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  1. (Stormlight Archives) This community figured out who Grump and Thinker are, but who is Blunt? I have come to believe that Blunt, one of the three world-hoppers mentioned in the Ishikk Interlude, is Baon. I'm sure this was brought up before somewhere, but here it is. In The Way of Kings, Blunt is described as having dark skin, dark hair, lean muscles, and broad shoulders. Ishikk thinks he has the "build and air of a soldier," and Grump calls him superstitious when Blunt mentions that there may be actually something magical about fish in Purelake. In White Sand, Baon is a mercenary. He is described as very tall, broad shouldered, dark hair, and dark skin. He has a very militaristic feel to him, and he seems pretty open to mystical stuff. He is very blunt and honest when he speaks, so much so that the first thing Kriss describes him as is "painfully honest." Kriss also mentions his bluntness several times. TLDR: Blunt = Baon
  2. Just called a bookstore close to me. They can hold one if I call the week of, which is convenient. For those not in America, could probably get a bookstore to hold it for you and ship it, if you pay for shipping And its a FREE book, so no complaints people!
  3. I believe that this is probably true. But before I saw this post, I thought that they might be made of silver...
  4. This: Dirigible, on 09 Feb 2016 - 8:32 PM, said: This makes me think about Breath from Warbreaker. If someone doesn't have Breath, than no one can "sense" that person (less aware). If you have a lot of Breath, you feel more connected and can "sense" a lot. So...the more investiture you have the more connected you are? Might be something there...
  5. No one else in this thread, except for Masaru, felt a Khriss vibe from Vathi....?
  6. Khriss being the Author of AA feels right. She is intelligent and curious. She would indeed be very dark skinned...almost as dark skinned as another world hopper we have seen before...
  7. Here are the ones I thought were relevant in WoR. Quotes from Words of Radiance, by Brandon Sanderson. Chapter # – Location in Chapter (i.e. 1/50 beginning, 25/50 halfway, 50/50 end) – Quote. Ch 4 – 35/42 – “...And the meaning is vague. Death follows? Or is it 'follow death'? Or Sixty-Two Days of Death and Following? Glyphs are imprecise.” Ch 40 – 4/22 – Through the carriage window Shallan saw that they were finally approaching a warcamp flying Sebarial’s banner. It bore the glyphs sebes and laial stylized into a skyeel, deep gold on a black field. Ch 52 – 34/77 – She tried to work out the use of glyphs – there was no grammar to them that she could see. Glyphs weren’t meant to be used that way. They conveyed a single idea, not a string of thoughts. She read a few in a row. Origin…direction…uncertainty…The place of the center is uncertain? That was probably what it meant. Ch 52 – 35/77 – Parshendi! She realized. That’s what those glyphs mean. Parap-shenesh-idi. Three glyphs individually meant three separate things – but together their sounds made the word “Parshendi.” …Amaram was using some glyphs phonetically. Ch 55 – 60/61 – Amaram. He wore a strange cloak. Bright yellow-gold, with a black glyph on the back. Oath? Kaladin didn’t recognize the shape. It looked familiar though. The double eye, he realized. Symbol of… To get all these quotes, I searched the ebooks of WoK and WoR for "glyph" and read the passage around the location it was found in the book. Than I quoted what I thought was helpful to our cause. There is a lot more information in the books that I missed, like the thing about H's making stuff symmetrical, but this is what my quick search has found. Hope it helps someone And wanted to point out that Kaladin thought the glyph double eye symbol on Amaram's cloak read as "oath". Thought that was interesting.
  8. Thought these may help in our quest. All relevant quotes about glyphs found in WOK. Will post WOR when done. Quotes from The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson. Chapter # – Location in Chapter (i.e. 1/50 beginning, 25/50 halfway, 50/50 end) – Quote. Ch 2 – 15/46 - What was that glyphpair? “Sas morom,” Kaladin said. It was the highlords district where the man had originally been branded. Ch 4 – 32/38 – Deep blue with white glyphs – khokh and linil, stylized and painted as a sword standing before a crown. House Kholin. The king’s house. Ch 5 – 14/38 – “I know all the major, minor, and topical glyphs and can paint the calligraphically.” Ch 6 – 17/67 – …a yellow glyphpair in the shape of a tower and a hammer on a field of deep green. That was the banner of Highprince Sadeas, ultimate ruler of Kaladin’s own home district… Ch 8 – 28/65 - …each with a sign hanging out front bearing the glyphpair for book, and those glyphs were often styled into the shape of a book. Ch 27 – 72/85 – Of course, you could draw most glyphs in complex ways that made it hard to read them, unless you knew exactly what to look for. Ch 28 – 58/91 – Eventually, they reached his personal complex, marked by fluttering blue banners with the glyphpair khokh and linil, the former drawn in the shape of a crown, the second forming a tower. Dalinar’s mother had drawn the original design, the same his signet ring bore, though Elhokar used a sword and crown instead. Ch 31 – 2/18 – Kal looked down at his folio. It contained drawings of dissected bodies, the muscles splayed and pulled out. The drawings were so detailed. Each had glyphpairs to designate every part… Ch 33 – 51/56 – “Our very language is symmetrical. Look at the glyphs – each one can be folded in half perfectly. And the alphabet too. Fold any line of text down across itself and you’ll find symmetry. Surely you know the story, that both glyphs and letters came from the Dawnsingers?” Ch 47 – 2/47 – In the near distance, Amaram’s standard was already flying, a burgundy field blazoned with a dark green glyphpair shaped like a whitespine with tusks upraised. Merem and khakh, honor and determination. Ch 51 – 18/19 – The stormwarden stepped up to Kaladin, positioning the branding iron. The glyphs, reversed, read sas nahn. A slave’s brand. Ch 60 – 5/40 – And Dalinar wondered how stormwardens could do their research without reading. They claimed they didn’t, but he’d seen their books filled with glyphs. Glyphs. They weren’t meant to be used in books; they were pictures. A man who had never seen one before could still understand what one meant, based on its shape. That made interpreting glyphs different from reading. Ch 67 – 53/72 – …a banner flapping a quarter of the way down the incline. The stark black glyphpair read shesh lerel – Sheler’s company. Ch 69 – 13/72 – It was only a single character, but a complex one. Thath. Justice.
  9. Well....i might as well bring this question up. Who is Mraize? Is he Hoid? Is he working with or against Hoid? They both seem to be collecting the Physical aspects of shards all over the cosmere.... Mraize clearly has at least two Physical aspects: The Tears of Edgli (Endowment), the Sand from White Sand (Unknown Shard). Hoid has most likely collected these, plus the two god metals and the moon scepter. Maybe these other items found in Mraize's place are others. There is so much we don't know! And i love it
  10. I don't like thinking that spren were doing things like bond-farming, but it is a possibility. Remember that the Parshendi abandoned their spren (changed forms) to get away from their gods because they were being controlled by them. They just wanted to be free. Maybe the same type of thing was being done to the KR. They broke their bonds with their spren so they could be free. The spren might have been getting overly aggressive, loving the life in the physical realm and the benefits of bonding to humans. One thing to think about that I didn't really see in these theories: The Unmade (the opposite of the Heralds?) - they have to fit somewhere into these theories. If Honor can have the Heralds, Odium can have his heroes too. We know very little of them, but I would assume they would want the Heralds and the KR to abandon their oaths.
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