BreathTaker Posted August 20, 2014 Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 So, I'm working on making a Shardblade for a costume and while I was on the Coppermind wiki I realized that there were only seven stances. Are there any ideas on what those might be? I only need Windstance honestly because I'm planning on being a Windrunner but now I'm curious. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Joe in the Bush Posted August 20, 2014 Report Share Posted August 20, 2014 They're each based off of one of the Ten Essesanses. And where on the Wiki did it say there were only 7? All the Stances Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreathTaker Posted August 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 It only gave 7 examples is what I meant. Most are pretty obvious what order usually used which such as Wind, Stone, Vine and Flame stances. But Iron Stance and Smoke stance, I have no idea. Smoke may be Elsecallers (actually now that I read the Blade forward, pointed at the heart of their opponent reminds me of WOR spoiler. Jasnah pointed the blade at Hoid's heart when she elsecalls I digress. What could the last three unnamed stances be and what order do the Smoke and Iron stances represent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted August 21, 2014 Report Share Posted August 21, 2014 (edited) It only gave 7 examples is what I meant. Most are pretty obvious what order usually used which such as Wind, Stone, Vine and Flame stances. But Iron Stance and Smoke stance, I have no idea. Smoke may be Elsecallers (actually now that I read the reminds me of WOR spoiler. Jasnah pointed the blade at Hoid's heart when she elsecalls I digress. What could the last three unnamed stances be and what order do the Smoke and Iron stances represent? There are only 6 examples given because we only know the names of six of the stances. Since each stance is named for an Essence, and each Essence is philosophically connected to an order it could be argued the relations are thus: Windrunners windstance Zephyr (translucent gas, air) Skybreakers smokestance Vapor (opaque gas, smoke, fog) Dustbringers flamestance Spark (fire) Edgedancers unknown Lucentia (quartz, glass, crystal) Truthwatchers vinestance Pulp (wood, plants, moss) Lightweavers unknown Blood (blood, all non-oil liquid) Elsecallers unknown Tallow (all oils) Willshapers ironstance Foil (metal) Stonewards stonestance Talus (rock and stone) Bondsmiths unknown Sinew (meat, flesh) HOWEVER, it is important to remember the stances are a modern thing. We do not know if they were used by the Knights Radiant, in fact given the Starfalls vision, it is unlikely they did. Dalinar uses smokestance, and neither Radiant recognizes it as "Oh you fight like a Skybreaker" if I remember correctly the Windrunner remarks that he has never seen someone fight like Dalinar did. So it is most likely the formal stances were not in practice back then. Therefore any associations are probably mostly philosophical. Edit: as for the names of the missing stances, there are a lot of possibilities. Each will likely be related to the Essence/soulcasting attribute. Edgedancers/Lucentia: crystalstance, glassstance, lightstance Lightweavers/Blood: bloodstance Elsecallers/Tallow: oilstance Bondsmiths/Sinew: meatstance, fleshstance (both kind of gross/disturbing) Edited August 21, 2014 by WeiryWriter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
name_here Posted August 31, 2014 Report Share Posted August 31, 2014 (edited) Check this thread for speculation on the stances. It's got WoR spoilers, though. Edited August 31, 2014 by name_here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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