Krenn

What I'm trying to figure out is how much of what Sophie said about herself is the truth, and in what sense was it true? by my count, we have roughly 3 female characters in this story. an unnamed, maximally incompatible female chosen from a list. let's call her 'Eve' Kai's arch nemesis, Melhi, who was deeply offended at the suggestion that she might be a puppet of the wode. Sophie, Melhi's telepresence robot, who claimed to be a successful world president elected on the basis of woman's lib, and who hated the wode. somehow, i can't shake the suspicion that almost everything Sophia said was either the truth about Melhi, or else the truth about Eve. and it's almost possible that Sophia, Melhi, AND Eve are all the SAME PERSON. The most incompatible person on the list might have been Melhi, but Melhi wasn't her real name, Eve was, so Kai didn't recgonize it on the list. Then Sophia tells a true but edited version of Melhi/Eves past, and finally, Melhi takes revenge. The biggest problem i have with getting all this to fit together is what was Melhi doing in the border states when she first met kai? was she always planning to implement a scorched earth policy as part of her anti-wode campaign? was she hoping to arrange a peaceful settlement, but overreacted when kai insulted her? or am i overthinking this, and everything Sophia said was a complete fiction?

Here's an interesting question: Can heralds form a Nahel bond with spren, and become BOTH knights radiant AND heralds? Taln could be a perfect candidate for that.

speaking of Renarin's seizures, here's an interesting question: are we certain that Renarin's seizures have a convention medical cause behind then? Shallan has apparently had her spren all her life. What if Renarin has too? is it possible that his seizures are actually an inefficient form of foretelling the future? something he will have more control over as he progresses in the oaths?

This. That was the single greatest point in the Book.

Or maybe having ten heralds split the torture 10 ways, and the heralds had a procedure for when to accept that a desolation was inevitable, and to stop fighting it and re-appear? say, anytime 3 heralds have broken, the desolation is inevitable?

remember to account for wildcard "h" letters, as well.

yes, that would be very helpful.

what program are you using to read those files? i can't get my current code breaking software to read those as valid files. simplest solution would be for me to just use the same software you do.

I'm starting to think along these lines.... important words in this world are often palindromes. we suspect this coded message is very important. therefore, there is a good chance that at least one word in this message will be a palindrome. we also know that as far as the Alethi are concerned, the letter *h* is a wildcard letter, and can be used as a variable to make palindrome spelling work. so, here's the challenge: find the largest combinations in the code which could be spelling out a palindrome. for example, 151-2-10-10-11-14-10-2-151 could be a palindrome, if either 10 or 14 represented an 'h'.

if it IS some type of substitution cipher, this is the best program i've found so far for cracking substition ciphers. but no results so far, and it only works with single-case alphabets. http://www.secretcodebreaker.com/scbsolvr.html

don't expect it to be solved anytime soon. without additional clues from the author, we're basically just spinning in circles. every method that's been tried so far produces gibberish text, and we can't even figure out which portions of the book are supposed to be relevant to solving this.

