Blightsong

I have been reading through the second mistborn series again recently and stumbled across some pretty good proof that Trell is Autonomy. When people talk about reasons for why Trell is Autonomy they often bring up evidence about how Bleeder said a lot of stuff about wanting to rid Elendel of the establishment and corruption present, but I haven't seen any one bring up stuff related to Miles. After finishing AoL I am more convinced than ever that Trell is Autonomy, and I have some quotes to prove as pretty good proof. In a Miles viewpoint chapter we get to see his thoughts, and he talks a bit about Trell. At one point he explains: "He was a man created to have a steady hand and an even steadier mind. Made by Trell, inspired by the Survivor, yet still weak." This doesn't really say anything about Autonomy, but in the same chapter, when he burns Allomantic gold he says: "But gold was not completely useless. Just mostly so. Upon burning it, Miles split. The change was visible only to his own senses, but for a moment, he was two people, two versions of himself. One was the man he had been. The angry lawkeeper, growing more bitter by the day. He wore a white duster over rugged clothing, with tinted spectacles to shade his eyes against the harsh sun. Dark hair kept short and greased back. No hat. He’d always hated those. The other man was the man he’d become. Dressed in the clothing of a city worker—buttoned shirt and suspenders over dirty trousers with fraying cuffs. He walked with a slouch. When had that begun? He could see through both pairs of eyes, think both sets of thoughts. He was two people at once, and each one loathed the other. The lawkeeper was intolerant, angry, and frustrated. He hated anything that broke with the strict order of the law, and meted out harsh punishments with no mercy. He had a special loathing for someone who had once followed the law, but had turned his back upon it. The robber, the Vanisher, hated that the lawkeeper let others choose his rules. There was really nothing sacred about the law. It was arbitrary, created by powerful men to help them hold power. The criminal knew that secretly, deep down, the lawkeeper understood this. He was severe toward criminals because he felt so impotent. Each day, life grew worse for the good people, the people who tried, and the laws did little to help them. He was like a man swatting mosquitoes while ignoring the gash in his leg, an artery open and throbbing gushes of blood onto the floor." From these two viewpoints, we see the man he could have been, a law keeper, like he was before involvement with the Set. We also see the actual Miles, and what he sees wrong with, essentially, what he was in the past. He says that he loathes that the 'lawkeeper' let other choose his rules in the past, and how he now hated anything that stuck to the law and punished others with no mercy. This is the exact rhetoric you would expect to hear from someone who was influenced by Autonomy. Judging by his comments about how he was heavily influenced by Trell, I don't think this is a coincidence, and that Trell is Autonomy. Let me know what you guys think!

I dont think Brandon would include something that breaks physics for nostalgia's sake unless he could come up with a Realmatic explaination. I'm not saying it has the same orbital height of earth, im saying it may be much closer, by scale, than earth is to the sun (but obviously not inside of it). I dont doubt that a Shard is powerful enough to maintain a habitable climate on a planet in this circumstance, and its the only theory i can come up with to explain this without studying. Although my planetary physics is weak, I wouldnt be surprised if I am embarrassingly off the mark here as far as plausibility goes.

I'm not sure, and the PDF that I used to read it doesn't have a find in page function. Look at the star chart for Taldain. The sun seems much closer to Taldain than is normal or reasonable. The star charts obviously aren't to scale, but my theory is that the sun is legitimately extremely close to Dayside, and that autonomy has altered the goldilock zone in some way to allow Taldain to be inhabitable.

What I described is what Kenton describes in the prose version as well.

Just because scholars might know about the planets doesn't mean it is anywhere near common knowledge, or that it is something often thought about. It surely is, because they do have a cognitive representation, but it makes way more sense for that representation to be small than for it to be large. We have WoB that the Oathpact still functioned in some capacity, thus it wasn't fully broken as you suggest. Regardless of WoB, it is evident in the fact that Odium wasn't able to invade Roshar. Also, we really don't know enough about the Oathpact to say for sure that Taln by himself can't do a sufficient job compared to all 10 heralds. I mean, he held out for 4,500 years. That is a longer gap between desolations than any time previous (by the best guess of the people who've worked on the Cosmere timeline, which is a pretty good one). I also want to point out that the Ten Essenses most likely arent based in actual Realmatics or science. Khriss says as much in the ars Arcanum. I like the effort and thought put into this post. I've had similar thoughts regarding the gas giants. Brandon has said that there is something bigger going on in relation to them.

