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We have a spoiler stream coming up and I have some questions for Brandon. I figured if we pooled the questions here we might inspire each other to ask more precise questions and better ones. I wrote them down as a I listened and here is what I came up with. Yumi calls Liyun Warden Nimi and Szeth calls Nightblood Sword Nimi? What is the connection between these honorifics? Virtuosity “Splintered herself”. Can you explain how a Shard can do this? The nightmare has “whisps of formless blackness rising from it.” Nightblood has a black smoke that descends from the blade. Ruin’s gaseous Investiture is a black smoke. What does blackness symbolize in the Cosmere? Nightmares need to take “ten or so” trips into the city before they become very dangerous? Is there a set number of trips? Is it a number that is important in this world? Is it a Fibonacci Number? Painter and Awakeners both need to envision what they are doing. Can you explain the connection between the envisioning they both do? The Spirits seem a lot like Creationspren. What properties do they share? The Spirits seem a lot like a spren which is being captured in a sphere. Can you explain the similarities between capturing a spren and binding a spirit? When Yumi is binding spirits, you note “each request took a little…something from Yumi. Something that recovered over time, but in the moment, left her feeling empty. Like a jar of jelly tea, being emptied scoop by scoop.” I presume this is Investiture. How does Yumi recover the Investiture she is losing? If Painter were to stab a Nightmare with a silver knife, what would happen? “(E)veryone knew that encountering nightmares was random.” Is everyone right or wrong? What secret would Design have told Painter if he had ordered something new? The Nightmare over the little boy has white eyes. The Shades of Threnody have eyes that are white, green, or red. Would the Nightmare’s eyes have changed color too when it was ready to attack? Please put your questions in the comments below. Thanks, Chip

I would associate the crystal with the soulcasting power of diamond, which is crystal and glass. But hey, just a guess on my part.

I think that the Red Ocean (on the butterfly cup) and the Crimson Ocean (that needs to be crossed to get the the Midnight Ocean) are actually two different oceans. One corresponds to the Ruby Polestone in Soulcasting and the other corresponds to the Garnet Polestone.

I think that the system for Soulcasting is likely based on the Aether or vice versa. Especially with the clue of the Emerald Ocean being filled with spores that make plants grow and in Soulcasting, emeralds make plant matter. So I have made a table of the Soulcasting Polestones with their effects along with what we have some knowledge of the Aethers. Hopefully we can tease out some more information. There are two more Aethers than polestones, so I think they must be the Night (black) and Ilumous (white) oceans. Polestone Color Soulcast Moon/ Aether Ocean Effect Emerald Green Plant Matter Verdant Emerald Vine/Plant growth Ruby Red Fire Red Sapphire Gas, Air Azure? Smokestone Smoke, Fog Diamond Crystals, Glass Mraize' pink crystal? Garnet Blood Crimson Zircon Oil Amethyst Metals Coprate? Topaz Rock, Stone Amberite? Golden? Rock-like growths on the skin Heliodor Meat, Flesh Beastarian? Black Night Midnight Teleport Self White Illumous Teleport Others Thanks, Chip

With your assumptions about the gravity of the moons, would we be able to figure out the approximate height of the tide under the moon. I suspect The Rock must be a very tall mountain as it would sit at near the peak of the tidal area under the Verdant Moon. The oceans must then be very full as the low area between moons would be much, much lower. I am glad you are talking about the Roche limit. This whole system feels impossible without magic to me. You could solve some problem by changing the gravitation of the moons, like if Kaladan gave them a 1/3 lashing up. This could explain a situation in which the moon pulls on the planet at a different gravitation than the planet pulls on the moon.

Hey Technopathetic, this list is amazing. Thank you for all the work you put into it. Under foods, Tress gives a meat pie so baked goods are used implying the use of ovens/stoves. Fish is served as a food in the meat pie. Under location, we can infer that The Rock is approximately equatorial. The moons in geosynchronous orbit would move North and South throughout the day unless they had equatorial orbits. This is the only way they would hang in the sky above The Rock. If they were at high or low latitude, the moons would show up in their Southern or Northern sky. In addition, because the Lunagri is close by, I assume that the spores fall straightish down from the moon, putting them very close to the equator. Also, the "seas" would bunch up under each moon due to strong tidal forces. So the area under each moon would be at a very high tide permanently and the seas would be much shallower between the moons. The Rock must be a very tall mountain to be above that tide.

