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Finally someone who shares my enthusiasm for feruchemy. I have always thought that if ever the Terris decided to train their feruchemists to fight, they'd be unstoppable.  I can just imagine them in expanding suits of armor, zooming into a fight, and kicking everyones trash.  I like the gold teeth idea.  Though if the feruchemist had a good supply of weight they wouldn't need to take the precation of having the metal inside them.

If i had money i would buy a Nightblood...

These t-shirts sound awesome. A couple more ideas:

Devoted follower of the Church of the Drunken Monkey
the red picture of the battle that Lightsong saw (we would need a very heightened artist for this one)
<-- I'm with Lifeless
T'Telir or Bust (on an extremely bright shirt)

and has anyone done something like this for brandon's other books? Mistborn could give rise to some pretty awesome shirts.

Round 1 Vin vs Raoden
This one all depends on the metals at Vin's disposal.  I will assume she doesn't have atium, but I think duralumin has become common enough that we can assume she has it. Now Raoden is a fast drawer, but faster than a spray of duralumin-steel pushed coins? I don't think so.  And so down goes the Elantrian with a newly installed coin slot in his head.

Round 2 Kelsier vs Dilaf
Dilaf simply brings the wrong weapons to the fight. His defenses consist of hard skin and bones and a resistance to AonDor -not very helpful against an allomancer burning pewter. Plus Kelsier has the ability to turn Dilaf's offensive weapon, a metal sword, against him. Another mistborn makes it through to the next round.

Round 3 Sazed vs Susebron
I was hoping Sazed would get an easier first fight, because he is just awesome. But sadly I must agree with previous posters. Susebron simply takes control of the surroundings and encases Sazed in a suffocating coffin of cloth. If only it were a coolness contest... *sigh*

Round 4 Vasher vs The Lord Ruler
In the Battle of the Ancients both would be masters of their specific arsenal. So it comes down to which magic is a superior weapon. I belive that to belong to TLR. The problem is that after a short time duking it out, both competitors would realize this. There is one thing that could give the fight to Vasher and that is that Rashek is cocky. After all he's seen and conquered, the idea of being attacked by ropes and cloth is almost laughable. So when Vasher lobs his metal sword in Rashek's direction, he thinks nothing of it. He did afterall let two spears pierce him without batting an eye. What harm could this STILL SHEATHED sword do? But then, it is a pretty sword. Beautiful infact. It's almost as if its calling for me to pick it up, draw it, kill this scraggily nobody with it... Nightblood sucks TLR dry.

Round 5 Spook vs Vivenna
This is the fastest fight yet. Our favorite tin-savant sees everything the awakener in training throws at him and takes her down with a well placed cane blow to the head.

Round 6 Denth vs Marsh
This one is a tough call because we never get to see Denth's skill in awakening. Denth has the edge when it comes to actual sword play, but the allomancy/feruchemy combo brought to the table by Marsh allows him to stay far away and attack from a distance while healing from whatever wound Denth landed. Marsh wins.

Round 7 Vin vs Kelsier
The epic teacher against student showdown. I give this one to Vin. Even after a few months she gave him a run for his money. Now that she has a couple more years under her belt, it would be no contest.

Round 8 Susebron vs Vasher
Susebron is just too innocent for Nightblood to entrance him. Vasher knows exactly what he's up against though. He draws Nightblood, slashing through the various rugs and ropes and creates a dark cloud of smoke where the God King once stood. Wow i didn't realize Vasher would come this far.

Round 9 Spook vs Marsh
I just can't see Spook ever getting on the offensive. He would be simply too busy dodging the onslaught that would be Marsh to do anything. After a while, he would slip up and get stuck. (The tin-savant would get second in a coolness contest though)

Round 10 Vin vs Vasher
Hmm... This is a tough one. So far Nightblood has been the key to Vasher's success. It killed the two most super powered people in the competition, but Vin is niether TLR nor the God King. She is both paranoid and and has years of  fighting experience. One of the first things she would do would be to push away his sword. With Nightblood out of the picture, Vasher goes down.

Round 11 Marsh vs Vin
Take away Marsh's fellow Inquisitors and Vin's AWESOME Preservation powers that unbalanced the fight in Hero of Ages and I think Vin will come out on top. She is simply a much better fighter than Marsh and has the knowledge of the Inquisitor's weakness. The other head spike is coming out.

Winner: Vin

The name of the book you couldn't remember is The Silence Divine.  This is referencing the ruling class of this world who have a disease that makes them go deaf but grants them some great power that allows them to retain control.  Being deaf would then become a desirable trait.

Forgive me if someone has already brought this up, but i think the most important part of Hoid's cameo in warbreaker was at the end of the scene when he tells Siri that he learned his method of storytelling where two lands meet and gods have died, or something like that. an actual piece of Hoid's backstory?

I am now beginning my "Hoid Search" reading of WoA, but i'll just throw out one possibility and see what u guys do with it. Kwaan?

I don't know. i'm still holding out judgement on whether or not Hoid is a singe person or something else. i can't get over the fact that he DIED in the first few chapters of Liar of Partinel that Brandon posted on here. either that is the end of the Hoid story within the chronology of Brandon's universe and the rest will be filled in later (i wouldn't like this option seeing as it would mean the great world hopping storyteller was killed by a simple poison), or reincarnation has something to do with the way he gets from world to world, or... there is more than one Hoid.

i just thought of something. if i remember right, liar of partinel takes place several hundred years before dragonsteel. does anyone who has read dragonsteel know if Hoid makes an appearance? has he returned from the dead??? did another Hoid get sent as a replacement???

Personally i am under the impression that Hoid is a title carried by a group of people and not one specific person because in my questioning of brandon at the signing i went to, i asked about Hoid and we discussed all the different books he's in. And then i said, "Yeah, but then he dies at the beginning of Liar of Partinel." To which Brandon replied, "Well, at least someone they called Hoid died..."  I took that to mean that more than one person are called Hoid.

Does a shard have to have an opposing shard? It is most likely the answer is yes, but there is always the possibility... maybe there can be more than 2 shards in opposition to each other at a time...