Shardcast: A Certain Scadrian's Bones, JordanCon 2021 WoBs Part 2

You guys are so rigid, technical, pedantic, and dependent on Brandon clearing up any and every thing for you that any ambiguity on Brandon’s part completely short circuits you.

Embrace the ambiguity.

Embrace the magic and fantasy of the stories. 
 

Embrace not knowing if it’s really Tien and really Nohadon and having to make your own judgement call. 

Regarding the Tien and Nohadon, I have absolutely no issue with that being up to interpretation, and I really like Brandon not discussing the Beyond or anything like that. I quite like that. Others may differ  

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55:54: "And like, Brandon already pushed Words of Radiance back.  Words of Radiance was 'supposed to' be November 2023, he pushed it back to March."

 

Umm? 

1 hour ago, Mason Wheeler said:

Umm? 

Alternate timeline, please disregard

I've always interpreted the "Bondsmiths bound other Surges" as the way people formed bonds with spren on Ashyn: they clearly didn't have anything like a naturally occurring Nahel bond (that was only discovered on Roshar), so the Bondsmith (possibly the person holding the Dawnshard that binds) Connecting individuals and spren  and therefore granting Surges was the only possibility.

Also, Edgli is totally a dragon

On 8/29/2021 at 1:45 PM, Mason Wheeler said:

Umm? 

Meant 2013  

On 8/29/2021 at 8:35 PM, KandraAllomancer said:

I've always interpreted the "Bondsmiths bound other Surges" as the way people formed bonds with spren on Ashyn: they clearly didn't have anything like a naturally occurring Nahel bond (that was only discovered on Roshar), so the Bondsmith (possibly the person holding the Dawnshard that binds) Connecting individuals and spren  and therefore granting Surges was the only possibility.

I could be forgetting the context to that quote, but I think I lean towards pre-binding Rosharan magic being more OP, like maybe surge binders had access to more surges at a time (or all). Then after the binding, surges were bound to each other in the way each Knights Radiant order only has 2, and each surge is bound to two others.

Honor being dead had an effect on Dalanars bondsmithness, does that bring him closer to an old-time Ahsynite bondsmith? Is that a reason he can push the stormfather around?

On 2.09.2021 at 4:34 AM, FictionSpren said:

Honor being dead had an effect on Dalanars bondsmithness, does that bring him closer to an old-time Ahsynite bondsmith? Is that a reason he can push the stormfather around?

Yeah, that's probably a main factor. Both because Honor no longer puts restrictions on Surges and Dalinar probably has enough Connection to Ascend if Honor hasn't been splintered. Who knows about the Ashynite Bondsmiths though, they could have used Dawnshards and it's hard to compare power levels with the limited informations we have