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StormyAngel

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  1. It's pretty funny that the title everyone gets for one post is Spren. I couldn't help but think, "Hey! Look at all the Sanderspren!" Sanderspren: Noun. A type of spren that congregates about the words and presence of Brandon Sanderson.
  2. That sound's reasonably plausible. I can see you're pulling from the listener stanza in WOR that refers to Humans being like meat to the Spren, whereas the listeners are some kind of lesser nourishment (sorry, I don't remember the exact wording). Given that the spren bonded with the Radiants are distinct individuals (speaking and thinking separately), whereas the spren bonded with Listeners/Parshendi are not, there must be a reason for that. I particularly like the way this makes the Nahel bond about the spren. For some reason i always focused on the other side of the bond, wondering what it was about them that made this a "nahel" bond. Come to think of it, what are listener's bonds with spren called? Are those also Nahel bonds? A note though, we have yet to actually see a voidspren forcibly bond with anyone. While it is made clear that Eshonai is not in control of herself after bonding with a voidspren, the actual bonding was something she chose to do, at least at first. The Stormfather does seem to indicate that the new storm will change all parshmen regardless, although I have to wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that they are all mindless drones. Theoretically, an intelligent listener (read: parshendi group that escaped eshonai's stormform group) should be able to find shelter during the storm and avoid the transformation. Or if physical shelter doesn't cut it, then they can maybe refuse the bonding initially, as opposed to initiating it and then frantically trying to change their minds like eshonai did.
  3. I don't know about you but when I was reading Words of Radiance for the first time, I was delighted with Adolin and Shallan's developing relationship. While I also found Shallan's interactions with Kaladin humorous/enjoyable, I felt a growing fear that Sanderson was developing a love triangle. I hate love triangles. Funnily enough, I remember reading a post somewhere where Brandon mentioned that his Beta-readers kept begging him that whatever else he did, not to make a love triangle. At the time I foolishly took that statement at face-value. It felt like he was reassuring us, no he wasn't going to go there. But I've looked a little more closely at the situation and I realized that this simply isn't true. Sanderson has already made the love triangle. A love triangle exists simply by being possible and generally acknowledged. The characters don't have to be discussing it in a book to make it real. Do you think we wouldn't be having so much angst over this if Sanderson didn't intend for us to get the feeling that there is one? What he has so cleverly done is refrain from making it obtrusive, but it's still there. The worst part is that Sanderson has done love triangles before, in the original Mistborn trilogy for example. I just didn't care about that one because I didn't like one of the characters. Unfortunately, I like ALL of the characters in the stormlight triangle he has constructed. I've actually come to a neutral place at this point. I could be happy with the triangle going either way, because I'm sure that Sanderson will do it right. That still doesn't keep it from frustrating me though. So what was the point of all this? I'm not trying to touch off any shipping wars or anything, I just hope that people will realize that the love triangle does exist, in that Sanderson has laid the foundations for further drama between Adolin, Kaladin, and Shallan. He could take this either direction, and definitely has one in mind already I'm sure, but no matter what he does it's going to be a bumpy ride.
  4. I don't think Sazed meant it to justify his not interfering on a more daily level. He wasn't claiming to be too busy, instead he was just making a point about Wax's next argument that God could find the line not to cross. "here it is" he basically said. Also @Argent, I think that Sazed's two Shards allow him to pretty much hold off the enemy without any significant strain. Since he holds the upper hand, so to speak, he's just playing defensively. That's actually the smart way to do it, since he doesn't know enough about the enemy to avoid getting drawn into a trap.
  5. Keep in mind that Prof probably would be focused on keeping his own secret (that he's an epic), and so wouldn't even be thinking in that direction when the "technology" didn't work for Megan. Maybe later when Conflux brought it up he should of thought of it, but they had a lot going on right then. Come to think of it, wasn't Megan "dead" at that point anyway?
