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I was poking around the forums, and saw a quote in a signature tag. The quote was the one about "The THree once reigned, but now the Broken One reigns." or some such thing. Everyone knows there i =s something weird about Odium, but I was wondering if the phrase Broken One is more than just an empty title. What if Odium was shattered at some point in the past, and Rayse reforged it by killing everyone the shard had invested. The other shards have spent some of their power by investing their people, but Odium doesn't Invest anyone, so he retains more of his power. So he isn't stronger technically, his power is just all in one place.

I prefer Morrowind for several reasons. The first, and main one, is that in Morrowind when you go on a quest, it feels like a quest. You get a set of directions, and rarely a map marker. In Oblivion and Skyrim, everything is marked on your map for you, and it seems like a destroy/recover mission instead of search and destroy/recover. Also, I like the varied weapon categories of Morrowind. No matter how many times you tell me, i will never believe that an Axe belongs in the blunt weapon category or that all one handed weapons similar enough to belong in a single skill. I like the fact that morrowind had spears also. Also, Morrowind had levitate, which is just plain awesome. Also, Morrowind didn't scale everything to your level. When you were low level, you had to know to keep your head down and stay out of dangerous places that were over your head. On the downside, it seemed that every mage enemy was super tough, while most melee enemies were a lot simpler. Plus, cliff racers, the good and the bad of them. The stamina system was a little annoying, but made complete sense.

Maybe Stormform is a non solid form. This would allow them to travel the Highstorms without fear of being beaten to death by the flying boulders and whatnot. (Wild Speculation Begins) Maybe Thunderclasts aren't made from Corrupted Spren, but from Parshendi in the non-solid Stormform which could appear to be a Spren, because that's the closest thing humans have ever seen to Stormform, so they automatically assume that its a spren. The "Spren" is said to be black like a shadow but with red eyes. That sounds to me like the Red and Black skin of a warform parshendi, but modified in a new form of course. (Completely Wild Speculation now) Maybe the Stormform Parshendi form a bond with stone to create Thunderclasts. If Thunderclasts were the Parshendi gods, then that would explain why Shin, such as Szeth, think that stone is sacred, because they knew (and maybe followed the same religion) that the Parshendi worshipped them as gods. Or maybe the Shin were just wary of walking on stone because it could turn into a thunderclast, and that eventually grew into their religion.

Ah, thanks, I didn't know about that Q and A.

I was finally getting around to reading the transcribed readings of WoR, and noticed Eshonai talking about the mating form, She said that some Parshendi lock themselves away, then assume mating form with their mate, then are back to their regular form by the next Highstorm, and gladly so. This might imply that they can only change form during Highstorms. This fits well with her explanation they the Parshendi can't spare many for the Lithe form for artwork. If they could just change forms whenever they wanted, this wouldn't be an issue.

I always come up with really, really complicated ways to do things when there is already a simple way of doing it that I should probably have thought of first. I call it Nale-itis. Also, my jokes are really confusing because of the convoluted way I connect things in my head.

That could be difficult and/or impossible. I can imagine differences in page/line/word placing based on different default font sizes/programs of reading it. I read the file on my laptop, but that doesn't mean someone else couldn't read it on a tablet or something else and end up with completely different placing.

Plus one for the pun Phantom.

I agree completely with the statement that the 17th shard may be trying to stick something else in place of Adonalsium. Seriously, look at the name they gave themselves. If they were trying to recreate Adonalsium, they would probably call themselves The First Shard, or some such. If they were trying to do anything with Adonalsium, they would be trying to create something new, not reforge what once was.

Welcome back. and Kurk, thats a useless prayer XD. Honor's dead, and if he wasn't, Odium is the one who killed him in the first place.

Drizzt, surprised no one has said that yet, even with the recent books being less than awesome. (Legend of Drizzt, R.A Salvatore) Quentin Coldwater (The Magicians, Lev Grossman) Ganoes Paran, Karsa Orlong, Fiddler (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Stephen Erikson) Kvothe/Kote (Kingkiller Chronicles, Patrick Rothfuss) Waxillium Ladrian (AoL) Kaladin (WoK)

Just started a re-read of Gardens of the Moon after getting to book 8 or so and setting the series down (metaphorically, I'm reading on an iPod), but it really does get interesting and gives you a character to connect with after a few books. Also, one of my biggest issues reading it the first time was figuring out the magic system. My advice is to read a wiki on this, because it explains 90% of the confusion I experienced on the first read through. Also, its not a spoiler, I feel its something that should have been explained in the first book more clearly than it was.

Ok, I thought that it would just be a really cool way for Brandon to bring in that Mistborn serial killer that is supposed to be in the second trilogy. Any way I can find the rules of the MAG without buying it so I can create my ideas without missing part of the info?

