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Mordiceius posted:Ummmmmmm. ”The darkness arrived. And Wax died.” UMMMMMMMMMM Lol
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Finished the book. Enjoyed it. Very good. Have a lot of thoughts. Will share in the future. I liked the 2nd book more, by a hair. But this one was very good.
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Sep 3, 2021 03:54
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Evil Fluffy posted:This is one of the things that always stuck out as weird in the Wax and Wayne books. People with money and power would know about it and how it works so if robber baron type wanted to be a Mistborn they could fund the kidnapping and murder of a bunch of people to make it happen. The only reason I can think of it not happening is because one or more of Marsh noticing and taking action since he can probably more than handle any hemalurgic Mistborn who is getting used to their new power, the Kandra acting on their own to eliminate the person, or maybe Harmony intervening and using the extremely strong connection to that person to guilt trip them until they break but that doesn't seem very harmonious. I thought that hemalurgy is basically completely unknown outside of a very small number of people and it's hard to do because you need to know what spikes to use and where and also have Intent and you only get one try per person. It's not like there's a Big Book of Spiking that everyone can get from the library.
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Sep 3, 2021 05:20
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:I thought that hemalurgy is basically completely unknown outside of a very small number of people and it's hard to do because you need to know what spikes to use and where and also have Intent and you only get one try per person. It's not like there's a Big Book of Spiking that everyone can get from the library. That would make sense. The idea of hemalurgy may be a bit more wider spread, but the actual science of it is probably a lot less known.
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Sep 3, 2021 05:58
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hemalurgy isn’t losses and depends how much magical power your donors has. Marsh is probably as close a perfect roll as you can get. He got the best donors the empire had to offer and the people doing it knew what they were doing. The really terrifying thing about Marsh is he has had a hundreds a years to use feruchemy and compounding.
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Sep 3, 2021 19:14
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Calidus posted:hemalurgy isn’t losses and depends how much magical power your donors has. Marsh is probably as close a perfect roll as you can get. He got the best donors the empire had to offer and the people doing it knew what they were doing. The really terrifying thing about Marsh is he has had a hundreds a years to use feruchemy and compounding. What I don’t understand is why the lord ruler who was a full mistborn and feruchemist wasn’t compounding gold the whole time. But also plot and yeah miles hundred lives was such a distinct character because of his compounding. It would make sense to me that Marsh would be a compounder of gold if he is that old. But then wouldn’t he regrow his eye? Meh
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Sep 3, 2021 19:51
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White Chocolate posted:
Well with regard to The Lord Ruler, I assumed he DID compound gold. Hence how he survived burnings and beheadings. It was the loss of age compounding that killed him.
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Sep 3, 2021 20:31
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White Chocolate posted:
Probaby didn't regrow his eye for the same reason some wounds can't be healed on Roshar. Investiture heals new wounds, not wounds you see as part of yourself. Maybe he gets the healing spikes after the eye spikes. Or he can use gold to heal, but isn't a full compounder. Besides, they can "see" fairly well with the eye spikes so maybe it makes them powerful enough they don't want to heal it, and without the intent they can't be healed.
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Sep 3, 2021 23:00
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I read/audiobooked all of Stormlight Archive over the last year or so up until Rhythm of War came out. I just finished Warbreaker, and I guess I'm going to start working my way through the Cosmere audiobooks during my commute. Any recommendations for what I should read next?
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Sep 4, 2021 06:16
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Mistborn! Because you can then read straight through the Era 1 trilogy, and the current Era 2 books, then Secret History and your brain will explode as it connects the dots with Stormlight.
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Sep 4, 2021 12:11
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Finished up Shadows of Self finally, hell of an ending. Definitely a stronger showing than Alloy was, but it still feels a lot more pulpy than his other stuff which is something I like about the series, and it's starting to explore some of those crazy cosmic mysteries that era 1 did so well, so I'm really excited to get started on Bands of Mourning.
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Sep 10, 2021 00:09
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So I realized that I never actually read Arcanum Unbounded and was missing a huge chunk of Cosmere stuff even though some things like Kelsier being a cognative shadow and also Thaidakar, I just didn't know what happened to get there and I have to say, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell might be my favorite thing that he is written. It is almost like a horror short story but with a Cosmere twist. Also was good to get a bit of White Sands because I haven't actually read those either.
