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  1. So, just found out some UNFINISHED Scratch (easy coding website) projects that I was working on quite a few years ago that I decided to publish and share because why not. Warrior Cats Life Version 1 Left and right arrow keys to move, click cats to talk and click dens to enter. No story yet, but interestingly I was smart enough to make the cats blink. Art style is primitive. Gave up on it pretty quick. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/221240837 Warrior Cats Life Version 2 This version is where you'd have the most fun because there is actually story. You get a thorn in your paw, have to go to medicine cat den, and have an apprentice ceremony, and can even go to bed, which is where it ends. Art style is the same as before, just more vector and cleaner. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/235896938 Warrior Cats Life Version 3 (Not Very Playable...) This was mainly just an art style attempt at change. Territory was extended and graphics were updated, but there is no story whatsoever and if you try clicking things it breaks pretty quick. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/306815075 Skrachemon ("Scratch" version of Pokemon) Movement Test Just me trying to figure out walking around. I failed, you can just walk off the map. But it's kind of cool! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/280528463 Skrachemon Battle Test This is where most of my effort went, trying to recreate Pokemon battles. It's very silly and doesn't last very long. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/278110922 Skyward (yes, Brandon Sanderson) Complete(ish) game based on Skyward. Not very good, but apparently a few people here have actually played this without realizing it was me. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/353033268/ Stormlight Archive Lashings Test I wanted a Windrunner game, so this was just a physics test for Lashings. My last project I ever worked on on Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/351109096/
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  2. "You're half the man Kaladin was, for now..." "Syl, stop making fun of my name."
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  3. Have you informed Thaidakar of this? I’m pretty sure ‘not feasible’ is just an encouragement. I don’t think he even knows what the term ‘impossible’ means. He seems to have made a career out of doing it...
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  4. lezian: i’m going to kill you kaladin:
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  5. Hey guys, sorry about the lack of any posts for the last week or so- I'm currently in the process of moving cross-country and I just haven't felt up to it.
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  6. Everytime any of you did a gay reading of any characters or situations, the rest of y'all's smirks slowly rose up, up, up, up Anyway, that was a great Shardcast and happy Pride Month to all of you as well! Also, hey there Ene!
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  7. Right, I'm way behind on notifications (am I ever not, though) but I had to pop on to promote this If you don't normally watch Shardcast, that's cool, but this one is pride-themed! Also I'm in it. I don't say much, but I'm there lol. So if you follow me but not Shard news - check it out! (And then go watch some other episodes if you liked this one. They're pretty fun.)
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  8. SPOILERS AND ADDED INFORMATION: I had posted other bits of this else where in 2020 before the "Taln never broke" WOB, but consolidated all the ideas here in this post This theory and post came out before Rhythm of War, but updates have been made to include information from ROW SA5 Prologue: This is not discussed to avoid spoilers, but SA5 Prologue has some interesting information --- Weird Questions: 1) TALN BREAKING SEEMS ODD What broke Taln? He is crazy and insensate for 4000 years and then one day he says "No thank you". What could have broke Taln? And, in terms of timelines, Taln returned before the Everstorm crossed into the physical realm, so it can't be that the Everstorm freed Taln. Yes the Everstorm was in the Cognitive, but all the doom and gloom seemed to be about the Everstorm being pulled in the Physical Realm by Eshoni and her team. Since Taln returns at the end of The Way of Kings, then Taln must return in a way that is not related to Eshoni. And as I mentioned before, I don't think it makes sense that Odium suddenly found a way to break Taln after 4000 years of trying. Edit: we later got a WOB that Taln did not break 2) DAVAR FAMILY CONNECTIONS Why was the Davar family so connected to secret societies despite being a Vaden house of little note? They have connections to the Ghostbloods and the Ghostbloods have handed them a confirmed soulcaster AND possibly a Seon box. Why? And it seems Skybreakers may have been visiting as well for "reasons". As well, the Skybreakers are breaking paterns when it comes to the Davars. As far as we know, Shallan's older brother is the only Skybreaker to be using a dead blade. Is this special treatment for a member of the Davar family? And finally, Mraize seems to know the Davar family well enough to recognize the name immediately. The Davars would need to be pretty active for that name recognition to be so apparent. 3) CHILD SHALLAN AND HER IMPORTANCE Why did the cryptic go to Shallan as a child? Lift was chosen due to her strange connection to Cultivation, but why Shallan? And why twice? And what were Shallan's parents fighting about? Shallan remembers her parents having huge fights over Shallan's future starting from a very young age. What was that about? Connected to that, why is an dark influence attacking the Davar family? Why is Heleran given a shardblade and brought into the skybreakers? No other Skybreaker acolyte was given a dead-blade and sent to war (that we know of), so why is Helaran so non-standard? Shallan's parents also fight A LOT about Shallan's future. This seems to be a hint that Chanarach had a major plan for Shallan. 