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Unless he secretly pocketed them before they swept up the hair..... jk lol

Just wanted to post to apologize that i had missed what was written on what is now page 4, so I did not realize Cam9ryn Stormblessed already mentioned Alcatraz. My thoughts still stand, but I thought that was the first mention of it lol.

Does anyone know of a way to take a picture of the broadsheets from an image online and blow it up to a newspaper size, but not degrade the image quality? I got the one from the Shadows of Self, but did not have a chance to get the first one, and I was hoping to collect them all, and frame them.

Basically. Well more the reason why few can do it. In the Alcatraz series by Sanderson (if you have not read it, totally do so, they are hilarious), the smedry's talent's are magic because only they can do it. The only way a person could attain a talent, is through marriage to a Smedry. Period. Meanwhile the abilities from the glass anyone could pick up and use. Ok so here is another example. The wizards and witches from Harry Potter is magic because only they can use wands to cast spells. Conversely the wands in one of Harry Turtledove's novels is science because the wands are developed like guns, and passed to soldiers who use the charges in the wands almost like muskets. edit: Where it gets fuzzy is when people start to figure out the origin of the smedry talents and the abilities of the glass. But I would be massively spoiling the series if you haven't read it and it is really worth the read.

Off the top of my head I believe you are correct. I do not recall seeing Hoid, Vasher, Galladon, Demoux, or Blunt attracting any type of spren either. I am trying to think if there were any other world hoppers mentioned in Stormlight that I may be missing.

Not sure I understand what you are saying. Everyone on the planet isn't magic using what was stated in Alcatraz. Awakening I believe would be science, but the returned would be magic. Since endowment picks. So someone couldn't one day decide to learn to be a returned. But someone could decide they wanted to learn to be an awakener and buy breaths.

I could have sworn there was a words of brandon somewhere saying theoretically you could bond to a "lesser" spren like a wind spren. You wouldn't necessarily get the powers, but you could bond them and do something different.

Hemalurgy would be science because anyone with the right knowledge could stab anyone from any system and gain any attribute or power. Awakening could be considered science too. Even if you are not from Nalthis, you could be given breath and then awaken. edit: Conversely allomancy would be magic because you have to be born that way in order to use it. So not anyone could do it. Unless you thrown the godmetals in. Then maybe it could be argued by ingesting a godmetal, anyone could do allomancy but I think that's a stretch.

Whats driving me crazy is I instantly want to know what type of spren are there

Didn't the Alcatraz series state that magic is when only a select people can do something while science is something anyone can do/use? So the talents were magic, but the various technologies from the glass were science. Though later that did begin to blur......

Exactly what I was thinking. If the various countries are damaged during the everstorm, but there are still leaders in place, then there is still a chance of fighting. It is shown time and again in zombie movies/shows. Everyone is ok as long as the leader is competent and everyone does as they are told. The minute one of the people decide "hmmm I can do better" and starts to work against the leader, does everything fall apart. So I feel the Diagram's logic is remove anyone in power, so when the apoclypse comes, Mr. T can come in and pick up the pieces uniting everyone without worry about infighting which would make the voidbringer's jobs easier.

I dunno. On one hand I like the sound of the theory, but it feels too loose to hold water. Sometimes the butler really did do it. Kal hasn't traveled anywhere beyond hearthstone, and getting to the shattered plains, so for him not to recognize an accent isn't a stretch. I would have to check, but I also believe anytime Drehy is referred to by physical traits, is what it is another character's POV that is not intimate with the bridgemen enough at that time. The first quote is the first time we really get a description of him which makes sense. The second is a personal choice to shave his head bald. The third is I think Dalinar after having just started to getting to know the bridgemen. The fourth is either Navani or Shallan. I can check to be sure. But regardless who was being spoken to in the third and fourth instance, it seems to me that he is being referred to by his physical traits so the reader can identify him without having to take us out of the narrative since the character being spoken to doesn't know yet Drehy's name. True there are a lot of seemingly innocent comments brought up in Sanderson's books that end up being important or hint something, but I do not feel this is one of them.

But last time i checked, (correct me if I am wrong), spren are splinters. There aren't any splinters on scadrial. Sazed holds both Ruin and Preservation. Unless new info has popped up. In that case, please link new WoB and color me excited lol. edit: hope i used the right terminology. its way too easy to confuse splinters, slivers, shards (sword and armor), shards (of Adonalsium), shardbearer (person who has sword and armor) or shardbearer (person who has a shard of Adonalsium) edit2: so argent just posted a thread referring to a twitter post of Sanderson's where somehow Rosharian Spren have gotten over to Scadrial.

I would be interested in seeing the kandra develop somewhat like the changelings in Dungeons and Dragons Eberron. If I recall correctly, they are born with a rough gender, but over time since they do not have any traits of their own they form 4 or 5 "personalities" based on people they see, clothing they gather and what they need at the time. Over time they revisit these personalities enough that it becomes incorporated into their identities that all 5 are themselves, but at the same time not. So eventually they see themselves only as a gender when they are that particular personality. So male or female would depend on the day you ask lol. To elaborate a bit more, kind of like making up a character, and pretending to be that character so much, that it becomes real, and by becoming real it becomes you.

