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Ink and Embers

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  1. A. RAFO! B. They don't want to scare the others as well; if they start interrogating everyone on their past for no notable reason, someone is going to start to suspect something's happening - and the crew runs on trust. Have fun reading!
  2. Hi I do worldbuilding for some stories I'm writing, but any advice would be cool? The worlds I have are: - Everia (fantasy world with dragons, originally very Medieval European but I'm trying to move away from that) - Calashante (fantasy world, quite new so not very detailed yet) - "Far space" (still needs a proper name) (space world set in the future, a century or so after humans have met aliens, so everyone knows they exist but no one is quite sure what to think yet) Thank you very much
  3. The main thing that surprised me was that Courteth got magically ... attacked? ... by Topaz and at no point thought, "Hey, there's a possibility he might be a Sho Del," especially with all the hysteria at the time. I also thought Jerick's arc was too scattered, and none of the Parts bore any resemblance to each other. That said, I had an absolute blast reading it, even if it wasn't great. I also loved Frost and can't wait to see more of him!
  4. 1 - Wind and Truth (some of it was brilliant and that outweighs the terrible bits for me) 2 - Words of Radiance (just generally great) 3 - The Way of Kings (cool worldbuilding and characterisation) 4 - Oathbringer (the only part that sticks in my brain is the end, but that was absolutely epic) 5 - Rhythm of War (I still really liked it, the tone just felt more grim than previous books)
  5. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/122/#e3334 I found this WoB which suggests otherwise? Yeah, perhaps I'm reading into it too much! Awesome! I didn't think of that! They seem to be fond of the humans and singers - the Stone with Venli and the Wind with the Heralds - so I wouldn't be surprised if they had been trying to protect them then as well!
  6. I would like to preface this theory with the fact I have read neither Dragonsteel Prime nor Isles of the Emberdark, so this may end up being very wrong. In Wind and Truth, we learn that there was a fourth moon of Roshar that crashed, bringing the total number of celestial bodies in the system down from 17 to 16. There are 16 Shards. There were 17 people who killed Adonalsium. In The Way of Kings, Hoid says, "I began life as a thought, a concept, words on a page. That was another thing I stole. Myself." My personal take on this is that it related to a prophecy of sorts (I may be completely wrong) - if Preservation had good enough future sight to see several millenia ahead, I suspect Adonalsium would have, too. My theory is that perhaps Hoid was referring to a prophecy about himself, involving him becoming a Shard, which he chose not to fulfill (thereby "stealing" himself from fate?). Potentially, Adonalsium intended for him to be a Shard, thinking there would be 17 Shards - and so 17 would become a significant number instead. Then, they crashed the fourth moon when they realised they were wrong so the Rosharan system retained its significance. Why the system had to be notable, I'm not sure, but perhaps it has something to do with Braize's strange metals? Obvious flaws in the argument: If Adonalsium had such good future sight, how did they not see this coming? Perhaps it was only a slim possibility, like how Hoid thought Retribution's Ascension was unlikely? If the fourth moon crashed into Roshar, it would have been catastrophic. But the listeners were there when Honor and Cultivation arrived, which was, presumably, just after the Shattering. My only theory against this is that perhaps Adonalsium (or their remnants) preserved them, but that is a weak argument at best. Any thoughts?
  7. Ah, sorry! So basically Shai should get those Shards?
  8. Preservation and Whimsy - everything is the same, except when you feel like it. Virtuosity and Odium - "I HATE EVERYONE but I'm a good person, promise!"
  9. Ah, sorry! Thank you
  10. Whoever put it on there in the first place was weird, but it's been a topping long enough to count now
  11. 1. One of my lifelong goals is to read every book listed at the back of the DnD 5e player's handbook, and I always noted Mistborn seemed like a cool name. Then a friend of mine started reading The Final Empire, and I went "You know what? I might as well read them now." 2. I googled the Ghostbloods symbol pretty early on, went "I'm not going to look up anything else until I've read more", and now, having read more, can look things up. 3. I like writing and fire is cool.
  12. I'm a Keeper Feruchemist
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