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M_Gargantua posted:I'd still put my money on him becoming the first skybreaker not in Nales cult That position has already been taken. Quantum Toast posted:Just take a moment to picture him as a squire to Lift. This needs to happen now.
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Lift talked Nale out of his centuries/millennia long crusade against surgebinders. In her conversation with Nale/Darkness in the Everstorm, she speaks like someone twice her age.
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Yeah, given how much Sanderson plans books and characters, that one huge part of his personally -- refined fashionista -- is a glaring flag
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NecroMonster posted:iirc WoB is that the nahel bond is part of reviving a dead spren Yaarp. You also have to be suitable for the bond to develop, ie someone the spren would have liked Adolin is perfect, go figure
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As of Era 2, assuming Wax is not one of the most learned chemists available, Scadrians really ought to be goddamm close to figuring out controlling the Bayer and Hall processes at scale.
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That's only the likely interpretation of (referenced letter). WoB on that fount of power are RAFO.
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Captain Monkey posted:Did they ever explain how a world with large amounts of very important metals like gold and iron were burned up to fuel superpowers there'd be enough metal easily mined to make spaceships and stuff? A WoB addressed this. It would be theoretically possible to burn up the planet's supply of metals, but the allomancers of old burned flakes to tap power. Availability and consumption ate on totally different scales.
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M_Gargantua posted:I'm still waiting for a form of investiture that lets you change the working size of an object. Before Era 2 books, I was hoping that feruchemical mass reduction was actually just diminishing the user's spiritual connection to the planet. No, it turns out that a skimmer really does lower actual mass 
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Khriss is basically Brandon's continuity manager's female fantasy self insert.
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mewse posted:Dalinar: lead by example Dalinar is becoming God.
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My thought on Lifesong is that he's losing his ability to deflect. Far easier explaination is that he's written poorly.
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Strumpy posted:Unite them NO. WE KILLED YOU!
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Dalinar is Brandon's oldest (as in earliest) Cosmere character, so I don't think he's going to cheapen Dalinar's journey in that way.
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NecroMonster posted:Anyway, my expectation is that the "Unite them" voice is actually Cultivation, who knows, thanks to her being good at foresight, that she's going to get shattered. It isn't a commandment to put Honor's shard back together, rather it's the command to put honor's and cultivation's splinters together into a whole new, combined, shard Kinky 
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Renarin might be the character whose story I'm most looking forward to hearing. He seems like such a broken person, but he somehow keeps pushing himself. The journey he and Glys are going through together is heart wrenching and sweet. Neither has a clue what's happening to them, but above anything else they seem to have each other's back.
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I get the sense that it's hybrid spren and access to voidbinding that will give Radiant Knight Orders 2.0 more balanced outlooks and powerful toolkits.
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Aggro posted:I kind of liked Sanderson’s depiction as being closer to “method actor get way too into her role” rather than the trope of other personalities clashing and acting like “possessors”. Same. Add onto this the fact that prolonged use of investiture changes the body and soul, and for soulcasters like Vorin Ardents or Lightweavers, the effect is likely more direct and amplified. Shallan is probably a method actor who not only gets way too deep into her character, but also literally feeds that character mass-energy-thought-soul-equivalency material.
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Bardeh posted:The one I was specifically referring to was one where they're eating together in her room. It's just so twee and chaste, and I understand that that does make sense considering the societal norms they've been brought up in, and I'm not asking for hot and hardcore erotica either, just maybe a bit more of a mature or realistic approach to their developing relationship. Instead we get Shallan's quips that could be straight out of a magazine for tween girls. No Mating was the best scene in the book. Maybe guys just don't get it 
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mewse posted:GRRM is basically a virtuoso at writing sex and violence At including sex and violence, for sure...
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Wayne and Lift need to meet.
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ConfusedUs posted:Wayne and Lopen need to meet. I want the male Audible narrator to give us a Wayne / Lopen accent "Righteous"
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Vegeta as a kid Vegeta as an adult
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Oasx posted:I just finished The Rithmatist and I really liked it, this is the first non-WoT book I have read from him, does he have any other books with unusual magic systems? Alcatraz series books are quick fun reads involving family talents that grew from quirks in Brandon's own family. To fabricate an example so as to not spoil anything, think of your drunk Facebook uncle always being embarrassingly  online but, occasionally, actually correct about an otherwise well-concealed lie or convenient happenstance.
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Oathbringer is... Let's put it this way, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 450,000 words long. Oathbringer is 450,000 words long. OB also has a sandersonian pacing bug. It took a minute for me to actually got to "I can't put this down" status
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The Emperor's Soul is a treatise on how magic works. If magic was real, Emperor's Soul is a really viable way for how and why it works. Read it.
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It's the built in backing behind how D&D magic works in my brain now, and I've received comments on how tangible stock magic use in my campaigns feels with that added color.
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Sab669 posted:Spoilers for the 4 books I guess: This is a brutally good post. I started writing more content in this post, but you've got it covered so far as I'm concerned. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 18:45 on May 31, 2018 |
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By Book 10, the Bondsmith is going to summon the Stormfather as a spaceship / orbital defense platform 
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I mean, where the hell else is this shared universe going
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mewse posted:It’s not strictly necessary but people won’t fully understand the backstory of the cosmere unless they take a weekend and read wheel of time dragonsteel had nothing to do with wheel of time though
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row Recreance: *happens* Dalinar: "Hold my beer."
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HelixFox posted:I was reading the Ars Arcanum in RoW and noticed this (spoilered just in case but not relating to any plot events): It is no secret that Surgebinders will play a role in the Cosmere sci-fi era. Illusions on radar or gravimetric sensors or whatever if I had to guess.
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Bruceski posted:Is this some hypothetical or is Sanderson actually planning to write a Cosmere sci-fi era? Supposedly, Mistborn is the master throughline of the history of the Cosmere. Mistborn Era 4 is the Infinity War of the Cosmere, according to the author.
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This is a detail that was clarified before the release of Hero of Ages, but I'm putting it in spoiler tags just in case you don't want answers about the author's style influencing your reading. It has to do with the way Sanderson wants to handle death in the Cosmere. Sanderson doesn't really gently caress around with undoing death very much. The dead are dead; this was a detail he clarified before Hero of Ages came out. Interestingly, the above conversation about Roshar has to do with a thing that was undone in a Roshar book because "oops I made a continuity error" regarding how permanent death needs to be. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Emperor's Soul was my introduction to the Cosmere, and I think that my early attention to the cognitive and spiritual aspects of Cosmere magic has been a huge boon.
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