ProfessorW

Babelfish?

Hmmm...maybe since the Dor is unrestrained around Sel, and is a source of immense power, the area in Shadesmar isn't under water, but under lava....

i started a reread of Elantis a few days ago, so i was perusing the board, and came across a topic on the cause of the chasm. OK, my first theory here on the 17th shard. Could the cause of the chasm have been a highstorm? The book states "It came with a tempest....The earth itself had shattered, an enormous chasm appearing in the south, all of Arelon shaking." I'm pretty new here, and even I see this as a bit of a stretch, but wouldn't that be cool? Perhaps as Hoid entered Sel, a piece of the highstorm came through with him...maybe he was running and in danger and had to leave suddenly in the middle of the storm? Or did he need to use the mass amounts of stormlight to "world-hop" there in the first place? Just wanted to make this a new thread to see if anyone one had some input. I'm ready for this to be torn to shreds!

I haven't cried reading many books (Stephen King's Insomnia comes to mind), but when I found out Lightsong's origin I shed tears. I actually teared up just telling my girlfriend about the story and that I actually cried.

(Spoilers, maybe?) i didn't read all of the posts, and if I'm repeating anyone's theory i apologize. I just started reading Elantis again today, and saw that the chasm forming and the earth shattering was accompanied by a "tempest". Could it have been a Highstorm that somehow "leaked" through from Roshar? I'm new to the whole Cosmere business, and that word just stood out to me. Maybe when Hoid world-hopped he was in some kind of danger and had to leave during a highstorm and part of it came through?

Sorry, y'all. My weekend has been pretty busy. I've read Elantris, the Mistborn books, Warbreaker, and the Stormlight books. Not an actual professor, just was my original name when I started playing Halo. I loved Warbreaker, just finished rereading it a few days ago. That black sword got me thinking... And have mentioned to friends that the Stormlight Archives are some of the best fantasy books that I've read.

If anyone has read Issac Asimov's Foundation books, I see Taravangian's thoughts and the Diagram to be like psychohistory. It predicts how populations react, but is not exact enough to get down to the individual level. That's how the Diagram is mostly right, but there are so many variables that even with his super-high sterile intelligence he cannot totally predict events.

hey guys and gals...