If you could have any one power from a fantasy book, what would it be?

[Max]

If you could freely choose one power to get from all (fantasy) books you ever read, what would it be?

Personally, I probably would choose being a full Mistborn. There is just so much stuff you can do with that.

And, although that probably does not count as a power, I would love to have a shardblade from The Way of Kings. There is absolutely nothing productive I could do with it, but I just love those things.

What about you?

EDIT: Completely forgot: Please try to avoid spoilers, as not everyone has read every book we will probably talk about here ;-)

[Lilyan]

Can I have them all? Pretty please! :P I want Rands power from WOT, Yes, I want to channel saidan. But minus the whole taint and madness ofcourse. And I want his sword abilities, I just want to be him, red hair and all, the femaile version :P

[G.K.]

I think I'd go with having whatever power it is Kaladin has from The Way of Kings.

[Tara]

I'd want the powers of a Mistborn as well...

[Lilyan]

I must go read this mistborn everyone wants to be part of I'm intrigued

[Anna-louise]

being a mistborn would be pretty darn cool!

[Max]

G.K. wrote: "I think I'd go with having whatever power it is Kaladin has from The Way of Kings."

Leave the Highstorms in the books, please. My home is not very stable.

[Elizabeth]

I'd be an Aes Sedai from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. And the Green Ajah of course so I could have loads of hunky warders.

[Dan]

I would want to be a Dragon Rider! That way I could use magic

[Weenie]

I'm with Elizabeth - gotta be an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, with a posse of warders.

A bonus would be that 'ageless' look - no more expensive anti-ageing cream!

[Lilyan]

Elizabeth wrote: "I'd be an Aes Sedai from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. And the Green Ajah of course so I could have loads of hunky warders."

Lan <3 <3

[Elizabeth]

Weenie wrote: "I'm with Elizabeth - gotta be an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, with a posse of warders.

A bonus would be that 'ageless' look - no more expensive anti-ageing cream!"

Lol! Lots of power, hunky warders at our beck and call AND looking young forever? Sounds like heaven to me!

[Sandra]

Elizabeth wrote: "Weenie wrote: "I'm with Elizabeth - gotta be an Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, with a posse of warders.

A bonus would be that 'ageless' look - no more expensive anti-ageing cream!"

Lol! Lots of pow..."

:D !!!

[Traci]

Is it odd that I like the idea of Feruchemical power from Mistborn more than the Allomantic powers? Maybe being mistborn isn't appealing to me because I'm afraid of heights. =)

Although recently I've discovered I almost always love shape shifter characters. I don't mean like werewolves and such. I mean more like the kandra in the Mistborn trilogy.

[Max]

Traci wrote: "Although recently I've discovered I almost always love shape shifter characters. I don't mean like werewolves and such. I mean more like the kandra in the Mistborn trilogy. "
That's it, I'll never invite you to come and eat at my place. ;-)

[A.E.]

I'll be a were-jaguar because then not only will I be dressed in style, but my jaw strength will be greater than a crocodile. Jaguars are not like other sissy predators that go for the throat. They crush skulls with their fangs and shred the brains. That's right. I'll be three hundred pounds of jungle fury leaping for your head.

[Traci]

Max, yeah I walked right into that one. Although to be fair I don't picture they actually (view spoiler)[eat their template body. They're kind of shapeless to begin with. I sort of picture them like The Blob...okay, that's not much better is it? LOL. (hide spoiler)]

[Max]

Traci wrote: "Max, yeah I walked right into that one. Although to be fair I don't picture they actually..."

Yeah, you are kind of not making a good case here. Anyway, if you come to hamburg, germany at some point, send me a message ;-)

[The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears]

If I could have one power, then I'd possess the laran that creates storms i.e. Stormqueen!. I've always thought being able to control weather like that is just so awesome (not to mention being a huge Storm geek girl!)

[Lilyan]

Actually, I want Bayaz's power from The First Law. There aren't much details about it, which makes me feel like he can do anything and live forever

[S.J.]

I'm going to play devil's advocate and make a case for living without the benefit of magical powers. As cool as it would be to have them ... imagine the responsibility that comes with power of any kind! Robert Jordan certainly makes a case for that in the Wheel of Time series. Poor Rand carried around a mental list of the names of every woman who'd ever died because of him. That kind of guilt isn't something I'd ever want to carry around with me, and the powerful seem to accumulate it.
One of my favourite characters of all time was absolutely non-magical, had no battle skills whatsoever and was the last person in the world you'd ever expect to do anything of great importance. The only thing this character had going for him was his brain. By using it effectively, he managed to survive circumstances that would have killed anyone else and accomplish what all his powerful friends and allies couldn't. Awesome!

[Tish]

SJ wrote: "I'm going to play devil's advocate and make a case for living without the benefit of magical powers. As cool as it would be to have them ... imagine the responsibility that comes with power of any ..."

So who is this awesome non-magical character?

[Max]

Tish wrote: "So who is this awesome non-magical character? "

One could make a case for Frodo, after that description. But you got me curious aswell.

[Mach]

Or it might be Tyrion.

[The FountainPenDiva, Old school geek chick and lover of teddy bears]

Sherlock Holmes, though technically he's not a fantasy character.

SJ makes some interesting points, and we all pretty much remember the line from Spiderman, "with great power comes great responsibility".

[S.J.]

I like Mach's idea of Tyrion Lannister - he's one of my favourites too... smart, witty and strangely honourable (for the most part). Frodo or Sam are decent guesses too, but I would argue they succeeded more through sheer force of will more than because of how smart they were. I've never actually read Sherlock Holmes so I can't really comment on that one. Who else can you come up with? :)

[Mach]

SJ wrote: "One of my favourite characters of all time was absolutely non-magical, had no battle skills whatsoever and was the last person in the world you'd ever expect to do anything of great importance. The only thing this character had going for him was his brain. By using it effectively, he managed to survive circumstances that would have killed anyone else and accomplish what all his powerful friends and allies couldn't. Awesome!

..."

SJ tell us who this awesome character is please.

[Lilyan]

SJ wrote: "I'm going to play devil's advocate and make a case for living without the benefit of magical powers. As cool as it would be to have them ... imagine the responsibility that comes with power of any ..."

Is it.... Batman?! :P