how to turn a bird into god using cosmere mechanics

so let's say you had two full mistborn/feruchemist/awakeners/forgers. we'll call them Person A and Person B. Person A and Person B begin to burn nicrosil and duralumin over and over again (assume that they have infinite metals) targeting each other. this builds up an extremely fast chain reaction of increasing allomantic levels (nicrosil increases the power of the other person's metals, duralumin buffs nicrosil). they then ingest purified dor and store the investiture in their nicrosil metalminds. then, they begin compounding nicrosil, amplified to ridiculous amounts by the nicrosil-duralumin chaining they did previously. they now have unlimited amounts of investiture derived from purified dor (this is known as the Infinite Investiture Glitch). Person A worldhops to First of the Sun and goes to Patji's Eye. Using their unlimited investiture, they then Forge a maggot to have consumed the entire perpendicularity, inheriting all its investiture. Here's where the awakening comes in. Person A repeats the Infinite Investiture Glitch for their own breaths, achieving every heightening and gaining unlimited breaths. then, kill the maggot. does it lose the investiture from the perpendicularity? no. then Person A uses the unlimited breaths to Awaken the maggot and make it sentient. Then they Forge the maggot, using their unlimited investiture, into a full mistborn and feruchemist. they Command the maggot to preform the Infinite Investiture Glitch on the investiture derived from the perpendicularity they consumed. they should now obtain-shard level investiture. then, the maggot is fed to an aviar. if the symbiosis applies correctly, the bird should ascend to shardhood. the bird god has arrived. bow down to the bird god

ShaiLu's greatest challenge yet

Shai!

Wonder where else she may be in this dear ol cosmere... She was so cool in TES 😔

Chapter 54 of The lost metal, has Shai (Moonlight) turned herself into AN ELANTRIAN?!

fellas have you ever gotten to know someone's soul so deeply and intimately that you reconstruct it and set them on the path of becoming the person that they hoped they would become in their youth but fell short of

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Cosmere Inktober day 12: Stone

At the start of The Emperor's Soul, Shai is stuck in a cell where the stones that make the walls are from all different quarries, which is supposed to make it difficult to make a Forgery stamp that could effect the wall. I always imagined the cell as being like a well, though maybe not as small as depicted here.

26 for the ask game

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26. Favorite novella(s).

The Emperor's Soul is I think my favorite of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere novellas, largely because I enjoy reading about con artists and thieves. Ones with magic power to rewrite the history of objects? Even better.

Thornhedge is a fun take on Sleeping Beauty that answers the question of why a fairy might have had NEED to put a girl to sleep. And how extremely stressful it would be to then spend hundreds of years dealing with all these knights trying to rescue this princess because apparently there's a story about it (reminds me a bit of how stories have a life of their own in Terry Pratchett's Discworld).

Mysteries of Thorn Manor is an epilogue novella to Sorcery of Thorns that I really enjoyed. A really nice self-contained look into the happily ever after of the characters I love (I mean what's not to love about the warrior librarian of living magical grimoires, a magician who has earned his magic by making a deal with a demon, AND the demon in question (Silas is the best, we love Silas)). Do need to read the preceding book to enjoy the novella though.

Artificial Condition, the second Murderbot novella. I mean I love all the novellas (and one novel) in this series but this one was my favorite. Because ART. I mean a sarcastic, extremely competent SecUnit meeting an equally sarcastic and kinda terrifying Asshole Research Transport? What more can one ask for?

The Secret Life of Bots. Its on the shorter end of the novella spectrum but I adore the little Bot that could. This Bot just gives me the WALL-E feelings, okay?

The Lies of the Ajungo. Okay, so I'm actually currently reading this one but I can already tell it's going to be very good. A story about a boy who goes on a quest to bring water to his city (they're under the thumb of a neighbor city that provides them water... as long as they agree to cut out the tongues of anyone older than thirteen.

It was a twofold price, a price of blood and a price of history: an untongued people cannot tell their story.

Questioner: Is Hoid able to use soulstamps?

Brandon Sanderson: Hoid is working on how to figure out how to use soulstamps. As you have seen so far, he has not figured out how to make that work.

But he only just barely managed to get access to Selish magic systems. He's working on it.

One of my favorite things about The Emperor's Soul is that, since it's a pretty heavy metaphor for writing, you can actually glean writing advice via interpretation.

Example: the desk accepts a slightly convoluted story about a kindly caretaker oiling it for years because it wants to be a nice desk. IE verisimilitude is more about believability than realism, and people are far more likely to believe what they *want* to believe.

Reccer Spotlight: Fj!

The Martian

Gideon the Ninth

American Gods

The Emperor's Soul

Fj's sci-fi and fantasy recs range from sprawling epics to tense one-room stories. Full text available in their tab of the Bella's Book Club Summer Reading '23 Reclist!

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alright everyone sound off who's you're favorite worldhopper

personally mine is Felt because he really is Just Some Guy (TM). sometimes he shows up and helps in some small way and then he completely disappears for another 100 cosmere years