4) MAMA DAVAR IN THE KNOW Why was Shallan's mother so quick to try and kill "one of them". How does she know "them" so clearly? Why would she have such a quick and radical reaction? 5) MORE SECRETS What is Shallan's last secret. There is still something horrible in Shallan's past, and this has something to do with a Seon box and whatever Radiant was created to protect Shallan from. What is worse than killing testament? We also have strange internal thoughts from Shallan from WOR in Chapter 10: "The world ended; and Shallan was to blame". This thought has never been explained. What did Shallan do to end the world? "The world ended, and Shallan was to blame.- Words of Radiance, Chapter 10. Mentioned by @honorblades Another strange but overlooked instance occurs in TWoK when Shallan almost summons her Shardblade: If this is indeed Patters/Testement, then why would that Spren ask "What are you?" Testament should full-well know "what" Shallan is in terms of her being a human or a semi-radiant or anything like that. If this voice is Testament, then asking "What are you?" is very odd in my opinion. Shallan answers "I am terrified", but to me that always seemed ... not what the voice was asking Shallan. I always felt there was more to this that simply speaking truths. 6) THE FAMILY'S SAFE AND THE GLOWING LIGHTS ARE IMPORTANT (main data point for me creating this theory) People are very quick to discount Shallan's recollection of Lin Davar placing a glowing soul into a safe. I have always been very confused as to why Shallan is taken as "lying" to herself in this scene. Shallan has no reason to lie about the item being her mother's soul instead of a Shardblade. Lin Davar acted extremely quickly in that situation and made sure to place the item in that safe before dealing with any other issues. That to me is extremely telling. Why would Lin think the Shadblade wouldn't disappear eventually whenever Shallan dismissed it? Why would Lin think the Shardblade would stay in a safe if he managed to place it there quickly? Why would Lin so quickly run to place the item in the safe in the first place? Why is there an unused safe in that room? And then why do Shallan and Lin seem to continually see light coming from that safe for years and years? None of that vibes with "it is just a blade and Shallan is lying to herself" in any way. I just don't get it. Shallan having a Shardblade is not in anyway covered up by this lie, nor is the lie that Shallan killed her spren hidden by this lie either? There is no mental cover-up being done by Shallan making up a lie here. It seems everyone else dismisses Shallan, including Pattern, in favour of "Lynn put a sword in there". 7) EDIT FOR ROW: Then in ROW we get the timeline, and this does not hold up to scrutiny either. Shallan says her father put the item into the safe. WoR Shallan thinks that was a soul, but Pattern convinces her she is misremembering and that the item was a dead spren-blade. But that can't be a dead spren blade because Shallan has not unbonded Testament yet. Shallan does not think that a spren is trapped in that safe and we know this because Shallan then leaves to go speak with her spren in the garden AFTER the item is placed in the safe. Shallan acts immediately as a child in a way that doesn't even consider that her "blade" is in that safe. It just doesn't make sense to think a blade was placed into that safe based on the reactions of the two witnesses involved (which we learn Pattern is not one of) We take it from Pattern that Shallan is wrong here in her memory. However, In ROW we learn that Pattern is NOT an eyewitness to what went down in that room. Pattern sure has a lot of opinions about what Shallan saw, but Pattern was not actually there in the room and cannot actually know what Shallan saw go into the safe. Pattern assumed Shallan is lying to herself as Pattern sees many other lies around that event. But Pattern has no knowledge about who Mother-Davar was, what the safe was for, or why Skybreaker/Ghostbloods may have been in the home. Pattern is not a credible source of information on the events of that day. Shallan is the only living witness, and the actions of her father are consistent with the understanding Shallan had as a child. Shallan too noticed her father staring at the direction of the safe and the light. Only later in life is Shallan told again and again that her memory of those events are wrong by people who were not there. Both Lin and Shallan believe something is in the safe, and a sword does not match the other data points we have. There is "light" in that safe, and it is leaking out over time. And where di the blood come from? A Shardblade should not have done that. The blood has to be some other injury? The box is something. The light was something. Pattern is making assumptions and is wrong about this history with the safe. And why does Shallan see a glowing light coming from the box? Is it a soul like she believes? We learn in RoW that no herald soul can be trapped completely, and that the light of a herald will slowly leak out (is that what Shallan was seeing her whole childhood come out of the safe?). Is it her mother's soul escaping slowly to Braize? Or maybe could it be a perfect gem with Mishram inside? Who knows? But it is something. We have seen other glowing lights (Dawnshard and Dalinar hearing TwoK), so is she just mad, or did she really see something? Whatever it is, it does not make sense that Shallan thinks Testament is trapped in the safe if Shallan went and yelled at Testament after her mother was killed. Something was put into that safe, and to me the most likely answer is "her mother's soul". And firhermore, there is no reason to believe that Lin Davar would think a safe would ever prevent a Shardblade from reappearing in Shallan's hands. 