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    Swimim, lounging on a corner, begins muttering to himself, eyes unfocused. "There's a game afoot Let the treachery begin. Is anyone safe?"
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    What if it's something anyone can do, but you have to use a drug that slowly numbs your senses until you're nearly blind, numb, and deaf, with your power and sense of metal increasing proportionally to the senses you've lost? You could even have a mechanism where practitioners who use it too long need to cover their skin in metal and sense through it to even sense properly, to the point that, when they die, they turn into metal statues filled with a hermetically sealed human corpse? Okay, that's a little macabre.
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    Probably. I imagine they basically think so abstractly that it's difficult for them to focus on practical issues. To the point that they would appreciate the beauty of a house burning down around them before they would think of running.
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    Or maybe the slow insanity of an immortality wracked by guilt and absolute, gradually twisting dedication to a fanatic cause at the head of a cult based around justice and murder of Surgebinders?
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    Here's an idea: in Warbreaker, we saw it draining Investiture from, well, everything and anyone it touched. Wounds made with the sheath were rimmed with black, and it stole colour from a guard's hand. It send tendrils of black smoke everywhere, absorbing Investiture. Is it possible that it can feed on spheres directly, or can use some kind of fabrial to drain gemstones and change the stormlight into a form he can use directly?
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    It is quite possible that they ruled Urithru, and, because of the Oathgates, controlled all international trade through it, making them rulers in truth if not literally. Or that they ruled for a time prior to Nohadon.
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    Perhaps once Surgebinders began to appear, they ruled, culminating in civil war and Nohadon needing to rein them in? There was plenty of history before Nohadon.
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    He's Awakened the switchboard with the command "Make Puns".
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    I think the Surgebinder rule would have been the Mageocracy. It's the best word for any upper class that uses magic when used as a descriptor by Brandon. Look at the way Kal and Shallan are immediately elevated to high status on account of their powers when they go public. An upper class composed of magic-users would probably be called a mageocracy by the author, regardless of in-world descriptions.
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    Well, considering the next game is on Nalthis... Not so much. I mean, Lents technically survived. However, he's trapped on Sel, a forged Lifeless.
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    Getting a whole breath economy going might require a second GM.
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    He's one creepy-looking dude when in Shadesmar, isn't he? The strange sense of dimensionality you get from his head is fun. And Shallan looks, yeah, dishevelled and on the edge of emotional breakdown.
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    Speculation is that the Honorblade actively eats Stormlight in a manner similar to Nightblood.
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    The Order of the Stick
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    Somewhere on Scadrial is a flat, square field. Etherial cards are dealt at geological speeds, manifesting as strange breezes. This is Sazed's game of solitaire.
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    Welcome!
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    I guess it was a technical death, so yeah...
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    Not necessarily. He might have the capacity to be smart enough to save the world any day, but once he wakes up in the morning, the waveform collapses, and he only has the capacity to save the world the following day, because his intelligence/compassion seems to follow a pseudorandom but plottable pattern.
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    I think it's really just a minor issue of political correctness in-universe.
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    It would be ironic for a Son of Honor to be Odium's champion, wouldn't it? Also, anybody notice the similarity in naming between Children of the Light and Sons of Honor?
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    Maybe there's a threshold in his compassion where his absolute empathy let's him understand and interact with people, just as there's a threshold where his genius starts spitting out good ideas despite the lack of compassion.
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    Seriously though, when ten the anniversary SA omnibus sets come out, I want a rendition of a stick and its sphere by every artist working on the books. That includes a doodle by Brandon.
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    His first story had the two blind men contemplating the nature of beauty. His second had one contemplating the beauty of nature. Get it? Ahahaha. Yeah, Hoid basically sets up bad jokes that no one but himself and the audience can hear, then compliments himself on his cleverness. He has slight narcissm issues, maybe.
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    My god. At least Brandon does the whole "technically true" thing. Rothfuss is just trolling his cold, hard heart out here... Comes from raising a small child, I guess.
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    Don't worry! Instead of a magical artifact infused with many souls, you're a subjugated minority! Enjoy yourself!
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