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Someone imagine me, please! I know I've been done before, but I'm curious to see how accurate someone else's guess is.
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1 hour ago, liverthescourge said:
Haha glad I made you laugh
1. Soother. I'd love to be able to use it to comfort people and it would probably be great for therapy
2. Truthwatcher apparently. I've noticed that a lot of the fans are for some reason
Yeah, it's one of the more common orders, along with Elsecallers. I think that's because we're all SanderScholars around here, and the Truthwatchers and Elsecallers tend to be the more scholarly Radiants, so far as we've seen. I'd be really curious to see what a bunch of jocks would get on the Radiant Order Quiz, honestly.
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Hmm. I imagine they're a sort of teal-and-white camouflage pattern.
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Title explains itself; enjoy!
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On 6/15/2024 at 7:44 PM, Anguished_One said:
There is a white Silkie chicken in one corner of the room.
Silkie?!!!!!! CHICKENS!!!!!
... Sorry, I just really like chickens. The meaner, the better, because it's more hilarious to catch them and hug them when they desperately want to kill me.
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
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YKYASF when the sight of a "Hoid for President" shirt at work makes your day--and then subsequently allows you to make the other person's day when you reveal yourself as a SanderFan.
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10 hours ago, StaYin said:
Hey ! I signed up a while ago but I've never introduced myself ^^' (and I took a loooooong pause from Sanderson-related stuff after Rythm of War)
My name is Nayak (or StaYin) (both of these are pseudonyms)
I've read all published Cosmere books and novellas except The Sunlit Man (but I will read it very soon !) and a few unreleased novels like Aether of Night or The Way of Kings prime (currently reading Dragonsteel prime). I've also read the Wheel of Time up to book n°7.
I enjoy reading theories a lot
Nice to meet you !
Welcome to the Shard! If you could have any Cosmere character as your room-mate, who would you choose and why?
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4 minutes ago, r0cketm00se said:
Adolin flights a shardbearer and is disarmed. He tries a lastclap but is too slow. At the very last moment, Shallan makes a pun so cheesy it stops the shardblade.
(Slow clap) That pun is thoroughly terrible, and I love it. Well done!
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No, but it sounds like it might be tasty. I like jerky!
TPBM has experience in the martial arts.
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On 6/8/2024 at 4:20 PM, Lunamor said:
(That’s hands down my favorite line in the song)
If I had a million dollars, I’d buy you an exotic pet (like a lam-ma, or an emu).
Hate to break it to you, but where I'm from llamas aren't that exotic. Exotic, yes, but not so exotic that we don't have them on the farm I work at.
If I were a wealthy soul, I would buy a whole bunch of land and build my dream house on it (basically, half castle, half log cabin, with lots of nooks and crannies and hidden passageways to make it fun for kids, as well as an enormous library), and then, while the house is under construction, I'd go visit Ireland for a while and start a tour of all the cathedrals in Europe from there.
If the wealth were great enough, I would even build a bunch of small cabins on my whole bunch of land and offer them to struggling souls to live in, rent-free (the only rule being that those folks still have to get a job and work for their living, because I don't believe in being a free rider. The reason for this is that, as far as I know, one of the biggest obstacles to homeless folk in my area is that you have to have an address to get a job, but if you don't have a place to live, you don't have an address, so you can't get a job. Which is really dumb because it means a lot of people are stuck on the streets whether they want to be or not, hence the extra cabins for folks to live in for free.).
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Just now, AonEne said:
No comment.
*shoves a pixie under the rug*
You know, I'm tempted to just let my blogs be disappeared for a week or two so we can all laugh about the clever fey folk sneaking around on the Shard.
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If you want to hear more from me, visit me on my blogs! They should be in the 'Contact Methods' field, but if you don't see them there, then perhaps they've been stolen by pixies.
^From my "About Me" field.
So my blog links are being stolen by pixies?
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10 hours ago, Vyzkel Willbender said:
I know I've seen this somewhere, but I don't remember where! Is it some rendition of "Robin Hood," by any chance? I keep thinking it might be "The Princess Bride" because I can envision the face of the guy I remember saying it, but as far as I know, that line isn't in "The Princess Bride."
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2 hours ago, RoyalBeeMage said:
oh ok. how would one use the songs?
By singing along, of course! Once someone who can hear and understand them starts singing with them, they can start taking control of the music and changing the melodies and harmonies to create the effect they want. The idea is that different passages in the music mean different things are happening in different areas (this is how you can tell what's going on from miles and miles away), so if you change the music, you change what's going on in the land. But that's a very specialized effect; most people with the magical tattoos just decide to become their animal (if that's the sort of tattoo they have), and then they turn into it, or else the attribute their glyph tattoo is tied to is just permanently increased.