8) HOID and MIDDLEFEST Hoid is downright shocked to see child-Shallan at the Middlefest celebration. Hoid sees something, but that something is unclear. When we originally read WOR, we assume HOpid is shocked to see a Radiant Child or perhaps a bonded spren. However, Shallan does not have a regular active sprenbond at the time of Middlefest, so Hoid did not see Testament or an active radiant bond There are a few things Hoid may have seen: a. Hoid saw Odium's touch on her family b. a dead-blade living-radiant connection line was still active c. the Cryptic team that watched Shallan. d. Shallan is so obviously a part of Chanarach that Hoid was gobsmacked by the resemblance. e. Shallan is noticeably different than other Rosharans due to her strange parentage. But whatever Hoid saw, it was not an active Spren Bond since we know Testament is a deadeye at that point in the story. ---- It All Put Together - A Timeline 1) JAH KAVED Chararach settled in the Davar estate in rural Jah Kaved. Chanarach is involved in several of the secret societies of Roshar just like most of the other heralds we have seen. Chanarach learns of the theory that a return of surgebinders will bring about a desolation. Chararach is completely terrified of returning to Braize and supports the culling of nascent surgebinding. Chanarach is involved in research and is a part of the search to create a method that prevents a herald from returning to Braize upon death. Kalak is also involved. 2) COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Chanarach commands a fair bit of influence and even has a Seon to communicate off world. It is unclear who knows who Chanarach is, but as she did settle in a rural area it is likely Chana's identity is not common knowledge even within secret societies (similar to Restares and Amaram). Chana exerts some form of influence and stays in-the-know with investiture theory and is able to contact others on Roshar or off-world. 3) CREATING THE SAFE Chana tries to devise a way to never return to Braize. She creates a special kind of safe that her soul could be placed in to. She thinks it will entirely prevent a return or will greatly delay her return to Braize. Chana has no way to test this as there are no herald-souls or returned-souls to experiment with. Possibly, the safe is akin to the Seon box in design or the safe may even actually be the Seon Box Shallan remembers playing with as a child? At some point, Chana tells Lin Davar what to do in case she is ever killed (place her soul into the box). In ROW we learn Kelek has some knowledge on this herald soul-leakage issue, so perhaps he was also involved in the Soul Box experiments in some way. 4) SHALLAN IS BORN Chanarach eventually has a daughter and names that daughter after her friend Shalash (Shallan says she was named after Shalash). Shallan may not be a "typical" offspring. She seems to be different from her brothers in some meaningful way. Perhaps Shallanis a cutting of Chararach or maybe Shallan conceived through some form or parthenogenetic process. Perhaps Shallan was created using breaths, as Tyn notes that Shallan seems to see colours better than most other people. EDIT: In a later WOB we learned that that non-returned Cognitive Shadows have had children Edit: In a later WOB we learned that Heralds can have children but it is complicated and effortful to do. Chana has special plans for Shallan. We know from WoR that Shallan's parents fought A LOT about Shallan's future. This implies to me that Shallan is somehow more intentionally convieved than her male siblings, and that Chana had something planned for Shallan that Lynn Davar had moral misgivings about. We are not sure what this is, but I think a lot of us will assume it has something to do with the Oathapact and/or returning to Braize. 5) SHALLAN IS DETECTED BY SPREN The Cryptics find out that one of the heralds has children or they discover a weird child who stands-out and is similar to the child of a Returned. The Cryptics send a delegation to investigate (WOB confirms heralds can have children though maybe it is difficult). At the same time, an unmade is drawn to the family. Testament begins to bond Shallan similar to what happened with Lift. Shallan eventually discovers what her mother is by playing with a Seon box at the Davar estate. The unmade's influence increases in an attempt to get the Herald to go insane and potentially get herself killed by Lin Devar or Shallan. 6) SHALLAN IS DETECTED BY SKYBREAKERS Shallan is discovered to be a surge binder by her mother. Her mother, fearing a return to Braize, refers to Shallan as "one of them". Note that Chanarach does not seem surprised that surgebinders are real. Chanarach has an absolute PTSD breakdown and attacks her daughter. Lin, who likely knew, steps in and Shallan is able to kill her mother in self defence. Lin Devar takes something and locks it away in the safe. We are told this is the Shardblade and Shallan's mother's soul. Shallan goes to the garden to scream at Testament and break her bond AFTER Testament is supposedly locked away in the safe. This timeline does not make sense even if we believe Testament could escape the safe. Why does Shallan believe her spren was trapped but also then in the garden? And how is Testament-blade = her mother's soul? There isn't a connection there logically. 7) SHALLAN KILLS A HERALD AND THEN TALKS TO TESTAMENT IN THE GARDEN After Shallan kills her mother, Shallan goes to Testament and breaks her bond. It is possible Testament told her more here as well. Shallan then begins to repress everything since Shallan has, in her mind, done the most evil act in history. "The world ended, and Shallan was to blame.