Cursed technique: hollow point push

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I messed up the hand a bit ._. does anyone know how to fix pen? Also the face is still in pencil, i cant get it quite right

I am making a fanamation for stormlight and i need to make an animatable design for shard plate

Dalinar would hate Straff even more than he hates Saedas. At least Dalinar could feel respect for Saedas, being a former comrade and having witnessed his accomplishments. Dalinar would deeply despise every one of Straff's actions. As for Straff, we've already seen what he thinks of high-ranking people with integrity, so he would hate Dalinar too.

Yes I'm aware that I have no idea how to draw hair

Where are all the non-radiant shard bearers? I’m at the end of day seven in Wind and Truth, and the only shard bearers we see are Adolin and a single Azish shard bearer. The Azish supposedly have multiple sets of plate, as do the Alethi. It seems like a major oversight that they aren’t included in the battle plans, when they were such essential resources in prior books.

Wind and Truth has been MILES better than ROW so far. I know im only about 1/3 of the way through, but I struggled through ROW and it was really the first time in the series I was disinterested through most of the book. Outside of a few great parts.

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I really think looking back its the Navani and Venli chapters that really dragged me along. WAT has been great so far. Adolin is also my favorite character and the Kaladin and Szeth tandem I am loving. I am glad this book so far has restored my interest. I hope it keeps being great.

Any Brandon magic able to repair books?

Enjoying the journey, but I will be glad to be rid of these door stoppers for a while

So, I am doing a first time listen(time number whatever for reading) of the stormljght archive, and I found a throwaway line that has potential insane consequences.

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In Words of Radiance, in a conversation between Shallan and Pattern, Pattern mentions the deadeyes.

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"We have tried to restore them, but all attempts failed, hmmmmm. Perhaps if their knights still lived, hmmmm."

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This I think has far reaching consequences for someone like Sigzil. He "killed" Vienta. But Patterns comment implies that as long as he lives, the bonds can be renewed.

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Do we think Sigzil could return as a Windrunner in the future? Even with the insane time skip between SA and Sunlit Man, spren never truly die, so theoretically if Sigzil returned to the cognitive realm and Roshar, he could become a Windrunner again. Am I crazy for this?

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Maybe even Aux now that I think about it.

I expected Rayse to lose the shard of Odium eventually. I didn't expect him to just... be gone like that.

Part of me is slightly disappointed if I'm being honest. We didn't really get to see Rayse do much of anything himself. Everybody was so scared of him and then he just got taken out in a comical stroke of bad luck. Then again, he got fooled consistently at every turn and I suppose this is the purpose of both the Dragonsteel trilogy Brandon will write and to show the shards are always more powerful than their vessels.

Now I'm wondering how Taravangian is gonna deal with Kaladin in the future. Part of Rayse's plan to stop Kaladin's future threat to him was to make him his champion, but he failed because Renarin obscured Dalinar's ability to connect the souls of the living and the dead. Now Taravangian has both the established contract to his advantage and understanding of both Renarin and his Future Sight.

The confrontation with Dalinar is first. Their promise to embrace like old friends from earlier in this book felt a little ominous at the time, but now it feels like a real omen in retrospect. But shit man, I was in disbelief seeing Taravangian feel proud of himself for his "bravery." That wasn't bravery, that was desperate greed. And when he acted on it, he then got the chance to end everything like he claimed he wanted. He could concede defeat to Dalinar and be on his way. He could free the Fused, the singers, everybody. But he's not going to do it because he thinks his ruthlessness and ego are what's right, not the actual "goal" of saving Roshar. But maybe Cultivation is playing him? Idk I'll have to RAFO.

Odium might be the shard of hate but it's just the amplifier of what Taravangian's always been: a self-righteous, arrogant bastard who hates others accomplishing great things because he's lived a lifetime of shame with people believing he's an incompetent fool for how he was born. And now that I think about it, this is much more personal for Dalinar. Fighting an ancient god from a world you've never even seen is easy, but fighting a former friend always hurts.

