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Looking through WoBs, probably Reason. Other than, of course, a potential godmetal for Adonalsium. (Obviously not confirmed) Honestly, I wonder if we should rename Cosmere Q/A or rewrite the description given how common this seems to be.

It’s true, there are. But Kelsier is an extremely charismatic person who has worked with Breeze, Ham, and Clubs for much of their lives. Yeden did buy into Kel’s plan, (which I wasn’t trying to argue), but he did break with it later to attack Holstep. Edit: And as I said, more of the stuff Roz was talking about happens in Stormlight. Edit2: I entirely forgot Elend’s complete failure to maintain power in the government of his making.

Honestly, this is an astoundingly good point. The only real struggling Radiants in negotiations are Dalinar and Jasnah, one of whom who eventually convinces everyone anyways, and the other is debated by a god who attacks her philosophy and leaves her crying (at least internally). Kaladin converts Szeth to his mental health crusade in a matter of days, something that often takes years—or at least months—in the real world. Shallan gains the service of deserters about to attack her caravan, Navani convinces the Sibling in days (although I’ll excuse that one, as it was a life-or-death situation for the Sibling), etc. In Mistborn, negotiation is much harder. Yeden, while bought into Kelsier’s plan, goes rogue and decimates the skaa army. Jastes is unconvinced by Elend to take the koloss away (and is later executed by Elend, but not relevant), Cett only came over after Vin forced him to swear allegiance, Zane had to be killed by Vin, Yomen only after the koloss started killing everyone, etc. Miles is never convinced by Wax, nor his uncle, nor Telsin, and only got to use the Malwish ship after showing off the Bands of Mourning. Edit: This might be right too. Jasnah is “yay, democracy” and “we will have an elected senate and a ministerial exemplar” while doing absolute monarch mode. Elend grapples with the failures of his attempted democracy, and even respects losing until the world ending makes that impossible for a democracy to function effectively in a world that was ruled by an immortal dictator for a millennium.

Penguin, why are you just now actually contributing and being active? You're just reading off stick's post.

Same thoughts here. I really just don’t know. Edit: Last post before end of cycle (unless someone else posts…)

I was talking to Mist, who was knocked out in the first round as a Regal.

It's like an aggressive, venomous stickbug. It's alive! Who are the other regals?! (Don't answer that)

I don’t really know if this has the possibility of happening. The Vandals were around for centuries. While “aleth” is somewhat connected to genocide, it really only happened twice, once with Sadees, and once with the listeners. I don’t really think that that’s enough to permanently affect language. The only war crime that was significantly outside the norm for Roshar is the burning of Rathalas, again a one off event, not enough to affect language. Despite the genocide against Native Americans, “America” is not synonymous with “genocide,” much less “Jackson.” (or many other presidents) If all we knew about you, Aliroz, was one conversation that you had with the leader of a foreign secret organization—say the KGB, that you broke with on bad terms, attempted to assassinate your mentor, held your siblings hostage, while you are separated from your spouse for the foreseeable future, the god you knew had been replaced by a man you hate, everything you know about Earth is turned upside down, you’ve lost in a global conflict, and we don’t know any of this context, it wouldn’t be the same, would it?

I mean, you can straight up shoot lasers with Illumination.

WoT quote in honor of stick Eye of the World spoilers

He could probably take it back, like he did with Stormlight.

It does, but there’s a ceiling for everyone. While an underfen will likely get more than one ribbon, the mastrells will always be far more powerful.

I would agree with Luther that the Bishop of Rome was not the leader of the Christian world, as he didn’t have authority. We have apostles (14+president of the church, not 12 interestingly enough), and the prophet/president of the church (currently Oaks) is fairly similar to a pope in authority, though not exactly the same. If the Bishop of Rome had authority from God, which he claimed to have (which I would not agree with him on), he would be the head of Jesus’s church on Earth. As Frustration explained, yes we have Bishops, but they’re not professionalized. Any sort of schooling is not technically required (although the people who are called will almost certainly have a competent knowledge of the gospel), it’s a part time position, and it’s temporary (although it’s not always exactly 5 years as Frustration said, it usually is, but afaik it’s not a rule). Edit: the apostles, prophet, etc. serve lifetime callings

Tbh, I don’t know, but leaning Shardbearer I…hope not.

I mean, I know about the Reformation, it’s a historical event, it happened. I’m lds, so I personally don’t have strong feelings about it, but it did play a large role in how the world is as it is today.

Don't we know if someone is killed by shardbearer? So it had to be Regals. I think stick made them nervous so TheUnknownMedallion

I'll play in weight classes 1 and 2, and I’ll also judge if helpful. Suggestions:

Hope we find out tomorrow (for me) that we're not all dead.

I'll...try it? I don't know if this insane or ingenious.

Penguin Jo

You can use bold, italic, underline, blue, yellow, whatever, but you’re only supposed to use red/green for voting.

Attacking a foe significantly weaker than you is neither heroic nor brave.

Ok. Current VC: (1) Penguin: Qian (1) Wahr: Jo (1) Jo: Wahr

That’s actually a really good point—but I still think it’s penguin over wahr.

I'll clarify. What I suspect is happening is penguin is faking being inactive, in order to evade suspicion. I hope she gets better soon. Tell her a random stranger you met online playing mafia in a book forum wishes her well (or not, your choice). Jo also is starting to feel suspicious. I don’t know how effective this Shardbearer hunt (who is almost certainly known to the Regals by now) actually is. I think it’s far more important to focus on the Regals, so the village can win. Killing Regals is far more beneficial than the Shardbearer, and the Shardbearer might be taking orders from the Regals under threat of elimination, so they’re unlikely to ally with us.