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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Dalinar's visions *SPOILERS*
« on: September 09, 2010, 04:46:49 AM »
Keep in mind that Ati and Leras had no scruples about messing with records.  Dalinar's visions might not be completely reliable if the person who's journal is being experienced is dead.  Ruin did have a way to mess with the metalmind stored knowledge after all.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOK Spoilers: Parshmen
« on: September 07, 2010, 11:23:03 PM »
I'd like to point out that even if the Parshendi/Parshmen are Voidbringers, and even if they are of Odium, that doesn't mean they like it.  Ruin's creatures certainly tried to avoid serving their master.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Kaladin and Syl *Spoilers*
« on: September 07, 2010, 11:07:42 PM »
Personally I'm wondering where Szeth's honorspren is.  Syl really doesn't like leaving Kal, so why is Szeth missing his companion?

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Brandon Sanderson / WoK Part 2 Epigraphs *Major Spoilers*
« on: September 07, 2010, 09:42:58 PM »
Is anyone else worried about Saze?  I can't imagine that Rayse would react well to Ruin and Preservation being held by the same person.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker: Free Ebook
« on: August 19, 2010, 08:22:34 PM »
I have a question and don't want to trawl through the thread to see if it's been answered.  The Free Ebook is released under Creative Commons, but the physical book is not.  Since the Ebook was released first, does this mean I am no longer allowed to redistribute the PDF for free?

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Which book should I read first?
« on: July 06, 2010, 06:39:58 PM »
I liked Winter's Heart.  It was epic.

Crossroads I'll admit wasn't so good.  IIRC it covers only about three days, and is mostly how the very, very large cast reacts to the climax of Winter's Heart.  I would suggest moving to Knife of Dreams within the same minute you finish Crossroads. 

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Aran - 0.0  Well you got me there.  haha.


Eyebrows or gravity?

 :)

Gravity.


 Ah, happyman could explain it better than I could.  Although, thinking back, the Reverse Lashing was used on a doorframe, so it could have become heavier.

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I didn't notice that.  I thought the type of gem just affected the amount of stormlight that could be stored within it, not what could be done with it.  Of course all I have seen done with stormlight so far is the lashings.

They said emerald was the most valuable because Soulcasters could use it to make food.  This implies that they can't use diamond held stormlight for foodmaking, otherwise it's rarity compared to emeralds would make it more valuable.  Unless emeralds are actually rarer than diamonds on Roshar, but I'm going to assume they aren't.

Technically, Emeralds are much rarer than diamonds here on terra firma. But diamonds are more expensive. Go figure.

I'll take your word for it.  But food making was singled out as why emerald was the most valuable.

I also noticed that Rubies and Sapphires were different denominations.  I wonder if Brandon meant specifically blue sapphire, because sapphires come in a lot of colors (red sapphires are rubies). 

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Aran - 0.0  Well you got me there.  haha.


Eyebrows or gravity?

 :)

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Another observation hinting at the people not being baseline human:  eyebrow hair that grows as long as the hair on the top of your head.

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When you read closer you can tell that it does change the pull of gravity for an individual person or object.

So instead of falling towards the ground at ten feet per second per second, you fall towards whatever object at ten feet per second per second.


Which is nothing at all like how gravity works.  Basic Lashing has some similarity to Physics 101 approximations of gravity, but nothing else.  Gravity is mutual attraction.  While the Basic and Reverse Lashings may look similar to gravity to someone who doesn't have an education in physics, the Full Lashing is the only thing that makes any sense as gravity manipulation.  Basic Lashing has coordinate system issues that make me think there's something altogether different than gravity causing the acceleration, and Reverse Lashing should make something extremely heavy which wasn't in evidence.

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I didn't notice that.  I thought the type of gem just affected the amount of stormlight that could be stored within it, not what could be done with it.  Of course all I have seen done with stormlight so far is the lashings.

They said emerald was the most valuable because Soulcasters could use it to make food.  This implies that they can't use diamond held stormlight for foodmaking, otherwise it's rarity compared to emeralds would make it more valuable.  Unless emeralds are actually rarer than diamonds on Roshar, but I'm going to assume they aren't.

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Those are all pretty good observations.  ;D



Infact, Lashings seem to be a much more apt description than any sort of gravity manipulation.

Also,Lashing isn't a fighting magic system.  It's much, much more useful for engineering than fighting.  I can give some examples of how if anyone wants me to.


Just realized something.  What kind of gem the stormlight is stored in changes what these "Soulcasters" can do with it.

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Haven't read the thread yet.

First, WTF kind of tech level do they have that glass can be used as currency but don't have guns? I'm going to assume they have magical techniques for making a lot of glass very cheaply, because glass is hugely expensive.

Other socio-economic observations: females are the intellectual class and eye color has an influence on rank.  This is interesting.  I'm unsure how that kind of hierarchy is stable, since dark eye colors are dominant RL, but we don't have yellow eyes RL so I'm guessing these guys aren't exactly baseline human.

Now then.

Magical Powered Armor!  Yay!

Assuming General Relativity has any relevance in the Cosmere, Lashings seem to have more in common with Iron Pulling than any sort of gravity manipulation.  Basic seems to pull a specific object in a specific direction, based on how Szeth could run on the walls.  Full seems to be a mutual attraction between two objects.  And Reverse is making something an attractor.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: "Death" of Ruin and Preservation
« on: July 05, 2010, 07:21:52 PM »
Something I'm hoping to see, eventually (and perhaps even sooner than later), is a timeline placing Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, and The Stormlight Archive chronologically for us fans.  I imagine the Master will make us wait until he's revealed more about the events surrounding the Shattering and Hoid's plot, but it never hurts to dream.

That might be difficult if relativity holds in Sanderson's cosmology.

Even if it did, wouldn't the story have a chronology from the perspective of Hoid, the Shards, and any other forces involved?

Yes, but those chronologies might have the same things happening in different orders.  If Hoid is getting around FTL and relativity holds, then time travel gets thrown in the mix as well.  Time gets funky on Galactic scales, and Vin could have been in an entirely different galaxy than Lightsong for all we know.

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