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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOK Spoilers: Parshmen
« on: September 15, 2010, 04:19:20 PM »
Quote from: Pechvarry on September 15, 2010, 07:03:12 AM
Quote from: jacobfake on September 14, 2010, 11:38:20 PM
Pg 15

    The monstrosity was vaguely skeletal in shape, with unnaturally long limbs that sprouted from granite shoulders. The eyes were deep red spots on the arrowhead face, as if created by a fire burning deep within the stone.



Pg 850

    Massive creatures, easily five or six times the seize of a person, their skin dull and grey like granite. They had long limbs and skeletal bodies, the forelegs-or were they arms?-set into wide shoulders. The faces were lean, narrow. Arrowlike.

I guess 5-6 man-sizes didn't seem like enough to warrant a 6-foot-long hand (also stated on page 15).  But I suppose that's over 30' tall.

You're assuming that the creatures have the same physical proportions as the human body. If they're proportioned as having hands twice as long as an equivalent-sized human but are also five or six times the size of a person, there's no problem.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Interesting Line by Hoid in tWoK
« on: September 14, 2010, 09:15:52 PM »
Quote from: jrh1524 on September 14, 2010, 04:43:13 PM
I'm on to something!  What if Hoid is Adonalsium?!   Hoid lost his powers some how a long time ago, and is going around to the different worlds trying to help people while at the same time get his powers back.  He has some huge and complicated plan he is working on.

Perhaps Hoid is secretly Bela!

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: September 14, 2010, 09:07:24 PM »
I want to see Kaladin use his Surgebinding and have everyone freak out when his eyes turn light.

I'm looking forward to more information from Taln. He'll know about Dawnblades, the Oathpact, the Heralds, how Surgebinding works, the Voidbringers, and (probably) Odium/Bavadin. It'll be interesting to see how much we learn from him.

I'm interested to see how the Ghostbloods and Thaidakar are developed. Supposedly they're responsible for an attempt on Jasnah's life, Shallan's father was a member, the Shardbearer that Kaladin killed was one of them, Brightlord Amaran opposes them, and Gavilar thought they were so interested in his black sphere that they'd try to assassinate him with a Shardbearer.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: tWoK's place in the Cosmere (possible spoilers for all books)
« on: September 14, 2010, 08:52:19 PM »
Quote from: SnagglezMaw on September 14, 2010, 08:29:32 PM
Quote from: calvin on September 14, 2010, 12:49:32 PM
He said he plans to release 2 books approximately every 3 years...thus, 10 books...15 years.
Does this include WoT, Stormlight Archive and young adult books?

No. WoT 14 will be out in 2011 (early spring of 2012 at the latest), which will complete the WoT series. After that, Brandon has said he'll be shooting for 2 Stormlight Archive books every 3 years, and in between he'll probably do a YA book or some more stand-alone fantasy novels so that he doesn't burn himself out.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Kykeon's theory on Shards, The oathpact and surgebinding.
« on: September 14, 2010, 04:42:12 PM »
Quote from: Munin on September 13, 2010, 07:33:47 PM
Actually, only one order of the Radiants were Surgebinders. The Windrunners, I believe.

Do you have a quote on this one? Because I'm inclined to think that Surgebinding simply means using Stormlight to fuel your particular system of magic.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK 30 magic systems (spoilers)
« on: September 14, 2010, 04:38:43 PM »
Fairly in line with what I'd imagined while reading the Ars Arcanum. 10 Essences and 3 Shards. From the Almighty, we have 10 Orders of surgebinders, from Odium there would be 10 Orders of voidbinders, and from Cultivation there would be 10 Orders of Old Magics-binders (or perhaps Old-binders).

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Bridge Crews & Bridges
« on: September 14, 2010, 04:24:50 PM »
I think Brandon's already covered this, either in the book, in interviews, or at signings.

It's covered by the economic concept of opportunity cost (every resource used has an opportunity cost equal to the other uses it could've been used for). In this case, the resources are the gemhearts used for Soulcasting. The army has enough gemhearts to Soulcast food. Using the gemhearts for this purpose means they don't require supply lines. If they used the gemhearts for Soulcasting bridges, they might have to develop supply lines to bring in food from outside.

In the end, it's cheaper to Soulcast rocks into food and use manual labor to make bridges than it is to Soulcast air into bridges and use manual labor to transport food to the warcamps.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Shards (Elantris and WoK spoilers)
« on: September 14, 2010, 04:14:09 PM »
Quote from: happyman on September 14, 2010, 03:51:02 PM
Quote from: Pechvarry on September 14, 2010, 05:13:55 AM
Lord-Ruler referred to himself as a "Splinter of Divinity", no?

The idea of Seons as splinters gaining consciousness makes me think about Nightblood -- perhaps that much breath to awaken a sword is effectively ripping a splinter off Endowment.  Temporarily damming the river where normal awakenings are more like dipping a bucket in.

