Miyabi

[Curiosity] Overall, who have been your favorite and least favorite character's Cosmere-wide, and why?

[Amusement] Cultivating Odium obviously leads to only one place. Batman.

[Resolve] I think that she was speaking more metaphorically as in the children of man and less Shallan's child. Though I absolutely love the thought that she might be pregnant.

[Consolation] It mostly depends on tone and the relationship with the person. Unfortunately in text we lose tone. One tone can be playful, another dismissive, and another condescending. [Consideration] That's why I started "posting with Rhythm." Mostly as a joke, but it also ended up being a fun way to make sure that tone is felt properly if something I say could be interpreted in an unintended way.

Not a therapist or psychologist, but I work in mental health/addiction recovery. I have a co-worker who is a therapist that is really big into fantasy who plans on soon getting into begin reading the books as she has read Wheel of Time. I could ask her if she would be interested in such a thing.

[Amusement] HAHAHA! Baby Kholin being a Yu-Gi-Oh! character is my new head-canon. Ya'll are out of control. XD

[Consideration] I think she was likely referring to whatever the Resonance is or what she can do by combining her two Surges. (We know this isn't distance Soulcasting as WoB is that anyone with Transformation can do that with practice.) Though, I do like the idea of her potentially lighting up an entire battlefield it doesn't seem likely. She had some pretty good gems in WoK and at least one of those broke from the strain. She also could have been referring simply to her ability to fight. I imagine she has been honing her combat abilities in hiding and could be an amazing duelist/fighter in hiding.

[Excitement] I guess I was kinda talking about both, but combining Surges is more what I was talking about. Such as Substantiation. Like, I knew this information I just didn't know if it was readily collected somewhere as I didn't see anything on the coppermind about it. BUT, now that I remember resonance there is some of that one the Resonance page. [Consideration] Though this indicates mnemonic ability as the Resonance granted to Lightweavers and we have no information outside of them and the Windrunners for certain. The Resonance itself doesn't seem directly related to the abilities that are being mixed. However, it seems Spiritually attached. Windrunners - Protect people by teaching them to protect themselves and others a.k.a. more Squires. Lightweavers create insane illusions which can be Substantiated when a high enough level is reached, hence memory being a big deal.

[Curiosity] Do we currently have a list of the tertiary Surges that the Radiants gain access to?

[Sincerity] I loved the concept of the title "The Book of Endless Pages." Others have already explained the reason for title change. If you haven't noticed each book has an in-world book with the title. We already have an in-world book called "The Book of Endless Pages." HOWEVER, we do have one difference here. Every other book has the in-world book in the epigraphs. [Curiosity] This could be cause for something new and interesting. IF Jasnah's book got called "The Book of Endless Pages," that could mean it was written by Shallan and is now being read in the Epigraphs. OR we're meant to THINK it was written by Shallan. For some of these same reasons I can understand "Stones Unhallowed," having been more appropriate at book 3. The last part of this has VAGUE details about WaT previews, but if you have read even the synopsis of what it's supposed to be about you should be safe. [Resolve] That said, the fact that the in-world book being titled "Knights of Wind and Truth" gives us an implicit title for the actual novel.

[Reprimand] I'm gonna let you finish, but bagels and schmear is best storming breakfast on the planet. [Amusement] haha [Wisdom] I can see why people might not like David. Though, I think for the age demographic he works well. Personally I found him endearing. [Curiosity] If you could have any TWO powers, each from a separate system, which would they be, and why?

[Joy] Welcome! =D [Appreciation] Your story was great, and well written. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. [Curiosity] Who is your favorite character so far, and why? Where are you from?(I you don't mind me asking.)

[Amusement] Oh, come on, it's only December in Utah. *hums*

[Despair] Well that's much less fun. [Amusement] lol

[Excitement] OH! Good catches! I forgot about Venli's work in a written language. [Consideration] The point about women's script is very interesting. If say, the height of a letter indicated tone and width length for the Dawnchant, you could literally glance at it and know the "tone" of the writer.

[Anxiety] Friend, where are your Rhythms? [Appreciation] *hums*

[Consideration] This is actually one of the best points in your entire post IMO. It's important to remember that some of the Radiant Spren are more Cultivation and some more Honor. As we've seen from such a small selection of Radiant Spren it is likely their affinity to Honor or Cultivation makes a difference in the way their bond works. [Excitement] We also have the new player to the field with Enlightened versions of Spren.

[Amusement] And I was all the way up north just outside of Sapporo.

