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Couple issues with your timeline, though I'll admit the communities understanding of the timeline is a bit wonky. If I remember correctly, Sigzil spent a fairly significant amount of time with the Dawnshard, it wasn't just a momentary thing. He gets to the 4th ideal with both his Honor spren and Auxillary and from what I recall he spent multiple years with Aux before accidentally "killing" him with the Dawnshard. 

The other thing is that I don't think Hoid can just give up the Dawnshard and become capable of violence again. He held it for much longer than Sigzil did and was much more affected by it than him. 

I don't feel like getting downvoted into oblivion on reddit for daring to ask a question about Brandon and Audible, but it very much looks like Defiant is going the secret project route of not being on Audible. I swear I heard Brandon allude to this on a recent update video, but can't recall whether he elaborated on it elsewhere and I missed it. Is it confirmed that Defiant won't be on Audible in the US? I don't have a strong opinion on it either way, I'd just like to know where to buy it.

2 hours ago, therunner said:

No Lightweavers can transport themselves into Shadesmar, it is mentioned in RoW (chapter 22)
They can slip there themselves, but they cannot bring anyone with, nor can they get back.

So on its own not very useful except as emergency escape.

I saw that in the coppermind immediately after I commented and didn't believe it. Did you actually go verify that in RoW? Lightweavers obviously need to see into shadesmar to make their power works, but it seems like a weird overlap with Transportation to be able to actually go there. 

2 minutes ago, Firesong said:

They are capable to bringing themselves into Shadesmar. It is required for Transformation. Transformation and Transportation are very closely connected Surges. 

Ok, I figured that's what you were referencing. They can see into Shadesmar, not full on transport there. They are there for some intents and purposes, otherwise it wouldn't be dangerous, but they are not physically there. 

34 minutes ago, Firesong said:

I think that Skipping is unique to Hoid/Sig's Dawnshard, as we know one Dawnshard is different from the rest, and I feel it makes sense for this to be Hoid's. It would just make sense to me. 

So, I don't think Skipping would be a generic Dawnshard ability. iirc, not even Hoid had the ability to Skip. So it might even be something unique to Sigzil, maybe the result of a combination of the Dawnshard with Radiant abilities. Or maybe Hoid was holding it when he became a Lightweaver, and it took Lightweaver's limited teleportation ability, and modified it as it connected it to the Connection of the Dawnshard, and made it more Spiritual in nature. And this was able to be transferred to Sig, giving him that capacity. But that is just be spitballing.  

Unless I'm mistaken, Lightweavers don't have a limited teleportation ability? It's just the Willshapers and Elsecallers that have access to the Transportation Surge? 

Something similar to this was asked in the reveal livestream:

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Daniel McCarthy

Could you charge spheres with this sun?

Brandon Sanderson

You could charge spheres with this sun. If you managed to find spheres that didn't melt. You could also charge White Sand with this sun really easily, and then you would have melted sand.

Secret Project #4 Reveal and Livestream (March 29, 2022)

So, it looks like you could technically leave a gemheart out to be charged, but it would probably also melt after being charged. 

It's entirely dependent on which Shard the Investiture is associated with. Some Investiture like Honor or Preservation is more prone to be stuck to the planet than others like Endowment or Autonomy. 

1 hour ago, Nameless* said:

1) Most likely explanation I can come up with is they can track Sigzil's Skips somehow.

My guess is that they took someone from Roshar that was Connected to him and like they plan to do with Sigzil, they turned them into a spike that they can use to track him. 

I seemed to recall a WoB from the Q&A Brandon did shortly after revealing this project, I think it clears this up:

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Questioner

Are there planets in the Cosmere in which there is no Investiture, and could Sig accidentally skip there and get permanently stuck?

Brandon Sanderson

There are no planets with no Investiture. You would have to have no matter in order for there to be no Investiture, because matter, energy, and Investiture are the same thing. There are planets where, let's just say, natural sources of Investiture that are easy to reach are not present. So you would have to figure out another way to make this all work, which would be very difficult. It is possible for him to get there, but the way the magic is working is he is being drawn partially to sources of Investiture, so it's highly unlikely he would end up on one of those planets.