- Words of Radiance, Chapter 10. Mentioned by @honorblades 8) CORRUPTION SETS IN Lin Devar begins to be corrupted even more. Lin also has mental guilt and wrestles with killing his herald-wife to save his daughter. He beings to protect Shallan at all costs for reasons that may be more than just guilt. Then Davar family hell ensues. The ghostbloods continue to cultivate the family. The Ghostbloods may not believe a herald could be killed by Lin or may not know she was a Herald. The Cryptics stay with Shallan as they don't blame her for what happened. They are still curious about what Shallan is and are researching what happens to a bonded-deadeye to its original radiant. The dark influence in the house may be more than an unmade as well. One of Chana's divine attributes is "obedient". I think this is significant. Lin is driven to rage every time one of his children will not obey him, and the word obey is emphasized many times. It may be possible the Lin's rage was a dark consequence of something Chana was doing, the safe's magical effects, or something else. It is also possible that Lin thought his children would inherit the divine attribute, and the fact they dont obey him drives him to rage. 9) BRAIZE AND SOUL LEAKAGE Chanarach returns to Braize. It may have taken some time for her to get to Braize. It seems the soul is leaking out of the safe over time (ROW: as we see with Jezrian in the gem). Or maybe it takes 5 years to find Chana on Braize since arrival was unexpected and because in earlier returns the heralds were able to "hide" for some time. Either way, the other heralds do not know that that has happened as they cannot detect the pain-bond while on Roshar. Edit: Ishar created the oathpact so he may be able to sense changes in it. 10) HOID SEES SHALLAN Shallan, with no bond, goes to Middlefest. Wit's magic or memory allow him to detect that there is something very strange about Shallan. Wit somehow knows what Shallan fights "is not truly natural" and encourages her to make a path for the light. It is unclear what Wit saw, but he knew more than the fact she was a surgebinder (even though she's actually a deadeye-binder at the time). 11) CHANA IS CAPTURED ON BRAIZE Chanarach is eventually found on Braize. For some reason, Chana either breaks to the pain or gives in to some deal Odium offers. It may have taken a while or been immediate. What is strange is that Chana has not been seen returning to Roshar, either Chana took some deal meaning she did not have to return or perhaps she intentionally landed somewhere remote. 12) TALN RETURNS WITHOUT BREAKING THE OATH Taln returns to Roshar completely insane and without breaking. What happens to Chanarach is unknown. All assume Taln broke. 13) SHALLAN BEGINS TO REMEMBER THAT HER MOTHER WAS A HERALD Radiant is created from memories of Shallan's mother. Or potentially, Radiant is somehow part of Chanarach. Radiant dresses in the same blue and red warrior outfit as the Herald Chanarach in artworks. Radiant is Shallan's repressed memories of who her mother was. It is also possible that Radiant is in someway Shallan's mother (connection mumbo jumbo and cognitive shadow stuff along with cultivation weirdness possibilities) Here is a description of Radiant: “She [Radiant] had chosen to wear her vakama; the traditional Vaden’s warrior clothing. It was similar to the Alethi takama but the skirt was pleeted instead of straight. She wore a loose matching coat with a tight vest and shirt beneath. The bright clothing features vibrant blues embroidered over reds with gold woven between and it had trim on the skirt” Here is Chanarach: 14) TESTEMENT MEMORIES Shallan is forced to confront what happened with Testament, and Radiant begins to see that she must help Shallan deal with her final truth. [Option 1] Shallan knows she killed a herald and that she sent her mother to damnation - possibly ending the world and starting the final desolation. [Option 2] Shallan does not know her mother was a herald, but will put that together in regards to the "hole" in her memory"
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  9. Happy Pride Month everyone! This episode of Shardcast, we get very gay. We're talking about Queerness in the Cosmere, so we're talking about queer representation, examples, how Brandon has evolved over time and is putting in more representation. We also have some critiques and hopes for the future. So if you want to see the cosmere from a queer lens, this episode is for you! This week Jess (LadyLameness) has killed Eric and is hosting the podcast instead, and we have our token straight person, Alyx (Feather), as well as Matt (Comatose), Shannon (Grey), Ala (Rasarr), and Kadie (AonEne)! Here are a bunch of links for terminology: https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms https://pflag.org/glossary https://transstudent.org/gender/ Thumbnail image of Renarin and Rlain by the amazing rspixart: https://rspixart.tumblr.com/ Here's a link to Jemma Young, who made those Zelda pins: https://www.jemmayoung.com/ YouTube chapters: 00:00 Introductions and Show & Tell 7:49 Terminology Disclaimer 10:07 Consuming Media as a Queer Person and Lenses 22:59 Shallan's Bisexuality 27:57 Why does Brandon have so many queer fans? 38:44 Representation and Some Examples 49:28 Jasnah 1:12:30 Kaladin/Adolin 1:18:54 Shallan/Jasnah 1:22:51 Kaladin/Moash 1:23:22 Navani/Raboniel 1:25:56 Platonic Friendships 1:31:04 Ranette, Queerness in the Background 1:39:07 Trans Representation 1:42:36 The Sibling and Nonbinary Characters 1:53:08 Singer Gender 1:55:58 Renarin and Rlain 2:00:03 Future Hopes 2:07:03 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to [email protected]
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  10. The burntling shall watch the events unfold and sanities unravell from a safe distance. -- Things be too busy to play unfortunately. I must be responsible. I know, ew.
