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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2009, 11:31:13 PM »
Quote from: Shaggy on January 08, 2009, 02:02:00 AM
Just puttin this out there–Dilaf might've taken one too many hits on his freaky little head. I don't know if he was on somethin major, or the Dakhor place made him a nut, but he seemed a little whacky to me.

This means Brandon wrote his character well, and you read it correctly.  He was crazy, no question about it.  The thing is, though, is that he was still largely rational, in some senses of the word.  He could plan and execute his plans in a way that made sense.  It was mostly just his goals and motivations which defy our understanding.  But, with some notable exceptions (Elantris), he seemed to understand the world he lived in just fine.  So while we have to take into account his distorted view of the world, on many subjects he can be trusted to at least be partially accurate.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2009, 11:40:21 PM »
I guess you're right. But if I had to be in a room with him, I'd stick close to the door and keep one hand on my knife.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2009, 02:58:49 AM »
Quote from: Shaggy on January 08, 2009, 11:40:21 PM
I guess you're right. But if I had to be in a room with him, I'd stick close to the door and keep one hand on my knife.

I would try to look as unthreatening as possible: no knives!! :o
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2009, 03:48:41 AM »
I'm with Reaves on this one. I personally wouldn't want to mess with him. That is unless I was a fully trained Elantrian of course.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2009, 01:46:48 AM »
Reaves–lol I guess you're right. But you could hide your blade up your sleeve or something.

Or if you were a better-trained Dakhor monastery guy I guess you could take him…. That'd be cool–writing a fight between two Dakhor-trained monks. It'd sorta be like two Mistborn fighting with atium. Kind of.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2009, 05:56:56 AM »
 Ummm, no offense, but that is kind of a bad comparison. If two two mistborn are fighting with Atium, they just see a bunch of atium shadows.

And yes. I know you said kind of
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2009, 12:38:36 AM »
Yes, but my point is, if two atium-using Mistborn fight each other, all the advantages of atium are negated. SImilar with Dakhor guys.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2009, 01:53:30 AM »
Ohh... I see. But then what's the point? They  would just be ordinary people fighting, wouldn't they?
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2009, 07:46:01 PM »
Quote from: hoid354 on January 13, 2009, 01:53:30 AM
Ohh... I see. But then what's the point? They  would just be ordinary people fighting, wouldn't they?

Well, either set could inflict a lot of collateral damage in the process.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #24 on: January 13, 2009, 11:03:47 PM »
But the original point of the discussion was that most people would stay away from Dakhor monks. But what I was saying was that if you wanted to take out a Dakhor monk, it would be best to use another Dakhor monk. You see?
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2009, 04:17:30 AM »
kind of, but still, if their power is evenly matched, wouldn't they either: A, both die; or B, nether die?
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2009, 04:23:29 AM »
Not necessarily. Two men who receive the same training can turn out to be very different [soldiers]. You have to consider natural ability, how much attention oen payed, strength/speed before training, stuff like that. And intelligence. Never forget intelligence.
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2009, 05:38:50 AM »
And circumstances. A lot of random things can happen through the course of a fight that could give one person the advantage they needed to win.

If I were trying to take out a Dakhor monk, I'd use a time-traveling mistborn.  ;D Or Hoid.....

This is probably as good a place as any to make this statement, so here goes.

For those of you who don't know me, I am Andrew the Great. I posted on this forum quite a bit before HoA came out, mostly in the crazy theorizing department. However, I got to the point where I was just tired of theorizing, and by association, of TWG. As such, I took a 2 month break after the release of Hero of Ages (almost exactly, My last post is like a week after HoA came out). However, this break was never intended to be permanent, and I have now repented of my evil inactivity and have decided to come back online to TWG. So, here I am, and I guess that explains just about everything. Except for the fact that Chaos, Green, and Reaves now all outrank me. By a lot. When I left, Chaos was 1 level above me and Reaves and Green were both several levels beneath me. Oh well.

Oh, and those of you who don't know me, I'm notorious for making extremely long and (occasionally) rather tedious posts. So there. Happy to be back!
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2009, 06:14:29 PM »
Good to have you back, Andrew! We've missed you  ;)
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Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2009, 07:14:54 PM »
Welcome back, Andrew!

Quote from: Andrew the Great on January 20, 2009, 05:38:50 AM
Except for the fact that Chaos, Green, and Reaves now all outrank me. By a lot. When I left, Chaos was 1 level above me and Reaves and Green were both several levels beneath me. Oh well.

If it's any comfort to you, from my perspective most of Green's multitudinous posts in the last couple months have been very close to spam - he and a bunch of other people went crazy on the titles thread and other places.  It's not like the majority of his 1000+ posts have been in-depth HoA theorizing.   Not that I object, I'm just saying rank doesn't mean everything.
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