  6. Also, Kelsier is all about surviving, and killing off every person on the planet (like the red-eyes said was the goal at the end) is too contradictory to that. It would fly in the face of everything he's done before, and for pretty much no reason
  7. If you think of all 3 realms as parallel planes, then a perpendicularity would be the point where all three are connected by the Shardic influence. Given that Hoid seems to travel through them, that makes a lot of sense.
  8. Even better, the plans were intentionally designed to work better if they died.
  9. This probably isn't at all right, but I always just assumed that because everyone views the ocean as one large singular thing it was more solid. Admittedly that worked better in Roshar where even things like a ship were represented by a single sphere.
  10. This is why I think Sanderson had him keep saying, "It was a really brilliant plan...now if only i could remember it." He set all of those dominoes up, waaaaayyy back at the beginning.
  11. I thought the Cognitive realm was expressly shaped by thoughts and the cognitive functions of sentient beings. That's why the geography is so similar for one thing. For another, there's nothing happening (no one sentient) in empty space, which is why in the cognitive realm you can just walk from one world to another. If that is the case, then the cognitive realm could absolutely be altered by the way people value things, aka their monetary system. Money is an essential part of strong economies, and therefore part of our daily lives. People have to think about it a lot. That being said, I get the feeling that this case on Roshar is more of a correlation than causation thing. Something about symmetry and holiness and the way Rosharan's view things, and thus the way those things show up in the cognitive realm. Edit: I think I misread your post at first. I partially agree, the shape of the money itself shouldn't matter unless it is tied into some deep cognitive aspect of the Rosharan worldview.
  12. So having finished Secret History I have to say: Preservation/Leras really rocks the Cosmere. Reading the original trilogy it's always impressive how his plan works out to essentially neutralize Ruin forever. What the Secret History shows is that he managed to pull off this plan (with some help admittedly) right under the Cosmere's noses. It's like he managed to not only preserve his shard and capture another, but also to do so while fooling everyone else into thinking it was hopeless and that they should stay away. Preservation singlehandedly changes the balance of the cosmere, literally preserving his planet and others by preventing Ruin from running about like Odium. Basically, I think it could be argued that Preservation managed to fulfill his intent better than any other shard we've seen so far. Of course, it's also nice to see how Kelsier continues to break all the rules.
  13. Actually there is a mention of Ruin in Scadrial's Cognitive Realm. He's the writhing darkness hanging overhead and blocking the sun. I think Kelsier mentions it a couple of times. As for Sel, WOB is that traveling there is extremely difficult/dangerous. I follow the theory that this is because Dominion and Devotion's investiture has flooded the Cognitive Realm there rather than staying put in the Spiritual Realm like it is supposed to. I like the theory because this explains why images of geography in the physical realm (which happen to be exact matches for the Cognitive Realm) can summon power. Draw a map of water (form something in your cognitive mind) and thus summon through some of that spiritual aspect. hence why the aon for water has the big lake in it, and the aon for wood has the forests in it, etc. etc. I don't track ongoing discussions too often though, so some of this may be out of date or already proven wrong.
  14. Don't we use lithium in batteries? So if you're theory about lithium is correct then these airships are battery powered! (/allomantically...)
  15. I may not have been reading closely enough, but I don't think is a sure thing. While they did find the body intact, I don't recall any certainty as to time of death, and Idashwy had been missing for a week minimum. Plus when we have the viewpoint at the actual party, the servant seems definitely like a guy to me. So she may have been the killer, but it doesn't have to have been her. I'm personally finding that unlikely.
  16. Ah, so they are still there. I was afraid of that. I wasn't sure where to find them since I haven't looked for them in a while, although I do use the website frequently. I tried using an old link in the blog, and it's the link that was broken. (http://brandonsanderson.com/alcatraz-annotations-updates/). Not surprising since it's so old. Guess it was all me. Thanks for the help!
  17. I'm not sure whose attention to bring this to, but it seems like all of the annotations in Brandon's newly refurbished website have completely vanished! I'm hoping this is only temporary. Or maybe I'm just Stoopid and i can't find them. Can anyone else? Please let me know if you do.
