TheArcaneAxiom

@jonas

Yeah, that could be interesting. The perception thing I still think if given to the right person with the right mental discipline, they could do a lot if there isn’t so much of a specific form of “power” you receive. Perhaps it could always be intellectual power, or influential power, ect. If that were the case though, if you could give up…[Read more]

@kathleenramm

I’ve noticed this as well.

@jonas

Fair enough. I feel like there could be logical loopholes still to get around that. Like in the case of getting a robotic arm to replace an existing arm, what if you control your perception enough, to say “I give my “flesh arm” for a “metal appendage with these qualities” or something like that. As long as you can convince yourself that it…[Read more]

@jonas

Cool! Trade off magic systems are always really fun, because they have good narrative effects. Someone that just wants power may have trouble getting a lot of it, because they care about it more than what they have to sacrifice. Someone that does have things they care about enough, they don’t want to sacrifice that. So no one is going to…[Read more]

@jonas

Yeah, and Lost Metal is supposed to be big in exploring aspects of the Cosmere as well. At least a bunch of things from other books will apear.

@jonas

Unity is not the confirmed one, but you’ll find out which one is if you read Stormlight 3.5.

Really, interesting. That’s the one my sister is reading next I believe, while I start Elantris, then we’ll swap.

@jonas

So the weird thing is, Brandon Sanderson confirmed that Renarin is the first person to bond a corrupt spren. It seems to be implied that his future sight is only because of the corruption, and not a normal Truthwatcher ability. But then what is going on with this ancient Truthwatcher? If he isn’t corrupted, then is future sight a normal Tru…

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@jonas

In one of the cabinets in Urithiru, a gemstone message from an ancient Truthwatcher says “I foresaw this.” That’s not the whole thing, but it’s the important part.

That is a very important point. It makes sense that seeing the future isn’t necessarily a corrupt quality, as that’s a shared ability of all the shards as far as I know. Yet the…[Read more]

@jonas

Yeah, the way that it jumped between perspectives worked really well. A movie version of this scene would just be incredible!

I know! The amount of purely cinematic moments throughout the series is incredible, but this would be an epic avengers style climax in theaters, only better.

What do you think about what’s happening with Renarin? Th…

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@jonas

It was awesome!!! The climax felt felt like a continuous streak of mind-blowing unfolding and action. I’m currently wondering about Dalinar’s relationship with the Honor shard at this point though, because he ascended, but not completely? Or he’s somehow sharing it with the StormFather?

Me and My Sister Just finished Othbringer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@rae

Cool! The best way to work with 7 when it comes to things like cycles, is to simply take advantage of the fact that 7 is a prime number. That way you can factor it with other numbers to get a series of unique combinations.

@savannah_grace2009

Sorry I haven’t gotten back to this. This seems fine. There isn’t much to say that I can tell, maybe you can show her coming up with different names, show the list itself. Have her second guess some parts, then change others. Just the show not tell type of thing is all that comes to my mind right now.

@hybridlore

Fair enough, sounds good to me!

@jonas

That works. I like 9, it has fun properties. 12 does to of course😆

@kathleenramm

Yeah, it’s been down for a while, and the formatting is being a little weird again.

@jonas

Cool! So you were able to make it so that the calendar could mesh with earth time just enough so that you could fit your birthday into it as a significant day. It also makes sense that the months follow the Eivir.

@rae

Wond makes an approximate rotation of 357 Earthling days, but I’ve not decided if it’s off that number by a day or just a couple hours. Notice my use of the word Earthling, for I haven’t even totally decided if a Wondian day is different than ours (most likely is). I’ve only been working on the origin planet of Wond for about a year, so it i…

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@hybridlore

Yeah, I missed your conversation with @jonas until now, but if I’m understanding you correctly, your wanting to power spaceships with sound. Sound as a force has been used to manipulate objects in precise ways, but they would have to be ridiculously light, and the cases where we have done such a thing, it’s an object surrounded by…[Read more]

@rae

This sounds fun, I’m in. It might help me churn out some actual writing for once😂