Kobold King

The most badchull social worker ever to grace the screen of a Disney movie. "Have you ever killed anyone?" "We're getting off the subject."

...At which point Cobra Bubbles turns up and has a direct confrontation with Darkness. And the resulting film franchise is the best one ever and I throw all of my money at it.

Vasher explains that Awakening is an art only recently discovered, and the first Returned wasn't long before the Manywar. Considering that there was Surgebinding on Roshar 4, 500 years before WoK, and there was Feruchemy on Scadrial well before the Ascension, Awakening seems to be relatively young.

Can Lilo meet Lift? Please? They can have a long and random conversation while Wyndle disapproves of Stitch.

As I consider different versions of werewolves from different folklores and franchises, I begin to contemplate the fact that we've yet to see a Sanderson version of the creature. And I weep.

"Interesting," said Kobold King, scratching his chin. "Very interesting..."

Grellin-pilgras! The Grey Pilgrim holds my theory and consumes it!

"Would you like to be a stick?" "I am a stick." "Yes, but would you like to be another stick?" "I am a stick!" "...Don't you think we've established that?"

Axies' notes about alespren would be pretty awesome as a tattoo.

So a Returned could use Stormlight, as well as someone with a Seon bond? Ooh! If any concentrated amount of Investiture can become a Splinter, like Nightblood and his Breath collection, could a nicrosilmind become a self-aware entity?

Hmmm. If bonding Nightblood were possible, why didn't he bond with Vasher? Or perhaps he did bond Vasher, which will be a plot point.

Sell. I doubt Hoid will stick with Jasnah very long. Nalthis will turn out to be preliminary worldbuilding for Stormlight, and a major character will visit there.

Buy Hoid is a self-insert, but it's awesome because Brandon Sanderson is, himself, awesome.

for speaking out

When did he do that? How do we know?

That is true. Remind me to upvote you and WeiryWriter when my quota refills. Probably answered already, but are some spren Splinters of Cultivation and Odium?

Ah... thank you WeiryWriter. This is the first time one of my theories has been confirmed so quickly.

I did a search, but I didn't find anything directly connected to this. Feel free to redirect me if I've missed something. We know of entities called Splinters--sapient fragments of one of the Shards of Adonalsium. We know of several varieties: Divine Breaths are Splinters of Endowment, Seons are believed to be Splinters of Devotion, Skaize of Dominion, and spren seem to be Splinters of Honor. I have been contemplating the possibility that Splinters, like the Shards they are derived from, possess Intents. A Shardic Intent is defined as the drive to act in accordance to the nature of a Shard. Thus, Ati was compelled to act according to Ruin's Intent, Tanavast was compelled to act according to Honor's Intent, and Rayse is compelled to act according to Odium's Intent. Each of the Shards has a purpose, and this purpose drives them to a certain type of behavior. The interesting thing is that Splinters behave in a way consistent with Intents as well--perhaps more specific Intents, but Intents nonetheless. Consider. When a Nalthian dies in a heroic way, a Divine Breath can inhabit his or her body and create a Returned. It is no secret that every Returned has a purpose for resurrection--every Returned comes back with an intent to perform a certain act. Seons stress the fact that they feel their purpose is to love and serve. This, to me, sounds like an example of entities acting according to Devotion's Intent. Transformative Cognitive entities (known locally as spren) also act according to Intents. Syl consistently keeps a firm stance about her status as an honorspren, constantly pushing Kaladin to act according to her own drive to behave honorably. Pattern is similarly fascinated by lies and truth, which could be related to an Intent towards honesty. And finally... Nightblood. Nightblood is considered a Splinter of Endowment, and he has the most conspicuous Intent of them all: destroying evil. So there. From my perspective, there do seem to be similarities in the ways Splinters act.. I don't know if there is a deliberate connection, or what it would entail if there was. But I thought it couldn't hurt to slam this observation on the table to be vivisected and analyzed in a cold, professional light. We're all professionals here, right?

Buy. Eshonai will use Nightblood to destroy her voidspren.

Buy. The name "Vasher" will be spoken in Stones Unhallowed.

Pleased to meet you! The name "Atlas Alexander" is incredible. I wish I'd thought of it for a fictional character first. Your job sounds stressful, and I doubt I could ever do it. But it's great that you're happy with it! We need more Loving/Healing Edgedancers on the forum.

Buy. Roughly half of the people who've said "sell" will be proven wrong.

Props graciously accepted. I really didn't expect everyone to hop on the roleplay bandwagon. I was also Vasher, Tonk Fah, and at least one other person over the course of the chat.

This game is awesome! I'll hesitantly buy that one. I believe there is a WoB indicating a bigger kandra role in the sequel. Lift will eventually be civilized and refined, like the Edgedancers of old.

Does this mean that conservationists are spren and the World Wildlife Fund is the Almighty?