So, I've read on the wiki's among hearing it in other places that a Mistborn is capable of burning metals because they have more investiture than other people. So, say you had a Nicrosil compounder twinborn. He could store his investiture, then compound it to become either much stronger at burning Nicrosil, or even become a Mistborn. I've seen other theories of it letting you store the power you would have gained while burning a metal, but I don't agree with them.

I think in this situation that Sazed also believed in Kelsier as a diety. Sazed recorded the Church of the Survivor in his metalminds, and as he responds to Vin in book 1, when asked which of his stored religions he believes in, he replied something like "Why, all of them." If this is true, then Kelsier could have easily spoken to him.

I was poking around in the forums, and saw a quote of Shallan speaking to Kabsal about the Voidbringers were needed in Vorinism to oppose the Radiants. However, Kabsal didn't say "the world needs them" or "Religion needs them" he said "The COSMERE needs them." (Halfway expects Phantom Monstrosity to supply quote before I'm finished typing post.) This makes me think that the Ghostbloods are Cosmere aware.

If it resulted in random scattering and magnitude/frequency changes, it would most likely come out as gobbledygook to everyone on the outside anyway and so Wax and Wayne wouldn't need to worry about coughing at the end. EDIT: I had a brain fart there, they would still need to cough to hide the fact that they had a conversation, just not to hide the details of it.

I don't know if anyone else has pointed this out, because I have not yet taken the time to read all 7 pages of replies to this theory, but I thought of something when I read the part about the Bendalloy re-writing the "this is how fast you move" statement. I know you provided different theories, but my thoughts on that one are that if they were actually moving faster, when the bubble dropped, would they not have that momentum still moving them, and stumble/crash through the wall? For example, Wayne uses this ability frequently to "slide" from spot to spot to avoid gunfire, but has no issue with falling over from sudden brakes on his speed when he dropped the bubble.

Thanks Phantom for the quotes.

I was just doing a reread of Mistborn, and noticed something odd. Right before Kelsier swung the axe that killed the Inquisitor in the battle that sparked the revolution, he said "I'm glad you talked me into this." Who was he referring to? Sanderson has said several times if I recall correctly, (would be great if someone could find quotes) that Kelsier was a little crazy. As seen by Ruin's influence over Vin's mother, that is all that is needed for Ruin to affect a person. I think Ruin talked Kelsier into finally igniting the revolution to speed things along towards his release.

Shard: If someone from Roshar were to burn Lerasium, would it turn them into a Mistborn? Brandon: If they didn't know what they were doing, yes, they would become a Mistborn. I think the emphasis on them not knowing what they were doing refers to a modified Shardic Intent relation. Users of lerasium are effectively a Mini-Sliver, since they are holding a part of a body of a god. Their intent in using it, if they don't know what they are doing, is "blank" so to speak, so it goes to the default of making a Mistborn. If someone did know what they were doing, their intent would determine what re-writing of their spiritual DNA would occur. The strengthening of a Mistborn is just like overwriting a file on a memory card. The "mistborn" part of their spiritual DNA is overwritten with a stronger version.

Shard: If someone from Roshar were to burn Lerasium, would it turn them into a Mistborn? Brandon: If they didn't know what they were doing, yes, they would become a Mistborn. I think the emphasis on them not knowing what they were doing refers to a modified Shardic Intent relation. Users of lerasium are effectively a Mini-Sliver, since they are holding a part of a body of a god. Their intent in using it, if they don't know what they are doing, is "blank" so to speak, so it goes to the default of making a Mistborn. If someone did know what they were doing, their intent would determine what re-writing of their spiritual DNA would occur. The strengthening of a Mistborn is just like overwriting a file on a memory card. The "mistborn" part of their spiritual DNA is overwritten with a stronger version. EDIT= Sorry, this was posted in the wrong thread while I was reading two at the same time XD. still kinda applies though.

this name was the name I first chose for the first character i played in an RPG, the game Champions of Norrath. Me, my dad, and my brother spent hours playing that game together, so the name stuck as remembrance of those fun times. I have used this name in every RPG I've ever played, and usually use it as my online name.

My thoughts (recent thoughts) on the whole shiny shardplate and shardblades is that as a Radiant, their armor was a special version that was semi-infused by Honor, therefore making it compatible with surgebinding. Now that Honor is dead, it is no longer compatible. It would only be compatible when worn by a living Radiant, which explains the loss of light when the Radiants dropped their weapons and armor. yes, this contradicts my previous post, but Windrunner successfully debunked my theory, so I had to think some more.

Most Useless thing ever: Forge yourself into not being able to Forge. Paradox? maybe. Useless? Definitely.