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Golden, viscous, and slowly shifting, this sticky amber substance glimmers through its translucent prison. Tiny trapped spheres float within, catching the light like miniature orbs, while a ridged metallic barrier seals the contents with stubborn finality.
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1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:
ORV
sarcasm
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On 9/25/2025 at 8:56 AM, CoderDrag0n8 said:
This was a story only for that one reader…
hmmm... what's this from, Coder?
Higher Beings, these words are for you alone:
Idk if this is the right place but
Horton (from Horton Hears a Who) is literally Dalinar
Also, If you've seen Seusical the Musical, the narrator (cat in the hat) is a perfect parrallel for Hoid (he pops in and out, takes on a bunch of different roles, knows everybody)
also, something more fitting:
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WorldCon Ghostbloods reading discussion (spoilers!)
It was already talked about a bit over here, but I think Hoid would be cool
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On 9/19/2025 at 3:28 PM, The Great Wyver said:
Uh... they contain... unique contents...
Understatement of the century
Indie animation is pretty cool, lotsa good studios, but I wouldn't say I'm reaaaaly into it...
TPBM has children in their basement
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52 minutes ago, The Great Wyver said:
Nice system! I'd say maybe it can be like a tatoo or birthmark or something to determine the Surge type. Or maybe like eye color or hair color or something.
Thanks! I like the idea of it being a physical trait... it'd be fun to have palm readers who read babies's hands and determine their powers.
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18 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:
This is a place where people who like to make magic systems gather.
They ask for help formulating their magic systems.
And we all help each other! Yay!
:D
nice!
I have this system where these people live underground (loosely cosmere fanfic) and around these roots of these giant trees, and they use slivers of root from these Invested trees to grant the surges, they like cu themselves and then insert the sliver into the cut. which surge they can use is based off of what their parents had, but everyone has at least a 50 50 chance to get one surge. the dirt is invested and laces with this magic mycelium which is how the treew communicate like irl. The reason they live underground is that a while ago (like 2-400 years ago), Nomad Skipped and started drawing power from the invested dirt, but that triggered a response from the trees and they sent out some sort of Invested entity. Also, due to just the ambient Investiture and eating fungi and stuff that grow in invested soil, the people are kinda invested (perfect pitch, they have better color perception, but not as good as nalthians). The groves of trees on the continent are each associated with one surge, and if a person is born with the ability to use one or more surges they need to go to the corresponding Grove when they come of age and get the slivers inserted into them. Idk how they know at birth, I was thinking maybe like dice of some sort or cards that are made of the tree or something, as long as it takes advantage of Fortune. They make their cities by digging and throwing excess dirt out of a hole through Gravitation
Comments and ideas would be helpful!
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Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore a propeller hat on the day he was to kill a king
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WAYNEEEEEE
11 hours ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:Yeah
Do we know if he'll get more screentime?
u know (spoilers tlm)
Spoilerhes DED rite
I mean I'm all for more wayne
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A grub
Would you like to breath today?
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9 hours ago, Nitpicking said:
Iluvatar is omnipotent. Note that even Gandalf didn't wan to take possession of the Ring, though.
He's not fully omnipotent, is he? (Its been at least 3 years since I read the silmarillion so excuse me if I'm wrong)
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Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips.
13 hours ago, Llamaknuck said:Am I the only one that does not care about Taravangian. Decent character, but, Odium is just an antagonist. He will inevitably be defeated. I’m waiting for JUST ONE time in the Cosmere that the “good guys” defeat something without struggle and absolutely dominate and demoralize the “big bad.” Hopefully we will see that happen. Big bad introduced. Creates plan to control/rule/destroy. Gets annihilated and used to wipe the floor. Story progresses. Please!!!!!!
One of the main focuses of Mistborn and the beginning of the cosmere was to NOT go along with the fantasy trope of just "beating the big bad" and "happily ever after."
WoBs:
SpoilerQuestioner
What inspired you to write that series [Mistborn]? It's amazing.
Brandon Sanderson
Oh good question, what inspired me to write Mistborn… A couple of things have to come together for me to write a book. Usually it is not one idea. Usually one idea is kind of the sparking point but then I file it in the back of my brain and wait until other ideas stick to it and work in really cool ways. Mistborn is a conglomeration of several things. First off it was watching-- I guess it was reading-- reading Harry Potter and being like "Wow these Dark Lords sure get a tough time of it. They're always beaten by these dopey kids." Right? *laughter* Like Sauron, there's this little furry-footed British dude who's like-- destroys your whole empire or things like this. And I was like "These poor guys, what if we had a book where the Dark Lord won? Where-- What if Frodo got to the end and the Dark Lord was like 'Oh thanks for bringing my ring back.' and then killed him and took over the world." It was really, I'm a fan of The Wheel of Time and thinking what if Rand got to the end of The Wheel of Time and the Dark One is like "Okay, I'm all powerful, you're not, end." And he won. Oh the Pattern just broke.
As an aside for Wheel of Time fans, I actually wrote that scenes for my own catharsis. I actually wrote a scene, I never let anyone else see it, where Rand lost *laughter* and it's actually like this dramatic moment and he's like "I could just destroy the world right now" And I just wrote "And so he did, The end." *laughter* I had a good laugh over it and then deleted it.
