Eri

First: hi. I'm not new on the forum, but I am new on the group. I've subscribed just to read and comment, since I don't feel fluent enough in English to write stories (not my home language).

It's hard to say anything without knowing previous chapters.

The names are very 'normal', I'm not sure if it is a typical fantasy setting, or some kind of urbn fantasy?

Dexter, for some reason doesn't seem trustworthy to me. I like him as a character, but wouldn't be suprised if he was a traitor or hiding something big. Also, I wonder how did he know so well what Jorah did? I hope there is an explanation for that.

I do not like Molly as a character, I don't feel her. She does things, has a hobby, has/had a father... but I don't see her personality, I dont feel for her. But it may be just the lack of context, of previous chapters.

3 is a yes, I do not remember the source, maybe it was the RPG... anyway yes, he would be able to tap the other guy's metalmind.

As I remember, it is half-confirmed, that an atium spike can steal any power, not only Scadrial-specific ones. So it can steal Feruchemy and Allomancy, but probably also that thing that makes you an Elantrian. Or Soulcasting. Etc.

I wonder what could be stolen from Hoid...

Kelsier and Szeth, being the agressive guys, kill each other; Wax and Dalinar decide to work together and fight crime.

AFAIR Sanderson has answered that once, saying that Aon Ati has no connection to Ati and is pronounced differently. I don't remember the source.

How are people with heterochromia iridum - having two different colored eyes - treated on Roshar?

+1

Also, if a girl is left-handed, which hand is her safehand (which sleeve is longer)?

Great job!

As for ‘ie’ and similar – I think every sequence of same glyph (like ‘ll’ etc) just gets compressed into single glyph, as a general rule.

edit: Also, new symbols aren't really new. Look at Mistborn (1st book) chapter headings. All letters are present there, so you can refer to the non-known-metal glyphs as ‘glyph number X’, X being the chapter number.

unless they have concealed spikes in them.

Maybe he somehow stole the super-Breath from another Returned and used it to make Nightblood?

And the answer was 42

Cool post, Eric. Any guesses about Larasium? Just please, don't test them on people. ;-)

BTW I remebmer atium reffered in one point as very shiny (when Kelsier gives it to Vin for the first time) and later as rather dark. So it probably tarnishes quickly, as you said.

We know it reacts easily (I'm not sure if that's the correct word, I'm not very good in chemistry, especially in English). Kelsier says that you cannot keep it for too long after swallowing, because acid in your stomach reacts with it. And it isn't a very strong acid...

Most metals easily reacting with acid are rather light (weight, not colour), as far as I know. But atium is special, so it can be different.

Maybe he was humming something weird. Like an Allomantic rhythm (= one you sense with bronze). The rhythms can be universal and appear in many magic systems. I suppose some patterns are universal.

And if you study something long enough, you become kinda obsessed with it...

So, he may be humming some melody / rhythm she subconciously recognized as something a skaa informant couldn't know.

WoT is not in Cosmere.

So the answer is somewhere between no / impossible to check. Unless you mean crossovers, but then it depends on who is writing the crossover. I suppose Sanderson could write it either way, depending on his mood. (BTW Suvudy Kelsier vs Moiraine was awesome!)

In HoA, Marsh notes that the spike needs to touch blood, so one couldn't resurrect Kelsier's body. But, perhaps if you spiked someone who was braindead, Kelsier (or Sazed, or anyone else in that realm) might be able to take full control.

Yes, I meant something like that – spiking Kelsier into someone, not the other way around. I just didn't have good words to describe it.

Even not necesarily braindead, maybe it just needs a big spike. Or one made of some strange matal.

From Suvudu Moiraine vs Kelsier (emphasis mine):

“Well,” Kelsier said, “I don’t think it matters if you came back. We could just say this is me from the middle of the first Mistborn book. Besides, I think I eventually got better myself.”

“Doesn’t count. You became a disembodied voice that may or may not have actually been speaking into the mind of a young boy who was probably insane.”

“Yes,” Kelsier said, “but my series has a long way to go yet. Who knows what could happen? I’ve heard that some very remarkable things can happen with spikes . . .”

...so probably, maybe, yes.

Though I agree with LevenThumps – definitely not a main character.

If the Parshmen are like super-drabs, then, maybe Voidbringers aren't Parhmen, but they turn people into Parshmen or something similar? Hence the name — they such spirit out of people, thus bringing void. Or they can be kinda both..

BTW I love this theory. It makes sense.

That's an interesting idea. Hoid's origin is in one of the unpublished books, but we don't know where Heralds came from, so theoretically he might be one of them, I guess... That would be interesting. Not likely, but with Brandon Sanderson, who knows?

I think aluminum stops only external metals. Internal metals, like bronze, affect the user, so screening yourself with aluminum won't help.

It's basically a big cthulhian thing. Its magic system have something to do with utter maddening fear, shadows and materializing creatures from horror stories.

Sounds kinda like Odium to me.

Sure you can load a raster image to Inkscape! Even a normal drag&drop works, on Ubuntu at least. It'll ask you if you want to embed or link it; linking is usually better.

Then you can make a new alyer (yes, Inkscape has layers), or preferably many of them and trace it. I mean by hand, of course, automatic tracing doesn't work very good.

And I suppose you can export paths from GIMP to .ai or .eps. or something and import them to Inkscape that way. I don't think I've ever done that, so I'm not sure.

So the blue things are canals and a river, ant the brown things... I agree that they're probably railways — doesn't look much like roads (the shae or something).

Also darniil — your post (that big one) is awesome!

Justice / Retribution / something like that maybe?

Knowing that they're affecting you. Obligators are well trained in that.

I agree that it is rather unnatural, but considering that this whole landscape was created by Saze to look pretty or something, it doesn't have to be very natural. It's kinda hand-made and had only 300 years to develop via natural means (like erosion).