First of the Tide

Kalology

Racing out the thick metal door, I leaped from the opening, still half-goo, half-man, tendrils of my mistcloak flapping behind me, and plummeted.

It's a very complicated question. The two situations are pretty different. the way i understand it, Taln was tortured externally, whereas Marsh was controlled internally. Even though taln stood up against the torture for thousands of years without breaking, WaT Spoilers: That is more a matter of guarding the sanctity of your mind against outside forces, whereas Marsh had to guard his own mind against his own mind (which I think he did by not thinking abt what he was doing but I don't know for sure) Also, marsh's main drive to resist, in this situation imo was his connection to all the relevant things (He doesn't want vin to die, if he resists the world of the peeps he loves keeps going, etc) taln wouldn't have that personal connection automatically to Scadrial. Both exhibit incredible will power, but beside individual skills as well. I think Taln could def. do the willpower part, and could prob. pull off the connection bit, since he kinda did that anyway in SA, even tho he didn't know those peeps, but I don't think he's clever in the way that would be required to subvert his own mind

Discworld By Terry Pratchett is Amazing and has loads of world building! My favorite is Guards! Guards!

They are all honoring Peter Ahlstrom's birthday, on Nov 26th? His username used to be ookla somewhere and now everybody does it from then until Koloss head munching day (Sanderson's birthday) in December. I would've done it this year, but I forgot until the 29th

good point. But Canticle and Taldain both have investiture radiating from the sky, so i think it might work out there. Also, it usually merges posts automatically when I send back-to-back, and I didn't realize that doesn't work for longer intervals until literally that post. will keep in mind though

Actually I'm sure you could do something with AonDor, and, if you have a body of water which is considered as 'one thing', like a tidal wave, you might could Awaken it with breaths. Of course, then you have to both touch a tidal wave, and get away alive. Actually, just THE OCEAN might work.

What about a verdant aetherbound with a soulcaster grow the verdant in the direction you want to go, then soulcast it into water. since vines grow to a greater volume than that of the water put on them, this is an infinite water hack, with a flowingish shape. Obviously not exactly perfect, but I cant come up with a function that waterbending works for that this doesn't. Sandmastery is also close, but doesn't work as well(yes, I know you can do it, but i'm saying not as well) if you need to, for example, put out a fire. But I think this works pretty well. It absorbs all water present, then effectively triples it in a new place. There is the issue of getting investiture for the soul caster, but if it's happening on like Taldain, I think it'll work out.

I don't mean to be pedantic, but I just wanted to bring up that all the non-shin in SA are mostly Asian-looking. Not trying to bring anybody down, just bringing it up. @Ookla the Intelligent Wow! That's a really impressive IQ. Just keep in mind that trying to control people's decision because you are 'superior' is seriously immature, and even edging on fascist. I'm sure it was a joke, and that you meant no harm by it, but please respect other's decision. Not trying to say what you already said was bad, just keep in mind others' feelings.

oh that's so cool. def. doing that. I'll post it here when I'm done.

We kind of see something like this in IotE, But I think that Lumar's advancements would be heavily based on use of the enviroment. Water is gonna be very important to have. Someone who has control of water can grow a defensive wall in seconds, or make an army of midnight essences. I also think controlling the sieve might be a big goal, whichin turn leads to flight, to get around that issue. I don't think however, they're gonna develop things like spy drones, or electricity as we know it, since it's so heavily based on making 2 things. Heat and motion. Both of those can more easily be made with spores. (Sunlight/Verdant)

I think I'm gonna go with @Ookla the Kansan's Idea, but I'm gonna do the 10 radiant glyphs + Roshar + Almighty. Not sure what I'm gonna do for the 30 corners yet, if y'all still have ideas.

yeah but which 12? I want to do that butt it feels terrible to cut out 4 what Gets cut? P.S. Dont you dare say Nicrosil thanks for the input. this is my leading option rn, I just don't know which to omit I also thought maybe 16 shards, but leave splintered ones on the small faces, which are split up. but I don't know how I'd draw that though.

those were on the top of my mind, but there's 12 prominent faces, and nothing that's released really comes in twelves. I might could do one planet/ face, but I don't think there's that many? thanks for the input though

Hey! read some of it, and love it so far. Once i'm done reading it, i'd love to critique it, but i'd like to know how brutal you want me to be. Obviously I won't tear you down completely, but I'd like to know if I should sugarcoat it. Also, how deep do you want the critique to go? Just over-arching ideas, or nitty gritty grammar? Lastly, are you trying to imitate sanderson's writing style, nuance, etc., or just writing in the same world. Not trying to tear you down, just want to make sure i'm giving critique you're comfortable with.

love it! is it supposed to be used for anything particular? I saw this post a while ago and have been struggling on what to say. My only qualm is the lack of true rhymes for rim. you rhymed -in with -im like 3 times, and only rhymed -im with -im once (limb). Would love to see anything else you make

love that idea! any particular set of them you have in mind? still open to other ideas too.

love the idea. it could def. be improved, but i have no idea how to critique visual arts. just letting you know that i see it, because i know a lot of stuff on here doesnt get seen much. would love to see any other comics you make or any improvements you make to this one, though.

Im making a huge truncated dodecahedron, and want to decorate with cosmere, but I cannot paint for crap. Any ideas for simple iconography that represents the cosmere? There are 12 decagonal faces and 30 triangle faces. I'd rather not do anything that is rendered wrong by upcoming cosmere, else I'd just do some spore colors. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I'm sure this has been posted about somewhere before, but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Do each of the shard have its own number? I've seen some WoBs saying that virtuosity's number is 13, and there's all these 10-, 12-, and 16-worlds. Also read a theory that type 1-6 entities were a reference to ambition being number 6. Do each of the shards have their own number, or is it just some of them/ its more tied to the cognitive identity of the people on the planets? I also think the honor flashbacks said odium was 9? but I cant find it. I am very severely stupid and am now realizing that I spelled shard wrong when searching the forums.

I was about to say that we should try feeding a lawnark some worms, but remembered that they aren't actually birds. Zeetzi deserves an epic power.

I love this! Surprised No one's commented on it yet. Do you need any help with the other lyrics?

This is an interesting idea, but I see a few things wrong: 1. My favorite metal is nicrosil, thank you very much 2. You said "any allomantic or feruchemical ability". It is important to note that this doesn't necessarily encompass identity. 3. The way that the Set talks abt that, it doesn't seem like they get to pick whose allomantic ability, just that they can emulate the same idea of 'doing tin allomancy'. This leads me to believe that you would get some identity, but you couldn't choose which. However, I don't think Treamayne's quotes necessarily contradict your idea. The first WoB seems to be about hemalurgy's inherent identity-shifting thing, not identity spikes themselves. The 2nd WoB is iffy cuz Identity encompasses Spiritual DNA. And I dont really see the point of the third tbh. (No Hate, just thinking outloud)

In a WoB, Brandon retconned and said that allomancers were burning an alloy of electrum and atium, right? So, god metals can be alloyed with regular metals to get new results. I'm gonna assume that this applies to all of the base metals with all god metals. And, due to the existence of harmony, we know that the combination of multiple shards into one makes a new god metal. There are 2^16 ways to combine shards. (including Adonalsium and the Zero-Shard Set) Each of those ways has 17 unique allomantic metals (base god metal + 16 alloys)(except the Zero-Shard Set, which has no base metal), so I'm getting ((2^16)*17)-1, or a little over a million unique allomantic metals, which is crazy to me. Also, I know Treamayne's gonna tell me to go make an introduction post, but ima just say it here: I've read all the Cosmere.