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Nothing. We know you can store your memories in Breath, but we don't know how. Dragonsteel

Implying that there is another Araris Valerian, who is not a bus driver.

It may be one of the unsearchable ones.

I believe the meta elims bet as a team. Otherwise, yes. Edit: @The Unknown Medallion, if we're playing as ourselves, then if we die in the metagame, do we die...irl? Who is playing in the pseudogame then? A cognitive shadow?

I love how my meme is exported everytime someone links to it on the shard

@Hoid Slayer, have I ever told you how much I love your pfp. It looks so awesome.

Not necessarily, they could just play really really poorly

Wait, so if the metaelims bet on the village, and then become pseudo elims, they could just self sabotage to win? Or vice versa (though it works less well as village)

I mean, that's a decent point. I would argue that only a single planet is really needed for MAD, but it's true it is much less effective.(e.g. having the capability to destroy the Soviet Union, but not the entire Warsaw Pact) "Wars" was a bit of an exaggeration, but what I was trying to say is that I doubted that conflict would escalate past such a skirmish. I mean, you have to consider what would happen on our planet if the existence of other populated planets in a cold war existed. Even if there was a straight up invasion, the only really unified governance that could happen is a UN military command. In a scenario similar to the Cosmere, many countries, and even political parties, would favor opposing sides. But yes, it does seem like the general trend is towards consolidation. For this, I might actually assume that they unify (at least externally). Afaik, Taldain is mentioned as an entity, and it's probable that the entire planet is under Autonomy's influence. Unlike Endowment, Bavadin is very prone to meddling.

Here's the rundown. The real game, as in the game that determines victory, as in the metagame, has the standard elims and village. While the overarching game, or the metagame is going on, there is a "minigame," or the pseudogame. People are assigned new roles and alignments for the pseudogame. The metagame elims then decide whether to bet on the pseudogame village or the pseudogame elims. When the pseudogame ends, if the metagame elims pick the right side, they get rewarded. Otherwise, the metagame village gets rewarded. Each cycle is divided into 2 turns. Each turn is either voting and actions in the metagame, or voting and actions in the pseudogame. In the pseudogame: At the start of the pseudogame, everyone picks a shardworld to hang out at. They don't move unless the shardworld gets destroyed. Every cycle, something happens depending on which shardworld you're on.

Nah, I'm saying that depending on how the debacle with Autonomy goes, fighting Autonomy may push them to Scadrial. Or, if Autonomy succeeds, they'll be more Taldain aligned. Sel's alignment is up in the air, but I suspect it may be split (prob between Fjordell and Elantris & co.) I agree. In general, the Cosmere seems to be less interconnected than our world (which makes sense, as we're only a planet), with many more regional powers. I suspect mutually assured destruction will exist given some recent technological developments. Both anti-light and harmonium bombs seem to be nuclear analogues and, with more development, could potentially develop into weapons necessary for MAD. But, just because MAD exists doesn't preclude conflict. India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, have gotten into several wars since they both obtained nuclear weapons, but I do think that it makes a total war less likely.

I actually doubt this. I suspect any conflict will be less a war and more a twilight struggle—a cold war between rivals, at least when shown in the books. Brandon has said he is not (right now) writing books during these campaigns. I'd like to caveat that Starling seemed shocked that the Aetherbound was working with the Malwish. It clearly wasn't the usual state of affairs, and I don't know if we can infer an alignment from this. I doubt Lumar would actually be that important, other than a source of spores. Given that Xisis spent time there, I suspect that it may be more of a neutral planet, as Xisis isn't strongly aligned to one side. I'd like to note that this wasn't Kelsier's first choice, and may be more of a far fetched possibility than an actualized alliance. I don't think we know enough to infer a side. Honestly, I don't think we know enough outside of Hallendren. Nalthis is powerful enough I suspect they may be a neutral power. We know from WoB that Autonomy is interfering on Sel, so that opens the possibility for a Scadrian alliance. Too early to be seen without Elantris 2. Also, likely to be neutral due to their power. You're forgetting the Night Brigade. The existence of such a powerful and feared force as mercenaries causes me to doubt Threnody's alignment to one side. Yolen's existence is confirmed in IoTE. The perpendicularity on Silverlight leads to, among other places, Yolen. Generally agree.

I wonder if the OP's friends are talking about fullborn. @AnthonyC4, have you read Elantris? or the Stormlight Archive? Relative to other invested individuals, mistborn aren't exceptional. It's less Sazed made Scadrians less able to retain hemalurgic abilities than Ruin was constantly pushing on spiritwebs and the fabric of Scadrial. The current situation is the natural state of affairs. We do not know this. You can make a Feruchemist with the Scadrian god metals, but the actual method is unknown. Personally, I think that there are much easier ways to cause chaos. This is not happening. At least not without some kind of nerf to compounding. (I do not think) Brandon is not going to let the cat out of the bag with Fullborn, who are, as we now understand them, only really defeatable by Elantrians at maximum potential with prep time, Bondsmiths with surprise, and Heralds, who have the experience of millenia fighting superpowered foes.

If you're implying that Nightblood is made of aluminum, it is not. Nightblood is made of steel. Like any other highly invested object, Nightblood is incredibly difficult to affect with investiture. Bavadinium is Autonomy's god metal. As far as I'm aware, Trellium is Bavadinium.

That looks incredibly satisfying to say. -152(e^(iπ))

I'll sign up. @___

I'll ping you when I'm pinged

2 actions, only sensing Probably could've been useful to the village if I got a chance to use it.

More like: Nightblood.

@Beholder, the secret to getting powerful characters approved (from what I've gathered reading through threads), is to make it fun to roleplay with—for others.

You should set up your account to autopost as soon as someone posts in this thread. 1

Generally I've found that the closer it is to a square, the higher quality the result will be. Edit: Make sure there's a good amount of pixels, but not too many.

The Shard is bizarre sometimes. I had to crop and convert my pfp several different ways before it didn't destroy the quality.

Yes that worked. I'm curious what you did. Edit: Did you just upload it normally?