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Sep 12, 2021 12:41
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Well…. Secret History sure is going places. Just got to the part when Kelsier finds a castle of goddamn Elantrians.
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Sep 13, 2021 01:50
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Mordiceius posted:Well…. Secret History sure is going places. Yeah. That was wild. Also realizing who the people who were hanging were Khriss and Nazh
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Sep 13, 2021 02:37
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KKKLIP ART posted:Yeah. That was wild. Also realizing who the people who were hanging were Khriss and Nazh I haven’t read Stormlight yet, so I assume they’re from that?
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Sep 13, 2021 02:41
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Mordiceius posted:I haven’t read Stormlight yet, so I assume they’re from that? Actually no, White Sand and she is the… narrator for Arcanum Unbounded
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Sep 13, 2021 03:08
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For whatever reason I had remembered the outpost were not Elantrians, but people of Taldain serving an Avatar of Autonomy, possibly Trell
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Sep 13, 2021 03:30
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KKKLIP ART posted:Yeah. That was wild. Also realizing who the people who were hanging were Khriss and Nazh I always wondered something about them. The 17th shard people are basically immortal right? Because Demoux shows up on Roshar a long time later, and Khriss and Nazh show up in Wax and Wayne so I have to assume that like Hoid they have figured out some way to live much, much longer.
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Sep 13, 2021 22:29
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seaborgium posted:I always wondered something about them. The 17th shard people are basically immortal right? Because Demoux shows up on Roshar a long time later, and Khriss and Nazh show up in Wax and Wayne so I have to assume that like Hoid they have figured out some way to live much, much longer. nothing confirmed i think, at least when it comes to the apparently-human and as-far-as-we-know uninvested ones that should be living normal lifespans. it's possible there's some kinda time fuckery effects going on for these people travelling via cognitive realm a lot? but it's all a mystery
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Been avoiding the thread so I don't accidentally read some spoilers (almost read an Adolin spoiler and at that point I had to swear off the thread) but wanted to jump in to say I finished Words of Radiance and loving hell does the book end in the badass feverdream you hope it does. I can never tell with Sanderson if he'll pull the rug out from you like he always does or what, then I remembered that Stormlight it supposed to be 10 books long so of course he can't just go and off a bunch of people at once. Still, I'm addicted and jumped right into Edgedancer and am wondering if I should hold off on Oathbringer or read something else first since it sounds like other books tie pretty well into Stormlight. So far I've read: Elantris (and the asian inspired novella) Mistborn 1 through 3 Warbreaker Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (current) Should I jump into Oathbringer or detour into something else?
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Sep 13, 2021 23:42
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Louisgod posted:Should I jump into Oathbringer or detour into something else? you've read pretty much everything relevant to the current stormlight books except, in a very removed way, mistborn 4-6. but you've got all the important things covered on that list eke out fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Sep 13, 2021 |
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Sep 13, 2021 23:52
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eke out posted:nothing confirmed i think, at least when it comes to the apparently-human and as-far-as-we-know uninvested ones that should be living normal lifespans. I started digging into it and answered my own question, I knew I should have gone to the coppermind first. Apparently they all have some way to slow aging that hasn't been revealed yet. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/32-arcanum-unbounded-fort-collins-signing/#e2561 Knew I should have checked there first, someone else has already asked that question.
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seaborgium posted:I started digging into it and answered my own question, I knew I should have gone to the coppermind first. Apparently they all have some way to slow aging that hasn't been revealed yet. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/32-arcanum-unbounded-fort-collins-signing/#e2561 Knew I should have checked there first, someone else has already asked that question. ahhhh i thought it was just hinted at not confirmed that they were doing something
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Sep 14, 2021 00:27
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Louisgod posted:Been avoiding the thread so I don't accidentally read some spoilers (almost read an Adolin spoiler and at that point I had to swear off the thread) but wanted to jump in to say I finished Words of Radiance and loving hell does the book end in the badass feverdream you hope it does. I can never tell with Sanderson if he'll pull the rug out from you like he always does or what, then I remembered that Stormlight it supposed to be 10 books long so of course he can't just go and off a bunch of people at once. Still, I'm addicted and jumped right into Edgedancer and am wondering if I should hold off on Oathbringer or read something else first since it sounds like other books tie pretty well into Stormlight. So far I've read: On level, Oathbringer is my favorite mainline Stormlight book, so I'm gonna say jump into that. If you want to go short stories, you could always do Arcanum Unbounded, which does include Emperor's Soul and Edgedancer that you can skip, but also includes some excellent short stories that are cosmere connected and fit in with what you have read so far.
