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I doubt it. We have a WoB which rather heavily implies that it doesn't matter at all for most surgebinding. Source: If it existed, Brandon really ought to have at least hinted at the kind of variability you suggest in that answer.

Nice work so far, Tempus. I'm trying to stay away since I'm not exactly unbiased, but I stuck a "disproven" or two on a few of my theories. Also, I've started following through on my threat: Here's a preliminary list of the threads I've started that need some updating love because of WoR. Now I just have to start remembering the innumerable thread-hijacking theories I've been part of...

I'm currently in the process of cataloging all of my theories that I need to disprove/update/improve with new evidence that flooded out after WoR's release (seriously, good work to all Sharders for asking and reporting this time around). This here, then, is an index of all of the relevant ones I can think of right now for your/my viewing pleasure. See it as a to-do list and/or as a reminder of the various crazy things I believe. Feruchemical Health and Cognitive Aspects: -Reaffirmed by numerous WoB's to extend to Stormlight healing. --Example: --Second Example: Stormlight retention as a function of gem size: -While initially dis-confirmed by Brandon to some extent, WoR makes it rather clear that gem size matters in how long things can hold stormlight, what with it's mondo-gems lasting longer and all. Traversing the borders of time bubbles (specifically the distension theory): -Totally disproven. The borders of time bubbles are in no way malleable. You stick your arm through, and the bubble's surface stays where it is while the effect travels with it. It's weird, as surface-questions ever have been. --Source: Spren as Forms: -Confirmed in its entirety. Spren are individual Cognitive entities, and each type is based on some singular Spiritual ideal of a concept. --Source: Forms in General: -Applies to more than a few theories all under the "Forms" umbrella. The above WoB has some rather heavy implications for other "Formic" theories as well. Forms and Divine Breath Healing: -Got this one more than a bit wrong. I reference the healing done by bestowing Divine Breath as one of the "core" pieces of evidence for Forms several times in various theories, and turns out I was rather wrong on it. Good thing I got Brandon to confirm Forms' existence elsewhere, at least. --Source: Hoid (probably) has Gold Feruchemy: -Given more weight. Hoid has some instant-speed healing that heals the soul, and so is not afraid of Shardblades (as we saw in WoR's epigraph...). While some other Cosmere healing magics could perhaps grow back your head or your soul, not that many are such that they can be applied to oneself at a moments notice and do the same. --Source: Aluminum is weird to everyone: -Ought to be expanded to "aluminum is weird to everyone" with the revelation that it interacts oddly with all magics. Feruchemical gold healing can't push it out and other weirdness surely awaits us. Also, it does interact a tad with Thugs. --Source: --Source: Personal identity and Clothing: -Clothing as "default a part of you" is backed up again and again, I think, in WoR, particularly in regards to Lashings. Note how even Kaladin's clothes do/don't stick to his Full Lashings according to which is more convenient to him. -The active inclusion/exclusion of clothing also gives very strong evidence to the tangential "are Lashings aspected to their originator?" discussion in that thread. Yet Another FTL Theory: -Took some hits and got some encouragement. We've long since found out that bubbles won't expand in vacuum, and the Distension theory (which was tangential but would have been nice to have) being taken down stops us from having teardrop bubbles. On the flip side, FTL likely involves time bubbles and nicrobursting. --Source: Stormlight vs. Feruchemical gold Healing: -Thoroughly hamstrung and then set on fire. This also spawned some follow-up discussion, but at the end of the day WoR teaches us that Radiants and those with Regrowth can both heal damage to the soul. WoR in general also teaches us that Stormlight healing is crazy-powerful and looks to be able to do anything that Feruchemical gold can do. There are no Universal Soulcasters: -A bit on the fence here. I'm leaning towards "no" given the whole "turned to stone" thing in WoR indicating that there is indeed some deeper bond between fSoulcasters and their users, and I find it personally unlikely that Radiants suffered those symptoms. The MEC: -Yargh, I really need to update this thing. Main takeaway that can be summarized in less than a thousand words is that the laws of physics in the cosmere are indeed Spiritually based, as many argued for/assumed in that thread and elsewhere. --Source: -Also I mis-modeled how Heightenings work, to some extent. See the WoB for Divine Breath above. Are Spren Vampires?: -Sorta-maybe, it seems. WoR teaches us that various spren are "in" the Physical to a greater or lesser extent, and then we have Rock seeing them all the time. My bet at this point is that Pattern would show up on the camera and Syl wouldn't. -Also, I neglected to update that thread with a RAFO I got: --Source: --- To reiterate, this is partly an update to my millions of loyal followers and partly a board-clogging to-do list for myself. Anything I missed, perhaps some sub-tangent in a thread I didn't remember?

