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I think it's also worth mentioning that Rock is now Nuatoma for his family/clan since all his older brothers died. I recall his wife trying to mention this and him sternly saying he's a cook now in OB. So, he's already kind of a king, but not of all Horneaters, just his clan. It will be interesting to see what he does with those Shards, if it weren't for them Kaladin would never have made it to Bridge 4 and saved the bridgemen, including Rock.

I think a better way of putting this is that inanimate objects "can" adjust to their new state relatively quickly. This is a guess based on common sense and other concepts similar to the Cognitive realm in the Cosmere, but I'd say the longer an object is viewed the way it is, the longer it holds itself together in the Cognitive realm. A statue that's been around for centuries, possibly millennia, will have a stronger Cognitive aspect than some jam that's probably been in its current form for a couple months or less. Organic material goes through changes much more quickly than inorganic material like rock, so it's Cognitive aspect will reflect what happens in the real world much more quickly.

Technically, you can try Surgebinding in The Way of Kings VR Experience. It's not fully fleshed out, mostly you just lash rocks in a direction and they fly in that direction. Pulling some of the feats that Kaladin and Szeth pull would likely induce nausea in the people susceptible to it in VR. I'm not sure I can recommend spending the $10 on it with everything going on in the world at the moment. Moving via steel/iron pushes/pulls would be a very interesting method of locomotion in VR that hasn't been explored, I'll have to try that VR Chat world.

If anything, I'd think the Unmade are Odium's equivalent to Heralds, not Thunderclasts. The Fused preceded the Oathpact, so I don't think it would have any impact on the amount of Fused there are. That's likely limited to willing Singer Cognitive Shadows and how much power Odium is willing to relinquish; if he gives up too much Honor and Cultivation could overpower him more easily. That balance may have shifted since Honor is dead, we could very well see new Fused before the series is concluded. Also, there's a bit of a difference between what Nightblood does to anything it "destroys" compared to what Moash did to Jezrien. Nightblood destroys things on all three realms, whereas what Moash did was more akin to capturing a Spren in a gemstone. Jezrien is likely to not be entirely dead, he's trapped like Dalinar trapped Nergaoul. As for the dagger that did it, I think that it's composed of Odium's Godmetal and he wasn't invested in the system enough for it to form before Aharietiam, that's just speculation though.

Pulled from the Coppermind: As to why they're more powerful, maybe the more a Fused gives their passion to Odium, the more twisted they become but also more powerful? And maybe Odium gets more direct control over them similar to Ruin and the amount of spikes someone has in them?

Supposedly, Nightblood was modeled after Shardblades, so Vasher and others had been to Roshar and come back to Nalthis before Vasher eventually took up more permanent residence on Roshar. Roshar has pretty easy access to aluminum through Soul Casting, so he probably just had a sheath made and then paid to have it Soul Cast.

Renarin's situation isn't exactly helpful in determining things like this due to the nature of his Bond. He very well might have different rules than a normal Truthwatcher. Also, I'm not sure I understand what you mean about him swearing three ideals between the arena and OB. He had been carving on the walls about the Everstorm well before the Arena, so it's likely he swore at least the Second ideal by the end of WoR. Whether he swore the Third offscreen somewhere in the beginning of OB, I can't say. But I don't see that as an impossibility, these books are long, Brandon can't fit everything in them.

Ironically, Aon Ati translates to "hope." To the OP; my guess based on various WoBs is that most humans descend from people who came from the same planet, Yolen, so various Cosmere languages are derived from an older language similar to how English, French, Spanish, ect. are all derived from Latin.

The only way I can think of explaining this is that Vin knows that each metal comes in pairs; the base metal and its alloy. I can't recall if she correctly paired Atium and Malatium or if she considered gold and Malatium a pair considering how similarly they work. But I think she knew that there was a metal in that grouping that was missing. I realize that isn't how those pairings actually work; electrum and gold are a pair and Atium is a god metal. But my guess is Vin thought of the twelfth metal as something she hadn't found yet that was paired to Atium or gold as she had realized that they weren't really a pair.