  18. Except, he has demonstrated a willingness to execute people who he had personal problems with based on their own infractions of the law. Maybe Nale had something on Gavilar that justified his death in his own eyes.
  19. The lightweaver scientists will design it of course. The windrunners man it, and the bondsmiths make everyone work together during the construction. The truthwatchers plan the course and time of the launch. Then the other orders of the knights radiant all sit on their hands because I don't know enough about them yet to include them on this whimsical course. Oh and @kaellok. I can see where you're coming from, and I think the odds are probably in your favor on this one. My speculations are just the thing I find most likely. We'll have to wait and see for more information.
  20. I'm woefully ignorant of may of the WoB's out there, so I thank you for bringing this forward. However, I avoided calling that deal I described the Oathpact specifically because I believe that Honor must have made some kind of deal with Odium to get him to play along. It was either in conjunction with the Oathpact, or entirely independent of it. My suspicion is that when the heralds broke the Oathpact, Honor could no longer meet his end of the deal, and had to allow Odium to kill him. This is all pure speculation on my part though though, since as you say there is no mention of any such deal. The one thing that hints at it (to me) is in the letter in Book 2 that talks about how Odium is restricted to the system "whether it was Tanavast's design or not".
  21. I think Odium must be much more of a planner than Ruin. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's one of those shards who can see the future pretty well, although i think Cultivation would have him beat. Truth be told, to be smart enough to splinter two shards on their homeground (Dominion and Devotion) without any significant loss to his own power is pretty telling. As for why he fell for the desolations thing, I assume you mean whatever deal it is he made with Honor that bound him to the Rosharan system? I think that was a case of Honor making him an offer that was too good to refuse. The deal was loaded in his favor, what with it being based on a bunch of volunteers that he got to torture until they broke, then follow them back to invade and destroy lots of stuff. Odium probably figured it would all fall apart in his favor at some point, which is why he accepted. All he had to do is sit back and wait and destroy. The "champion" concept will probably work the same way. They're going to have to offer him a ridiculously good deal (hey odium, if you win we'll all just lay down and die right now), and he'll undoubtedly feel pretty confident about however it's set up. They'll have to stack the deck against themselves. On top of that, Honor mentions that before he would even consider it they would have to convince Odium that he might lose. They'll have to make that possibility convincing enough. It can't be a "wait, before you destroy us...one on one duel?" It has to be a "We're going to beat you. 75% odds in our favor. Hows about we make a deal". In the end, I honestly think the fact that Honor and Cultivation ended up on the planet facing Odium is no coincidence. Powerful intents for difficult times. Cultivation's continuing influence makes me think she's at the very least outwitted Odium to some degree, either by hiding or by convincing him that she's harmless.
  22. Come on...we all know where Shinovar really came from. It was born out of Brandon's awesome and fun desire to point out that earthlike plant life is weird to Rosharans. Now he just has to come up with an in-universe reason. I'm pretty sure 50% of all content in books starts this way though, so it's not like I mind at all. Little things like this make me smile. Especially when Brandon does it. He's the master of fresh perspectives on the utterly mundane.
  23. This is completely off topic here now, but I personally feel the cosmere has to eventually take all of the shardworlds into the space age. If the story extends so far that Scadrial's done it, then the rest of the worlds should at least be somewhat developed by then. And Scadrial's totally going to run into them too. Like, "Whoa! There's people here already! Well let's go find some other perfectly habitable planet to colonize...". Since that's pretty much how it went down for the Listeners... Edit: Typos...
  24. Ah, that would make sense. Although the large gap in paragraph numbers makes me wary. Taravangian strikes me as exactly the kind of old guy to get off topic often.
  25. Does anyone know how spren interact with shardblade's definitively? Does this mean a robot would or wouldn't be cut by a shardblade? Because if it's the latter...that could have some pretty big implications for future Roshar. I'm picturing a robot army takeover by the Scadriali Imperial Galactic Empire. Take that Knights Radiant. Edit: Oh hey there Oudeis! Fancy seeing you here...
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