So, what if the Dark Lord won, but I figured that would be a downer of a story so I filed that in the back of my head and it melded with my love of heist stories. You'll notice Steelheart is also a heist story. It's one of my favorite archetypes, the gang who all have their individual talents and they get together to do cool things like-- I think one of my favorite movies in recent times was actually Inception which was a heist story using people's brains. So cool, such a great concept. But one of my classic favorite movies is Sneakers, if you haven't seen that. It's so good! So that genre made me want to write a heist novel in a fantasy world so I developed that independently. Allomancy and Feruchemy were developed independently as cool magic systems, that eventually started interacting in interesting ways. And then Kelsier was the other kind of linchpin, him as a character, wanting to tell this story about a guy who had been an upper-class thief, a con-man who then got motivation to go "No I'm going to do something good with my life. I'm going to change the world. It's kind of hard to explain.
SpoilerEmily Fell
What has been your favorite trope to subvert?
Brandon Sanderson
It's got to be the one that did Mistborn right, the- no, you know what, oh I can't say it.
I like subverting my own tropes the best. Finding something that I've been leaning on and recognizing it for what a good thing [it has been] in my books in the past, understand that readers are going to expect me to do it more, then subverting it is really fun for me. There is a moment like this at the ending of Oathbringer, that I won't mention because it is a spoiler, where something that has happened in the previous two books does not happen in this book. That is intentional, when I was building the outline for the series, I'm like "hey, I'm leaning on this idea a lot." It is a central theme of the [Stormlight Archive], so its okay, but I need to subvert it a couple times, otherwise it will get stale.
But if there is one I can talk about it is subverting the Hero's Journey in ways that are still satisfying. It's easy to subvert a trope and make it unsatisfying; most tropes work because they are satisfying to [an] extent. So the subversion [of the Hero's Journey trope] has to be still satisfying in its own way, and that can get tricky.
YouTube Livestream 1 (Jan. 11, 2020)Hope that helps.
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4 hours ago, Nitpicking said:
It is implied that no one including Sauron himself could truly resist the power of the Ring.
Yeah, a crackpot LOTR theory. Why do you think a one-time Maia as powerful as Sauron was so physically helpless by the time of the War of the Ring? Because the Ring had drained away almost all of his abilities, except those dedicated to getting back the Ring--not for any purpose, because the Ring had enthralled Sauron as much as any of its other victims.
What about Iluvatar?
or another god?
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On 9/16/2025 at 5:24 PM, Ashkaloda said:
Love that song
9.7/10.52
Gemstone IV reference? never played it, nonetheless good, 8.8929/10
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Can I have Primal Aspid?
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Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore the Bear Minimum on the day he was to kill a king
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore the Fury of the Fallen on the day he was to kill a king
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore the Drifter's Cloak on the day he was to kill a king
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5 hours ago, IcedOutPenguin said:
beat it at 24, at 30
cap.
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3 minutes ago, IcedOutPenguin said:
Easy
How many hours in are you?
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What do y'all think of Silksong so far? How far are you? Opinions? Comments? Rants about the difficulty? Put em here, folks!
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On 9/5/2025 at 10:51 AM, Shard of Badassery said:
Hello. I am Radonalsium, and I recently Ascended to wield the Shard of Badassery. I thought there were only 16 Shards! There was a 17th? Wtf??? Nobody told me
Welcome!!! Cool name+ title!
What is your favorite Cosmere quote?
What is your favorite thing Wayne has done (so far as you've read)
What is your favorite crackpot Cosmere theory?
and
If Hoid started a podcast, what would it be called?
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On 9/7/2025 at 12:50 AM, ign__o said:
Hi, I’m Igno. I recently finished reading WaT and I’m excited to get into other cosmere books! I’m currently planning to start Mistborn next. Outside the cosmere, I’m also a big fan of LotR, Stranger Things, Mario, and Metroid.
Hoy there, and welcome!
What is your favorite cosmere quote?
What is your favorite crackpot theory you secretly believe?
and, most importantly...
Do you agree that the Arkenstone was a Silmaril?
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15 hours ago, kalevatha said:
Hello. Im new here and I havent read many Sanderson books. I have only read era 1 of mistborn and warbreaker.
My favorite character is vin and shashara
Welcome, young Padawan.
What is your favorite crazy theory you've heard or created so far?
What is your current favorite Cosmere quote?
Is the dress white and gold or black and blue?
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6 hours ago, Kansas Stormcursed said:I wish I'd had this warning
Ugh yes
I got addicted
6 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:I'm pretty surprised someone hasn't asked you about ebooks yet, expect that and say no.
Yeah, if Coder asks you about "Webnovels and Ebooks" just ignore him...
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17 hours ago, The Great Wyver said:
Mold is so annoying. Somebody planted some in my house yesterda- what did you just say?
Nintendo switch 3 leak
BREAKING NEWS: The factory in China that produces most of the parts for the Nintendo Switch 3 has had a major oil and chemical leak, which somehow lead tho the deaths of about 300 seals and 500 penguins. Nintendo has declined to comment.
SILKSONG???
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A fragile rectangle, its surface muted and edges curling, preserves a frozen echo of shapes now barely recognizable. Faded tones of once-bright pigment intermingle, leaving a whisper of moments that cannot fully be reconstructed.
book?
cards?