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  1. My read on knights in multiple orders has been that it's mechanically possible - meaning that there's nothing in the Nahel bond that disqualifies someone who already has a bond. But it's unlikely to happen because forming a Nahel bond requires that a sapient entity (the spren) choose to bond you. And the spren are generally going to not consider someone that already has a bond. That's been my understanding at least. So in order for this to happen you'd likely need some sort of agreement between the spren peoples - like they saw a need for "4 shard" to exist, so they all agreed to send someone to bond the same person.
  2. A quick google says that whether a metal is magnetic has to do with the spin of the electrons all being in sync. So I'd submit that a highly ordered shard like Honor would have a magnetic godmetal, but a chaotic shard like Ruin would have a non-magnetic godmetal. Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about and am just guessing.
  3. I'm pretty sure that Midnight Essence is like lightweaving, elsecalling, etc. where various magic systems can produce similar effects, so the people in the cosmere use the same words for them. I would expect that goopy-darkness-monsters produced by any magic system would be called "midnight essence" just like illusions are lightweaving, and teleporting is elsecalling, regardless of the magic system powering it. I don't think seeing midnight essence in two different places necessarily means they're using the same magic system.
  4. A large gap between Eras 3 and 4 also matches pretty well with the original plan for Mistborn as a trilogy of trilogies. Without Wax & Wayne, we'd have ~400 years between Final Empire and 1980's tech, so another 400-500 years between 1980's and space age would make sense.
  5. I just finished Tress, and I (like others) have been trying to place it in the timeline. I came to the same conclusion that it happens in the "mistborn space age," likely before the events of Mistborn Era 4. I've always assumed that Mistborn Era 3 would be followed pretty quickly by era 4 (100 years seemed like a reasonable amount of time to go from 1980's tech to ftl). Tress, though, indicates that this gap is likely much larger. First off, a few assumptions (if any of these are wrong, then we can throw out everything else I have to say: There is only 1 group of Iriali Computers did not exist anywhere in the Cosmere 2000 years prior to the events of the Stormlight Archive Tress takes place before Mistborn Era 4 (if Era 4 is the "end" it would be strange to be getting stories after it at this point. Also if Tress is after Era 4, that would likely place the Sixth of the Dusk sequel after Era 4 as well, which would be really weird) Scadrial tech proceeds at a similar speed to Earth tech (with a higher cap since ftl is possible in the cosmere) So we're pretty sure that Tress happens after Mistborn Era 2. We know the Iriali were on Roshar for thousands of years, and went to Scadrial afterward. But going to Scadrial doesn't really matter here. It doesn't even matter if there's some sort of Iriali diaspora and some go to Scadrial and some go to Lumar. What matters is that after Rhythm of War at some point, the Iriali go to Lumar, stay for a bit, then leave, then 300 years pass, then Tress happens. As others have identified, this means that Tress happens at a minimum of 300 years after Rhythm of War. Add time for them living on Lumar, and perhaps additional time on Scadrial, and we're likely up around 500 years, conservatively. (In order for Iriali to be an important enough language for some random Duke's son to learn, they were probably a fairly big presence on Lumar, and not just a quick stop-and-go.) I've always assumed that Mistborn Era 3 will follow pretty soon after Era 2. 1980's tech doesn't seem that far off. It seems safe to say that there's no more than 100 years between the eras. So, if we say that Tress happens right before Era 4, that puts somewhere around 400 years (200 at an absolute minimum) between Mistborn Era 3 and 4. That's a lot more than I had previously thought, and it's making me rethink my expectations of Era 4. I have a hard time seeing it take 400 years for Scadrial to get from 1980's tech to ftl. So here's some speculation on what this may mean: Something goes terribly wrong in Mistborn Era 3, and sets Scadrial back far enough that it takes them 400 years to catch back up again and then figure out ftl. Or, perhaps Mistborn Era 4 is not set at the beginning of the space age, but far into it. Perhaps, instead of being a "first contact" or "new powers warring" story, Era 4 is set in a space age where Scadrial and others have been in space for hundreds of years. I don't know about you all, but this is a new idea for me. I kind of like it though. I feel like this is the more likely explanation, and it seems to line up with how we've seen Scadrial's influence on various planets across the cosmere in the later stories. Anyways, let me know what you think, or if this is old news to all of you. The idea of there having been hundreds of years between Era 3 and 4 has got me excited - there's a lot of interesting possibilities and stories that could come out of that. I'm looking forward to empires spanning lots of planets, large scale imperial politics, etc.
  6. 3: I voted for the 16 individual beads, because there are some powers I don't care about. So with separate beads I could sell the powers I don't want for a ridiculous amount of money. Coinshot, pewterarm, slider, etc. plus retirement-level cash? Yes please.
  7. Warbreaker spoilers (If you haven't read Warbreaker, definitely read that one. I think it will help provide a lot of context):
  8. This is a stretch, but what if the bands weren't drained? What if the admiral had a way to suppress the ability to use powers in an area? This would explain why the bands just seemed like a chunk of metal, without even granting the ability to store attributes. Granted we haven't seen technology like this from the southerners, but we don't fully understand how their tech works yet, so it might be possible. I like this idea because it makes the con even worse - not only do the southerners get the bands, but they get the fully charged bands. And all it required was one of them getting close to the bands, so they could convince the northerners they were "drained." Rhythm of War Spoiler
  9. If a tin grenade does make everyone in the radius a tineye for the duration, I could see that being coupled with a flashbang to great effect. I also really liked getting to see the grenades - Marasi's power in a grenade, and then combined with Wayne's bubbles, was very cool.
