Rockbud

For those who're using this; update 1.1.1 is currently in review that will fix the 'articles' section and should roll out very soon. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itj.sandersonwidget

So I got it to a nice state and it's up on the Google Play Store! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itj.sandersonwidget It's quite basic: I decided to go live without any backgrounds while I figure the best way to scale/crop the images based on widget size. I'm hoping to at least let people pick the colour of the progress bars/have it grab an appropriate colour to match the current device wallpaper (it's just blue in 1.0 I'm afraid). In the meantime, enjoy! If anyone is interested in the source code you can see it here: https://github.com/ITJammish/sanderson-widget Feel free to throw me any feedback

Edit: it's up on the Google Play Store! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.itj.sandersonwidget Hello everyone, Here's a thing I'm making! It's a home screen widget for Android phones that pulls Brandon's writing progress from his website homepage and displays it for you. There's also the option to include a stack of the most recent articles to browse through (clicking on an article will open it in your web browser). The plan is to make it available for free when it's finished, along with the source code for anyone to tinker with. There's still a lot of work to do; things to make pretty and features to add, but one show stopper is the themes: I've sent a message to Michael Whelan's team for permission to use some cover art for non-commercial use, but I anticipate this taking a while. I'd like to petition the community to suggest some fan artists that might be interested in having their pieces showcased for users to enjoy. Also, if anyone would be interested in a preview version to do some light testing, please let me know. Thanks all, Rockbud

It could also be that the shard would have been picked up by another person if T hadn't done so at this point, and that T was perferable.

The make up of the mural could have been such that a Shard couldn't perceive it, like the inscriptions in metal in Mistborn.

To address the mention of commonly named 'Aluminium' metal on Roshar and the legendary metal: there are lots of examples of things on Roshar being named after familiar things but having had their application mistaken: Axehound is even discussed as being a strange combination of words in one of the books where an Axe is known, but hound is not. There seems to be some kind of racial memory where words of things have been remembered (perhaps from predating human arrival on Roshar) but the things themselves have been forgotten. More evidence given by lots of things the Shin have (grass, chickens/birds, horses, etc) that the majority of characters consider strange. Maybe the name for a shiny metal 'Aluminium' is remembered, but has been applied to another metal incorrectly?

Wonder where he got the inspiration for the (presumed) Aluminium sheathe, and if it wasn't made before hand: what kind of havoc did Nightblood cause before one was found...

I asked Brandon about the nature of Adonalsium last year at a SoS signing. At the time at least, he said he'd RAFO because he hadn't decided what Adonalsium was yet. (being/force etc)

A more accurate comparison is from Warbreaker: members of the royal line can use food reserves to forcefully grow out their hair in exactly the same way lift can fuel her surgebinding.

Hi, fellow android dev here! Looks really good, I like the dashboard style main page! I'd be up for helping a bit. I'm pretty busy but I might find some time to push some code as suggestions and review etc. Throw me a link to your repo and I'll request access if its not public

I've been relistening to the original Mistborn trilogy and 'Cultivation' comes up a lot, but I'm with Oversleep: its probably just a word. Brandon probably has his Cosmere plans layed out somewhere including all the shard intents. He might be using them in his books subconsciously. That said though, it does make me wonder how many other intents are being mentioned that we just don't know about, mentioned intentionally or otherwise...

I must have missed it . Can't see anything on the mobile site or app.

As far as i understand it: Stormlight and the base metals are examples of focuses; integral parts of a shards magic system dictated by the planet where the magic system manifests, but not of the shard itself. This would explain why the unknown shards power in SoS manifested on Scandrial through he planet's focus: metal. There was a great theory on here recently tying the essences to shard world focuses which heavily influenced how I see it all connecting, but your parallels between powers does also have me thinking: There are some underlying similarities: you mentioned strength and endurance. There are also various temporal powers across magic systems. What if there was a pattern: not tying other shards back to the 16 metals of allomancy, but tying all of the magic systems back to some original magic system of Adonalsium? (I'm tired, this could be nonsense and I think I'm getting a little crazy with my Adonalsium theories these days)

There really is no great theory here, just the potential parallel of the crews analogy of the Final Empire and another massive entity that was shattered. Could this shed some light on the motivations of the force/group behind the shattering of Adonalsium? Or is this just coincidence using accurate terminology? Ideas? Theories? ...repost?

