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Nah, I'm sure that's just a coincidence, like every event to ever happen in Brandon's books involving a mythological character

Every magic system (or conjunction of two on Scadrial) we've seen so far has a way to stave off aging, though Roshar is ambiguous. Given that Hoid is said to be the most powerful non-shard entity in the cosmere, it's not inconceivable that he's found immortality.

In the epilogue to WoK, Taln is described as soaking wet. Shardblades are covered in dew when summoned. The process of moving things between the Realms (on Roshar) covers them in water.

I agree 100%. It was nice when Dresden stopped brewing handy plot tickets and cashing them at the same point in each book - but that's just the first couple. From there on, yeah, phenomenal series.

"Your service is appriciated. I trust you will be... Discrete about this?""Why of cooouuurse, Brightness" (insincere smile) "I apologize for this, I'm truly sorry. Your wife will be compensated." "Wait, wha-?" *Poof* "I do so hate getting the scent of smoke out of my clothes."

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Pardon me! Mobile version does weird things - I'll edit out all the content.

Oh, ok, I thought you were referring to an actual character from the books - a minor character from the Seer army or something. I mean, given that it works, I wish Brandon had put a literal "blind Seer" into the books.

Who's the blind Seer?

I think he may conclude their own similar secrets and threaten to reveal them. I can definetly see Jasnah going for some offensive Soulcasting here, only to have it fail on Kal due to him investing himself with Stormlight. Kal doesn't realize the full impact of what she just tried, and Shallan either goes badass and pulls her Shardblade or Shallan/Jasnah calms everyone down with logic and calmheadedness.

Yes, please do more here. Our site is a bit light on the visual arts.

If an atium shadow isn't specifically in your field of vision, can you react to it? For example, if someone swings a half-brick in a sock at the back of your head while you're staring in the other direction, does atium let you dodge even though the atium shadow never enters your eyesight?

First, sorry about the double post.The thing with the safe hand: safepouch, for one thing. Less explicit and quite amusing scenes involving "nudity" - remember Kal's reaction to the prostitute dragged out with Sadeas' officer? He couldn't stop himself from sneaking a peak - at her ungloved safehand. Anyway, despite it's implications, a safehand isn't all that restricting in most situations - if it's a problem, getting a hand free isn't too hard. Makes me wonder, do the Alethi lighteyes think of gloves like we think of underwear? Ha.

I find it interesting that Alethi writing is a phonetic language, while an entirely different system of writing exists in the glyphs, which function much like a simplified version of Chinese characters. Lighteyed men are expected to know their glyphs, and it's remarkable to darkeyes when another darkeyes can read glyphs. I get the impression that glyphs are very good for short messages and signs, yet the society does its best to treat them as convenient pictograms. Basically, this is the way I think Chinese characters would be treated in China today if romanization caught on a few centuries ago.

So Szeth is an extreme emo?

Should be - but aren't. If you read the books, you notice a whole bunch of jumping-around-on-metalminds. Wax pushes Wayne by his gold, Vin Pushes off TLR atium bracers, to state a couple.

Perhaps he assumes that Ren's weakness was the curse, and so assumes that forgetting his wife was the boon - because he can't remember her, he assumes she did something terrible that he would make himself forget.

Ask and get answers from Brandon in sign language while he answers less technical questions aloud. All he'll need to learn are four letters; I think you can guess them

I always wondered why feruchemical charges don't interfere with allomantic Pushes and Pulls - maybe you have to be capable of accessing the power in order for it to mess with you?

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A fish, Photoshopped green, framed in a blue circle, because I like fish.

This has been discussed before - the best guesses so far are Braize (another planet in the Rosharian solar system) or a construct in the Cognitive or Spiritual realm.

Hemalurgy for fun and for profit, anyone? Give Vasher some Allomantic bronze via spiky implement, stat!

Funny, I always assumed that sapient was just an archaism for sentient. That's nice to know.