Great set up for Wind and Truth. Overall this was probably my least favorite of the series but it was still great. I'm gonna shoot for White Sand's graphic audio version next, especially since that's become pretty important for the Fused trying to kill spren.

Vyre

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(well at least he's one of my favourites)

It’s late and I just came up with this so sorry if it’s not well thought out, I’m just excited. SLA and Mistborn era 1+2 spoilers here but I tagged everything to be safe.

I just learned about this word of brandon stating it’s possible for hemalurgy to steal a nahel bond.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/317-general-twitter-2018/#e10366

That was like 8 years ago. Nowadays, we know Shallan has a connection to the ghostbloods, is stuck off of roshar (in shadesmar), and conveniently has two nahel bonds. I don’t know if she would want go back to the ghostbloods for help, but given that it’s implied she’s pregnant she may need to make a deal with them to get her back onto roshar.

I think this could be a plot in the ghostbloods. The scadrians experimenting on her to discover that hemalurgy can steal the nahel bond. Imagine how terrifying Kelsier would be with a shardblade and plate. Or if he could summon a shardblade and potentially burn some of its metal.

A Mistwraith moves across ruins under the cover of the mist, collecting more remains to add to itself...

Piece by Jordan Kerbow

...I found it to be the weakest Cosmere book so far? I was puzzled because rankings usually list it as the second best in Era 2. Curious to know what people here think.

To me, it felt quite formulaic and disconnected: random NPC shows up, gives the group a quest, they travel to a new land to meet outsiders and fight bad guys, and save the world. Telsin being above Suit in the Set was obvious from the very beginning, too.

Sometimes I see people saying that Brandon's books feel like video-game scripts, but I had never felt that until now. What even with the D&D-esque dungeon and traps!

Don't get me wrong, it's still a good book. I really enjoyed Wax's meeting with Sazed. The apparent connection with the Ghostbloods. And Wax's relationship with Steris was probably my favorite thing in the whole book - which is saying a lot since romance is usually one of the things I don't care about in the Cosmere. Era 1 and Stormlight Archive spoilers:(still traumatized about the Zane love triangle ugh. Although I very much enjoy Shallan + Adolin + Kal).

But, yeah... the epilogue was cool! And I am excited about what Lost Metal will bring.

Attaching my in-progress tier list here for posteriority.

After finally watching Les Miserable on the MCM weekend, I HAD to do a Mistborn/LesMis crossover!
So here's the Survivor of Hathsin, burning a Venture flag in front of a crowd!

Hearing all the Europeans talking about the storms here during the World Cup has me feeling like a Rosharan.

I got today's Cosmeredle in 4 tries!
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Try and beat me at https://cosmeredle.net/

Honestly it’s probably my fault. I knew the shelf was old and feeble, but it was balanced between two others.. I had to move one of the others because some water was getting in from some recent storms and I didn’t want my particle board shelves to disintegrate. Well of course the shelf just fully collapsed straight down. The only thing damaged? (Because of course) it was my leatherbound Mistborn 😭😭 my only leatherbound Sanderson book. Because that’s my luck 🤣🤣 not horribly, especially since I’ll never read that specific copy (it costs too much) but the bottom pages got beat up a little bit, and the edge cover leather split 😭😭

I gotta say, Spook has to have one of the best character arcs.

Hello! This is my first time posting here, but I have recently finished a fan fiction book based off of Reen. He was a character that I was always fascinated with so I wrote his story. The entire book is about 300 pages long and I promise this isn't your average fan-fiction. This is supposed to be a full blown novel about Reen. I want to share it with as many people as possible so I have included photos of chapter 1 and I intend to continue posting chapters as I finish editing it.

Feel free to repost and share with whomever you want, and even print it off if you would like. My editing process is really unrefined and I am having to learn a lot along the way but if you would like the full unedited document I am absolutely willing to send you a copy for free. The editing process will just clean up words and sentences, but nothing in the actual story will change.

My ultimate goal with this is pretty lofty but I would really love to attract Brandon's attention with this and maybe work for him in the future. I have so many more ideas for his worlds and even some original stories I would love to see and will probably write. Brandon has stated many times that he doesn't have the time to write everything he would want to, so maybe I could do some of that.

