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That...is incredibly creepy actually. We don't know how much Sazed talks to them, but imagine if you've spent your entire life listening to your god. Your entire civilisation is based on that fact... and then Ruin stopped talking. I think Vin broke the Southern Scadrians when she beat Ruin. Maybe that's why they haven't appeared by Alloys era yet.

Wow Grey, that didn't sound at all evangelical... "Have you heard about the good lord Hoid? He died for your sins. Maybe. We're still trying to figure it out. Anyway, it's all in this book."

Bad handwriting? Silly Twilight. It wasn't a handwriting issue. It was Pinkie Pie, manipulating the slogans from across worlds to accumulate followers. After all, the slogan was written on a whiteboard. Everyone knows that messages not carved into steel cannot be trusted. Or oatmeal. But I digress. BE THE HERD.

Technically, once you have been assimilated, I'd still be in Newcago... It would just be Ponycago. But see? Truly, you aren't much different than the Feathers, resorting to violence at the first opportunity. Very disappointing.

... I hate backward names. The only one I ever recognise right away is Alucard, because it is so ridiculously overused.

Hah. I just noticed the other Mistborn references there. "Reislek" [Rashek] at the top of a Mountain [former resting place of the Well of Ascension] Orsur [OreSeur] Nice.

Hah! Okay, I don't play WoW (or any PC gaes, but thats a different story) but that? Is pretty awesome. You realise this means this entire forum is a hipster though, right? "I liked the Survivor before he went mainstream"

Kobold, your only mistake was in assuming Feather was not an eldritch abomination to begin with. Why, look upon her ungainly feathers, and her unhealthy fixation with Renarin! Clearly, she is not a creature of this (or any other rational) universe! ...And in other news, random spam post about television streaming advertising in the general brandon discussion area.. I think? yogibrahm Make sure to get Bobo, too

Wow... it's been a while since I posted here, hasn't it? And I do so now, to bring glad tidings! ...Oh come now. Newcago was founded because I defected from the Featherclan. Surely you all saw this coming?

Harmony damnation it, Shiv. That was awesome. I don't know about anyone else, but I really, really liked that. Okay, yes, quantity=/=quality, but still... that was awesome. That was awesome, and you should feel awesome. You should also feel scared, because now, I'm going to set out to topple out by trying to write something better. Shouldn't be that hard, right? But... yeah. Uh... I should be posting, I guess? But I'm not, or at least not yet. Because my next post must be a Shiv-buster.

So, maybe you heard about it from a friend and decided to check it out. Maybe you read about it's themes of love and tolerance and got interested. Maybe you just saw some of the thousands of pieces of fan art based on it, and you got to wondering how a kids show- a kids show for girls!- could possibly get that large an audience, particularly an adult audience. So, you sit down, at your television screen or your computer, and find an episode; one of the ones everyone says is great, since if you're going to judge it, might as well give it a fair shot, right? And you watch it and... huh. Actually, that wasn't too bad. Maybe those guys have a point. So you watch the next episode. Then the next. And maybe you check out some stuff people have written about it... and before you know it, you're a fan of ponies. And you realize there is no escape. There is only Pinkie Pie. Show your Pony Pride with these signatures!

Hah! I've got you now! Endowment, I choose you! Quick attack! ...anyway, welcome. You listed Warnreaker first, which means it's your favourite, meaning I instantly like you above all of these other foolish, non-Nalthis liking people. Enjoy your stay! ...now get in the pokeball.

The sea spray moulded into her helm caught the sun as the trap dropped. Karya stared ahead, not really watching. She knew she should have been, but the ritual was all too familiar to interest her by now. The tumble as a floor went out from under them. The long, sawing note of rope running through the gallows and then; the crack. The last one must have been no less than sixty, but his neck broke as easily as the rest. It disturbed Karya that she knew that. She released a breath she hadn't realised she'd held as the crowd dispersed. Apparently, it was tradition for executioners to wear heavy fabrics. She had balked at the idea at first, but now she was glad she had them. She didn't like the idea of a crowd seeing a paladin of the sea disturbed. The last man had been Kanan, like her. Was it worth it, brother? A few bits of gold, to die so far from home? Though, speaking of gold... she reached into her pocket, and handed a small purse to the harbourmaster. These foreigners would sell you their mothers for half a piece, much less the corpse of a pirate. Pirate. It was an ugly word. Karya didn't like it. Back home, men who were hung for thieving were given a different name. Brothers of the Broken Neck. It didn't have the same meaning as it did home, but she found a certain poetry in it. It was the first thing that had made her believe her exile in these land-locked sink holes might be tolerable. The Kanan man was cut down. She gave a short wave to the men who accompanied her... though the lewd comments she had heard tossed in the street may have said otherwise. For such an 'enlightened' people, these foreigners had a difficulty distinguishing between the strong feminine jaw and the slender male form that Karya had found amusing, then troublesome. Now she just ignored it. "I'm going to get a drink," she said simply, speaking in the tongue common to these lands. Her guards nodded acquiescence, and she proceeded down the street. She still had Serpent. Even in exile, the monk good hadn't dared take away her blade. She remembered the long hours spent forging it, as if it were yesterday, the many, many dawns when, after another nights work, she had plunged the nascent blade and herself into the waters if her isle. Seeing the man hung made the Kanii woman realise something. She wanted to go home. Instead she found a bar and went in to toast a broken brother with what these foreigners considered fine spices.

