Is Worldhopping good enough

[Brightshade the Cunning]

My friend and I fell that there should be a better term for travel between shardworlds than "worldhopping". Do you?

[The Sovereign]

3 hours ago, Brightshade the Cunning said:

Yeah, we don't know if it's official either, we just think it could sound cooler.

Brandon has most definitely by using World-Hopping and World-Hopper officially. Best I can tell he has been publicly since September of 2012.
 

 

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Interview: Sep, 2012

Cosmere Q&A - 17th Shard (Verbatim)

E. Hyde

Since we generally don't see inhabitants of your worlds refer to their planets by name, where do the names come from?

Brandon Sanderson

From world-hoppers, Shards, and those who know about the cosmere.

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[Argent he/him]

The thing is, there are different ways to worldhop. So it's like trying to come with a better word for "traveling" - there isn't one. There are synonyms, and there are types of traveling, but there is no official word for it (other than itself). Same with worldhopping - there are synonyms you can use (e.g. moving between worlds), and there are types of worldhopping (e.g. Elsecalling, Shardpool skinny dipping, etc), but there isn't necessarily a better word for the collective process.

[The Sovereign]

1 hour ago, Argent said:

 and there are types of worldhopping (e.g. Elsecalling, Shardpool skinny dipping, etc),

*Nakedness encouraged, but not required.

[Eki]

I don't see any reason to change it... It sounds ok, describes what the process is, and (I think) is the "official" word Brandon uses as well.

[Brightshade the Cunning]

14 minutes ago, Eki said:

I don't see any reason to change it... It sounds ok, describes what the process is, and (I think) is the "official" word Brandon uses as well.

Yeah, we don't know if it's official either, we just think it could sound cooler.

[Jondesu he/him]

17 hours ago, Argent said:

The thing is, there are different ways to worldhop. So it's like trying to come with a better word for "traveling" - there isn't one. There are synonyms, and there are types of traveling, but there is no official word for it (other than itself). Same with worldhopping - there are synonyms you can use (e.g. moving between worlds), and there are types of worldhopping (e.g. Elsecalling, Shardpool skinny dipping, etc), but there isn't necessarily a better word for the collective process.

Upvoted just for Shardpool skinny dipping.

I don't see any reason to change the term for world-hopping either, but at the same time, it would be nice to have some clarifying terms that could be used for the methods.  At this point, though, we don't know enough about any methods other than using the pools or Elsecalling, so that's probably impossible to do.

[A Secret Corner he/him]

On ‎10‎/‎21‎/‎2016 at 5:21 AM, Jondesu said:

Upvoted just for Shardpool skinny dipping.

I don't see any reason to change the term for world-hopping either, but at the same time, it would be nice to have some clarifying terms that could be used for the methods.  At this point, though, we don't know enough about any methods other than using the pools or Elsecalling, so that's probably impossible to do.

Pools of the liquid form of gods, of the powers that created the universe... and all we can think to do is Skinny Dip... XD

[Brgst13]

On 10/24/2016 at 3:35 PM, Secrets said:

Pools of the liquid form of gods, of the powers that created the universe... and all we can think to do is Skinny Dip... XD

In all fairness, that's just the first thing we think of.  My next thought was to drink it.  I wonder what effect that would have.  Given that Ruin's pool let you see the future, and Preservation's turned you into an Allomancer, would Honor's allow you to Surgebind?  Would drinking from Devotion's well turn you into an Elantran?  Could the water be carried and used for a temporary aon boost far from Elantris?  And what would Endowment's do?

[A Secret Corner he/him]

11 hours ago, Brgst13 said:

In all fairness, that's just the first thing we think of.  My next thought was to drink it.  I wonder what effect that would have.  Given that Ruin's pool let you see the future, and Preservation's turned you into an Allomancer, would Honor's allow you to Surgebind?  Would drinking from Devotion's well turn you into an Elantran?  Could the water be carried and used for a temporary aon boost far from Elantris?  And what would Endowment's do?

Curious... I guess we'll have to dive in to find out...

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 Could the water be carried and used for a temporary aon boost far from Elantris?

No I don't think so, Having (a huge amount of) paper cards with Aon Rao's attached could help perhaps, especially off-world

Edited October 26, 2016 by Secrets

[Argent he/him]

11 hours ago, Brgst13 said:

In all fairness, that's just the first thing we think of.  My next thought was to drink it.  I wonder what effect that would have.  Given that Ruin's pool let you see the future, and Preservation's turned you into an Allomancer, would Honor's allow you to Surgebind?  Would drinking from Devotion's well turn you into an Elantran?  Could the water be carried and used for a temporary aon boost far from Elantris?  And what would Endowment's do?

I think this conversation would derail our already derailed topic