The One Who Connects

From Khriss's Threnody Essay: An unpredictable transport system doesn't seem very conducive to reliable interplanetary trade. But other than that, your ideas make a good bit of sense.

The problem with equating it to the Returned is that I don't feel they are an equivalent to Spren before they become a Splinter of Endowment. Most entities on Roshar would be composed entirely of Investiture, and I would put the Unmade in this category so that they can affect/reach all sides of Roshar without needing a physical body like Returned. I don't think a living entity made of Investiture is on the same level as a dead body connected to a soul with a fragile tether. I suppose it could also be semantics, but at least I've made my opinion on this clearer now.

Not sure if I necessarily agree with this theory, since I don't like the idea that something being corrupted by Odium could count as a Splinter of Odium, but I only have one WoB of any note. If you follow the idea that the Parshendi Gods are the Unmade, then my above statement about whether corrupting=splinters comes into play with the bold statement. Otherwise, you've written this well. Nice job

What prevents Brandon from doing another story where the resident Shard(s) are like D&D? We don't have a location of death from Ambition as far as I'm aware, so it could still fit. We also know that unsplintering a shard is doable, so after several millennia on a planet that Odium couldn't have been meddling in since he's trapped on Roshar, anything could have happened. I'm not saying that Ambition is there, merely that it wouldn't a plot hole if they were there.

I'd figure it has something to do with the strange experience of losing most of your senses(sight, hearing, taste, smell, balance(inner ear), etc..) all at once for a few seconds as your head regrows. And if the head regrows from the neck up, you might regain those senses from the neck up(mouth, nose, ears/eyes) and I think that'd be very disorienting to the unprepared. Maybe he hasn't had to deal with something like that in centuries, or perhaps disorientation from mass sensory loss and a staggered restoration is unavoidable?

@hwiles I could make the case that the nature of Feruchemy protecting you from the effect of your own power prevents the skin from ripping, and that since it only protects up to a certain extent, you would start to snap once you go any further, but there's no basis either way without further examples of F-Pewter. Both of your suggestions make sense though, hrmm... Agree to disagree that our 3 potential scenarios would only happen if someone tapped far more than would be physically practical? After all, the practical limit doesn't necessarily have to be the same as the hard limit.

The problem with your supposition is that Cultivation can't do that, but Odium could. It doesn't fit that a Shard could grant access to the investiture of another Shard.

For the second time today: "Honor was still alive when the Heralds did their thing" They abandoned the Oathpact after the Final Desolation, and Honor was still alive at that point.

Thanks for the clarification about Tin-Sight. I mentioned that version of double pewter earlier, but still think you'd hit a hard limit on the Feruchemical side. Calderis made a valid point that A-Pewter could raise that limit, but it only gives you so much. A Compounder burning both types of Pewter would essentially be the Cave Troll from Fellowship of the Ring, but with normal intelligence.

Biggest issue with my old project. Granted, I had the ability to use normal human names and mostly tried not to, but it's still annoying to do early on.

Counter-intuitively, you could go to the Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon topic. Ask your questions to us there, and if we've got answers for them, you'll know about it pretty soon. Additionally, responses with no answer replies are ones we probably haven't asked him about yet. If any of the questions there strike your fancy, feel free to copy them down with any questions you've come up with.

I do not know what effect this will have on your overall theory, but this statement is entirely inaccurate. Honor has memory of the Recreance, which is roughly 2 millennia after Aharietiam. Additionally, Honor was alive when the Heralds abandoned the Oathpact after the Last Desolation. Emphasis(Bold) added.

I'd had to reference that post of mine more than once, and timeline issues are a source of major annoyance on here(evidence: this thread ) so I want to get it out of the way once and for all. You'll find countless others on here that are equally overboard about other subjects.

