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  1. My eight year old brother is getting baptized today. It's funny. He still seems so little to me, but he's officially no longer a little child.
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  2. Hey yeah, I'm talking to you Yeah, you Now, you're going to do exactly what I say. Go be awesome.
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  3. Guyz is late And I still up And I had two root beers And many Oreos And I got ‘drunk’ on my own laughter with a couple of peeps (we laughed a lot) And it was the best evening ever So ya I felt like saying so
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  4. I have jangly bracelets They fit just right They’re loose like they should be but they don’t slip off unless I want them to I’ve been walking around randomly shaking my fists *amusement noises*
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  6. WAIT! WE FORGOT ABOUT PROMPTCEMBER!
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  7. For some reason it makes me happy to hear you'd follow my nonexistent YouTube channel SA2, chapter 25, Kaladin: Lol, I couldn't stop laughing at Kaladin on that one horse. My guess is that it will become his horse. I hope Kaladin changes his mind and let's that one person train him to fight against Shardbearers. Now he's about to go patrolling outside the warcamps with his bridgemen. I'd be very surprised if he doesn't end up running into Shallan! And something tells me they're not gonna get along at first (even beyond Syl and Pattern hating each other). My rep says I have Hoid's job. Speaking of which, I don't believe Wit has made an appearance in book 2 yet.
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  8. I posted in the "problems with Lost Metal" thread, but I don't want my only posts on the forums to be criticisms of it! So I thought this thread would be a good complement, to talk about things we especially liked about the book that might not need a whole thread. I thought the character work was really good. I thought that everyone's motivations were consistent with previous books, Lost Metal gave great contexts for them to do and show what they needed, and their narrative arcs were very satisfying to me. Steris is a particular favorite of mine, and I really appreciated her rising to her challenges and finding acceptance through embracing her compulsions and responses to them. Her superlative abilities just needed to be in the right place to obviously show their worth, just like Wax needed to be in the Roughs for a while. I loved what we saw of Autonomy. Any time a Shard is on screen is significant, but seeing Autonomy in action sharpened a lot of previous thinking and suggested tons of new details. Especially exciting to me is that, just like Odium's nature means that it can't help but promote conflict even against itself, Autonomy can't help promoting self-determination even from Autonomy itself. And as her campaign of domination continues she's going to increasingly become the main force to oppose. Her greatest champion is also going to be her most dedicated opponent. Awesome. I cannot wait to read those stories as they develop. And her preference for avatars seems like more than just the Shard's nature (more self-determining instances of the power) but also a way to deal with conflict like that, which I find fascinating. The new details about the Cosmere were incredibly intriguing. The implications of a general Stamp are stunning, given how Forgery was previously shown as so limited to specific objects in specific places at specific times. Shai being able to Forge an Elantrian identity is similarly huge. It closes the loop on a lot of previous theorycrafting, and along with the reveal of raw Investiture to drive it we have a lot of new details to use when thinking about crossing magic systems. As there is more travel around the Cosmere and more power-mixing, Forgery is going to become easier to do, much more expansive in what it can do, and much more powerful. I'm also fascinated by the Aethers and their home system. I thought that the dual-conflict narrative was well done. Autonomy was going to invade and conquer, unless the Set conquered it in her name first. They had to save Scadrial, which required them to conquer Scadrial now, which meant blowing up a big part of it. It was a great motivation for a group with a doomsday device not just to have developed one in the first place, but also a compelling reason to actually try to use it. It was also a great way to separate out two antagonists at once, where they were on the same side but not quite the same side, and not really working together. The arc for Sazed, as Harmony, as increasingly unable to act (even indirectly) is moving to me, even if I haven't totally loved the pacing. He has virtually infinite divine power, strong moral beliefs, and worthy goals. But he can't bring all of those together. He must be tortured to be so helpless, even as a god, like reliving his struggle in Hero of Ages again but worse and on a larger scale. I don't know how becoming Discord will interact with that but I really want to see more. There was a lot more to like about the book but I'd rather hear what positive things especially stood out for other people.
