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We're pretty sure she was abandoned after the KR defaulted.

Kind of a let down, though, to have a big Deus ex Sazed up there to solve problems. I like Wax as he is - plus, he's just overpowered enough already with his ironminds. You'd think he would store in those more, like when he's about to hit the ground.

Welcome to the forums! This is hilarious!

Actually, the text had tabbed indents before I copypasted it - they disappeared. On the combat oriented bit: Well, yeah, but there's a lot you can do with most of the charges. Derek's blue Charge lets him release kinetic energy in a burst whenever he touches something, and his orange Charge does the opposite - it grips things he releases it on. He can as easily use this to climb a mountain as dash around in combat. Bird's green Charge can numb and stun you, but his red acts like instant Red Bull, waking you up and speeding up your reactions. This is useful in many places outside of combat. Tarbe has a general push-pull telekinisis, strong enough to nudge aside someone's fist flying at your face - but equally useful for pulling the salt across the table. These three are all duelers or former duelers, as well. Some Charges just make flashes of light. I honestly haven't figured out how to determine who gets the Charges - basically everybody has them, but many people can just about light a candle with effort, or make flowers bloom faster. Charges are highly variable, and anybody who wants to fight in this world has to be very good at improvisation. Something that I think is most interesting in this world is that people's heartstones fix up minor sickness, scrapes, headaches, sprains, bruises, nosebleeds, cuts, etc. and even major injuries heal considerably quicker. Over time, scars fade and bones reset. Tarbe might be going on 70, but he's got a good thirty or forty years left barring (major) disease or accident. Now that I think about that, I should probably ratchet his age up a few decades to make his old-man persona more realistic.

Thanks for writing! I just happened to notice the allegory, also I did actually keep reading Stain as Stalin, probably because of the tiny phone I was using at the time. I read those first couple chapters, and I really like the way that Prints are used. Favourite line: Guard Doctor: Well, suck it up. I did wonder why the guards didn't train to resist Chiromancy. Since everybody has it, it couldn't be that hard to have training sessions where they try to influence each other to do things. With training, good method actors can learn to act with actual emotions, rather than just mimicking it - would these people be strong Chiromancers, able to instill whatever feelings necessary in themselves, then in others through Chiromancy? Like, say I'm fighting a man, and, for a second, make myself feel terrified, then print him. I'm prepared for the fear, but he's not. What happens when a circle of people line up so that they are constantly printing on eachother? Do emotions get amplified until someone passes out or goes insane? Could a single heavily sedated man be used to drug others? If the emotions in an object cause a man to respond with greater emotion, for example a man in a dark cell a handle printed by generations of prisoners while they were tortured responding with yet more terror and anticipation, would this count as a form of torture in itself? What's the effect of printing while having sex? What happens when someone who is entirely insane prints you?

I honestly have no idea. The "very bad idea" you mention is the Dor - the stew of undirected power left behind after Devotion and Dominion got their butts handed to them by Odium. Remember the way Aons glow when you draw them? I'm 90% sure that's a little window into the sort of conditions Shadesmar on Elantris has to offer. Perhaps Hoid has something that drives away investiture, or is so invested himself that he's immune. However, who knows? Maybe he does use the spiritual realm - maybe he burns a tiny fragment of lerasium to rewrite his position as being on a different shardworld when he wants to travel.

That's like comparing an osprey and an eagle. I think this is on the order of hawks vs. falcons.

I think Mr. T is pretty sure that he, with his Old Magic'd intelligence, is the one who's going to save the world. One thing most supervillains tend to share is a big ego. Otherwise they'd just be villains, wouldn't they?

I have a dog named Kat, therefor, he will be a kitten named Puppy.

OK?

Kal and Syl: From what we can see, Syl appeared to have been a mindless windspren before being bound to Kal. She seems to have been drawn in by his behaviour. She starts fairly flighty and mindless, but develops as a character as we go on. Shallan and Puppy: Puppy was presumably having difficulty transferring to the physical until Shallan sealed him in the physical with an act of precise creation. He is currently mentally impaired, and seems to like playing. Jasnah and Ivory: Ivory was presumably from the Cognitive before being transferred over, and remembers enough of the cognitive that he knows that what he did was a "betrayal of his people." He seems to be intelligent, and has a Victorian sense of fashion. El and the Cryptics: He sees them in mirrors. They scare him. It doesn't look like he's gotten a puppy yet.

Or they were just plain old meteors, you know?

I wonder if we'll ever have a scene where Kal finds Jezrien and has to slap some sense into him, Windrunner-style.

Unless these are fragments of Dominion or Devotion.

Except the purelake is ankle-to-waist deep. And Soul casting the entire purelake? That might just irk the locals a little, and thought they seem silly and peacefully - as the Rothfussian saying goes "There are three things a wise man fears: something, a moonless night, and the anger of a gentle man"

I wonder if El's paranoia and elaborate lies he uses to justify it are what attract Cryptics to him.

It only caused the Everstorm.

I think Shallan's going to excellent at Soulcasting things, given that she's an artist - while Jasnah certainly practical about using it, Shallan will make extraordinary things.

Maybe Syl's been infusing them on the sly, and Kaladin's never thought to ask.

Aww. Its a cute alien bug-crab-dog puppy.

Did she have the appropriate gem for "plant matter" at the time?

The magic system works thusly: - The vast majority of people posses a pair of magical powers, called Charges, and a healing factor from a stone near their heart called, imaginatively, a Heartstone. -Charges: They have a strong charge and a weak charge that they can draw from their dominant and off hands respectively. These charges manifest visibly in complementary colours, though either can be dominant. Their eyes are the same colour as their Charges, on the same sides. Charges can do a wide variety of things, and are always opposites or near-opposites. Their level of power can be anywhere from one equal to each other to the weak Charge barely existing. - Heartstone: Direct source of Charges and healing, it pulses every few seconds and heals minor wounds and scratches. This can not be controlled mentally. It will not heal larger wounds such as broken bones, though it will slowly eliminate scars. By drawing too much or healing too much, it can become overdrawn (spoilers, this is what just happened to Bird, though it's not yet apparent). An overdrawn Heartstone will not let you draw Charges from it; nor will it let you heal until it recovers. This can be anywhere from an hour to a week, depending on how much you stressed it. Charges can be missiles, like Bird's flares, require a touch, like Derek's blasts, act like a field around you that you can apply it in, hit anything in your area, affect exclusively you, or any of a hundred other combinations. Charges likewise are fairly diverse, but the basics are Kinetic, Body, Energy and Mind powers. Even these are fairly broad - Bird's Charges stun (green) and speed/awaken (red), which fall mostly in the Mental but affect your body as well. Kinetic powers like Derek's are most common, while Charges affecting forces other than movement are rarer. Concussive charges generally fall into Kinetic unless there's heat produced - that's Energy. Again, the categories are pretty arbitrary. A good rule of thumb is that Body and Mind charges usually harm and heal, whereas Kinetic and Energy charges just hurt two different ways.

I think blood was the result of the garnet, not her order. I think you can only soulcast things with the gems made of the essenses - so blood and water bother use garnets.

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Or a kittenspren. Or a kuppyspren. Or a pittenspren. Or an adorablespren. Sillyspren? You know what you call an impaired Cryptic? Simple. What do Cryptics call an impaired cryptic? Honorspren. What do honorspren call an impaired Cryptic? A Cryptic. Yes, I'm making racist spren jokes. That's a thing now.