Gary Singer

That pic of Peter was definitely worth an up vote.

I see that dragon shape and that's all I got. I do remember reading somewhere that the receiver of The Letter is a dragon. And maybe it's under some crem...

Seeing I'm relatively new here, I originally posted this in the wrong forum. WeiryWriter ask me to place it in this forum and thread.... I finally got around to transcribing the few minutes I had alone with Brandon for a Q&A at the end of the Seattle signing. Some of the questions were from tor.com rereaders, some were mine, and I found a couple on the 17thshard forums. I told karaokeang I’d post what I found, so here they are:

Ah, I didn't know. I'll take care of it.

That's true. I wonder if it's mental torture. But who knows if they're all tortured in the same way...

I finally got around to transcribing the few minutes I had alone with Brandon for a Q&A at the end of the Seattle signing. Some of the questions were from tor.com rereaders, some were mine, and I found a couple on the 17thshard forums. I told karaokeang I’d post what I found, so here they are:

Why is Mraize's sand pale and not white? (Brandon gave me a hint about the sand color at a signing. I couldn't remember what color the sand actually was.)

“So yes, I Adolin Kholin— cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom— have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.”

Brandon asked me what color the sand was when I brought it up at a signing. I couldn't remember, but I saw it's pale when I checked later. In White Sand it's either white when powered and black when drained. I don't know what to make of the fact that it's pale. I think Mraize is a Herald as well as a Worldhopper. He's been tortured.

Well done!

Adolin talks to his blade. I'm thinking it's likely he may be able to form a bond with it and revive it. The spren aren't really dead, but mindless.

Nice!

All Brandon would say at the signing is that "the key is in the book". He was quite specific about that and repeated it a couple of times. There may be some hidden meaning or not so hidden meaning in that. He wouldn't answer about pattern 15. Even after I begged

That Ketek observation is really clever! If I get some time on the weekend, I'll see if there may be any indexing with that. I wish Peter would at least give us the epigraphs that are pertinent (if any others are ).

That's pretty interesting! I know bronze detects allomantic pulses, but I never thought about it being used to detect surges. We've never really seen mixing of magic systems like that before, have we?

Here's a slightly cleaned up version of what I had. OSX or Linux already have Perl. You can download Strawberry Perl for a PC. I couldn't upload it as code1.pl, so I renamed it code1.txt. You can run "perl code1.txt". Or rename it to code1.pl on a pc and run code1.pl. For unix flavors, you have to change permissions on the file after you've copied it - "chmod 755 code1.pl". code1.txt

I could probably read it. I wrote a simple piece of a Perl hack code to break up the numbers in pairs and index into paragraph 15. The interesting thing was that arrays are zero based, so I put a dummy character in position 0 to offset the string so 01 would index into the first letter. I'll try the different number splits that have been posted a bit later. I wish there were some hints about what epigraphs are important. Maybe someone can ask a Brandon for hints at a signing. I'm going to one this weekend, and I certainly intend to!

The problem is that it's just numbers and we don't know how they split up and what they relate to. That's why I made the assumption they must be related to the only other paragraph from the Book of the Second Ceiling Rotation. I did some research on the net with ciphers when I started looking at it, and most of those don't seem to use numbers. They use letter for letter substitution. Or recursive algorithms using strings against other strings. Yes, ultimately the strings may be ASCII or other binary representations with XORs and other mathematical operations, but that's not exactly what we're dealing with here. There's been some really clever and interesting speculations on this thread!

Peter sort of confirmed the metal ingestion. When I mentioned "I just saw Hoid ingest allomantic metals!" when we were doing the gamma read, he said none of the beta readers had picked up on that... Hoid is sometimes kind and helpful, but he has this ruthless streak in him. I think we've seen enough of him to know that he'll do anything and grab any abilities to achieve his goals.

There were two instances where I noticed that Hoid used or prepared to use powers/abilities that don't exist on Roshar. In one of the flashback scenes with Shallan, we saw him ingest metals. She was wondering why he would potentially add poison to his own drink. When he's tuning his instrument before playing for Kaladin, he thinks that perfect pitch makes it a lot easier. This means he has at least 200 breaths. We already know he can travel through Shadesmar - we just don't know which power he uses to travel. Did anyone notice any other instances of him using or preparing powers?

Yeah, that's been noted. When I posted this, I didn't realize a thread had already been started over here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6398-wor-chapter-84-code/

Yes, I think it has to be from The Diagram. Even assuming that leaves many, many possibilities

Just for yucks, I tried to use the numbers as Pattern broke them up as indexes into pattern 1, and I got TealTeaeloaellTolutTaTubTuaelleuTlaaoalblulloioooouleeallletealadlTeulettTtaeaattTeullTeoaeleaul

We think these are the dates of the highstorms.

I didn't realize this thread had been started. I typed up what I've tried over here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6404-cracking-the-code-in-wor/. Maybe a mod could move it into this thread?