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  1. I think it was Testament in the chasms and Pattern at Narak. The fact that Kal didn’t hear the screaming I think is most simply explained by either (or both) the fact that Syl was nowhere to be found, or that since Testament was still with her radiant. We don’t know why they hear the screams—i don’t think it’s explicitly stated that the current radiant spren is the one screaming, just that they know it feels wrong for a radiant to wield the dead blade. It’s entirely possible the screaming is the dead blade protesting against being used by someone it doesn’t have a Nahel bond with, and its Radiant is no longer around to give it permission to be wielded by another. I think the dead blades scream every time but only a Radiant can hear them because of their bond to their own spren.
  2. Will the unsigned leatherbound WoK be restocked? I wasn’t originally gonna go for them, but Warbreaker looked too pretty…and well now I need them all :D
  3. This is an interesting idea. I had assumed that since they didn’t know they’d be deadeyes they also didn’t know they’d be stuck as shardblades in the PR, but maybe they did?
  4. There are so many connections here...they just keep coming through LOL Remember Kabsal the Ardent/ghostblood from WoK? Remember is proof of the almighty he wanted to show Jasnah? The sound vibrations creating the physical layout of the cities. In ROW, Navani looking for the anti-void light realizes she needs a sound/tone opposite of what she's looking for and basically recreates Kabsal's demonstration from WoK without referencing the cities. The rhythms/pure tones/etc were critical to the planet itself, when BAM was captured one of them was busted, which busted the whole planet. On Sel, the breaking of the world (unintentional WoT reference!) broke AonDor, maybe it broke the Nahel bond/surgebinding as well - or at least screwed it up enough to be so dangerous that the Radiants and their Spren CHOSE to end it so that it would not cause further damage. and the Chiri-Chiri part is mostly tongue - in - cheek I don't think she's really a bondsmith, buuuut I think she probably does have an important role to play moving forward, especially now she can talk! I am also interested to see how deep he ends up getting with waveforms/mathematics. sinecosinetangent. I feel like it will end up leading to some very cool tech advancements. — edit from many hours later: Thinking about all the tie ins that could pull all this BAM stuff together into some kind of resolution has me thinking about how much more there could be. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the Unmade. Like what even were they before Odium unmade them? And why is it important that the more hyphens the more intelligent? Sja-Anat has been important for us so far, so trying to see if I could tie her into it for a future prediction… BAM and SjA both show independence from Odium. If BAM is split, it’s likely we can’t repair her…in Navanis experiment with trying to recombine conjoined spren using the raysium dagger it didn’t work. She could crack em open but that destroyed the spren, soo fixing Roshar likely won’t be as simple as finding BAM. Maybe SjA’s agenda is to sort of take over what BAMs role was? Like, in fixing Elantris, Raoden had to change the aon of the city. SjA plans to fix the rhythms/tones?
  5. Spores IRL are super tiny, not microscopic, but very very small. So yes, a very small amount of salt would dehydrate it enough to kill it. Same with bacteria, high saline solution outside of the bacterial cell wall will cause water to leave the bacteria killing it. The bigger the thing, the more salt would be needed
  6. All of them I think. Pretty much all water dependent life will die if there’s too much salt…osmosis will cause dehydration.
  7. Haha I am barely even an amateur, but I love the fungi! They’re soo weird. With how clever Brandon is I’m excited to see what he does with it!
  8. I loved TotES. There is one thing in particular I loved the most: aethyrs are fungi!! For the non mycologically-aware. Fungi reproduce via spores, which then become mycelium. Think of a mushroom—this is the fruiting body of the mycelium which lives underground. The mushroom exists to spread spores for reproduction, but isn’t the creature itself. Mycelium is incredibly complex organism but is consistently the same organism no matter where it is—like a hive mind. If you see a mushroom in the Forrest, walk a little ways further and see another of the same kind—it’s probably the same creature. And it grows…rapidly…and different kinds are referred to as “strains.” And can spread over great distances. They typically fruit after a rain They’re also thought to be the first organisms to colonize the planet…which in the Cosmere would mean…
  9. Thank you everyone for the discussion! Tglassy explained my thoughts about BAM breaking things better than I could for sure! By screwing up the pure tones of Roshar, Remember the plains weren’t always shattered, so I think that makes it even more similar to what happened on Sel. As far as the Listeners—I think they saved themselves by rejecting Odium. They found a way to break that Connection before BAMs capture, so they didn’t lose as much as the others because they weren’t Connected to Odium any longer. I think there is evidence for this—principally the fact their songs teach never to follow their old gods again or seek forms of power. They also could not hear Odiums tone/rhythms until the voidspren restored that Connection. —- I just reached the point in RoW again where Veil tells Mraize she couldn’t find Restares. He explained to her that she needs storm light and says the Honorspren have some. She questioned how they got so many perfect gems in the first place and Mraize tells her they love gems and have been hunting them forever…and then he brings up the Stone of Ten Dawns, saying Honorspren believed the legends and spent lifetimes searching for it. I think this means they were searching for BAM. Restares is supposed to know where she is, so maybe they found her or pieces maybe…but haven’t been able to solve the problem. anyway all of this makes me so excited for book 5. I need to know what’s going on with BAM!
