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YESSSSSSSS. I love it. Can I steal it for my avatar

73% lightweaver and 72% willshaper, definitely going with Willweaver (NOT Will Wheaton) Love that both Orders have Oaths that are entirely dependent on the individual. I don’t think I’d be happy doing the same storming Oaths As everyone else in my order...

And don’t we know Brandon’s stance already? I mean, in the annotations of Warbreaker he addressed how he feels about racism: “It’s not good to be racist. Skin color is a terrible reason to judge someone. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t sometimes make judgments about people for other reasons. I think maybe we’ve become hypersensitive to this sort of thing.”

I am convinced!! I think this is the best argument for blanking out Scadrial. With this, I officially change my vote to Save Roshar.

This is the absolute best thing about Sanderson! Every character is so well thought out and nuanced. I just recently joined the forums too, welcome!

Hahahahahaha “it would still hopefully make them unhappy” Exactly. Also if you can only save one planet, knowing that Braize was basically the Disneyland of Herald torture just makes it an easy planet to destroy. Does it matter that Odium would survive? Not even a little. In fact, if Odium was imprisoned there it would be a good planet to keep... except all other Shardworlds would be destroyed sooooo what’s the point? We’d literally be fulfilling Odie’s intent. That’s why I choose Scadrial. Give Harmony some time to figure his power out and then let Odium go and let them go at it. Although: I also want me some SA10 so really good point.

I honestly have a lot of optimism for the returned and see a lot of beauty in it. If I could come back to life just to make some kind of difference, even just once, I would take it. I hope to do so without becoming Returned but if I died in a car accident tomorrow I would 100% take the opportunity to Return. I know it’s debatable as to whether or not the leaching is worth it, but in Lightsong’s cause it sure as hell seems like it was, right?

This. I loved the idea of breath too and I honestly really like the color system. More than anything else, it allows for units of investiture to be converted to units of energy. Breath increases intensity of color, Intensity equals power per area, now we have investiture in terms of Joules. However, it is specifically BECAUSE these are worldhoppers that I am less inclined to save the world. Help more of them offworld and let the planet burn with its zombies. Or let the zombie army ravage shadesmar...?

That’s two for Scadrial! I 100% agree with your take on Roshar. I wouldn’t WANT to see them go, but I mean come on. They humans already ruined one planet and then started war on the second? Get your act together, people! Also really on board with the scientific drive. I loved Jasnah’s logic and Navani’s engineering mindset but with things like soulcasting there’s just way less of a drive to discover things in the same way. I think they could do AMAZING things blending Surges and Science but they need to put the weapons down for a second first...

Oh man, Nightfall was great but my favorites of his are The Gods Themselves and, of course, the entire Foundation series. The whole idea of Psychohistory blew my mind and Asimov shot to the top of my favorite authors list at the time. My favorite author is really a three-way tie between Brandon Sanderson, Isaac Asimov, and Hermann Hesse. Some other faves are Vonnegut, Robert Jordan, Kerouac, Tolkien, and a whole lot more. What are some of yours?

This was moved from an Intro Post Oh man, this is both really brutally difficult and deceptively simple. My heart of hearts cries out “No! I will save ALL of them!” But then my mathematician brain takes over and does the following: **DEFINITELY SPOILERY** Suppose all the Shardworlds ARE getting destroyed, then we can assume their pasts are in tact and everything that has been written by Brandon is still as is. I would easily let Sel crash and burn, we know that Elantrians can make it out. Nalthis, same thing. The only two that I would feel compelled to REALLY save are Scadrial and Roshar. Alas, it would have to be Scadrial... and here’s why: Ok so if the Shardworlds are getting destroyed, that includes Braize where as of OB Odium currently resides, so let it burn to the ground. (On the other hand, Odiums existence has been an engine of change for the Cosmere... but that’s another discussion!) Honor has already been splintered and that leaves only Cultivation, really. The world would be destroyed AFTER RoW since it has already been written, so there’s still more to read there and I assume there will be enough radiants to get a number of humans/parshendi/etc into Shadesmar and have them all start walking toward the Expanse of Vapors. At that point, most beings would reside either in Shadesmar itself or on Scadrial. For the moment... We know that Allomancy will be a jumping off point for space travel, so if Scadrial is saved there are two prime benefits: 1) Space travel means all those other world inhabitants could eventually move off-world if desired and the Cosmere could be repopulated 2) Harmony. (I always saw Saru from Discovery when I read Sazeds parts... I cant be the only one, right? I think it was just how cautious he was and everything...) Anyway, Harmony! Once Harmony gets a handle on holding Pres/Ruin he will be able to crush Odium. It’s confirmed that he holds more power (he just cant really use it all that well yet). So, if Scadrial is the last surviving Shardworld then Harmony is the last surviving shard and we will get to see an ABSOLUTELY EPIC BATTLE between Odium and Harmony which I would be hundreds of dollars to see (literally cause I plan on buying every single book until then...) So, long story short: save Scadrial and let the rest burn. What would you save and why???

Hahahahaha it’s definitely appreciated (at least on my part). It’s wonderful having a place to ramble on about Cosmere anythings!

Oh man, this is both really brutally difficult and deceptively simple. My heart of hearts cries out “No! I will save ALL of them!” But then my mathematician brain takes over and does the following: **DEFINITELY SPOILERY** Suppose all the Shardworlds ARE getting destroyed, then we can assume their pasts are in tact and everything that has been written by Brandon is still as is. I would easily let Sel crash and burn, we know that Elantrians can make it out. Nalthis, same thing. The only two that I would feel compelled to REALLY save are Scadrial and Roshar. Alas, it would have to be Scadrial... and here’s why: Ok so if the Shardworlds are getting destroyed, that includes Braize where as of OB Odium currently resides, so let it burn to the ground. (On the other hand, Odiums existence has been an engine of change for the Cosmere... but that’s another discussion!) Honor has already been splintered and that leaves only Cultivation, really. The world would be destroyed AFTER RoW since it has already been written, so there’s still more to read there and I assume there will be enough radiants to get a number of humans/parshendi/etc into Shadesmar and have them all start walking toward the Expanse of Vapors. At that point, most beings would reside either in Shadesmar itself or on Scadrial. For the moment... We know that Allomancy will be a jumping off point for space travel, so if Scadrial is saved there are two prime benefits: 1) Space travel means all those other world inhabitants could eventually move off-world if desired and the Cosmere could be repopulated 2) Harmony. (I always saw Saru from Discovery when I read Sazeds parts... I cant be the only one, right? I think it was just how cautious he was and everything...) Anyway, Harmony! Once Harmony gets a handle on holding Pres/Ruin he will be able to crush Odium. It’s confirmed that he holds more power (he just cant really use it all that well yet). So, if Scadrial is the last surviving Shardworld then Harmony is the last surviving shard and we will get to see an ABSOLUTELY EPIC BATTLE between Odium and Harmony which I would be hundreds of dollars to see (literally cause I plan on buying every single book until then...) So, long story short: save Scadrial and let the rest burn. I would love to move this to its own thread and see what everyone else thinks/feels about this!

OOOOOO! I agree on all accounts. Dalinar’s arc was absolutely incredible. All the books were out already when I started reading, so I was able to read SA over about a month and a half (during summer break last year, barely put the things down!). I think Shallan’s journey of creating personas and losing her own identity was brilliant. Kaladin half the time I just wanted to shake and be like “hey man, Syl is REALLY COOL, why are you still sad?!?!” I like to think if I was befriending a Spren I’d be really happy. MOST looking forward to Rock’s future, if it really plays out.