Mistdork
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Someone ought to tell Prof Wayne that Comic Sans is not nearly as comic as he thinks it is! Also, Awesomeness 2000: Taught by "Professor" Lift and her not-so-awesome Voidbringer, Wyndle! Learning how to use Awesomeness for all your Edgedancer needs...(and how to touch spren, asking Nightwatcher for a boon may or may not be required of all students).
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Here's the topic where Felt the Worldhopper of House Venture was discovered (or the possible worldhopper, that is). http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7365-felt-the-worldhopper/?hl=%2Bfelt+%2Bworldhopper
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Nope, Warbreaker occurs quite a bit (about three hundred years or so) before SA, and Nightblood, as a direct sequel to Warbreaker also occurs quite a bit beforehand as well. Mine you, it means that SA contains spoilers for Nightblood (it means both Vasher and Nightblood survived the sequel...), but Vasher may have been a bit into worldhopping before that Warbreaker. I mean, he knows a bit about Investiture (from his conversation with Vivienne on BioChromatics) and he was already 300 years old by that time...(fun fact, he's the first characters to name-drop Investiture in book...though not necessarily the first in the time-line). Anyway, it's just really surprising we didn't spot Vasher as a potential worldhopper before WoR was released...*shrug*
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When you eat the wrong flower on Nalthis, you go hop! (Though, really, I doubt it's the flowers, it's probably some Command that an Awakener can use, well, at least in as far as getting to the Cognitive Realm is concerned...) *coughs* Felt from Mistborn is also a possible worldhopper in WoR. Also, the Kandra worldhopper is in WoR too... I can actually understand why people think Jasnah may be a worldhopper, but I think that if she is, she will be one in the future, if at all. She's too involved with events on Roshar to really consider going on a pleasure trip around the Cosmere, so even if she technically knows how to worldhop, I don't think she's really all that interested in doing so right now...
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Loveable Characters you actually don't care about....
Mistdork replied to a topic in Stormlight Archive
Right now, I think that is how much impact he is supposed to have on the story. He is supposed to be an extra, a bonus. Just an easter egg for those that are willing to watch out for him, but not much of a distraction for those that know nothing of him. I like Hoid as Wit, before there was Wit, I didn't think much of Hoid either, but as Wit he's arguably more than an Easter Egg, even if he's only a minor character. But I agree, half of the WoBs seem to be about Hoid, probably because we're curious, and by asking questions about Hoid we can also learn more about the cosmere/investiture (sometimes)... Personally, I don't especially love Shallan. There's no real rational reason for my dislike, though, when I read WoK I found her dreadful. Now, I just find her...alright. Probably by book five or something I'll actually like her (if she lives that long, I don't trust Sanderson. He once made me like a character I hated forever...then killed her. That's just not nice.) And I also think that Renarin's fandom is a little over the top (though, I like his character, personally), but if we talk about him too much, we'll summon Feather. Do we really want to summon her? -
Or actually reconstructing them, many fairy tales are rather dark, just like the original Rapunzel or other stories collected/edited by the Brothers Grimm. There's a reason why bowdlerization's a thing. ;P
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Oi! Thanks for the comment, Rei, and more you shall have...soonish. ;P -
Man, Ati's not teaching Destruction 101 again? This makes me sad, he has so much experience. Is he on sabbatical again? It's like he hates this job or something despite being super good at Ruining things. D; Oh well, at least I can take Push and Pull with Kel and Vin...and that Awakening class, I heard that Professor Vasher likes to disguise himself as a Rosharan ardent half the time and teach people to wield Shardblades, make bad idioms, and how to jump off roofs! So much fun to be had...Or was that Shardblade Fighting 101? ;P
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Finally someone who has more cats than I do...at least I'm not the craziest person here! I mean, wow, that's cool, I have six cats, one of them hates my very existence and the rest fear and tremble at my presence love me to pieces... Most of the time. Though, I think if we combined my cats (or if I just sent Tiger there) they could combine with your cats and take over the world. A world ruled by their catiness. Their names are Annie, Windy, Mis, Chris, Tiger, and Molly. You can have them but not really, since other people might not be happy that I gave these cats a way... ;P Anyway, I'm honestly more of a dog person (ironically). It's not that I hate cats, it's just that I hate cat litter. I'd rather not deal with that, though, if someone else cleans it up and takes care of their other needs, cats are okay. Dogs are cuter though...or maybe, I just think mine is a doll...;P
