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The Invested Beard

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  1. Okay I've taken the quiz quite a few times now and it's actually refined me very consistently into Edgedancer. Huh. That's very strange. I'm not sure I buy it. I can see it working for me, but as a whole I'm skeptical. Also @Parallax your theory is good, but I might label the Shard Creativity instead of ingenuity to also encapsulate some of the influence on Lightweavers...
  2. I would be okay with this. I like her sass.
  3. I just had a random wild theory hit my brain. What if there's an actual Shard of Intervention. Divine Intervention is an actual belief in some cultures. Maybe there's a Shard behind the Ghostbloods and other such groups. I'm also wondering if the Shard that is in Silverlight and seems connected to the 17th Shard is in some way something like a Shard of non-intervention. Would have to figure out a good name though. Thoughts?
  4. Posted this in the Discord but I thought I'd bring it here also just to spread the conjecture. So I was listening to the latest Shardcast and this WoB stood out to me: Voidbinding is the magic system of Odium. Odium was the original deity of Ashyn. The soul of Voidbinding was to try to divine the future. What if the Ashynites (who were the original Voidbinders) saw some great calamity in their future and tried to prevent it, but in doing so they only created a future even worse? And what if Odium in his greater capacity foresaw this and guided them to destroy their own civilization to further his goals of bringing down other Shards starting with Honor? What if being able to tell the future caused the exodus from Ashyn? We've already seen that what is foreseen can be wrong, i.e. Jasnah not killing Renarin. What do you guys think?
  5. Necessary? Maybe not. Awesome? Yes.
  6. As far as favorites that aren't a crush, Vasher is it for me. He is the grumpy old man avatar for all us grumpy old men in the Cosmere.
  7. I'm with Noisespren. I think the champion thing isn't actually the way it's all going to play out. I don't feel like Brandon would lay it all out so clearly from the beginning like that.
  8. I'm definitely on the crazy train. I believe Doomslug is a component of the cytonic hyperdrive, either as a backup for non cytonic pilots or as an actual complimentary piece to a cytonic pilot. I have a feeling that a human cytonic doesn't have enough power to move something with as much mass as a spaceship on their own and Doomslug's race is capable of cytonics. Of special note is that Doomslug mimics the humans quite a bit. I don't think Brandon just threw that in there. I think it's a mechanic of how the slug and the human work together to move the entire ship. Human moves themselves where they want and the slug moves the ship. There are also these WoBs: Questioner What does Doomslug eat? Brandon Sanderson Doomslug eats mushrooms, among other things. I don't want to say anything more... Questioner I know, I was trying to find something that wouldn't be RAFO'd Brandon Sanderson Yeah that's actually shockingly relevant of a question, so... Hmm! Sciencetor2 I am subscribed to the, "Doomslug is the hyperdrive," theory. Can you confirm or deny? Brandon Sanderson I cannot confirm or deny. So Doomslug was the reason the original pilot told M-Bot to collect mushrooms. Gotta keep your slug alive.
  9. He might not be good, but the actual big bad? Don't see it.
  10. Okay, so all those pieces are a fraction of the amount of investiture Hoid would need. But say he got hold of an investiture vacuum. Such as our old pal Nightblood...
  11. I actually don't think the Sibling is necessarily connected to Odium directly. If the reasoning pans out correctly, we have two known higher spren who existed before the Shards showed up and annexed them, Stormfather and Nightwatcher. There appears to have been a third super spren related to stone who was probably the Sibling, but I'm not convinced it was co-opted by Odium.
  12. Said this in discord but I'll repeat it here for anyone not there: Really good book guys. Love how it all tied together but I do have to say I kinda figured it was a prison planet about halfway through. Of course I had read DE beforehand so the seeds were planted. Also: Doomslug has FTL. Fight me. Liked the characters a lot. Brandon has gotten really good with varied personalities and motivations. Some were archetypal, but most were pretty original, including M-Bot who was a stand out for me. He was hilarious. Brandon hit the nail on the head with him. The only negative I would say is the repetition of the dogfights. There was a progression to them, but there were quite a lot of them and they all started to blend together for me by the end.
  13. I saw the topic title and couldn't stop hearing "Magnets. How do they work?"
  14. I think they're more closely connected to Odium's spren. They look like Shin and cannot fly, they have to be touching stone or something solid to manifest in the physical realm. See Ulim's introduction and the yellow spren leading the escaped parshmen in Oathbringer.
  15. Oh. My. Goodness. I am so happy this exists.
  16. Yeah on my current re-read I'm really noticing this connection. There is something super important going on with the Shin, spren of stone, and the Sibling. Have an upthingy!
  17. See I can't really get behind that. Those editors must have some singularly amazing writing skills. These books have a very particular voice and are almost poetic in their prose. I think Rothfuss is just a perfectionist and is having a hard time with the fact that no matter what he does, it isn't going to be perfect and some people aren't going to like it.
  18. Here's the weird thing about all this. No, the Honorblades were not spren that became weapons, they were formed by Honor from his power. However everything on Roshar has a spren as seen in Shadesmar because a spren is just the concept of an object given form in the cognitive realm. So this makes me wonder if Honorblades, though not originating as spren do in fact have spren that represent them in Shadesmar due to the preponderance of cognitive activity on their behalf.
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