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  1. At a recent signing, Brandon Sanderson said that Ashyn (silence divine world, Roshar system) has no shard currently. One question then would be: Is Ashyn among the 10 core shardworlds.
  2. Since most/all of Bridge 4 seems to be in the process of becoming squires, a curious question arises: Can/will Rlain become a squire?
  3. Three possibility stand out to me here: 1. Shallan used the NPAM to kill, either using it to kill her mother or the others. In this case, the SAMENESS comes from the fact that both she and the NPAM together wrought that destruction and death. 2. Shallan was responsible for some of the deaths, while the NPAM (likely used by a dead man, or her father) was responsible for the rest of the deaths. The SAMENESS comes from the fact that she and the NPAM separately wrought that destruction and death. 3. (This one is more far-fetched, but yields possibly the strongest SAMENESS.) The NPAM caused Shallan to go berserk/possessed her, leading her to kill. The experience of, say, going berserk due to the NPAM would likely have caused her to consider herself and the NPAM as monsters in much the same way. (This 3rd option connects well with, say, an amplified version of the Thrill or something else Odium-related.)
  4. One tie to religion that stood out to me was the name "Adonalsium". It is just so similar to Adonai, one of the Judeo-Christian (and hence also LDS) names for God. I suspect that was where he got the name from, though if anyone has a different idea, I'm all ears. In fact, I have long thought that the relationship between the words "Adonai" and "Adonalsium" felt very similar to the relationship between "Ati" and "Atium" or "Leras" and "Lerasium".
  5. On spren sentience, the reason Syl seemed to lack intelligence was because of the process of moving from Shadesmar to the physical world. In Shadesmar, spren would show there true intelligence. And Jasnah states about spren, “Spren are wild in their variety. Some are as clever as humans and create cities. Others are like fish and simply swim in the currents.” So it would appear that spren do vary in their intelligence, with some being naturally sentient and others not.
  6. I suspect that aluminum's inertness is tied to some of the properties of burning it and duralumin. When a person burns duralumin, all presently burning metal stores quickly burn up. However, the duralumin store itself remains unaffected. In Mistborn, when Vin burned aluminum, all her metal stores vanished, including the aluminum store. However, I suspect that the canon surrounding aluminum's inertness and aluminum burning may not have been cemented at the time. This, then, is my prediction: I predict that aluminum and duralumin are unaffected by the burning of aluminum, duralumin, chromium, and nicrosil, and that the same property that allows them to be unaffected by these also makes them unaffected by the burning of iron and steel. (I wonder if Sazed can see aluminum clearly and change words in it, or if it shines brightly like all other metals?)
  7. I guess my motivation for this question was that when Vin burned gold, she found herself split between her own body and the body of her past self or gold image, and both bodies moved independently. What I was truly wondering was: 1) Can a person burning gold move away from their gold image, or are they stuck a specific distance from each other, like a malatium image? 2) Can a person burning gold see their true surroundings from both bodies, or are they forced to solely focus on the other person? In the only instance we have of someone burning gold, Vin was with Kelsier while waiting for Marsh. There wasn't really anything going on around her, and it was her first time using gold, so the fact that she didn't mention her surroundings needn't mean she couldn't have observed them if she had tried.
  8. Could an Augur (a gold misting) use their gold image as an undetectable scout?
  9. Only the First Ideal is shared by all the orders. Second through Fifth Ideals are unique to each order. Also, since the list of attributes in the back of the book is stated to be a partial list, the other Ideals may not directly deal with protecting.
