Jump to content

The One Who Connects

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    3315

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by The One Who Connects

  1. The One Who Connects
    Well, The Alethi (and likely others) breed Parshmen slaves. The Parshendi have Mateform. Is it too much to believe that these "last vestiges" are descendants of the survivors? Although, we shouldn't put it past an Immortal to lose his sense of time passing. Days become weeks, etc..
  2. The One Who Connects
    I feel like Elend flaring would still be under TLR. Elend + Duralumin would definitely be stronger, but I'm still of the "TLR is overpowered" mindset Otherwise, good chart. Well thought out, easy to read, fairly accurate as well.
  3. The One Who Connects
    And other times he feels like he's given us too much info already at that signing/Q&A and RAFO's whatever he wants to so he has stuff to write a story about
  4. The One Who Connects
    From the Steel alphabet page on the Coppermind. (The symbols are for Zinc) The far left symbol is in Ancient Terris. Image 2 is an intermediary, something slightly more akin to the Steel Alphabet. Image 3 is the Steel Alphabet we all know and love. The last image is in the Modern Day Steel Alphabet, of Wax/Wayne's time. What this implies, at least to me, is that the two languages diverged sometime around the intermediary (image 2) because they are largely the same symbol. I say around because had the intermediary been the common ancestor, all of the Feruchemical symbols should appear similar to the Allomantic ones. Most of them do, but not all. The Feruchemical Symbol for Zinc is largely the same as the Allomantic one, just rotated 90 degrees. Brass however, has no such easy explanation. Zinc and Brass (Rioter & Soother respectively) Brass is also the most different, barring Atium. The other symbols that are different are Tin(easiest to reason through), Steel/Iron, Aluminum, Pewter, and Brass/Atium (most changed) All of the other metals (including Duralumin) are either largely unchanged or have a simple logic to them, like Zinc did in the above example.
  5. The One Who Connects
    Part 1: No idea Part 2: Kredik Shaw (on the Luthadel Map) Part 3: Atium Part 4: Lerasium Part 5: Aon Ire (As Eki said) Part 6: Harmonium (As Eki said)
  6. The One Who Connects
    I like this example, since it has similarities to what happens. Granted, I disagree with the upside down concept for Ironpulling at least. Ironpulling is the same as what I understand Spiderman to do with his webbing, just without a visual rope for the pendulum model.
  7. The One Who Connects
    Commands are partly carried out by the Awakeners mental visualization of the Command. So making something intentionally vague has.. risks. Although, if you have a good enough mental picture you can probably make any command work. Edit: Also, Lifeful?
  8. The One Who Connects
    Fair point, I apologize for the mistake. I shall correct the first line to be about the Lord Ruler.
  9. The One Who Connects
    I hadn't considered that idea. It also would definitively explain why Aimian wouldn't have it's own Sea, as there are too few who use it due to the Scouring. Now I have to go find the thread where we learned the language groups in the first place I genuinely want to see what discussion has happened there since the last time I read the post.
  10. The One Who Connects
    The way I saw it was that TLR ascended because he used the Well, which was all of Preservation's liquid investiture. Similarly, in HoA, Vin only ascended after she had breathed in all of the mists, the gaseous form of Preservation's Investiture. During the TLR fight, she only breathed in a small portion of the Mist, which made her powerful, but not "Ascension powerful"
  11. The One Who Connects
    So unless his heart rate had been really high, the pause is only long enough for an exchange of two or three short sentences. It's hard for me to imagine that snippet of conversation taking more than 8 seconds, even if Nalan speaks calmly and slowly. For the purpose of the honorblade summoning comment, I think Nalan waited to respond to what Lift said, just as he allowed Ym to get a line in before his death.
  12. The One Who Connects
    One thing to consider about spike placement has to do with Marsh in HoA. From Vin's PoV, he has "upwards of 20" (I think the exact number was 22, don't quote me on that, I'm not sure right now) The point being that Vin sees enough to say almost/more than 20 while he is facing her, so ~20 visible from the front. For the OP, I've made assumptions on placement, but if you want a Marsh-Inquisitor model, I have the metal types of spikes he had. I agree with Stark though, it's probably better to stick with the base 10 at first.
  13. The One Who Connects
    I believe Brandon said that it interpreted for itself becasue the sword had no concept of "Evil." Something with a less.. conceptual command might have less gray area to misinterpret in the Command. It'll still interpret it in some fashion due to having a mind, but perhaps with less extreme results
  14. The One Who Connects
