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I'm not really sure where to land on whether that is the Stormfather or not, but I figure I'll throw in a couple of observations. First, if that is indeed the Stormfather and he did lie to Gavilar, then he's equally capable of lying to Dalinar. The whole thing where he doesn't seem to know stuff until Dalinar does it or really pins him down on a point could be him withholding information, but being incapable of stopping Dalinar from figuring certain things out. Second, the whole "I won't trust the Kholins" again might be a misdirection for someone/something elses benefit. Recall that the Sleepless from the OB interlude didn't want the doomed crew from learning too much lest they reveal certain secrets in Akinah to someone/something that could interrogate them or their cognitive shadows upon death. He may have been trying to obfuscate who his next candidate was, as he had stated that Dalinar had potential. 

A point in favor of this being a fake Stormfather is that it would not be impossible to fake the visions. It always occurred to me that the visions seem like extremely lifelike Lightweavings. The people who see the visions move around in the physical world exactly as they do in the visions, so someone could be deceived into believing a Lightweaving is one of the visions. Dalinar can't be deceived like that at the point he is at because he seems to have learned to see the visions without moving, but Gavilar may have never learned to do that. The Stormfather might have sent him some visions, but gleaned that he wasn't a good candidate and moved on. Then someone else manipulates Gavilar into thinking that he's talking to the Stormfather and feeds him bad information. 

It may not seem relevant now, but I think all Cosmere books/stories will be relevant to a certain degree. Do you need to read all of them to understand what's going on? No. But, even the smaller stories seem to get more and more relevant with each book, especially with respect to the secret projects from the Kickstarter. 

The real troll answer would be Shallan. I don't trust a thing I see in her PoVs anymore, so techinically, I don't know her well at all. 

I have a feeling the eye color based class system is beginning to erode. Jasnah is already taking steps towards changing Alethkar's class system by outlawing slavery and Dalinar even started chipping away at it when he made Kaladin the captain of his guard back in WoR. 

I just noticed this when checking the Arcanum for some WoBs; the sample chapters that Brandon has been narrating on Youtube are in the Acranum as text. Although I'm a big fan of audiobooks, I know some others are not and would prefer to read the chapters themselves instead of having them read to them. You can find them at https://wob.coppermind.net/

It's been a while since I read the prose version, but I recall running into similar issues. I think I converted it into an epub or mobi at the time(can't remember if I was using Kindle or Nook) and it just didn't work well. I then tried converting it into a pdf which worked better with my e-reader at the time. Though I feel like it still wasn't great and just ended up reading it on my phone, which wasn't exactly fun either as it involved a lot of scrolling and zooming in or out, but hey it worked. 

Technically, there could be hundreds, thousands, maybe even an infinite amount of different types of spren that could be created by combining Investiture from different shards. And then there's also the possibility that Sja-Anat can change(corrupt/enlighten/whatever) any of those to something different. 

As it stands on Roshar, there are really 12 different types of Radiant spren; the 9 from ordinary orders and the 3 Godspren for Bondsmiths. Then there's ostensibly 9 additional spren that can form Nahel bonds; versions of the 9 spren from ordinary orders that Sja-Anat corrupts. 

Yea, given that the 5th ideal doesn't seem to confer something significant like the previous ideals, people have theorized that the Stormlight efficiency upgrade will be big. At least, assuming there isn't more to the 5th ideal than we know which is entirely possible. 

12 hours ago, StanLemon said:

Plus, it doesn't take much Atium to live centuries, a single bag has lasted Marsh three hundred years after all.

That's not necessarily true, it works with diminishing returns. The longer TLR did the atium trick, the more he needed to stay young. 

18 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

One of the common conceptions I've seen on compounding nicrosil is that you can do this in order to increase the power of one your abilities temporarily. Compound, for example, your ability to use steel Allomancy, tap it at a quick rate, and your ability to use that specific power will be increased.

If I understand that WoB correctly, Nicrosil can't work like that. For ordinary Feruchemy, you're storing a specific attribute for a period of time at a specific volume. With copper feruchemy, you're taking a specific chunk of memory and storing it in the coppermind. The limitation there being that the memory degrades like normal if it is taken out of the coppermind. Unlike memories, Allomantic and Feruchemical abilities don't seem to degrade over time for individuals. So, unless there's some sort of degradation to the Investiture somewhere in the process of compounding, the ability should only ever get permanently stronger when compounding. I imagine there's likely some sort of upper limit to the strength someone could have, likely TLR was at or close to it. But, I don't see how the relative strength of the Allomancer/Feruchemist is going to hold anyone back for long given they have plenty of Nicrosil. 

3 minutes ago, Frustration said:

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TheFulgid

Could you Invest... Could you use a nicrosil metalmind to Invest the sort of Investiture enough that you could open a Perpendicularity up to the Cognitive Realm?

Brandon Sanderson

So, I'll just say it this way. Enough concentrated Investiture in one point is going to pierce the Realms, no matter what form it takes. 

TheFulgid

...So, it doesn't have to be a nicrosil metalmind.

Brandon Sanderson

No. 

TheFulgid

Okay... But it could be?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. That is theoretically possible. 

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Yea the way he answers that tells me it's possible, though not at the convivence level of an Elsecaller(I was thinking more along the lines of an Allomantic ability). Though this might have some serious utility in making perpendicularities on worlds that don't have them or to make/reinforce a beachhead on a hostile world. I do still think it would take enough resources that it wouldn't be a super common occurrence. 

2 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Componding Nicrosil.

Is there WoB on that? Seems like that would take a serious amount of Nicrosil to pull off. 

