“A skin-spy with the ability to work sorcery,” the Shriah of the Thousand Temples said, grimacing with exertion. “A skin-spy with a soul.” And the grand old sorcerer realized he had known all along.

My fiance is in medicine and I often help her with literature reviews and the like. Most recently, we looked at studies assessing the benefits of vitamin supplements and it was shocking to see just how fraught with confirmation bias even a seemingly non-controversial topic could be.

A friend of mine who does business analysis pointed out that most scientists are not great statisticians, so their ability to distill the significance of their research is severely handicapped. I feel like the gap between our abstract ideas and the actual data it is supposedly based on is getting wider, creating a culture of certainty that is as unfounded as it is often pretentious.

I don't know, I think the Bardic priest line is perfectly placed for re-reads and how Aurang himself says it in TTT. I do think Inrau's death scene is significant but the Symbolism is ambiguous enough for it to go in any direction, really.

I've been contemplating a re-read for a while now and you're just about pushing me over the edge Mr. G.

I've read the first 3, with Deadhouse Gates being my favorite. I know it can be jarring, moving to a new set of characters every few hundred pages but that puts the focus entirely on the writing and that's what I like about the series. No boring build up or middle books where the author has to "move the pieces." Just Epic Fantasy with capitals E and F.

Hey Bolivar!  What's your name mean?

Just a historical figure I liked growing up, so I jacked the name for a lot of screen names and such over the years.

i recognize youra but why the "Mr" in front of ganondorf?

Right now I'm leaning towards another son of Moenghus, since the fact that he had other (supposedly dead) children appears in the same book.

I played it on PS4, the beta was good stuff. Real excited for the final product.

Hey, been lurking for a while but just joined. I'm Bolivar from the Westeros forums and have interacted with the Bakker fans twitter a bit (Bolivar687).

Glad to be here!