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If TenSoon is willing to take the form of a wolfhound because he's commanded to by the holder of his Contract, then I could see a female kandra taking the form of a man if Harmony really wants her to work way undercover. However, if I were a betting man (which I am), I'd place my money on the female kandra taking the form of a woman.

I upvoted this but...ahem, I'm going to be "that guy": you mean an upvote-to-post ratio That's the ratio greater than 1! And well done indeed!

WoB for timelines is actually not that great, because it seems he's contradicted himself before. Here's some stuff about AoL, WoK, and Warbreaker: We now know that the second quote is true, according to WoB clarification. However, it still doesn't tell us exactly where Warbreaker is relative to WoK and AoL. So it is possible the two are at a similar time, which implies WalDo could've taken the hat to both worlds:

Wayne loves hats, as we all know. A common material during the 17th to the early 20th century for hats was felt (which is roughly the equivalent on-world time period for AoL relative to our own world's technology achievements; on a side note, making felt hats possibly gave rise to the saying that someone was as "mad as a hatter" due to mercury poisoning)...and we suspect that Felt, from Scadrial, could be a worldhopper...maybe our mysterious WalDo. Thus, since the real Waldo loses his hat every time in the The Great Waldo Search, we can easily (and logically) conclude that our own Great WalDo Search should be focused on following Wayne's hat, because we know our WalDo isn't exactly Waldo, and could instead be stealing hats instead of losing them. With this logic, we can find WalDo wherever Wayne's hat is located (and possibly we'll get a glimpse of a Worldhopping Wayne as well?!). Unodus mentions that Parlin on Nalthis has an interesting hat. This probably couldn't be Wayne's hat due to chronology; however, what if we have the timeline wrong for Warbreaker? If it is wrong, where's WalDo and Wayne on Nalthis?!

Hello Suspense! You pose a good/smart question and I thought along the same line. This, to me, allows more speculation about the Yolen version of Lightweaving. Maybe it has a similar ability to what Kaladin did? Or maybe through all of the various forms of investiture that Hoid has, he has gained the same ability. I also wonder if maybe Kaladin is unique in his ability to repair a Shard wound. Do we know if other Knight's Radiant have this ability? Also, as a tip, in the Cosmere theory forum, there's no need for the spoiler tag. That's mostly useful for areas outside of this main Cosmere forum. For example, you'd use the spoiler thread like you did if this conversation was in the General Brandon forum, or if it were posted in a forum not referencing the Stormlight Archive (such as Warbreaker or Mistborn). Cheers!

Welcome, Bromsy! A carb-dog would be pretty boss. I have a feeling you wouldn't even need to bathe it and the wet-dog smell would be pretty non-existent. Might scare the cat a bit, though. And how! I have a felling he'll fit right in. *Edited to actually welcome Bromsy

Welcome, Liar! Hopefully you can start contributing in the conversation regarding all of our theories you've read so far. Do you have any favorites that you thing are either probably true or outrageously ridiculous? Cheers.

I agree with WeiryWriter. Ask again. I emailed Brandon a month ago asking for them and received them the very next day! I've talked to people who asked a while back and never got them, but that's probably because he was busy writing WoR.

I'm native in English and took 5 years of Spanish in HS and university. However, I've lost that since I stopped using it. About 10 years ago I tried to learn Twi when I studied abroad in Ghana, and can now only remember a few words. When I lived in Vietnam I tried to pick up Vietnamese, but decided to stop learning it when I offended my female colleague because I got a tone wrong. (Apparently a "boiled duck egg" became a "boiled duck-most-offensive-word-in-Vietnamese-for-female-genitalia". Whoops! I now want to learn Arabic because a lot of my current work takes me to the Middle East on a regular basis. Man, though, Arabic sounds can be tough to form in my mouth.

You know, I find beards as acceptable in the work place are really dependent on a few things: average age of the firm, geographic location of the firm, and the type of firm. I think the first really trumps the others, but facial hair is more acceptable in San Francisco, CA than it is in Dallas, TX. If you're a Fortune 500 firm or a more traditional firm like a law firm or big financial firm, then facial hair is unacceptable. However, if everyone working in the office is 25 to 35, no matter what/where the firm is...it seems facial hair is more the norm, since facial hair is now a trend with this age group (confession...I'm smack dab in the middle of this age group). I have to say that I find it kinda funny that the "You know you're a Sanderfan" page has shifted towards the philosophy of facial hair! Delightful, you bring up a good point through your question. Facial hair is more acceptable if it's well kept, trimmed, or shaped. For example, a nice tipped and rolled mustache (something I see Wax or Wayne wearing, since it's from the Victorian era), is highly acceptable, especially if you're the type of chap who wears bow ties in the office with trendy/hipster glasses! An unruly/Bridge Four beard is always frowned upon, but one that's short and landscaped well (like Rock's after he gets his razor!) is more likely to be less frowned upon as well. This, all however, is something that is true in America. It may not be true for other countries. In Muslim countries beards and mustaches are the norm. In India, the vast majority of men have at least a mustache. It really comes down to cultural norms.

Some very professional jobs, such as in finance or in other more traditional/conservative corporate America positions, have certain expectations with appearances that are appropriate, especially client-facing jobs. Granted, interviewers under 45 don't mind as much, but Baby Boomers will judge you for your appearance despite your qualifications. It's unfair, but part of life until that generation begins to retire. When I interviewed in Corporate America, I had to shave my beard off. Now that I work in International Development, beards are more acceptable and I've grown it back. I hope my next job interviewers for the Foreign Service are more accepting of beards, but if the person is as old as my father, they may judge.

Ha! Fair point...but job interviews sometimes trump winter face warmth!