Apologies; my attention has been pulled in a lot of directions lately and this dropped down the shuffle. Just a quick post to reaffirm my interest, if you guys are still up for it.

Richard Rahl. I'm working off of a slightly different metric; while what Richard does perform "evil" acts, that's not why I hate him. Heck, I only got three books in before dropping it, and most of his worse crimes come later. But I hate Richard because, maybe more than any other lead I've read in a long time, Richard is an example of wasted potential. The character comes so close to being fascinating so many times! but whenever he does! his actions get an authorial excuse; it's okay for Richard to do things villains in previous books were doing, because reasons. Rather than engage in those, get into the head of what it must be like to make choices which you condemned others for, the masquerade and identity roulette he ends up suffering and how he balances being a woossguide, a king, an emperor, a messiah, a trickster, a wizard, bringer of death, a rape victim and whatever else he got in later books... At best, they get token acknowledgement, at worst, their ignored. So Richard? Congratulations. I hate you more than Joffrey Baratheon and Ramsey Snow. Because they might have been monsters, but at least they did things that influenced the plot. At least they are repulsive enough to be fascinating in their own way. At least it feels like Martin is making a complex and fascinating point about power, corruption, nature, nurture, bastardry and lineage. You I regard as someone who could have been great and instead ended up a disappointment.

Welcome to the forum; hope you enjoy your stay.

Interesting theory, and I do kind of wonder if maybe there will be some kind of meta-twist like that at some point... Brandon turning to the audience and saying "Yep, Hoid appeared in all the books, but I never said they were the same Hoid". That said... I don't think so. For a start, from what little I've seen of th Liar of Partinel, I think the scene with Hoid's teacher is pre-shattering. More significantly... Way of Kings, Words of Radiance spoilers

I think it sounds like a family name. The context of it happening before Cenn and Dullet makes it sound like it occurred while he was Squadleader, so...

What happened when the Casanova tried that line on the Twinborn?He got burned.

You're in luck then! Have you heard of the Writing Excuses podcasts? 15 minute sections, weekly, with writing advice from a number of authors including Brandon. Not quite the same as a personal apprenticeship but...it's a start.

damnation. That is an awesome username. Welcome!

I have nothing to add to this beyond an anecdote of vindication. When I was a kid, we had to name the senses, and I mentioned balance. My teacher basically called me dumb. WHO'S DUMB NOW, HUH? I GOT MY SOURCES CITED NOW.

Oh, it's certainly a crazy theory, and almost certainly untrue...just thought I'd post it in the minuscule chance that it turns out to be true. After all, there is rampant speculation that "Taln" isn't who he says he us. Who is to say "Jasnah" isn't the same? Well, common sense I suppose, but still! Use your imagination!

What did the casanova say to the Ferring? Hey baby, I'd Tap that.

Crazy headcanon, most likely influenced by too much Game of Thrones. In the epilogue of Words of Radiance, Jasnah appears before Hoid, brandishing a Shardplate, and apparently materialising from the cognitive realm. Obviously, the question of how she survived and where she got the blade are ones that would be answered in future books... Except what if they won't, because she didn't. Jasnah with a Shardblade. That's fairly unexpected. After all, she never uses a Shardblade in the entire book, and suddenly she has one? Has her bond with Ivory advanced to that point? ...or could the 'Jasnah' at the end of WoR actually be a spren? Could it be Ivory, materialising in the physical world in a Jasnah meat suit. Do I believe it? No. But I mention it because the idea of that being a spren animated corpse terrifies me, and Ivory!Jasnah seems like decent nightmare fuel.