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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: EUOL on February 02, 2006, 03:57:42 PM
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First one is up and kicking:
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/page.php?id=16
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Whoo-hoo. That's cool.
Hey, EUOL, I keep forgetting to thank you for WELL. I read the whole e-ms. in 2 days back in Dec!! Couldn't stop myself. :D
Sorry I didn't get to it sooner. :P But it was worth the wait to plow into it w/ no disruptions. (Of course, I had to restrain myself from giving comments since it seemed like you'd gotten all the feedback you needed by that time.) Anyway, thanks a bunch!
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Tin? Is that a change?
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Yup. I finally bowed to peer pressure on the silver/pewter thing.
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Hmm. So will the nickname be Tineyes for Mistings who Burn it?
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Yup. I finally bowed to peer pressure on the silver/pewter thing.
What pressure was that? Was there something wrong with silver?
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The problem is that pewter is not an alloy of silver like Brandon was using it as. He tried to get around it by saying "Allomancer's pewter" was different from "Jeweler's pewter"...
That would be funny if having a tin ear meant the opposite of what it means in our world.
So anyway does this mean silver is not used in the allomantic system at all? It would seem an odd omission...
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It isn't. I just couldn't find a good Alloy of it to use. Except for Electrum, which is already being used!
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Well, I have to say, I don't like TinEyes. It doesn't have the roll that Silvereyes has.
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And the people could think the same thing and still choose to say Silvereyes...Tin is kinda silvery, right??
So do people mention that no use has ever been found for silver?
Electrum could be used for Silver, and Orichalcum (Tumbaga) (which some say the Golden Plates must have been made of) for Gold...
Of course, Sterling could be used for Silver as well...
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And if their eyes looked silvery, that would make sense, but since their eyes are Silvereyes (or were) because they used silver to see better with, how could they stay silvereyes when it's tin that they use to see with. Doesn't have the right sound. And who's going to know that pewter and silver don't go together? Some jewelers? I didn't know. Had no idea.
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Well, I have to say, I don't like TinEyes. It doesn't have the roll that Silvereyes has.
I had to go with Tineyes. It's already done, so no use arguing. I'll agree that it was very sad to lose Silvereye--it was the very first of the Allomantic Misting names I came up with, and I really liked how it rolled. That's why I resisted changing for so long.
There are a number of metals that don't have any Allomantic properties. Lead and mercury are two that come to mine immediately. So, it's not odd that silver doesn't have one.
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Tineyes just seems the opposite of what the average English speaker would think it would mean... Oh well.
So did that one part in book 2 get changed as well?
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I learned the terms off the new revision of Mistborn 1, so I learned Tineye first, and like it much better. It's probably just a matter of what you got used to first.
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In a lot of cases, it is how you say Fish, but I never read either one, and I like Silvereyes much better. I think it is just a matter of aesthetics. I'm no synesthete, but when I hear silver, I see it shining bright white, but when I hear tin, it calls to mind a darker grey to me, and it just doesn't sound as good. But that's me, and I am, decidedly, quite insane.
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I am, decidedly, quite insane.
Thank you, Zane.
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I also read Mistborn after the changes, and honestly, I like Tineye better. To me, silvereye just brings to mind the color of silver rather than the use of the metal. I think it does roll off the tongue well, but doesnt convey the use as well as tineye does.
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So I was working on my novel and I accidentally spelled mismatched as "mistmatched." It instantly made me think of a few particular characters in Mistborn and Well. lol.
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Very cool, very cool. Kelsier is just one of those characters you like right off the bat.
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Have you noticed that Kelsier's nickname in Brandon's website sample chapters is "Kell" but on Amazon.com it's "Kel"?
By the way, I'm loving the first chapters. Can't wait until it comes out.
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I just got the 2nd book in electronic form from EOUL, and Silvereyes is still present in that work. I haven't read the first one though. (Although I did read the original original Mistborn and Final Empire, so fewer surprises for me! Really kind of interesting to see two fantasy worlds you knew get the Monster Mash into one.)
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I liked it when the Svordish Navy showed up in Way of Kings...
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I've decided not to read them, so that I don't spoil the book and have to skip over them (by spoil I mean end up thinking along the lines of 'oh, I've already read this, boring').
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So, Um, you can allready buy proofs of this book on e-bay. Is it just me or does that seam wrong, people who get proofs selling them months before the book comes out?
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I agree, it's wrong. It's like selling a autographed baseball before it is even autographed.