Secret Project #4 Reveal and Livestream (March 29, 2022)

Some of the artists who've done work for Brandon's books appear at Dragonsteel and have booths to sell their artwork. I was able to commission a bigger version of the Kaladin/Syl piece Howard Lyon did for The Way of Kings leatherbound at Dragonsteel last year. Doesn't look like Aliya Chen sells her pieces through her website, so a booth at Dragonsteel or a future offering by Dragonsteel through their online store are your likeliest options. 

The leatherbound The Way of Kings kickstarter did give permission to print art files they provided as long as the copyright information was displayed and you didn't attempt to sell it, but unfortunately I'm not seeing a similar provision for the secret projects kickstarter.

On 7/1/2023 at 10:46 AM, Pagerunner said:

Maybe it's just like an Emperor's Soul situation, where Brandon says that he wasn't intentionally writing a story about how he picked up the end of the Wheel of Time, but boy it's hard to deny that those influences are in that piece. Since he's an author and all, he might have been a little more plugged in to AI advancements than I was, so this might have stirred his subconscious in 2021.

I...never saw the connection between Emperor's Soul and him finishing WoT, but that makes total sense. My mind is blown

3 hours ago, LabRat said:

Taldain has oceans? I missed that when I read the comic, though I did only read it once.

They cut part of the opening sequence of White Sand which involves Khriss and her companions arriving on Dayside via boat out of the graphic novels. Can't remember if it was in the Graphic Audio version, I think it was in there though. And I consider the Graphic Audio version to be the most canon because it's officially published and has a lot of information the graphic novels just couldn't convey with the limited amount of text they can fit in dialogue/thought bubbles.

I've been convinced it's being told to someone(s) on First of the Sun for a while though. The "speaking minds inhabiting ships you've seen landing on your planet" combined with the fact that Brandon thought we should be able to figure out who it is given some clues makes me believe that this is simpler than most people are making it. 

It's been a while since I read the sample chapters for this one, but it almost sounds more like the rock stacking magic system, not the Nightmare Painter one. 

5 minutes ago, Stormtide_Leviathan said:

Yes and no. Think of compounding. An electrum misting can burn feruchemically charged electrum for a different effect. (Yes, in existing instances of this, the person has also been a ferring of that metal, which you might say is the reason they can do this, but I'm not sure that's true. Vin's experiment burning one of Sazed's metalminds indicates this- she felt the power, it wasn't just a normal effect, she just wasn't able to access it because of identity issues.) Adding investiture to a metal can change the effect, but doesn't change who can burn it. Godmetals are just solid investiture. Alloying a godmetal with electrum is probably, imo, like adding investiture to electrum by storing in it, just on a larger scale. So anyone who can burn electrum can burn the alloy. Godmetals can be burned by anyone afterall, and it would make sense that adding electrum means it can be burned by people who can burn electrum, rather than needing a whole new set of mistings.

This isn't quite how compounding works. A metalmind that someone can use for compounding isn't just metal with investiture added (and it's also worth noting that the investiture stored by feruchemists is extremely minimal compared to the pure investiture of a god metal). A compounder is using the investiture that fuels their allomantic abilities to instead fuel their feruchemical abilities. And they very much do need the ability to use that feruchemical ability to preform compounding, the identity is not the only component to that. 

You're not just adding investiture to a metal, you're alloying it which creates something new. And alloying metals does indeed change who can use them aside from Mistborn.

23 minutes ago, Stormtide_Leviathan said:

It would make way more sense if the "atium" mistings were really just electrum mistings, and i don't think anything in the text invalidates that possibility

I'm sorry, but no it actually creates a bunch of plot holes in Era 1. Electrum was known by the Steel Ministry and they tested Obligators for all the metals, not just the ones TLR let the public know about. Yomen would have been able to burn electrum and atium when he was tested. Additionally, Preservation programmed the Mists to snap people to be able to burn one of 16 metals, which included both electrum and atium. I respect the theorycrafting, but that is just simply a fact you can't logic around. 

You are right in that Brandon wants to make atium more accessible and I alluded to the fact that the metallic arts aren't quite as set in stone as we're lead to believe. Sazed evidently can just change how a lot of this stuff works and it seems even other factors can affect how the magic systems work(see the hemalurgic spike limit described in TLM Ars Arcanum). But, for Era 1 and Era 2(given that none of this was explored in depth in any of the Era 2 books due to lack of atium), it would be too much a retcon to have Mistings able to burn their respective alloys of atium. 

