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socialsecurity posted:It's because he's Shin they are the white people. Yes I know.
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 14:55 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:11 |
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It's weird how Shallan is basically a white Scandanavian woman since I could've sworn Sanderson mentioned that nobody except the Shin are "white" and some of the Shin descriptions sounds almost sickly pale while the rest of the world's people are varying darker (or blueish) skin tones. She looks lighter-skinned than Szeth on those playing cards.
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 15:40 |
Evil Fluffy posted:It's weird how Shallan is basically a white Scandanavian woman since I could've sworn Sanderson mentioned that nobody except the Shin are "white" and some of the Shin descriptions sounds almost sickly pale while the rest of the world's people are varying darker (or blueish) skin tones. She looks lighter-skinned than Szeth on those playing cards. she's always basically been described as pale/redheaded, the shin are just notable for being both pale-skinned and lacking epicanthic folds so they have the 'round eyes' thing in other places brandon says he imagines veden people to look like pictures of mongolian or uyghur folks with light skin/red hair. but you're right that there's some incongruity in depictions of her, where a lot of times it just comes off as "Irish lady" unless you're paying close attention to the eyes eke out fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jun 20, 2021 |
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 16:02 |
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Shallan definitely has a lot of traits that would often get sorted with the Irish stereotypical package except for the epicanthic folds, pretty much everyone on Roshar has them. If I had to guess I’d say Cultivation has altered humans to better suit their biome and epicanthic folds have some advantages in dealing with UV damage and I think particles getting stuck in eyes, so everyone bar the Shin got them.
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 18:29 |
For whatever reason I immagined Shallan and the vedens as like more the "sorta white people but tan" in the exact opposite way that redheaded irish people often tend to NOT tan.
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 18:40 |
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That is pretty much how I imagined Wit.
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 23:39 |
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KKKLIP ART posted:That is pretty much how I imagined Wit. I just now realized that I imagined him like Shakespeare in his youth
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# ? Jun 20, 2021 23:47 |
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DarkHorse posted:I just now realized that I imagined him like Shakespeare in his youth I mean not to get super anime but I really saw him looking as Levi from Attack on Titan in my minds eye.
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# ? Jun 21, 2021 01:22 |
I honestly have no idea how to picture Wit. He's in so many books as so many people I don't bother anymore.
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# ? Jun 21, 2021 03:24 |
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He's like much skinner Brandon Insert, imo.
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# ? Jun 21, 2021 03:53 |
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Barreft posted:I didn't get much feeling of anime in Stormlight. I mean comics have people flying and poo poo all over the place. The giant swords and magic armour that explodes in puffs of light are pretty anime aren't they?
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# ? Jun 22, 2021 20:49 |
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Space Butler posted:The giant swords and magic armour that explodes in puffs of light are pretty anime aren't they? shapeshifting weapons that talk and are your best friend = anime
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# ? Jun 22, 2021 20:55 |
Space Butler posted:The giant swords and magic armour that explodes in puffs of light are pretty anime aren't they? I'm grading on a curve. Yeah that's all anime but so is everything else if you rot your brain to think about it enough. I'm just saying Szeth/Nightblood is #1 anime in Stormlight. You can grade everything else below him if you care to bother.
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 05:11 |
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Barreft posted:I'm grading on a curve. Yeah that's all anime but so is everything else if you rot your brain to think about it enough. yeah hes a shounen rival character
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 05:29 |
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szeth and kaladin traveling together is going to be so good
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 05:30 |
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Weekly update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWFQvtMvBQ Blitzing through the next books, including Redawn (Skyward universe collab novella) and Lost Metal. Skyward 4 is now on the horizon, what a machine.
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 06:03 |
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Way of Kings is the best sanderson book I've read by leaps and bounds. I think I'm going to take a break before Warbreaker and the rest of the Stormlight books because I've seriously read 8 of this dude's novels this year, but it's going to be hard because I desperately want to see more Roshar stuff
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 12:48 |
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Reaverbot posted:Way of Kings is the best sanderson book I've read by leaps and bounds. I think I'm going to take a break before Warbreaker and the rest of the Stormlight books because I've seriously read 8 of this dude's novels this year, but it's going to be hard because I desperately want to see more Roshar stuff Read what you want to read IMO
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# ? Jun 23, 2021 14:14 |
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Looks like some of the first of Brandon’s partner projects are starting to come out. Lux, the audio exclusive new Reckoners book comes out next month.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 13:22 |
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The physical release of Dark One came out recently. I checked it out from the library. A quick read and a way better experience than White Sand. I'm intrigued and I want to read more of this.
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# ? Jun 25, 2021 15:27 |
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Ok so I decided to take a break after WoR to flesh out my collection a bit and bought the rest of the mistborn 2 books, arcanum unbound, and elantris/warbreaker. Took me a week or two of halfhearted attempts to finally get properly dug into Alloy of Law, but I finally managed it by reading along with the audiobook for a few chapters and I'm absolutely loving it. Steelpushing and Weight manipulation is a really fun combo and I find it a lot more interesting than having every allomantic power on tap like Vin did. Definitely digging the more modern setting too, very nice change of pace. Characters seem pretty great too, and I'm loving the main plotline so far.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 18:23 |
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Reaverbot posted:Way of Kings is the best sanderson book I've read by leaps and bounds. I think I'm going to take a break before Warbreaker and the rest of the Stormlight books because I've seriously read 8 of this dude's novels this year, but it's going to be hard because I desperately want to see more Roshar stuff I have a hard time picking between Way of Kings and Oathbringer, they both just have some killer moments.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 18:59 |
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tweet my meat posted:Took me a week or two of halfhearted attempts to finally get properly dug into Alloy of Law, but I finally managed it by reading along with the audiobook for a few chapters and I'm absolutely loving it. I had the same thing. I'm not even sure why, but the first... 1/3 or so of that book just did a terrible job capturing my attention. The prelude felt super contrived and I just didn't care for the main characters at all. Finally after multiple false starts I finally got about halfway through and things started to click. It's weird, because the characters in era 2 are more cliche than the characters in era 1 (who themselves are pretty cliche), but once Sanderson leans into that for about half a book it just works all of the sudden, and I can't explain why.