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  9. Verity felt herself flinch ever-so slightly at the distant sound of a slamming door. Not good, she thought, keeping the anxiety off her face. The house never made noise as it shifted - it was only the visitors who ever made noise, and those rarely appeared this close to the first floor. Damnation. ”To the first point - why we have advertised for hired help as opposed to contracting a more professional organization. Forgive me but you are likely new in the city. There is only one organization with the knowledge and ability to handle something like this, and they are… unpredictable at best. At worst they could possibly be behind this phenomenon, using my manor as some sort of laboratory. I doubt this latter possibility. From the small contacts I do have regarding the goings-on with the Dark Alley, they are in an insular mood following the Forgery. But I would not seek their services regardless; too many what-ifs. Too many unknown variables getting them purposefully involved.” Verity brushed the front of her dress unnecessarily - an old nervous habit. “To the second point.” Verity pinned the latecomer with a neutral, if imperious, look. “The item in question is a small lacquered green box, about ten inches square. It has a gold lock and gold hinges. The contents of the box are irrelevant to you - only that it be returned to me. And in regards to ‘other items’ you may find in my home…” She raised an eyebrow. “Do you mean to inquire if you are permitted to steal various trinkets from my manor for your troubles, like visitors to an orchard plucking apples? Or do you perhaps mean any odd phenomena you encounter within these walls? Some sort of magical artifact won off a creature of legend? I suppose if you do encounter and best such a thing, you may keep what can be gained from it. But if you avail yourself of my family’s belongings, then you will surely have your reward.” At this, Cobalt calmly drew a few inches of his cold steel saber, face unchanged. “We have sought out professionals and I expect your conduct to be professional. You will be paid like it. Ten thousand chrysts to each of you that make it back with the box. Another three thousand if you can do so in three days. We have the initial blueprints of the house, which you make take at your leisure.” She gestured to a pile of rolled-up blueprints. ”The rate of change is… variable. And constant. From what we can tell, most of the changes happen at or around sunset and dawn. And the changes become more pronounced the further up you go, and the farther you get from the outer window line.”
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  10. I just watched the latest Alan Becker video. I'm not crying, you're crying.
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  11. My band teacher just came up to the class and said: “I want you back.” OOC. @Ookla the Nerdy I’m trying this insane challenge of yours. *regretting*
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  12. Sorry about this, I really need to rant, and don't know where to put it. I really need to get a reddit account. Half of the questions didn't deserve to be asked during a spoiler stream. "Is stick an avatar of Autonomy?" Come on people! I know it's funny to you but you have dozebs of streams to ask your joke questions, I only get two steams a year to get spoiler questions asked, just let me have this!
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  13. So. I finished The Lost Metal today. And I was going to make an SU with all my thoughts but I need to sleep now. So I'll do it tomorrow.
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  14. The Heralds names are symmetrical, they just have a tittle added on the end. They can see cryptics moving, and they have sand to find them. It's kind of the people they killed kind of not. They hurt themselves so badly by doing killing that they are hearing screams from the Spiritual Realm. The Fused are called that because the Fused's soul fuses to a singers body. They have surges as an inherent part of their nature.
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  15. is there anyone i can pm with a rant about religion, specifically lds religion? i ask here cause i know there's some ex-lds people who can understand and i don't wanna do it anywhere publicly and offend anyone and also i have literally no one else to talk to about it and i am going to explode soon if i can't get it out to someone who will understand.
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  16. Brandon said in spoilerstream that as of The Lost Metal, Hoid is the only person with a spren bond to get off of Roshar with his powers intact (that he can remember, anyway). So it looks like the cant be Skybreakers as we would understand them. However, Brandon did really pause and hmm and haw about how to answer the question on if these people were Skybreakers. So perhaps they were Voidbinding/warbinding/oldmagicing without spren or something like that? I am still extremely suspicious of these magic users and where they came from.
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  17. I’ve never done one of these before. I’m not sure if I’m doing it right. But I wrote something fun and decided I felt like sharing it. (spoilered for length).
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  18. The banter was really well done. Wayne is hilarious, and while his crassness pushes the limits of good taste in places, I never felt that it was overdone. Marasi is fantastic and I really enjoyed the way she played against the Ghostbloods. I like that she’s a character who stands for rule of law, using social science and the power of bureaucracy for good. I hope we have someone continuing her legacy in Era 3, to push back against Kelsier’s anti-government tendencies. Autonomy is really interesting. I like the conflict between promoting individuality and forcing said individuality to conform to a template. Having this be reflected in Bilming and its physical structures is really neat - corporate ‘uniqueness’ is super unsettling. Whatever is going on with Harmony is intriguing. I love that, with all this power, all this knowledge, and all these good intentions, Harmony is still very worrying and untrustworthy. And I want to meet his evil twin. The actual plot was good too!
