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On the "to do" section of Arcanum, there's some stuff to fill out. Can I use this account to sign up to do all the data entry stuff or do I need another account?

Hey there. This is an old thread, but I'm just checking the forums now. If Dalinar had known what Gavilar was trying to do, if he had known that the Radiants had tried to make peace with the Singers before Honor and Melishi messed it all up, then I'm sure he could've tried to talk it out with Eshonai. Eshonai was willing to talk. The Stormfather had literally all the relevant information and this entire thing is his fault. It's not Venli's fault for drawing the voidspren, it's not Eshonai's fault for calling the hit on Gavilar, and it's not even Alethkar's fault for going to war. This entire thing could've been avoided if The Stormfather wasn't so stubborn. He knew Gavilar was trying to become a herald and restart the desolations. He knew Eshonai and Dalinar wanted peace. He knew what Venli was up to. He knew why the Recreance happened, and how Tanavast had betrayed the Singers and BAM and all that. If he told Eshonai and Dalinar at any point in the FIVE YEARS before the everstorm dropped, all of this could've been avoided. But then we wouldn't have a book series. it was literally all Honor's fault, all of his pride.

I think traveling to Sel just to work out would be more beneficial to the YouTube channel than just wearing a bunch of weights. You can picture the thumbnail right now. “I TRAVELED TO SEL (ALMOST DIED) JUST TO GET SHREDDED (ALMOST DIED)”

I feel like the primary reason Brandon wrote this aspect about Silverlight is so he could keep all his darlings from older books alive without atium compounding or amassing an obscenely large stock of Breath.

Virtuosity and Autonomy would stack. Call it “Originality” or something.

Wow that was a quick reply. Are you Tremayne’s alt lmao?

(Can you move it to cosmere discussion for me, brother? Please? With crem on top?)

Hey there. Recently, I re-listened to a portion of Arcanum, and the bit about Sel's gravity being 1.2x Cosmere standard really stuck out to me. Let me preface this by saying I am not a scientist (training to become a welder) and that there are likely a lot of smarter people on the forum than I am. But, hypothetically, if any given person knew a guy who knew a guy who could get them past The Dor and onto Sel, how jacked could that person get if they chose not to Connect to the land? I imagine Connection lets you instantly adjust to the gravity of any given place, but by choosing not to connect to it, you'd still feel the effects of that extra helping of gravity. Would exercise even be possible? Even push-ups? I don't really know how heavy 1.2x earth's gravity would be. I imagine it's either way more than I think it would be or only slightly more. But is a vacation to Sel the fastest way to a 3pl8 bench without a pewtermind, or is real life not like Dragonball? Could anyone explain this to me, if you get bored? Also, I wondered if bringing an ironmind would let you store an insane amount of weight on Sel, but then I remembered that iron stores mass, and that your mass is the same wherever you go. If i'm mistaken on this, please inform me. This has been in the back of my mind for far too long. Ialai Sadeas didn't kill herself.

Dusk's aviar seem to be able to tap into Dusk's navigation ability. If this is true, would you reckon this is something that every Nahel bond can do, or are the Navigators just special? Could Design see blue lines if Hoid was burning steel? What do you think?

Ed is obviously alluding to Harmony's completion of the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. Any true Cosmerenaut would've picked this obvious allusion up easily.

I'm so excited to hate him by the end of the trilogy (I will be so upset).

Where do we think it is? The Rosharan system, or do we think it's was just on a planet that Odium conquered? Regardless, it's probably toast now, wherever it is. Skybreakers didn't learn their lesson and likely broke the sky a second time. Any places it could be, couldn't be?

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/546/#e16906 So this has to be Max, right? Or his sister? Maybe even a third Ladrian child? Who else could it be? Elderly Marasi and Elderly Allik? Probably. Or, deep cut, Allriandre’s daughter. (More than likely it will be Marasi)

I agree. To be completely honest, I couldn't think of anything initially that bad and just defaulted to the Oathpact. But "Do it, Melishi" was such a harrowing scene and I 100% agree with you. I disagree about Shallan, but I understand where you're coming from. I'm glad that you like Venli, I'm glad that you find enjoyment in the character. I think that the Contest of Champions became about more than just Alethkar after Dalinar founded the coalition. I think the end of WaT proves this. I think the singers have a much better claim to Alethkar than the Alethi do, I don't think that you're entirely wrong, but I also think that the people living in a piece of land for generations upon generations also might be grandfather'd into that land. I think that's what makes the conflict such a tragedy, is that both groups have a legitimate claim to the land they're fighting over. It's a very complicated situation and I don't think it's entirely black and white. If Honor hadn't been such a coward and just revealed the truth of The Recreance to Dalinar at the start of it all, the humans and the listeners would've been able to come to an understanding. Eshonai was certainly trying to find one.