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  11. Klaas Vaak, an elderly gentleman shall run for office. He has a long white beard that hangs past his waist and he carries with him a sack filled with fine sand, the purpose of which he has not revealed to anyone. Similarly to the LG, do not expect a lot of posts from me during the cycle and none near rollover.
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  12. I see it as a mix of burning it away and them having a sort of immunity. It is a handwave, but it is not completely unfeasible to simply not have it react in the toxic manner. According to Wikipedia on Cadmium Toxicity... and according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312803/ All of the issues with this Cadmium, and many other toxic metals, is the manner in which it Binds to Cells. Therefore, it could be that the cells of Allomancers are able to recognize the structure of things like Cadmium, and refuse to interact with it. This would make sense due to how much Magic Systems deal with ones Spiritweb, which effects the Cognitive Self, and thus the Physical Self. So it is very plausible as I see it that it simply does not undergo these reactions. I do recall it being mentioned that other, non-allomantic metals can be fatal. So yeah, likely just having the Spiritweb make their body not have the reactions that bring about the toxicity of certain metals through recognition of Cadmium Ions. It is a handwave, but it would work with the Laws of the world, and if the cells were made to not react to it, it would indeed bring about this immunity. So not completely unscientific. Another theory, from the same paper, Biologically speaking they could also have chemicals produced against it, as mentioned before, Polyphenolic Substances, Melatonin, Carotenoids, Quercetine, Resveratrol, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, L-Carnitine, Coenzyme Q10, and Beta-Carotene. It is possible that they could produce such chemicals in response to Cadmium. Melatonin in particular is naturally produced by the pineal gland in humans. Coenzyme Q10 is also produced naturally in humans, so they could have a higher level of Coenzyme Q10.
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  13. Okay, I don't have the attention span to read the whole thread from the beginning, so I'm just gonna address the fact that two wrongs don't make a right. Vengeance is NOT Justice. It is pettiness. There IS another way to resolve differences without resorting to murder. (I am not trying to diminish the traumatic events in anyone's lives or excuse Elhokar's past actions.) Also this: A true statement. However, what happened in the past will not change, no matter how many people you kill. The only way to beat your person demons is to stand up, brush yourself off, and heal. Scars can be marks of your failures - or proof of all the things that didn't kill you - depending on your mindset.
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  14. Honor is without the u Valour is with the u Thats just how it has to work
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  15. I loved this episode so storming much!!! One thing I really hope for in the future is a Shallan POV with her internal monologue realisation that those “gosh Jasnah/other women are beautiful” moments are more than just admiring those women, and actually attraction and acknowledging that queerness within herself. Because like so many of you brought up, for a lot of bisexual people, it is often in your twenties that you start to realise, oh, this isn’t actually straight... This isn’t actually what all these straight people around me are feeling... And I think it would make total sense for Shallan, having had such a sheltered and conservative upbringing, that she wouldn’t have come to this realisation until now. I think this would be a great portrayal of a bisexual woman’s experience in such a heteronormative society, and something I think could play out very naturally in the next book. Now that she has absorbed her Veil personality, perhaps she can come to this realisation that Veil clearly already had. AND since we’re surely going to need a Shallan and Jasnah scene in the next book where Shallan FINALLY talks to Jasnah about what she’s been up to with the Ghostbloods, there could be a great opportunity there for her internal thoughts to recognise her attraction to Jasnah as what it has always been! Edit: gosh I never realised until now how incredibly wonderful Kadolin is!!! THANK YOU! Like omg the most perfect enemies to lovers arc, the cute nicknames, the mutual admiration, all that beautiful, glorious gayness. I’m already seeing scenes like the arena fight so differently. Kaladin coming to Adolin’s rescue, Adolin sending himself to prison alongside Kaladin, Adolin’s awareness and total support for Kaladin in RoW. If that’s not true love then what in damnation is!?
