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I wonder if this is a title granted to Windrunners, due to their relationship with honorspren? Or, maybe to the head of the Windrunners?

If you do a forum search on lanceryn (it is hard to find. if you give me a bit I may be able to pull it up for you), but there is a post quoting Peter (Brandon's editor) stating that the larkin is the early form of a lanceryn, which is referred to as a greatshell that was formerly thought extinct. So although not outright confirmed, I think it hints (I hope) that Chiri-Chiri will get dragon size. edit: here is where I posted elsewhere, and then the link to the source: AhoyMatey (paraphrased) Are larkin and lanceryn one and the same? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) There’s a little bit more than just [being] one and the same, but in some ways they are. Words of Radiance Seattle signing (March 8, 2014) Larkin and lanceryn 1. In WoK, Jasnah's mention of this lanceryn befuddled me a lot. We know that it is a kind of greatshell with gemhearts native to Aimia, but except this, we know nothing. The translator interpreted it as "lance-beast". I suspect he got it inspired because "lanceryn" is similar to "lance", which is a kind of weapon. I'd like to know whether this name origins from "lance" or not. If not, could you simply describe how this creature actually looks like, so I can come up with a new term? (I'm not sure if the former translator has ever contacted you.) 2. So larkins are more like flying insects? I imagine they are a mixture of crab (or any crustacean), wasp and little dragon. Is that okay? (Do larkins really have reddish/brown crusts?) Peter The lanceryn and larkin are two names for the same creature. When it says lanceryn, it’s definitely referring only to the enormous greatshell version that is believed to be extinct. The name is not related to “lance”…I think. The small larkin can be considered the cremling/larva version of the lanceryn.

I delivered our Twas the night before the last post, to brandon via twitter and signed courtesy of the 17th shard.

When you had a really weird dream last night in which you were in B&N and browsing their notebooks and bookmarks, but there was a ton of Sanderson stuff. Some stickers and shirts that i was looking at on Redbubble the other day, the new socks, and weird books with Skyward themed covers. Most notably was the one called proper etiquette in a marriage, or something like that. It really makes me wonder what's going on in my subconscious...

Since he mentioned it would have to do with customizations around the kickstarter, it could/most likely come out around that time. So summer?

I was looking through the arcanum when I saw this Winds Alight (paraphrased) In SA the Stormfather refers to several people as "Child of Honor", but only Kaladin as "Child of Tanavast". Is there significance to that? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, there is. Stuttgart signing (May 17, 2019) So I see a few options here Kaladin is Literally Tanavast's child Kaladin is meant to take up Honor's shard.(Yes I know Everyone is screaming it's Dalinar deal with it) What do you think.

i finished the cosmere about a year ago, (well everything except white sands, haven read it yet), butnive only recently discovered the forum, and rusting hell is there so much beyond the books that i didnt know about.

And other than Dalinar, how many of those characters names do people remember? And how many characters are we going to have play the negotiator/peace broker? I didn't say suicide. I said sidelined. And being that every one of those characters save Dalinar is a minor character, I think you're making my point for me.

Tom Baker IS the Doctor! Any subsequent good Doctor is just putting their spin on his performance.

I'm gonna say Jezrien was the lead singer, as his association with the Stormfather going back to legendary times was likely based on their #1 hit, a cover version of the Scorpions' song Rock You Like A Hurricane (localized for Roshar to Rock You Like A Highstorm). Taln = Drummer Ash = Lead guitar And on bass... None other than Nalan, who "used to be able to feel" not just compassion, but The Groove Line.

Mraise is not a Roshar native. He’s from the shard world of Predation (one of the unknown shards of Adonalsium) His way of speaking references hunting and prey.

Which is a cop out. It's literally the same job. How many times have we been told that each Highprince is essentially a king in their own right? If he can effectively be one, he can effectively be the other. And I think you're missing my point completely. Without powers, he will be a liability in combat with the other radiants. He will either continue anyway, and eventually die in the process... Or he'll step back from combat in which case he will be effectively sidelined from his current story role. Adolin is able to stand with the other characters, even in the face of horrible odds. The entire reason people like him as the "normal" perspective is because we see the action from the perspective of people without powers... Which is a role that's going to be less and less viable. If he becomes like other characters you mentioned, Gawx, or Fen, or Sebarial, or any of the many generals, or Highprinces, or nobles or random other characters... He becomes a minor character who has multiple other people at the same level, in the same role, that are all doing the exact same things he is, and his story role essentially becomes "Shallan's husband, Dalinar's son, and Renarin's brother." That's being sidelined. There would be absolutely nothing he is doing outside of his relationships to the other characters that isn't being fulfilled by a multitude of similarly minor characters. Because it was a general statement and not directed at you.

