Max is a Shadowblade, a supernatural--and supernaturally competent--warrior bound to protect her witch Giselle. As a Shadowblade, Max doesn't age. She is better, faster, stronger than any ordinary human being. And she hates it. Giselle betrayed her trust to make Max what she is, and though she is magically compelled to protect Giselle and follow orders, Max works against her witch in every way she can. Continue reading Bitter Night
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If I remember correctly, which I may not, I think Hoid was in Elantris, and then appeared in all 3 Mistborn books.
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Its been a long time since I read the Mistborn series, and I don't have them handy, but Hoid was the beggar that Kelsier spoke to (so in the original Mistborn book), and claimed to be blind. Hoid was also the wealthy informant that Vin spoke to to get information (I think this was in WoA, but I could be wrong), and then Hoid was sort of seen in HoA. He was the informant that Vin did NOT talk to, she saw him, and got an "odd feeling" and didn't approach him. Somewhere on here I read that Brandon validated this in an interview or something. Hope this helps a little with Hoid. Obviously Hoid is the storyteller, Hoid, in Warbreaker
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Hoid wasn't the wealthy informant, he was the second one Vin went to, that she never actually talked to. I was really disappointed about that - she mentioned she was going to talk to a beggar named Hoid, and I thought there was going to be some awesome scene with the two of them. Ruin ruins everything.
You know how it says, somewhere, that one of the three viewpoint characters would ruin the world? (I don't remember where, but that means that either Dalinar, Shallan, or Kaladin are going to do something really stupid.) My bet is on Kaladin. He just seems too easily embittered, and while he did a ton of good in this first book, I can easily see him turning into a much shadier guy as we get deeper into the series.
I mean, once he gets his powers developed, he'll be just as unstoppable as Szeth--but without any random oaths to anybody else. I can see him going Loose Cannon on Roshar brightlords sometime in the future.
Dalinar or Adolin might never kill Sadeas, but Kaladin? Oh, boy.
I just loved it when he said:Ooh, yes - both those lines gave me chills. That entire scene has to be one of my favourites in the book - the entire time I was just bouncing up and down in my seat yelling quotes from Gurren Lagann.Quoteand again:
"They won't come, ELhokar...They're my men, and I left them with orders not to enter - or let anyone else enter - no matter what they heard. Even if that included pleas for help from you."Quote"I trained them. I placed them there. They've always been loyal to me."When I read that, I was like, this guy demands respect. He knows how to lead men, and take charge. He has power.
The first thing I did when I bought my copy was gape at the inside cover art and try to wrap my head around the complexity of the glyphs and faces and maps. Actually, just the maps at first because I was in way over my head with the glyphs. Just seeing these endpages convinced me that all the hype was totally justified. (Then the story blew me away, but that's a different topic).
Anyway, thanks to the great analysis of the herald pictures in another thread (http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=7910.0) I feel like I have a handle on the glyph/herald bit, and I'm revisiting the pattern I saw that first day. I'm going to just describe it in text and let someone with better image skills than mine take care of posting illustrations/scans.
Others of you have probably noticed that the glyphs on the brown Roshar page and the blue Shadesmar page are the same, just permutations of each other. Not just stylized versions, though--they follow the symmetry rules of Roshar in interesting ways:
The gem glyphs (the smaller circles) in Shadesmar are the Roshar glyph with the right half inverted vertically. The herald glyphs (the larger circles) are a different kind of inversion--the blank space and character space change places. That is, the Shadesmar herald glyphs are like a negative image of the Roshar glyphs. Invert the colors of one and you get the other, with allowances for style and script.
It took me a while to figure this out, partly because of the similarity of some of the herald glyphs to their inverted counterpart, but mostly because I had the schematic oriented wrong. In both cases the map page defines "down" for the double eye of glyphs.
Yeah I couldn't believe I didn't remember who Hoid was, I've read everything Sanderson has written except for Alcatraz books. Now I'm trying to remember and find all the roles he has had untie other books. I just hope Hoid will be explained more in the stormlight saga.
Hm - does it ever mention whether shardblades will cut through animals' flesh while they're alive?
They can't cut through a Chasmfiend's exoskeleton until it's dead.
Oh, right, of course.
Although... are we really sure chasmfiends are just dumb animals?
They are currently into the habit of getting themselves killed, by one army. If they were smart they would fight back.
Hm - does it ever mention whether shardblades will cut through animals' flesh while they're alive?
They can't cut through a Chasmfiend's exoskeleton until it's dead.
Shardblades are only able to physically cut materials that aren't linked to a living mind. When interacting with living tissue, my guess is that they sever the physical object's connection to the cognitive/spiritual realm -- which is the sort of raw "laws of magi-physics" shenanigans which I'd place deeper than spren.
Recently, a theory has been circulating that implies that Greatshell beasts, such as chasmfiends, imprison spren inside their gemhearts in order help carry their bulky exoskeleton.
