happyman

Why do you want my ipod?

 

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

This is widely accepted, yes.

 

It also furthers my theory that only about thirty people live on Roshar. What are the odds that of every Horneater, Hoid happens to show up next to Rock, who will end up drinking one day with Hoid's apprentice?

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.

I wish for shardplate boots

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.

It makes me shudder to think that Renarin knew the Everstorm coming since the beginning of WoR. I wonder what else he saw. Could he have the tragedy of Eshonai or mass transformation of Parshendi or the coming of Szeth.

Does he already know the outcome of Kholinar riots or the plans of Taravangian.

Future prediction is such a paradox. What is the use of knowing it, if the future can't be changed( the Everstorm couldn't be stopped ). And if the future is changed after the visions that means the visions are wrong.

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.

I Comically and Dramatically mishear what people say.

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

And so the Church of the stick has been necroed, and it's corruption influence shall spread across the land again.

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

He certainly knows of him in a general sense.

 

In AoL Wax specifically mentions that he keeps his metal in whiskey; that it's a great opportunity to enjoy a drink at the same time.

 

Jaks story has the following paragraph:

"They had also taken my vials of metal. Perhaps they wanted to see if those contained whiskey. Some Roughs Allomancers do store their metals in such solutions, but I have always abstained from the process. The mind of a gentleman adventurer needs to retain clarity at all times.^[7]""

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.

See this? This is exactly what I'm hoping to see in the second Mistborn trilogy. A modern-esque society adapting to the Metallic Arts in little ways like that. I'll be glad to see incredible feats of Allomantic engineering; I'm excited to see a Misting SWAT team in all its glorious action. But what you just described is what really makes me wish for those future books.

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.

I chose Subsumer so I could go to a buffet, eat for hours, then not have to buy food for the rest of the month.  

 

Why yes, I am a college student.  Why do you ask?

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...

Either that or accumulating junk.

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

If any of Brandon Sanderson's books are ever filmed, I predict vast swaths of the forum devoted entirely to criticizing the director's vision of the setting, characters, and treatment of the plot.

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.

Would lerasium even work as a spike, considering it is entirely of preservation would it even hold a hemalurgic charge?

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

We have a WoB some where that Hoid has not lived through the whole time sense Adonalsium was shattered. Some sort of Time skip or Hibernation effect. Its very possible that he was in this state while TLR was killing alendi and Ascending.

 

Hoid Admitted to not knowing everything and/or being blind sided by events in WoR so its not a far stretch that he could have been asleep or elsewhere during during Alendis time.

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.

That's supposed to be one of the benefits of Evil Overlorddome, though. Without worrying about popularity or reelections or the laws of God or man, it should be significantly easier to get rid of slums. Right now, if we wanted to tear down an eyesore building and put a new, better one in its place, there would be locals complaining about construction noise, we'd have to find the taxes to pay for it all, the people living there now would protest and complain. Evil Overlords get to tell people: "Exit your building now with whatever you literally cannot live without. You have ten. Nine. Eight..."

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, but you must spend the rest of your life as a quadriplegic .

 

I want a perfect understanding of realmatic theory.

Granted.  You are now permanently catatonic from information overload.

I want to enjoy a delicious, filling and nutritious dinner every evening.

Make Brandon and Rothfuss write just as awesomely, but also twice as fast.

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 book, and the bane of losing your hand. 

 

I would petition the Nightwatcher for more wishes

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.

That would be quite op. Get one on your hand and boop people into the ground ten feet. Can't imagine many being able to survive that.

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.

Well, it's a bit more and less than that. Remember that Nightblood really wants to and tries to understand what Evil is so he can fight it. He's wrong half the time but he's getting there. He also gained a set of weird powers relating to making "evil" people desire him enough to draw him and then kill everyone around them in choking black smoke. I'd be more interested to try and guess where the hell something like that came from and how the extra powers would manifest in a shield with "Defend Evil". Would it just pump shitloads of extra power into them and essentially make them invulnerable? Would it float around blocking all attacks at lightning speed?

Actually, Nightblood is a little bit better than that.  He uses the wielder's conscience to try to determine if they people are evil or not.  Still far from fool-proof, but Vasher uses it as a first easy way to test people.  Don't forget:  Nightblood's form is not remotely human, and that hurts, but the breaths were once part of living people.  That helps.

Edited to add:  This might well carry over to other awakened objects, especially if they are suited for something rather more literal than "Destroy Evil."  If you say "Protect Children" to a shield, it would probably be somewhat more predictable.  The biggest ambiguity would be the definition of "children" and resolving conflicts.  Whether it would be proactive is another question.