Could be that Sazed did something to give him back some of his humanity. In the audiobooks, he is less gravelly in AoL compared to HoA.

Not Decay, the one that was behind the Aethers.

I'd also like to point out that although the Shard hasn't been canonized, there is still at least one Shard from Aether of Night that is out there. Brandon has seemed to indicate he still wants to do an official version of that story, though when he will is undetermined. So, there's at least one Shard that isn't Splintered and there could be more that we just haven't seen yet.

My assumption is that if he transferred to the PR before they died, he would have sought them out. Though, if Harmony's perpendicularity isn't in Northern Scadrial, he might not have been able to see them before they died in the PR and unable to get there in the CR as you said. At least, I'm also assuming he can't just transfer in and out of the CR like an Elsecaller. We don't really know the timing of any of this though, so it's all speculation. I'd like to think he saw them before they died and if Brandon never clarifies I'll just keep that as my headcannon.

He spoke to Vin briefly at the end of Secret History. I imagine he spoke to Breeze and Ham at some point post HoA. Of the original crew, only Dox and Clubs died when/where Kelsier couldn't be there.

Yea, Brandon mispoke in the first one, the footnote clarifies it. Fortune is a Cosmere wide phenomenon and Feruchemy is one of the only confirmed magic systems that has it at the moment. Hoid uses some form of Fortune that allows him to determine somewhere he needs to be to see or do something important. The only other place we've seen it used on Sel in Elantris, spoilers below for that; It seems to involve knowing the future or somehow gives you guidance/direction based on the future. But yea, always read the footnotes, there are a number of WoBs that seem contradictory until you read those.

There's a lot of world building in the Graphic Audio version that was basically replaced by pictures in the graphic novel version. I understand why, but this was the first graphic novel/comic book that I've ever read that wasn't set on Earth, and I never realized how much you don't have to lay out when you're familiar with the setting like we are with our own planet.

I haven't seen a transcribed version, it's a verbal reading Brandon did at a convention. There's a video on youtube on Brandon's channel, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5zIA0SYU Again, it's from the unreleased book 4, so if you don't want even the slightest spoilers, don't watch that portion of the video. I don't know precisely where the Stormlight reading starts, I think it's somewhere around the 40 minute mark. It's an entertaining video throughout though, so I recommend watching the whole thing.

Yea, that Lift reading Brandon did recently seriously contradicted what everyone thought we knew about the Nightwatcher. Spoilers for unreleased RoW below: It's pretty likely. I think in WoR, Szeth was hanging around Urithiru and said that the stone there wasn't unholy to walk on for some reason. Probably won't get to know more about that until book 5 unless poor Szeth gets his book pushed back again.

It's from a sapphire, the different gems indicated which order of Radiant left the message. So that is most definitely from a Windrunner as that order is aligned with sapphires.

I listened to the reading last night while driving, he most definitely said it was an interlude. I don't think she had many if any viewpoints in OB either, she was mostly seen through other characters like Dalinar and Szeth.

It must have been really tricky for Cultivation to grant Lift's request to never change. It would be like asking Ruin to preserve you.

I think the whole champion thing has something to do with how Honor and Cultivation sealed Odium on Braize, the Intent of the shard of Honor, or The Oathpact. Preservation did something in particular to make Vin more Connected to him, I'm not sure that's been done with Dalinar in a deliberate way because obviously Honor is dead. Though by now, Dalinar is probably connected enough to Honor that he could pick up the Shard if it were not Shattered, similar to how Vin picked up Preservation.

I wanna see Kelsier show up in The Lost Metal. I wanna see Shai again too, seems like a waste to make such an intricate character for a single short story. I don't really care if I see Silence or Sixth of Dusk again.

To clarify, I am a he. We arrived at the same answer with different reasoning because we have different perspectives. It's not like this is a math problem where I arrive at the correct answer using the wrong formula. This was a question asking for an opinion on a binary choice, not a true and false question.