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I'm almost certain this idea has been done before, but I couldn't find anything posted here. Please note that this is a rough chart and not in any way definitive; it is a personal interpretation of how I think Shard Combination would work. All shards within a white box are a combo I see as being plausible. All Shards within a black box are double combos: doesn't count Grey boxes indicate Shards that would have extreme difficulty mixing. Pink boxes indicate Shard combos we know are canon. Green boxes indicate Shard combos that are possibly canon or could become canon. Blue boxes are not real Shards. They are my guess as to the sixteenth Shard and its respective combinations. I am aware that there may be inconsistencies with my logic. This is highly opinionated. However, I thought it would be beneficial to share it. If you have any questions, ask! If you have corrections, also ask! I am here to serve.

Ah, that’s where you’re wrong. They were using the almighty Tinmind. Pain is, at least for Mistborn purposes, a sense!

I wrote this for my writing class. I think I was going to call it Ether, but I don't really remember, it's been a couple weeks. But anyways...

They are pretty decentralized, basically only connecting through Kelsier, but he is rather hands-off (if Roshar is evidence of anything). And regarding communication, they uses Seon boxes (Roshar), possibly Tamu Keks (were considered by Brandon as the means of communication) and some trusted couriers would be also an option.

Guys guy please- Please help- Someone stop letting me write at night- Especially creepy stuff- I'm giving myself nightmares and I can't sleep- How do you turn off your imagination??? Red:

I think what Wayne does is something any bendalloy misting could do with practice, the whole deal in Lost Metal is that he's so filthy rich he can afford to have tons of metal to mess around with which is not a luxury anyone else has. Marasi mentions at the start of the book that Wayne had been using his bendalloy to play pranks all the time before she caught him which probably gave him a lot of practice on shaping speed bubbles. Most people aren't going to spend a fortune on getting enough bendalloy to develop their skills, they'll just buy small amounts and use it only when they need it. By the time we get to Era 3 we might see more people able to do speed bubble tricks like Wayne if they've found ways to reduce the cost of the metal with new technology.

On Brandon Sanderson's last livestream for the end of the WoR Leatherbound Backerkit he dressed in a glittery blazer and a bunch of bling and said he was the artist B-Swift. And then Emily Sanderson came on wearing a Chief's jersey calling herself E-Swift. It was a joke, because Brandon has a wonderful sense of humor, and because more fuel needed to be added to the fire that is the theory that Brandon Sanderson and Taylor Swift are the same person. (He did a similar thing at the end of the Secret Project kickstarter where he dressed up in bling and called himself B-Money, so it's a continuation of that joke.)

Hi everyone! I’m new to Brandon Sanderson I just started reading his stuff this year but I did read the cytoverse series a few years ago before I even knew that he was a really famous author! I love reading anything and that’s what I do with all my free time. I also love listening to music when I read and matching songs with the characters, especially Taylor Swift songs!

relish in fry sauce?!

Yeeeeeeessss I like it.

Alternately: @Anguished_One - Bringer of joy.

It's a mental game- you think about it, you lose. you gotta declare some way that you lost. There is a cooldown too so you don't become too annoying- like- 5-30 mins

I don't see how this prevents them from trying it. Their goal from Autonomy was to demonstrate their power in such a way to convince her that Scadrians can take care of themselves. If that is the goal, why wouldn't they try everything? Most of my issue is on the Brandon side of things. I think the story works and I like the story, I don't think its current state needed someone burning Trellium to be a good story or anything like that. But Im just confused / slightly frustrated that Brandon made that retcon for Atium specifically because he wanted god metals to be burnable by anyone, includes another god metal in the burning metals books, and doesnt even mention someone trying to burn it. I would be totally ok with a single line from a Set scientist 'We tried burning it and it did nothing' (that they can tell) or 'We tried burning it and the guy exploded' but we dont get any mention of even people being interested in exploring the other metallic art implementations of Trellium. Even if they don't know about Lerasium and Atium, this is the burning metals planet. Even unaware Scadrians will know that a metal like steel has (at least) three magical uses. Why, when given a metal they KNOW is from a shard, would they only experiment with Hemalurgy? The Words of Founding go into a lot of depth with Feruchemy, and the only written 'instructions' for Hemalurgy are from Spook, which the Set did not have. It seems like a plot hole to me that they would exclusively try experiments with the least known of the metallic arts when given a new metal. Why make all the god metals burnable if the series that could have used it / mentioned it, doesnt bring it up at all? Why is this a mechanic at all? Does Brandon have one specific scene in mind that he wants to write that involves burning a not Pres/Ruin god metal so hes made this mechanic? It just doesnt make sense to me that he would do the retcon AND make trellium an integral part of the story and not mention 2/3 metallic arts.

