Swimmingly

I....I honestly have no idea. It's kind of ugly, now I look at it... BUT I'M ATTACHED TO IT OK?

We need to start a Sandersonians Anonymous organisation. I'll start. Hello, my name is Swimmingly, and I'm a Sanderfan.

Bye protagonist OH GOD METEORS!

Atium-savant Windrunner? Steelrunner Edgedancer? Slider Elantrian? Sparker Forger? Returned Mistborn?

Myself, I use a slightly modified Edgedancer ideal: I will remember [that which has] been forgotten

Read the Alloy of Law ars arcanum. It is there.

Next day, P4th gets a promotion. "What's this for?" "Corporate takeover strategies."

Awakening and Forging, then. You can do some really subtle things with both - for example, forging yourself to have studied Awakening with a master and knowing all the commands, or forging a drained object to be coloured still.

Well, if some mental illness is a prerequisite to being a Knight, then it's just another piece of worldbuilding. Besides, as has been pointed out, the illnesses aren't treated as 'diseases' here. They're treated as character flaws - Kaladin has a tendency to be fatalistic and pessimistic, to a point that he's clearly depressed. Mental illness can be a difficult thing to pinpoint, exactly. I have ADHD. However, there isn't some switch in my brain that says on-off. It's a result of every factor I've ever lived with to some extent. PTSD and memory-surpression are more clearly diagnosable, and have clearer causes, but just because it's possible to tell exactly how they came about and how they're an exaggeration of healthy, normal behaviour doesn't mean they aren't a real problem. It's like a slowly heating room; at some point, no matter that you could deal with every previous level of heat as it mounted, it gets too hot to handle.

Imagine Nale crouching on a traffic light, waiting for jaywalkers. "For this you shall die!"

I kind of hope there's some family passing down 50 Shards or so, with the recipient spending a year in retreat bonding them upon inheritance.

It seems like the room has been highly ornamented, what with the extra lamp and the gold on the keyhole. However, I'm wondering if something made of the same material as the Blade-guards blocks the Oathgate keyhole?

But that means even a penguin could win, because it would choose subzero Antarctic water!

You can finish the first part of WoR, but then read warbreaker and come back. I promise you that it's worth it.

Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, escape from reality....

When all the fighting dies down, I think we're going to have quite a few very damaged individuals: What do you do with crippling mental illness and magic powers when you've already saved the world? The old Knights seemed to deal with it by institutionalising and cooperating heavily, but that might not be an option with the new Knights forged in the chaos of the Ever storm...

^mmmmmm....Lies. "At least a little"

Perhaps those stars are shards, in the literal sense; we are seeing through Honor's eyes here.

Don't be crass, Kobold. Ruff is a noble Allomancer; he doesn't use guns. He uses magically accelerated copper clips.

The Lord Ruler package always seemed like the deal for me, due to its sheer power and versatility. I think Forging plus Awakening could be an incredibly subtle and versatile art. For instance, notice that it should take perhaps less work to fully animate a Lifeless with forging than a vegetable... Windrunning plus double-iron twinborn = Newton's Nightmare. 'Nough said. (By storing weight, you could also make your Stormlight last much longer, and in a high-metal environment, you could use Lashings to power your flight while doing course corrections with ironpulls and weight manipulation. You could fly at a metal pole, store weight, pull on the pole, and do an acrobatic flip as if anchored to it.)

Use of feruchemucal steel - a steel feruchemist is a steelrunner, thus the act of using it is steelrunning.

I said nothing about age of the axehound, nor my own ability to continue pumping blood to my extremities at the conclusion of the fight.

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AKA the Nalthis Incident

I think I could do a one-on-one with an axehound. Maybe.