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Tunicate posted:Oh wow there's a livestream writeathon right now! That was really interesting to watch and I would totally have missed it if you hadn't posted, so thanks! Loved the story about how the cat "adopted" Sanderson, that almost seems like it would be a neat little detail to put in a novel.
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Tunicate posted:Oh hey, registration for The Writing Excuses Retreat starts tomorrow And ends tomorrow. If you want in you'd better be at your computer at 8:59 AM EST, because registration is probably closing at 9:01.
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That's where I will be  even though it's 6:00 AM for me...
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Drunk Tomato posted:That's where I will be Tunicate fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jan 18, 2014 |
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I didn't. Sold out before the registration page loaded.
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Holy crap. I got in. 
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Mortanis posted:Holy crap. I got in. Congrats, man. I got to the registration stage, then just before I clicked found out I already had a big research thing scheduled for the same week.
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Didn't get in  Actually my two alarms didn't go off, so that sucked. Congrats to you Mortanis!
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Does reen actually exist or is it just Ruin in her head?
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Well if you mean "was there ever really a Reen?" then yes. He took Vin away from their insane mother, kept them on the run from the Ministry, died from torture, etc. If you mean the sayings Vin kept remembering then no, that was Ruin all along. EDIT: Unless she didn't have her earring in at the time, but I honestly can't remember if she ever remembered "his" sayings when it wasn't in.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Well if you mean "was there ever really a Reen?" then yes. He took Vin away from their insane mother, kept them on the run from the Ministry, died from torture, etc. If you mean the sayings Vin kept remembering then no, that was Ruin all along. On checking, she didn't.
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One more question: what kind of misting was kelsier before he snapped? Do we know?
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uh zip zoom posted:One more question: what kind of misting was kelsier before he snapped? Do we know? He wasn't. You don't "upgrade" from Misting to Mistborn, you either have power or you don't.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Well if you mean "was there ever really a Reen?" then yes. He took Vin away from their insane mother, kept them on the run from the Ministry, died from torture, etc. If you mean the sayings Vin kept remembering then no, that was Ruin all along. Sorta. It's a little more complex. Reen's voice is a mix of - Vin recalls these things partly because she's had a lovely life and taken her brother's lessons to heart, and partially because Ruin is nudging her. Basically a representation of her inner insecurities. quote:http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-mistborn-2-chapter-thirty-four/
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More WoR chapters! http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/01/excerpt-brandon-sanderson-words-of-radiance-chapter-six-eight-and-nine
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Idle musing. The glowing shardblades and shardplate, as well as shardplate interfering with surgebindings. Could it be that when you take up your blade and plate, you were supposed to swear upon the oaths, to grant them their true powers. AND when the Radiants broke their oaths, the blades naturally lost that.
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Ithaqua posted:More WoR chapters! Thanks for the update, I know the book is coming out in a month or so but I just can't resist these teasers!
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veekie posted:Idle musing. The glowing shardblades and shardplate, as well as shardplate interfering with surgebindings. Could it be that when you take up your blade and plate, you were supposed to swear upon the oaths, to grant them their true powers. AND when the Radiants broke their oaths, the blades naturally lost that. I'm guessing it's a combination of oaths and spren, yeah. I don't think it's any coincidence that Brandon showed us spren empowering rock to make Voidbringer constructs in the preview chapters.
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Ithaqua posted:More WoR chapters! Some interesting stuff on the spren perspective there. The sole Honorspren to break the rules makes Szeth even more curious though. It does explain why Syl is so flighty, any Honorspren who disobeys the rules has to be odd at best.
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Ithaqua posted:More WoR chapters! Arg. So tempting, but I'm really trying to wait until the actual book is out.
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veekie posted:Some interesting stuff on the spren perspective there. The sole Honorspren to break the rules makes Szeth even more curious though. It does explain why Syl is so flighty, any Honorspren who disobeys the rules has to be odd at best. Szeth was curiosity before that because he's from Shinovar, which has no spren at all. So the surgebindings might not be fundamentally due to spren, they're just the easiest way to access them.
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coffeetable posted:Szeth was curiosity before that because he's from Shinovar, which has no spren at all. So the surgebindings might not be fundamentally due to spren, they're just the easiest way to access them. I kind of assume that there are alternate ways to access surgebinding based off the use of the soulcasting gem things. Pretty much anyone can use one which indicates that there's at least one way to get access to these abilities without spren, and knowing how magic tends to work in Sanderson books there's probably some underlying mechanism that applies to all the abilities.
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coffeetable posted:Szeth was curiosity before that because he's from Shinovar, which has no spren at all. So the surgebindings might not be fundamentally due to spren, they're just the easiest way to access them. Szeth apparently doesn't have a spren
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I'm wondering if Sanderson's new strategy is to release the first 3/4 of the book online for free and charge like $100 for the end.
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mystes posted:I'm wondering if Sanderson's new strategy is to release the first 3/4 of the book online for free and charge like $100 for the end. It's one way to monetize the Avalanche.
