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Since the Lift interlude has been released to the public, is it cool to talk about her throughout the forum? I really just want to change my sig to this..... Green Fire, on 23 Oct 2013 - 04:52 AM, said:

So I've been thinking. Not sure what the exact quote, but isn't WoB of burning enough Lerasium to become a savant basically akin to acension? My take away from that theory is.... Say someone burned enough Lerasium to become a Savant... they'd have to burn a lot of Lerasium... pretty much a majority, if not all, of it. Meaning they become the new Preservation, or at least a part of it. So... say someone did this with Atium? Isn't that supposed to come back somehow? What if somebody started hording all the Atium. Just say they happen to be an Atium twinborn (how cool would that be?!). So they go around burning and investing all this Atium, eventually could they become basically the new holder of Ruin? Or a Sliver or splinter of some sorts? Enough to have it's powers and be influenced by it's intent, at least? What do you guys think? If not really plausible in books (and I severely doubt that will be happening) then maybe a cool scenario in the MAG?

Didn't Brandon say something about how this one of his books he pictured mostly as a movie, or something like that? Because I agree this might be his easiest work to transition to the big screen so far. Still would make a great movie if done right... and the most important questions... who to cast? I'm not too good with these because I am very specified in my media and aren't too well versed in a wide range of celebrities or actors/actresses. But I want to hear who you all suggest! The one person I'll submit isn't even appropriate... Tommy Flannagan for Cody. He's the Scotsman, Chibs, on Sons of Anarchy. Now I know in the books Cody has really just a southern accent and only talks about his Scottish heritage (and doesn't have gnarly face scars), but Flannagan plays a good scotsman in the show and I think the could pull it off. Now here's where you tell me how horrible my casting is and suggest your own, superior choices...

If not.... we'll take them... But dang. I wish I Reddit'd. or was creative in any way, lol. If we had more snow around me I could try and go out and make "SnowSpren"... but we got mud and slush here at the moment. May the Heralds bless whoever ends up with that Epic Tome.

O.o Hmmm. So Nightwatcher doesn't like Hoid and is real old... Somebody else that would fit those requirements would be somebody from probably Yolen days and a shardholder.... Further evidence for Nightwatcher = Cultivation? Or is that all but confirmed at this point?

Used to participate on the Grasscity forums, people were making sigs and avatars upon request. Asked them to make it trippy and colorful and basically an "Acid Pirate". O.o

Very nice! That is really good work. I love how with the included artwork in the books we're able to get so much more detail and imagery for Rosharian Ecology, allowing awesome fanart adaptations like this. Hope we can see other Roshar wildlife 3-d models in the future!

I have always wondered if there was anything more to Starspren. Aren't they described like once in the book and mentioned how they seem to wiggle around up in the sky or something? I can't remember exactly but I always thought that would be cool if there were 'moving' stars, so to speak. Edit: And the Scadrian Sun is totally yellow, in real life. The inhabitants only saw it red because of the atmosphere distorting the color as it reached the planet. It was just all the ash and crap in the air. Same as on earth, less with the pollution, but sun-rises and sun sets are basically the same, it's color just gets distorted when it reaches our ozone. What makes more sense of a use of your surpreme, Shardic power? Changing the planets atmosphere and cleaning it out, or physically changing the properties of a nearby star, which could have extremely devastating, unpredictable results on all life in that solar system? Sun has always been yellow, people just saw it as red until recently.

Whew. I thought for sure dem hobbitses would flock in and defend their preciouses. Jokes aside, I do respect the hell out off the Middle Earth lore and depth of the world. But getting off of Hobbit bashing... I didn't really like the Hunger Games trilogy. Felt too... generic to me. Take Orwellian totalitarianism and mash it with battle royale/Richard Bachman Running Man or any death games scenario. Katniss was just a pain to read. She was so morose and whiny. Not to mention her opiate struggle in the latter half. And apologies for no spoiler tags, but I don't think it's a surprise that she's a reluctant, half-assed symbol for a simplistic revolution in an implausible society.

look at Sanderson's blogs on the Wheel of Time retrospectives and he discusses the challenges of getting the characters just right, and how he thinks he mostly failed in TGS and a little in ToM. He says Mat was by far the hardest to capture personality-wise, and Perrin's character provided the biggest challenges in terms of growth and realization. I think these blogs of his are fascinating and add a lot of depth and insight into the last three books. I couldn't even begin to fathom the task at picking up epic, multi-decade fantasy series that is so monumental and had basically set the standard for the genre and finishing it to the full potential and and proper conclusion it deserves according to the author's wishes. Cosmere books aside, Brandon Sanderson deserves endless kudos and congratulations for what he accomplished in finishing the Wheel of Time. And then take into consideration his own level of skill and literary accomplishments.... needless to say I think we're set for our generation.