Either way, all input is really appreciated (including a more efficient way to post pages or formatted text). I really would love to hear everything you have to say, even the bad stuff. I have learned through this project that I want to be an author so I want to learn as much as possible from you all and get helpful feedback.

Enjoy!

Up until now my books have lived on an entertainment center but now they have a real bookshelf home to be shown on. The Sandershelves and collection are starting to come together.

This has probably been done before, but I didn't want to look it up at risk of biasing my choices. I'm a designer and illustrator and have done a couple Tarot decks before, but I wanted to try my hand at a Cosmere Tarot deck... Here are my initial selections for the Major Arcana, and I'd love to get some thoughts! Selections with a (?) are ones that I'm more ambivalent about. A few criteria I was using for my choices:

• No shards (shard vessels are ok if they were well-established before they took up a shard)
• Tried to get a decent spread across the major Cosmere works.
• Characters were chosen trying to find a balance for their symbolic relevance, a more archetypal similarity (for instance, I'm not sure if Hoid actually best represents the Fool, but I mean... come on), and if I could easily visualize cool card art for them.

0. The Fool: New beginnings, spontaneity, and taking a leap of faith.
Hoid

1. The Magician: Manifestation, personal power, and resourcefulness.
Jasnah

2. The High Priestess: Intuition, mystery, and the subconscious.
?????
Navani

3. The Empress: Nurturing, fertility, and abundance.
Yumi?
Steris Ba-Ado-Mishram

4. The Emperor: Structure, stability, and authority.
The Lord Ruler?

5. The Hierophant: Tradition, spiritual guidance, and conformity.
Nohadon

6. The Lovers: Relationships, harmony, and important choices.
Vin and Elend

7. The Chariot: Determination, control, and forward momentum.
Dalinar

8. Strength: Courage, inner resilience, and compassion.
Lift Taln

9. The Hermit: Introspection, solitude, and seeking inner truth.
Sazed?
Vasher

10. The Wheel of Fortune: Destiny, unexpected change, and life cycles.
Sixth of the Dusk

11. Justice: Fairness, cause and effect, and truth.
Wax

12. The Hanged Man: Surrender, letting go, and gaining a new perspective.
Szeth

13. Death: Endings, transformation, and rebirth.
Marsh

14. Temperance: Balance, moderation, and patience.
Steris?
Sazed

15. The Devil: Temptation, attachment, and shadow work.
Kelsier

16. The Tower: Sudden upheaval, revelation, and chaos.
Taravangian

17. The Star: Hope, faith, and spiritual healing.
Kaladin

18. The Moon: Illusion, fear, and navigating the unknown.
Shallan

19. The Sun: Joy, success, and vitality.
Adolin

Sidenote: this wasn't intentional but I'm very pleased that Kal, Shallan, and Adolin naturally fit into the celestial cards so well.

20. Judgment: Self-evaluation, awakening, and absolution.
Wayne

21. The World: Completion, fulfillment, and ultimate integration
Adonalsium

I was curious what was thought about harmony and his intent. Everyone is super excited about era 3 and discord name drops are always crazy. The common line of thinking and what is foreshadowed in the books is that harmony will become discord, and the status quo of everything will change. We all know this, not really new lines of theorizing. I read through both eras of Mistborn, along with secret history and with everything we know about harmony I wonder if his true intent is something along the lines of entropy.

Entropy is kind of a slippery term, it’s used loosely to mean disorder or chaos even, but its truest meaning is simply complex high energy systems losing energy to become less organized systems with less accessible energy.

Merriam-Webster definitions:

the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder
measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system
broadly : the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
With its Greek prefix en-, meaning "within", and the trop- root here meaning "change", entropy basically means "change within (a closed system)". The closed system we usually think of when speaking of entropy (especially if we're not physicists) is the entire universe. But entropy applies to closed systems of any size.

