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Fair. Just giving my two cents. Speaking of which: Here's some more nonsense: #The Dust Brigade (3) v. #Threnody Novel (26) #Nightblood Book (64) v. #Warbreaker Sequel #Hoid (527) v. #Wit (6) #Hoid's Flute (5) v. #Hoids Flute (1) (I found this one just as I was writing this) #The Bands of Mourning (8) v. #Bands of Mourning (6) v. #The Bands of Mourning Book (1) (This one's a doozy. Obviously we should have a tag for the book, and for the Feruchemical Bracers) #Wax and Wayne 4 (13) v. #Wax and Waye 4 (1) (NOT #The Lost Metal. You all got me beat there.) #Shades (27) v. #Shade (1) #Aimians (28) v. #Aimian (2) And a few more personal thoughts: We probably need a tag for Ishar's weird experiments at the end of Rhythm of War. Here's a WoB that (I think) should just be tagged with #Ishar's spren experiments or what-have-you: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/475/#e14989 Is there a tag for WoB's about which books are coming out next, or which ones Brandon is working on? There's a bunch of WoB's that would appreciate one (no receipts here, sorry). What is the guidelines when expressing pronunciation? For instance this WoB (https://wob.coppermind.net/events/218/#e6737) uses IPA, which I like, but only partially, which I don't, and forgets the square brackets ([]) which technically should be required in this case, which I don't like. If the fourth Stormlight novel gets #Rhythm of War, what about the research journal Navani & Raboniel make? I'd assume this will only become a bigger problem when it will probably be brought up in the plot of later Stormlight books. Same with all of the Stormlight books. Also, there's several WoB's all weirdly about sports in the cosmere, with a few hints it'll become important, or at least existent in Era 3 Mistborn. If #Cosmere Sports dethrones #Rafo, you heard it here first!!!

*Deep breath* #Survivorism (1 tag) vs. #Church of the Survivor (5 tags) (technically maybe 2 different things, but I would clean them up together) #Thaidakar (1 tag) vs. #Kelsier (171 tags) #Way of Kings Prime (93 tags) vs. #The Way of Kings Prime (1 tag) #White Sand Vol. 2 (6 tags) vs. #White Sand Vol 2 (4 tags) (Spot the difference!) #White Sand Vol. 1 (3 tags) vs. #White Sand Vol 1 (3 tags) (Spot the difference!) #Parshendi (53 tags) vs. #Listeners (50 tags) (This one is a matter of philosophy, but I think if the Arcanum is supposed to be spoiler full, it should be all rolled into the preferred nomenclature. "Parshendi" is almost kind of a slur.) #Fabrial (1 tag) vs. #Fabrials (50 tags) The Thaidakar, Fabrial, tWoK prime and White Sand volume problems I think should be rolled into the more commonly known, plural, and perioid-less versions (since that's what vol 3 has). Also I personally disagree with the "Order of" prefix being attached to KR orders, and it seems like most of the users agree with me. #Windrunners at 8 with #Order of Windrunners at 1, Skybreakers 8 to 1, Edgedancers 2 to 1, e.t.c. I think taking the prefix out is much slicker. Also I realize that there's a lot to be done for the site, but this information stored away in the forums should really be on the site itself for newcomers. We are fighting an uphill battle as long as fresh good samaritans don't know what the best practices are.

Remember people, these are Divine Attributes not just words from a dictionary. Anonymity, along with being yet another starting with the letter A, is not Divine in the slightest. You might be mixing it up with something like Mystery which admittedly, would be sick. The last reasonable suggestion otherwise I've heard is Purity, dunno where from.

When Dalinar was counting off his surgebinders at the end of OB, he was missing a Willshaper (Venli), Stoneward (Taln) and Dustbringer (Ash?), all of whom are the flashback characters (substituting Venli for Eshonai, you know the deal). If Adolin was "well on his way" you'd think he'd be part of such an auspicious event. This isn't actually proof but either way Adolin becoming a KR is such, such, a telegraphed move. Sanderson's way to clever for that. Since when has this forum been any good at predicting plot points.

Way more importantly, if Kaladin is Tanavast's actual, physical descendant, then he must not have come from Ashyn with the rest of humanity since that was Odium's planet. Do we have WoB's on migrations to Roshar after the mess with the Dawnshards?

Justice seems to me like Honor + Odium. Using your anger to punish the guilty. A big gap in the shards so far is that all of them are sterile, for the lack of a better word. Cultivation, and Endowment all pertain to creating something new, out of whole cloth. In theological terms, (since they are all aspects of Adonalsium, i.e. god) None of them account for Ex Nihilo creation. Reusing the Allomantic table exactly seems a little lazy. There's probably some structure that's similar, (16 and everything) but Brandon's more clever than that.

