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If two Shards found no better way than the cycle of Desolations and one of them was splintered thereby, we must take the possibility that Hoid is correct and only those two alternatives exist, seriously. Yet that does not change the fact that we do not actually know his goals, let alone his plans to achieve them. Exactly. Yet, frankly, to create an uncontrolable power you need a very good reason. It isn't stable. Odium is going to break lose sooner or later. It is just a matter of time. Autonomy is expanding and duplicating herself while acting as the technological police. Harmony is going insane. Cultivation and Mercy are on very dubious paths. The current era of stability is doomed. One might see Shards as warping the mind to follow a narrow Intent without other considerations. Basically taking up a Shard is kind of accepting brain damage in exchange for divine powers. The problem with that is obvious. It seems to me that the better solution, if it came to that, would be to splinter all Shards. Personally, if I had to join anybody, it would be Kelsier, because his motivations are rational and understandable, albeit not very nice.
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It seems to me that Hoid, being one of the original 16, ought to know the answer to that question. This sounds more like wondering what the consequences would be and, thereby, whether this should be done. Looking at Hoid I would tend to dismiss the idea that they shattered Adonalsium only for the power. If they had a good reason, undoing what they did isa bad idea all things being equal. Or alternatively, he is talking about Honor.
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I'd see it as stupid to create your own overlord. If I may speculate I think the fundamental conflict of the Cosmere will be between Reuniters and Shatterers, the latter wanting to bring the Shattering to its logical conclusion.
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Can Hemalurgy ever be developed independently?
Oltux72 replied to Stormtide_Leviathan's topic in Cosmere Discussion
It depends on how specific the Intent has to be. Possible sequence You stab somebody who has a healing power with an aluminium weapon or you use your healing fabrial on somebody wounded with an aluminium spike The power or fabrial fails You conclude from that that you want to systematically research the interaction of metals and Investiture You want to find out whether any effects are changing the metal. So you reuse a spike. -
The Grand Theory for Wind and Truth: The final battle Predictions
Oltux72 replied to Honors_Gun's topic in Stormlight Archive
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Brandon was forced to limit himself. The main protagonists were not cosmere aware (one exception of course). The far future stories were set on remote planets without permanent connections to other worlds. Will Honor be reforged? - A dragon or a core aether must know. Will Discord be defeated? - A dragon or a core aether must know. Will Odium be free of the Rosharan system? - A dragon or a core aether must know. Is Autonomy waging war? - A dragon or a core aether must know. It is the same issue as having Jasnah PoV chapters. If you have a dragon protagonist running a big corporation, they need to consider these things. -
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Because SA#6 to SA#10 haven't been written. Neither have the next eras of Mistborn and countless other things. Whenever he writes something in the far future, he risks contradicting himself or having to abandon cool new ideas for those books, because they would contradict SP#5. He would avoid much of that trouble by writing a book roughly contemporary to SA#5 or TLM. In addition, whenever he writes something in the future Cosmere, he risks spoiling future books he will still write. (Sunlit Man) If he wants to write about dragons, he can set a book at the same time as TLM and avoid those risks, respectively the work to minimize them, at no cost. Unless you want to propose that he wants to write specifically about dragons in space ships, which is very specific, hence unlikely (and without evidence), why, if he wants to write about dragons, not set the book in Silverlight at the time of TLM, just to give an example? "Gain" in this context is an interesting story. Dragons are cool. Yet they are almost equally cool at any time. So why set a story into a time period that is harder to write about? I see no reason. Now, I would like to see a book about dragons. And you can find evidence that Brandon will write about dragons. It is just the combination of dragons and far future that makes less sense. Hence I would conclude that he wrote about something that has to be far future. For example, MeLaan rediscovering Yolen. It intrinsically has to be a future setting. -
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Because it would mean that Brandon is causing himself extra work for no gain. That is exactly the point. Why go to that trouble to write about dragons? -
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
That was not a story set in the far future. Allomancer Jak in the pits of Partinel A tineye and his trusty slugthrower revealing the secrets of the dastardly ShoDel. -
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Let me quote Endowment: As for Uli Da, it was obvious from the outset that she was going to be a problem. Good riddance. Considering it better for everybody for her to be dead seems to be the likelier attitude to me. As for Mercy's choice, if you have two problems, will you refuse to take out the one you can take out, just because the other one may be even worse? -
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Then why future Cosmere with many connections? That is most trouble in terms of spoilers and getting things coordinated. Now, it is possible that Brandon just wanted to write some SF. But it seems to me that future and highly connected would be complications he'd seek only if necessary for the story, respectively are inherent to the topic. Aethers are preshattering and interesting stuff had already happened to them in Lost Metal. Why future? That at least explains why the book is future Cosmere. At the risk of repeating myself: The information we have is that three Shards were present at the battle: Odium, Ambition and Mercy. The idea that Mercy was on Ambition's side is derived from assumptions about Shardic intent, not known facts. It seems to me that Odium had a point when he concluded that Ambition was dangerous. And Mercy may have shared his view and done the Cosmere a mercy taking Ambition out. Not necessarily by that time. That depends on how far in the future YatNP is. In fact, technically we might get the reason for Virtuosity's selfsplintering. It seems to me that Cultivation is thoroughly fed up with the rest of the Shards. Her attitude seems like that if the rest think that Odium needs to be stopped, well, then they ought to fight him themselves and she is not going to risk herself and sacrifice her world to contain him. That was Honor's thing, but Honor is dead. -
Debatable. Windspren can glue things together. Whence comes the Investiture to do so? You can use Investiture right as you acquire it. (Scadrial)
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Oltux72 replied to CtrlAltDepressed's topic in Cosmere Discussion
It wouldn't be a title reveal, if we already knew the title, would it? I am afraid from a tactical, writerly point of view, you want to keep one in reserve, just in case you absolutely need to use one. Valor, Whimsy or Mercy. Assuming that "The Grand Apparatus" is Invention. However, if you want a lot of connections, introducing yet another Shard is precisely not what you want. You go to a known, but minor world (as you will tell the stories of the major worlds in future series) I also note that releasing the novel in 2025 lets Brandon use the end of SA#5. Hence: Prequel to Sunlit Man What made U'Tol famous The fate of the Iriali -
The fighting style of Lezian the Pursuer argues against that. He would be a fool to not refill his reserves while being discorporated.
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Oltux72 replied to Honors_Gun's topic in Stormlight Archive
Why then were they equipped with the ability to reform their original bodies? No other Cognitive Shadows can do that.