Otherworldly Historian

@jonas

Warbreaker is available online, in case you didn’t know.

That is very good to know, thanks!

Yeah, a friend of mine has finished all of the cosmere, and the majority of the rest of his books, and has been panicking about what else to read😄

@jonas

Well, too spoilery to me, I just didn’t read Hope of Elantris, and I think that’s it, because I haven’t read Elantris, but Emperor’s Soul, while on the same planet, was pretty stand alone. Unbounded basically has all side stories in the Cosmere with a few exceptions of newer stories, but they might be added later in updated…[Read more]

@jonas

I’ve recently finished Arcanum Unbounded, skipping over the few books that were too spoilery, but from that, I’ve read Emperor’s Soul, Forests of Hell, Sixth of Dusk, White Sands 1, as well as Mistborn: Secret History. Emperor’s Soul I found interesting, but from what I could tell at least, didn’t contain much impact on the grander…[Read more]

@jonas

 It’s mature in other ways.

Ahh, I see. That I did hear about before. Sanderson will write suggestive material when he wants to.

@jonas @highscribeofaetherium

Yeah, I have Yumi, but I want to finish Oathbringer first. Tress and Frugal were both a blast however. They take on a far less serious tone, being more whimsical, but in a way th…[Read more]

@jonas

Good to know!

@highscribeofaetherium @jonas

Cool! Thanks for explaining. I know you were speaking down on it a bit, but I’m honestly feeling more excited for it now. We’ll have to see though. I have read some of Sanderson’s darker writing before, like WaW 2, as well as some short stories, so I’m not sure how that compares with War breaker, so I’ll be excited…[Read more]

@jonas

Funnily enough, I didn’t even know it was on Roshar😅 Warbreaker is on my to do, but I have learned anything about it yet.

@Anyone

Some more intriguing questions for anyone willing to discuss!

What happens to those who don’t have the opportunity to learn about the Savior in this life?

Where is the line we must walk between scholarly rigor and child like faith?

Do we discern truth based off of what feels right, or what has more logical substance? (More and more C…[Read more]

@trailblazer

Mormon is the nick name for the Church, so there isn’t really any difference😂 That being said, we prefer to use the true name of the Church, because it expresses that we worship Christ, and that He is the core of the Gospel, many think we worship Mormon, when we don’t. Mormon is regarded as a great profit of God, but this isn’t…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

Ahh man, I literally just barely missed the next chapter reveal. I guess I’ll have to read it tomorrow🙃

@savannah_grace2009

Ok, I’m finally gonna get through the rest of your chapters:

I enjoyed chapter 3. It functions as a proper first chapter (Lilitu is the real main character, right?), all the previous ones seemed more like a series of prologues. This is fine, The Way of Kings, the first book of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson did…[Read more]

@trailblazer

I suppose that’s a working explanation. Where Christ is the solid, the Holy Spirit is the liquid, and Heavenly Father is gas, expressing the hierarchy of God’s physical manifestation. Both solid and liquid are confined to this earth, whereas gas can permeate through all of space. I like that explanation more than the egg one.

Once…[Read more]

@trailblazer

Yeah, I see what your getting at. It’s a reasonable enough explanation. Where your saying Christ and the Holy Spirit swapped places, and the Holy Spirit is the aspect of God that is enveloping the Earth.

So the Holy Ghost is specifically the spirit of Jesus Christ, while still being the same spirit as the Father in a grander sense,…[Read more]

@jonas

Ok, that makes sense. That would be quite a bit different then, and there would be a lot of intriguing pathways to explore with that, so I’m on board!

@jonas

I am aware of Legion, but I haven’t read it. I would say that the main thing that differentiates Krenna is that unlike either of those characters, these other personalities are somewhat real, and not figments of imagination resulting from a mental illness.

That’s a fair distinction. In regard to Legion specifically though, while it is the r…[Read more]

@jonas

I do kind of want to keep fire, water, earth, and air.

Sounds good, just thought I’d point it out.

Celestiar mostly follows the rules of our universe, so in most cases, I don’t think I’m going to explain real natural phenomenon with magical rules I invented, so I don’t think that would be the case.

So if that’s the case, are the diffe…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

Yeah, I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and we believe that Heavenly Father, the Holy Ghost, and Jesus Christ are three distinct beings, though they are indeed one in purpose. (Please don’t burn me at the stake😅)

@trailblazer

Yeah, absolutely, that’s the mentality that I strive for in…[Read more]

@jonas

I really like this! The main thing I haven’t heard about yet is the characters. Is it going to play out in a similar way to Stormlight, where the characters at random points come across their abilities? I really like Krenna as well, but she seems highly resonant to both Shallan and Steven Leeds (I don’t know if you’re aware of the latter,…[Read more]

@anyone

I would like to revive this forum. Something that I have wondered about for a while now has to do with the necessity of the holly ghost in the trinity. I myself am non-trinitarian, but I was curious on what any of y’alls thoughts were on it if you have any.

@jonas

Sorry, I haven’t been on for a while, allow me to quickly express my thoughts here and there form when I’ve last been here.

I would be open to extended elements, but I worry that it would be more cliche than just the four Greek elements. I at one point had a draft for a lightning element, but I couldn’t think of anything interesting to d…

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