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  19. The Greek way: be a really horrible person, so the gods make you immortal for you to suffer forever. The Rosharan way: Same as the Greek way except you volunteered for it instead of it being a punishment. The Scadrian way (Secret History spoiler) The Amestrian way (Fullmetal Alchemist early spoilers) How long do you sleep every night on average?
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  20. Lena, University District, Il Grano Lena smiled at the dark red liquid in her glass, watched it move from one side to the other when she turned the glass slowly in her hand. The wine smelled amazing. Sweet, but a little herb as well, not too sour and it's colour was a winning condition on its own. She lifted the glass to her lips and took a sip, enjoyed the flavors in her mouth. Delicious. The man, Steven, sat close to her at the table made a sound and she looked over to him, covered her annoyance with a smile. Steven straightened on his stool at her obvious attention and launched into another elaborate story of his and Lena forced herself to keep at least part of her attention with him this time. He was boring. His stories were boring, his opinions not of any interest to her and the perfume he wore smelled like wet dog. But even more important, he was arrogant. And that made him easy prey. She widened her eyes in faked surprise when he finished the story with a non surprising twist, something about his brother who guessed a gift correctly? How could someone fill their days with such boring things, when you could head out and breathe the smell, feel the heartbeat of Alleycity? It was amazing. Monsters, fabulous women and glorious men, adventures and alleys, and this guy talked about guessing a gift. She took another sip of her wine and decided to go on with this quickly. If she had to listen to another word coming out of his mouth she would end this another way. And in that case she would have to find another suitable victim. No, it was better to endure him for a little while longer. "Would you care for a more private place?" She asked him, careful to stress the word private just in the right way. His face shone up like a star at night and his ego grew like a plant with water. Lena leaned a little forward and noticed with satisfaction that he took the oppotunity to glance into her cleveage. She was dressed in a beautiful, dark violett dress that went perfectly with the dark wig she wore. It highlighted her curves, lifted her breasts a little and its fabric caressed her skin. Or in other words, she loved it. It was rare to find a piece that fit you so well. In a fluid motion she stood up, enjoyed Steven's admiring gaze and took her glass into her hand. She walked over to the staircase leading upstairs, aware of his eyes lingering on her backside, a smile on her face. Lena didn't wait for him but instead climbed the stairs without hesitation, stepping into the the hallway on top of them. She opened the second door to the right and only now waited for him to reach the top of the stairs before she entered. Couldn't have the poor guy wander around like a lost soul. When he finally entered the room she was standing in front of the mirror, her glass carefully placed on a small table nearby. She watched him through the mirror, observed as he took in the large bed and the drawer. Mat, the owner of this place, had a few rooms he rented to drunken customers at night, or to love struck couples. Or to others. He didn't particularly care as long as he was paid. She opened her pouch and lifted her lipstick to her lips, slowly covering them in red paint. Pursing them she ensured that they were covered completely before she added a layer of gloss, that one only slightly smaller, never touching her bare skin. Then she turned around, an alluring smile on her face, her movements enticing. "Glad you made it." She greeted him, her smile growing wider. He shot her a slightly confused look, but Lena walked over to him, placed her hands on his chest. "You didn't need to get all that make up on them." He pointed out. "I'll smear it anyway." Lena grinned at him happily, her first real smile for the whole evening. "Oh I hope that you will. Some things need to be done the proper way." He grinned a stupid, male grin and her heart jumped in excitement. Finally. It had been too long. Without any further delay she kissed him. Watched his smile falter a short while later, watched him stumble backwards, trip and hit his head when he fell to the ground. And smiled. She had calculated correctly. Lena reached for a handkerchief and removed the remaining lipstick from her mouth, happily humming to herself. Then she sat down in a comfortable chair and took another sip of wine. It was far too good to waste it. Some time later she left the room and locked the door behind herself. This time she didn't take the steps back into the main room, but instead a smaller one set at the back of the house. She opened a wooden door without knocking, waved at the man inside. "I'll go now." She informed him cheerfully and tossed him a small bag. He caught it and opened it, before he nodded. "Is he still alive." He asked and didn't wait for a reply. "You didn't check, I know. " he made a wave with his hand. "Should I need a clean up crew -" "it'll cost me extra." Lena finished his sentence. "I know, I know. He hit his head when he fell." She gave a slight shrug. "But he's definitely not dead from the poison." She hadn't made such a beginners mistake in years. It was so much more complicated to keep them alive than to kill them. "I'll be back in a couple of hours." She threw him another bag. "Put that in his drink when he wakes up." It would keep the guy off work for a bit. "Will do." Mat replied curtly. "Have a good day, Leila." She smiled and waved at him, before she shut the door again. It had been a good day. And with a guild head meeting coming up it would only be better. Humming happily she walked through the streets, a small passcard in her pocket. It was going to be her invitation.