Crazy idea. Would the moon above the Midnight Ocean be....The Aether of Night?

I am listening through Tress of the Emerald Sea and would like to put out everything I can find about the magic of this world and hopefully you all noticed more about the magic and we can put it all in one place. First off, there are 12 geosynchronous moons which must be equatorial or they would move in the sky of the planet compared to land features. So, The Rock (Diggin's Point) must be very near the equator. The moons drop "spores" which fills the low lying areas. "The Sea" is not filled with water, but rather spores. The Verdant Lunagry is about "50 to 60 miles" from The Rock and this makes me suspect that the moon is named something like Verda. Lunagries are the location of each moon's place of pollen/spore drop. The other moons drop spores of different colors including red (a cup in the story has a butterfly flying over a "Red Ocean". There also mentions of seas that are Emerald, Crimson, and Midnight and are presumably filled from different Lunagies. The Verdant Lunagry drops green spores. "Ship's sail that dust like ships sail water", but they are also light enough that they can be blown by the wind. When a ship sets sail, the ocean pushes air up which supports the weight of the ship. The mechanics are very unclear to me. "Verdant Spores" are specifically listed as growing plants when exposed to water. I suspect the other Lunagries drop spores with a different magical effect along with their different color. When Verdant Spores are exposed to water, they suddenly and explosively grow plants and vines. You can use salt or silver to prevent this from happening. The Rock has a salty aquafer which has wells in it and the salty water protects against the effects of the Verdant Spores. Gray spores are "dead" and do not explode to life when exposed to water. The ocean is filled with spores and not water, but there are "fish" and "elephant seal" so there must be life in the ocean as the residents are not allowed to leave The Rock but are familiar with these things. There is a similarity to Nalthis in the the spores fade from colorful to gray. There is a similarity to Taldain as the magic falls from the sky and reacts with water like the White Sand. There is a similarity with Roshar in that "Emerald" spores cause life to grow much like emeralds do on Roshar. This should offer hints at what the other Lunagries spores would do. Roshar has ten poles stones and this planet has twelve moons, so there will be two additional colors beyond what is shown on Roshar. Please help clarify what else we know. Thanks, Chip

I hate Brandon so much. Also, I can't wait for the novels.

Yeah. My heart dropped a little when I saw it. Hopefully it is just a 'Stormlight will need them be delayed' message and nothing more serious.

I feel like snapping has changed after the events of the Catasandra (sp?). But it may only be from hearing episodes of Shardcast. I don't think it is written into any of the Wax and Wayne books. Wouldn't it be juicy if she was an unsnapped Mistborn?

First off, I love the name AquaRegia. I am having good chemistry flashbacks. I don't know that she ever tells Wax she is not an Allomancer. It is Marisi who says that she is not an Allomancer. That said, she has a lot of viewpoints, so it would be a little weird never to bring it up to herself.

Also, do we know if Steris could block steelsight with a copper cloud? She showed up to the party with a gun on her thigh and didn't seem worried about a lurcher or coinshot seeing it. Wax never noticed a large metal source on her leg. Would copper explain that?

I am listening to the Bands of Mourning and I have been wondering if Steris is a misting. She could be an Aluminum or Duralumin Gnat. But I am realizing how often Steris tries to stay close to Wax in dangerous situations. I assumed it was as she explained, that she was safest near him. What if she is a copper misting and she is trying to protect him by hiding him from seekers? When they are walking around the party in New Seran, it was when Wax left her and used steel that the seeker in the party found him, not before then. This would also explain why the Set tried to abduct her (in addition to her heritage). She is secretive in her own way, so she might even keep this secret from Wax and Marisi. I am reading the rest of the book and will look for more hints that she is using copper.

It would only be plausible if somehow the legitimacy passes with the connection. I have simpler dreams. Imagine the Dalinar Divorce Service. Don't divorce, just pay Dalinar to make your fling into your Spouse. Just 10 Emerald Bromes. Of course, the Honor's Shard may find this distasteful.