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Chaos. Chaos ponified.

And in 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued the Ad extirpanda. It was a papal bull, allowing the use of torture on heretics by the Inquisition, albeit torture which did not result in the loss of either limbs or life. Given how creative people can be, I'm sure that wasn't much of a deterrent.

Part of the problem, for me, is that we only have one representative of each Radiant. If there were, say, a half-dozen Dustbringers and Adolin was just one of the crowd, I wouldn't mind so much... but the way the series seems to be shaping at the moment is one Radient Main Character per Order, and if that's the case, I would really rather hope that we see a bit more diversity. More-or-less everyone from the same family becoming Radients strikes me as being a bit too similar to the magic bloodline-deal most fantasy stories do with regards kingsmanship, not to mention looking uncomfortably like nepotism. Granted, that could be an interesting plot line, if the other nobles start to realise how "oddly convenient" it is that it's only the Kholin family who get these super powers, but still... I'd also kind of hope that not every hero in this series is going to become a Radient, simply because I like the idea of someone who is brave and heroic enough to face the Voidbringers without being able to fly, or cause mind explosions, or whatever... basically, I want someone to show that you don't have to be a Radient to be awesome, and you don't have to have super powers to be a hero. Which is also why I have my personal theory that Elhokar should be Honor's Champion as part of his character arc, but that's a different topic entirely.

We are discovered! Withdraw!

The Observers Guild and it's members are not under observation. Carry on your unobserved duties. Unobservedly.

Meaning 70% of it totally happened. The question is which is which. And this Diamond Tyrant you're fighting right now doesn't remind me of MLP at all. I really need to read Oregon one of these days...

Of course, there's nothing saying we can't continue it on our own, or make pardoy's of other Sanderson books. (Though probably not in this style. I seem to be alone on this, but I didn't really enjoy this particular parody. Still, I wouldn't mind seeing other parodies.) TLDR; Moar.

I used to be an adventurer like you...

Epic King Sombra, huh?

So, instead of welcoming a newcomer normally, all the other guilds start their recruitment process. What a disturbing practice, particularly when one should be offering friendship instead. (Like the Friendship offered by the Herd. It is Magic, after all.) Any howdy... welcome. I... haven't heard of Redwall, actually, so I'm afraid that doesn't ring a bell at all. That being said, 'Siren King' is a pretty cool title (and username), and I hope you'll consider sharing some of your fiction in the creative corner here.

I notice nothing forbidding chocolate rain. CHOCOLATE. RAIN. And chocolate rain leading to dessert? Double the fun!

...Er... I have to second that, actually. The first time I saw Back to the Future was a few years ago, when I was at college; a friend of mine was shocked that I'd never seen it to the point of asking if I was raised in a convent. I've also never seen the sequels. Or the last 5 minutes of the first one, actually; I know how it ends, but I still have no idea how the timey-wimey situation with the Doc resolves itself.

"I understood that killing people was a crime. There was no other way! The world had to be fixed! A purpose given to me! Only I could do it. Who else could have done it and come this far? Would they have kept going? The only one... who can create a new world... is me."

Forget White chocolate Macadamia, eternal chaos comes with chocolate rain. CHOCOLATE. RAIN.

Treequisitors, you say? Looks like a job for the Hero of Apples I love her expression. She's just looking at those unsuspecting Treequisitors and working out how many ways she's going to break them.

Stick them with the pointy end! ...I have nothing to contribute beyond rehashing quotes from Game of Thrones. I'm sorry. (Well okay, I guess I do have one or two things to mention. When I was growing up, I had a friend who made wooden swords and shield; I've fallen out of contact with them, but I wouldn't be surprised if he got himself an actual replica sword. Similarly, I knew someone who had at least one katana. Really though, swords, daggers and sharp things? Yikes. There is a fascination with them- a romantic side to the great swords like Excaliber or Aunduril- but it's like guns. I know that if I had one, a disaster would happen sooner or later.)

So. Neil Gaiman. I haven't read much of him; a few volumes of Sandman (which I enjoyed), his Snow White short story (which was awesome) and Neverwhere. I... did not like Neverwhere. Something about it just didn't really work for me. Haven't read American Gods yet, though I intend to- albeit it mostly because I'm a Pratchett fan.

Uh... I mean puns. Curse my lack of ability to edit pictures, or I'd have just made "I thought you wanted puns!" myself.

And take a guess where all that drunken-ninja inducing booze comes from, sugarcube.

Wow! That's the exact same question that the main character of the series was asking himself- ... Elsa is Kira. This is my new headcanon.

Well, fortunately the herd has a secret weapon for dealing with, um... rowdy and uncooperative individuals. They just need to be shown a little kindness. After all, the VRP has a one hundred and ten percent success rate! You might think that's not scientifically possible- Twilight Sparkle certainly didn't !- but Fluttershy's track record speaks for itself. I have every confidence that we will be able to reform Nightblood into a well-functioning member of society!

So, just read it. I liked it- I'm a fan of superhero narratives, could you not tell?- and I agree with the other comments; your writing is confident, with the short newspaper giving set up for the world, and the section with Susan in the hotel generating mystery about what happened; about the ambush, 'Randy', what a Bounder is, etc. I actually had flashbacks to Wizards First Rule, with the name Bounder, but I won't hold that agaisnt you. It helps that the Boundary Warden in that series is a bad chull mother stormer though. That being said... I do have one change to suggest: That middle-section seems extraneous to me. You already have a short scene setting up the world; following it with another short scene, before getting into the bulk of the story, doesn't really work for me. I think it would be much more effective if you cut it out, and shuffled the information in it to somewhere inside the main section. It would still keep the mystery elements of what is going on, who Susan and Whitelaw are and what their past is, would make the contrast between the optimism of a cop-with-a-cape and Susan being a prisoner more stark, and geneally seems more natural to me. That all being said... please post more, k, thnx, bai.

And this is why I consider Warbreaker one of the best Cosmere novels, but also a novel which only really works and ghets it's full impact if you read Mistborn first. So much of Warbreaker makes a lot more sense when considering it as the anti-Mistborn, with a villainous Kelsier (Denth) and a noble Lord Ruler (Susebronn). Not to mention that, as well as playing with his own story and tropes, Brandon also subverts a bunch of the old sword & sorcery fantasy clichés, such as during Siri's ritual execution/virgin sacrafice.