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  21. "I am certain you have questions. Please, ask, and we shall do our best to answer you." The Lady Warren said, finally drawing Whisper's attention back to conversation with her arrival. She considered and dismissed a dozen questions out of hand, either too technical to be able to be answered by someone who had just fallen into this situation, or too revealing of her own interests to be worth stating aloud. And she was just beginning to pick through the much shorter list of questions which might be appropriate to ask when her thoughts were interrupted by someone else asking in her place. “why a help wanted poster? This seems to be a very specific job, with quite a mysterious nature. I feel like hiring specialists, or some sort of magical detective agency would be needed. And judging by the manor, you could surely afford hiring someone.” Whisper felt the corner of her lips twitch up in the slightest of smiles, far more expression than most would evoke from her. But there was only one place in the city with specialists that would be capable of handling this particular problem, and Whisper was quite aware of why neither Lady Warren nor any of her staff had asked. The Dark Alley was not precisely in the business of performing charity work, nor were they a mercenary company one could simply hire out. "What item specifically are we looking for? And... what should we do with anything else we find?" Another voice said, this one new to the conversation as its owner arrived late. Whisper spared him a quick once-over as well, a faint flicker at the back of her mind indicated she may have seen him before but was not so clear that she could place where. She shelved the thought as she nodded along at this, more practical question. It had been one of the ones that she had considered asking herself. Instead she moved a hand over her board as though wiping it clean of her previous scribblings and beginning to write anew, though actually she simply covered it with a Lightweaving to preserve the makeshift map she had started. What rooms have you been able to find? She wrote. And is there a map or a blueprint for the original architecture? She turned the board to display its writing just as the sound of a slamming door echoed from somewhere deeper in the house. Acting surprised was easy enough, a small little nervous jump that was quickly controlled. She had been mentally rehearsing the action ever since she placed the Lightweaving to cause the sound.
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  22. I felt similarly. It's a good book but not a great one, and I can't shake the feeling that the final evaluation before publishing was essentially that it's good enough. There were issues that felt, to me, like they were balanced on the reservoir of goodwill from dedicated fans more than anything else. And I feel that many of those would have been hard to miss for Sanderson, editors, and advance readers altogether. Too much was teased in BoM which was totally dropped in LM. As I mentioned in another thread, the lack of any specificity at all in explanation for why Metallic Arts medallions are not more widespread or how they work and why they don't work in other ways felt almost insulting to me. Not a huge deal, but it's not like there's a need to keep details hidden for future books. I'm going to read them anyways! The political situation in the Basin was presented as balanced on a knife's edge in SoS and BoM, and remains pretty much the same six years later in LM. That makes protagonists' actions feel less meaningful and hurts my investment in the story and also makes the threats seem less significant. The villains were all back-benchers who were broadly ineffective. Telsin was a letdown compared to BoM, Autonomy was menacing but her army never arrived and she just left. Not-Wax and not-Wayne were interesting enough but their presence felt contrived to me (Autonomy apparently wants a person exactly like you for some reason, so I need to copy you in every possible way? OK, I guess). None of them stacked up to Bleeder or Miles for me in portrayal, motivations, or methods. There was more focus than I would have preferred on Sazed's difficulties holding Preservation and Ruin, given that his difficulty in acting has been a consistent theme for a long time. He's changing, sure, and that matters a lot, sure, but it was kind of a non-factor in this book. I felt like we heard more about Harmony's state in this book than any of the others but also learned less about it, so the focus was unsatisfying. There were too many connections to the broader Cosmere that were there just for the sake of being there. Someone in another thread scolded me (rudely) for not being sufficiently excited about some of those connections and mentioned the Identity safe, for example. The safe is really cool, but didn't interact with the story in any way. It was there just to be there and have its properties described. I might as well have been reading Coppermind about it, not a novel. TwinSoul (a character I really liked!) mattered to the story but mainly in solving an arbitrary problem as soon as it appeared in a way that just happened to showcase his non-Scadrian abilities. Contrast with the potential Skybreakers at the end: they were present, their nature was hinted at but not bluntly blurted out, and they didn't get more attention than their role in the story demands. We're starting to lose the "here's a cool, novel way to apply specific, rules-based magic you know about that makes it useful in addressing problems" approach to "here's an Investiture-ex-machina to resolve any particular problem". Dropped-in magic isn't the crossover magic I've been waiting for. Overall I felt the setup : payoff ratio was way too heavily weighted towards the former for a novel of this length and which caps off a distinct segment of the series. It's obviously incredibly subjective, but I felt this was the weakest Cosmere novel to date. Again, I liked the book, but there was some nontrivial drag.