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1 hour ago, RoyalBeeMage said:
Now that is cool! What exactly does listening to the songs of the land mean?
Oh, it just lets you know about stuff happening hundreds of miles away, or cause localized earthquakes, or use the magic of the Landsong to heal people and such. Assuming you know how to interpret the song, anyway.
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The coolest magic system I've come up with is fairly simple: There are certain tattoos a person can get that Connect them to the land. This gives them powers. Depending on the specific design of the tattoos, the powers change.
For example: The Queen and King of the society that uses these tattoos the most get specific ones that give them the abilities to hear the song the land sings and to sense the intentions and desires of those around them, respectively. Regular people who get tattoos will either get glyphs (which enhance different physical attributes, like strength, stamina, or agility) or animals (which gives them the ability to turn into whatever animal they've been tattooed with and back at will).
It's a very binding-based magic system; in the tattoo society everyone is getting bound to the land, but in the neighboring kingdom, they use specific songs and dances to bind people to one another. In either case the bonds are considered unbreakable.
The really fun twist in all this, though, is that it all works based on perception--the tattoos only work if you perceive yourself as belonging to the land you're living in at the moment, so someone from the tattoo society living among the neighboring kingdom won't be able to access their power until they can get themselves to believe that they belong to the neighboring kingdom. Hopefully that makes sense.
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On 5/31/2024 at 7:30 PM, Treamayne said:
But do you recall the reference? (even people who have read the series tend to not remember this one, for some reason) Spoilers:
I love the scene because it encapsulates the Tavi/Max friendship perfectly, in one quick scene. Academ's Fury Ch 18:
Tavi rose at once. "What are we doing?"
"I'm continuing my brilliant performance," Max said. "After we two Pages attend the First Lord in his chambers, at any rate. You are advising me."
"Advising you?"
"Yes. You were the one who had the big thesis paper on furycrafting theory first year, and I'll be speaking to the… Board of someone or other."
"The Board of Speakers of the Crafting Society?" Tavi asked.
Max nodded. "Those guys. They're meeting with the First Lord to get approval for more studies of, uh…" Max squinted up his eyes. "Arthritic Beer, I keep thinking, but those aren't the right words."
Tavi blinked. "Anthropomorphic Theorem?"
Max nodded again, in exactly the same unconcerned way. "That's it. I've got to learn all about it by the time we walk up to the palace, and you're to teach it to me."
<snip>
"Crows," Max swore. He rose and started for the door. "Come on. I've got to be there in a quarter hour."
Tavi folded the envelope and thrust it into his belt pouch. "All right, all right." They left the room and started across the campus toward one of the hidden entries to the Deeps. "What do you need to know?"
"Well," Max said after a few steps. "Um. All of it."
Tavi stared at the larger boy in dismay. "Max, that class is required. Essentials of Furycrafting. You took that class."
"Well, yes."
"In fact, we had it together."
Max nodded, frowning.
<snip>
"Oh, shut up, Max," Tavi growled. "That was a three-month course. How in the crows am I supposed to give you all of that in the next fifteen minutes?"
"Cheerfully and without complaint," Max replied, grinning. "Like a true and resourceful member of the Realm and servant of the Crown."
But, then again, I'm one of the weirdos that has read this series many many times (especially since I found it right around book three, and I like to reread a series before each new installment, so I've read the first three books at least 8 times)
Hahaha! I'd forgotten about Arthritic Beer! Of course, I've only read the series once so far, and that over six months ago. I don't even remember everything that happened in RoW, and I've read that at least three times in the last year.
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On 5/30/2024 at 11:36 AM, Treamayne said:
Literature:
Arthritic Beer
And, because I can't resist, my favorite quote from that source (different book, same series):
Bernard stared at the Senator and rolled his shoulder in a gesture Amara had seen him use when preparing to shoot his war bow. Bernard’s voice suddenly rang out sharp and clear, though still perfectly polite in tone. “Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly.”
“Excuse me?” Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up.
“I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm; simply because you don’t wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in Juris Macto and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.”
The muttering in the room stopped, and a bottomless silence fell.
Codex Alera! Bernard and Amara are my favorite couple!!!!
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Welcome! If you could room with any Cosmere character, who would you choose and why?
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14 hours ago, Treamayne said:
Thanks for linking that for me! I was on break at work and didn't have the time to find the link and copy it over.
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May I also recommend the Frustrated Writer Support Group in the Clans & Guilds section?
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7 hours ago, NerdyAarakocra said:
Best YouTube channel.
Yooooooo! Finally, a fellow fan! (*pumps fist* Yes!)
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Hello and welcome! If you could choose any Sanderson character to be your room mate, who would you choose and why?
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