  10. Okay so. I am nearing the end of my 2nd read through of Stormlight and I had some questions, theories maybe about possibilities for BAM's storyline in book 5. Things we know (or least think we know): ---- MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW (I am still learning how to format things here I am sorry! Also mods if this is in the wrong place please let me know :)) ---- -Spren can be trapped in gems to create fabrials -Unmade can be trapped in perfect gemstones -BAM is trapped and has been for quite some time -BAM's capture is a critical piece of the puzzle in a lot of the things going on that are currently being investigated by our lovely heroes as they fight against the Desolation, including creating deadeyes and the Sibling's ability to create tower light. Soooo my theory starts with the idea that everything going on with BAM is a little bit more complex than BAM just being trapped and hidden away somewhere. The OB epigraphs go through the Urithiru gem archive and explain that the Elsecallers took Honor's Drop (a known perfect gem) to be hidden, and also discusses trapping BAM leading me to believe that Honor's Drop is the gem containing BAM. This assumption seems pretty safe, Idk if a WoB somewhere confirms such or not, but it's not a big leap from reading those epigraphs. I originally related this to the King's Drop (now containing the Thrill) and Chiri Chiri consuming the stormlight within leading me to post a "Chiri Chiri is a bondsmith" theory on the subreddit, which was totally shot down! (C'mon! Chiri Chiri would be a lovely bondsmith!!). B/c we know that Larkin need spren to bond to grow (from Dawnshard) and Chiri Chiri grows pretty significantly after that quick fight with the thief. It is presumed she grows from consuming the voidlight/stormlight, but I think that might not be the case. How is she even able to consume voidlight? Well mystery solved if BAM is involved, as BAM is confirmed to have been able to create voidlight for the Parsh in the false desolation. When Rysn describes the King's Drop to Vstim when the theft took place - it is described as being the only gem in the archive that still glowed. And it glowed with a faint red light and is said to be a piece of the Stone of Ten Dawns. The light color isn't an indicator to me, as gem colors the stormlight in any gem, but it could indicate a BAM affiliation, unsure. We really don't see many(any?) other gems in the canon that do not lose stormlight over time, so this COULD be the only perfect gem we know of. There's a point where Jasnah even notes that it is strange there aren't more perfect gems on Roshar. It's mentioned that the bankers in Shadesmar have them to store the stormlight that's used in trades --but I don't think this assumption is necessarily correct. The times we see our heroes exchange stormlight in shadesmar it seems like stormlight is constantly getting added to those gems, which would prevent any from leaking out even from a regular gemstone, wouldn't it? At any rate, if we think the Kings Drop and Honor's drop are related, (possibly even the same) then that begs the question - where was BAM when Chiri Chiri dunified the King's Drop? They could absolutely be different gemstones entirely, perhaps both chunks of the stone of 10 dawns. BUT!! I have a new theory. In Navani's lecture on fabrial mechanics we see a TON of discussion of how fabrials work and how to trap spren in gems. In fact that seems to be mostly the focus of this lecture. In ROW, the Sibling chastises Navani for everything she's been doing with fabrials, saying it is downright evil what the modern engineers are doing. The sibling did not send this message to Navani when they first got to Urithiru, even though they would have assumedly been using many fabrials in those days, but when she starts experimenting with conjoined fabrials in her airships and the single person lift device. Brandon doesn't typically include so many specifics for it not to pay off later, so I am thinking this is his big clue about what's going on with BAM. In that same lecture, Navani also goes into a deep discussion of how to create conjoined fabrials, by first trapping the spren and then separating the gemstone into halves. But she doesn't mention what this does to the spren. So now my theory: -BAM was trapped in the King's Drop/Honor's drop (also rubies, which are the only other conjoined fabrials we know) which was then split in half, and hidden in two locations. The split did something incredibly heinous to the ecosystem of Roshar, inhibiting the Sibling and causing the deadeyes. I think Brandon has mentioned something along these lines relating maybe to BAM/puretons/rosharan rhythms are different now that BAM was captured, and said something like it has happened elsewhere in the Comere. Where else did we see something important to the world break and then break the magic system as a result? Elantris. Ultimately the splitting of BAM has screwed up the Rosharn system so much that it is affecting how magic works there and any fix would require fixing the puretones/rhythms ( I don't understand the difference I am sorry) that were broken/damaged as a result of BAM's split. Could also be related to Honor's death, I am not entirely sure but I think that relates since each shared has a tone/rhythm and that seems to be important too but I don't have a tie for them yet. TLDR: Chiri Chiri is definitely a bondsmith, maybe. but BAM definitely maybe is split into two.
  11. Silverlight if that’s an option haha. My favorite world is Taldain, though I just finished Tress today and my mind is still blown.
  12. From SLA: Renarin is my #1 always. I do also love Shallan, Rysn…the Lopen ofc! Oh and Rock..can’t forget Pattern…so many! Mistborn: Tensoon. Meelan…Wayne, Steris, Renette. Vin was cool too… I guess WB: Lightsong and Vivenna are at the top. WS: Kenton is great and Khris sixth if the dusk: Kokorli This was just off the top of my head, I know I’m forgetting some. There are so many great characters! please forgive any misspellings, I’ve been reading like a good Vorin man.
  13. Hiiii!! I’m Daniel. I was first introduced to Brandon’s stuff when I finished WoT. I never considered reading any of his own stuff at the time…I was an airsick lowlander. I had read the teaser blurbs about Mistborn era 1, and even SLA, but based on those I didn’t think it was “fantasy enough” for me. When the panini started back in 2020 I needed something to do and found myself doing a lot of sewing/quilting and reread WoT via audio book. Brandon’s stuff of course then came up in the suggestions and since I loved Michael & Kates narration so much I gave Mistborn a try and was blown away! I think I blew through that first trilogy in a week max, and the ending so amazing I knew I had to consume everything cosmere. Everything about his writing makes my extremely neurospicy brain happy. I can find my self in his characters…I can spend hours thinking through crackpot theories about how it all connects…and omg the rereads are somehow even better than the first reads. of course I eventually found Shardcast and made my way over here anyway…hiiiiii!
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