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  1. People keep pointing to Dalinar's reference to the God Beyond as evidence that he's becoming more cosmere aware, but I really don't think that's it. Wayne refers to the God Beyond and I don't think he's been talking to the Heralds. Same goes for the character who mentions it in Shadows for Silence (I can't remember who it was but I remember it happened). It's also worth noting that any extra connection to the Spiritual Realm would give no extra information about the God Beyond, as the "beyond" part means beyond the three realms, to the place where the dead go, where not even Shards can see. The God Beyond seems to be something that people on many different shardworlds developed independently, probably for the exact same reasons as Dalinar. Dalinar came to believe that Honor wasn't god because he was mortal and fallible, but that a god did exist beyond Honor.
  2. There it is, I figured there'd be something I missed somewhere. It's been a while since I've read Oathbringer and I also read it really quickly, so I've forgotten a lot of details. Good catch! There does seem to be something weird with Felt tho.
  3. I was reading through WoBs and this one stood out to me: Generally, our biggest clue for spotting worldhoppers on Roshar is when characters have trouble identifying their ethnicity. It's notable that this never happened with Felt. Scadrians would likely look Shin to Alethi, but it's never brought up that Felt is a foreigner in an Alethi army. Like Brandon said, he should stand out more. If Felt is a Kandra, it wouldn't be hard to change their body to look more Alethi. Why not pick a more Vorin name? I'm not sure, maybe that was Brandon just making sure we'd notice him. If Felt was just a normal person it'd be in his interest to pick a Vorin sounding name anyway. Similarly, there's this interesting WoB: This seems to imply that we'd have above average difficulty spotting Felt. This would make sense if he was a Kandra, since he could look entirely different from appearance to appearance. Regardless, there is definitely something going on with Felt that Brandon hasn't disclosed yet. The bit about Felt's dialogue is interesting, I just reread Mistborn 1 and 2 and don't remember anything weird there, but I also wasn't looking for it. I wish I had a digital copy so finding that stuff was easier. I suspect there might be a clue implying that Felt had been replaced. Since Brandon has explicitly said that the Felt we see in Stormlight Archive is the same Felt as in Mistborn, meaning that a Kandra took his place some time during the events of the original trilogy. I'm also half convinced that Felt is that pesky Kandra worldhopper that we haven't been able to pin down. Consider this WoB: So we've seen the Kandra worldhopper, well, we've seen Felt. He also didn't reveal the planet, which is interesting. There's also: It doesn't sound like much, but it basically confirms that the Kandra worldhopper has at least taken the form of a male. Whether she has appeared on screen in that form is another matter, but it hasn't been strictly disproved. Note that the above quote comes from 2014, so this was before Felt got a bunch of lines in the Dalinar flashbacks in OB. Honestly even I can't remember if Felt said anything in Words of Radiance. As a final tidbit there's also this WoB: This response would make sense considering Felt doesn't really show up in Way of Kings but is presumably still kicking around in Dalinar's army.
  4. I feel like it's worth pointing out that Preservation and Ruin being so diametrically opposed is something fairly unique in the Cosmere. I'm sure their nature as opposites had an effect on how Alomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalugy came about. Honor, Cultivation, and Odium are not nearly so neat in their interaction. There's no reason to think that there should necessarily be one magic system for each shard plus one for the blend (as we see on Scadrial). One blended system (surgebinding), plus one shard specific system(voidbinding), seems to be the case on Roshar. That said, I think your parallel still holds. The basic effects of most magic systems are similar, but vary slightly in application and method of access (the actual system, as you very accurately put it, I think). You can actually do a lot of the same stuff with Allomancy that you can with Feruchemy. And what do you know, that's a shard specific system achieving similar effects as a blended system, the very same situation we seem to be seeing on Roshar. Also, Listener forms already seem to be a kind of fusing of spren and listener, as opposed to a bond as we've seen before. It doesn't look like the spren actually sticks around after the transformation nahel bond style. I assume that's what is happening here, just to voidspren with minds instead of the mindless spren that Listeners normally bond to. The listener fuses to the voidspren and they become a kind of composite entity and grants them access to the surges.
  5. Right, I remember what I was thinking of now, in WoR Nale says: Which, yeah, doesn't explicitly mention drinking, but it definitely seems to disqualify him from being Tukar's God Priest
  6. In regards to the theory that Tezim is Jezrien, haven't we heard that Jezrien is basically just a gibbering drunk nowadays? And we know Ishar is effectively leading the other Heralds right now. Ishar was the one who told Nale to start hunting radiants, and this Tezim guy really doesn't seem to want new radiants around either. This plus Mraize saying that Tezim might not be human at all, along with the hints that the heralds aren't really human either, seals the deal for me.
  7. Except not really. A shardblade will cut like a shardblade with or without stormight or a gemstone. The fact that the gemstones were added later does kinda punch a hole in the fabrial theory though. Still, they don't seem like the same thing as shardblades to me. I don't think they're entirely made up of spren or investiture either. I feel like an Honorblade would be closer to that, and shardplate is too different.