Whether or not Renarin is a legitimate Truthwatcher or not is a matter of technicalities at this point. I would say that he qualifies, some would disagree. More importantly, we're not sure how much of Renarin's abilities are Voidbinding, and how much is regular Surgebinding. We know that some ancient Truthwatchers could see the future, and how ridiculous would it be if all of the got corrupted by Sja-anat, and yet no one noticed that their spren were off in the same way that Jasnah did? So vanilla Truthwatchers probably have at least some future telling abilities, and by how Cultivation played Dalinar, I'm not making any predictions for the Diagram. Although the fact that Cultivation is doing something is pretty obvious. Honor knows what.

While technically the new art is technically way better, it seems a little to normal, for lack of a better word. The original art's REDACTED gave it charm and grit, while the new one is perfect and shiny. The fact that they're going to change artists three times in three different volumes doesn't give me confidence, though. That's the modern comic book industry for you, I guess.

A seems to be the correct answer due to this WoB. The important part: So all Invesiture from Adonalsium got assigned to one of the 16 shards, and all Invesiture is from Adonalsium. There's a bit of a snag here, in the transition from investiture of a shard to the shard's Intent, but if we prescribe to the "stained glass window" metaphor as I do, it seems reasonable to me. Honor and Unity being the same shard seems silly to me. Honor, before and after he went crazy, is all about taking oaths, and keeping them, while Unity is about (I assume) bringing or keeping things together. You can see the former from the Stormfather talking about how he cares not for the oaths, but just if they are kept. Szeth's dissension from the rest of the Skybreakers is Honorable, but not very United, using those definitions.

If you are uncomfortable with the idea of an Odium spren somehow being bonded with a KR (like I am), there's the theory that The Sibling is the third Bondsmith spren, and is made of a fusion of Honor + Cultivation, sort of like Feruchemy between Ruin and Preservation. We also need to check the assumption that Cusicesh is one of a kind. There may be other spren at it's 'level' that haven't been shown yet.

RE: Jewish != Arabic, there's this reddit post that I thought I would never see in my life. So it's still appropriate, nevertheless. Nitpick aside, this is not really my kind of thing but still cool.

Yeah, Jasnah's death was a bit of a cock-up on Brandon's part. But if yet again, a death in WoR turned out to be cheap, It would've been even worse. For this one, he kept to his guns and showed that death means death. As for the only ways we know if they are truly dead being Nightblood or WoB? That's just silly. Anyone who legitimately thinks that Eshonai was Timbre, either was just holding out hope for a ridiculous asspull, or just didn't notice all of the evidence to the contrary. I'll disagree with your part about Venli just being a worse replacement for Eshonai in this book. The difference is that Venli is flawed and dare I say, broken, in a way that Eshonai wasn't. Do you think that Eshonai would willingly be Odium's spokesperson? No storming way. And that's because Eshonai is a better (morals) character, but not a better (narrative) character. Which is to say, @Calderis is completely right. It wouldn't even be hard to convince me that Eshonai wouldn't become a KR like Venli did. And what's with all of the focus on this book? Brandon plots stuff way further in advance for this to be a last second swap, and he probably has heard your opinion on the internet before. As I said in my previous post, have some faith.

I'm more personal interested in the Patji = Autonomy stuff he just causally threw out there....

Honestly, thank god for Brandon finally laying those asinine Eshonai = Timbre theories to rest. I was getting a little tired with arguing with people that Timbre was actually captain Ico's daughter. Secondarily, I just don't understand the people getting mad at Eshonai's death. Y'all are the same people who got mad at all of the fake-out deaths in WoR. I've already seen memes and posts all about how there's no way that Venli could possibly have a good redemption arc, and that the fourth book is completely ruined. Have some faith! I'm sure Brandon knows what he's doing.

For Unity vs Honor I think you have it backwards. The word "Honor" is the best word that Brandon chose to represent the fundamental nature of the shard, which is the spirit of obligations, oaths and laws. Like MtG's White (I have a whole write up brewing about ascribing colours to Shards. Watch out.). If someone else took up Honor, then that person would still be Honor, and we would call him Honor, (and his name), but he could re-interpret what that means to him. Basically, @Extesian you're right, and I should probably hang out in the Discord more. @ILuvHats Maybe I just don't know my Freud, but the Id seems a bit too unemotional for it to be Odium, with or without it actually being Passion. The Id, at least to me, seems all about instict and reactions. A small squirrel running away from a predator is very Id driven, but not very odious or passionate, right?