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Is it possible that Iyatil is a Shardholder herself? It seems to me that someone would need to be pretty darn powerful for a man like Mraize to commit himself to.

I buy that, Moogle. Even if it's wrong, it's an interesting coincidence.

Here are my thoughts: Chapter 6 Holy crap, that first line in Navani's journal! Pattern—cute name. Aw, Pattern the puppyspren. Cool! Shallan is Lightweaving! Illumination—was that on the chart before? I'm wondering if the Parshendi have access to those old records in their "city." "And stop trying to mother me." HA! Jasnah is awesome. I think Chapter 7 is a continuation of the cliffhanger and that's why they didn't include it. Chapter 8 I totally buy the idea that Dalinar wrote the glyphs himself. Or perhaps a spren or someone using him to write it and that's why the glyphs weren't quite right. Chapter 9 Gravity is an agreement between friends. I love Syl. She's definitely giving something away here—something about spren controlling natural forces. Perhaps this is why one needs to bond with spren to control those forces (ie Surgebind). I think Pattern and Syl could be friends if they could get over their sprenist stereotypes. Stormspren—like the spren needed to create stormform? I think there's something behind her defying the Stormfather. Stormfather=Jezrien, whose order is the Windrunners. Perhaps he controls all the honorspren. Or maybe (random speculation) Syl used to be Jezrien's spren. Weight? She's becoming more a part of the Physical Realm?

Brandon mentioned in the WorldBuilders/Waygate live stream that the launch would be midnight at the BYU bookstore, but no more information than that. I assume it will be plastered all over Facebook, Twitter, and the 17th Shard homepage when it's officially announced.

Hey, all. I was there the whole time. I got a few of my questions answered (not to mention naming the main character, woot!). So, sorry, but I only remember the ones I asked. Are the Heralds Rosharan? got a RAFO, but good question. Are there highstorms in Aimia? got a quick yes. I wondered about the Heralds during the description of Shalash when it said she had Alethi(?) skin and Shin eyes and Baxil wonders if she's some sort of hybrid. I just think she must be from a different world. And the highstorms one interests me because there are none in Shinovar, which means the highstorms go around Shinovar to reach Aimia or they come from the other direction. Any thoughts?

. . . you take notes while reading a fiction book and you keep a running list of questions you want to ask Brandon and rewrite them over and over again until you've avoided all the loopholes and RAFO bait.

I'm glad this came up. I've been wondering about the difference between Shardblades having mist around them when summoned, but spren having none when they appear. I know that's not a lot to go on, but it seems to me that they come from different places. It's also a nice symmetry of KR having one thing from the Cognitive Realm (spren) and one thing from the Spiritual (Shardblades...and Plate?).

Ooh, me! Pick me!

*Alloy of Law Spoilers!* After reading Alloy of Law, I was thinking a lot about TLR and what the limit of his powers would be. One need only look as far as Miles to see how much power TLR had at his disposal. Miles compounding of gold tells us a lot about the nature of compounding Twinborns. When you think about TLR as a Twinborn with every possible combination and being able to compound each available metal, it would seem as if his power was infinite. Gold alone made Miles practically invincible, and it does mention in MB that TLR was completely invincible. (I don't have my books, but I think the quote is something like:) People burned down his inn and he walked out of it growing new skin immediately, and decapitation only annoys him. That seems pretty similar to someone compounding gold. If TLR was compounding each and every one of his metals, with a little hemalurgy thrown in there somewhere, plus his past as the Sliver, that should explain why he was considered a god.

These posts are going to be extremely helpful! It's hard to read every single thread and pick through all the theories. Thanks for providing the facts so succinctly!