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  1. Thank you for birthday wishes!
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  2. I'm reading the Wheel of Time again (5th time that the wheel has turned for me) and I just noticed that the casting for Rand for the live action version was set when the Eye of the World first came out. The first US cover clearly shows that Rand needs to be played by (spoilered below):
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  3. So...people on Roshar are weird. Herdazian's and Horneater's have hardened cartilage, Natan's are literally blue, and you can tell someone's genealogy from the colors of their hair. We know that there are multiple people with listener blood, which explains the Herdazians and Horneater's oddness. The Natan's and Babath are part Aimian, which accounts for the blueness. Only one truly odd thing remains unexplained: The Iriali. here's what we know about the origin of these Golden boys, Directly copied from the Coppermind: So from these notes, a few things seem clear to me. The seventh land will most likely be reached by the space age, and I believe the journey to the fifth land will begin at the end of Stormlight 5 or 10, or perhaps they mysteriously dissapear during the time skip between 5 and 6. (this is all speculation. I simply think these would be the best times for Brandon to signal that the Iriali are moving on to people following their story.) Now one of the most interesting facts of the Iriali is the fact that their non human nature is a possiple mater of debate. "Depending on what is considered human" I think the One is a Shard, and all of the Iriali are Splinters. This shard, who i will tentativly name curiosity for the sake of clerity, "Knew everything but expirienced nothing" Due to existing in the spiritual realm. it split its investiture into the Iriali, which is why they believe that when they die, their soul rejoins the investiture of the spiritiual realm, because their souls do. This also could explain tidereading. Since the Iriali are splinters some might retain the abiiity to see the future to a degree. Curiosity split all of its investiture up amoung the Iriali, allowing them to Tideread and possibly travel the in the cognative realm. Its Cognative aspect was also devided among them, leaving teh shard undetectable by other shards, such as Odium. I think the Metalic gold of the Iriali is akin to Curiosities god metal, or something related to how Curiosity's investiture manifests as a solid. the people in RIra are the result of these physical manifestations being passed on to humans, and i dont think they are part of the One. There is another Part of this Theory. There Is a reacuring patern in the Cosmere of Shards having a specific number (Honor: 10, Edowment: 5 Preservation: 16) that reacurs often in their spheres of influence. I believe Curiosity is number 7, as this is the first time we have seen this number have major significance. We also hear about the Pact of seven peaks, but I do not think this is related. It is possible the Pact was with curiosity, and is some kind of signal for the Iriali to move on to a new land, but i think this is unlikely. What do you think? am I missing something, or do you think there is some other cause?
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  4. The original covers are wildly inconsistent and often kinda bad. In other news fire is hot, water is wet and the Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills. Also, I'm sorry but that isn't Nic Cage, that is totally Chevy Chase.
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  5. Is there a character that you didn't like/care about at first, but has grown on you as the series went on or on re-reads? Who and why?
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  6. I just finished an awesome book, Legion: the many lives of Stephen Leeds! it was amazing, look out theories here I come. oh and sneak peek legion is definitely part of the reckonersverse
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  7. Kaladin, if we’re just growing with titles instead of what the songs are actually about. (You’re a David Bowie fan?)
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  8. My rep level now allows me to post lengthy random status updates about nothing in particular, but ironically I don’t have anything to say. I guess I’ll take just being a Nalthian Gleeman Thanks everyone!
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  9. 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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  10. I made a skirt! It's long! And swirly! And heavy! And I finished before my deadline! I've worn it a couple times during fittings, but I got to wear it today after finishing all the raw edges, and it feels so nice!
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  11. Nope and nope. Wolf’s Rain Belgariad/Mallorean Wheel of Time Assasins’ Creed 1-3
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  12. No and no. You may want to consider what these stories have in common. Wolf’s Rain Belgariad/Mallorean Wheel of Time
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  13. Adolin, I found him annoying and obnoxious throughout the first two books. Really him & Shallan made WoR as bad as (Mistborn) for me. I just hate romantic subplots in general and the way they interacted with Kaladin did not help their case. I started liking Adolin only after the OB Shadesmar sequence. And I like him even better in RoW.