Well, something is up with that sword.  It baffled Vasher why he (gender used simply for convenience) had any personality at all.  Something odd happened during its creation.  It's almost like a new creation, akin to creating a human.  Akin to creating a child.

Since God Kings apparently can create children (from Brandon via Peter, I think), maybe this is related.

I took Nightblood more to be an example of "if you put enough Breaths into something you can permanently Awaken it." With a sword (which isn't very much like a human body) it took 1,000 Breaths to Awaken; the result was Nightblood. With a dead human body (which is very much like a human body) it takes 1 Breath to Awaken; the result is a Lifeless.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Shalan - near end of book **SPOILERS**
« on: September 14, 2010, 04:06:11 PM »
Perhaps they took the Soulcaster from him while he was still alive. In a rage, he summoned the Shardblade and tried to get it back, accidently cutting the Soulcaster in the process. Shallan, fearing for her brother's life, kills her father. Really, I'm just trying to come up with scenarios that have Shallan ending up with the Shardblade and with the Soulcaster being cut by it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Cymatics
« on: September 14, 2010, 03:45:51 PM »
Wonder why Jasnah can't make a cymatic version of Urithiru...

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Shalan - near end of book **SPOILERS**
« on: September 13, 2010, 11:15:42 PM »
Quote from: Cheese Ninja on September 10, 2010, 08:04:06 PM
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The Soulcaster looked identical to the one she and her brothers had found in the inside pocket of her father’s coat. -Page 95

Looking at this quote again, it sounds a lot like her brothers and she were looting the corpse of her father. I'm fairly certain that Nan Balat either would've wanted the Shardblade for his own or would've wanted to sell it. So, it's my belief that Shallan's brothers don't know she has the blade.

Seriously, I have more questions about the murder of Shallan's father than any other incident mentioned in the book.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Help!! I'm new!...SPOILERS FOR ALL BOOKS
« on: September 13, 2010, 10:54:42 PM »
Quote from: SnagglezMaw on September 13, 2010, 04:40:52 AM
I like this idea, because to me, it creates more mystery and leaves you thinking even more: what else could be going on? The scale of this whole thing is enormous and I wouldn't be surprised (or rather, I would be) to see all kinds of twists and turns Brandon could throw into it.

Yeah, but twists should be relevant to the plot or they lose impact. We know that Rayse went to Sel and killed both Aona and Skaze from the epigraphs. We also know that Odium went to Sel prior to the events on Elantris. The reasonable assumption to draw from this is that Rayse is Odium. A twist could be thrown in, but it doesn't seem like Rayse not being Odium would enhance the plot.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ruin-like Odium?
« on: September 13, 2010, 10:48:29 PM »
Quote from: ROSHtafARian on September 12, 2010, 03:32:53 AM
In fact, the only thing that makes me think Odium ISN"T behind the visions, is that its too similar to what Brandon already did with Ruin in Mistborn....unless its a deliberate repetition, something along the lines of that since all the Shards used to be part of the same being or force, perhaps they all think or plot alike on some level and are likely to use similar tactics....and that itself could be a key to opposing them or predicting their next move.

Brandon has been pretty explicit in stating that he wants this to be original. Mistborn was his attempt at a fantasy where the things turned out opposite of what we'd expect from fantasy. I doubt that he's recast Ruin as Odium in this series.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Splinters - SPOILERS for TWoK and Elantris
« on: September 13, 2010, 08:28:10 PM »
Quote from: happyman on September 13, 2010, 03:06:38 PM
Quote from: Nightfire107 on September 12, 2010, 08:52:51 AM
The one thing i would say is that the visions take place after periods of the knights radient doing stuff. And the almighty talks to dalinar about these things in the recording. Unless the almighty could see the future and record "into" the futre he was not dead during the times the recordings were made. Cool theory though...

Ah, but he could see into the future.  It's one of the documented abilities Shardbearers seem to pick up.  Preservation did it (it's where the Kandra prophecies come from, and presumably why Preservation won in the end), and at the end of tWoK, the Almighty says outright that he can see the future as well, although it's not perfect, and Cultivation was better at it.

Given the fact that Atium gives humans the ability to see a little distance into the future, it makes sense to me that having the full power of a shard behind you would extend this ability enormously, but with the same basic restrictions build in (e.g. another being with the same power can disrupt your ability).  Shard's fighting each other would then be like Atium users fighting each other writ very large (and on enormous timescales.)  They are balanced with each other, but everybody else in the nearby vicinity is predictable and gets used like pawns.

I like this idea. It's like the Shardholders are playing a game of chess against each other, and what really matters is how many moves in the future you can predict. It's like Kasparov vs. Deep Blue.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: The face in the storm? *Spolier*
« on: September 13, 2010, 08:18:52 PM »
We haven't been told yet.

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