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Sure I read Sapkowski. But his later books are much worse, in my opinion. I'm not sure if they got translated. I loved Witcher when I was younger, sure. Sapkowski was the first good fantasy writer in Poland, and for some time the only one, so everybody was his fan then. Now we have even better writers. Check this out if you have time: http://dukaj.pl/English/ReadingRoom/ More SF than fantasy (actually - some strange genre border, a bit like in Mistborn, but far more philosophical), but great anyway. I'm not sure about translation's quality - didn't have time to read and he seems hard to translate.

I didn't notice that. I thought of a Sooter, because most Allomantic powers are good in fight, not in discussion. But Sliders are useful, as we've seen. Or she may be something entirely else... like a cool steampunk hemallurgical robot made of aluminium (other metals Wax would notice... or metals inserted into someone's body are also invisible? I don't remember) and painted to look like a girl... (that would explain her dullness) But it's their god that forbids them, they worship him/her anyway. I guess you're right. Aluminium beig inert - makes perfect sense to me. As it is something like an antimagic metal... I wonder if a cloud of aluminium dust could block Allomantic powers. It would make a good explosion, that's for sure. Or an aluminium foil hat as protection from emotion-affecting powers.

Thank you everybody. I'm not exactly the first person from Poland, I've noticed one person born here, but living in the US. And in case some of you were wandering, what HoA shares with bad crime stories...

Hello. I'm new at this forum, stalked it a for long while before. I live in Poland (it's a country in Europe in case you didn't know), I'm interested in: some fantasy books (obviously); other authors I like are: O.S. Card, C.S. Lewis and Jacek Dukaj (it's a Polish SF writer, I'm not sure if any of his books was translated to English) some non-fantasy books, mostly Agatha Christie (good crime stories and Sanderson's books are a bit similar - they give reader some clues and let him guess the truth before it's shown)* roleplaying games computer programming and quite a lot of other things for which I don't have time *However, HoA shares something with badly written crime stories, too. Um... how do you make a spoiler tag? I love Sanderson's books, have read Elantris in Polish, others in English (I mean published books, not some esoteric ones like Dragonsteel...), except the WoT books. I used to like WoT but I gave up after 8th book or something like that. I like his characters (most of them), but mostly his plots, metaplots, foreshadowing, avalanches and riddles. And magic systems. And how he uses their limitations. So I'm here mostly to discuss strange hypotesis (um... what is the plural for that?) based on obscure references from interviews and easy to overlook details in books. Oh, and I have a one year old daughter, who is cute. And a husband, who is awsome. edit: And English isn't my native language. I used to know it better, but now my only contact with it is by books and (mostly) the internet. So please forgive my mistakes (you can correct me if you like, I won't feel offended).

We also know that there is Travel surge (from some interviev). I guess Regrowth (from Dalinar's vision in "Starfalls") may be one, too. Is it known, which one is Gravity, which Pressure? As for Dustbringers - but the opposite glyphs are connected to different orders! BTW I think Dustbringers - fire (in the prologue it seems like they were able to burn things) - Chach - glyphs 1 and 2.

I think Marasi is a Soother. Or the opposite thing, I don't remember them too well. Anyway doing something with emotions. Or other strange things... but I'm quite convinced that they took her with them for some secret reason. And I doubt she's Steris' cousin: I wonder, who(m?) does the Path worship. Saze? Why would he prohibit worshipping him? But I can't think of anyone else.

First - I'm new here, so hi everyone. And sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker. Now to the point: I have WoK in hardcover, and some things in the illustrations keep bugging me. 1. On the front inside (or whatever you call that - the color picture with Heralds and glyphs) there are large glyphs, representing Heralds or Essences and small, black glyphs, representing Surges. (Sanderson* himself said so) Each of the small glyphs (large too, but that's not important now) is symmetrical - left half is mirrored right. * or is it more polite to use his first name? I'm not sure. But when we look closer at the small glyph connected to sapphire and smokestone and the one connected to zircon and amethyst, we can notice, that left half of one is the right part of another. (they have a symmetry like "<>" and "><"). The same happens to heliodor/sapphire glyph with ruby/diamond glyph. In case you have problem finding them: when holding the book in normal position (with that page on left, map on right), let 1 be the topmost glyph, 2 the top right, etc clockwise. The pairs are 2+9 and 6+10. This similarity is too perfect to be a coincidence. I wonder if there is some connection between those surges? Or is it important that there are 8 distinct halves (so, when we mirror them, we get 16, which is a quite interesting number)? I can't stop wandering about it. Or the person making illustrations didn't have time to make 10 distinct designs? (I don't think so) What do you think? (And the small glyphs in the second color illustration are quite similar, only with different kind of symmetry. But that has been already noticed, I think.) 2. The map on p 12-13. It shows the equator being north from most of the continent, not south. Which is weird, as southis, by definition, the direction from which the sun shines most... therefore, the direction towards the equator. That can have two possible explanations: a) the word "south" isn't used in this book as "the direction from which the sun shines at noon", but as "clockwise to east". They just live on what we call "southern hemisphere" and directions are named for our convinience. Quite possible. the dominant civilisation came from somewhere in the north... or the continent moved... or something even weirder happened.