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  14. Probably Shallan. In TWOK, I found her sections to be distracting on my first readthrough. WoR made me like the character. But the Oathbringer came out, and I was...confused. I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it. After giving it some thought, hearing some WoBs, and thinking about it some more (along with a later reread), I've come to like and respect Shallan's arc in that book. Rereads - and the right music choice - have also made Shallan's arc in TWOK more interesting as well.
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  16. .....everything you said about "sucking it up" could be said about Kaladin, Dalinar, ...and frankly, every character in the story. The story is obviously heavily focused on...and perhaps even just talking about, mental health and how important it is. She was basically tortured as a child, did you read the back story sections of Shallan's story? She was heavily abused, to the point that her mind was already fractured from a young age, where she has been trying to forget things that happened from even before her background PoV. Also, while as I don't love every aspect of Shallan's personality, I found her endlessly fascinating personally. I've always kind of summarized our three main characters as basically representing three major mental disorders/psychiatrics conditions : Depression (Kaladin); Addiction (Dalinar); and finally Childhood Trauma (Shallan). If you think any of these are easy to move past, I suggest...trying empathy. Trust me, moving past childhood trauma, no matter the circumstances, is not that easy. Shallan has also saved the day multiple times....so...I'm not sure even what you are talking about there. Shallan is broken. Kaladin is broken. Dalinar ...was broken (he seems to have...mostly solved his issues by the end of Oathbringer). Like, that's the way the books were written, choosing one character and telling them to "suck it up" seems needlessly cruel. Ask yourself this, say when Kaladin's mind breaks and he is unable to fight at several points in the books, would you think it appropriate to tell him to suck it up? And if you wouldn't say it to Kaladin, ask yourself why you are instead saying it to only Shallan.
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  17. Nope I've got you Here is Cosmere Wikipedia: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome And here is everything Brandon has said so far as we can tell: https://wob.coppermind.net/
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  18. I feel like Kelsier will definitely end up being one of those "Hero in his own POV, villain to others" characters. Seeing his actions, or the effects of his actions, will make him seem bad. But if we get a book where we get to see his side of the story, we would see a noble cause or some other sort of justification.
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  19. When you circle the allomantic metals that are elements on your periodic table paper.
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  20. This theory came to my mind after I read some of death rattles that still have no meaning Turns out there are some sentence that foreshadow a great body of water that fall from a very long storms. That storms can possibly be everstorm/highstorm or perhaps combination of both A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears —Collected on Tanatesev 1171, 30 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a cobbler of some renown. I believe this rattle refers to szeth’s feeling. Sinovar, Szeth’s home, have many mountain that surround it. Will sinovar crumble then got flooded? I'm cold. Mother, I'm cold. Mother? Why can I still hear the rain? Will it stop? —Collected on Vevishes 1172, 32 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a lighteyed female child, approximately six years old. This one refers to a rosharan people feeling amidst this very long storm. Light grows so distant. The storm never stops. I am broken, and all around me have died. I weep for the end of all things. He has won. Oh, he has beaten us. —Collected on Palahakev 1173, 16 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a Thaylen sailor. This might implied that it will be cause by odium (Now Todium). Very long storm will cause the sun to be blocked so sky will turn into night. You might also can find ‘long night’ foreshadowing from this : So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life... —Observed circa Ishi 1173 by Taravangian. Subject was King Valam of Jah Keved. The day was ours, but they took it. Stormfather! You cannot have it. The day is ours. They come, rasping, and the lights fail. Oh, Stormfather! —Collected circa Tanat 1173 by Taravangian. Subject was a young boy. The darkness becomes a palace. Let it rule! Let it rule! —Collected on Kakevah 1173, 22 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a darkeyed Selay man of unknown profession. I believe this will happened in book 5. Brandon need a bitter ending for book 5 so stormlight archive can continue through book 6 to 10. I believe Todium will somehow create eternal global storm on roshar. This will cause catastrophic apocalyptic event that make living people of roshar migrate to shadesmar. Remember that shadesmar have reverse ecology to the real world? Land in shadesmar is sea in real world while sea in real world is land. So this flood will make shadesmar more occupiable with more land than before. But I believe not all of roshar will be flooded. Mountain will still stand tall above waters so urithru and horneater peak most likely still be safe. This will become a great strategic tool to make dalinar lose. If dalinar lose, Todium will have him to become his general to conquer the rest of cosmere. With this, Todium will be not afraid to lose. If dalinar win, he will still need to have conquer another cosmere’s world or at least will have to find any new world to occupy. They can’t live in Shadesmar forever. After all, if they can, why did people of ashyn (Human in Roshar ancestors) conquer roshar in the first place?
