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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Only thing, though, didn't the book say they had carapace helmets too?
I think he said he won't be able to do Stormlight 2 and AMOL in the same year, so Stormlight 2 would be pushed one year. Not sure though, but I know Brandon didn't like the amount of stress Towers of Midnight & The Way of Kings put him in 2010.
That's what I remember him saying as well. It'll probably be late 2013/early 2014 before we get Stormlight 2
That makes me a sad panda.
“You must take this. They must not get it.” He seemed dazed. “Tell…tell my brother…he must find the most important words a man can say….”
Later we're told this is a quote from the Way of Kings, but we're never given the quote.
Any ideas on what they might be?
"You're right, dear."
I really enjoyed seeing Inkthinker's thoughts on the Shallan pages on DeviantART, I'd love to hear some of the behind the scenes thoughts for the rest of them.
I pictured Kaladin's speaking the Radiant's Oath as something that "came into focus" within him at the time - like a paradigm shift, when things that previously made no sense to you are turned upside-down and suddenly fall into place.
If the Dawnshards were not weapons, how is the "champion" supposed to challenge anyone. It would be pretty difficult to fight a duel without a weapon of some sort. Because the Almighty is the representation of honour, that would imply that there would be a duel fought as that seems honourable and that the weapon used by the Almighty's champion would be a sword as that also seems the most honourable weapon.
Since this is a topic for the unhuman creatures known as Parshendi, does anybody else think that there is something connecting the Parshendi and the Aimia?The Parshendi remind me of the Dakhor Monks.
I was under the impression from the annotations and ars arcanum that it didn't really matter what the metal was that ways used in Hemalurgy. I'm not saying it didn't have an affect, just that Hemalurgy is extremely complicated and placement was more important than the particular type of metal used for the spike.In this interview Brandon said that burning a hemalurgic spike would have the effect of splicing your soul to that of the person who was used to make the spike or something to that effect. Contains spoilers.
Of course, I've been drinking tonight so I may be fouling up my whole theory there.
I'm still pondering what would be the novel affect of an allomancer burning a hemalurgic spike. There has to be something to it. I'm not talking about gargling with inquisitor spikes, I was thinking smaller spikes. Would a feruchemically charged hemalurgic spike be burnable by an allomancer? If so, would it be the base metal that rules or would it be impossible to burn a hemalurgic spike charged with feruchemical properties? (We see this in one of the books, it doesn't work for Vin when she tries to burn a feruchemical metal) This does, however, leave the door open for an allomancer to burn a hemalurgic spike charged with an allomantic property. I'm guessing, that it would lead to an extra potent allomantic blast, basically doubling the power of the metal burned, but I am often wrong, and as I said, alcohol is clouding my train of thoughts at the moment.
Also Kaladin has seen the insides of a Parshendi, and they are NOT human, not even close. And he has the medical training to know.
And that's what makes writing an art form! Something doesn't stop being an art just because it's difficult.Too many sharp points to be artistic?No, Too many sharp points to be written as a single continuous line without lifting the pen, and it is more the Vowels that have that problem (changes in direction aren't a problem, it is the re-tracing over previous lines that starts causing issue where you break the artistic quality of the piece because of failure to exactly re-trace your previous stroke).