Oathbringer is my favorite book, but I think it does have its flaws. 1. Way of Kings 2. Words of Radiance (honestly this one could be in the number one spot as well, both of those first two books are so good, I just liked TWoK a teeny bit more. But maybe WoR is the better book, idk, I gotta re-read it. 3. Oathbringer 4. Wind and Truth 5. Rhythm of Bore i think WaT is a mess but at least there’s stuff going on. And it made Nale into one of my favorite characters, fella did nothing wrong. Ishar can piss off, though

I mostly agree with OP but I think he’s getting dunked on for how he expresses his disappointment. I think ROW is the weakest in the set because its own ending (as well as the existence of WaT) retroactively makes the book feel like a filler arc. don’t get me wrong, all of the Kaladin stuff is so good in this one. I love Navani, but I don’t like when Sanderson takes paragraphs and paragraphs to explain fabrial mechanics. When he takes pages and pages to explain allomancy or the magic of any given world, I love it; engineering, not so much. Shallan’s plot feels completely redundant—Adolin does all of the cool stuff in her own plot. I know that these books are about the “journey before the destination,” but a really bloated Shallan plot where she’s not memorably active ending with “by the way, Dalinar says we have ten days to get our act together, and that’s not enough time for any of the honorspren to make any more radiants” sucks, dude. That totally sucks. Formless is a problem created for Shallan exclusively for this book. Not to be a Shallan hater, but the character felt like a completely different person after WoR, and that Sanderson decided to give her DID just to give her something to do. I loved her in those first two books. But when Kaladin goes back on his oath in WoR he gets punished for it. Shallan goes back on her truth in Oathbringer, and nothing bad happens. She gets two new sidekicks in her head seemingly randomly. And I think this is along the lines of what OP was trying to express. Sanderson has gone on record in multiple lectures that he thinks it’s okay for a character to backslide, as long as it counts as progress. I think a large amount of the general audience disagree with this—I can guarantee that OP does. I respect Sanderson for trying to shake things up with ROW but I don’t think he did so in the correct way. Both Shallan and Kaladin backslide in this book almost randomly—Kaladin is forced into this position from the start of the book after the time jump, and this is unfair—probably so they’d have something to do. But Kaladin seems to be the only guy doing anything, and Shallan is more along for the ride in her own adventure. This makes Kaladin’s plot more enjoyable, and Shallan gets completely outshined by her husband. I want to like Venli but I don’t. Eshonai, on the other hand, is a fantastic character, and her half of the POVs saved the flashback sequences for me. The Stormlight archive is about redemption, and I love that about the series. But for Brandon to continue to vilify Moash, whose moral compass is skewed but understandably, and then try to promote Venli, who did arguably the worst thing in Rosharan history since the abandoning of the oathpact, completely throws me. If this is the goal, then great, but I feel as though it happened too fast. Her reasons for what she did are understandable as well, she was just a stupid teenager jealous of her sister. But there’s a dissonance between trying to turn the girl who started a cataclysmic war into a hero because she was stupid and turning some guy whose parental figures were starved to death into a Saturday morning villain because he took out the trash—even if that trash itself was in the process of redemption. OP is being a little dramatic but I kinda understand where he’s coming from.

It did, thank you

A-Pewter F-Bronze would not stack super well, but would be the powers I would want the most. Honestly, I’d rather have two Feruchemical powers than one of each, but I think these are good. Bronze doesn’t really synchronize with anything, but being able to fall asleep on command and being able to stay away for extra long would be incredibly helpful. And Pewter’s just the jack-of-all trades metal, it really does everything. I’ve worked a fair share of manual labor jobs in the past, and Pewter would be so helpful on a lot of those long days where your body is killing you. I don’t know if it would help in the gym, but maybe it would. Maybe it would make the gym too easy, though, and you wouldn’t have the benefits of working out. Again, A-Pewter and F-Bronze don’t stack *super* well, but I wonder if you could cheat at filling your metal mind by burning pewter. Pewter keeps you awake, after all, and I bet you could fill a lot of your metal mind while burning pewter and still stay mobile. That might be incredibly helpful. I think allomancy and ferruchemy are fun to think about in settings that aren’t entirely combat oriented, and that the real drawing power that the setting of Mistborn has is the “thinking about all of this in a practical every day setting.” I don’t think Brandon has tapped that goldmine quite yet, but I would love to read a slice of life story about a bunch of metal born living and working on Scadrial.