  8. Well the surge of transportation is a thing. Currently we know less about plate then we do blades, I'm sure there's a reason ancient plate behaves differently that we're going to learn soon. The thing is, if plate wasn't a fabrial, why does it behave so similarly to one? If it was a bunch of spren in solid form why does it need gems and stormlight to work? You end up with questions either way, but with what we have I think the fabrial angle is more likely partly due to occams razor.
  9. Technically that might be the case. We really don't know enough about that time period to say. Brandon even called attention to that when Dalinar uses his to build a latrine, so finding out that builders and other non radiants made use of plate too would be a nice call back. Also, presumably shardplate was created around the same time as Uruthiru and the Oathgates (since they seem to be a comparable level of advanced and are also closely associated with the KR). There does seem to be some difference between modern plate and ancient plate. The plate worn by the KR in the past didn't interfere with surgebinding, and could be dispelled almost like a shardblade. So back then it was probably seen as something only the KR could make proper use of, or maybe the KR were literally the only people who could use it at that time (like there was some other bond like the Nahel bond that enabled this). There's definitely something more involved. Maybe the gemstones that power it have the "children" of the Nahel bonded spren inside, providing the resonance required to surgebind while wearing it. I have a gut feeling we'll probably have a better idea once Oathbringer is out.
  10. I know this theory isn't very popular, but I'm still pretty much certain that shardplate isn't anything more than a very advanced fabrial. This doesn't mean that there aren't spren involved (we know that there are spren inside fabrials), and these spren could form half of the "lesser bond" between the armor and its bearer. So that would mean that shardplate is made out of some kind of mundane metal (i.e., not solid investiture like atium), but augmented by the affects of various surges. If you think about it, everything shardplate does can be attributed to a surge, and in stark contrast to shardblades, they require gemstones with a supply of stormlight in order to work. I don't know about you guys but that sounds like a fabrial to me. We've even seen contemporary fabrials that behave similarly to plate in the form of the Veden half-shard shields (metal augmented by a surge that can block a shardblade but shatters after too much stress is put on it).
  11. I'm almost certain at this point that the author is Dalinar. The plot thread with the ardent is setting up a conflict between Dalinar and the Vorin Church. Dalinar is still firmly Vorin, but the church is going to brand him as a heretic in an attempt to undermine him. Hence why the author talks about people claiming he's a heretic. Like others have mentioned, Jasnah is a well known and self professed atheist, this would not be something that would bother her. As for the "I know that many women who read this" part, I think this is just a Vorin thing, as men can't read. Even if they're reading it to a man, it's still the woman reading it. I do acknowledge the fact that it really sounds like Jasnah. The parts about seeing Shadesmar, and the bit about appearing to die and having some who saw farther ahead thinking they did (Taravangian and the Diagram), all sound like Jasnah. I think this a red herring though, something to mislead us. I think it's describing things that have yet to happen. Which means at some point Dalinar is going to see Shadesmar and appear to die.
  12. So I've been reading everyone's replies and all the feedback has been really appreciated, I'm gonna keep adding images to the main post as I work so stay tuned! I see there's been a lot of talk about spike counts. I think I'm going to go with a balance between canon and aesthetically pleasing. The default ten spikes seem a bit low for me so I'll probably add some. I will at least add one through the heart, and maybe more in the back even though none are mentioned (it looks more like a spine that way). I'm hesitant to add too many to the rib cage for fear of things getting crowded, but I'll withhold judgement until I test that. Thanks again everybody!
  13. I completely forgot about that cover, and the text does refer to them wearing dark robes. However I think I'm going to forego traditional robes for two reasons: 1. It's a little boring as a design not bad necessarily but I've seen a lot more imaginative stuff in fan art, and 2. If I do end up animating this for a game engine I want to cut down on cloth simulation. Yeah... I forgot to bring up the tattoos. Even though I had definitely been thinking about how to do them. One thing in particular is the red streak that marks obligators who are members of the canton of inquisition. I've seen that depicted as going down across the eyeball, or running down the center of the forehead. Personally I like the latter more, but I don't know if there's evidence that confirms it one way or another. I also know (from the wiki I think) that the type of allomancer the inquisitor was before is indicated by the tattoos. How isn't mentioned but the most straight forward way would probably be the allomantic symbol somewhere. If they were a mistborn that might get crowded but eh, it's doable.
  14. http://imgur.com/lII3YDt this was what I was going off of for spike placement. It would make sense not to have any in the arms or legs though, especially in this illustration it looks impractical. You're right. On page forty five it goes through every spike. The inquisitor they fight has ten. "Two through the eyes and one through the shoulders: all steel. Six through the ribs: two steel, four bronze" plus an apparently non standard pewter spike through the heart. From the coppermind wiki that last one steals feruchemical physical powers, which makes sense since he was using feruchemical steel. I will be sure to adjust that accordingly.
  15. So I accidentally put this up without finishing the post, I'm just gonna keep adding to it until it's actually done, sorry about that!
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