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Hi this is Tesh. I may or may not be hanging out with Fadran this week.

I would like to participate. My roleplay character will be Auri, an aspiring artist that is remarkably bad at art. Expect awful MS Paint drawings. What is standard etiquette for posting images on this forum site?

Savia could hardly believe what she was seeing. Horatio was doing something to prevent people from killing him, and no one could tell why. Savia knew that there were magical things out there, but she had never really seen much of them. To see something like this in person...that was extraordinary. Horatio turned to look at all the people gathered in the room. "Just let me explain," he said. "We don't have much time. We need to plan, figure out who amongst us are still Yiga. The Calamity draws near, and-" He was cut off as one of the soldiers in the crowd drew out the Master Sword. There was a gasp, and all Savia could think was, wait, that doesn't look like Link. Link began to walk towards Horatio, and Horatio simply smiled at him. Link raised the sword to strike, and all of those gathered went silent as they began to wait for what was to come. Savia closed her eyes- There was a loud explosion. Savia flew back, knocked off her feet. People screamed. She opened her eyes. Yiga had appeared out of nowhere, and they attacked the soldiers. Some of them had been blown away by the explosion as well. And in the center of the room, a circle of burns surrounded a corpse being held by a boy with burned arms. It was Daruk. Horatio had been Daruk in disguise. Savia followed the other non-combatants trying to escape from the melee. As she crawled on the ground, trying to avoid arrows flying overhead, her heart pounding, she passed the body of Cimu. There was an arrow in his back, and thankfully she couldn't see his face. This was the closest she'd been to a dead body though. Cimu had been quiet, and she didn't know him very well, but he'd also been one of the castle staff. They'd talked sometimes. And now he was dead. And it could've been her. She ran, trying to make it out the door that a soldier was holding open for people to escape. She made it through just in time, as she heard one of the soldiers inside the room yell. "We make our stand now! Protect Link! Kill as many of them as you can! For Hyrule!" "FOR HYRULE!" Savia ran, avoiding the yelling, the sounds of battle, and the screams of the dying. Jondesu has been killed! They were a Hyrulean! attic_gremlin has been killed! They were a Hyrulean Daruk! There will be a removal during this Day turn. There is no vote minimum (though no one is removed if no one votes), and tied votes result in a random tied player getting removed. This turn will end at 9:30 am CDT on Thursday, July 15th. PMs will be sent out shortly, if they haven't been already. Player List:

GUESS WHAT EVERYONE @WhiffleWaffles HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

I think it's confirmed Looking forward to how Gavilar got anti-Investiture and what exactly Thaidakar was too late for, and what happened to the bodyguard dude, and what Gavilar's plans were

At this point in the game, I don't see what else we can do? I'm not an experienced player by any means, but we're at 7 players and if Link is killed it's the end of it. Unless we can start to communicate and at least trust someone, that's the end of that. Link had been on a ball streak, but I knew as soon as Attic survived that removal it was the end of that streak. Now Link is defenseless for one cycle as he's not able to submit a kill action. No one has role-claimed to me in a PM, but I wouldn't say it's far fetched that a Hyrulean Knight still exists. Pyro was removed at the beginning of the game and out of 27 other players, why would there only be one Knight? I don't know how role distribution works, but I'm not going to just toss Quill's message to the disposal bin. Also remember the time one player said they didn't believe Dannex despite them claiming Sheikah and telling us that Wei was Kohga, which turned out to be true, but they still didn't believe them. We're all tossed and turned like a bag of salad right now. We were all so convinced that Daruk was an elim, and look what happened. All we have to do is communicate and figure it out. Elim or village, at this point what else is there to do but communicate with each other? We've taken potshots and done RNG in this game, and I know a lot of the people who spoke a majority of the time in this thread are gone, but we have to at least give it a shot. I'm willing to do so. I also think I can trust you considering the fact that you put Dannex in a PM with TJ and we were able to get some valuable information from that before Dannex was removed. Otherwise it feels like we're running in circles. Could you tell us anything else about requested PM's that you fulfilled? Bip, you're so sweet. Thank you so much for the happy birthday!!! ^-^ Ilysm UwU /p Also, heads up. Since it's my birthday I'll likely be with my family for the majority of the day and because of this I'm going to hit the hay earlier and grab some Z's before 1 am lol however I will try and check on the thread and stuff before this cycle ends and contribute to the conversation.

