Swimmingly

We'll be following them to the conclusion of their story. I'm sure that the first arc will have a suitably epic and self-contained storyline, as well as satisfying conclusions for everyone we care about. And, frankly, all the viewpoint characters now are from the Vorin tradition. Every aspect of the mythology is filtered through a Vorin lens. There are hints of others, but I don't think that we'll explore those fully from the POV of someone to which that is the norm until the second arc. Interludes don't count, by the way.

Considering everything else the man can do, I don't consider being a polyglot any great achievement. Note, for example, that Shai has a scholar stamp that knows several languages that she doesn't. Hoid could be working along the same lines, or his business simply requires a lot of language and he adapts.Besides, if your belly's burning Brass and Zinc, you can manipulate people to feel whatever emotion you want - the words are just the icing on the cake.

Plus, you know, the content of it.

I don't think you can Return if you die a Drab, though...

Unless the Weeping rains are just the extension of the highstorm at the centre of the weather pattern. An Everstorm, moving the wrong way, would severely impact the weather patterns .

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Oh, I see. Well, I'd personally guess that the Breath would simply coalesce in the larger section, or, failing that, a random one. Perhaps, if it were a little simulacrum it would flow to the section closest to the head.

Odd, after the devastation she'd seen the Stormfather unleash, to actually be looking forward to a highstorm.

Well, there's clearly some mechanical component to the fabrials; for example, fabrials all seem to have metal frameworks which regulate the effect. Perhaps the effect only extends a certain distance, or the metal framework has to connect to the output of the fabrial in a certain way. A clunky fabrial might be one that's too heavy, or doesn't use all the possible outputs, or falls off easily. What if, for example, Longshadow's painrial was a device designed to be set into armour and using large gemstones, to create a warrior INCAPABLE OF PAIN MWAHAHAHAHA! The faceting and gem might be the same, but the size, connections, materials, and various other fiddly bits are different. It might be like reverse engineering a handheld flashlight out of a floodlight - the basic components are all there, but in the end, you've got to do a fair amount of mundane engineering to get everything working properly.

Well, you can give away a single breath anyways by, say awakening 99 threads with a breath each, giving the last one to someone, then reclaiming the Breath. Tedious, but by no means impossible.

Besides, how do you get a pain reduction fabrial by working backwards from a pain induction fabrial? They're two different things - and Augmenter vs a Diminisher.

I got the impression that Longshadow was simply a brilliant artifabrian who implemented revolutionary concepts with clunky, inelegant designs, something Navani found personally offensive.

Does that make you a contrarinessspren, then?

Rothfuss all the way. Truth be told, I like any one of his books better than any individual one of Brandon's. Of course, given the disparity in number of books, I can easily say that Brandon comes out ahead overall. Still, that man is an artist.

I still think all he'd really need is a couple weeks living on each planet every few months, just to keep the knowledge fresh. That, or he spikes people's memories of language out, spikes it into himself, stores that memory in a coppermind, pulls out the now empty spike, and dumps the coppermind back into standard memory again, where the knowledge is exercised and assimilated by a period of wandering around on the street talking to random people. You would lose exact details, in some cases, both to hemalurgic and natural decay, but you'd essentially get a basic working knowledge you could build on. The method Hoid uses probably isn't anywhere near that messy, but I personally like this one.

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Well, if the decay thing seems more useful than the rejuvenation thing - you might want to take a leaf out of voodoo's book (or The Name of the Wind) and say that to draw rejuvenation from a thing, you need to hold a part of it. That way I can only drain my enemy's life-force away if I have a piece of their hair, and if you made the size of the thing you hold that was part of the other thing scale effectiveness, then perhaps you need a significant amount of their hair before you can do anything more than make them a bit tired and slow to heal, while the opposite happens to you.

You know, I'm wondering if the Lopen is going to be our interludagonist this book. He can explore the benefits of glowing and having two arms while we roll in laughter

You wound me, Kobold. Like a spike through the heart, that is. I'd cry if I still had eyes. Instead, at the edges, the steel rusts, just a little.

Considering Hoid's age, that is a little creepy. Odium hates everything because he's controlled by a surly metalhead teenager. The Everstorm is actually a visualisation of his favourite death metal track.

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Poor Marasi. She's got so many ships lined up we might as well call her Marina. Buy. Harmony will manifest directly to talk to Wax at some point. Wayne will make an insouciant comment, loudly. For the rest of his days, he will treasure the fact that he made fun of Harmony himself.

Infused gems were still scarse in the wake of the Everstorm's bloody debut, but Shallan still had a few sparkling spheres to ward off the cold.

Create Beauty. This one is as tricky as Destroy Evil, but I think that this would lead Nightblood to guide his wielder to create their ideal of beauty. He might even posses the wielder, in a way, driving them body and mind until their work is finished. He would burn their Breaths away to sustain a state of artistic genius in them when drawn.

My favourite's the one with a topless red-haired guy that appears to be attacking a bundle of seaweed with a pair of literal glass daggers - not obsidian, but prismatic crystal. I don't even know who that's supposed to be.