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  1. So, I recently finished reading all of Stormlight and Mistborn, and I was thinking. As a planet, Scadrial is the second in the Cosmere (after Autonomy's home planet) to have electricity and gunpowder weapons. They also have battleships and rockets. In addition, the number of Allomancers has increased, as well as the number of metals. The Ghostbloods/Kelsier's Organization are ready to protect Scadrial at all costs, and are even prepared to go against Harmony (Sazed). They have huge amounts of funding, manpower, and resources, not to mention bottled Investiture. They have agents in many/all branches of Scadrial's society, and in other planets across the Cosmere as well. Roshar, due to Desolations and Highstorms, has not progressed nearly as far. Though they have an easier way to collect Investiture through spheres, their technology is lacking. Soulcasters and fabrials, though powerful, are not as widespread as the use of electricity on Scadrial. Rosharian weapons are still Midieval-level, with the majority being spears, swords, and bows. Shardblades and shardplate are unmatched, but the number of sets is limited. However, Roshar also has the spren, which can bond to its people, allowing them to use Stormlight. Once the Radients progress far enough in the Ideals, they get their plate and blades as well, increasing the overall number. On the other hand, the Highstorms prevent the construction of tall buildings such as skyscrapers, as well as inhibiting trade and travel on land, air, and sea. I also believe that Roshar has the easiest access to Shardsmar through Radient powers. Overarching all the books, the Shards are playing a complex and dangerous game with the Cosmere. Will Odium win the contest of champions, eventually establishing dominance over the Rosharian system as a base to destroy the other Shards and control the Cosmere? Will Kelsier, for the good of Scadrial, deploy his agents to sow chaos, kill important figures on other planets, or even go as far as to injure/disable Harmony? Will one of the characters use a Dawnshard to alter the Cosmere, or reforge the broken shards? Will Adonalsium be reborn? Will the different planets, spurred on by the Shards, fight each other in a huge battle for superiority? Or will Hoid, as the Cosmere burns, sit watching and play his flute? I think that the different planets will eventually connect and interact on a much larger scale than what is currently happening, and conflict will occur. It would be cool for the characters to all team up to save the universe. (I really would have liked a Lopen+Wayne combo). Of course, having only read 2 series, my knowledge of the Cosmere is limited. But what do you guys think?
  2. Kelsier is the ultimate con man. That is what he does. That is what gives him most fun. He conned Lord Ruler while he was a mere mortal. He conned Ruin while he was just a novice cognitive shadow. Now, he has had 300 years of getting used to the whole of cosmere, understand the powers that exist, the limit of his own condition and possibilities that comes with. So, who does he con next? He did a number on one shard and soon found out there were 16 in all in cosmere. I predict that he started by planning to take on all of them. It would have given him great satisfaction to know that this challenge was worthy of him. To con not one God, but all of them. But then, despite being infinite powers, shards in cosmere have limits. They are bound by there intent. I think, Kelsier would probably get bored by this task soon because while it is big enough, it is not ingenuous enough. It becomes a kind of repitition. But, trying to manipulate everything like he is trying to in cosmere, he must have come to understand that there is one more person who is manipulating everything in the cosmere. Someone, who is playing gods like a flute and changing the direction of cosmere events as he likes. Hoid. So, here is the prediction. I think, Kelsier will try to con the ultimate con artist. And that will be one of the endgames of cosmere. Kelsier v/s Hoid. Hoid is Brandon's favourite character because he is crazy enough, brilliant enough, good enough, but ruthless enough to do what is ryt. And, that is what will satisfy Kelsier. To con the ultimate con artist. To con Hoid.