I doubt it, personally. One because what exactly the opposite of certain Intents is feels like it'd be hard to define. What's the opposite of Honor? Is it breaking oaths? Is it not making oaths? Is it chaos and a lack of rules? What about Odium? Is it order and stability? Is it Devotion's love and servitude? Is it apathy? Is it strong emotion on behalf of others instead of yourself? There's a lot of ways you could go with them and I think that's something Brandon would want to leave open to debate to an extent. Two because, at least as I understand it, by the nature of how it works, the Rhythm would be the same (just with the tone shifted in time or something along those lines? I don't fully understand this stuff) and the Rhythms carry inherent meanings. And it feels odd to me for the same orderly beat of Honor to also indicate the exact opposite, or for the same "ever-building majesty" of Cultivation to also represent tearing things down and destroying them (or maybe the opposite would be able to be argued to be more stasis than destruction, once more we run into the issue of defining what an "opposite" means here). And if as proposed, some of the Shards are anti-Investiture, would mean that half of the Shards out there simply do not have their own Rhythms at all, only phase-shifted Rhythms from other Shards? A WoB that's relevant here:

Interesting thought, but in my opinion, the discrepancies between the Sibling and what we know about Ba-Ado-Mishram are too large for this theory to hold water. First and foremost, BAM is an Unmade, and the Sibling is not (in RoW, they tell Navani that they will become an Unmade if Raboniel keeps pumping voidlight into them, which indicates they are currently not an Unmade). Also, the Sibling is not trapped in a gem. They happen to have a body made of enormous tower studded with gems, which is different. One might argue that the Sibling being debilitated could have been somehow confused with being stuck in a gem, but if that were the case, the Sibling being fixed/healed at the end of RoW would presumably end the effects of BAM’s supposed imprisonment. Since we do not see anything like that happen, I think the Sibling’s injury and BAM’s imprisonment are not linked (though they could have been caused by the same events). Side note: your topic title is extremely good

Bingo! Yes, it's Quellion!

I was re-reading the section where Mr. T ascended to Odium, and something caught my attention. Chapter 113 (Italics as per original text) That sounds to me as though Taravangian was losing hope, and some external force helped tilt the scales in his favor. And what external force was that? Bravery, otherwise known as Valor! What do we know about Valor? Sazed to Hoid - Epigraph to Chapter 25 We know that Hoid hated Rayse and was looking for a way to bring him down. Perhaps he did take Sazed's advice and approach Valor again. If Valor did indeed affect the situation here, that explains so much: Why did Brandon feel the need to give us 4 new Shard names? So that he could hide the foreshadowing for Valor. What exactly was the deal with Hoid's conversation with Todium in the Epilogue? Given his dealings with Valor, Hoid knew that Taravangium had Ascended to Odium. This conversation was his way of getting a feel for the newest Odium. The scene felt strange because Hoid does not want to let Taravangian know that he knows about the replacement, so he hid those relevant memories in the coin. Could one mortal really take down a Shard? Well yes, but it still seems odd that one person was able to out-plan a Shard. Okay, so maybe this was Cultivation's planning. But could a plan with so many moving pieces really work flawlessly without support? It's much easier if another Shard helps out at the pivotal moment.

Quellion!

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I think that’s the commonly accepted theory. I don’t think Brandon has confirmed it yet, but I’d be surprised if that isn’t the case.

Possibly Adonalsium himself

I've noticed this, too. Shallan actually experiments with infusing Pattern with Stormlight in WoR, when she learns to attach an illusion to him. Shallan also places an illusion to Syl in the Cognitive Realm. In the quote from RoW about Syl being a brimming cup of water, context suggests that Kaladin is probably talking about how he can't Lash her in her manifested Shardspear form like he can a regular weapon. I think he's describing the inability to Lash a god metal manifested in the Physical Realm, just as Shardplate can't be Lashed (or manifest in the Cognitive Realm, for that matter.)

The Christian side of me says 'oh no, that won't go well', and the writer/reader side of me says 'as you do, now let's break the space time continuum!'

I know it’s been a bit since ya’ll were posting this, but I can point out where Frost implies he was part of the Shattering: Emphasis added, letter compiled and truncated to leave out unimportant parts.

