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"Yeah, so basically I wrote an entire Mistborn era 1 amount of Cosmere novels in secret. Hope you enjoy!" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Man, I've gotta reread SA. On first read you can miss all these things, then on reread, Roshar is positively teeming with worldhoppers. Is there anyone confirmed to be from Sel on Roshar? Obviously the massive time gap between Elantris and Stormlight would complicate that I imagine

Taravangian too all related parties would be extremely interesting honestly, though I'm not sure he'd "play his hand" so to speak, so quickly. I think he'd probably pretend to be Rayse for a while, like he did with Hoid. As for your spoilers, I also doubt it. The shards besides Harmony were so resistant to help that I don't expect any of them to act at all. That sort of scale, I don't see that happening until Mistborn era 4

So, in every book, we get at least one letter between hoid and a Shard (or Frost I suppose). In TWoK and WoR, we got Hoid and Frost. In Oathbringer we got a whopping 3 from Endowment, Autonomy, and Harmony, and Harmony's letter in RoW was absolutely crazy. Who do you want to see a letter from in the 5th book? We've already heard from all the (living) shards from other shardworlds we have had books from; White Sand, Warbreaker, Mistborn (The vessels from Elantris are dead, and the short story world's aren't Shardworlds iirc), so it would be (presumably) from a shard we haven't really "met" yet. I personally hope it's from Valor, one of the new ones from Harmony's letter. Sazed meantioned she would probably be open to talking to Hoid after all. Though Mercy's previous involvement with Odium would also be extremely interesting to hear about. Invention and Whimsy have nothing to go off of so I'm less interested in them. I also doubt we will hear from an entirely new Shard, as that's never happened before in a letter. Though maybe we won't hear from a shard at all? No idea who Hoid would really want to hear from besides Frost or a Shard though. Maybe Thaidakar? Really, really, REALLY doubt Hoid would write to him though. Can't be someone from Sel either, Elantris and Emperor's Soul takes place like 1000 years before Stormlight. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts, the letter epigraphs are always so interesting.

@Frustration I honestly didn't expect there to be that many, but judging by this thread, there's actually a LOT. This is surprising to me since I personally don't interact with many irl, though that's probably since I live on the East Coast

Preservation and Ruin aren't characters though. If you're referring to Leras and Ati, they are certainly no longer characters

Hilariously, despite not really minding Wayne or Lopen, I can't stand Lift lol

I want it to be Dabbid. Probably the single most underappreciated character in this entire storming series

I mean, there's not a terribly large number of examples, but it always seemed to me like cognitive shadows aged to their "prime", then stopped. If Lift is partly in the cognitive realm, I'd imagine she'd abide by the same mechanics?

I don't like this, simply because it would likely mean characters like Syl and Pattern would sorta stop existing

Your ill Intent likely wasn't felt by anyone, as it lacked ill Command

I'm baffled at how else you expected "Mormons would bring up the topic of her Atheism more" to be interpreted?

I think a lot of people's issue with her Atheism stems much more from her existing in a world that very clearly has gods, and not from religious readers thinking she shouldn't be an atheist because they themselves are religious. Yes, I know she accepts the idea of there being a god and so forth, but most of the threads I've seen come from this angle.

I really REALLY doubt that some percentage of Brandon's readerbase being Mormon significantly affects a large enough portion of the fanbase to create a meaningful shift in the fandom's opinion on Jasnah. I think she's just a divisive character, religious affiliation or not. I'm atheist, and I still don't really like her. Don't blame these things on religious affiliation

I didn't mind Wayne that much honestly. I feel like, knowing myself, I should have disliked him, but he didn't bother me too much. I think part of it has to do with me having listened to the audio books of era 2 rather than reading them. The reader gave him a decent voice and I feel like his delivery of the lines made them fine. Wayne sorta feels similar to Lopen from Stormlight I guess