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  16. Sekeir: tries to interrupt Maya during Adolin’s trial. Maya:
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  17. Did someone say something about a set of 12 colors? My time has come I've had this sitting around just for fun for about a year or so.
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  18. Moash didn't even know that Elhokar was trying to change. Last he saw of him, he was drunk and irresponsible, getting saved by the person whom he tried to sentence to death at the arena. When did Moash ever get a chance to do some introspection? He was a slave in Bridge 4, then the Diagram approached him with their conspiracy, after that he was even more traumatized and in a mental haze after it all went wrong, then Odium indoctrinated him.
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  19. For reference, if you don’t remember, Jasnah said that while talking to Dalinar and the Azish Prime about methods to retake Urithiru. Somewhere around Chapter 100, if you want to go find it
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  20. MR51: Come On Down To Irontown (aka Assassin's Creed: Elendel but Avalon.) Scadrial is transforming. Railways are being built to connect the civilised octants of Elendel with the far-flung cities and towns in the Roughs. In Elendel itself, factories are springing up all over, employing unprecedented numbers of workers. Harmony willing, Elendel will see a new era of prosperity and technological advancement. But all of this comes at a cost. Hundreds of workers find themselves increasingly crammed into small dormitories meant to take less than half their numbers. Soot and smoke from the factories linger most heavily in the industrial district, Irontown, like the legends of ash in the old days before the Final Ascension. Hours are long and the work is hard and the employers brutal. The nobles and factory owners glut themselves on boxings, and you count every last clip in the hopes of making it somewhere. Maybe it was the time Starrick’s thugs broke the legs of the last workers to demand better pay. Or maybe it was the time molten iron splashed on Tomas’s face. You still see him begging on the street on the way to your shift. They threw him out like slag. In recent days, a small group of factory workers meeting at the local establishment, The Bent Boxing, finally decide to take matters into their own hands. Come on down to Irontown, Comrade, where desperate dreams choke beneath an iron-grey sky and ash and soot are thick like the tar. Where the blood flows in the gutters and lines the pockets of the wealthy. Where the bones of the poor are buried beneath the towers that thrust into the sky, belching smog into the air and leeching poison into the waters. Come on down to Irontown, and light the flames of revolution. Oppression has to end. General Rules: Win Conditions: Roles: General Housekeeping: Quick Links: Sign-ups are open now and will close on Friday, 25th June 2021, at 2300hrs SGT (GMT +8). Rollovers will take place at the same time.
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  21. Hey y’all, howtofall (he/him) here! I started reading Brando Sando at the reccomendation of one of my D&D players about 9 months ago and have blasted my way through the cosmere since then (just waiting on my White Sand order to come in and I’ll be all caught up!) I’m a big fan of realmatic theory so I’m definitely excited to see some of those discussions here. But I’m really just here for Cusicesh theories.
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  22. Aww now this is actually a bit adorable. Syl: “You’re half the man Kaladin was, for now... Maybe if you just frown some more... Yes! YES! Perfect! Now just hold that pose...” Adin bursts into a laugh. Syl: “Wow, you smile A LOT! Can’t you just give me a grumble, just one, for old times sake? Tell me how much you hate butts...”
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  23. Yeah Brandon tells us lots of things at signings and other things And a lot of other things are very subtle that you might even miss on a reread These WoBs (Word of Brandons) are compiled at Arcanum (https://wob.coppermind.net/) There also the Coppermind (https://coppermind.net/) which has information on practically every character in the Cosmere! While you don’t need these to enjoy the books by themselves they do add something to the Cosmere as a whole Welcome to the Shard!!!
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  24. Brandon has kinda literally already pulled force lightning into the Cosmere right under our noses. Stormform comes from the power of "God's own Hatred," and grants lightning powers that are really hard to control, and yet, give a euphoric sensation of power.
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  25. Even better, infuse an object with Division (somehow), then Lash it at the enemy to explode on impact. They're just dropping rocks from the sky, except the rocks are bombs.
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  26. I don’t know if this extends to Fuerechemy but I imagine it does:
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  27. THREE THREE dogs I saw at work today "well were they service do-" NO THEY WERE NOT THEY WERE PATHETIC LITTLE HUNKS OF FUR THAT THEIR OWNERS WERE CARRYING AROUND CARRYING AROUND IN A GROCERY STORE WHERE PEOPLE BUY FOOD AUUAUAUAURRGHGRHRGHH
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  28. Our player, our player claims a Villager's heart I tell you, I tell you, the Reform Spy comes With a voice wielding power o'er Discovery's craft Believe, believe, the Kalebane now comes Whatcha gonna do I'm awake now It's an end to the evil of all Village foes Beware, beware, the Reform Spy comes For the game has long ended but the legend still grows Tremble, tremble, for the Kalebane has come Zahrahmiik, zahrahmiik, naal ok zin los vahriin Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal! Ahrk fin norok paal graan fod nust hon zindro zaan Zahrahmiik, fah hin kogaan mu draal!