Okay, so I found an apparent contradiction that I’m sure there’s a reason for, but I’m trying to sort it out. In Oathbringer, Kaladin lashes the gang including the spren to fly towards the perpendicularity and Dalinar: Yet, in Rhythm of War, we get the following passage: In the RoW passage, she’s in the Physical Realm, vs the OB scene in the Cognitive/Shadesmar. Are spren less Invested in the Cognitive? Does the Nahel Bond Invest them in order to bring them into the Physical Realm, all the time, rather than just when doing particular things with Stormlight? Basically, why can Syl be infused/Lashed in one case but not the other?

This seems to be the whole of the references in the book to that line: And then just a few lines later: It sounds like he’s accepting the terms, with modifications to the results only.

I feel like the Investiture doesn't have an Intent(ion) itself. It's the Shards (and by extension Splinters etc.) that have Intents. Also the Shards' Vessels have Intents which not always fully align with their Shard's. People have to have a special Intent to use Investiture (it depends on the Investiture itself). That said, I don't think that being a loving person would be enough or the right "Intent" to create anti-Voidlight. Otherwise, I'm sure, a lot of anti-Voidlight would already be around on Roshar. Thus I'd say that no Investiture carries any Intent or anti-Intent. I guess you already read the respective articles on the coppermind wiki or looked through the Arcanum? If not, I strongly recommend doing it. *Disclaimer: I'm not up to date and rusty on my cosmere knowledge.

Unrealistic that no Windrunner, since the inception of the Knights Radiant, had ever broken oath. The way I understood the OP the claim was that breaking oath would permanently damage a spren in such a way that they could never bond again, this being the purpose of the Recreance. Thus if a Windrunner has ever broken oath before the Recreance, all honorspren can't have been bonded, because any whose Radiant broke oath would have damaged them so that they couldn't have been bonded and I find it unrealistic that no Windrunner since the start of the Radiants until the sealing of Mishram had broken oath. I'm also not sure about the statement of the timescale between the sealing and the Recreance, but this is super foggy and not relevant to my point. ¤_¤

If Trell is not proceeding like they've been discovered, they're a fool, and I don't think any Shard crafty enough to lay down plans like that is that particular brand of fool.

Could the prologue chapter in stormlight archive book 5 be that of gavilar and tell us all the secret, like how he got the antivoid light.

Hrathen.

Iadon.

Yeah, I also saw this when I was reading the Frost letters and came to the same conclusion that you did, he is holding a Dawnshard.

"Choose. A lying, pleasant fool, or a truthful brute. I can't be both." ---- "It's been so long, but I don't blame you . . ." Fischer sighed, looking away. "Look, I've spen- What I mean is tha' I . . ." He wrung his hands, looking away from Nico with a small sense of shame eating away at the back of his mind.

So basically, what you're saying is, we need to clone God.

There are a couple of passages in RoW that might shed some light (ha) on whether Odium knew about anti-Light prior to Navani's work. First, Raboniel in Ch. 76: Then, in Ch. 97, after they figure out how to produce anti-Light, and Raboniel uses it to kill her daughter, here's Navani: Raboniel doesn't outright contradict Navani,but she does rather abruptly turn her attention toward using Navani's method to create anti-Stormlight, which suggests that was probably her true goal all along and that finding a way to provide a merciful death for her daughter was just a side perk. It seems from these passages that Odium maybe knew about the existence of anti-Light, but that he either did not know how to produce it himself, or was simply unable to produce it himself. So he needed to lead one of his Fused toward figuring it out. One other kinda unrelated point on knowledge of anti-Light, I'm reminded of the back-cover text written by the Sleepless: It sure sounds like they're talking about the discovery of anti-Light right? Could a rogue Sleepless have been the source of Gavilar's sphere of anti-Voidlight?

Time for one last futile attempt to revive this, I guess.

My theory's similar. I too believe in the Baby/Child Champion Theory, but I think Dalinar will swear an Ideal (or two) and use use the power of a Bondsmith to shift everyone's connection. So he'll take Odium's Champion's connection onto himself, hoist the role of Honor's Champion onto someone else (my biggest two guesses are Szeth and Taln), and lastly move his Connection to the Stormfather to Kaladin. Due to the power of a special Bondsmith and the rapid swearing of Ideals, Kaladin will quickly Ascend into the role of Honor. But then things will get more complicated because the outcome of the Contest is unclear. But that part of the theory is for another time.

