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I mean, FTL isn't the same as worldhopping, but it can be a natural consequence of it, depending on the method you use to worldhop. If you're going between planets in the CR, where there is empty space and no cognition at all, it'll be super compressed. Per this wob: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/87/#e5671 (it's long, so I won't paste it) you can literally "pass lightyears in steps" once you get far away from centers of perception and thought. Of course, using ships will be significantly faster than walking, and more effective in other ways. That's probably the direction things are going to move for most peoples in the cosmere. But it's certainly not the only way it can happen.

In the acknowledgements, I believe "subject exports" is written instead of "experts", and "or" when I think he meant "on time". In the interlude between parts 2 and 3

Drawing and visual arts are not strictly one-to-one. You can draw scientific/mathematical diagrams or graphs without it being art. Art is typically something that is inherently emotional, based on feelings rather than science or fact or logic. Of course there can be some overlaps in the two fields; for example, artists may apply mathematical concepts to make their art more realistic or aesthetically appealing. But at its core, art is more about emotions than logic, and Jasnah obviously cares about logic much more.

Sorry for the sort-of necro. Rather than using progression to age someone, could you make someone's cells grow rapidly out of control, essentially give them cancer or something?

What a great prologue! Pretty sure that's actually fairly accurate too. Nice!

At Planet Comicon, Brandon read a snippet from SA4. It's from Lirin's perspective in Hearthstone, so we get a bit of an insight into the happenings around that area. Transcribed here for your reading pleasure Not sure on all the name spellings or the paragraph breaks but I tried, lol. Enjoy!

We have wob to the contrary. Of course, someone else could've "brought" both Vasher and Nightblood to Roshar at the same time, and that wouldn't necessarily contradict anything. But that seems wrong to me. Vasher has lived for hundreds of years. He knows how to worldhop and wouldn't really need help. He probably wouldn't let Nightblood tag along if he weren't actually bringing him himself.

But Surgebinding still existed too... In fact, those who who had sprenblades were all Surgebinders. The blurb probably means that they will become more commonplace rather than hidden, which doesn't exclude sprenblades. I like the Dawnshard idea, but we know too little to say for sure.

A post or two... thousand

You never describe where. On land? Water creature runs out of breath, dies. In water? Land creature runs out of breath, dies.

Objects are either in or out. They don't split.

I'm thinking about going to the Naperville signing. Wondering how many books I should bring? I know he says he'll sign as many as you want, but I don't want to go overboard, lol. I was hoping to get at least 4-5 of mine signed, plus Skyward. I might bring a few of my cousin's as well, that would make 7-8. Think that's reasonable, or too much? Also, what's the most amount of books one person/party has brought to a signing at once? Just curious

It may just be an in-world analog to our golden ratio or Fibonacci sequence. R and P created Scadrial themselves, so they likely had some more influence over fun stuff like that

I'm not sure what you're trying to say by this post. Did you assume Cultivation was working against Honor or something?

Well, we've seen that they totally have boomboxes in white sand

Yes, it was made clear in the books he had multiple spheres. He gave one to Eshonai, then one to Szeth. There's also a WoB on this.

Just wanna put this here. If a platypus could store his special senses in a tinmind (given that it somehow got Feruchemy) then I think that it would be possible to steal animal attributes with Hemalurgy without having to involve other godmetals and hacks and stuff.

It's not impossible that Nightblood inspired the idea, but I doubt his killing actually "taught" Odium's forces how to do it. Some pretty wacky stuff happened at Nightblood's creation, so I don't know that simply seeing it in battle would teach Odium how to create something like it. Also, imo, there wasn't enough time between Thaylen and Jezrien for Odium to create a weapon like that, and have it work exactly as intended, simply by trying to imitate another shard's weapon. If it was brand new, something could easily have gone wrong. It felt like Odium had had his blade in store for quite some time already.

I'd never thought about this before, but I looked through a few wobs. It looks like you're not wrong, but not quite right. Apparently it's kinda being stretched across all three realms, not just in the spiritual. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/332-jordancon-2018/#e9562 Also, the spiritual realm is not the beyond. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/31-arcanum-unbounded-release-party/#e1729

His metal is Adonalsiumium (Like Odiumium)

Given that Brandon specifically differentiated between 5 years and 5 1/2 years, I think it's safe to say that Dalinar went before Taravingian. Though I do get that the characters aren't always gonna be totally accurate.

We do have some info about when T and Lift went to the Nightwatcher. In OB we learn that T supposedly disappeared with a "mysterious illness" about 5 years ago, according to Dalinar. Lift, in her WoR interlude, claims that she's been ten for 3 years, which probably means that's when she visited the Nightwatcher. And I believe Dalinar's Nightwatcher flashbacks were 5 1/2 years ago. I know it's not necessarily exact, but it is a rough time frame for each of them.

Scadrial, and all creatures on it, were directly created by the power of Ruin and Preservation. They didn't just invest in a planet and the life there, they literally created it themselves. Think of it almost like a massive splinter. I know it's not exactly that, but it's still like a big solid ball of their investiture. You attack the planet, it harms the Shards.

I mean, you do call him THE Stormfather.

It just occurred to me that Szeth and Nale will both have two blades. Dual wielding fight?