  10. In the Warbreaker Ch. 35 Annotation, Brandon describes why some people go crazy with Nightblood while others don't. "When Nightblood was created, the Breaths infused in him did their best to interpret their Command. What they decided was evil was someone who would try to take the sword and use it for evil purposes, selling it, manipulating and extorting others, that sort of thing. Someone who wouldn't want the sword for those reasons was determined to be good. If they touch the weapon, they feel sick. If others touch the weapon, their desire to kill and destroy with it is enhanced greatly." The reason the only two people we see touching Nightblood without going crazy are Vivenna and Vasher is that most people Nightblood wouldn't kill wouldn't want to touch the sword in the first place. Even Vivenna had to be commanded by Vasher to touch it. Just coming close to Nightblood made her feel nauseous. I have to say, if I found a sword that made me feel nauseous just being around it, I think I might just leave it be.
  11. I suspect that the Aons would be the focuses of Elantrian magic, and maybe the bone formations the focus of the Dahkor magic (in other words, the focus of Selian magic is the symbols).
  12. Brandon said that the metals act as a focus for the power of preservation. Is it possible that that language might also apply to colors in Warbreaker, or is the only similarity their physical aspect?
  13. Has Brandon already RAFO'ed the question of Seons being splinters of Aona? If he has, then another question to help get to the bottom of that would be: "We have already learned that humans cannot be splinters, they can only have splinters (As in the Deific Breaths of the Returned). What about a nonhuman? Can a nonhuman, conscious entity be a splinter?" If the answer is no, then we know that Seons and Skaze cannot be splinters.
  14. By the way, all my information on the time since the first returned comes from Hoid's speech to Siri. Pg.345: "'The workings of the souls of men—their power to animate ordinary objects and the dead to life—is something discovered barely four centuries ago. A short time, by the accounting of gods.'" Pg.344: "'Should I not speak of the Manywar, of the shattering of kingdoms, of the Five Scholars, of Kalad the Usurper and his phantom army, which some say still hides in these jungles, waiting? Those are the events we focus upon, the ones men know the best. To speak only of them, however, is to ignore the history of three hundred years that led up to them. Would there have been a Manywar without knowledge of the Returned? It was a Returned, after all, who predicted the war and prompted Strifelover to attack the kingdoms across the mountains.” Pg.348 “'Five, Your Majesty,' the man said. 'Including His Immortal Majesty, Lord Susebron, but not including Peacegiver.' 'Five kings,' she said. 'In three hundred years?' Thus, there were 300 years between the First Returned and the Manywar, and 300 years between the Manywar and present day. Interestingly, it took almost 200 years after Vo, the First Returned, before Commands and Awakening were first discovered.
  15. And Helen Keller would take up her mantle as God...I mean, ahem, Lord Ruler.
  16. From our encounter with the Windrunners and Stonewards in Dalinar's vision, since the glyphs on the Windrunners' armor was blue, the same color as their glyph and gemstone, sapphire, it appears that the colored glyphs on the Shardplate of the Knights Radiant were of the color of their order's glyph. The Stonewards had amber glyphs, matching with the color of the upper-left glyph and the gemstone topaz. Additionally in support of this, the soulcasting properties of Topaz are rock and stone. With the 9th number bearing the name Tanat, it appears that the Stonewards belonged to the 9th order, the order of the Herald Talanel. For an additional element of support, from page 1001, "Talenel'Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of the Almighty" Reversing this, the lady Knight Radiant who healed Dalinar in his vision had amber glyphs, suggesting she, and her power, belonged to the 9th order, the Stonewards.
  17. Wow! The total votes in this match is almost 4 times the total votes in any other match, and it is still increasing quickly!
  18. Maybe we should ask Brandon what the missing label is (if Peter doesn't know). And yeah, I also noticed that the missing label makes 10 labels.
  19. I would go either with both zinc, both steel, or possibly both gold. Limitless mental speed is most appealing to me (makes for the perfect mastermind), but limitless speed or healing also sound very interesting (I am reminded of The Flash and Wolverine). It makes me really wonder what the unknown Feruchemical powers are.
  20. Timemaster11