Or a Coppermind to store memories of that pain.

@SmilingPanda19 can give you more details if you need

Actually, that does make sense. Yeah I'm pretty dang sure I don't have that. I will say, this weird thing happens what I listen to music. When I'm listening to pretty much anything, I get this like... physical sensation. I'm not sure how to explain it, um... Imagine, like... uhhhhhhh. Struggle. Oh! Imagine that when you're listening to music, there's, like, one of those rubber ball massage things being rolled over your skin (idk how else to describe it). Kinda weird, but I literally don't know how to describe this at all. Like when the music gets higher I'll feel it a lot in my head, but when it gets lower I'll feel it in my shoulders and arms. If the song has a beat at all I feel that in my chest, and I can actually feel the lyrics in my head; it's strange. I only listen to music with headphones, so I'm not actually feeling heavy vibrations, my brain is just wigging out I guess. It's weird. I kind of like it though. It's useful for picking apart songs because I can literally feel it lol.

Basically all the letters and numbers and sounds and basically all the senses have colors associated with different things, so if I see the letter E for example, it's green. It's hard to explain, cuz I still see it as black on the screen, but it just turns green in my head. Full words usually have a main color, usually the same as the first letter, but the main color kind of overshadows the rest of the colors. Same for numbers. It also happens with sounds and music. Music's especially cool because it's like a bunch of colors just swirling around, usually based on one color that the overall song sounds like. And it's all like, just naturally built in, all the things are just naturally whatever color they are. As a kid I would get confused in alphabet books or whatever when the letters didn't have the right colors. Idk if that made any sense, cuz it's really hard to accurately describe thoughts, but yeah.

Holds aluminum shield win

Sure! I'll message a copy to you directly!

Think he was described as short with black hair. Sazed described his corpse in the pre-chapter bits in Hero of Ages, and pretty sure Kell describes him in Secret History at least once.

Agreed. That's what got me watching him in the first place!

I love Daniel Thrasher he's so funny

Oh, storms. No! White Sands wasn't bad, but we don't need this many editions! Arcanum leatherbound! Nalthis Essay!

Shardcast is still waiting for the Ultra Legendary Leatherbound Dragonsteel Exclusive Secret Version Anniversary Edition with Metal Cover Inlay and Original Illustrations to come out.

*eats ALL the chocolate* I love y’all- so much-

Welcome! If you could bring any two Brandon Sanderson characters back to life in a room for an hour, who would you being back and why? (Open the spoiler box before replying Would you like another cookie?

Greetings, with Mistborn, did you also go into the Wax and Wayne portion of the series, or just the original trilogy?

I cannot tell if this is an attempt at stealth sarcasm or not, so I will reply as if the comment were genuine. Please use the search feature as your first option. Advanced search on this site is actually rather robust and spending a bit of time early to get used to how it works will save you hours of time in the future. Summary: Hope that helps

Welcome to the shard! Whats your favorite character?

My favorite natural phenomenon is a sunrise! What is the most impactful song you’ve heard?

That's pretty specific, and now I need to know why. Not the question but I do have synesthesia (Congrats on 3/4 of a year together with your gf!) Have not seen Dune 2 YET, but I promise I will as soon as I have time. How many colors are in your signature?

<333 Just trying to add a little hope wherever I can. Love you, dear Sticky

No, as far as I can recall Shardblades have varying weight, they are just often considered lighter than people expect for their typical size (ie lighter than an equivalent steel blade). The max size for a Shardblade, or at least for Syl, is roughly the size of a grown human, but she certainly doesnt weight that much when in knife or even spear form. Also, from a pure combat effectiveness standpoint bigger doesnt always equal better. Ad fwiw, n the real world the design that won out over extra big and/or long Swords were Spears, as generally the most efficient form for reach blades.

