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  1. Just some back of the envelope calculations based off of info from TSM and the Arcanum Unbound (roshar being ~0.7 of standard gravity), I've come up with the following rough values for Canticle. Note, the numbers for earth that I used to get this (assuming standard gravity is earth's) resulted in a calculated density for earth that was off by about a factor of 1.5, compared to what the internet says is the average density of the Earth, so consider these very back of the envelope, on the scale of less than an order of magnitude. Mass (kg) =~2.7x10^21 (4/10,0000 that of the earth) Density (kg/m^3) =~ 2x10^5 (~30x as dense as earth) Note, this is about 10x as dense as Tungsten or Gold. The density is within the range of densities of white dwarfs provided by wikipedia (10^4 to 10^7), but the smallest of those has 0.17 the mass of the sun, or 100,000,000 as massive as Canticle (and is much larger in size than 200 miles in diameter). Denser objects like Neutron Stars and stellar black holes are even heavier. A Black hole with Canticle's mass would have a Schwarzschild radius way smaller than the earth's (0.88 cm) so that's probably not what is going on either. Conclusion: Canticle is 10x as dense as pretty much anything we encounter on earth, but can't really be compared to any stellar objects because it has way too little mass. Footnote: mass was calculated using Newton's gravitational force equation assuming Canticle's force at the surface is ~0.7 that of earth's with a radius of 100 miles.
  2. I'm just going to point out that I think it's much more likely that Vivenna's blade was made by Yesteel Also, very interesting theory OP
  3. Didn't the sample chapters or a WoB imply that Nomad has visited more cosmere planets than Hoid by the time of The Sunlit Man? Edit: I couldn't remember it in my read of the book itself, but it's right there, Hoid says he blieves Nomad seen more of the cosmere than he has. When I first read that I took it to mean that during his nomadic run from the Night Brigade he had visited way more planets than Hoid, our prime planet hopper who had been doing it for millennia before he got started.
  4. I’ll point out that she pretty much flat out calls Hoid a god in her thoughts. This calls into question her ability to accurately call herself an atheist.
  5. Ground can be where you put it in an electrical system so basically, either magenta or cyan can be ground. In the context of the spirits given in my OP it would make more sense if the hion were a simple DC system, but in AC systems, they are usually generated and transmitted on power lines with 3 phases that can conceptually be considered the vertices of an equilateral triangle. From there they can be set up as "floating" with no defined ground (generally safer because if one is introduced, it just accepts it without really any ground fault current, and less chance of an injury) or grounded in any of a number of ways including a "y" ground you could consider the center of the previously mentioned triangle concept. If you look at power lines through your town, they are almost always in floating sets of 3 with another ground wire physically above, below, or adjacent to it. In the US, residential feeds off of these transmission lines are from a transformer between only 2 of the phases stepping the voltage down to 220VAC on the load side with a "center tap" defining the neutral as in the middle of that 220, with 110VAC from it to either of the other 2 lines. It's difficult to define that "center tap" neutral without a device like the transformer to get it from. In a DC system, and theoretically in the hion system, you could get it from the heating element described in the narrative by tapping from the center of it, however, any device you put across only one half of that center tap would throw off the balance some unless it were a trivial load compared to the heating element, or an equal load were also put across the other half. When considering/working with AC systems instead of DC systems, there are all kinds of weird ways it can be set up that are difficult to describe and even when worked with are usually reduced to working models that resemble Sanderson style magic systems (or perhaps you could turn that around since those are modeled after what-ifs deviating from real life physics).
  6. The arcanum (is that the term we are settling on for investiture rules/magic for a particular system?) for Komashi seems to follow a yin/yang Taoist style heuristic that makes me think Virtuosity's number may be two. However someone else quoted a WoB from last year that called attention to how the missing yellow in the standard pigment color pattern (Hion's Cyan and Magenta) may still have relevance, so maybe I'm off here.
  7. So I saw some discussion comparing the hion to the Ire's investiture conduit in Secret History or "essentially wires" which I think are missing some points about the hion and spirits that seemed obvious to me so I'm going to write about them. Here are a few relevant quotes, then some conclusions and theorizing. And from the final epilogue: From this, I conclude: When investiture on Komashi manifests on the physical realm and performs work (it's arcanum) it manifests as a dualist polarity, possibly inspired by Yin/Yang Taoism/Daoism (something I am largely ignorant about). Hion is a specific manifestation of this dualist nature that closely resembles positive and negative conductors of an electric power source. The investiture serves as a force much like voltage potential, pushing two opposite force carriers (i.e. positive and negative charge in electromagnetics) apart across the opposite colored hion lines and anyone can then perform work when the hion lines are connected to appropriate terminals on properly designed devices. As an electrical engineer, from there I want to start getting dirty with Maxwell's equations, determining if yes indeed there are no magnetic monopoles in this physics and all the other primary conclusions that come from them. I'm still drafting, but my AMA question about this book is:
  8. It hasn't really been revealed in canon much, but the coppermind collects everything we know, some of it not canonized since it's from dragonsteel prime and the liar of partinel https://coppermind.net/wiki/Fain
  9. huh? They've got 4 legs (2 are practically arms in the image) and a pair of wings, that's the 6 limbs of a fain creature. WoB: (full one from what I quoted partially in an earlier post)
  10. Actually, this may be an artifact of their being fain, which presumably are modeled after the "fae" which have similar lore about having to make trades. WoB:
  11. Yah, it’s worth asking in a Q&A if he had an in world justification for the coincidence
  12. Yah, the You Are Not So Smart podcast episode on Bayesian Logic made it easier for me to consider things like this in terms of degrees of certainty. I gave room for Brandon to surprise me, but when Huck was talking about Hoid's curse I was applying it to him too. The cognitive dissonance was in the stuff implying his family were all rats too. https://youarenotsosmart.com/2016/04/08/yanss-073-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-realizing-you-are-wrong-by-using-bayes-theorem-to-update-your-beliefs/
  13. So I think I suspected Huck was Charlie pretty early, but I can't be sure of that memory. I did however write a note in my e-reader for the following passage on page 75 Where I wrote "Huck is Charlie." It was easy enough that I'm pretty sure Brandon intended us to figure it out early, so I'm wondering what your experience was. Edit: I think there when Huck gave his "name" and seemed to stick around Tress early I was already suspicious, but this is where I pretty much flipped from suspicious to fairly certain.
  14. So u/Leather-Tutor4116 over on reddit commented that assuming the ghostbloods that helped sink the ships were skybreakers, it demonstrates that Radiants are already surgebinding outside Roshar. Later commenters pointed out the reasoning for thinking they are skybreakers is because they are preoccupied with the legality of sinking the ships, and because they "steelpush" which is probably just the gravitational surge.
  15. This occurred to me after I finished writing. Although I don’t consider it invalid, there is only one follower of Odium that this appears to have really happened to, whereas all the other “voidbringers” are quite passionate. We were told otherwise in text. The below quote is of the Stormfather from page 1138 of Oathbringer, and it pretty explicitly states that there is another, world shattering reveal yet to come. Edit, this is reinforced when Maya testified at Adolin’s trial on RoW
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