And why is he drinking beer? Crackpot theory - (Spoilers for all the SA stuff + Sunlit) Spanish - ... I got nothin and I already WAY over thought this. XD Maybe just so the beer is "Crystal?" Then again, why not use Crystal Pepsi?

[Appreciation] Different teachers can definitely make a difference. I first learned Japanese in the states, but spent some time living in Japan and my host mom's job was teaching foreign businessmen Japanese, so I learned a lot from her. [Consideration] I HAVE seen what you are speaking of though, I believe that is an older teaching? Or perhaps different depths of learning? (i.e. we're often taught at one point there are 3 states of matter as it's a common/easy way to explain something until we have a different level of understanding and learn there are really 6 with sub-states within classical definition, plus whole other ways to go about defining matter) [Irritation] And I was using the word article above rather than particle which is my mistake. [Resolve] For this example, learning "masuka" "desuka" "nanika" etc, then learning the ka means something unknown about what proceeded it. [Consolation] There's also the fact that Japanese is so different from English that direct comparisons become difficult. And where we learned in totally different spaces there's likely room for either definition. [Annoyance] Though I tend to "need to know exactly" to a fault, which can definitely be a bad thing in certain cases. [Confidence]For me though, the understanding of ka's functions as a particle indicating something unknown has served me well. [Amusement] HAHA. I genuinely like the idea of "attuning the rhythms" in my post. XD

Sorry, but you're incorrect on the Japanese portion. Ka is an article indicating an unknown, not a conjugation. Nihongo ga wakarimasu ka? In that sentence both ga and ka are articles. Nihongo desu ka? (Is that Japanese[language]) also uses the ka article. It can also be used to say "either," Supeinjin ka Porutogarujin desu ne. (They're either Spanish[person]) or Portuguese[person], right?) It can also be used next to pronouns to make them indefinite. Nani (who) nani ka (someone) or doko (where) doko ka (somewhere).

Japanese is similar. I don't know how I didn't think of this. I remember when I came back from Japan I had a hard time with the fact that our language doesn't have the article "ne." Ne is used at the end of a sentence often to express things like humility or doubt. It's often used in a way that says, "those are my thoughts, but that doesn't mean those ae the only thoughts that apply." i.e. "The weather is good, ne." or "That was weird, ne." There are also other ka/no for questions yo for exclamation, etc.

Do we currently have evidence of them having a written language? I don't believe we do. I think the "hivemindedness" you speak of really boils down more to their ability to communicate with the rhythms. (I'm at work and can't really look up a direct reference atm.) We see a weirdness when they try to interpret human speech or even speech from Parshendi using the "old rhythms." Which I guess poses another problem, if he natural rhythms of the planet change and the ones the Singers use change, then older writing slowly becomes less transparent. I don't mean to add tone to each syllable. Something more like this: (And each of the brackets could be replaced with something else indicating the rhythm rather than specifically the word.) It makes it clear that my first question is curiosity and not sarcasm, but that I'm still confident of what I think. The first part of the second paragraph I think your idea has merit, but I'm unsure of it. The next part is me showing why I have doubt. And the final paragraph indicates that I'm vying for clarification. Come to think of it... we really should be writing like this with how much communication is text based. (i.e. I receive 300+ emails a day at work and on occasion have to call to clarify, even though what they said makes perfect sense, it lacks the context of tone.)

So, I was looking at @Treamayne's signature and it got me thinking. I know Singers have an oral history that they pass using the rhythms, but imagine they decided to start writing stuff down. This communication could either be the most accurate way of conveying what you mean, or the worst. Without rhythmic context, it would be atrocious. They rely SO much on rhythm for context that it would be a thing that didn't truly convey what was meant. However, if they added perhaps diacritical marks to indicate rhythm or changes in rhythm throughout their writing, could you imagine how insightful that would be? To not have to guess if the person was being genuine, sarcastic, excited, or saddened... That would be an incredibly powerful written language. And if you look at it linguistically we have in a way done this with our use of emojis as forms of punctuation to indicate tone.

Those are also many of the reasons I adore Renarin. The, "Look, I want to help, but don't acknowledge that I helped," thing is a total vibe. His assimilation to Bridge 4 was also very cool. I think that showed a lot of growth for their group at the same time. They went from "To Damnation with all Lighteyes," to "You're an outcast? WELCOME!" and I loved that. I was late diagnoses with autism, so the fact that he seems largely autism coded but there's isn't a definition for autism on Roshar reminds me of many of he feelings I had growing up trying to figure out why I was so "weird" compared to everyone else. Renarin goes through a lot of that, and it makes him super relatable. I'm not sure what all you've read but there are a couple spoilers from ROW and a little bit of WOB: