Paragrin

Devi's a listener scout, so that looks good...

Agreed. Sebarial Princedom, Revolar, and Catacendre.

The only other thing I could think of would be Catacendre, being Sazed's Ascension, but I agree it's more likely to be Heightening. If both those hit we don't have any clues left, so pass?

Vin as the Ascendant Warrior for one, not sure about the other. 

Almost certainly Truthcall, being a Returned. The only other Nalthis-related space is Heightening, and this would be a weird clue for that. 

I'm still in. 

*pokes game* is this still on?

On 4/24/2019 at 8:50 AM, Jaywalk said:

Some of those ship names are hilarious.

https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/167075331232/prokopetz-the-fun-thing-about-the-rwby-fandom-is

"The fun thing about the RWBY fandom is that you can literally just make up ship names on the spot, and not only will they be totally plausible, there will be folks who will pretend they know exactly what you’re talking about.

e.g.: 'Oh, yeah, I used to ship Tequila Sunrise and Will to Power, but these days I’m all about Noodle Incident.'"

I'd like to play. I've been following the thread for awhile, and I've played this game in person.

On 3/2/2017 at 1:48 PM, Haradion Drogon said:

Hurricane for Kaladin maybe?

I wrote it...

Leads up to challenging Amaram in WoR.

I think it's kind of funny that this leads straight into The Reynolds Pamphlet, but that would work way better for the leak of the edited vision transcriptions than the aftermath of the challenge.

There's already a thread for that.

When Navani is reading the Eila Stele, it reads "They were a people forlorn, without home." When that passage is repeated in the epigraphs, it reads "without a home." Intentional? 

(Yes, I went over that very carefully to see if Brandon was pulling a Well of Ascension again. That's the only discrepancy, and it looks like a typo.)

The Fused in Celebrant had descriptions of most of their party, but was looking for an inkspren instead of a Cryptic. (He also doesn't mention Maya, and says "two or three" humans when we have four. Food for thought.)

Hmm. Nohadon lived and died before the Recreance, and Tanavast died after it. Not impossible (see: Kelsier) but he'd have had to find something to stretch his soul so he could stick around as a Cognitive Shadow. He'd also have to have known it was possible, and have had a reason to. 

That would be a good reason for Honor not having Splintered further since Tanavast's death, if someone had taken it even partially (ibid.) 

(Not to reopen the debate, but my two cents on the Splintering thing: the impression I got from the WoB's was that, no matter how many Splinters the Shard creates, as long as the Vessel is alive, they're a unifying force, something like a hive mind, and the Shard is "whole". Note that Brandon specifically said that Endowment is not considered Splintered, despite routinely creating large numbers of Splinters (although they may rejoin with her-- but that's another topic).  Once the Vessel dies, that guiding force is gone and the Splinters all fly apart like the bee ships in Star Trek Beyond. Some of the things the Stormfather says support this too - he changed, or was changed, when Tanavast died. It may be that maintaining this guidance requires the Vessel to retain a certain amount or percentage of the total Investiture. I could be completely off base, but I don't think anybody put forward this interpretation.)

Gah. The spoilers weren't supposed to be nested, but I can't figure out how to fix them. Oh well. Pulling the conclusion out for anyone who hasn't read HoA/SH:

Quote

This is very definitively coming from an external source, and it's in the same formatting. Just like regular thoughts inside his own head. And the person on the receiving end's only special qualities are savantism and a personal connection with the speaker. The outside force is contacting him. (There's a few more examples right around there, but that one was the first one I found and I'm not typing up anything else.)

The formatting is not evidence against it being an outside voice. It's not conclusive evidence for, either, but outside sources have used the same formatting.

3 hours ago, Ookla of Daybreak said:

Is he hearing a command, or is he telling that to himself? The words are in italics like regular thoughts inside his own head. The one that would make me think most he is conversing with someone else happens before the text that would signify the change that allowed him to contact an outside force. The text changes to resemble a Shard's voice only after Dalinar is in the act of Ascending. I don't see enough definitive evidence, either way, to show it's coming from an external source, and from what I see, I'm leaning towards it all coming from inside. 

