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I forgot about this. I need to start my reread.
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100% agree with Eric I don’t want question prompting shirts.
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The voice from his youth is either an unmade or a Spren. My theory is it’s the same Highspren he’s bonded to now. He has notably never heard his current Spren speak.
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Are Steel Inquisitors Cognitive Shadows?
Child of Hodor replied to Child of Hodor's question in Cosmere Q&A
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They are classified as hemalurgic constructs on the coppermind, but I am unclear on if that rules out them also being cognitive shadows. There is a WoB where he says Kandra are not cognitive shadows because they didn't die they merely changed. Two railroad-sized spikes through the brain doesn't seem survivable. Do their spikes simultaneously kill them and "staple" their soul, or an investiture fossil of their soul, to their body? https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hemalurgy#Hemalurgic_Constructs https://wob.coppermind.net/events/331/#e9405
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In this weeks update, what does 631 mean?
Child of Hodor replied to halo6819's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Such a coy sneaky man that Brandon. *Sigh* I guess I’ll read it. -
In this weeks update, what does 631 mean?
Child of Hodor replied to halo6819's topic in General Brandon Discussion
I think someone bought the rights to it and then decided to put it "on hold" because it would be expensive, he's never been adapted before so it's not a surefire hit and all the streaming services started losing tons of money around the same time in 2022 which lines up with the timing. It's possible they picked it back up and are moving forward again. It would be neat if that's what it was. If it's an in-book Stormlight thing then the Heralds or the Radiant orders inspired by them would be the 6+3+1. Like who is on whose side, 6 side with the humans, 3 side with Odium (Nale+2 others) 1 is independent (Chana). If it's radiant orders 3 siding with Odium would be Skybreakers, Dustbringers and ???. 1 would be the Bondsmiths who unite the all and in the darkness bind them, wait wrong thing. Eh, it's probably another kickstarter announcement or something. -
I know :). Maybe someday.
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Theory on Shallan and Radiant
Child of Hodor replied to cosmeredoug_30's topic in Stormlight Archive
Good point! I forgot how much they like their naps :). Kind of sad how terrible a shape many of their minds are compared to the Heralds who are also a mess but have been tortured and don't get naps. -
I mistyped Nohadon's name earlier and realized it's either a reference to the biblical Noah or an anagram for "Don Noah" hinting at him heading a crime syndicate of some sort (OG KR?!). Nohadon was a young leader after most of humanity was wiped out. His own nation lost 9 out of every 10 people. Other nations had it even worse. He was alive when Urithiru came to be. Is Urithiru an ARK?!?!?! Urithiru spaceship confirmed! Anyways, I think I found one of Brandon's puns or whatever and now you get to groan at it too!
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Theory on Shallan and Radiant
Child of Hodor replied to cosmeredoug_30's topic in Stormlight Archive
Radiant seems like Shallan's idealized version of her mom, who was (probably) the Herald Chana. I would posit a theory that she absorbed her mother's soul and it manifests as Radiant, but there is no evidence of that magic being a thing, so why bring it up? I dunno I just think like the idea. I am 100% onboard with Chana being her mom, I am not onboard with her breaking. No one needed to break for the events of this series to happen. The Fused came back because of the piece of the Everstorm being moved to Roshar and summoned into the physical realm. It created a bridge for them (a lot of bridges in the series). I think Chana has been on Roshar as long as Taln who also didn't break this time either. She hasn't sought out her family because she tried to kill her daughter and feels bad about it. Why wouldn't the Fused have just retuned if she broke? Not like the Heralds are in any condition to help the humans. Even Taln is a total wreck. Why wait until the Everstorm was brought into the physical realm? The Listeners just barely succeeded in the summoning. I don't want to tell the Fused how to do their job, but if it were me I would actively help protect the people that Odium's big Oathpact workaround hinged upon instead leaving it all up to Ulum and the descendants of "traitors" who barely know any forms. -
I don't think a bondsmith did it in the past. I think the Spren did it themselves. It can happen, Ishar knows that much. I think he fails because the spren is not wiling and cognitive beings like stick can resist change. They can become fabrials and blades on their own maybe other things are possible. In Nohadon's day they could become blades without anyone swearing oaths and Aimia was around before Honor's death. It was a silver kingdom. Stormfather has plot convenient amnesia. Him not realizing something is possible is not necessarily the final word. Plus he's been acting very different with Dalinar than he did with Gailvar, he can lie, but I don't think he's lying here. Thanks for letting me know about the WoB I wasn't aware of it. He says they are not descendents, they are not human - spren hybrids. He wasn't asked they are Spren transformed into living humanoids. I think they are just spren made into physical realm beings straight up and they either don't age or have extremely long lives, similar to spren who are live indefinitely unless unmade or antiinvestitured.
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This is a well put together theory, I see where you are coming from. Thanks for finding that the WoB has been walked back. I didn't realize that. It kind of doesn't make sense for more than one Herald to be living in the same place. Nale and Kalak talk a good amount, but they've both got their own separate secret societies. I always thought Paliah made more sense as Dova. The place is named after her, she is the Truthwatcher Herald, one of the two with healing (Regrowth). Working in a secret hospital to murder patients to see the potential future (instead of the Truth) fits with the very specific inversion these heralds exhibit in their madness. Renarin sees the future but his spren has been "enlightened". Taravangian says he thinks she's Battar which he could be wrong about, but that would be kind of a silly secret. "I'm secretly a different Herald!!". That feels like a pointless twist since we don't know either Herald at all. Paliah is probably not Dova. Aesudan doesn't feel right as a Herald. I don't think he'd kill a Herald without letting us know a Herald had been killed. It would be a silly reveal 2 books later that a minor character who died was a Herald all along. SA5 Prologue spoiler: Aesudan was working with Gavilar to bring the voidbringers back which means more torture for her. None of the other Heralds, as insane as they are, want that. Even Kalak is only interested in Gavilar's work for the purposes of escaping the system. Auesudan is a petty villain imo. She is very impressed with herself for accomplishing very little. She brags about attracting multiple unmade and getting one to bond with her. If she was a Herald she's been around the unmade for thousands of years and as a Herald is worshipped as a literal divinity in some countries and as basically an angel in other countries she would not be super proud of attracting a few unmade. She would also know that Yelig-nar would kill her fairly quickly and she would go back to be tortured on Braize, something all Heralds seem keen to avoid. Odium mentions that she died offhandedly at the climax of OB, but he doesn't seem to care that much. The death of a Herald would be a bigger deal to him.
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He's trying to convert them into physical realm being. Presumably because he wants to either do it to himself so he can be permakilled or to the Fused so they can be permakilled or both. I think this is actually possible. He doesn't know how to do it, but he knows it's been done before.
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I think Valor will come into the story in the back half. The only reason I think this is a passage from RoW right before Taravangian kills Rayse it sounds like one of Brandon’s Shard Intent descriptors, but for Valor. Like Valor was influencing Taravangian. From RoW Ch. 113: If you compare that to how Odium is described when Dalinar sees it in OB it has the same cadence and format. Same with shards described in other series. OB ch. 57: My theory is either Valor was influencing Taravangian or Taravangian so exemplified the intent that he attracted the attention of the Shard in that moment. Either way I think Valor is coming.