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  23. 1) The Southern/Basin tension was built up pretty well in the beginning then just kinda fizzled out with the BoM scene that left a cliffhanger we will not see concluded for years. 2) I absolutely loved the Telsin twist in BoM and was really excited about the showdown but it honestly concluded a little underwhelming to me. Harmony interrupts her power or whatever from Autonomy and she lays down and dies.
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  24. I thought of this while reading. each and every one is them at different moments in the book.
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  25. From the album: Stormlight Archive Fan Works

    One of the most finished pieces I've done so far for this series, I thought I should put up the whole thing since I used it as my profile pic
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  26. 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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  27. Not traveling to the Cognitive Realm, but the Cognitive Aspects while in the Physical. How do they exist in the CR, with the Dor being a pressurized Investiture tempest and whatnot? Doesn't it affect people on Sel at all?
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  28. Whisper moved swiftly towards the pile of blueprints, taking a map for herself and studying it as further conversations developed behind her. The former layout did not seem to have any correlation to what she had mapped earlier, but that was to be expected. Such patterns were rarely so easy as to be seen at a glance, not even by her. Room by room she devoted the map to memory, trusting her own rather than a borrowed coppermind. This box... she considered, also devoting the lady's description to her mind. Worth delving further into or not? Unlikely that anything a random noble lady owns would be of interest, but then something is happening to this house. They are perhaps a more interesting family than they first appear. Her eyes flickered over the walls, looking over the decorations, pictures, trying to find portraits and family trees that so many nobles loved to display. But she quickly grew distracted by the question behind her. One of her new associates was a Seeker it seemed, though blessedly unfamiliar with Surges. That could complicate things of course, but for now it should not change anything overmuch. In the worst case there was doubtless some abyssal entity wandering the house that she could lure in to deal with anyone too problematic, or she could simply separate from the others. Continuing her lifelong wish of spreading her devotion was of course important, but it would not be too much of a problem if she needed to simply leave these few be. Odds are most won't make it back anyway. She reasoned. Mentally reviewing the rest of the information had been given, Whisper realized too late that her current guise should perhaps have acted more excited or greedy about the mention of pay. The sum meant very nearly nothing to Whisper, but an ordinary thief would be much more invested. With a slight inaudible curse she drew some of her attention back to the conversations and her expressions rather than devoting all to the problems. What should I do with it after? She wondered. Donate it? Seems pointless. Buy something? Even more... no, perhaps not pointless. That much funding... might be able to approach things a different way. Obtain a building. Perhaps a church? Plans formed and revised in moments, though Whisper lacked enough financial awareness to know how far ten thousand chrysts would stretch, but surely it would be enough for a start at least? Devoting one to all of her gods seemed like it would be impossible, almost nobody else understood the connections of perfection that ran between them. But perhaps one. Perhaps this was her chance to make amends, to regain some small measure of utility after the colossal failure that was the end of the Forgery. She winced, pain piercing through her eye and into her brain. Her muscles tensed immediately in response, far too familiar with the more extreme pain that would be following shortly after. But she could keep it under control for now couldn't she? Surely she had not become so utterly useless that she would fail so simple an infiltration due to some head pains.
