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Granted. It is now on fire. I wish for a snowcone.

If you get shardboots, you won't be needing the ipod much longer. See my bit about challengers and uselessness.

I personally chalk it up to Neil Gaman's excuse theory that the world consists of millions of worlds, each of which contain about 500 people who continually run into each other.

One interesting possibility is that the names are actually prophecies. That would make for an odd spin in the universe, I must say. Did we ever find out where the names come from? And if it's like other Cosmere prophecies, agency is never absolutely negated. It's just a prediction of the most likely outcome given the powers in play. With more power, the prophecies are more certain. If it tends to fit more often than not, it just shows the amount of power involved.

Granted. They aren't powered, so you can't lift or move them. Real shardbearers, on the other hand, are always coming to claim them. Good luck, and may I have your iPod? I wish to write the great Alethian novel.

I think, given what we've seen of foresight elsewhere in the Cosmere, that the future is not set in stone and that this isn't a paradox. As long as intelligent creatures can respond to the future visions, they can be changed inasmuch as said creatures actually have control. Inevitable things, I suspect, are often things that are being pushed by other things with more power. Thus if the Everstorm was inevitable, it was because Odium was pushing and had far more power than the other intelligent players, not because of any inherent pre-ordination paradoxes.

That---could result in an very interesting type of diplomat.

Panda, are you perhaps secretly a member of the Yassor?

I'm quite certain you didn't intend to keep the citation, but thanks anyway. Rereading the footnotes was great!

I doubt it, for all the reasons given above. Basically, I felt like all the shards are always burning mega-hyper-super-duper-Atium, and can take into account such trivial things as two humans fighting with the stuff without even breaking a sweat.

Oh yeah, I'm right there with you. They've already begun going down this path in Alloy of Law; I'm sure that Brandon will be able to come up with all kinds of little things to include in the newspapers/rumors to make it clear how these things change the world in small ways.

And folks, this is why they frisk you at the buffet on Scandriel. That, or they actually start charging again after the seventh plate of food...

This is an Alcatraz talent we're talking about here. It's not an "or." It's "and."

Those of us who really don't care don't have to worry about it, though. They'll probably spend most of their time fighting with each other about which way the director got it wrong. Don't get me wrong; movie adaptions often do get things wrong, but I've often noticed that when hard-core fans complain, the lists of what went wrong often disagree wildly. When they agree, you might be on to something. Otherwise, yeah.

Atium works spectacularly well in Allomancy, doesn't it?

This, or something more important was happening elsewhere. He may have known been unable or unwilling to get involved.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was some sort of alliance between the Parshendi and the humans. We already have had a couple of feelers in that direction with Rlain, and in the circumstances, everybody needs all the help they can get. We'll see if it happens and how smoothly it goes.

Given the stunts they pulled off with Avatar and other movies, I'm pretty sure the Shattered Plain's are technically possible to create nowadays. Dunno if any of the studios would want to take a gamble one something that big (the series would be really hard to adapt, for length if nothing else. Oh, and it's not going to be finished for two decades) but I'm sure the big studios could make something work.

This wouldn't so much destroy the slums as force them to move. Unless you want to kill the people who are about to be displaced? Possible for an evil overlord, but that comes with its own set of problems.

I seriously hope the Cosmere has no (backward) time travel. Not only does time travel make a serious mess out of any continuity unless the author is absurdly careful, but it makes it much harder to get dramatic tension unless the rules are very carefully outlined. Why worry about problems if you can undo them with time travel?

Granted. You are now permanently catatonic from information overload. I want to enjoy a delicious, filling and nutritious dinner every evening.

How did I miss this one on my last read-through? From what I can tell, this would mean that we get the next book from Brandon in six months and the next one from Rothfuss in about three years...

So as to not derail this thread too much, I will now make my next wish. I wish for a novelty singing fish.

You get the boon of a novelty singing fish. Your bane is compulsively telling everybody that the Nightwatcher doesn't play games. That includes telling navybrandt.

I think you can safely say that that is powerful, not overpowered. They magic system has the ability to turn people into ash if you know what you are doing. I don't see how teleporting them underground is any worse. As usual with Aon-Dor, it's the preparation that counts.