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  1. Spoilers ahead! The topics covered should all be in TWoK and WoR Hey all I've been trying to sleep but this is eating at me now so I guess I gotta post it. First things first let's cover some basic things: Theory: You could speak with a dead person in Shadesmar if you're a lightweaver. Some things we know (correct me if I'm wrong here): -Everything has a spren on roshar, even body parts. -These spren gain identity in Shadesmar based on how they're perceived by living beings. -Pattern can talk to these spren's beads and translate/interpret. -People have souls, but when they die the soul leaves behind the body. So! A person might lose its soul when it dies, but the body remains there. Everything has a spren so the body probably has a spren, especially since it sees itself as a whole. Therefore you could probably find a corpse's bead in Shadesmar. This corpse would have very strong ties to the person it used to be, having been there to experience everything the person had. Presumably this means that the body's spren would behave very similarly to the deceased person. I think that because of this, Shallan (or any radiant in Shadesmar, even) could go into Shadesmar and speak with carbon copies of dead people; this would likely be especially easy with soulcast lighteyes statues, because they're still the same person and are perceived that way. What do you think? What use could you see in this?
  2. I'm fairly certain that a backwards shadow just implies a connection to Shadesmar, we saw it with Jasnah, Cryptics, maybe Honorspren? Someone would need to find sources but I'm like 99% sure that it's a Shadesmar thing.
  3. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/173-oathbringer-san-francisco-signing/#e8598 Sorry if I'm on the wrong track here, I'm a little busy but wanted to get some typing in. The theory currently seems to be that Taln doesn't have an unmade buddy because he never broke, but this sorta says that it's more that Ishar doesn't have one. I don't think this theory is a hit unfortunately, it'd have been cool though.
  4. #KalOriginallyStabbedFirstAndNowHeStabbedEvenHarder
  5. So I definitely think that Odium could be behind this, if anyone was. Mistborn Spoilers Up until the falling out this sequence was going right into Odium's hands, I assume he had a plan to use this assassination to cripple his opposition. Kaladin and one of his officers killing the king? I can guarantee that Dalinar would be blamed, house Kholin would be destroyed (Oh hey that's where most of the Knights Radiant are gathering). Doing this would eliminate a Bondsmith, an Elsecaller, a Lightweaver, a Truthwatcher, and given Odium's ability with foresight it seems plausible that he could have been setting up for this. Furthermore, Kaladin (apparently the greatest soldier in the cosmere according to a WoB) would be stuck in the same position as Moash. I'm sure Odium can work with a Knight Radiant turned vengeful, we still haven't seen someone bond with an 'Odiumspren' and I'm sure it's possible. It would really make sense if Odium was behind this, it would be stupid of a shard to not take heavy advantage of his ability to see the future, and making more powerful pawns for himself sounds like just the thing.
  6. Spoolofwhool seems to have understood, honestly I was just grasping at straws because I like this too much. It would make sense if a metabolized metals were off limits or an Allomancer would probably get some bad health issues from using all the metal they get from a regular diet.
  7. The drawings were not done by Hoid, they were in the Oilsworn's style, but Hoid is not the Oilsworn. Shallan is the one who uses the Oilsworn's style, I'm pretty sure she just used her fantastic memory to draw them. She's for sure seen Taln, I can't remember if/when she saw Ash.
  8. Speaking of this, can anyone quote the new passage to me? I've basically only read Sanderson's post about it. I agree that this would have been a good solution, I assume that Sanderson was taking the opportunity where he saw it, and felt that it would have been more detrimental to let the fanbase stew on Kal's decision for a few more years, but sweeping it under the rug also feels like a poor call. It's as if Sanderson couldn't live with Kaladin needing to live with his decision. I can see another point to this though. Dalinar is already tormenting himself because of his wife and Rathalas, tossing another character into that same boat would feel repetitive. I have tremendous respect for Brandon but these books are starting to feel a little spotty, between this and all the strange holes in character development.
  9. Oh that's right! I understand completely now and I think you're right about him turning away from simple hatred. Thanks friend!
