TheShogun

I think you need 9th Heightening to do that.

Are there waffles on Roshar?

I'm pretty sure that revenge is just an excuse for the war, it's real purpose is to keep Alethkar together through Elokhar's reign. They talked in WoK about this.

Kvothe would like that one...

Oh look: my first theory. I'm not even sure I believe this, it's just a possibility, which seems slightly less likely the alternative. Anyway here it is: On the back cover of TWoK, it says something along the lines of "One of them may redeem us, one may destroy us," (probably not exactly that, I don't have the book on me) from a list of Dalinar, Szeth, Shallan, or Kaladin. It's probably not Kaladin or Shallan, seeing as the same passage talks about how "I believe Surgebinding and Soulcasting can return," (again, probably not exactly that) and Shallan and Kaladin are doing those. So Szeth or Dalinar. Szeth it would be easy to make the case for, because he's going around and killing everyone etc. However, the thing about Dalinar is that he's misinterpreting (we assume) the visions he's getting (from Honor, we assume [know?]), as meaning that he should unite Alethkar, and not the Shards against Odium. And our friend Taravangian says, quite directly, that Dalinar "must not unite the Highprinces." And I'm inclined to think that Taravangian is more trustworthy here than Dalinar, because Dalinar is from the super-warlike Alethi culture, whereas Taravangian is apparently very good at keeping Kharbaranth at peace and also has none of Odium's Shardblades or Plates. So. That's it. What do you think?

Or that they're gone at all. WoK Spoiler:

I would have thought your soul was worth more than that. At least a fresh bagel.

I hate to say it, but The Lord of the Rings. I just can't deal with Tolkien's writing style, even though I love the world to death.

I feel like that isn't something you need the Hierocracy for though. We probably would have accepted both of those without the historical event, and there are dozens of other, simpler justifications.

I consulted my sister, and she says that a better rule is this: "I" before "E", except after "C," or when sounded as "a," as in "neighbor" or "weigh," but "weird" is just weird.

And again I learn how bad I am at spelling.

It's got quite a few meanings, most of them at least a little bit awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun_(disambiguation)

The Japanese characters that say my username. Also it says Trivium. They're a good band.

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I pity you. Has Rubix done anything malicious with it?

So looking through and searching the forums, I've noticed a stunning lack of discussion of the Hierocracy. And I've recently noticed something very, very weird about it. It is, at this point in the series, almost irrelevant historical information. If you're like me, you don't mind, because you think something along the lines of "Oh yay another chance to learn more about Roshar in general." But then I realized that nothing in Brandon Sanderson's books is ever irrelevant historical information (at least, not the ones I've read.) So it must be there for a purpose. Any ideas? (unless Brandon plans on blindsiding us by having us make a big deal about this and expect something huge to happen but then no.)

One time, when a Mistborn was going to a Dragonwasp Legion meeting, he saw a grey Shardbearer in a dark alley, brutally slitting open a gigantic watermelon with a rusty Sliver of Honor. So, of course, the Mistborn burned the watermelon, lighting the Shardbearer's cape on fire, blue flames concealing it from his view. The Shardbearer turns into a duck, ripping open the cosmere, and seeing a locked door emitting dark shine and Stormlight. The Shardbearer ran to get his Blade, tripping over duck beaks that littered the ground, breaking his neck. The Mistborn howled at a monkey's attacks on his Mistcloak. Thrashing and struggling, he broke free, hitting the door with a llama and a koloss head, breaking it into splintery bits. The door floated down the river and ended in a black shardpool. Meanwhile, the Shardbearer thrashed on the floor and died. A shadowy figure hopped out of the Cognitive Realm and into the river. The Shadowy figure glowed with dark light and quietly said, "Where is Hoid?" The Mistborn answered, "Where isn't he?" At the same time, the Cognitive Realm was torn asunder by a massive Voidbringer. It killed many sprens that tried to intervene. His metals spent, and his Stormlight stolen by a small green larkin, the shadowy figure, named "DARKNESS" the Evil Librarian, began building an altar out of cheese! This brilliant choice made many Epics weep with tears From the smell of their weakness. Ookla the Mok rebuilt the door with the most evil thing possible in the Cosmere. The opposing force was a rhino cross-bred with Hoid an 16 different aspects of Odium as well as 14 of Ruin. Unfortunately, a Shade flew in right in the middle of the giant altar, crushing the brilliant and wet kandra cheese container which exploded, spraying lemonade all over his tattered remains - hitting the large hippopotamus that was really just begging to become a Knight Radiant that bonds with Deathspren - and kills a poor, innocent chull. He [the Shade] launched it into the sky, where it grew three heads without even considering that the Heralds were notoriously unimpressed with him. Jezrien yelled, "How dare you throw a chull, you skunk eater!" At that moment, Kaladin threw his chull-sized suit, and despite the fact that Amaram already had his head shaved, Kal recognized him. He signaled to Lopen to eviscerate Amaram. Unfortunately, that was the Horneater's plan, before he became a Knight Radiant. A Knight Radiant.

Hi! I am a new person. I'm not sure I have much to say at the moment, but I've been reading for a while and though I should join. For the record, Rubix does not own my immortal soul, because I was yodeling poorly with a shoe on my head as I made this account. Yeah. That's it. Hi.