Cloaked Mystery

@princesachronicle22

I think that would be fine. A lot of us already have two, not including villains.

@princesachronicle22

Well, they’re fighting two dragons, one of which is an acid-spitting jungle dragon that had stolen a magic stone that the good guys stole. There are also some various villains that belong to different people, like two dark elves belonging to RAE, a shapeshifting monster also belonging to RAE, a psychopath armed with an a…[Read more]

@princesachronicle22

Of course! (And politeness will be irrelevant—they are currently in a pitched battle, which by definition lacks in politeness, lol.)

@thearcaneaxiom

Yeah, there is no shard there. I know why there is a perpendicularity there, though. RoW has an epigraph that answers that question if you read between the lines a bit. Threnody doesn’t have a shard either but probably contains some of Ambition’s investiture.

@thearcaneaxiom

I’m assuming that the place called Patji’s eye is probably the location of the perpendicularity, which is why the aviar gain invested powers there. It’s interesting that perpendicularities seem to leak investiture into nearby things. This isn’t mentioned in Warbreaker, but the flowers called Tears of Edgli contain investi…[Read more]

And now I’ve read Sixth of the Dusk. This one was definitely interesting. The aviar magic system is not clearly laid out, which is unusual, but pretty interesting. It’s also interesting how it seems that a lot of the creatures that inhabit First of the Sun can detect and send mental messages.

@thearcaneaxiom

It’s definitely fairly common. In HoA Vin was held in silver shackles to prevent her using them. Sanderson actually considered silver being used instead of aluminum, but decided that aluminum would work better, because it would start out rare and then become more common. Maybe silver just isn’t viable against most investiture. I w…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Another thing interesting in Silence is the silver. I think that’s the only place we’ve seen where silver is important. It seems that silver is sort of similar to aluminum, except that it seems to actually hurt the shades, whereas aluminum would presumably just block them. But if silver has some sort of effect on investiture, I w…[Read more]

That arrow was supposed to point to my post btw.

@rae @keilah-h @highscribeofaetherium @beth-torres @trailblazer @acancello (I think that’s everyone)

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@savannah_grace2009

That would indeed be desperate. There would also of course be the option of adding more characters, although even that might not work very well, because the characters understand that these people were brought to help them—

I’VE GOT IT!!! A spy hunt! We add a new villain (and maybe a few non-villains to add confusion) and hav…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Shadows was interesting, if a little creepy. I was quite interested in the “Evil” which I’m assuming had to do with a shard splintering.

Yeah it was interesting. I’m not sure if the Evik is directly caused by a Shard splintering, but the shades are so it seems likely. Arcanum Unbounded mentions that a shard was shattered near Th…[Read more]

It’s almost the end of the year, and all the secret projects were for this year.

@highscribeofaetherium

Yes it is.

The mistake with spending so long in Lillen was that they had time to work out their differences and cooperate in a safe environment and now they are working together perfectly. That would be good in real life, but us not at all what we want here!

@savannah_grace2009

I’m honestly a bit bored of the action scenes too. Sometimes they’re cool, like the fight in the burning palace, and the fights between our characters were fun as well, but this one just feels bland to me. We’ve already explored a lot of the interesting fight possibilities. Next time we do a fight we should at least creat…[Read more]

Okay I just checked and that is everything, except the White Sands graphic novel. I think a full novel for White Sands is scheduled for the end of 2025, so I’ll probably just wait for that.

@thearcaneaxiom

In other words, RAFO😂

I wonder if you could use Feruchemy. Remember those disc things in BoM? What if you were able to store connection to Elantris and then tap it so that you could use AonDor anywhere?

Raoden assumed that they all came form the Dor, which I’m guessing is secretly just Devotion and Dominion, despite just being s…

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@highscribeofaetherium

True. What’s your point?

@thearcaneaxiom

I have now finished the Emperor’s Soul. I actually really liked it! Forgery is a pretty cool magic system. The book was very different from what I’m used to from Sanderson.