Nightception

It's at 95%

Odium . Ok hear me out. When odium first meets Dalinar in the vision , he likes pulls his tail saying , are you releasing me ? Then he's like don't worry. Intent is necessary. So I think what this means is that he needs some radiants to defeat. Maybe one from each order or so. So maybe he was influencing the ppl to spare kaladin . He does have some pull on emotion . So I could see him manipulating emotions to allow kaladin to live but murder everyone else cause well that's an odious act and his name is Odium. Or maybe like he wants to break kaladins honor and strength. Just killing isn't enough. He needs kaladins intent to be destroyed and the only way to do that is to make him fail repeatedly. I don't know how this would work with other charecters. You think about that

I believe the Dawnshards are epic-scale fabrials, designed for the purpose of terraforming. Roshar is covered with what looks to me like the scars of human experimentation. I think structures like the Windblades and Urithiru were probably Soulcast, or otherwise constructed with gigantic surges. The Purelake is also suspicious to me. And clearly Shinovar itself was Soulcast into being a piece of an entirely different world. Now there's a cache in Aimia of these ultimate devices, and anyone who used one as a weapon would be able to cause absolutely ridiculous levels of destruction.

I want to point out that Stick was killed almost certainly because of that list. We need to be careful when revealing that much info. Edit: MR35 Joe was an elim and less active than this game iirc. Regardless, I dont think he is an elim. Organized player analysis to come hopefully within 12 bours. Off the top of my head, I think the remaining elims are 2 of Striker, Elkanah, and Devotary. Still need to do the analysis though.

A majority of the area of a terrestial planet is water. Hence most of the CR is land. The amount of freight an aircraft at that level of technology will carry is minimal. Unless you want to import airships, you will most likely lose money. Add to that the issue of reliability. Early aircraft weren't all that reliable. And if you go down in the CR you will almost certainly perish, unless you are found very soon. There is no water and they have no radios, which may or may not work in the CR anyway. Finally, how do you navigate? There are no stars and the sun is always at the same place in the sky.

Finished Turtles All the Way Down yesterday. I don't read much John Green, but... frick that book was good.

I do believe you are correct - I shall have to make my own! I was trying to be lazy and see if someone had a template but i think I've spent more time now here discussing it than just getting it done! Anyway, thanks for the advice it is appreciated and some of it will indeed be incorporated. Have a Merry Christmas!

In counting the Black Market points I have discovered that Sart did not post last cycle which means the inactivity filter has taken him out of the game. Apologies for not catching this sooner. I will edit the cycle post to reflect his death. Edit: you definitely want to go look

I mean, Cultivation is the obvious answer here. She's definitely been manipulating events from the behind the scenes in order to disadvantage Odium. The only question is how extensive her meddling has been.

In Soviet Cosmere, Adonalsium breaks _____! RAFO!

Definitely not. Dragonsteel is a prequel series. Brandon’s clearly lumping the various trilogies/series together.

Glad that Brandon seems to be wise in planning his work & expectations. I love the signings, but the writing is his real work & what future generations will enjoy. We can pay it forward by supporting his focus on writing. Very excited about: SA4 date looks solid, enabling release party plans to commence! Brandon collaborating with JMS!!! A match made in heaven! Cannot tell you how happy this makes me Excited about: W&W 4 and Alcatraz 6 dates look hopeful So much to look forward to in the next several years! A bit sad about: Realizing that I'm of an age now such that I probably won't live to see Mistborn 4 #3 -- maybe not even SA10. That's OK, though, since Brandon gives so much closure even in mid-stream books. I don't mean this to be morbid; just sharing feelings. I'd be jealous of those who'll be around to read the end, if I weren't so happy for you! Now, I'm sure I've got some leftover koloss heads in the fridge to munch on... (Yes I know that's not how it goes ... but it's funny, LOL!)

Wow thank you all for your comments, I super appreciate it! Really brought a smile to my face when I read all the kind words. Makes me want to do more cosmere art. Happy Koloss Head-Munching Day and a Merry Axemas to you all!

When you're very mad that your school announcements mentioned that it was national oatmeal cookie day but not Koloss Head Munching Day!!! The heresy!

Now I'm desperately hoping to see is Szeth and "Azure" square off in Stormlight 4...

Brandon's said that the swords don't even need to be of equal power for Bad Things to happen: So imagining Nightblood versus an equally powerful Awakened weapon with a similar command, I'd probably want to be observing that from a good distance. Or from the Cognitive Realm. Or possibly both at once, just to be safe.

I just want a Bendalloy Ferring who goes to All-You-Can-Eat-Buffets and just eats for five hours then gets kicked out.

All of the Shards are just Autonomy. Even the dead ones.