  10. Was this known before Kaladin went to confront him? I don't think it was, and it doesn't change Kaladin's attitude. He was very much pleased at the chance to fight Amaram, and that was a vengeful attitude. That is a fantastic point, but again I'm not completely convinced. Killing Szeth even though he gave up would be an act of murder because the intention was no longer to protect Dalinar. When fighting Amaram though, his intentions weren't nearly as single minded, the motive for his fight was protecting Dalinar, but beneath that was a desire to kill Meridas. So I guess now my argument is that Kaladin was definitely acting to protect Dalinar, but his intentions weren't completely pure. We've seen that intent is very important in this world, one scene in WoR springs to mind where Kaladin takes in Stormlight to fight Adolin on the sparring grounds and loses his powers because he was intending to hurt Adolin.\ Is it really okay for him to kill to avenge as long as he's also protecting? Thanks to both of you for the clarification, the people on this forum are so nice, even when facing opposing viewpoints
  11. I'd like to preface this by saying that I always was and still am a huge fan of Sanderson's work and I have a lot of respect for him as a writer; This post is partly to give criticism and partly to have others convince me that this was a good decision. So I'm sorta writing this from memory because I don't have a copy of Oathbringer at hand, I would appreciate any corrections as I'm no Archivist. As I'm sure most of us know (I actually just found out earlier this morning), Kaladin's final fight with Szeth has been altered from the original to state that Kal hesitated and Szeth died because of the storm instead of being stabbed through the neck. This is a good point, and we'd already seen Kaladin take some huge steps towards holding this ideal in his heart above all else... But at the end of Oathbringer, when Kal is tasked with protecting Dalinar from Amaram, it feels like Kaladin is using he excuse of protection to take his vengeance. It just feels wrong to me, and against Kal's oaths. He should not be glad to have the opportunity to square off with a demon from his past, that is more of an act of vengeance. In the end, Kaladin would have killed Amaram if given the chance, and he feels no remorse when Rock does the killing blow. Given the far more personal nature of this conflict, this honestly seems like an even worse act of vengeance than what happened to Szeth originally. So how is this any different? Again I'm writing this all from memory and I would appreciate clarification.
  12. Also what counts as a nutrient? People need iron in their diets, could a Lurcher burn the iron they get from the metalmind?
  13. So filling a bendalloy metalmind causes the body to metabolize food quicker? That would mean that a Subsumer can eat while filling the mind, then tap it immediately to digest I think?
  14. I was looking through the Coppermind and noticed something that's both potentially silly and interesting, which of course means I'm gonna post about it. Now I know that people have theorized that this is exactly what Lift needs in her life, but the way that this is written is making me think of something else. A Subsumer can eat, without feeling full. This means one of two things: The Subsumer is just losing their ability to feel how much they have in their stomach, and are at risk of overeating and would need to, as Wayne would put it, "force a mango through their delicate donut." The Subsumer is storing the food they consume in the metal mind, and then filling their stomach with the food again later. This post is going to deal with the possibilities inherent to the second option. What, exactly, is food? Most people don't consider shells to be food, but Horneaters love them. Pattern once thought that spheres would be food to Shallan, and suggested she eat one. An Allomancer basically eats metal too...... So does a Subsumer just transfer the contents of their stomach into a metalmind? If this is the case, an Allomancer could swallow a silly amount of metal, store it, and never run out. When an Allomancer goes to ingest more metal, they are vulnerable to steel pushes and iron pulls knocking away their metal, but not through this method. It also removes the need to burn away valuable metals at night to prevent poisoning, as the metal could be tossed into a metalmind. I know my last post also included compounding, but if the storage keeps track of what's inside it, could this storage be compounded to duplicate the matter inside it? Sure, it'd still be in your stomach, but the Mistborns of old would gladly cough up their fancy bead of Atium if they didn't use it. Bendalloy twinborns could become the highest demanded people on Scadrial! Who wouldn't want a person who can duplicate anything they swallow? This is all, of course, secondary to the true talent of a Subsumer: a talent that allows them to consume anything. The talent of the greatest superhero who has ever lived: MATTER EATER LAD
  15. This is all of course so we have a way to fund the creation of giant breath mechs.
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