A one-armed Herdazian lopes into a bar and orders 116 cups of wine. The bartender looks skeptically at him, to which he replies "hey, gancho, I'm just buying the first round for my cousins!" Adolin and a group of his lighteyed officer friends decided to walk to a new wine bar they'd learned about called Bar Urithiru. Unfortunately, they got lost on their way and never found it. Stick walks into a bar and orders a drink. Stick pays with an emerald broam; as the bartender hands him change in the form of smaller marks and chips, he grunts "change", to which Stick angrily replies "I AM A STICK!!!!!" EDIT: Adding jokes to this reply as I think of them instead of creating new replies.

I took these pictures during my last work trip to Amman, Jordan. You know you're a SanderFan when the landscape you're visiting reminds you of Roshar!

I have been to Roshar...who would've thought it's actually our own planet?! ...and the buildings actually ARE made of crem!

Howdy, again king of nowhere! I like your definition of death in the Cosmere, because it makes sense given what we know. However, I have a question for you regarding this definition (and this may be due to my ignorance as a n00b with the Cosmere): When a person visits Shadesmar, what part of them travels there? Is it their entire physical form along with their soul, is it just their soul (or a part of it), or is it just their mind/cognitive self? I ask, because when Jasnah Soulcasts, her body always remains present in the physical realm, but some part of her most likely needs to visit Shadesmar to actually conduct the Soulcasting. My assumption is that her cognitive self is all that needs to visit Shadesmar (it is the Cognitive realm, after all!), but a part of her mind must remain behind in the physical realm, otherwise during her time there she'd probably be equal to someone who is brain dead (unless the time spent in Shadesmar has a net-neutral effect on time in the physical realm). Thus, if it's not her full mind's presence in Shadesmar, is it her full soul instead? And if it's her full soul, then by your definition, would she be temporarily dead because her body remains in the physical realm? Thanks!

Hi King of Nowhere. I think your argument is extremely insightful, and I tend to agree with you that at this point it's semantics. I almost said that in my first response to you but decided to press my point instead, which probably wasn't helpful. Hoid is virtually indestructible, and as a result I think it's still valid to ask how? Whether it's resurrection, revival, extreme healing powers...how (and why) is (are) still the final question(s). It's probably safest, at this point in the amount of Cosmere literature and WoB that we have, to assume that it's from all of the various magics he's gathered, but I still like to speculate and I do still think that conversation with Dalinar could hint towards an ability to resurrect.

I agree with you Mailliw73. Gold compounding is primarily meant as really quick healing. I only used beheading as an example because of what king of nowhere said (and their point is valid too). In reality, if your heart stops, you're technically dead too, but can be revived by CPR or using a defibrillator. But I'd argue this is more of a revival, whereas recovering from a beheading (even if your "death" is very short) would count more as a resurrection. In a sense, it's more miraculous. When I think of resurrection, I think of a miracle. You may be correct, also, that his abilities may be from a combination of all of his Investiture; however until we get this information, that conversation with Dalinar makes me think he has resurrection capabilities. So far, only the Returned have resurrection abilities, but I don't think Hoid is Returned, so the source of his theorized resurrection (by me) is still a mystery.

First off, wonderful philosophizing Joe! Second (and without giving away any spoilers!), I can't help but think that this OP was influenced by GRRM's last sample chapter released for TWoW...

I have to disagree with you because we know that the only way to kill Miles is by beheading, even with his compounding of gold. Anyways, let's pretend he were beheaded and fed to the greatshells and "survives" the beheading (similar to how TLR survived beheading)...I have to believe that separation of head from body is death, albeit possibly for just a nanosecond. For a really powerful gold compounder, the amount of chemical/electrical activity still running through the body immediately after the beheading may be enough time to heal this rather unfortunate ailment (similar to how a chicken with it's head cut off can still run about, but it's still technically dead). Thus technically, the person may die for a very small amount of time and then is resurrected. Additionally, I think we can trust Hoid in this instance because a few paragraphs later, Dalinar muses the following: This internal dialogue coupled with how frank Wit was with Dalinar, including mentioning his Cosmere name "Hoid", saying "Adonalsium", and mentioning that Sadeas was up to something (and he was!,but Hoid wasn't sure what), leads me to believe that all aspects of this conversation were truthful, even if Hoid is still hiding things. We also know that in general, Wit/Hoid seems to respect Dalinar and never makes fun of him. Thus, I don't think I'm reading too much into this.

Hoid Worldhops to Hyperion and uses the Time Tombs, duh! Wait, wrong universe.

As I'm re-reading WoK, I noticed a very interesting and, from what I can tell, truthful dialogue between Hoid and Dalinar in Chapter 54, Gibletish: I know that people have talked about Hoid's immortality before, but it seems, from this quote, that Hoid CAN die, but doesn't stay dead. He seems to be able to resurrect because he says even if he dies he'll return anyway. And, how he words this, it almost seems his resurrection would not be by choice, as if he'd reluctantly be returned from the dead. What do you all think? Can Hoid actually die and be resurrected? Are there any forms of resurrection in the Cosmere besides being Returned? He can't be Returned every time he dies or he'd probably lose his memories, etc. (And don't forget that he predates Endowment.) Maybe his resurrection abilities have something to do with Yolen, or maybe occurred because he was present when Adonalsium Shattered? It seems to me that he may not have acquired his Resurrection capabilities from other forms of known Investiture. Obviously this paragraph is pure speculation.

Ha! But any bonus companions would require food. If you have one companion already, you're 10 year frozen/canned food supply is good for only 5 years. If you get the meat vat, your get 1.5 lbs. of meat a day, which isn't a lot for two+ people. I feel like IF you ever choose the companion, you ALWAYS have to get the meat vat and the baking skills, so that you can ensure everyone is able to eat. Otherwise...you and your companion(s) will die after 5 years.