GreyPilgrim

Still, he hasn't actually posted anything, in the game or otherwise, in five days. He has been PMing, obviously, and could well just avoid suspicion by not posting openly. He hasn't been able to defend himself yet. I will wait to see what he does if the vote turns against him. If he defends himself, great, if he doesn't, I will retract my vote and move it to him.

My vote is rather temporary. A placeholder. We still have a good while left in the day. I shall not be so easily swayed, but if the something presents itself that changes my mind significantly, then I will retract my vote. We may want to try just getting rid of an inactive, as well, if no greater decision can be reached. To make myself understood, I will say this. I am just a normal Idrian, one Breath. Nothing special, not a threat. I am just trying to find my way around. @Macen: That is a very good point. However, I assume players who haven't posted in the main threads or been spoken of are inactive.

Welcome, Markram! You should fit right in here! As you said you were wondering, Stormlight 3 should not take too long to come out. Brandon's current writing schedule is Rithmatist 2, then the next Stormlight should be written soon after that. It may well be out towards the end of next year, a relief compared to the 3 and a half years before WoR.

Okay. I see now how complex this game can get. I am still trying to grasp my head around all of this. Here goes. There is a lot to take in at this point. Things have really taken off. I think we should take into account that the roles are distributed at random (unless I am wrong), and there are only a few enemies. Around a third of the players in the game have been almost totally inactive, and there only seem to be a few players actively doing things other than RPing and discussing others' actions. From what I can tell, these are Cog, Bartholomew, Summon and Swimim. Since the roles are distributed pretty much randomly, none of them are more likely than anyone else to have special roles, though they are all Hallandren, so could have a significant amount of Breath. I am willing to believe that at least one of them is totally bluffing. We also have Jim Bob Dirt claiming to be an Idrian agent. Assuming JBD is truly the Idrian agent, then I feel reasonably safe voting for any of the other four. I cannot vote for Meta, since he is being saved by Aodan. I simply don't suspect Summon of anything at this point. That leaves me with Swimim and Bartholomew. Since Swimim has been inactive for a while in the main thread, and I have the most suspicion of Bartholomew, am going to vote Bartholomew. Sorry, Bart. I'm not sure I should post all of my thoughts in the main thread like this, but I want my reasoning to be known, and I have nothing to hide. Let's see where this goes...

I like the theory. I have a few things to add and comment on, and I just wrote up a pretty comprehensive post to respond and lost it. I may retype it later, but for the moment I am too annoyed to do so. Sorry.

Welcome! And it's ok. None of us have lives either! As you can probably tell from my username and avatar, I also love Tolkien. Given your interests, you should fit right in here! We have all sorts of people, all of them wonderful and interesting.

Whew, this is getting intense. Let it be known that I am following and will post my thoughts in detail later. Grim is not quick to act, and neither am I.

It depends a lot on whether yout friend is already an epic fantasy fan. If so, Mistborn could hook them. If they don't already read fantasy, Warbreaker is a good start. The magic system isn't too confusing or as significant to the story as in Brandon's other books, and it is not a series (yet). Starlight should definitely wait until after other books, since it is daunting and more crucial to the cosmere. Pantries should probably wait, it is by far the weakest. I see what you did there.

Oh dear. Thanks, I'll DVR it and watch it later.

Grim had had a rough night. With so much on his thoughts, sleep was elusive. Thankfully, something had come of his restlessness. He had concluded that the smartest course of action was to try to work with the Hallandren, not fight them. The many calls for murder had worried him, though. Another death at this time would be terrible. Thus, discovering Vard's death had greatly distressed him. A Hallandren spy among the Idrians? That did not bode well; it meant the Hallandren may in fact have ulterior motives. The rest of the Idrians would not accept this. Grim had not known Vard, but wondered what he had done. Who had murdered him? Had it been Idrians? Just more to occupy Grim's already swamped mind. When Aili called to him, Grim was a bit annoyed. He didn't know the cook well, and wanted to get to the Green Potato so he could think more. However, when he discovered she wanted to talk working together, he was satisfied. Clement could wait a bit longer. Approaching Aili, Summon,and Cog--what was different about the craftsman?--Grim spoke up. "I think this is a great idea. Without Bebid, and with the recent developments, there is no chance of reaching peace without beginning to talk soon. Summon, Cog, Aili, why don't we retire take a room in the Red Salmon to talk about this?" Grim realized what was so off about Cog. That lack of...vibrancy. The man was a Drab. Where had his Breath gone? Grim shook it off for the moment. Turning toward the Red Salmon, he beckoned to the others to follow.

I wonder why you associated the Ideals with The Way of Kings. I don't believe they had anything to do with the book. Regardless, as far as we know the Ideals existed before the book. The spren require them because it is how being a Radiant works. The only prerequisite to become one is to display a set of ideals and follow them. The spren then make the Nahel Bond based on that. I've always felt that the ideals are necessary because of Honor. In order to be a Radiant, one must follow an honorable code. I don't think the Ideals were forced upon the Radiants by any outside entity, but that they are simply natural, a part of the world.

Ok. I am probably the only person still watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D show. I haven't seen the movie yet, but based on it, without spoilers, should I risk watching tonight's episode? Or just wait until I see the movie then watch the episode?

I don't think its quite started to drag yet. I bet we could keep going for Miles yet! It'll be a Breeze!

Oh come on Weiry. Don't you realize everybody's a Worldhopper these days, if they have something that could so much as suggest they are. But Weiry's right. There is no way Taln is Spook. Doesn't mean he's not a Worldhoppper, though.

Welcome to the forums, ChildofHonor! This is a great place to come and discuss everyone's favorite fantasy novelist! Words of Radiance was great, wasn't it?

We have no evidence that Sir I or Vivenna is on Roshar at the moment. You do know that the whole book is on Brandon's site for free, if you want to re-read it. IMHO people don't give Warbreaker enough credit.

Just want to note Kaladin's first chapter in WoK: "Honor is Dead". But cool, I will try to find some more. Brandon has said before that chapter titles in these books hint at things to come, so this is a good place to look for these.

My understanding is that it is not terribly common for YA novels to portray their protagonists so blatantly on the cover. The Rithmatist didn't, and on Steelheart's cover David was not the center of attention and his face was not shown. I just feel like these don't portray Vin properly. But Argent is right, this just isn't how we're used to seeing Vin. I have always felt she was well-captured on the original paperback covers: small without looking too young, and powerful. Badchull.

I will just capitalize them all now. I am kind of a grammar/spelling/capitalization freak. Proceed with your lives while I agonize over such trivial little things.

There was a news topic about the first one some time ago, but tor.com has now released the covers of the second two. I like the painting on the first, but the typeset and tag about an evil being defeated are terrible. I'm glad its being marketed a bit more, but they don't need all that to make teens buy it. I really don't like the covers for WoA and HoA. Vin looks about 13, despite actually being 20. And the "evil has been defeated" on WoA!!! The Lord Ruler never has been and never will in my mind be evil! I just hope these don't become the dominant editions of the series.

Please clarify, what do you mean by infusing outside normal highstorm infusion?

I guess I think of them as more mundane than they actually are. A Sliver does not have any real great abilities by default; he or she once he'd the majority of a Shard's power but no longer does. Splinters are pretty commonplace; at least on Sel, with the Seons. I'm not making an argument, just explaining my thoughts.