I like the idea Adonalsium spren were dawnshards, and maybe they're the reason shardblades are called as such: people long ago referenced non-radiant/non-heralds using shardblades (with perhaps non radiant strange powers) and said "well this guys call their blades shards, guess these sword the radiance have are shardblades too).

It depends how you look at it: you don't get divine breaths without the returned, so they might count as a sentient component to the splinter. Perhaps this is more like heralds and honor blades than radiants and spren.

I'd roll with the idea of them being splinters, but the missing part is the sentience part which is either part of the definition, or confirmed to manifest if the splinters are left ungoverned. I can't remember the details exactly. An interesting counter to this would be to say the Heralds represent more than just humans chosen to be Heralds and hold the blades. Maybe there's a deeper connection/design surrounding the blades and the Heralds than between a spren and radiant (a spren has its own sentience, and its suspected they can bond more than one radiant during their "life"). I'm sure someone has a more thought out theory surrounding the origin of he Heralds that works better...

There is a WoB re: Nalthis + traquiline halls Source:http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt=%27tranquiline%20halls%27

If you're calculating, remember Rosharian gravity is less than Earth's. Also the upper limit might be terminal velocity: air resistance. Can get round that if you get slicked by an edge dancer though!

It seems most people think the contest would be close, but a Mistborn represents a full array of preservation granted powers, where as a radiant as we know them have two powers, assumed a combination of honor and cultivation. I'd suggest that a more parallel match up would be a KR with a twinborn (think of all the fun combinations you could discuss!) Or in fact, a full metal born vs a full surgebinder!

I kind of like this, and could see how it might work. The first hole I can see is related to Mistborn: preservation puts a bit more of itself into humans than ruin, and becomes a tiny bit weaker than ruin for having done so. This suggests that the power they had was finite. If they could have gained more power through belief, this tiny offset of initial balance wouldnt have mattered at all.

I don't have enough to go on yet, but I've been thinking Honor's shard pool is under/near to Urithiru. There's one reference in WoK that talks about the location of the city being "close to Honor".

Compression works well as a concept rather than a gateway. It does explain why the shadesmar description doesn't come up in these cases. It also might be a strong basis for the transfer of Stormlight investiture entering the physical realm. Is the opinion that the compression is caused by the storms, or the storms are caused by the compression?

After going back over WoR interlude V a thought struck me: Eshonai is waiting for the time when she can bond the spren. The storm seems to go away, the storm father becomes visible, and all the parshendi songs rythems meld into one. Firstly, moving closer to the Cognitive realm would potentially make interactions with spren easier. There are no typical shadesmar glass beads, but maybe someone would like to theorise around that. Spren are viewed differently in the other realms, and although not many people in the physical realm stand out in highstorms, the storm father in spren form isn't talked about much. Also, during the storm at the end of the book (physical realm only) no storm father spren descriptions are mentioned. Lastly, I've seen some theories on here regarding the Parshendi songs, and their songs being a way to access investiture, similar to Aons. If Eshonai moves into another realm in this interlude it might explain why the individual rythems meld closer to the source of their power, ie a particular ryhem to access them is no longer nessisary. Bonus: the storm father's eyes are described as being full of stars. With all the Trell talk going on at the moment, someone might find this interesting. Thoughts?

There is a scene in WoR (I think the first time Shallan and Pattern talk inside the Wagon on the way to the shattered plains) where he mentions (something like) a lot of Spren being unbonded and retreating to the Cognitive realm, while others died. I'll try find the quote, I may be wrong...