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Hemalurgical Resurrection? Kelsier Reborn the Worldhopper
Mistdork replied to Darkarma's topic in Cosmere Discussion
1. For like three weeks (that might be head canon), but he stayed technically because things (the Church of the Survivor) and people (Vin and the Crew) kind of bound him to the realm. Probably helps that Preservation likes to preserve things and his religion reflects that. Also, the belief of the members of his Church helped. Belief is like that in the Cosmere. 2. Yes, agreed. Making a verb from an intent; a good trick to understanding Shardic stuff. 3. ? I guess, but it still seems far flung to me... I'm not sold on this. I think Kelsier's still technically a Cognitive Shadow (there's a WoB somewhere that says this, I think, I'm sure someone else can fetch it), though the very nature of Preservation (as you pointed out) might have some interesting effects on formally-human-cognitive-entities, I think that is what we should expect. This doesn't mean that Cognitive Shadows can't worldhop, but I think that Kelsier's a bit too personally invested (no pun intended) in Scadrial to leave it. That's why he stayed, after all... Though...if it's possible for Cognitive Shadows to worldhop, I wonder what would happen if a few thousand members of the Church of the Survivor and Kel moved to Roshar... How would Cultivation's Intent (or passive Investiture...) effect that? I guess what I'm really wondering is how much belief does it take for an idea to develop into a truth/ideal, and, also, is it possible for a Cognitive Shadow to pick up Spren-like attributes because they're both cognitive entities... Oh, whoops. Sorry for the rampage of off topicness... -
In which I do realmatics wrong...not that I will explain what I mean by this (it's really terrible when art keeps you up at night...), but anyway... (I might be posting this to my tumblr, which has a different username, etc).© Nymp
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How did you find out about the Cosmere?
Mistdork replied to Atilium's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Spotting that Hoid fellow. He led me down a virtual rabbit hole called the coppermind wiki and I haven't been the same since... -
Really sorry about the size here, photoshop did something weird with the original (which was twice as large)...and all I had saved was this one. I've been using this program for variance things for seven or eight years and it still surprises me like this...*sigh* Anyway, decided to do a set of pics based on the current cosmere book(s) I'm reading. I'm crazy like that... (And I'm not happy with this pic...meh, photoshop)
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Could this "Stormgiant" be a thunderclast that Kalak saw in the Prelude? Yes, the only reason I think that is they accord in a storm and it seems somewhat right that they might be hinted at this early. Plus, their appearance always seems monstrous, and these giants, what ever they might be, seem like monsters... (Oh, and Dalinar sees one too in WOR on pg 75)... Anyway, I thought that these giants being thunderclasts was about as likely as any of the above...so I'd thought I'd throw it out there.
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It's funny, now I (mostly) agree with Tempus on this topic. So, I'll try to answer this, though... Nope, Lerasium isn't quite Invested enough, though it is close... Also, Atium seems to come in different sizes, but I would guess that it doesn't come in a big enough size to be considered a Splinter... (since there are no literal Splinters on Scadrial...though Marsh should be awfully close, at least in terms of power). The only non-sentient Splinters are Divine Breaths (and possibly Honorblades), both of these form bonds, though not much is known about the later (I have some ideas, but it's really just a lot of conjecture at this point). However, because Divine Breaths are Splinters given/deeply bonded with humans, they never form sentience. In this case, the relationship between a Divine Breath and a Returned is much more similar to the relationship between a Shard and its Holder. If a Shard didn't have a holder, it would gain consciousness (and do crazy things) that fits it's Intent, the same is true for a Splinter. When it doesn't have a person holding it, it also gains a consciousness that matches its Intent (or in the case of Nightblood, the Splinter is given an Intent and also forms a conscious to go along with that Intent). Unlike these Splinters, Lerasium (when used) is "used up" when it makes a person into a Mistborn. It doesn't form a bond, there's not quite enough Investiture there and it really doesn't seem like it's in its nature anyway... And yeah, sorry that was probably a bit more than you were expecting (and seems slightly theoretical, that's not good. Whenever I try my hands at that, it goes nowhere fast!)