  3. There's been a lot of discussion over the possibility that Todium will choose Gavinor as his champion, crippling Dalinar. There are several death rattles that are often cited to support this theory. (This thread explains the theory pretty well.) In this thread, I'm working from the assumption that this theory is correct, although there are plenty of objections. Personally, I think this theory makes a lot of sense. It fits Taravangian and Dalinar's conflicting principles, gives significance to Gavinor's subplot, and fulfills some Death Rattles. However, there's one plot thread/theme that isn't addressed by this theory: the fallibility of futuresight. We see this first in Oathbringer. Renarin has a vision of his own death by Jasnah's hand, and of Dalinar becoming Odium's champion. This does not happen. Jasnah does not kill Renarin, Dalinar shouts "You cannot have my pain," and awesomeness ensues. A lot of us on the shard (myself not excluded) often take Death Rattles as near-perfect predictions of the future. They may be; it's certainly fun to theorize from them. However, we have to remember how futuresight works. It is based on possibilities, not certainties. Jasnah didn't kill Renarin. Dalinar didn't become Odium's champion. Of course, we still have Todium's scheming and all the other evidence for this outcome. However, I don't think that Brandon showed us this detail about futuresight for nothing. After all, a plot twist needs foreshadowing. If, say, we discovered in book 5 that all these predictions had just been wrong all along, it would be unsatisfying. But because of Oathbringer, we have that foreshadowing. That in mind, here's my outline for a possible, more hopeful contest of champions. Dalinar arrives on the top of Urithiru for the contest of champions, expecting to face Moash or perhaps a powerful Fused. Instead, he is confronted by Gavinor. (Taravangian might reveal himself. I think not- gloating isn't really his style.) Again, Dalinar is faced with was seems like an impossible predicament. We see this Death Rattle: "I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat." We see his angst, since this is SA. The next step depends, at least, on Gavinor and Dalinar's character arcs. Dalinar is going to have a greater role in SA 5, which means more character development. And if Gavinor becomes Odium's champion, he has to have a character arc. Unfortunately, I don't have enough futuresight to know what their arcs will be or how they might tie in to this situation. I will issue an ultimatum though: Dalinar will not kill Gavinor. I could see a world in which that is false- but seriously, who wants that? We may very well see the fulfillment of this Death Rattle: "So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life..." However, this is where the futuresight fails. Somehow, the night will not reign. Maybe Gavinor chooses not to kill Dalinar. Maybe he rescinds his consent to be Odium's champion. Maybe Dalinar just physically restrains him, preventing either of them from killing the other and drawing out the conflict for years while the Knights Radiant regroup? Who knows? Whatever it is, I expect it will draw gloryspren, since Brandon is writing it. Regardless, futuresight fails in predicting the triumph of Odium. The Sanderson avalanche proceeds, tying up whatever plot ends Brandon needs to tie. Maybe this is just me trying to believe that Dalinar won't become a Fused, that Roshar won't turn into a crustacean version of pre-catacendre Scadrial. But something tells me that Brandon wouldn't show us that futuresight is fallible and then never pay that off. Thoughts?
  4. Towards the end of Chapter 18 of Skyward, Spensa tells M-Bot a story about a writer who woke up one day only to discover that his shadow had vanished. With the passage of time, the shadow eventually came back. The shadow explained to its master that it traveled the world and had "come to understand men." In fact, the shadow understood men better than its master and had seen evil in the hearts of the men of the land. The shadow soon persuaded its master to switch places with it so it could show him the world. Unfortunately, the shadow would never let him go free. Instead, the shadow married a princess and became wealthy while the real man wasted away. Due to her cytonic abilities, Spensa feels like she is the shadow in this story which is reinforced by the kitsen's name for people with cytonic abilities, 'shadow-walkers' (chapter 17). We learn the kitsen had cytonics, or shadow-walkers, among them but their people did not trust them. Eventually the shadow-walkers left the kitsen homeworld effectively stranding the kitsen for centuries until the Superiority made contact (chapter 20). Prediction: Spensa will have to face the difficult decision of somehow giving up her cytonic abilities or leaving the humans for good. I don't know how that will work out but while she's a shadow-walker, she won't be trusted and perhaps she won't even trust herself. So many possibilities though. Who knows what will happen? I can't wait for the next book!
  5. I've been relistening to WoR and right when Moash and Graves are confronting Kaladin I noticed Kaladin says this: *The formating of the quote is probably way off since I typed it up from listening to the audio book I completely forgot that Kaladin told him about Roshone, I think this means that Moash will head to Hearthstone sometime in the next book and Kaladin will probably be there trying to get his family to leave for safety. From there who knows what happens, though if Moash kills Lirin... Thoughts?
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