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  29. We have @Ookla the Forgettable, @Ookla the Forgotten and @Ookla the Unknown and @Ookla the Unknowing This is messing with my brain you guys
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  30. I read your case yes To elaborate: The main weird thing about your vote was the circumstances I'd say, not the reasoning I can vibe with the feeling of "village reading Madagascar slightly, but not actually sure why" I'm not convinced that Madagascar not posting a reads list or otherwise doing a big meaty analysis post is evil indicative, since to my knowledge Mad has never done those things regardless of alignment, and Mad has ostensibly given reasons for individual votes they cast... Granted, I've only played 2 games with Madagascar before, so I don't have a big sample size to draw a conclusion from. Granted x2, that might still be more than most. Nevertheless, I take your point. Madagascar seems to be going out of their way to avoid engaging in the major voting trains or discussion. I do think there are village-aligned reasons for doing so. Diversifying votes is underrated tbh. However it also means whatever village gut read I have on Madagascar is fairly meaningless. So... I guess I have a neutral read of Mad? They aren't my first choice, but they also aren't the worst person to start a wagon on. Speaking of trains Vote Tally Alvron (2): Fifth Scholar, Madagascar JNV (2): DrakeMarshall, Wizard the Myopic Madagascar (2): Matrim the Tall, Fadran the [Redacted] Fifth Scholar (1): Devotary of Spontaneity I'd like to nominate a new one, not the least of which because JNV hasn't posted at all today, which makes a JNV train kind of boring. I am once more asking for your financial support what are people's thoughts about Bookwyrm?
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  31. I thought the finale as a whole was very satisfying. Wayne's arc was predictable but very well executed, and his last scene with Harmony was one of those larger-than-life Cosmere moments that I've loved since Hero of Ages. The character writing in general was very well-done. In that regard, it's up there with Brandon's best, although in general, I see this book more in the middle-range of his work.
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  32. This might be another reason Kelsier needs the Lerasium quickly. The Ghostbloods will probably find out pretty soon that Kelsier is lying. They might suspect him already and they aren't going to be happy with him when they find out. Kelsier probably should have been honest from the beginning, but the fact that he has access to a power that nobody else has now probably helped a lot with recruitment, but he can't go up to them now and tell them that he actually isn't a mistborn. However if he could find lerasium he could just go and do some allomancy in front of them and nobody would suspect anything.
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  33. I feel like this is the versatility of the mistborn. To limit a mistborn in their metals to the same runtime as a windrunner is a bit of a stretch in the argument of what they can carry. Gems aren't huge but certainly a sack of gems is larger than the equivalent run time of metals. If you swallowed a perfect spheres volume of pewter no doubt the pewter would unlock far more time of that metals use than the stormlight held by said sphere. A solid takes up considerably less space for the same mass than a gas and that is the exact point to make here. Pewter being the fastest burning of the metals still would be far more dense in potential investiture unlocked than a sphere with a perfect gemstone and crammed full of stormlight. Vials are just convenient ways to transport metal and drink it down without risking heavy metal poisoning if you don't use all of it. And for mistborn there is the added option of using aluminum to protect yourself from a massive chunk of unused metal as well.
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  34. This is awesome theory, and I think, it may be close to what is actually happening in Threnody!!!!
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  35. Could i maybe have myself taken off of this? I know i did a very general area, but the less personal info out there, the better (I was Szeth's Facepalm before ookla season).
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  36. I liked how Cosmere aware this book was. I know that in the beginning it was necessary to keep the worlds apart, but we passed that point years ago and I'm looking foward to how this progresses.
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  37. Perses took this in. A growing house that kills people, a valued artifact, and a help wanted poster. Perses hadn’t actually gotten the ‘help wanted’ poster; he had been led this way by someone when he inquired about job opportunities. After taking this information in, one question came to mind. “why a help wanted poster? This seems to be a very specific job, with quite a mysterious nature. I feel like hiring specialists, or some sort of magical detective agency would be needed. And judging by the manor, you could surely afford hiring someone.”
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  38. The large grandfather clock on the wall of the parlour chimed three o'clock, the sound cutting through conversation and leaving room for the softer, slightly aged voice of Verity Warren to carry through the air. "Your host is right here." She did her best to sweep into the room; once it had been so easy to make a striking impression. Her height, her long dark hair, her penchant for fine jewels and gowns - all had aided her in being the Lady of Wickwillow. The Lady Warren. And she still was, if perhaps a bit more stooped, her long hair now silvered, her gown and jewels hanging rather more loosely on a spindly frame. But she was still the Lady Warren, and she would do battle with this strange house until one of them emerged victorious, and the other was either tamed, or dead. Verity surveyed the gathered crowd and held a sigh between her teeth. She had hoped for more, but she was not surprised at the small number. These were trying times for everyone, and plenty did not wish for another helping of danger so soon after having their world shaken and resettled. She had expected to catch the desperate and the curious, and based on what she saw, she had been right. Her eyes lingered a bit long on the slim figure of an actual child amidst the hopefuls, and considered dismissing her outright. But then, Verity herself had been forced to grow up much too quickly. Few in this city did not have to do so, in one way or another. And the girl was not her responsibility. "Thank you for answering our call for aid," Verity continued, glancing aside to Cobalt, who remained still and stoic, as usual. "I am the Lady Verity Warren. As you all surely know, the world has recently undergone a great transition. While most has returned to its original state, there are a few things that... have not. Among them, this house. You all saw the Manor as you approached it from without: four stories and a basement, a classical style. Rather unremarkable, if stately. And it was that way within as well, until a week ago. At which point the house began to... grow. And it has not stopped. It continues to add passages, rooms, secret doors and switchbacks. New staircases appear, and there have been... things that have emerged from such new doors and hallways. We have lost three of our staff." "It is a logical thing to ask 'Why not simply leave?' And in truth, we would. I would, if it were not for something very important that I require, which lies in my late husband's - the late Lord Warren's - third floor study. We have yet to be able to find the room, or even the corridor, in which this item is located. But should you succeed where we have failed, you will be handsomely rewarded. I am certain you have questions. Please, ask, and we shall do our best to answer you."