Nope, just a player. If you want to find mods, Claincy, Kadrok, and Herowannabe have all been given undue amounts of power THAT WHICH IS THERE RIGHT UNDER THE COSMERE.

Ah, I didn't realize that was you. Continue about your day, citizen.

Well if you can't find any IRL players, there's always the dark recesses of the Internet... http://steelministry.com/

Oh yes, that. The actual context of Kelsier speaking. You're entirely right and I wasn't thinking clearly. Thank you for the correction, happy.

Also, @Youngy: It's almost certainly Spiritual rather than Cognitive for Lifesense. "Connectiony" things tend to be Spiritual in nature.

I think this qualifies for the "People to Avoid in Dark Alleys" list. Good catch. Added.

Probably only to those who have been spiked or (as some have theorized in the past) those with really really really high "faith" in him.

Check the spoiler section of the annotation.

Not quite right there, sorry. The period when Kelsier held (a tiny part of) Preservation was between Leras dying after chatting with Elend and Vin taking up the Shard.

Yes, it seems that Vin was Sliver. Source: - ("Vin Sliver" on Theoryland) Vin only ever "gave up" the power of Preservation the one time at the Well: the other time it was a matter of dying while holding it.

Yeah, it's a fun little tidbit. Though it can be a tad spoilery sometimes: for instance, whenever a Kaladin chapter has two Jezriens I mentally refer to it as a "Super Jezrien" chapter and know I can look forward to some serious Protecting/Leading. I EDITed in a bit more explanation into my post above.

@Aleksiel That is the Herald associated with Loving/Healing, though, and Brandon is in the habit of associating the appropriate Heralds with the theme/contents of the chapters. @Maxal He's referring to the human faces in the "arches" over each chapter. They correspond to the ones rimming the Surge chart from WoK. I forget whether we have direct WoB on this, but it's basically known at this point that those faces represent the Heralds associated with each Order, and in turn the Divine Attributes associated with the Heralds/Orders. You'll note that you get a lot of Vev (Edgedancers and Loving/Healing) in Kaladin's flashbacks to his training as a surgeon, for instance.

There's really no need for speculation here, I don't think. Source: As Cem said, Ym's spren looked nothing like Wyndle. Ergo it's of a different type and he and Lift are of different orders. Add that to Regrowth and it's not so much educated conjecture as a matter of fact.

This is incorrect. Dalinar specifically notes (and double checks) that his vision did not come during a highstorm.

Source: No need for upvotes. It was literally just a "Kaladin parents alive" search in Theoryland.

This thread might be of interest for the Parshmen discussion.

Not to decrease Futurama's glory at all, but the the Alcubierre drive is a fairly old concept.

One of the hazards of the profession, sadly. We have a lot of thoughtful people on the boards and their words are writ in stone. At least you're thinking about the right questions.

Probably not, given Miles and TLR. This thread also asked that question.

This thread may be of aid to you.

I'm glad to see you're getting this off the ground, Tempus. I do apologize for being so very intimidating. Just wait until finals are over and I can update all my theories for post-WoR information... This isn't quite all there is too it, actually. You'll note that there's a little "search limited from <one year ago>" note when you use the Content feature. If you really want everything you have to use the forum's Advanced Search (that little gear to the right of the search bar). First Match such that you "Only search in titles", then enter in the author and some absurd time-region (I usually do 2008 to the present). Leave all other fields blank. That'll get you everything. For me, that's 4 ( ) pages with the last thread (by last update time) being "My copy of Alloy of Law has shipped. . ."