On 2/13/2022 at 1:33 PM, Bzhydack said:

We dont even know how (or if) Scadrians are able to go into Cognitive, outside the Perpendicularity(ies?).

Unless there's a viable metal we don't know about, possibly an Atium alloy, there's no currently known way besides the Perpendicularities. 

2 hours ago, Nesh said:

I find it unlikely that such a thing could be predicted.  What Ba-Ado-Mishram did was an anomaly, it had never been done before.  So, it likely wasn't what happened to the Singers.  We know there were no Deadeyes before the Recreance, and that the Spren chose to go along with it.  How would a Truthwatcher guess what would happen when no one else had reason to.

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20 hours ago, Cocoa said:

Syl very explicitly wasn't created by Tanavast, but by the Stormfather, unlike most other pre-Recreance Honorspren. This is why the Stormfather refers to her as his daughter. And while the Stormfather has since merged with Tanavast's CS, she predates the shattering, so she's not Tanavast's daughter by virtue of a "the Stormfather actually counts as Tanavast" trick.

So, yes, I believe you are wrong because the information you're using to draw your conclusions is wrong.

My personal theory is that Kal is a "Son of Tanavast" for one of two reasons. If it's meant literally, then Tanavast sired one of his ancestors on Lirin's side of the family, which coud explain why both Lirin and Kal are both so devoted to their codes of honor and behavior. If it's only meant figuratively, then it has to do with how close Kaladin is to Tanavast's own self-sacrificing (and some might say self-destructive) ideal of what "Honor" is.

It's been a bit since I read the relevant Stormlight book where this was explained, but I remember this being the exact opposite. Syl had been around during the days of the original Radiants and fell into a deep coma following the loss of her Radiant. Following the Recreance, the Stormfather created 10 Honorspren who then created more as the years went by. Syl was found and it was a big deal because she was the only one NOT created by the Stormfather, the only original Honorspren to survive the Recreance. The Stormfather refers to her as "Daughter" because of the part of him that is Tanavast. Again, I'm not 100% on that, but that's what I recall. 

Stormlight 5 will be 10000 pages long, the bulk of which will be the requisite "Hoid telling Kaladin a story", but it's just him narrating the entirety of the Wheel of Time books to Kaladin to motivate him out of whatever slump he's in. 

Amaram didn't specify what Restares was "right" about. It's possible that Amaram was referring to something more general, like how he said that they needed trained Shardbearers in the days to come. Though, it's also possible it can be taken at face value and Restares did advise Amaram to do that. Even if he didn't, and Kaladin remembers Amaram mentioning Restares in connection with the choice he made to kill his squad, Kaladin is going to be pretty pissed if he encounters Kelek and he is identified as Restares. I have a feeling that will be something that tests Kaladin's commitment to his Oaths. 

This basically boils down to the question of whether Vin was blocked from compounding Sazed's metalmind because she's not a Feruchemist AND she's not Sazed or just because she's not Sazed. I'm leaning more towards the former, but I'm not sure if there are any WoBs on that or not. From a narrative standpoint, my instincts tell me compounding would be too accessible if it's just an identity issue. But, if medallions and Hemalurgy are going to be increasingly commonplace, compounding is going to be pretty accesible anyways.

On 1/15/2022 at 8:01 PM, Trusk'our said:

The fact that Steel Inquisitors didn’t actually need to have spikes driven through their eyes in order to grant their powers comes to mind; they did it for intimidation and distinction, not subtlety.

I'm relatively certain there's a bit more to that than making Steel Inquisitors scary. I don't think they could get that enhanced version of Allomantic vision without the spikes going through their eyes. Can't imagine Kelsier is walking around with one in his eye for aesthetic reasons, even for Kelsier that's a bit much. 

2 hours ago, HavingTheHasHoidAPurpose? said:

I think a kandra simply wearing tons of thin aluminum tiles as a kind of exoskeleton would by much simpler though. This will probably blow their cover however

Actually, that may be a bit more feasible than you'd think. People only need to wear aluminum hats to protect against emotional Allomancy. So, if a Kandra could surround its brain with aluminum, I would think it would have the same effect. And if Milan was being serious, they can put their brain pretty much anywhere in their bodies. 

I believe the difference is that Taravangian's mind/body/soul were all present when he was Ascending while Kelsier's body was inaccessible at the time. As we saw with Szeth himself, you can die and be brought back if you're quick enough. 

The end of Cytonic is a bit of a haze for me, but didn't she get the "cytonic coordinates" from Doomslug? Who, if I'm right about that and I had to guess, got updated coordinates from the other slugs. 

9 minutes ago, Invocation said:

They do, at least per what happened in Shadows of Self.

Been a bit since I read SoS, but had a feeling that was the case, thank you for confirming.

11 hours ago, Brightness Windrunner said:

Do Kandra even leave bodies when they truly die?

 

(I would grab my Shadows of Self and check and see if it said anything but I can't find it.  From memory I would say they don't leave bodies and as such can't be awakened into lifeless)

They have physical bodies, they definitely leave something behind. Whether or not they remain in the form they were in when they die isn't something I know off the top of my head. And if they do revert to their mistwraith form, I'm not sure how long that would take to decompose or whether there's enough to work with to make a Lifeless. Mistwraiths are techinically humans, so it should technically be possible, but I'm unsure of the logistics on making it happen.

Wow, I did not know he was planning Mistborn Era 4 to have Stormlight length books. Given that, I have doubts he'll write the whole series before releasing the first one like he did with Era 1 and plans to do with Era 3.