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mystes posted:I'm wondering if Sanderson's new strategy is to release the first 3/4 of the book online for free and charge like $100 for the end. And I would probably pay up. These chapters sure have made me anxious for the rest of the book.
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I need to stop clicking the black bars. It doesn't seem like anything big is in there, but I want to go in blind. And it's hard to do that when so much is already online.
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coffeetable posted:Szeth was curiosity before that because he's from Shinovar, which has no spren at all. So the surgebindings might not be fundamentally due to spren, they're just the easiest way to access them. In the prologue there are two guys who talk about "that creature" (assumed Szeth) who "carries my lord's own blade". This could mean that Szeth's blade is not a shardblade, but actually Jezrien's honorblade. (Jezrien was a king, so if the two talking guys were also heralds, it'd fit). Since Jezrien is the herald associated with the Windrunners, it could explain why Szeth has the same abilities as Kaladin. Probably the blade gives him the same abilities as a spren would.
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ShadowGlass posted:In the prologue there are two guys who talk about "that creature" (assumed Szeth) who "carries my lord's own blade". This could mean that Szeth's blade is not a shardblade, but actually Jezrien's honorblade. (Jezrien was a king, so if the two talking guys were also heralds, it'd fit). Since Jezrien is the herald associated with the Windrunners, it could explain why Szeth has the same abilities as Kaladin. Probably the blade gives him the same abilities as a spren would. Maybe shard blades are made of Spren, would explain why Syl is so distrubed by them, they are spren being enslaved rather than entering into an agreement
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Inspiration: Dull Shardplate interferes with surgebindings. Glowing Shardplate does not interfere. True Knights Radiant have Glowing Shardplate. Glowing Shardplate most likely glows because of the Knight Radiant Oaths Glowing Shardplate likely stopped glowing because during the Recreance, the Knights broke their oaths and walked away. Stormlight leaks from Surgebinders all the time. People are too porous. Stormlight only leaks from Shardplate when damaged. Theory: Glowing Shardplate is meant to keep the Stormlight inside the Knight Radiant near perfectly, allowing them to operate for longer periods after drawing from gems. Glowing Shardplate can draw the Stormlight they need to work from the Radiant's own reserves instead of gems.
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Different inspiration: -There were 10 Heralds, and apparently 9 left, leaving the 10th trapped in some kind of purgatory. -There is no evidence of Highstorms in the Radiants prehistory era. -Magic seemed much more widespread then. Theory: -The Stormfather who creates the Highstorms is the Herald that was left behind. He's still releasing his magical energy, but in the form of destructive storms that ravage Roshar. The other Heralds stopped giving their magic to the Radiants when they left, so they weren't able to keep surgebinding. The interlude about the people killing in the name of their emperor is an allegory about the Radiants, who abandoned their duty after they realized they were abandoned themselves. Also, this is why only Windrunning still exists - that is the magic of the Herald who became the Storm father
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Infinite Karma posted:Different inspiration: Except the 10th Herald shows up and falls over dead, at the end of the first book.
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ConfusedUs posted:Except the 10th Herald shows up and falls over dead, at the end of the first book. Correction: He falls over. Brandon's gone on record saying he's not dead, and will possibly even be a viewpoint character in later books. The easiest way to notice this is that the Herald's blades disappear when they die, an inversion of Shardblade behavior.
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Also, there was a bit implied that the Heralds reincarnate against their will, and it's not pleasant. As far as we've seen, the only magical power in the world comes from the Highstorms (even to the point where there are no sprens in Shinovar where they don't have Highstorms), and in the past, the Heralds and Radiants were the ones who had magic. With one Herald left behind on Roshar, and one source of magic left, it seems like there is an association.
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ShadowGlass posted:In the prologue there are two guys who talk about "that creature" (assumed Szeth) who "carries my lord's own blade". This could mean that Szeth's blade is not a shardblade, but actually Jezrien's honorblade. (Jezrien was a king, so if the two talking guys were also heralds, it'd fit). Since Jezrien is the herald associated with the Windrunners, it could explain why Szeth has the same abilities as Kaladin. Probably the blade gives him the same abilities as a spren would. Can't be - he drops his shardblade in the same prologue, and it disappears. Contrast to Talenel or whatever his name is, who keels over unconscious and his honorblade stays behind.
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ConfusedUs posted:Except the 10th Herald shows up and falls over dead, at the end of the first book. He's only mostly dead.
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Uggh. I gotta unbookmark this thread. I'll see ya guys in a couple of months.
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Words of Radiance now has a revised wallpaper(cover?), with Kaladan's spear pointed up instead of being leaned on. I like it, looks more dynamic. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/01/download-the-revised-words-of-radiance-wallpapers
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L-O-N posted:Words of Radiance now has a revised wallpaper(cover?), with Kaladan's spear pointed up instead of being leaned on. I like it, looks more dynamic. That's a fairly minor change that makes it about ten times better. Kaladin's old pose was awkward as all hell.
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