Green Hoodie Mistborn

If he dies there will be much rejoicing throughout the lands… and we will continue to judge others by their reactions to Moash forever and anon

It is present on the Shadesmar map for the Sea of Lost Lights that Nazh made (https://coppermind.net/w/images/Sea_of_Lost_Lights.jpg) But now I need to do word searches in my other Cosmere books to see if there are references I've missed

A few replies/thoughts

I knew in my heart it would be a Sixth sequel I’m super pumped by all this!!

Given that Sleepless (Dysian Amians) are capable of forming a Radiant Bond, I have to believe that Siah are as well! Also yeah, I don't know that there is a line necessarily. Some WoB even hint that cognitive shadows might be able to form Nahael bonds in the right circumstances, so that seems pretty wild and wide to me

This a very interesting catch, great job! I mean figgldygrak obviously is an anagram for "dark giggly f" but the idea that it could be a Yolish origin word that somehow survived to multiple planets is interesting. If it's a cipher it is a very short one. My heart of hearts tells me that Brandon (maybe via Peter) noted how much people were paying attention to figgldygrak and decided to keep using it as a tongue in cheek joke to us

Personally I hope that if we ever get an adaptation we only see the lines/etc when a misting/mistborn is burning iron/steel, but I hope we get the visual clues of the mist swirling and I'd be open to really subtle low tone pulses in the soundtrack kind of thing

Wait! We know for sure it was a Skybreaker acolyte who was present when Shallan killed her mom? or is it still conjecture based on Oathbringer letter and Shallan's words to Hoid?

I mean there are Kandra on other worlds, I assume they are spreading tales of Ironeyes just to tick Marsh off

I hope we find out something intereting! though we've seen it already (Miles), and WoB says that the only real way to become a Feruchemy Savant would be to compound the Feruchemy attribute which I doubt you can do while asleep But maybe unsealed medallions can help push the limits on that and we can see some F-savants!

Haha, I like this game Have the awake crew constantly eating to fill up F-Bendalloy minds and swap them IN so the sleeping crew has the food and nutrients they need to sustain even at lower metabolic rates.

I know the Space Era will have FTL in some way, shape, or form. BUT, does that negate the need for some sort of (very common) sci-fi stasis sleep? You have to travel at many multiples the speed of light to make real space travel possible. What if their FTL is only 3 or 4x? It'd still take months to travel places right? Unsealed F-Bronze medallion systems could help with that in some way. Some of the crew sleep, storing wakefulness, and when the medallion or metalmind is full, the awake crew swap empty ones out to keep the crew asleep and use the stored wakefulness to stay awake, crewing the ship?

I'd lean towards F-TIn and A-Pewter myself for a twinborn detective and just have them be an intelligent person so they can really get the most out of their enhanced senses when they tap Tin A-Pewter is just... you know detectives are going to need to fight, it's in every detective story basically, even Sherlock fights! Plus balance, enhanced healing, durability, endurance

I feel like it would act like the Felix Felicis potion from Harry Potter where.... everything would just work out exactly as they wanted while they were still tapping it

I'd give them the Alcatraz books, they're awesome for kids. My 9 almost 10 yo is reading through them right now Frugal wizard is a bit weird as it deals with some pretty adult stuff towards the end of it but might be ok depending on the kid

I think the point is that the Midnight Essences from Dalinar's visions and those from TotES are different completely. At least that is the implication that I read in the WoB I quoted. One are spawned from an Unmade (intelligent splinter of some shard probably honor "unmade" by Odium, at least my interpretation of them) vs a type of Aether which predate the shattering like Yolish Lightweaving does Personally, I don't think we'll ever know the name of the previous lightweaver as they're not critical to the story. They were able to trap the Unmade in the same way Dalinar did and Re-shepir feared Shallan would/could do, through Empathy for the Unmade. Riina doesn't scream "empathetic" in her appearances so far, so I struggle to believe that she'd have been capable of it enough to connect with and trap an Unmade

I don't think the Midnight Essence(s) are that directly related as Brandon said before that similar things get called similar words, just like Lightweaving is called the same regardless of magics used But I think the biggest issue would be timeline related. Midnight Essence on Roshar showed up in the desolations which are thousands of years before the published Elantris novels based on most Cosmere thought/timelines I've seen. I suppose it's possible that Riina is that old, but I kind of doubt it (potential) Spoilers in this WoB

I mean this would make more sense for some other properties given that Brandon has written short story fiction for MTG already and he's a huge MTG player/fan But I don't know if I see it happening just yet

That's an interesting theory and welcome to the site! Personally I've always read it as a joke/not joke or allegory that told us before we knew it about Shallan's history/past Her father descended into madness while he watched his children starve emotionally to the point where more than one of them died or nearly died and who knows what would have happened had Shallan not saved them from their father and themselves

I still love the Shallan's Mom theory personally, but that WoB doesn't seem to support it that much IMO Like... nothing in Shallan's story is "pretty obvious" for supporting her extra Spiritual insight Two Spren? That was not "obvious" until end of RoW Her mom is a Herald... is still not "obvious" though it's a great theory, esp with the SA5 prologue timeline I think for HIM it's all very clear, but for us who are nipping at shadows and scraps, none of it is obvious in my opinion

Well, if you are "C" Connected to a planet, it is almost impossible to leave that planet's area of the CR (with all known methods currently), but presumably physical travel in space is not limited in the same such way If you can do it safe and fast enough, the Connection can't hold you back in the physical Realm. I think we've seen indications of that in some of the info in the Year of Sanderson stories

Agreed, Era2 is supposed to fall in the SA5 to 6 gap I very much assumed that the Ars reference was to Xixis in Lumar (once that book came out) but Xixis has been on Lumar for at least 300 years by the time of Tress! I'm of the mind that either Lumar is after Roshar in their Long Trail or there are multiple groups of them out there, it's the only way the timeline can work because they were on Roshar for a LONG time as far as we know

Thanks! I was looking in the wrong book for that section. It was in my mind, but I was searching OB for it!

Yes and/but... Kaladin thinks that Zahel can see her, but Zahel never confirmed that, and I don't think he can actually "see" Syl. He senses her presence via investiture so its a different type of sensing rather than sight

Pretty sure he can't "see" her as much as detect her Investiture presence. I think he says as much either there or elsewhere Which would be down to his level of investiture and his experience using it while Azure doesn't have the same level of either not having a divine breath or centuries of experience more