Hold on. Let's jump books here.

Hero of Ages spoiler:

7 hours ago, Xavien said:

When WoR came out I wondered why they even have the spren appear as a physically directed weapon instead of just a small particle that flies around the battlefield based on the Radiants directed will.

Like Yondu's arrow from GotG.

6 hours ago, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Or for shock factor, a fingernail that is long (like a Seanchan finger nail), that can creepily grow and kill it's unsuspecting target.

Lust from FMA.

7 hours ago, hoiditthroughthegrapevine said:

Does this have to do with the limits set by the perception of the spren, if so this would open the possibility for a god sized hammer wielded by a certain bondsmith...

I'd had the thought for awhile that the Stormfather only said he wouldn't become a *common* Blade, so when Dalinar was walking into the breach with only the copy of WoK I had the mental image of him just turning to face the army and this giant Shardballista appearing. Completely the wrong tone after the buildup, but hilarious.

I find myself convinced by the "we (Odium and Dalinar) killed you (Evi)" theory because it explains why Odium is so shocked -- it's by her forgiveness. He made Dalinar kill her, she should hate him, that's what his plan was based on. He might have foreseen Dalinar reaching the Spiritual Realm, and making contact with her, and if she hated him it would help break Dalinar down even further. 

Rayse fell into the trap of assuming everyone would react emotionally the same way he would, and he hates. The shock isn't "how could you be here", it's "why would you do that". If he has any understanding of forgiveness left, it's in a very abstract way; he doesn't grok it.

Sidenote: this might also explain why Renarin couldn't see Jasnah prioritizing family over security. If seeing the future is of Odium, it might carry the same preconceptions. (If Odium even suspected a traitor in his ranks, he would come down with extreme prejudice. Be careful, Venli...)

10 hours ago, PeterAhlstrom said:

Mmmm. It does look like something funky is going on. I'll bring this to Isaac's attention.

Also, the curves on the silver/grey lines on the third/second-bottom dress don't seem to mesh.

My thought process when I read that went "Okay so Dalinar just united the three Realms, what's he gonna unite next? Honor? Adonalsium? The Cosmere's fashion sense?"

It seemed like a fairly obvious place to go. Maybe too obvious, or premature, but it was the first thing I thought of.

Thoughts on that persistent Unite them whisper being similar to Shardic Intent?

I can't not hear that in LMM's Hamilton voice. you stabbed him in the side yes he yields

Also, when Dalinar is going to trap Nergaoul and says "Hello, old friend", I just

Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again

Because these visions with the storms blowing left their seeds and they are growing

Kaladin, chapter 73:

From the Kelsier matchup:

“Well,” Kelsier said, “I don’t think it matters if you came back. We could just say this is me from the middle of the first Mistborn book. Besides, I think I eventually got better myself.”

“Doesn’t count. You became a disembodied voice that may or may not have actually been speaking into the mind of a young boy who was probably insane.”

“Yes,” Kelsier said, “but my series has a long way to go yet. Who knows what could happen? I’ve heard that some very remarkable things can happen with spikes . . .”

damnation brandon back at it again with the verging-on-brick-joke foreshadowing

Although I won't say the Sand Masters are knockoffs of Assassin's Creed like some commenters have been doing (yes, I know this was originally written well before Assassin's Creed came out in 2007, and the similarities are just "Cool guys in white robes with a hood"),  

I feel like if he was knocking off Assassin's Creed somewhere, it would be with the character called the Assassin in White that can climb literally anything and pulls blades out of nowhere.

Just a couple things. We don't actually know how or why Adonalsium died - it may have been the original Shardholders, maybe not. And Shattering applies to Adonalsium, Splintering applies to a Shard.