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  21. How I see it working is that the terrain tiles would be printed with the pegs on the bottom, so they could be placed on the base level boards or stacked on terrain tiles. You could stack as many terrain tiles on top of each other as you want, and we could design some that have built in different heights on the same tile. Also could make some that have forests where there's only certain open pegs in the forest (movement modifiers, surprise attack modifiers, etc). This is totally just sn idea, do it how it makes the most sense to you and I definitely want to see what you come up with! Sweet, thanks for the info and hope the printing goes well!
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  22. First off, have to say this is looking awesome! Nice work! I've given it some more thought, and mocked it up in in my vector draw program a bit more. Here's what I think would work the best, basically create a river that is wide enough to accommodate the figurine base for different peg holes. The dashed line is the size of the figurine base plus like a 64/th of inch of padding, and the river outline is drawn around the possible figurine placement positions. This would work like a charm. Also, I like your idea of bridges, here's a sample of a bridge that spans 3 peg holes along the vertical dimension of the hexagonal tile, and shows just the river outline on the tiles: Looks sick! I've got a little bit of file clean up to do on these, but I'll post an SVG file of the modified river tiles tomorrow and ping you when it's ready. I initially sketched the linkages that way too, but it just mechanically wouldn't work to connect them, you'd be trying to sync up tabs and slots that are joining at two disparate angles, doesn't work. Also, I think it would be best to have base boards that link with slots and tabs and the terrain tiles would just be placed and or stacked on the base boards using the pegs on the bottom of the terrain tiles. I did some more work on figuring out the base board tab and slot joints, here are some diagrams of how I envision it working the best. Orthographic plan views of the Flat Tab and Slots, and also peg depth and slot and tab placement. Here's an axonometric projection of the plan views, so you can get a better idea of what the tab and slots are doing: And finally, here's a top plan view of three 4x4 tile boards, with their tabs and slots and how they would joinj, with a bit of explanatory text as well. How I envision this working is that the base boards are the most commonly used boards, and quest cards would have you build up from the base boards with specialized terrain. As such, with the base boards, the areas where the hexagon tiles join could have more peg holes so that the peg hole grid is seamless, I'll post an SVG file of a 4x4 tile grid with the extra peg holes tomorrow too (and it will have an additional shape that could be boolean subtracted from the base shape to show the seams where the hexagon tiles meet, it would look super slick). Also, @Experience, what program are using to model the 3D printer files? I'm playing a lot of D&D these days, and it would be nice to make some custom models for my play group and for my kids too. This is seriously looking sweet, can't wait to see what you come up with!
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  23. Didn't care for Moash on my first read of the series. I didn't hate him, I just didn't think much of him. I knew he was the guy everyone hated before I read Oathbringer, but once I actually read it I kinda thought "is that it?". He just felt like a fairly standard villain and didn't really prompt any strong reactions from me (It didn't help that his relationship with Kaladin was very "tell don't show"). It's kinda hard to explain the exact process of what happened next, but after another reread or two, he became my second favorite character in the series *behind Adolin) and I felt he could easily take the top spot depending on how RoW went. Then RoW was actually published, and I haven't been okay since. Anyway, Szeth has been kinda growing on me lately, I guess.