Calamity

SA

I do hate Moash. The Cosmere will be a better place once his eyes are burning, but mostly I just pity him. It's true that he's not entirely accountable for some of his actions; Odium is working his mind, he's suffering from textbook addiction symptoms, disillusioned by systems broken beyond repair (from Alethi culture to rightful ownership of the planet itself) or suckered into a conspiracy by people smarter and smoother than he is. In many ways Moash is a victim. And he believes himself to be a victim for whom justice, reparation, and peace is impossible. Who's going to judge him rightly? The royal family who ignored Moash's grandparents to death? The parsh, who as a race spent generations as dull-minded slaves because of Moash's own world-and-god-stealing ancestors? Bridge 4, who Moash betrayed by seeking justice for his family and who cozied up to the clan that killed Moash's kin? It's all such a tangle of blame and pain and blood debt. Who can Moash turn to, but Odium and emotional oblivion? I pity him for all of this. This isn't where he thought he was headed when he threw in with Kal, and it's not like he meant to start down this path. But what really grinds my gears is that he's such a willing, selfish victim. He's had every opportunity to seek help, he's had every chance to turn things around. And he refuses to take those first steps. He refuses to try. It's always the easy way with Moash, for no reason than he chooses the easy way. And the crap he's pulled since joining Odium? There's a special level of braize for betrayers and mutineers. Anyone remember the moment in the Star Wars prequels (I know, ew) where Anakin kills the kids? Moash makes me feel like I'm watching that scene.

Brandon I believe intends to keep the Beyond a sort of unknowable. It's not likely the concept will play majorly into the Cosmere's plot. The fact that Adonalsium was killed, at least in my mind disqualifies it from being a capital G God. I also think part of the reason Brandon hasn't really talked a lot about what exactly the Beyond is comes from preference to let the reader decide what it is. I personally do believe in an afterlife, so I've always viewed the Beyond as a classical, 'heaven'-esque, style afterlife. But, if for example, someone doesn't believe in an afterlife, the Beyond can be simply an end to existence. If it makes sense, I see the Beyond as being Brandon's way of leaving the details of what happens after death up to the reader's individual preference and interpretation.

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...

I have young kids. Bronze compounding for wakefulness would be a wonderful wonderful thing XD If not, i would love to compound zinc. It's pretty easy to get, i would be able to think incredibly quickly (very useful in the world we live in today), and i could help others emotionally.

https://anchor.fm/worldhoppers-podcast/episodes/Episode-1-What-is-the-Cosmere-Introduction-ep27ml Starting a new podcast with a couple of friends, and have released the first of our monthly episodes today, talking about what the Cosmere is, and some recommendations for first time readers. We’d love to have your feedback, and questions, or something you want us to talk about. Appropriately, the release of episodes will be the 16th of each month.

...totally did not forget it was my Shardiversary till just now...*yawns*... Um... So... It's been another year. I've been here three years. Th-three years. I remember times early on when I saw even being here a year as crazily far away. Well, now I've done 3 * (crazily far away). That sums up this year fairly well. I...haven't been around here nearly as much. Crazily far away most of the time. Took on a lot irl and then some. It's been insane, stressful, and overall wonderful. I can't promise to be around any more next year--if anything I will have new joys to add to the mix. But, that said, you guys deserve to know that when I do stop by, my bad days turn good, slogging thoughts become quicker, negative mindsets gain a spark, droughts of creativity become flooded. Thank you for that. Thank you for these three years and, preemptively, thank you for the future. Thank you all for existing. For creating the warmest corner of the internet. For being here and being yourselves. I'll leave it at that. Thank you and goodnight.

Pewter and regrowth. I like not dying.

There is major foreshadowing for Shallan having a Shardblade all the way in WoK

Alan Tudyk, a la Sonny from I, Robot

I agree with Argent. When I get a new fact from Brandon at a signing, I feel it is my personal special connection gift thing (hard to explain but you know what I mean). Now I always want to share these, but not always right away or in a certain way, and it really feels like trying to control how those are shared infringes on what's a very personal author/reader connection. (I could see some people simply not sharing at all under these conditions). (I also agree with Argent in that I would love it if everyone DID share everything, because that's the main reason I check the threads for events that have happened.) But I think we have to respect their choice to release it another way if desired.