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  39. Am I a Brony? Well, I'm aware that one came out of nowhere, but I have a point with this question, so please hear me out. Personally, my answer to the above question - which I'm the only one asking - is actually no, I'm not. I intend to elaborate here a bit on why that is. But Trutharchivist, don't you have a blog here? Why use a status update? Well, my blog is for different things, like trying to explain the history of Judaism in the previous two-three centuries. I don't want to digress there. So, without lingering any further, let's begin. Since I opened with that, I guess I'll start with the Brony situation. Bronies are defined as fans of My Little Pony (specifically Friendship is Magic) who are outside the regular target demographics of little girls. Mostly, we're talking about adult men at around their early twenties. I am, indeed, a men at my early twenties, and I've been watching MLP: FiM and adjacent content a lot lately. That, supposedly, places me under the definition of a Brony. So why am I in denial about it? But here's the thing: I do like MLP: FiM, but I wouldn't call myself a fan of it. Or, well, not a very dedicated fan. You see, I tend to go through various temporal obsessions during my life. A few of the more severe ones include Harry Potter, Tolkien's Legendarium, possibly Percy Jackson and, yes, MLP: FiM. I have a somewhat extensive knowledge on those franchises, but not as extensive as more dedicated fans. I can tell you approximately what happened during the First Age of Arda, how Voldemort found Barty Crouch Jr. to infiltrate Hogwarts, How Percy reacted to meeting Echidna (and who's the Greek Mythology hero that defeated the monster he faced back then) and what musincal the song "Best Night Ever" from the first part of MLP: FiM's season one finale references (though it has more to do with liking said musical than liking the show...). I can randomly quote the Inheritance Cycle, Discworld or random stuff from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and it's not just 42). I'm also exaggarating a bit to sound impressive, but I do randomly quote books sometimes. Oh, and there's a person or two out there who view me as the resident Marvel expert (not around here). My point is, though, that all those won't be in my "most favourite" list (though all will be in my favourites); they had their effect on me, but I don't see myself as a part of the fandom. Same may well go for Sanderson books, BTW: I may read the Cosmere as it comes out, but I don't consider Sanderson's books to be necessarily the best I've ever read. My point may be mute after all that I said, but in the end, the fandoms I most identify with are the smallest ones I'm a part of. Perhaps the Underland Chronicles, Diana Wynne Jones' books, Anne of Green Gables... A few small books that caught my eye and - dare I say it - my heart. (Not necessarily just books, though.) MLP: FiM may or may not join this more exclusive group of media that had deep influence on me, but it isn't there yet. Which is why I don't see myself as a Brony, or Potterhead, or Whovian or whatever weird fandom name those others have: I'm not that much invested in those Fandoms for the long run, or not invested very deeply. My latest obsession is MLP: FiM. Who knows what I'll get into next? Hope it made sense! Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day! -Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle- no, wait, that's not right... Ahem! -yours, faithfully, Trutharchivist, AKA Ookla the Questioning?
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  41. My favorite Wayne quote
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  42. It's a bit of a reach, but what if the bands were drained to make Trell's perpendicularity?