Think of it like this, the sun doesn't move in the sky but when someone moves the sun will change position in the sky. If you tape a sheet of paper to your ceiling it won't move, but if you do you have to look in a different direction to see it. Daylanders can use this to tell where they are in relation to other places.

A few points to consider. Why would something named after a Herald gain a large cognitive representation just because people think about what they are named after. If a building is named after Kelsier, does is it thought about more in general because Kelsier is worshiped, or does it only get thought of by people that know that the building exists? I think you shouldkeep in mind that the populace of Roshar as a whole probably dont know too much about astrology. Also, the oathpact wasn't completely broken, Taln still kept Odium trapped for thousands of years.

He's blazing through it!

This is a common theory, but not a commonly accepted fact. We have no WoB. We do have WoB, although, that Hoid said Adonalsium because he suspected that Dalinat had a similar level of knowledge about the Cosmere as Gavilar, and that he was checking his suspicions.

We recently got WoB that the scholars have some level of fame throughout the worldhopping community for being pioneers of exploring Realmatics, and they got around the Cosmere themselves, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Hoid had ran into them. As for the theory, I've seen others like it before but I've always thought that we have too small a sample size for me to be convinced of this just yet, but I think with what we do know it's a reasonable theory. The thing that turns me away the most is that Kaladin had effectively mastered Gravitation while only on his 2nd oath, while Shallan was technically on her 3rd during most of WoR and still couldn't Soulcast a dead stick (although a possible world hopping one at that /s). It just seems discordant to me. I think this just comes down to practice, and availability of use. It seems to me that Shallan hasn't mastered transformation because it is a hard thing to practice compared to lightweaving. Similarly, Lift didn't have many dead friends around to resurrect a bunch (although she did use regrowth to grow some plants, so she was using that surge in some capacity). It also seems to me that this kind of thing would have been revealed to us by now, one way or another, but I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I'm a little confused about what you're trying to get at with your conclusion.

Some advice I like to give newbies; if you want to know more about the Cosmere check out Theoryland. It contains almost all of the information Brandon has given us on his books and the Cosmere.

I'm partial to Sharder, and it's the one I see used most.

I think there was an old thread, buts it hasnt been commented on in awhile. If your at the signing, post anything interesting that is said

I think people associate Cultivation with nature too much in the context of the shard. The Shards all seem to be abstract ideals, and Cultivation in the sense of agriculture seems too worldly. The more abstract definition for Cultivation is 'refinement' and i think this fits better with what we have seen on Roshar, especially with surgebinding. My ideas for dishardic intent are: Cultivation+Odium=Corruption Cultivation+Ruin=Destruction Cultivation+Endowment=Philanthropy Ambition+Ruin=Ruthlessness Ambition+Autonomy=Greed Ambition+Dominion=Conquest Autonomy+Cultivation=Reform Autonomy+Devotion=Egocentricity Autonomy+Honor=Decorum, Dignity Autonomy+Endowment=Sacrifice Autonomy+Ruin=Deprivation Endowment+Honor=Inspiration Endowment+Odium=Contamination I'll probavaly post more tomorrow, its getting late.

Brandon has confirmed that this happened because metals are keys to investiture. What wax and Kel saw glowing were invested objects. Also, Brandon has said that the Bands of Mourning are magnitudes less invested than Nightblood.

My sides are in orbit.

I don't see why it would be a RAFO unless the answer is "neither*.

Yea, it was also in AU, we know that Dominion and Devotion had a polarized relationship.

Probably Pat Rothfuss' Sympathy. It allowed for so much cleverness in the main character's problem solving.

This WoB suggests that Investiture is different from what makes up the spiritual realm.

I agree with @BlackYeti here. Unless Khriss is lying to us here I'm pretty sure Identity is of the Spiritual realm.

I've been focusing on this topic a lot for some theories of mine. What are your guy's thoughts on how connection works, what identity is, and the like.

Yea, despite not being computer related, Nightblood basically is an artificial intelligence.

Brandon and his team have been working on draft 2 and draft 1 simultaneously, so I doubt it was an error.