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Louisgod posted:Should I jump into Oathbringer or detour into something else? Read Oathbringer next, it's a fantastic book. Mistborn Era 2 stuff does show up in a minor way in Words of Radiance, but it's no big deal to miss it. As for what you should read after that, there's one significant revelation in Rhythm of War that you are much more likely to understand if you've read Mistborn: Secret History. But you absolutely shouldn't read Secret History without having read the three Era 2 Mistborn books before that (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Bands of Mourning). I don't know your reading pace, but the final Era 2 book comes out in November 2022, so this might work out pretty well for you. You can read Dawnshard if you run out of Mistborn books before The Lost Metal's release.
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Torrannor posted:Read Oathbringer next, it's a fantastic book. Mistborn Era 2 stuff does show up in a minor way in Words of Radiance, but it's no big deal to miss it. I’m Just going to put vacation days in for November 2022 now….
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Sep 14, 2021 11:38
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Do the audio books come out day and date or are they a bit after?
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Sep 14, 2021 14:51
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Mordiceius posted:Do the audio books come out day and date or are they a bit after? Usually same day, should be on audible 3amish EST
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Big news on this week's update... https://youtu.be/DPFPb-1-Bvg Tldw: the release parties/signings have gotten so big that they needed to turn them into a whole convention starting this year with Cytonic. Online passes that come with signed hardcovers are available, for only a couple bucks more than the Amazon price, plus optional add-ons such as doomslug plush.
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Sep 14, 2021 15:38
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I will continue to buy the UK editions of his skyward books because the covers are absolutely incredible compared to the milquetoast American ones. 
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Sep 14, 2021 15:44
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Torrannor posted:Read Oathbringer next, it's a fantastic book. Mistborn Era 2 stuff does show up in a minor way in Words of Radiance, but it's no big deal to miss it. Excellent, thanks! My reading pace is pretty good considering work and kids and all that, though my Sanderson journey will absolutely be interrupted once book 9 of Expanse comes out in a couple months. Either way, I'll probably finish Oathbringer by then and will move to Mistborn era 2.
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Mordiceius posted:Do the audio books come out day and date or are they a bit after? When Rhythm of War came out I bought the audiobook at midnight so I could listen to it all day until my hardcover book showed up around 4 PM which I switched to. I love me some Brando Sando.
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Secret History has me all emotionally hosed up. Probably a testament to the quality of Kramer’s narration. Though he gives Spook a different accent, which kinda felt weird.
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It was such a rollercoaster. Especially since it was released on the same day that Bands of Mourning was released. The 17th Shard forums understandably went gaga over it.
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You're off by a year. If SA 5 was going to come out next fall he'd have to be finishing writing it now. He's not starting until next year so it won't come out until 2023.
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Sep 14, 2021 20:31
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Writing up my thoughts on Bands of Mourning and Secret History. Their placement on the Sanderson Ranking Chart may be shocking.
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Fezz posted:You're off by a year. If SA 5 was going to come out next fall he'd have to be finishing writing it now. He's not starting until next year so it won't come out until 2023. SA5 isn't coming out next fall, Mistborn 7 is.
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Torrannor posted:SA5 isn't coming out next fall, Mistborn 7 is. Mistborn 7 is Nov 2022, SA5 is Nov 2023.
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Just finished up Bands of Mourning, pretty great! I really can't wait to see how era 2 ends and what it will mean for the cosmere as a whole.
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Jorenko posted:Big news on this week's update... https://youtu.be/DPFPb-1-Bvg This was an inevitable step, and honestly I'm more surprised it's taken this long to happen (though I'm guessing a pandemic didn't help). It's such an amazing thing for him to be able to do. What a legend!
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