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  1. happyman
    I for one will be glad to get the geography straightened out. That was just a continuity error, and it was both a major and minor one. Major because from a technical point of view, it's something that really ought to be right, give the nature of the magic. Minor because fixing it changes nothing important about the emotional core of the story, the mystery, or anything else. Change it and---it just changes. This combo seems to me to be the perfect combo of things to change. I approve. Still not certain about WoR changes, but here is not the place to discuss them.
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    Curiosity, since that was a POV deecription rather than an in-world story, I don't think it really counts.
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    The first law of international law is: there is no international law. The second law of international law is: well, maybe there is, kinda sorta, but not really. And enforcement always involves real wars. World war II style wars. The third law of international law is: don't get caught unless you can take the heat. And that's about it, really. I'm not happy with it, myself (makes the world much more dangerous than it needs to be), but once you strip out the headlines and the emotional outrage, it sure explains what happens better than any other ideas I've seen.
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    Sounds about right, in the circumstances.
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    narc, it's only stupid if it's the protagonists with the ability. Miles' healing was pretty absurd, too, if you ask me. I never once considered this a story problem.
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    It's the one ring and the Nazgul are knocking down the door. Have fun! I wish for all of existence to be unmade. Why? Because I can.
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    Don't blame me. All compounding is OP. That's just how luck would manifest.
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    Observer, I think that you are discounting other ways luck could come into play. For instance, if an assassin had any kind of weakness at all, it would become a problem at just the right time for the Chromium compounder to survive. Defense from the inside, as it were. The assassin has asthma which is hardly ever a problem, which they haven't experienced in years? Guess when the next asthma attack is coming. Knowing it's coming won't help, either, not a few seconds in advance. Can't dodge something on the inside.
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    I would mention here that Vin's trick with Zane and Atium was workable in pretty much only that specific kind of situation. In melee or general mayhem, a normal person would have to be very well trained indeed to do anything like it.
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    I agree that Moraine's help at the field's of Merrilor was underwhelming in the moment, but in retrospect, it was extremely helpful. She was a neutral party, implicitly trusted both sides, who sat them down and told them what must be. This can be very helpful when both parties know, deep down, the need to compromise, but somehow just can't.
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    In such a world, I would be god. Or at least my laundry basket would be.
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    FTFY. He's halfway there already. It's almost useful at one point in Firefight. As for his weakness, well, discussion of that should probably be done in the Firefight sub-forum or after you've read it. Otherwise things might be a bit undirected.
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    Out of curiousity, how many people in this thread have read Firefight? I don't think this is a big spoiler, but I'm being careful:
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    Granted. However, the gateways double as time machines and always take you to a time when the target area was extremely dangerous. (Seriously, you left yourself wide open.) I wish that everybody in the world see the sun as a type of tulip.
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    Granted. To get them, you must constantly fight the minions from "Despicable Me." Purple ones. I wish for all football games to be nailbiters.
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    I dunno. The brother-in-law Phil one is actually really clever.
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    This. Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, that the Kandra world-hopper took the form of one of the ladies-in-waiting for Siri in Warbreaker and spent some of the on-screen time pampering Siri (We can assume that the lady in question had died of a disease/accident which nobody else knew about/didn't realize was fatal. Then she couldl take the bones withiout any kind of moral qualms). Then we would have met her without any clue she was a Kandra, knowing her name, or anything. But she would have been totally on-screen, and maybe even had dialogue, in other books. And if she even appeared again with different bones...I think the requirements of matching the quotes would be satisfied.
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    Granted. The Sun disappears and the Earth goes flying off into the darkness of space. Before we all die, it snows normal snow. Later, it snows carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen. I wish for a magic Popsicle.
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    Not if we saw her in a non-Mistborn book masquerading as a human. Melaan is just the only named female kandra who we know is a kandra.
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    Will there be cake?
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    Granted, but you will never know how much wood a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. You will also always have bitter butter which makes your batter bitter; you cannot get better butter. I wish to know what the perfect boon to ask the Nightwatcher is.
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    You must be mad. That's asking for a boon and a curse all in one go.
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    Well said, Outis. That was the true kernel of my point. If nothing else, it would make duralumin assassins very unreliable. That's balance right there.
  25. happyman
    My guess is that the connection is balanced by going both ways. Yes, the person feels like he knows you intimately, has been to hell and back with you, would do anything for you. Problem is, you feel the same way! If you ran in to somebody like that, could you talk them into walking to their death?
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