Leonardus

From what we have seen all shardblades are unique weapons, its said in the books that flamestance is favored by shardbearers with shorter blades which could help offset the weight of the blade, as for smokestance well we haven't seen anyone use that with a shardblade so no idea, although to me it looks ideal to use with a long thin blade like a fencer(jasnah perhaps?).

It sure is interesting being able to see how the sharders are spread out. Also I should probably mention that I live in the city of Buenos Aires. 

Hmm well it seems everyone wants me dead (again)   , and sorry about me going inactive, things were a little bit hectic and I didn't get the chance to log on unfortunately, and in my defense I prefer to sit back and watch what everyone else does. It also seems quite suspicious to me that they want to start lynching people who did nothing because fain didn't act, perhaps fain is being sneaky?

As for who to pick to get lynched I will follow the public and vote for Jim Bob Dirt.

Also New One I think its better to be active rather than getting slaughtered by the dark friends so I read everyone's name and profession and then tried to anticipate who would gamma pick for each role.

Hmm, well the first thing you gotta think of is how much money you wanna spend, once you have an idea then we can perhaps give you a list of things you could use but personally I suggest getting a new laptop if you wanna play some of the more modern games, mostly you wanna get your hands on something with a decent graphics card and processor, around 2-3 years ago I went looking for a laptop that could play a variety of games and I have seen a lot more variety now than back then.

Hope this helps you and good luck 

I say we we start off by lynching people its better go go on the offense rather than see our numbers get reduced bit by bit, I have a hunch but its by no means accurate.

I say we lynch either the manure salesman or the seanchan morat'raken.

Might as well join in, Lam the humble street sweeper will be making a return , and even though I didn't last very long in that other game I still think this should prove... interesting.

I would be quite surprised if anyone could make a humorous   image of my username 

Well I feel a bit lonely down here   , still we can say that we almost have a member in each continent  .

Hmmm I really should be getting some sleep but one thing that we don't know exactly about the Skybreakers is exactly what set of laws they follow, Perhaps the Radiants had their own set of laws in which case there shouldn't be too much of a problem, but if the Skybreakers had to abide to the different rules in every single country then things might get complicated.

There's also the whole matter of the Highspren, so far we've seen most bonded spren act as guides of some sort, Perhaps the highspren can help decide and lead a Skybreaker on exactly what laws he should be following. I cant wait for the third book to get more intel on the Highspren, apparently they keep records and interest me quite a bit.

After failing to come up with a witty title I gave up and just went with the obvious.

Anyways the other day while rereading WoR, I started having quite a few random thoughts about these rather intelligent horses, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that their intelligence and size was due to some sort of spren bond like most Great shells. We also know that Ryshadium choose their riders, forming some sort of bond, so far we have seen only two Ryshadium (Gallant and Sureblood) and they match everything we know about them(So far).

Now the interesting thing that set me thinking was this particular quote:

Horses weren't terribly well known back then. Radiants had Ryshadium, but even kings had little access to ordinary horses.

It seems that the radiant put use to these horses capable of carrying people wearing shardplate, but one of the things that made me curious was the fact that the Radiants don't really need horses.

Going into battle in a desolation on a giant horse is asking for trouble,we saw how well that turned out for Adolin, and there's not really much point in the speed advantage when you're capable of sprinting at great speeds while wearing plate and infusing stormlight, there's also not much point in charging with a horse considering that the Radiants use shardblades and those don't tend to shove things around, overall Ryshadium, haven't impressed me so far in combat.

The other potential use for Ryshadium is transportation, Shardplate is heavy, and Running everywhere probably isn't a good idea, now the problem with this is that a lot of orders can move much faster than a horse, We know that Windrunners can fly and Skybreakers (probably) should be able to fly as well. Then we have the Elsecallers and the Willshapers who have access to the transportation surge making horses pretty irrelevant.

Now that leaves us with 6 orders who don't have any Surges that facilitate travel (Friction might work, but I doubt its as fast as flying or teleporting),but there's also the fact that in times of Desolations the knights have access to the Oathgates, allowing them to get to anywhere in the world really quickly, so Ryshadium for long travels aren't that useful either. The only use I can see to the Ryshadium is for carrying equipment but then again you might as well use regular horses, so I cant see Ryshadium being that special in that regard.

Honestly I'm kind of stumped on the practicality of Ryshadium (Shardplate for horses! ) but perhaps someone else can enlighten me on how they can prove useful.
 

Hmm well I'm no tech master but I've been searching a little on Google and I asked one of my friends who's studying computer systems and from what I have understood its basically a bug/exploit (It's not meant to be there!) that allows someone to steal protected information.

I'm not exactly quite sure what you can steal from sites vulnerable to heart bleed but passwords, usernames and private messages etc, can be stolen. Luckily some fixes have been going out, and most websites should be patching the problem. As for what sites are vulnerable, I cant exactly give you a list but unless you use the same password for all websites then you should be safe, if your really worried then I suppose changing your passwords cant hurt.

As for how the thing works well, when your computer asks for information, it sends a message to the server asking it to return data to check if the server is there, normally this is harmless (say it returns the value of 123) but when you use the heart bleed, your computer sends a message and the server responds with a bunch of information it shouldn't be sending (as an example say it returns 123server admin pass:happyface,and other secret stuff on the server)and so in this way somebody can steal all sorts of useful information on the internet.