    Redshift?

    In both special and general relativity, the speed of light does not change in a local frame. Thus, from the point of view of the allomancer, the light will be travelling the true speed of light. (It is possible that to the outside observer the light in the bubble will be travelling at a different speed, which is fully allowed by General Relativity. However, locally relativistic effects do not change the speed of light.)
  21. Timemaster11

    Redshift?

    On energy: (rough explanation) From the outside observer's point of view, the frequency of the light does not change as it passes into the bubble. Since frequency is proportional to energy, this says that the energy of the light is conserved. However, you could say that the allomancer is now moving in the time direction at a different rate. In relativity, one finds that the energy is actually the time component of momentum. A speeding car normally is viewed as having a lot of momentum. Drive at the same velocity as that car, however, and the speeding car will appear to have 0 momentum from your perspective. As you change your motion in that direction, the car's momentum relative to you appears to change. In the same way, as the allomancer changes his motion in the time direction, the time momentum (aka energy) of the light also changes from his perspective.
  22. Timemaster11

    Redshift?

    On the wave and particle properties of light: Alisto is only partially correct when he suggests that the amount of photons entering the bubble determines how much light enters the bubble. (by the way, the number of photons entering the bubble is conserved across the boundary). Not all photons are the same. Individual photons have frequency, which cannot be determined simply by the number of photons. The frequency determines the energy of a photon through E=hf, where h is Planck's constant, and f is the frequency, and E is the energy of an individual photon. The number of photons acts to relate the frequency to the total energy, but does not in any way determine the frequency. For quantities such as wavelength and frequency, which are wave properties, the wave description of light is far more relevant. (Interestingly, this means that, if frequency of light changes for the allomancer, so does the energy of that light proportionally.) On the counting of wave peaks: The peaks in a light wave are the peaks in the electric and magnetic fields. Suppose we place a metal plate in the bubble, and shine a light on it. Both outside and inside observers would agree on the moments when the absorption of energy by the electrons in the plate peaked (given that they had really good detection equipment), so both would agree on where and how many wave peaks are in the bubble at any moment. Through this method, the number of peaks hitting the plate could be counted. On index of refraction: In optics, the phase of a light wave does not change when it enters a material of differing index of refraction. Thus, the number of peaks that reach the bubble must be the number that enter, regardless of the index of refraction. Thus, to an observer outside the bubble, the frequency of wave peaks just outside the bubble equals the frequency just inside. To prevent a build-up of wave peaks, the number of peaks contained by the bubble must be constant, so the frequency at any point must be the same. Thus, to the outside observer, the frequency of peaks striking the allomancer's eye equals the original frequency. Then, as both observers would agree on the number of peaks that strike the allomancer's eye, the time dilation factor would shift the frequency of light accordingly for the allomancer. Thus, the allomancer would find the frequency of the light to be shifted by the time dilation factor. Note: The index of refraction may still have an effect on the wavelength of light. However, if to the allomancer in the bubble the light in the bubble has the standard speed of light, then the allomancer would detect a corresponding equivalent shift in wavelength, as well, since (speed)=(frequency)*(wavelength).
  23. Timemaster11

    Redshift?

    Even if the person were standing still, light would still be severely redshifted or blueshifted. To see this, imagine light as a wave, and imagine that 1 wave peak crosses the bubble boundary every second. (Really low energy light) Also, say that the light is aimed at the allomancer's eye. In order to prevent a pileup of wave peaks, from the perspective of a person outside the bubble, the number of wave peaks crossing the bubble and the number entering the eye have to be the same for any given stretch of outside time. The same holds for inside time. Say time is 10 times faster/slower in the bubble. Then the person in the bubble would say that either .1 wave peaks entered the bubble every second, or 10 peaks entered the bubble every second. Thus, for them, either .1 or 10 wave peaks would enter their eye every second, so the frequency would be shifted by a factor of 10. Thus, for a nonmoving allomancer in the bubble, the time dilation/speed up factor would equal the factor by which light was redshifted or blueshifted. (Note that extreme blue and extreme red are separated by less than a factor of 2, so for even a time change of 2, the allomancer would cease to see visible light and would only see shifted infrared or ultraviolet light.) (On a side note, in all actuality Special Relativity can deal with acceleration. (Through Momentarily Co-moving Reference Frames.) It just cannot deal with curvature of spacetime due to gravity. (My physics professor for general relativity made it a point to stress this on more than one occasion.) (Also, the requirement that the amount of wave peaks passing into a surface must equal the amount leaving the surface -- equal flux in and out -- should hold true also in SR and GR. Plus, at the end of the day, when the bubble was collapsed, the person inside the bubble would have to agree with the person outside the bubble on how many wave peaks reached him.)
  24. I am not fully sure where it is found, but someone gave this quote from WoK in the Heralds thread at timewasters: "He began walking, leading Adolin around the back rim of the temple chamber. They passed statues of the Heralds, five male, five female. In truth, Adolin knew very little of what Kadash was saying. He
  25. See "Herald Chapter Pictures--Identities *spoilers*" topic for additional evidence for Baxil's mistress being Shalash.
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