So Ayven is 1000% a lurcher, right? -Brandon briefly mentioned showcasing lurcher capabilities in the WaT Shardcast interview -Ayven observes the cars above on the steel line and wonders if she "can get up there." A coin shot can drop any bit of metal anywhere and have an anchor, but a lurcher needs to have something to latch onto and can't jump from some place into the sky. They have to think about traversal more. They need an anchor to latch onto that will get them close to their destination, they can't just push and keep pushing. Also, if Ayven went straight up, she'd probably get hit by a car on the steelfield, and we don't even know how that works yet. But the fact that she thinks about "getting up there" leads me to believe that she thought it was possible, and that she feasibly could. -Both the security clerk and the gal working the ticket booth point out and make assumptions about Ayven's heritage during her first chapter. They also then say something to the effect of "well, you Terris people are all so docile" and Ayven makes a point to correct them. This leads me to believe that a part of Ayven's arc will be about overcoming some form of stereotypes--what you see isn't what you get. If Ayven was a Terris presenting person with Allomantic abilities, that would give her character an interesting level of depth. If this is the case, I bet that the person that Brandon made sure not to name was Vin, and not Tindwyl. Tindwyl had many children, and Vin had absolutely none. Vin was an Allomancer, and Tindwyl was not. Tindwyl's name doesn't exactly "lace legend, myth, and history with distinguished tenacity" like Vin's did. I'm willing to be that Ayven is just wishing Vin was related to her, because she idolizes Vin, and looks up to her as an Allomancer. Is that a reach? Yes. Do I care? Only if you say something mean to me about it. -Would Mistborn really be Mistborn if a character wasn't flying through the mists? You know Brandon loves his flying. Both Wax and Vin flew through the mists, and I think those moments where the protagonist interacts with the unique setting of Scadrial is what really gives Mistborn its identity as a series. If I'm right about this, I really doubt that Ayven will be a Twinborn. As cool as Twinborn are, I think it would be more interesting to write a character who outwardly appears to be one ethnicity while possessing the talents of the other, and not any of the ones people assume she has. I also think writing another Twinborn as a lead character after coming off of four books where two Twinborn are leads would be a little stale. This isn't to say that Ayven won't likely acquire more abilities through updated Scadrian magitech. But I think if she started with just the one power she would be a lot more interesting. That's my aluminum-lined-hat theory for you. Gotta suck being a Brass or Zinc misting in 3rd era Scadrial where everyone can afford a nice little aluminum tiara or laurel or whatever. Brandon's self-insert. Or Dan's as another Wellen descendant. Or Robert Jordan, who knows.

Spoilers for AMoL. I'm wondering which character Jordan had planned on killing off in this book, if any. I was really miffed about one of the best characters from the beginning of the journey all the way back in EotW biting it, as well as an Amyrlin and her boyfriend. Is there a list of who's responsible for these deaths? Did Jordan have notes he left Sanderson on who was supposed to die, and has Brandon ever commented on this? I would love to know the answer. Thanks.

Thank you, brother

21 Pilots? That seems like a lot.

Gotta be Farfetch’d. His entire existence is a duck soup joke.

I tend to think about Mistborn a lot more than I tend to think about Stormlight. That’s because Twinborn being able to have seemingly two random powers is really interesting to me. Radiants have two powers as well, but they’re each locked into oaths, and every Radiant from every order has the same two surges. If you could mix and match any two surges from any two orders, which ones would you take and why? I think that Cohesion and Division would be a really interesting combination. Break down a wall and then patch it right back up again behind you. What about you, what do you think?

I actually liked Vivenna so much more on the re-read. On the first go through, her chapters felt like a slog that distracted from Siri and LightSong. The second time around the bend, after knowing what Vivenna was in for in the back half of the novel, I appreciated her journey more. I think she’s the most developed character in Warbreaker. Maybe if you return to the book sometime later you’ll have a different perspective, who knows. It’s a bummer you didn’t like it as much on the first go through.