    The Eighth Heightening grants instinctive Command Breaking, yet there are people in Hallandren who Lightsong goes to for that very thing. The Fifth Heightening gives us the answer. You gain some resistance to aging as you gain breath. You don't just suddenly "become ageless" when you hit 2,000 Breaths. It stands to reason that you gain some small modicum of instinctual understanding as you go and it plateaus at the respective Heightening. Edit: Is it a surefire explanation of how they figured it out? No. Is it more likely than pure trial and error? Yes.
  15. The One Who Connects
    Source
  16. The One Who Connects
    Here (Spoilered for size) Oathpact, Are you implying the Recreance is related to Honor splintering? People have theorized that it was a dead sprenblade, that his insanity has made him forget, even that he was distracted by finally having caught his quarry Edit: Aaaand Spool ninja'd me
  17. The One Who Connects
    Technically, Abrasion is the Surge of Friction. So it stands to reason that (just as there is a reverse lashing) Lift could use abrasion to become less slick and do some things. Not sure if that would let her climb as who your quoting suggests, but...
  18. The One Who Connects
    Source and Emphasis
  19. The One Who Connects
    For the Recreance itself, no.
  20. The One Who Connects
    I will yield to the correct wording of "not directly." I was thinking of a different WoB where he used "tangential effect" (Why Odium could splinter Honor) Brandon saying that it was "Not a direct result of the Oathpact, but the Oathpact was part of it." leads into you and Yata's theory ideas quite well.
  21. The One Who Connects
    I see no reason to doubt this possibility, language has to have a fairly large presence in the Cognitive Realm. I'm slightly nitpicking the 3 language groups line, because Brandon has technically given us 5 basic language families. It shouldn't be too much of an issue since I can semi-negate 2 of them. Vorin (Sea of Lost Lights) - Fallen Radiants, the military culture, I fully agree with you here. The Silver Kingdom of Natanatan (now the Shattered Plains) resides here. And we know something happened there. Here's where things get.. difficult, as the Makabakan Silver Kingdom (and modern day Azir, the prime language of the family) reside atop both of the remaining Seas, geographically. Makabaki (Sea of Souls) - This one's a bit of a stretch. There are about 30&some-odd branched out languages, Makabakam was the largest of the Silver Kingdoms.. Perhaps it is the Sea of Souls because of the sheer amount of people residing there? Dawngate - Shin, Parshendi, Horneater. The 3 cultures are very spread out among the landmass. Perhaps they are simply not dense enough to form a Sea of their own? Iri (Sea of Regret) - Pure speculation. Half of Iri split off into the nation of Rira, a possible regret. The origin story of the "City of Shadows." Other history we haven't been made aware of yet. Aimian - confined to Aimia, 2 very different languages. Conflicting/not meshing as the cause for no Cognitive Sea? Side Note: The Natan have Aimian ancestry, but the Silver Kingdom they resided in (Natanatan) is on the other side of the Continent of Roshar. Additionally, Brandon puts the Natan language (Nathan) autocorrect?) in the Vorin language tree. You heard it here first ( ) I imagine its something obvious like the Expanse of Storms. With the way we are putting Vibrance to Nalthis, I figure making the ones we don't get to read be obvious names is allowed.
  22. The One Who Connects
    Trust me, a lot of us have that problem on here. Same with using "Mr T." for Taravangian
  23. The One Who Connects
    You may very well be correct, but I still favor the other idea thrown around here. They are all tortured until one of them breaks, meaning the one with the least mental fortitude was the torture timer. But with only Taln, Odium has to snap him instead of whoever it normally was. Taln, being the living embodiment of a Stoneward, is strong, stubborn, and hard-headed. So it took much longer because Taln doesn't crack. I agree with most everything else after "As a result, the peace is much longer..." Except this, for reasons the people of Roshar would not know. But Taln would, and he would remember this if he remembered enough to explain the Oathpact to begin with. The reason being that "Odium was not part of the Oathpact." Him being trapped by it was referred to as a "tangential effect," which implies that the Oathpact wasn't even about him to begin with. (Great, now I've just given myself even more unknown variables.. )
  24. The One Who Connects
    This part here, I .. almost believe. There was another revelation recently (which I cannot find while wading through reddit) relating to the Mr T. not wanting the Parshendi to attain a Radiant bond. The "it will form a bridge" passage. If he killed off the minds working towards Stormform, they may have reached a "Radiant-form" first, thus screwing up several pages of the Diagram and the Overall Plan. Edit: Speaking of bridges, didn't the Parshendi grab Stormform in response to Kal having Radiant powers? Had they refrained for crossing that bridge and became Radiant allies, who knows how the world may have changed.
  25. The One Who Connects
    Closest we've got is Ben Mcsweeney's concept art of the Lord Ruler Image 1 , 2 The second was a concept art for the company pitching a Mistborn movie back in '12.
×
×
  • Create New...