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  29. I hope the title is so generic that it should be no spoiler. Anyway, the reference should be clear in its murderous application. But why did it actually work? The Sand stores Investiture, which has to come from somewhere. It means that Spren bleed a bit of Investiture. Them being made of Investiture that may not be so much of a surprise. However, it raises an important question. Why don't Spren vanish over time? Cognitive Shadows do so, unless special measures are taken. So Spren must have at least a small source of Investiture. Considering this, it seems to me that the ability of te Stormfather and The Sibling to generate Investiture is not peculiar to them, it is just many orders of magnitude larger. How is this testable? It would be difficult, but in principle a talented Seeker should sense Spren, just as Vin sensed the Mist Spirit.
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  30. Sazed and Axies would have been super cute imo, travelling around collecting knowledge of religions and spren together (Although Sazed/Tindwyl is too beautiful)
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  31. I kind of don't want Odium to be the end villain, after 10 books I think I want something else.
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  32. You would, of course I do not regret for a single second letting you die in Cycle One of LG15a.
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  33. Now this is the kind of co-GMing I can get behind. Though I thought you had a better opinion of me, of course I'll do something. Even if that something is just reminding players that there is an award this game for the player who tells Kas to go to sleep the most.
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  34. okay, so Moash killed Elhokar with good reason, his grandparents, and Elhokar was a bad king for putting them in prison, but Everyone has mistakes, our mistakes define us, we can do better after that. Elhokar was on journey of becoming a better person, Moash on the other hand does nothing about his mistakes and buries himself in his mistakes.
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  35. Yeah I don’t really think the kick was that bad Why is it justice to kill someone? What does it accomplish You destabilize an empire you make yourself a traitor, and your family is still dead And what do you mean he couldn’t do anything from the position he was in? As I said before, and I can’t stress enough, he was one of the most powerful men in the entire world, Frustration said there were only 25 blades in Alethkar Moash has the 26th How is that a position of weakness? He could have changed something, he could have made a difference. But he through it all away. And for what? Petty revenge Maybe this disagreement is that I think it is not ok to kill someone for so called “justice”
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  36. Okay, ya'll, you are not following my instructions to chill and relax. If you will not do so, the thread will be locked and individuals will be moderated. Be good.
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  37. We do see Moash's PoV during that point. He just saw some Darkeyes who were so used to the existing power structure that they congregated around a Lighteyes and helped him re-establish his position. It's not a nice reaction, and a bit unfair, but the complete distancing is still understandable. I think that was just because Elhokar was right there, and Roshone wasn't. Also he might've seen Roshone more as a symptom, while Elhokar, as the king, was the cause, in his eyes. Also why is Moash's act of vigilantism treated so differently from Jasnah's or Adolin's? Elhokar wasn't any different from those thugs or Sadeas in Moash's eyes. By severe physical disability I meant their advanced age, that in itself can be pretty debilitating. It's just very notable that in-book, Kaladin's racism is reacted against by other people, both Lighteyes and Darkeyes, including former slaves who're apparently all buddy-buddy with lower ranked Lighteyes, the same that walked across the bridges that they died carrying. But the same reaction does not happen with any Lighteyes character. We do not see anyone react to their racism, ever. It feels a bit like the author's social commentary at some points, and that makes me a bit uncomfortable. Moash is himself human so I'll give him a pass on that one. That misanthropy is very unfair but just another expression of his self-hatred and disassociation & dissatisfaction from society. I would still like to point out that the highest Nahn Darkeyes were comparable in wealth with lowest Dahn Lighteyes. We do see Shallan making a quip about still being a Lighteyes even though from a fallen house. Even the Tenners were comparable to high Nahn Darkeyes. Also note, Darkeyes don't use enslaved humans, but Parshmen, they didn't know about the Parshendi. Thank you for talking about racism vs systemic racism btw!
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  38. Wonder what would've happened if the bodyguard told the king that the king was responsible for a lot of past grievances for that bodyguard. Demotion at the very least. Elhokar was trying to do better, that's true but how would Moash know that? All Moash saw was a man responsible for taking everything from him trying to kill the person who saved Moash. An arrogant, spoiled, inconsiderate, drunk man. And even if he did, what then? Would that undo everything that happened to Moash? Forgiveness is not owed. "Brandon does not need to fix these things because he created a common cause that United those factions" He does not need to address the social issues with obvious parallels to society irl because he can just shove that under the rug because there's a villain everyone has to fight. That's... very problematic. This has been pointed out multiple times now, are you even reading any of my posts or are you just reacting to the fact that my views are not similar to yours? Moash hasn't got a chance to try to do better. He had an entirely realistic reaction to literal imprisonment without any due judicial process and slavery/death sentence. Then he got indoctrinated into Odium's side. And then [RoW spoilers]. Narratively, it's still quite possible for him to have a redemption arc. I'm not entirely sure this would happen though, which is what is kinda problematic about how Moash and Kaladin's arc is written. Moash is having multiple kick the dog moments and has become a lightning rod for the community's hatred. Kaladin is constantly picked on for assuming all Lighteyes are bad. When he's literally a former conscript and a former slave. That's really problematic.
