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Isn't them coming from Sel just speculation for now though? Or is that what your trying to say?

The Sleepless does a bit, the Dragons not so much. The thing is that since Adonalsium is at the beginning at all of this it tightens the feel. Adonalsium's designs are unknowable but its a different type of unknowable to be found with something potentially disconnected. Those are my feelings anyway

I do find that tidbit very cool. One thing is it adds this alien element to the Cosmere. Even if the universe has nonhuman species like the Singers, those feel more like they fill the role of fantasy races rather then that of extraterrestrial outsiders. Even if the fact isn't true, from how Brandon worded it i don't think he will ever answer if they are or aren't. Which just opens the doors wide open for speculation.

The lore dump was so good. Though with the relavations of 1) the reactions of the spores are all different and produce different things. And 2) that with the explanation of what abilties the Aethers give, of being able to grow more of the Aethers. It makes me wonder if Brandon decided to focus down on the Aether's capabilities. Given in AoN they could do stuff like teleportation, machine-bonding, and animal grafting. I guess we learn more with Tress once we see more of the seas and their effects. That is my hope anyway.

Could be a slip up, but still an interesting tidbit. Along with getting confirmation that how Aethers worked in AoN, people bonding themselves to a gem, it grafting itself to the hand and then producing stuff from the crystal is how the Aethers still functions as a magic system. Though that brings to question the Aethers where you became a living machine or being able to graft beast parts to yourself since, that is not how those Aethers worked given Brandon's synopsis. Would those be the ones Brandon has stated on being scraped in possible favor of a more streamline process like how Verdant and Amberlite worked?

Anyone know how he will receive questions on YouTube, will it be donation based or does Adam pick out questions that are racing through the chat?

The Ire and Iri connection feels to forced. The Iriali maybe being the first people of the city Elantris, that's an interesting speculation. But using the Ire to support that doesn't work because 1)we know that the book Elantris is set before First Empire. 2) thus that means the Ire outpost is likely a construction after Elantris was reformed, not the predecessors

Cognitive Anomaly, that's something I'm not familiar with. Is that mentioned in the Nalthis Ars Arcanum Essay they said they wanted to do? If so what be a good place to read it?

There us still much of the tech level we need to know first of the Tress before coming to a conclusion. Though if the plot does involve pirates, maybe we can hedge are bets to 17th centuryish or so. Definitely excited to find out how much swashbuckling adventure then will do.

In the stream, Brandon was upfront that book 1 and 3 had similar plots. Since I think having the assumption that there is only one romance is flawed, instead that thinking both are romances. Id direct you attention to the stream(in 3 parts) itself if you wish to know more

Also something to question, does the eruption of vines happens to all spores or just Verdant. If so, what happens when the other spores get wet.

You can definitely get Hoids sarcasm from these lol

That part we have no indication in the text. We just know Hoid is telling it to someone. That's all for now

Either its A) Hoid glossing over things or 2.) there are bodies of water on the planet outside of the 12 oceans. Given how this planet has trees and wood, water must exist in more then just in wells and people

This is pretty much confirmed by the endnotes. A story told by Hoid, with the implications of it being on a planet that has oceans of water, various earth animals and food. So it narrows it down but not enough given how much of the Cosmere we are unaware of

Definitely set up with magic. Though if this was one of the planets Adonalsium set up, unsure how much of the magic still exists to maintain it.

We knew for a while that Brandon has made new Aethers. If the 12 moons and 12 seas all relate to an Aether, that be very interesting. Ignoring the old set. Right now we have 5 colors. Emerald, Azure, Crimson, Gold, and Midnight(likely black.) Heres hoping we get fleshing out of all of the colors though that ain't realistic. Since this seems more about introducing Aethers, then full diving into their possibilities

Is Vasher older than Khriss. The reason i ask this because from a recent WoB its seems Vasher and the other Five Scholars were apparently early Cosmere scholars and were some if the first. The thing i find intriguing about this is that as of Warbreaker Vasher and co can't be any older than 500 because of Vo. White Sand in the other is one of the earlier Cosmere stories, happening before Elantris.

Kill Chromium, heal Lerasium 1. Tin--6 2. Pewter--5 3. Iron--6 4. Steel--14 5. Copper--4 6. Bronze--6 7. Zinc--4 11. Chromium--0 12. Nicrosil--5 14. Electrum--0 15. Cadmium--6 16. Bendalloy--13 17. Atium--16 18. Lerasium--10

Yeah, if their are going to be other stories my guess it would be heavly supervised by brandon to make sure nothing contradicts. Though Issac does work closely with Brandon and their good friends so it might not be that much of problem. Also was'nt there a WoB that says that coworkers and family can ask him anything and won't be worried by RAFOs?

So Nazh is originally Isaac's character. Wow for that just seem's awesome. Does this mean that the Cosmere could open up to other peoples stories?

Yeah thats the impression that i was getting, to me this is a hint of what kind of being Adonalsium was exactly. My theory that i was thinking of was that the 16 intents were a part of Adonalsium and wasn't just something that was created during the shattering. Each one was a distinct and independent part instead of just a division from a singular source. Sort of like parts of a machine, each part distinct and different but all is needed for the machine to be functional. At least thats my interpretation.

Great questions & answers. can't wait for a more detailed summary but that would have to wait until you guys are more rested. Awesome reveals, heres a upvote.

So if Sazed decided to produce atium again it might be a little different from from Ati's atium. Is this what you mean?