3 hours ago, Longshot97 said:

Do you have a citation for this? Because to this point, I've assumed that was up in the air, whether or not nalatium mistings are actually electrum mistings. There's evidence for both sides.

I will say before saying this that things aren't always as clear cut as we're lead to believe. But, Mistings are only supposed to have access to one type of metal; whether it's a base metal or an alloy, they only get one. So, electrum mistings being able to burn the electrum-atium alloy shouldn't be possible. Maybe there are shenanigans that come into play with god metals, but we don't really have any evidence of that. In addition, I believe one of the types of Mistings the Mists were snapping in HoA was electrum Mistings. And that would kinda throw off the whole 16 aspect that Preservation was playing on. 

I'm not completely sure how they behave when they're unbonded, but the fact that Szeth was able to train on all the ones the Shin had seems to indicate they give Surgebinding abilities regardless of whether they're bonded or not. Either that, or there was some sort of rotation where they switched off, though I can't fathom why they would do that. I suspect bonding it is a similar process to bonding one of the deadeye Shardblades, just speculation on my part though. As for Bridge 4, none of them bonded the thing, that's why it was able to be stolen like it was. Simply holding it granted the Windrunner Surges and the ability to draw in Stormlight much like (spoilers for Mistborn era 2, specifically Bands of Mourning) 

I just figured he liked how they taste. Kandra love rotten meat, and given that he seems not to care how off-puttingly non human he is, he just eats what he likes. 

I knew he was lying about his nature of being a rat pretty early on. There were constant situations where Tress would say or nonverbally arrive at a conclusion that Huck could be of use for something specific because he was a rat. And then he would remember mid sentence that he was a rat. Probably should have realized who he was sooner than I did though. 

On 1/2/2023 at 1:43 AM, Oltux72 said:

So you are making the assumption that the Kandra scattered immediately after being released from Harmony's service?

 

Dare I suggest Microkinesis?

That raises a fundamental question. We have multiple interstellar empires. Yet we also have multiple relatively primitive planets. So many that many of them are still being discovered. I can see no way this is possibe unless the Cosmere has hundreds of inhabitated worlds. That means that our view of it must be highly skewed towards atypical worlds.

 

I looked up Xisis on the coppermind when his name was dropped in the book to see if we had seen him referenced before. One of the things listed under attributes is speculation that he's a 10th level Awakener because he can control cloth without vocalizing a command.

And it seems to me that a theme of the secret projects is that the cosmere has many more inhabited worlds than most people thought(or at least more than I thought). 

On 1/2/2023 at 10:22 AM, IndigoAjah said:

Well, 2 seas made up of small, spherical solid matter that's all basically unique invested objects and acts like a fluid.

In the postscript, Brandon mentioned that he has some sort of fascination with large bodies of liquids that aren't water. 

I think focusing on things Hoid refers to relating to himself or specific cosmere concepts he mentions are misdirects. Hoid is very much known for saying things that we the readers understand because we've read the various Cosmere stories but the person he's talking to does not. The fact that he mentions various things like Worldbringer or Aviar doesn't necessarily mean he will or intends to be understood. Given that, I think focusing on facts that he reveals about the person(s) hearing the story are the best way to go. And the comment about being invaded by interstellar ships makes me lean heavily towards this being someone(s) from First of the Sun. 

You would likely need unkeyed Dor to manage it, which based on context seems more valuable than an equivalent amount of Investiture worth of Breaths. So, yes it's possible, but I don't think there's many scenarios where someone would take the time to craft a Soul Stamp to get themselves Breath and in the process use the more expensive unkeyed Dor instead of just finding someone to buy them. 

On 12/2/2022 at 2:56 AM, JustQuestin2004 said:

Do the Southerners have any Trellium to make nukes of their own?

The Set were operating the airship that Wax allowed the Malwish to use for their return trip in BoM. That's the only place I can think of where some might have been left that they would have had access to that we saw on screen. There's no telling if they ever had secret dealings with the Set in the intervening years between BoM and TLM. 

13 hours ago, Rorzikel said:

From Words of Radiance, Interlude 2

 

Huh I guess I missed that. Follow up question would be, exactly how golden were the men of red and gold?

I think Brandon did confirm that Hoid and Sigzil held the same Dawnshard

I thought the Iriali just had gold hair, not gold skin?