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  39. I disagree with that, is every puppet king responsible for actions done in his name? Elhokar was reasonably in control (and was not yet king, only prince), but was still poorly advised and the deaths seem to be accidental, not intentional. Supreme power changes nothing about the fact that those deaths were not intentional on Elhokar's part, is neglect punishable by death? EDIT: I don't mean to say that Elhokar carries no responsibility, I just think that the primary responsibility lies with Roshone, and Elhokar's part is comparatively minor. He should suffer some consequences, but I think death is too much. At the very least he should abdicate the throne. I made up my mind already, in my mind Moash is primarily bad because of his repeated betrayals and because he keeps doubling down on it. If he were to change his behavior for the better, I would start thinking him good. To some extent I perceive him as similar to Dalinar after Rathalas, with the difference being that Dalinar sought refuge in alcohol and Moash in void of Odium (and that Dalinar never repeated his actions). I would imagine that void of Odium would be harder habit to kick, but if he manages that, alone or with help, and start trying to be better I would wholeheartedly support that. I will try to answer the other questions as succinctly as possible, to not derail the thread I like Kaladin despite breaking his word to Moash, because that very word constituted betrayal on Kaladin's part. He was talked into breaking his oath, and eventually turned from that path. Also Kaladin did not tell Moash to give up on justice, he tried to convince Moash to seek justice on the true instigator, Roshone, and that they should do it the right way, not by betraying people. Moash refused. I deplore Dalinar for burning Rathalas because he hurt people who had nothing to do with decisions of lords of that city. Those people were not responsible for rebellion at Rathalas, and so did not deserve to be punished. You could argue that a lot of those people tacitly supported the rebellions, but children and others did not, yet were still hurt by Dalinar's action. If Dalinar burned only Tanalan to death, I could kind of see that, but would still consider it too far, as it would be unnecessarily brutal. Which murder of Zahel do you mean?
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  40. Lloyd sat on his tree stump, trying to figure things out. He had been educating himself on all he could for quite a while and had come up with a few rules. He had a horrible power, a power that he could only use if he hurt someone else, he couldn’t trust most people, whether they would report him and say they had found some poster saying he had murdered someone or they had been sent by someone to “finish what had been started.”. Lloyd had also learned not to trust himself, and the thing within him. Although it would pretend to want what was best for both of them and try to send them towards their “friends” it would also take control and never give up willingly. He had also learned he was an idiot. He had known nothing of morals or anything really in that short period after he had been made. He hadn’t done anything that could’ve helped anyone ever. And finally he realized that he needed to do something. He had stayed in hiding since the island, he hadn’t wanted to be captured but also hadn’t wanted to fight, he had lived on the outskirts of a small costal city and watched the humans. It had taught him so much. Humans would do things without question just because everyone else had always done it, this was bad but they didn’t know. It let them be manipulated. He had also learned another very important fact. He was nothing like them, he was born from the same flesh as one, but was made for other purposes. His job was to fix it. The wrongness he could feel. The call.
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  41. I suspect that Skybreaker Division will allow hypersonic flight, once someone figures it out. Windrunners have Adhesion, which affects pressure and vacuum. They shape the air, so they're able to do things like push back the storm, or create an air current that keeps the squad together. Skybreakers don't have that. If they fling themselves hard enough into the air, it will push them and slow them. The solution is Division. They could separate the molecules of air in front of themselves and fly without resistance. It's not like they need to breathe while they've got light anyway. And then we'd know what Sky Breaking refers to.
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  42. I'm in awe of how quickly people pointed out the big problem with Taravangian picking up Odium, his preference for dispassionate logic, without realizing the fix for that was already in place, in the form of dumb-but-emotional Taravangian.
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  43. I both admire and hate the fact that I can totally see this being true... But at the same time, I can't help but wonder if I'm just grasping at straws.
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  44. I agree Ogo - sexuality aside, I did not feel any form of romantic chemistry between them at all. I know some people dig the ship, and I can see some of the appeal, but it came way out of left field for me. I was firmly of the belief that the rumors of Jasnah and Hoid were just that, and were kind of a fun trolling moment, and I was really shocked when they were true. I am not sure who else I would ship Jasnah with, but Hoid definitely would not be high on the list of characters I thought of as possible romantic partners for her.
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  45. I think you all would appreciate this:
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  46. Maybe because some of them were hurt by other people and now, they are emphatic?
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