The Reod was only 10 years prior to the book taking place. Odium was long gone when that happened. As for the cause, we've no solid idea yet. You can search around and find all manner of ideas and theories. If you want a much more detailed history of Sel and surrounding events... 0 AS (After Shattering): The Shattering Happens Date Completely Unknown: D&D go to Sel at some unspecified time after the Shattering Date Completely Unknown: Odium visited Sel and killed D&D, creating the Dor Roughly 2,800 AS, Roughly 6000 BE: Odium gets trapped on Roshar 6,000 AS, Roughly 3,000 BE: Stormlight Prelude, Final Desolation Unknown AS, 10 BE(Before Elantris): The Reod Unknown AS, 0 AE(After Elantris): Elantris(Book) happens B/w 1,000 and 1,400 AE, 0 AH(After Harmony): Ascension of Harmony Roughly 10,500 AS, 300 AH: Stormlight Archive(Books) happen

I don't remember if this was an old source or a current one, but I remember somebody mentioning that he planned Dragonsteel to be 7 books (3 prelude, 4 modern day or something like that?) Elantris is meant to be a trilogy by the way. It was in the 2015 State of the Sanderson as the small books to balance out Stormlight 4 & 5's releases. He pushed it back since it isn't in the 2016 release outline, but unless he states it isn't gonna be a trilogy, I'll trust that number. 10 SA, 13/14 MB(3 Trilogies and 4 books in W/W Era.. Does Secret History count?), 2 Warbreaker, 3 Elantris, 7? Dragonsteel, and White Sand. That's 35(37 counting White Sand and SH), so there's room for maybe 1 book in a 36 book timeline. Edit: Would White Sand be in the Short Story category?

He's more exploratory than you think. The "odd ardent" that Rock chases out of Bridge 4's area was Nazh(From when he was observing the bridgemen to make the brands/tattoo illustration). The endpaper of WoR is a page from Navani's journal that he "acquired" and made a copy of. I imagine there'll be a lot more of his illustrations in the next book.

Yea, this one bothered me too. I'm not actually sure who posted the link when I bookmarked it, so I can't give proper credit, but I noticed the Sparkflicker entry Botanica used for their art in there, so it's a starting point. I'll edit that in later if I find it.

I wouldn't count this for two reasons: As Calderis said: they aren't permanent. Vasher is living proof of this. It doesn't necessarily fit the way you become a Savant. Reaching a Heightening can occur by getting all the Breath at once(The God King, Returned) or by adding one or two at a time(buying Breath) Savants permanently expand the size of the pipe letting power flow through them, while an Awakener's pipe doesn't appear to change size in most cases because it doesn't have to. Unless you either [A] are given enough Breath at once to force it to expand or [B] use enough Breath at once to force it to expand, you won't expand that pipe and become a Savant. Given that you gain the benefits of the Heightenings even if you get them one at a time(or else people wouldn't buy their way to the 5th Height. for agelessness), they don't seem to be viable as Savant perks. Additionally, since we don't know where that pipe threshold is, we have no idea if anyone on Nalthis could've reached it.

This makes me wonder why the Mistborn doesn't. If they go in just as many directions too quickly, they should get just as disoriented, right?

Little of both. He wants each series to be self-contained, but the major developments (Ascension of Harmony, whatever happens to Odium at the end of Stormlight, fixing AonDor, etc..) are milestones of an overarching storyline. It'd just be.. less obvious unless you read all the books with that intent. For instance, if Odium is the one harassing Harmony in MB Era 2, that fact wouldn't hit as hard unless you'd read Stormlight and made those connections. It's still a well-written story, so its not a big deal.

Do the Diagrammists know, or does Adrotagia know? He's the author of this footnote after all. Maybe he knows more than he's let on, to us and to Taravangian. The intended audience of those footnotes isn't known to us, after all.

Mind posting the specific passage(s) that imply Worldhoppers? It'd change how we interpret them. For instance, I only remember the one with the vague "could this be Mraize?" footnote. A note by Adrotagia accompanies this excerpt asking whether it refers to Mraize.[16] Conclusion 2) Since I don't see any other passages that imply other worlds, I don't think the Diagram contradicts itself. Taravangian might have misinterpreted what he saw when "the world opened to him" though. Can't directly refute Conclusion 1 though, even though I don't like it. He thinks he can shelter humanity to outlast Odium, but just gives up on other planets who don't have Shardic conflict on them after a small glimpse?

Because you give it a counterfeit soul.