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  24. Nale. When he first appeared as Darkness in WoR, I wasn’t on board. He came across as flat, almost cartoonishly evil, and I found the whole ‘Darkness’ aesthetic corny. After we found out more about him as the story went on, I got very interested. The fact that he used to be genuinely heroic, and has wound up like he is now by trying to do the right thing while having warped judgement, has me very excited to see where he goes from here.
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  25. First game on this site; gonna give this a try! Signing up as Rastan, a mildly paranoid skaa.
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  26. I do like the idea of the Iriali being more invested than average because of shardic intervention, and I would certainly enjoy it being due to an entire Shard splintering itself and scattering its Investiture across the entire people. Feels kinda like Endowment but taken to its functional limit, where there is no longer a central shard giving handouts, and the shard IS the handouts now, passed down through generations of Iriali. Tidereading could be a fun minor arcana involving futuresight, but I feel like that might just be a Roshar/frequency thing, waves, yknow. A clever application of the meaning of "wave" in english, where we call both Light and water oscillations 'waves".
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  27. When you glue yourself to a chair to experience what a full Lashing feels like.
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  28. The beginning, with the nobleman in the ashfall inspecting the Skaa when suddenly he notices a defiant Skaa and then loses him in the crowd.
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  30. T There are theroies as well that because Shallan has bonded a Cryptic spren before and broken those oaths she may have her soulcasting linked to Testament and her Lightweaving is linked to Pattern.
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  31. I did originally hold off on thinking too much of it until it was confirmed that you can soulcast people. But that's before I realized there's common references to vorinism calling people to soulcast themselves into something better. A bit poetic to be too serious. Except light eyes are soulcast into stone after dying. Soulcaster savants literally become what they create. And jasnah literally soulcast a dude into flames. Soulcasters, even jasnah, have areas they'd are better or worse at. Jasnah doesn't do organic things near as well. It's undoubtedly possible at this point that one could simply just be better at Soulcasting people rather than things. The opposite of Jasnah. Though the method of persuasion is likely the biggest obstacle for shallan. Curious if she could invent a new type of jam made of fruit that only exists in her mind, and manifest it from a more mundane type.
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  32. Even Brandon doesn't pronounce it 'properly' (or many other names for that matter) so say it however you like, it's okay.
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  33. What are the odds that, despite Scadrial being cleansed at the end of Era 1, that future Eras will involve the sky once more covered in ash, this time manufactured by humans? Despite Harmony trying to Preserve, the humans can still choose to Ruin, and those who were given clear skies made them dark.
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  34. oh shoot, I didn't even notice the Mistspren thing, that is very interesting. Maybe in the future we'll see Renarin (maybe in combination with a Bondsmith) or Sja-Anats Bondmate project what Enlightened Spren "see" similar to how Shallan and Dalinar project the Map together that's an interesting thought, I can see that. Would be very interesting. I had thought of the Crystals growing out of Amaram's skin because it seemed to me like that could've been Yelig-Nar "healing" to how he would actually look, but if Yelig-Nar grants all 9 Surges then it has Progression anyway. Re-Shephir being Progression makes a lot of sense too, with the Midnight Essence. Imagine being able to "patch up" someone with Midnight Essence. Or something.
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  35. Ha-ha, remember this thread? Well, here is an excellent, and thought-provoking article that plays directly into what we do here*. https://harpers.org/archive/2014/11/spare-the-darling/ (* Yes, I know I haven't critiqued in a while. I think I'm about to dive back in soon.)