  10. Yeah, not using the stove really restricts what you can do. I agree with what the people above have said, and I'll also suggest salsa or guacamole. If you buy a bag of tortilla chips, then make some salsa or guac, that's pretty easy. I'll put some recipes in spoiler tags for length: Salsa Verde Pico de Gallo (some people would call this a red tomato salsa) Guacamole
  11. I also got the book a couple days early, so here were my thoughts: After being disappointed with some of Sanderson's other collaborations, I was pleasantly surprised that this still felt like a "vs The Evil Librarians" book. Meaning that it didn't feel out of place in the series. Sure the narrator was different, the humor was different, etc, but a lot of the same tone was still there. Self-aware poking fun at the writing process, plenty of humor, etc. The plot was a bit short, with more of a focus on characters and relationships. I know this was intentional, but the repeated focus on super-depressed Alcatraz at the beginning got old really fast. The talents sometimes still working even while broken kind of lost me. I didn't understand how that was happening. I really liked the end. I appreciated that plot threads were wrapped up, but it wasn't a sickly-sweet "everything is happy now" ending. I'm glad that Attica is stuck in the lens for good, that the Librarians are still around, etc. But the world-ending threat is over, and our characters are doing well. Revisiting humor, I really enjoyed the literary license and money words jokes. It was fun getting more info on Gaks. I really enjoyed Bastille's narrative voice. The whole denying her feelings for Alcatraz was pretty great, especially coming off of another Brandon collaboration that focused too much on ridiculous romance stuff for my taste. Overall I really enjoyed it! Happy to finally have a conclusion.
  12. I'm going to go Scadrian, because of the ingredients issue. If I'm remembering correctly, lavis and tallew are supposed to be similar to corn and rice, respectively. I'm sure you could make a tasty waffle from corn or rice (cornmeal waffles are a thing, right?) but I prefer me some wonderful gluten filled wheaty waffle goodness.
  13. Welcome! Glad you finally made the plunge Do I get points for getting the reference?
  14. I've only watched the first 2 or 3 episodes. Those were unimpressive enough that I keep on forgetting to catch up. I'll probably watch the rest eventually, but the "omg I'm so excited I have to watch this as soon as it comes out" wore off pretty quickly. Honestly I think the show would work a lot better if it was about a new character, not Boba Fett. It just doesn't match the way I see the character at all. (I was not expecting them to make him a Traditional Honorable Good Guy)
  15. I don't know if giving gifts is traditional for Koloss Head Munching Day, but we got the best one this year
  16. I wouldn't anticipate shardblades having much to do with current Spren population numbers - all those 80-100 dead shardblades will represent deadeyes, who don't seem to be a part of normal spren society. The "tens of thousands" number would be for regular non-deadeyes spren, meaning that they're not connected to a shardblade in the physical realm. So if anything it just means that there's potential for there to be a LOT of radiants if all the spren ever decide to form bonds.
  17. The Mistborn tabletop roleplaying game (https://www.crafty-games.com/shop/mistborn-adventure-game/) has some info, and they released a supplementary book specifically about the Terris that would have more info: https://www.crafty-games.com/shop/terris-wrought-of-copper/ They're not always 100% canon, but they're approved by Brandon and tend to be pretty good. Even if you don't want to run their system you can use the info and world building materials they've got. I haven't read through my copy of Wrought of Copper in a while, so I can't remember specifically what they've got there, but someone else may remember more details. Edit: the book description page mentions this, which sounds like it may be what you're looking for:
  18. https://www.brandonsanderson.com/words-of-radiance-deleted-interlude-stick/ (This is a "deleted interlude" from Words of Radiance. You may not find it humorous if you haven't read Stormlight, but there shouldn't be any spoilers regardless)
  19. This thread has some good info on this:
  20. I enjoyed reading it mostly because it was "secret" but I didn't think it was very well written and I didn't enjoy the story itself. Just fyi. But for reference, I felt the same way about Way of Kings Prime. They seem of pretty comparable quality to me - if you enjoyed WoK Prime you'll probably enjoy Dragonsteel.
  21. I would hope that the site's running in UTC, but I have no evidence to support that it is. It's just convention to run websites/databases/etc. in UTC.
  22. I think a big question here is "would two different vessels of the same shard have metals that act differently?" As far as I know we don't have an answer to that. If the metal reflects the vessel, then yes, I would expect ettmetal to be more "harmonius." But if the metal is just a manifestation of the power itself in physical form, regardless of who holds the power, then it wouldn't surprise me that it's more "discordant." Given the way ettmetal acts it seems like the second explanation is more likely. It seems likely that anyone who held Ruin and Preservation would have highly reactive ettmetal as their godmetal, regardless of how they interpreted the shards. But I don't think we have confirmation on this either way. Rhythm of War Spoilers:
  23. In regards to forging to become an Elantrian, we have this wob: As far as other magical abilities go, we have this: (I cut out a bunch because this is a long one) As far as stealing stamps via Hemalurgy, I'm not sure. We do know that forging rewrites your spiritweb, and Hemalurgy rips off pieces of your spiritweb, so I would be inclined to think that you could steal the effects of a soulstamp with Hemalurgy.
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