I don't know if this means anything or not... looking at the epigraphs from the in-world book, "words of radiance", i tried to insert 'ch', for 'chapter', every time i found a sequence of numbers in the code which matched with a chapter number. there were a LOT of matches, although i couldn't find a good way to make the epigraph page numbers work as well. apologies for how difficult this to read. my original version had line breaks befoer each 'ch', but i didn't want this post to be hundreds of lines long. ch11 *18 ch2 ch5 *10 ch11 ch12 ch7 ch12 *491 ch5 ch12 *1010 ch11 *1410 ch21 ch5 ch11 ch7 ch11 ch2 *10 ch11 ch12 ch17 ch13 *44 ch8 *3 ch11 *10 ch7 *1 ch5 *14 ch2 ch5 *41434109 ch16 *14914934 ch12 ch12 ch2 ch5 *41010 ch12 ch5 ch12 ch7 *101 ch5 *1910 ch11 ch12 *34 ch12 ch5 ch5 ch11 ch5 ch2 ch5 ch12 *1 ch5 ch7 ch5 ch5 ch11 ch12 *3410 ch11 ch12 *91 ch5 ch12 *1061 ch5 *34 i couldn't find a good way to make the epigraph page numbers work as well, this is the best i got: ch11 *18 ch2 ch5 *10 ch11 ch12 ch7 pg1 ch2 pg4 *91 ch5 ch12 *1010 ch11 *1410 ch21 ch5 ch11 ch7 ch11 ch2 *10 ch11 ch12 ch17 ch13 *44 ch8 *3 ch11 *1071 ch5 *14 ch2 ch5 *41434109 ch16 pg14 *914934 ch12 pg12 ch2 ch5 *41010 ch12 ch5 ch12 *7101 ch5 *1910 ch11 ch12 *34 ch12 ch5 ch5 ch11 ch5 ch2 ch5 ch12 *1 ch5 *7 ch5 ch5 ch11 ch12 *3410 ch11 ch12 *91 ch5 ch12 *10 ch6 *1 ch5 *34 however, I'm not all certain that this meany anything... it's purely pattern searching at the moment.

is there any way the code could be hidden in the epigraphs from the in-world book, 'Words of radiance' ? we have chapter and page numbers for all those epigraphs...

hmmm... there are no '0s' in the code, except for '10'. you argument that these are single digits, 1-10, make sense. that would make the code: 1-1 1-8 2-5 10-1 1-1 2-7 1-2 4-9 1-5 1-2 10-1 1-1 1-4 10-2 1-5 1-1 7-1 1-2 10-1 1-1 2-1 7-1 3-4 4-8 8-3 1-1 10-7 1-5 1-4 2-5 4-1 4-3 4-10 9-1 6-1 4-9 1-4 9-3 4-1 2-1 2-2 5-4 10-10 1-2 5-1 2-7 10-1 5-1 9-10 1-1 1-2 3-4 1-2 5-5 1-1 5-2 5-1 2-1 5-7 5-5 1-1 1-2 3-4 10-1 1-1 2-9 1-5 1-2 10-6 1-5 3-4 with 32 unique pair combinations.... that's possible... or, if we read 10-1 as "11" and 10-10-1 as "21", the highest number in the list would be 21... 1 1 1 8 2 5 11 1 1 2 7 1 2 4 9 1 5 1 2 21 1 1 4 12 1 5 1 1 7 1 1 2 11 1 1 2 1 7 1 3 4 4 8 3 1 1 17 1 5 1 4 2 5 4 1 4 3 4 19 1 6 1 4 9 1 4 9 3 4 1 2 1 2 2 5 4 21 2 5 1 2 7 11 5 1 9 11 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 5 5 1 1 5 2 5 1 2 1 5 7 5 5 1 1 1 2 3 4 11 1 1 2 9 1 5 1 2 16 1 5 3 4 not sure how to tell the diference between 10-1 as "11" vs "10, 1" though.

no need to hoard gems. their stormlight is only valuable for very rare and specific purposes. Shallan's pretty much covered the worst case scenario already. In Shallan's Scenario: She needed to move an entire army. Using stored stormlight when there had been no recent high storms to replenish stormlight, nor were future high storms expected anytime soon. right there, that was probably the highest demand and least supply of stormlight-infused gems she's ever likely to face, and she solved it by stripping the stormlight out of the gems people were already carrying. Stormlit gems were rationed as flashlights after they arrived, but the next highstorm will recover the market. in the future, the market will be a lot more stable. persons needing to travel by stormlight platform will bring their own lit gems, and arrive at their destination with unlit gems. no real problem there. for the routine use of stormlight by knights radiant, you'll just need to make a deal with a moneychanger. for less than 1% markup, he should be willing to exchange dun spheres for stormlit ones indefinitely. the army-scale supply of lit spheres completely dwarfs any possible demands by three knight radiants, once the next high storm arrives. There might be a SMALL market correction, if the Alethi Treasury is ordered to maintain a strategic stormlight reserve for future emergencies, but it shouldn't be a very big one, and they can easily correct for it once they have reliable contact with outside markets.