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Thanks, i have visited that particular post a few times and got distracted and went off on a tangent each time. Glancing at it now I can see i'm not even 10% of the way down the list! Gives me something to read over breakfast, yayyers.

Can someone quote the WoB that states Adonalsium visited Roshar, I haven't seen that one and am having trouble searching it out.

Didn't the Shards send the Highstorms though? Why would the Crustaceans be the dominant lifeform on Roshar before Highstorms?

Hang-Egg as you so eloquently put it would do nicely. Or Armored Rugby.

It's been posted back on page 4 already, I only mention this because you may also have missed the excellent artwork on page 2, which is well worth a gander. That stick always makes me smile.

I thought Lift was just converting too much food into stormlight and not leaving her enough calories to keep her body healthy. Or it may be the transformation to stormlight only works on certain vitamins or elements. Eg rubies are corundum which is an aluminium oxide and some chromium. Much like vin was absorbing trace metals from cutlery Lift could be absorbing trace stormlight from tiny minerals. I shouldn't think there would be enough stormlight gained through the second method to fuel her activities though so my money's on a straight energy conversion.

Okay that's settled then, not sure which order yet but - Lirin for KR! Next on the agenda: Adolin the Skybreaker

This is great, got any more?

Did you mix those up? Caring/Healing is Lirin's raison d'etre. But then I always had Renarin marked down as Brave/Obedient so what do I know!

FYI that was your 777th post I don't understand how a sport that can't be played properly without modified armor, a prepared ground with distance markings, elevated goalposts can be so popular. The great thing about football is you can go to any expanse of land with a ball, drop down 2 random items e.g. water bottles, jumpers, traffic cones or rocks and you're good to go. I guess that's why Kabadi is so popular some places. Swings and roundabouts I guess. No harm, no yellow card.

Begone twisted one!

hehe sorry I was quoting from "The I.T. Crowd" fast forward to 1 min 45(ish) I really haven't followed football since I was a teenager except the internationals, but I can kick one around better than most ^^

I enjoy playing, but I only really watch it if I want to socialise with my brothers on the weekend as it rules their lives. I wouldn't be sad if it went the way of the Dodo and another sport stepped into its place. The trouble with Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.

His parents won't be in Hearthstone. Broken by the loss of his sons, suicidal and no longer willing to heal Lirin and his wife used the spheres to abandon their home. In the ensueing search for them Kaladin will have to travel to Kholinar, to seek out his wealthy light-eyed grandparents on his mothers side. While in Kholinar he'll have a lot of protecting to do while the riots rage. He'll eventually find them and discover that in his despair Kaladin's dad will have attracted his own crystalline or plant-like spren and after being informed of the first oath by Kaladin will start down the path of becoming an Edgedancer.

I contradicted myself in the above quote. Sesemalex Dar is the city that's built in giant troughs. I always imagine it like a beast has clawed the landscape from North/South, meaning they'll have protection from either of the Storms. This would still in my mind's eye give it one or possibly twofold rotational symmetry depending on the pattern. I'm wondering where Kharbranth would feature, but it's likely not a previous Capital city, I did toy with the idea that the Palanaeum might have been the original city, being shaped like an inverted pyramid, and some think it was cut by the Dawnsingers themselves. However it's part of the Silver Kingdom known as Thalath. Which also contained Thaylen City which like an inverted pyramid also has fourfold rotational symmetry. Meaning it could be a possibility that each city in a given Silver Kingdom had the same rotational symmetry ie all Alethela has 3, all Valhav has 6.

Jezrien: Would Brandon use a pure circular city to represent 1 rotational symmetry? Or a completely irregular shape like Sesemalix Dar. Nalan: The city that's built into lines carved into the rock, the one Kaladin asks Sigzil about if it looks how I imagine would have 2 rotational symmetry.

Before posting I had to redo the entire thing as I uploaded all the images in .png and the forum didn't accept them. Must have missed one, thanks Shaggai. The Willshaper isn't a match, but I linked it anyway because it got me thinking Glyphs may also have their own Cymatics, although without a Chladni set-up of my own it's difficult to experiment ^^.