Actually as Sanderson fans, I'd think we'd be used to prolific results and new stuff every half a year roughly... but quality is never a problem. I know if Sanderson put his name and time into it, it will be great. And it sounds like the team making it are really trying to preserve as much quality as possible, too and make it a spectacular game. I for one don't mind waiting. Can't wait to see what they do.

I mean if you're able to get him retrained or momentarily incapacitated (take him down with a big hit somehow) I do believe it takes a few moments for him to regenerate. So just treat him like a Feruchemical gold compounded. Just keep killing him and killing him until he stops. Completely destroy the body if possible. I don't think the can regenerate if there's no body at all. But capturing him like that would prove very difficult. Would have to make sure he's not around really any inorganic material... which might be nigh impossible.

Looks like Sazed already has some practice with the Endowment shard, then...

I'll admit it. I'm prepared for the onslaught of downvotes. Didn't really care too much for the Hobbit. And can never make it more than 2 chapters into Lord of the Rings. I acknowledge and respect the books for what they are and what they accomplished in the fantasy world, and props to JRR Tolkien, but I just don't dig the writing. Too dry for me. I know it did the dwarves and elves and all that before it was the cliche thing, but I just don't really like the plot all that much. The Worldbuilding is fantastic and superb, and that's great. I love that part of it. Just not the story itself. Meh, I'm weird like that. :/

I understand why he would be worshiped so reverently now

The Ars Arcanums in all the books so far have been written by some unknown in-cosmere person, so Sanderson just conveniently can chalk all the mistakes up to them XD Adds authenticity, you know..... yeah. we'll use that excuse.

I'm guessing you're an Arrow fan? heh

I didn't like Winter's Heart mostly because...

The female characters don't. They tug their braids and sniff at eachother the entire dang time. But whatever, you get used to it. Everyone else though mostly start making changes for the better. But it does happen slowly, which makes sense because people don't just completely change over the course of 3 months or even a year. It takes a lot of time and pressure. And if you liked Mat by the end of 3 (I agree he was pretty horrible in the first two books) then you'll love him very soon. Eventually his chapters were what kept me going for a while, just reading through everyone else to get to his POV. Trust me, you'll be rooting so hard for Matrim Cauthon by the end of book 6, and it just keeps getting better. Everyone say books 7-11 get real slow, just depends on your view of "slow". Subplots, politics, and character development instead of just random battle scenes? I prefer the former, so I didn't really mind at all. I say keep reading, you'll be surprised at where some things go. It's definitely worth the experience. JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINATION

I think it may clean the body of other impurities or such, alcohol, poisons, whatever, etc. Although that could be dangerous if you can't control what flashes away. Maybe be left a few minutes without any Investiture and can't use allomancy? Dunno.

I dunno. Those freaky, voodoo dances that Rocky Horror Picture show has might have some crazy mind-control powers...

Wars would basically be guer wars would basically be fought guerrilla style with flash mobs.

Expanding on what Windy said:

I really didn't get as turned off from the second half as most people seem to. The story doesn't get slow, IMO, it just grows. Those are different things, I think. There's so much going on in the world, and Jordan creates such a huge cast, yeah it does become difficult after a minute to keep everything always super-actiony and going bonkers all the time. There's a lot more world-building, character development and interaction, and most importantly - politicking. Some people find that super boring, I personally enjoyed it. And skipping a book doesn't seem like good advice to me at all. They might not like it, but there's 900 pages of stuff going on that you should read, otherwise it wouldn't be there. To me the tough parts were just the characters I didn't like (mostly the female cast because most of his women were basically the same - something Jordan has been criticized widely for- and all just insufferably annoying. But when you think about it, that's how society was in that world, ruled by strong, arrogant women. So even then, considering, it's not really that bad. I personally think you should finish. Especially if you're already 6 books in. At least then you know you'll have a good sized reading list for a while. The ending is totally worth it. Oh, and book 6 is just when Mat gets his full swing of awesomeness going on. Keep reading, his chapters alone are worth it.

I liked the Book. I (kind of) watched the first movie, and yeah I'll agree it looks cool and everything. But I just figured if I want to spend 9 hours on the Hobbit, I'll just read it. I don't think they're really trying to tell the Hobbit story, they're just using it as a vehicle to make cool special effects and draw in tons of holiday shoppers into watching it. And I'm sorry, Legolas is not in The Hobbit (yeah, sure, after LotR when his character was created he technically had to of existed and been living during the Hobbit story, but the fact is he wasn't in the book, shouldn't be in the movie). It should have just stayed as a book and a fun cartoon movie. But that's my cynical, anti-almost everything in media nowdays attitude.