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 19:30 |
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Alloy of Law felt like Brandon just really wanted to write allomancy gun fight scenes and everything else in the book is in service of facilitating them.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 00:09 |
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Really excited to see what Cadmium can do, that's such a weird power and I can already tell he's got something clever planned with it.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 00:57 |
I'm on Bands of Mourning and I just glaze over every action scene cause after 3 books reading Push Push Pull Push, etc every paragraph sucks.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 03:22 |
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I really miss full allomancers and the sheer variety of things they can do.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 05:57 |
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Anshu posted:I really miss full allomancers and the sheer variety of things they can do. Pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised to see allomancers with more than one metal (but not full mistborn) in Era 3.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 06:47 |
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Torrannor posted:Pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised to see allomancers with more than one metal (but not full mistborn) in Era 3. Yeah it's hinted at in bands of mourning but you can make items that will grant abilities Between Nicrosil (investiture), Aluminum (Identity), and Duralumin (Connection) in feruchemy there are multiple ways you could grant abilities, though it would require someone with all those abilities or a team of people working together to make and charge them. A feruchemist could drain themselves of identity and make a metalmind that anyone could use. We've seen some crazy things bondsmiths can do with Connection, so there's probably a way to unlock abilities that way. And of course you could store up investiture to power anything that the user couldn't innately access
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 13:57 |
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DarkHorse posted:Yeah it's hinted at in bands of mourning but you can make items that will grant abilities Yea they're called hemalurgic spikes
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 15:03 |
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Sanderson has previously said that powers will have weakened further in Mistborn Era 3 so I imagine there will be something to mix it up and still make them interesting.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 20:34 |
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Reaverbot posted:Alloy of Law felt like Brandon just really wanted to write allomancy gun fight scenes and everything else in the book is in service of facilitating them. I think it's how it started. The gunfight in the middle of the book was written on a plane ride or something and the rest of the book emerged from that seed.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 22:40 |
tweet my meat posted:Really excited to see what Cadmium can do, that's such a weird power and I can already tell he's got something clever planned with it. He has said it's important to space travel in future Cosmere books, but yeah it is just weird as gently caress so there has to be a way to do something with it. One of the Era 2 books even has Steris use it in an amazing way so it has to be possible. It's just situational.
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 23:34 |
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Didn't the end of bands of morning have the bands allow the wielder to use all allomantic and feruchemic abilities, so as long as the person with them doesn't blow it, they could compound refill all the metalminds, and theoretically create more bands with metal being the only limiter to how much they can create?
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 20:50 |
I just ignore most action sequences and I find I like Mistborn season 2 or whatever way better that way. I like the books but I can only read Push Push Pull Pull Push Pull 20 times a page before I blank out. I'm sure in his mind whatever Wax and Wayne are doing is cool
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 21:07 |
I think that to recharge the bands you’d need to circulate them through 16 different twinborn. Each one could use the bands to compound and store their specialty. I don’t think the bands themselves turn you into a compounder, they just give you access to an identity unkeyed massive ferruchemical reserve.
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 21:29 |
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One of my good friends got me into Sanderson and I sped read the first three Mistborn books (excellent), Warbreaker (also excellent) and am 65% of the way through Elantris (rough at times but I'm aware it's one of his first books). From there he says I should read the Stormlight books next (The Way of Kings), that sound like a good next series to hit up?
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 21:34 |
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Louisgod posted:One of my good friends got me into Sanderson and I sped read the first three Mistborn books (excellent), Warbreaker (also excellent) and am 65% of the way through Elantris (rough at times but I'm aware it's one of his first books). From there he says I should read the Stormlight books next (The Way of Kings), that sound like a good next series to hit up? So you’re almost where I am. I did the Mistborn Trilogy, Elantris, and am starting Warbreaker. After that, I plan on hitting Wax & Wayne before moving on to Stormlight. You might want to pick up Arcanum Unbound so you can hit up Emperor’s Soul (which takes place in the Elantris universe).
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 21:39 |
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Louisgod posted:One of my good friends got me into Sanderson and I sped read the first three Mistborn books (excellent), Warbreaker (also excellent) and am 65% of the way through Elantris (rough at times but I'm aware it's one of his first books). From there he says I should read the Stormlight books next (The Way of Kings), that sound like a good next series to hit up? next you should read the blade itself by joe abercrombie
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Mordiceius posted:So you’re almost where I am. I did the Mistborn Trilogy, Elantris, and am starting Warbreaker. After that, I plan on hitting Wax & Wayne before moving on to Stormlight. I was thinking about reading the second trilogy of Mistborn (think that's what Wax & Wayne is) but I need a break from that world for a bit, and Warbreaker was a great distraction. I'll look into hitting up Arcanum and Emperor's Soul next though my friend really keeps pushing the Stormlight books, mostly so he has somebody to talk to about them. scary ghost dog posted:next you should read the blade itself by joe abercrombie okay I'll add it to my list.
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