well in game)
[+f] klissium (named in memory of a dead fiancee) - >>.>>.>>.>>.
Increases math and logic skills, decreases interpersonal skills for the time of burning.
[-e] layessium (again, naming metals after characters. I don't even remember who that was) - <..<..<..<..
Makes events around you "more random"
[-f] ladrium (known by Ministry, named after an Obligator who discovered it or smth) - <<.<<.<<.<<.
Increases sensory processing speed and sensory imagination. (Not all metals are powerful)
[+Ae] steel - as in the book - >..>>.>.>>.. (the amplitude goes 200110101100)
[+Af] bronze - as in the book - >>.>>.>>>>>. (the amplitude goes 210120111110)
[-Ae] iron - as in the book (same as steel, but <ing)
[-Af] copper - as in the book
[+Be] brass - as in the book - >>.>>>>.>>.. (the amplitude goes 210111101200)
[+Bf] pewter - as in the book - >>.>>>>>>>>. (the amplitude goes 220121111210)
[-Be] zinc - as in the book
[-Bf] tin - as in the book
[+Ce] atium - as in the book (except it's not divine and occurs in a different place, though still dangerous) - >>>>>>>.>>>. (the amplitude goes 211111201210)
[+Cf] electrum - as in the book - >>>>>>>>>>>. (the amplitude goes 221121211220)
[-Ce] postium (named by the PCs after a historical Obligator who died experimenting on atium, very probably got this metal, but died from the experiment, or maybe an angry Inquisitor, I don't remember it was like 8 years ago. Anyway this historical record gave them hints needed to separate atium) - kinda like malatium, but it shows you the key defining moments in other people's pasts. Which lead to a big oops when the PCs went to an annual ball where TLR was an it turned out the Ministry (after getting helpful scientific info from one of the PCs because science!) also separated atium and suddenly the PCs got postium pulse from TLR... (Also, if you read RoW, you know the "technically they're enemies, but… science!" vibe, this was very much similar)
[-Cf] gold - as in the book
[+-ABCef] {why did I skip d???) the Mistborn metal turned out to be… lightning. (technicaly, plasma is a metal, kind of)
It can be burned as any other metal (kinda like nicrosil in Feruchemy).
Which lead to the PCs understanding why Ministry was so paranoid on ultrasteel; also, a character getting struck by lightning, burning it, getting a Crowning Moment of Awesome and then saying "Hmm… this confirms my theory."
(BTW, ultrasteel-lightning worked as impure metal, but still, they worked.)
2. Feruchemy.
As mentioned before, the "central metal", known by Imoerial science as "nonmetal", stored raw power.
I don't remember the whole structure for Feruchemy. It was different from Allomancy, but had the 12 base-level metals (AKA the ones we know) in common. Also, alloys of pure of those metals with central metals were Feruchemical. (and stored some of the things that canonically further metals like chromium did).
The most fun was an alloy of central metal and postium, which stored… existing. sort of. Ie you started the act of filling it, you dissapeared for a couple hours (depending on the metalmind size) and then reappeared in the same place (which lead to a Feruchemist ending his experiment by landing in a river, because the barge he'd been on was long gone). Tapping it let you create a copy of yourself for the stored amount of time. You could control both of "you" and IIRC killing the copy wasn't very traumatic to the Feruchemist.
It was exploitable and lead to the party Feruchemist kinda going symbiotic with the huge naturally-occured Allomancy-based AI (AKA the Deepness) made of magma and stuff underground, who was the closest to a god that my interpretation of the setting had. So yeah. Feruchemists.
3. Hemalurgy
Sorry, don't remember a lot
There were also crazy Allomancers (and a legit reason for separating two genetic groups, though not for opression), crazy Inquisitors, a really unexpected way of fixing them and generally, a whole thiong about how the Metallic Arts interact with each other. (Also, IIRC compounding wasn't a thing and TLR had a different way to get infinite Feruchemy).
Do you want to read about that too?
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The upload on Coppermind doesn't work for me, there's some kind of API error, even if I do it in incognito mode (ie no addons).
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When I run a Mistborn campaign, I changed a lot of the not-widely-known lore (because the players wanted to not be spoiled and we had all read the books). I invited a couple metals and a whole structure of them (different that the quadrants)… There were a lot of made-up metals, but not god-metals, just some non-OP stuff I made up, because there aren't enough metals, and silver wouldn't make sense as an unknown metal anyway.
It's not very much in line with the challenge, but is in line with the title, so I'm not sure if I should post them or not.
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I, um, have a wide range of hobbies (a woman must have some hobbies and technically one doesn't need both hands to use a computer, so it's a very seemly hobby). So I wanted to ask what's 17 Shard's policy about
hackingchecking if the forum doesn't have any security issues (I'm talking about the non-destructive stuff, white-hat of course). I mean, such kind of activities is by default forbidden by law unless explicitly allowed, but if you (the Admins) decided that some amount of security analysis is allowed, or maybe even encouraged, I'd love to know about that. And probably not only I, with such big userbase I guess there would be some people interested in it.Sorry if this is answered somewhere, I tried to find it, but couldn't.
PS: Same question for Coppermind and Arcanum?
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Hm. Hard one. I like Jasnah in books, but I'd hate her IRL, because she's a perfectionist and must win every conversation.
Probably Hoid, because he's empathic, not bossy, and knows a lot of lore. ^^
Or Pattern, for same reasons.
Like a half of them... Navani, Raboniel, Venli, also Adolin even if he's very different than me. And Renarin. And probably forgot some of them.
It changes with time. Lately it's Navani, Raboniel, Taravangian... whoever gets most lore dumps+has an interesting personality. Also Lopen is fun.
Mraize. What's his deal exactly?
Lopen maybe? I'm not sure. Lopen, shallan, Lift, Cryptics in general,...
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…Kaladin.
Probably for having all of my personality faults and some of my other issues and getting storming rewarded for them. Also for being extraverted and charismatic while depressed which for me is totally like putting toasts with cheese to a sideways toaster and pulling them out beautifully toasted and similar tutorials (hint: don't try. It won't work.) or all the "how to draw X tutorials where they draw a circle, and a squiggle and suddenly get a beautiful, detailed portrait.
OK, Sadeas too and some of the other. And a couple honorspren. And Szeth, for whining all the time and being emo, instead of focusing on the cool lore infodumps.
But mostly Kaladin.
Venli. Because she actually messed up due to her faults, not just has faults + gets punished for random, unrelated reasons. Also, I can totally see myself doing all the mess she did.
That's different from 2? Anyway, a lot of them.
I'm married.
OK, I guess Hoid, because parts of him remind me of my husband, especially his GMing persona (particularly Hoid-as-himself, not Hoid-as-Wit).
Hoid, especially in his Wit persona (not my husband, another friend feels a lot like a more sleepy Wit), Adolin, Jasnah. All people I played ttRPGs with.
Also, both Venli and Renerin has a lot in common with myself.