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  36. I agree this will be Szeth watching Shinovar get wrecked and the sea flooding in. I think it will be from Division being used at large scale to wreak the mountains and perhaps the land which will allow the sea to flood in. I don't think there will be another storm that covers everything though. I think we've seen what this one refers to already. The storm that never stops is referring to the Everstorm as in forever, never stopping. Like a mistranslation from a dying person not fully understanding what they are witnessing. I think this reaction of "he has won" is very similar to the Stormfather's reaction after the Everstorm comes at the end of WoR. This most likely refers to the Unmade taking over the palace in Kholinar during OB. There is a dome of gloom that covers the palace.
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  37. I had some similar thouths as well. Not about Flood, but about Contest of Champions. It was about fact that Contest will be in 10 days, and no way book will close in 10 Days. So will happen something what make Contest meaningless. Many people predicts Dalinar will lose. But winning Contest practicly dont give TOdium anything - he wnats to escape from Roshar System. Also, Raise stated clear that he cannot cancel Everstorm. Dont think he is lying, but this is part of his power and he can influence it and we saw this (He speed it up or hold in place). So I think Dalinar would win the Contest, because of this quote: But Contract doesnt tell anything about bringing down constatnt natural disaster BEFORE Contest and anywhere outside Urithiru. So is possible TOdium simply surrender Contest, but before this he amplifies Everstorm to the point it covers whole Rosharan Sky. Now he have levrage against humanity and technicly dont break contract - so Dalinar is forced to re-negotiate cotract, but TOdium is the one with ace.
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  38. I have always loved the scene where the crew is relaxing and begin talking back and forth in Spook's street slang. There's no action and the story doesn't depend on its existence, but it is such a wonderful moment. I think that if it was accurately depicted on screen that it would show viewers what separates this series from other fantasy shows.
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  39. The immediate action scene that comes to mind is Kelsier's final fight with the inquisitor, when he has a cloud of metal around him. The dialogue scene I want is after their army is destroyed and everyone is planning to leave, and Kelsier comes in and is all chipper and then they go watch the deaths and Kel tells them "this is why I fight. Never question me again."
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  40. "The world ended, and Shallan was to blame." - Words of Radiance, Chapter 10. Great theory.
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  41. It fits with the Pattern (hehe) of ShallanReveals too. Reveal 1: ‘omg I killed my dad’ Reveal 2: ‘omg I killed my mom’ Reveal 3: ‘omg I killed my spren’ Reveal 4: ‘omg I killed my planet (indirectly by causing the cycle of desolations to resume by sending my herald mom back to Braize)’
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  42. Well, I'm going to guess that the fifth oath is something Kaladin is going to swear in the next book. The fourth oath was pretty straightforwardly what he'd been struggling against for most of the last two books, so it's not a surprise, but how tough it's been for him means that we probably have missed the foreshadowing of the fifth oath. I think we HAD to have some foreshadowing of the fifth oath, because giving Kaladin a totally new thing to struggle against would feel weird if we haven't had inkings of it before. It might be something to do with his new work helping people with their mental health. That got just a few chapters in this book - enough to show that it was important, but not enough to say that that storyline is complete. Hmm. think the fifth oath is going to be something about how you have to protect the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. Most of the protecting that Kaladin has done personally has been about preventing people from being stabbed - understandable, because they're in a war. But more abstract things like protecting a person's independence, protecting their spirit, are still there. Maybe it'll build on the fourth oath. The fourth oath was only about acceptance, knowing that a Windrunner can't protect everyone. But the fifth might be when he recognizes that some things are more important to protect against than bodily harm. I still think there's more realizations to be had there. Yeah, Kaladin is now accepting that sometimes, he'll fail and not protect someone. But there's a step further - times when Kaladin could step in and protect someone from physical damage, but shouldn't, because protecting that person's autonomy or integrity or honor or something else is also important.
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  43. OHMYGOSHYES IVE BEEN KEEPING A LIST OF ALL OF MY FAVORITE WORDS FINALLY A CHANCE TO USE IT *ahem* Archipelago Bauble Monotonous Convocation Tempered Yesteryear Culinary Oblation Cacophonous
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  44. It was my birthday a few days ago... >.> Just throwin that out there.
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