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  1. So, we’ve previously seen that Hoid has access to the Heightenings. I had thought that meant he held a certain amount of Breaths, and wondered why he didn’t distort light and color around him like we see with people holding a large amount of Breaths on Nalthis. Does this just mean that Hoid has grafted a large amount of investiture onto his spiritweb (totally plausible in my mind due to his habit of collecting different magic systems), or is it possible that he holds a Dawnshard as well (also plausible to me on account of the fact that he is Hoid)?
  2. If Braize is where humanity came from AND the Tranquiline Halls, Roshar is home to the Parshendi and the transplanted humans, and the gas giants all represent the Heralds in some unknown fashion, what is Ashyn? It seems odd that Adonalsium would craft this system and everything would have such a purpose only to put an extra planet in to make the numbers round out.
  3. I kind of got the feeling that Dalinar was about to ask her to be Highprince. I don’t have the exact quote, but didn’t he say, “Ialai, I have an idea about who should be Highprince that is unorthodox and intriguing that you might be interested in,” but she cut him off and said, “I’m not going to accept your leadership or anyone you would put in my husband’s place, so here’s Amaram.”? And Dalinar was trying to be all political instead of bluntly saying, “Well I was going to appoint you, but if you wouldn’t accept anyone I put in Torol’s place, then fine.” Probably a total fan theory, haha.
  4. At a signing in Madison last year, I asked Brandon if he had the oaths all planned out. I don’t remember word for word, but he said that not all the characters would say the oaths in the same way, that different Radiants of the same order might say their oaths differently, except the first oath. I don’t know if that would affect your project, though.
  5. While I felt the Lyn-challenging-gender-roles vibe later on in the book, I didn’t read the scene with Shallan that way. For me, it felt like Shallan misinterpreted Lyn’s curiosity, and Lyn’s disappointment afterwards was because Shallan didn’t seem open to questions and just wanted to assume instead of have a discussion. Looking at this from Lyn’s perspective, I thought she was asking (or hoping to ask) how to become a Radiant. At this point in the book, the Radiants are Dalinar (who is too high to be talked to and questioned by a lowly soldier), Kaladin (who is off in Alethkar), Renarin (who comes off as strange to most people), and Shallan. Shallan is a fellow woman which might make her easier to approach, not exactly high enough nahn that Lyn could not have a conversation with her, and Lyn saw the opportunity to have that conversation. But Shallan assumed something different, that Lyn wanted to know if she was still womanly, and was harsh. Lyn would definitely be disappointed that her chance to learn about Radiants was not being met with an open minded Shallan. It’s similar to later on in the book when Lyn meets Kaladin. Yes, she’s challenging gender roles by wanting to be a fighter rather than a scribe, but it seems like she joined Bridge Four in order to become Radiant and was again put off by Kaladin’s indifference and assumptions.
  6. 37% Windrunner 35% Elsecaller 32% Truthwatcher 29% Bondsmith 28% Stoneward 24% Edgedancer 24% Lightweaver 22% Wilshaper 17% Dustbringer 0% Skybreaker I’ve taken this quiz before (or one very similar to it) and gotten Truthwatcher. Really I can’t decide if I’d rather be a Truthwatcher or Willshaper, though. This quiz seems to think I’m a little to average to be a Surgebinder at all! Or that I have a similar chance of attracting several types of spren, I’ll go with that.
  7. Yes, but they aren't "around these parts," presumably Roshar. Although Adolin probably thinks Wit means the Shattered Plains.
  8. I wondered about the Simple Rules. They seemed like expenditures of energy used in desperation while I was reading. If you're running, chances are you are afraid or in a desperate kind of hurry, using a lot of energy. If you're shedding blood, you're most likely using a lot of energy and it flipping HURTS, resulting in that desperate emotion. Fire is hot, fast moving energy in itself that you're probably using to survive.Actually, all of these are a heated energy. Hmm. What do we really know about the Simple Rules? They can be gotten around, yes. Are there really only three?
  9. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if shards, or bits of shards like atium, have the same manifestation as, say, Stick does in the Cognative realm? Shallan was there as a human, Stick was a glass bead, Pattern was a symbol head. It seems to me that a shard would be altogether different, and therefore atium would be different.
  10. Sanderson does a lot of in-book books that I'd like to read. I'm sure, with two more eras planned after this on Scadrial there will be more than just the Historica and Words of Founding. Add in the Rosharan books like The Way of Kings by Nohadon, and you're starting to get a subseries. It could be called Hoid's Library, and could have a copy of Susebron's fairy tale book from Warbreaker or even Jasnah's Book of Endless Pages.
  11. Suddenly, I really want a Rosharan worldhopper to take her pet axehound to Scadrial.
  12. Spike! Better if the axehound found its way to Luthadel.
  13. I like the thought process behind this, I always have. What right do they (Kell's crew, the shardholders) have to overthrow their God? Even more so with Adonalsium than the Lord Ruler. Makes me wonder, was there a power higher than Adonalsium that we don't know about, a la Rashek, or did the shardholders really think they could do better than God? Or were they just power hungry monkeys?
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