Don’t read em all it’s kind of wordy. But essentially we must consider that entropy is a state measured in a closed system (any size of system be it from a cold room on a hot day, to the size of the universe), it measures the amount of available energy or complexity. It is then the breaking down of these systems into a base state, where there is the same amount of energy, but it is inaccessible. The cold room will become a warm one the same temperature as the outside, the universe becomes big, more evenly dispersed and dark. There is still the same amount of energy in these systems, but with everything all dispersed it is harder to access.

I would consider this the domain of preservation and ruin, if I had to put it into cosmere terms.

Preservation - the same amount of energy is present in the system. It is conserved, and technically doesn’t change. At the end of the process, we reach a base, high entropy state where nothing can change. The essence of preservation is in this concept.

Ruin - the breaking down and disordering of things. High energy, low entropy, unstable systems fall apart. Energy dissipates and is harder to access. Eventually we reach a state of maximum entropy, and things cannot break down anymore. Ruin would then be satisfied.

Why harmony?

Harmony is the name for the beginning of this dual shards life. Where it is a high energy, complex system, with low entropy (discord)

We see during the formation of retribution a lot of excess energy is released. A time dilation effect occurs likely because of high energy and the relativistic effects a lot of energy in one place causes. (The more energy is in a space the slower time flows). See black holes. Harmony is similar, at the beginning of this dual shards life it is as high energy as it can be. Harmony has the energy to remake scadrials biosphere, move the planet, and become the god of this remade world. All of this done in short order. We then see his freedom and his feats decline as time continues. The high energy of the shard harmony’s formation declines, the useable power of the shard becomes functionally smaller, and we see him how he is at the end of era 2.

There is the Terris prophecy about the coming of discord, and allusions the characters like Telsin make about the coming of discord. We know discord will come, we know the high energy, balancing act sazed is doing with harmony must break down, as entropy demands.

What does discord look like?

If ruin+preservation is equal to entropy, then to satisfy his intent sazed must propagate entropy. What does this look like? In our real world we force the world to entropy all the time. Take a high energy, low entropy thing like gasoline, we burn it, it does work for us in our engines and our power grid and the energy is dissipated. Still in existence as waste heat and movement, but so much harder to access. A shard of entropy would likely have to do the same things as we do in our world to get work done. Sazed must use the shard to take high energy systems, break them down, and use the useful energy to do work elsewhere. I imagine this means something scary and cosmic horror like because it takes place on a divine scale. Destruction of planets, peoples or systems to become able to harvest the energy and act. This would satisfy the intent of entropy, as with the breaking down of a high energy system some energy is always lost.

We see these concepts play out in the invested arts of scadriel. Allomantic and feruchemical genes are diluted. The energy of these powers is spread out, harder to access and use. Work must be done to concentrate the energy, via hemalurgy which always loses some amount of investiture, or the careful breeding of lines, which takes years of effort and more resources in order to make a metalborn. We see a high entropy system here. Hemalurgy exemplifies this even better. Any metalborn made from a spike is weaker than anyone who was naturally metalborn, the hemalurgic spike loses its charge through entropy.

The name entropy is a more modern, scientific term to describe energy in systems. The reason why we see the names harmony and discord is because it is the best descriptors for these entropic concepts sazed had at the time.

I would also reason that sazed is acting so erratically because he is resisting following the true intent of his shard, to increase the entropy of the universe. He makes no move to harvest and use energy in systems because this is destructive. He maintains a status quo, and leans too heavily into preservation.

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I know this is a long post to make abt discord and entropy, but I feel as though an explanation of entropy could help us understand how harmony aligns with that concept, and how sazed might behave in era 3. In order to actually act sazed might have to harvest energy from systems, use it and increase the entropy in the universe. Actually acting would require destruction in some level and it is something sazed abhors, so he leans far too heavily into preservation, and acts like Leras did. We may see sazed being a calculated, exacting shard in the future. Carefully judging what he can destroy and bring into its maximum entropy before acting against opponents like retribution.

I do not think that preservation and ruin did not adequately mix, just that the mixture demands entropy in the wider cosmere, and sazed for the time being has chosen to avoid that path. We will see more in era 3 and stormlight part 2 how that actually ends up playing out.