Did Szeth's eyes glow because he had summoned the blade or because he was full of stormlight? Lopen is gonna be a Stoneward because he's Dependable / Resourceful

I know this has been discussed, particularly by Satsuoni and ccstat who provided most of these comparisons, but I thought i'd put the images side by side for the benefit of anyone curious about Kabsal's Cymatics. So what is the connection with all these Fractals, Cymatics, and Symmetry? I'm assuming the dawn cities were created by manipulating the surges of tension (to make rock into liquid) and then some form of vibration surge (cohesion?) to manipulate the liquid, then re-harden it when the appropriate shape has developed. What about the Julia Set Fractal of Roshar? Is a Fractal just a 3 or 4 dimensional Cymatic? Thaylen City: Cymatic Pattern at 2041hz: Akinah City: Fymatic from member Satsuoni?: Map of Vedenar: Hexagonal Cymatic Symbol Kholinar City Map: Cymatic Symbol: Misc. Order of the Willshapers: Another Cymatic Pattern: Mystery glyph: Snowflake(naturally created by Cymatics): I didn't even get chance to check out what Gemstones are like at the molecular level, and whether the are latticed in symmetrical patterns but this being Brandon i'm sure there's a tie-in with the above content. Credit goes to whoever created the images above, none of it is my own I just gathered it here for clarity. I trawled for hours to find these images and you would not believe the amount of hokum associated with Cymatics; ancient wisdom, hidden secrets, crop circles, healing crystals, how dare they hijack and soil mathematics in their greed to fleece the naive, anyway, blah I need to go wash my brain.

I wanted to say I was touched and got a warm feeling inside and it made me smile with a little bit of pride, and then my brain overrode my fingers because I couldn't think of a none-sappy way of saying that and it made me do the pun to cover my embarrassment but also still try to convey my pleasure.... Brains.... can't live with 'em...

oh wow you linked my post in your sig thingy! I'm delightfully flattered

The most impressive thing is Sanderson's creations are inhumanly brilliant. I don't even have the words to express exactly what it is that impresses me. He puts so much thought and effort into his work it's amazing. He threads together his stories like a master weaver, so that here we are months and years later finding new treasures with every new warp or weft we investigate. Then we find that the tapestry of each book is but a smaller part of something larger and our minds get blown anew. His dedication to the social aspects of his job, the interactions with fans seem to give him genuine pleasure. The way he adapts to the levels of his readership from Alcatraz through to the Stormlight Archive. The moments of realization you get when everything starts to fall into place and your mind races backwards and ahead at the same time trying to put everything together, so each book culminates in a race between your eyes and your brain that doesn't even end after the pages run out, the first lines of tWoA "I write these words in steel..." you know he writes with a cheeky grin on his face every time he drops a clue surreptitiously into an innocuous paragraph ("is it the heart of a beetle?"). The speed at which he does all this, releasing books ceaselessly all the while looking at adaptations into other media without compromising on quality while Rothfuss, Martin and Brett plod along with a book every few years (if we're lucky) is astounding. I want to talk about the characters like Jasnah, Marsh, Rashek, Kaladin but where to even begin, their depth, growth and realism is staggering. I don't like to bad mouth other authors but the truth is that readers have evolved, we're much harder to please than we used to be and many writers struggle to even escape the stagnated Hero's Journey or Monomyth. Many create original and entertaining stories which can entertain as long as you don't ask too many questions. A handful whisk us away into believable worlds populated with characters we care about, and if they manage to sustain the pace through to completion they are lauded as masters in their field. However, atop them stands one man, waving a Shardpen and pushing the boundaries of storytelling into dimensions we didn't even know were there. Seriously I've been at this post almost 2 hours and i'm just struggling to convey all the awesomeness into words, if someone with more eloquence than I would care to explain what so special about Brandon I'd love to read what I really mean, if you know what I mean.

Me also misread.

Have I ever mentioned my theory about what would happen were you to attached Shardplate onto a Chasmfiend? I don't really have one... but i'm assuming that it would be possible due to the plate autosizing to it's wearer, and judging by the helmet Kaladin wore becoming more glove-like when he put it on his hand, i'm guessing the wearing of Shardplate isn't restricted to humanoids.

This is possible, remember no one has even seen Urithiru before despite it being incredibly huge (the largest tower in the world), so we can surmise the mountain range it sits in has not been explored very thoroughly. There's a plethora of places where greatshells can be stashed away. Developing from beetles via Chulls and Chasmfiends into ultimately the Reshi Isles.