Hopefully this helps you out Quiver. 

So far I only managed to introduce one person to Brandon's  books and I started him off with the Rithmatist which he enjoyed quite a bit, I then sent him off to read mistborn, and he really enjoyed the complexity of the magic system and the metals. My next goal is to pester him into reading Way of Kings, although hes been discouraged by the amount of pages it has.

Those words from the vision are VERY VERY interesting.

Personally I hadnt given it a though until this thread but it looks to me as if Tanavest has been seeing the future and given out a few hints to help whomever sees his vision.

For protection it is quite obvious that this is a reference to Kaladin, as for uniting and leading that's a bit more difficult, from the oaths we can quickly assume that Dalinar is going to unite them but currently we do not have a candidate for leading(and Tanavest indicates that three people will be  needed!),

So I quickly realized that we had 3 main PoV characters: Shallan Kaladin and Dalinar who were also surgebinders and not quite dead yet.

Dalinar will lead (He already does this)

Kaladin will protect.

And as for Shallan we have seen how adept she is at getting people to listen to her (her journey after the shipbreak and uniting the 3 groups is in support of this theory I believe) also I remember that there was an epigraph mentioning how the lightweavers did some funky spiritual things that I cant remember now, that inspired people.

Might as well step up and be the welcoming committee..So Welcome to the 17shard!

I think you will find that most people here are pretty awesome, from what I know most of us are Huge fans of Brandon and we all enjoy theorizing or just talking(Typing? ).in general. I have honestly read some of the most detailed theory's here that have quite honestly blown my mind. I suggest you poke around and have some fun, I spend a lot of time here when I'm bored and dont have anything interesting to read/do.

 So again welcome to the 17shard.

If the Knights are this powerful, I don't even want to know how powerful the unmade or the ten deaths are, remember that the knights radiant used to number in the hundreds and they still got pretty much decimated by the forces of odium. Most likely the knights radiants had to be super strong to cope against the monstrosity's we will be seeing soon.

Or it could be Teft trying to sound all mystical and attempting to integrate the bridgemen into the their midst, because as it stood at the beginning of the book they were having trouble training the bridge men to overcome their depression, this way he inspired them a bit. Hell If I was told I was joining a group that survived impossible odds called the Order of Bone I think I would be pretty excited.   

Couldn't the silver knife be from shadows of silence in the forests of hell? Didn't silence have a silver knife from her grandmother? that's what it sounds to me, after all I cant think of another use for silver apart from killing shades.Also how old was the woman with the mask because for the life of me I cant remember.

as for the pink gemstone couldnt that be soulstone or something from Sel ? I checked the coppermind and I got the following

 

Soulstone is a white fine grained rock with flecks of red mixed in.

Soulstone in its natural state is about as soft as chalk.

Now I know it said pink but who knows, it might still strike true.

 

Spent a good two weeks sick in bed after you left

That's what Wayne said in the alloy of law, so what he means is that he spent his time storing health and feeling miserable in bed.

I'm going to be running a MAG game with a couple of friends in a couple of days and I'm looking for help from the awesome folk here at the 17shard. I am going to be narrating, since I'm the only person who has read all of the novels, to be honest I have only played the world of darkness vampire RPG and that was a lot of fun (even if my characters ended up dying in hilarious ways) so I don't have a lot of experience playing role playing games.

I have never ran a campaign, so primarily I am looking for help on how to go about making an entertaining story for my players: There's only 1 out of 4 people participating that has any inkling on the mistborn world so I will have to introduce them to the metals, the worlds, the cultures and the MAG's rules so If I could get a little bit of help doing that that would be great

I'm also rather curious about how to handle difficulty as some of these players can be quite clever, so while at first I might send them against generic guards and whatnot, I don't want to send them out against say a mistborn or a steel inquisitor and get the entire group decimated.

Samsung galaxy SII all the way, its been a while since I've bought it but a good tech friend of mine has helped me customize it quite a bit so im not going to be changing it any time soon.

Wow, now that's quite an incredible piece of information! This sheds a lot more light on the whole Rayse-Hoid relationship, and there's no more bitter enemy than one who once you called a friend. I'm starting to have a lot more sympathy for Rayse, he looks a whole lot more human, for all we know Hoid might not the hero in this story, but then again we still lack information to make a conclusion.

Edit: Confused Hoid with Honor

I remember from a quote that you most likely cant store anything except wakefulness while your sleeping, as for tapping attributes, that's a different matter, I can totally understand the body unconsciously burning pewter or tapping gold to preserve itself, but tapping luck while your sleeping seems a bit of a stretch.

You cant tap or store while your sleeping so you should be able to kill him while he is getting some zzzz.

If I had to pick I would go for double steel or double gold(kind of expensive though!), but barring a compunder I would choose Allomantic pewter and Feruchemical steel, being faster, stronger and more healthy sounds just like my cup of tea and I can store most of the excess speed from pewter into a steelmind for when I need it .

I wish it was so, but the chances of finding anyone that reads Brandon and that I didn't personally convert is very slim , plus from what I have seen there isn't a lot of interest in books down here in Argentina.