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  43. If people must make their own advancements, does that mean we as modern people are wrong to use electric lights, computers, refrigerators, cars, etc? Most of us don't have even the fundamental ideas of how modern technology works, let alone the knowledge to actually build it. We know how to operate it in many cases, but sometimes not even that. We have specialists who study and learn how this technology works, but they represent a tiny fragment of the people that benefit from the work and learning of those that came before us. I know a lot of sci-fi talks about how dangerous it is to give advanced technology to those that how not gone through the development to make it on their own. But think this is confusing technological and moral progress. A society is not more moral or made of better people due to technological advancement. Frankly, I shouldn't even need to state that. But often it seems to me that people take the word, "progress" and assume it can be applied at a uniform rate. It really can't. I believe people are fundamentally of the same nature, which means you and I are no more or less innately moral than a caveman in the neolithic era. Nor are we more or less innately moral than our far future decedents will be. The result is that I don't think there's any technology people are going to be "not ready for." Sure, they might not understand it and need to develop their scientific knowledge more to use it efficiently or replicate it, but I don't think we should pretend that we're more moral people than the Romans because we have microwaves. We may be generally more moral than them (I'm not saying we are), but technology is certainly not the reason why. So what's my point with all this? I don't understand Sazed argument fully. I get that Scadrian society needs to develop their scientific knowledge to make use of technology. But Sazed wouldn't just be giving them the machines already assembled, he'd giving them knowledge. In other words, he'd be teaching them, just as any modern scientist is schooled in the knowledge of past advances before they make anything of their own, the Scadrian scientists would be learning about the principles behind any technology Sazed could give them before actually being able to build it. Unless Sazed just starts giving them blueprints, in which case they'd be reverse engineering those blueprints, and the outcome would be mostly the same. Sure, you can say that they would be gaining knowledge without wisdom, but societies don't have wisdom, individuals have wisdom. So yeah, I agree with Kel. Sazed is holding to a principle that, while noble, is flawed. I don't think Sazed should give Scadrial all the knowledge he has, or even give them a ton of knowledge in a single burst. But I do think that he should take efforts to accelerate their advancement.
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  44. When your friend is talking about Romeo and Juliet, specifically the scene where the messenger is despairing because he can't read and asks Romeo for help (who responds, jokingly, that he also cannot read) and you're completely unsurprised because somewhere in the back of your mind you were thinking that, as a man, of course he wouldn't read.
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  45. I wish I was. (Stupid Biology class) TPBM is not wearing a hoodie today.
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  46. I really like a lot of this, and I think that Nale being Odium's champion, and then pursuing a sort of crusade afterward independent of him would fit in well with some of the other stuff discussed in this thread. I personally think that Moash will fall into the background after Stormlight 5 (If he doesn't die) But I suppose he would make a very interesting main antagonist. I also think that Ba-Ado-Mishram will have a much larger impact on the next book, as well as Navani recently bonding to the Sibling. I don't know what to think about the possibility of Adolin being a worldhopper, but he just seems very different than the actual worldhoppers we know, so I would say it's unlikely. He is still part of the royalty in Alethkar, even if he declined becoming king, and I think that he wouldn't feel like he could just leave. Adolin also has some tension going on with Dalinar that needs to get resolved at some point. Attempts to revive Maya will also continue. This will likely work together with Shallan's goals and searching for Ba-Ado-Mishram, as well as getting vengeance on the Ghoshtbloods. As for a battle between Nale and Szeth, I think that it could totally happen much in the way you describe, but the fact is, Nale is literally a herald who has been fighting for thousands of years. He has way more experience than Szeth. We already saw in their previous confrontation that Nale is by far the superior to Szeth, so unless the fifth ideal give him a huge skill boost, I don't see a way for Szeth to win unless something else changes. (That is with assuming that Szeth does swear fifth ideal, and also doesn't just pop Nale into nothingness with Nightblood) I think that Odium's new plans, whatever they might be, will also be more important, with him trying to spread his influence throughout the Cosmere. Additionally, there are still some death rattles that need to be accounted for, along with some unmade that we know virtually nothing about. El will probably be a more important villain as well. Maybe he will direct Odium's plots on Roshar while he is occupied with the larger scale plans. Shallan has to clear out the rest of the details regarding her past and needs to deal with Radiant in some way. We still are definitely missing things that happened in her childhood. The Ghostblood's goals will likely become clearer as well. The honorblades will likely also play a more major role, as we know they were all in Shinovar at some point. With the expedition there and Ishar wielding the bondsmith honorblade, I think it is likely for the other ones to play a role as well. We don't know where some of the heralds are still, and I think it's likely that at least one or two more of them show up. I know that I missed some stuff, like what Kaladin is going to do, and what the impact of anti-stormlight and anti-voidlight will be, but those are my general thoughts, though I'm sure Brandon Sanderson will surprise us all.
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