From what I read, Dalinar didn't break any Alethi laws while at war. Why do you feel Nalan would try to get him?

Well also the big reason for the assumption that it is a fabrial, is that that is what it was called in the original writing. Then Sanderson edited it to call it surgebinding. Perhaps it was because for awhile I was confused and thought all fabrials were able to do some form of surgebinding. it wasn't till I think it was either moogle or weirywriter that pointed out to me that modern fabrials do not do surgebinding. That only the ancient fabrials did, and Roshar's modern day has yet to replicate it. So maybe the edit was to clarify that not only is this a fabrial, but it is an ancient fabrial of regrowth. But take what I say with grain of salt. I am no where near as knowledgeable regarding fabrials as a lot of people here.

So just to be clear this has nothing to do with my stance on abortion and such. Regarding the identity of the fetus purely in Sanderson's fantasy world, I thought an object's identity was also predicated on how OTHERS viewed the object? Which is why the stick said it was a stick, the boat the boat, and the chair a chair. It was viewed as a whole object, instead of its component parts, so it eventually took on the identity of the whole. So couldn't that theoretically happen in reverse? That although the fetus does not have any cognitive functions, the fact that the parents, family and friends of the parents view the fetus as a growing person, and name that growing person, then it could gain an identity that way? Which would also open up another whole host of questions. Such as if the parents knew the woman was pregnant, and happy about the information, so started planning (preparing a room, picking a name, buying baby clothes) would that fetus gain an identity, versus a situation where the mother either did not know she was pregnant or was hoping she was not. And thus by viewing the fetus at that stage as a part of her body, then it does not form its own separate identity till whatever the woman's ultimate decision results in.

Most of the questions you have posted on this site can be found in re-reads of Sanderson's books as I have pointed out to you in other threads. Most of the Words of Brandon are pieces of information that can be figured out in the book when really delved into, but helps those of us who cannot pour over every book with a fine toothed comb and allows us to gain a better understanding and enjoyment of the works he writes. The other portion of Words of Brandon are pieces of information that hasn't been brought up yet, but the very astute of this board have picked up and made theories about. Their inquiries are then brought up to Sanderson and he confirms some or avoids others. This board is where I learned about identity. Yet if you pay close attention, identity does come up in the mistborn trilogy, warbreaker, and stormlight as well as i think other works. Stormlight is also meant to be an epic fantasy like Wheel of Time. You are not going to get all your answers in the first book. That is not how epic fantasy works. If you wish to disregard WoB to gain a further understanding of his work, then get to studying the books you do like and you will find much of the same.

Oh totally, we are all in agreement that posting it was a great idea

So re-reading the rest of the passage, Kal never actually sees Shallan use the shardblade. She is up out of sight on the chasmfiend the entire time, so he never has a chance to see it as a dagger size. But that still doesn't explain how he could expect her to climb and cut handholds while holding what he would assume to be the sword the same size he held earlier when fighting the chasmfiend

Not to diminish the accomplishment of the RAFO at all, but just getting a RAFO does not always mean it is an important question. There are WoB where he gives out a RAFO and then explains it is not because it is important, he is just hesitant to canonize it at that point and wants to allow himself some wiggle room in the future if he changes his mind.

That is a good point. It could be chocked up to the fact that Kaladin was out of sorts due to his injuries and loss of blood but upon reviewing the section he does quite clearly and steadily remind Shallan that she could use her shardblade to cut into the rock for handholds.

Also when he confronted Taravangian (probably butchered the spelling), at that time kal did not exhibit any gravitation powers. All Szeth saw him do was survive a fall that should have killed him and heal a shardblade cut. Taravangian suggested that the regrowth surge from another honorblade is what let him heal the shardblade cut. Much later is when they fight by flying/falling and that is when Szeth is plain ole loco and just doesn't want to believe lol

also the emphasis you put on that quote is misleading. One, it is in comparison to shardblades, not other honorblades. So Szeth's honorblade is smaller than what we typically expect from a shardblade. We do not know the full capabilities of a herald, nor an honorblade held by a herald, so to assume the blades have to look the same assumes that the only things an honorblade can do is what a sprenblade can do. When in fact sprenblades emulate honorblades. I don't think it is a stretch to say that sprenblades could have started out the same size as honorblades but given they do not have as many abilities, they got bigger to deal with larger foes as the battles progressed. We both are assuming A LOT based on that WoB edit: reason for necro. this thread was referenced in another thread and upon reading through it all, felt that was pertinent to add

Honestly, having the initial information before I read this thread and the information provided from this thread, I am inclined to agree with you. I just took exception to Oversleep's comment to me that he didn't understand how I could say it was a generic term from a group of spren. Storms, I could say that the stormfather holds to laws highly because he is the one that accepted the oaths of the most of the knights we saw. Do I myself believe that? No. I was merely trying to explain why I stated what I did regarding the highspren term, and I accomplished that. edit: also regarding your compound word comment. People do refer to "emotion spren" and "nature spren". Which encompass numerous types of spren such as anger spren, gloom spren, glory spren, gravity spren, and so on. (found in book, WoR kindle edition page 70 Jasnah is speaking ""As do I. I suspect, personally, that these groupings of spren - emotion spren versus nature spren - are where the ideas of mankind's primeval "gods" came from")