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Uses for Vasher's Divine Breath? (Warbreaker/WoR spoilers)
Mistdork replied to TheBrian's topic in Stormlight Archive
I really can't see Vasher using it, as Moogle said, it'd be too much of a crossover. For those that only read the SA, Nightblood would just seem like a very strange spren/shardblade who talks about the past too much and acts like a giant-sword puppy... Now, I wouldn't be surprised to see some (limited) Awakening (since I honestly can't see Vasher not having some emergency Breath in case he's in a tight bind or he doesn't have access to Stormlight. Returned have to be pragmatic like that to stay alive on other worlds...even on worlds where they have a seemingly unlimited supply of Investiture). I think though that the crossover-y stuff that he does will either seem to fit into Roshar (for those who are not Cosmerically aware) or that they will be subtle enough that many readers won't even notice them until they've reread the book a few times... Yes, that's pretty much it... -
Twilight: because teenaged girls never want/read intelligent fiction. I would argue that in some ways, though, that Hunger Games is a really dark book, if they can sell that to girls, than why not Mistborn? And anyways, I'd rather have teenagers them look up to Vin and relate to her than Katniss (or Bella; ick) any day... Ugh, this post is starting out really snarky, I'm sorry. Anyway, you know, it's taken decades for ASOIAF to get televised, so considering that Elantris isn't even a decade old yet (publication-wise), I think that I'm not worried about something (whatever it may be) in the Cosmere being made into a movie or a game (Wheel of Time actually had a video game made based on the series back in 1999, though, it didn't do well..., yes, I know it's not part of the cosmere...), just not when... (And I hope whoever does it doesn't somehow screw it up royally...)
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What would you ask the Nightwatcher
Mistdork replied to Bow Tie Bandit's topic in Stormlight Archive
Her curses though can be really disproportionate; so, if you ask for a Cheeseburger, you'd probably get something ridiculously sucky, say, like hunger that never is satisfied no matter how much you eat...etc. Of course, those curses are also too logical... Anyway, I think I would ask to become an intelligent spren with the ability to form bonds with human beings...(probably a Honorspren...) -
OR...Kelsier will appear and do something that is super-meddling in nature but will only be revealed in the annotations written in the way distant future. This is, if he hasn't already done something super-meddling in nature already. Also, Kelsier now has enough Investiture that he's gained the "Meddler" Intent (despite not being a Splinter, obviously, but if other cognitive shadows...oh never mind, that theory is too serious for this thread). This may or may not be similar to an Intent of another character, and might be the secret reason for their dislike of each other. For a new theory, when Nightblood eats enough Investiture on Roshar, he will be able to make a new Shard and become its Holder. Too bad he still doesn't understand what evil is...darn, the world is doomed!
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Hmmm, I think that Kell might take the title "Lord of the Mists" a little to seriously (somehow), okay, he already did, but it would be interesting if his Cognitive Shadow could only take on a (very limited) physical aspect when the mists were out...
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Hmmm, this sounds more like Soulcasting. If one wants the stick to burst into flame, one has to convince the stick that it really out to be a flame instead by injecting enough Investiture into it. Not saying you're wrong, but usually the form chosen in Awakening is based off the Human ideal (most Awakened things try to act like humans, and the closer an Awakened object's form is to a human, the less Breath it takes to Awaken it)... This topic though led me to ask this: what would happen if we stick some Breath into a piece of cloth and then set that cloth on fire; what then happens to that Breath?
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"Like he says, he's a dwarf." - The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett *sigh* It would be a book that calls me short. So rude. And assumes that I'm a guy too! (Oh wait, context. At least the person they're talking about is six-feet tall...)
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The obvious answer; convince Leftinch to do it too, Quiet Country. ;D
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SylxPattern is almost logical...well, that is, if spren can fall in love at all, I guess.