Storms, i was hoping for The Music of the Knight

Here's my line of logic: 1. Warbreaker, and thus Vasher and Nightblood, is a prologue to the SA. 2. If Warbreaker is a prologue, Awakening is going to have to be described at some point during the 10 book SA. 3. The back 5 books are the perfect point to introduce a new magic system that can compliment the existing systems. (Especially if book 5 ends with the destruction of Roshar and escape to Nalthis.) 4. Lift is also important. In a world of no highstorms, she will be possibly the only Radiant who can reliably use their Surgebinding. (I imagine some Radiants will have issue using Breaths to fuel Suregbinding.) Put all that together and what do you get? Vasher Awakens a cupcake with his Divine Breath, Lift eats said cupcake, and thus becomes a Returned Edgedancer Awakener wielder of Nightblood. If Odium is not dead by that point, the rest of the SA is about him fleeing in terror.

One of the times Hoid got mixed up in religion he was just trying to hasten the invention of instant noodles and got a little carried away

I had a conversation with a stick, once. It gave me the cold shoulder. Ooh, I've done this! Part of one of my circles and a chalkling is still preserved under the doormat. It looks really bad.

You know your a Sanderfan when you have arguments with inanimate objects about their identity You know your a Sanderfan when you use sidewalk chalk to draw a 9 point defense and several chalklings (it didn’t work ) You know your a Sanderfan when you go crazy when your friend (who has not read Stormlight Archives or heard anything about it) says “Journey before destination” (this actually happened. He was reading Mistborn at the time) You know your a Sanderfan when you write “Put friend A on decaf” and “(Me) gets a cookie” at the bottom of your Math Teacher’s lesson plan and friend B shouts “I want a cookie too” (Math Teacher did not have cookies that day. She had brownies)

When someone in Pokemon wants you to find Shards and you freak out before realizing they didn't mean either of the things you hoped they might. When you realize that Generation Five of Pokemon talks a lot about Truths and Ideals... (Yes, I've been playing Pokemon a lot lately. So what?)

TOTALLY not acting upon that... totally. (You actually should, though. Then post about it and let us know how it went.) You know your a Sanderfan when... You continue to tell people to read Mistborn even after they've read it. You and your friends have screaming matches about Cosmere theories and topics while other people just watch, confused. You stare at sand, hoping that it will rise out of your hand before falling to the ground, colored black. You see the words "an example of radiant energy is sunlight" so you cross out "sun" and replace it with "storm." You try to give advice to your friends, and think WWSS? (What Would Sylphrena Say?) You try to do 0 divided by 0 on a calculator, and your Sanderfan friend next to you screams "That's inappropriate!" You feel more popular on the 17th Shard than in real life. You watch as Friend A argues with Friend B over Friend A's hair color. All you can think about is: "Friend A must be a princess from Nalthis..." All you ever want in life is a roast battle between Wit and Shallan, Lopen and Wayne to meet, and for Kaladin to be happy. You realize that Harry Potter is just shooting stormlight from his wand. The wands are sticks, which refused to be turned into fire. Shallan gave them stormlight because "Sticks need stormlight. For... things..." So, the sticks can now shoot the stormlight Shallan gave them. Because logic.

Don't you dare jinx them

Yeah. I have a friend who’s read Mistborn and SA, but aren’t super into it. They like the books a lot, but get kinda annoyed when I talk about it or make obscure references. On the plus side, I’m getting my sister to read Mistborn and she’s maybe a quarter of the way through HoA. I’m so excited, and she loves it, and I’m so excited!

When your dad refers to Sanderson as the "Holy author"

Got it. Also, you know you're a Sanderfan when you are in a Scouts thing and when the leader asks everybody, "How do you lash?", you immediately respond with, "With Stormlight! Duh. You'll also need a Nahel bond or an Honorblade." Apparently he meant lashing with ropes. So... Still Stormlight?

When your immediate reaction to being told to guess where you will be in life in 20 years is “Sacrilege!” and you have to restrain yourself from saying it out loud.

When you see a nail on the floor and think "That's a really small hemallurgic spike".

We aren't freaks, we're nerds. Branerdons. Doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as Sanderfan, does it?

When you go to the library or bookstore and the first section you go to is fiction looking to see if the library/store has the Sanderson book available you have been waiting on forever.

Hah! I had basically the same experience. Sortta. I got one of those water bottle bags the other day, and the first thing I asked when I got it was if I could fit a book in it. TWoK actually fit! My mom called me a nerd. I thanked her for the complement.

When a friend has to have surgery that involves getting screws in his jaw, (terrible, by the way.) and the first thing you ask him when you see him the day he gets back to school is, "Do you hear little voices in the back of your head telling you to kill people?" Unfortunately, I was the only Sanderfan in the room at the time. And they still bring it up in casual conversation. As if conversation can be normal among teens. Especially if it involves tittle voices in the back of your head telling you to kill people. I have voices in my head. They just tell me to stop procrastinating and get my homework done. Or to BIC HOK.

The Vorin numbers 1 through 10, the names next to the planets are the vorin names for the numbers