Middle earth. By far. Would you rather have no arms or no legs?

Correct reasoning!! I was born in the state of California, but my parents and grandparents wanted me to be a Texas kid. So my grandmother came from out of state with a sealed test tube of Texas soil, and got permission to place it underneath the operating table. Hence the phrasing.

Congradulations! You are now a holy man of Shinovar. Watch your step! It's not only your disciples who are forbidden from stepping on stone, is it now?

Mistborn:

They're ADORABLE, I love them. YKYASW you have spent hundreds of dollars on your Sanderson collection and it's theoretically worth thousands?? (Book collecting is wild, man.) When there has been a magnet of Shallan saying "I am plotting tax evasion" on your whiteboard for like a year. When you met some of the people most dear to you in the world on this website.

*Sips coke* "This is Chaos" "Wait- HAHA- I accidentally made a joke!"

The idea of someone not liking it is inconceivable! TPBM likes to watch soccer.

SOHCAHTOA, SOHCAHTOA, SOH-CAH-TO-A… TPBM now has that stuck in their head.

How I feel coming back to the shard after a year and a half How I feel seeing all of my friends who I only knew via forums again I love you all

Does making it capslock count? TPBM has convinced their autocorrect that none sense words exist.

I'm glad you acknowledge the message on the back of book one. In my opinion, the two most important lines are the last two One of them may redeem us Out of the four, the only two I see with this potential are Dalinar and Kaladin. Shallan is... Different and I agree with you that She'll go on to be part of the bigger Cosmere and be involved with the ghostbloods. Szeth's struggles are internal and he has yet to do much redeeming. At the end of the day, he is the Assassin, not the hero. but this is his book, so things can change. Dalinar has the most obvious means of saving Roshar; if he wins the contest (an apparently unpopular opinion) Odium gets sealed away and they live happily ever after (as much as it's possible for a cosmere book to be happy). You could argue that he's already saved Roshar by reorganizing the Knights radiant and binding Odium to braize for another thousand years. He very much fits the "may" part due to how close he came to falling in Oathbringer. Kaladin is the main character of the series. He's the only one to have a perspective in every part and has the highest word count by far. I don't think he's going to become Honor; it would be too similar to mistborn, but I think that he could replace Jezrien (the Windrunner herald) and reforge the oathpact but maybe in a better that makes it more secure. He's been through enough that I think would survive the torture. Reforging the oathpact regardless of Dalinar's success would save Roshar to some degree. Or it could be that none of them succeed and Roshar is doomed (until the sequels...) 2. One of them will destroy us. In my opinion, this would be Szeth or Dalinar As stated above, Shallan is going to be important later in the cosmere, and also, she realistically isn't capable of destroying Roshar. She isn't great at fighting and has cut her ties to the ghostbloods. Kaladin is a good person. As Moash puts it in RoW, Kaladin isn't going to join Odium. the worst thing he would do would be to kill himself, but that was dealt with in RoW. The only scenario I can see where Kaladin dooms Roshar is if he ends up as champion and Odium puts an innocent. As theorized elsewhere, Kaladin would struggle between doing what is nessecary and what is morally right. Szeth, on the other hand, is an extremely cabable, mentally unstable assassin who wound up with the most deadly weapon in the Cosmere. Nightblood is capable of killing pretty much anything. I don't have a specific idea for why Szeth would end the world, but he certainly has the capacity to. Finally, we have Dalinar, who already has the weight of the world on his shoulders with the Contest between him and Odium. if he fails, I still think Roshar would survive, but it would definitively be bad.

In Stormlight 6 it will be revealed that this is just Hoid in drag disguised as a horse.

bridge four sacrifices themselves for Kaladin in Stormlight five, except for a few

Adonalsium is the God Beyond. When he died he passed to the Beyond, but somehow he is influencing the Cosmere from there. Not much crazy, I know, but still interesting.

Furthering this, because Scadrial has french influence, you can spot a Scardrain worldhopper because they all have french accents.

Kaladin will get a ryshadium with wings in Stormlight five and name it Rainbowdash.

I'm incapable of reading that section without tearing up a little.