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It's been speculated that a focus for another world could be used, like a gemspike on Roshar, but I personally find that unlikely. It's Ruin's system and will follow Scadrial's rules, just like Allomancy on other worlds still uses metal (we saw that with Hoid and the metal flakes he used to soothe Shallan). jW

There was a rumor at one point that Bobbi and Hunter would get a spinoff series. No idea what happened with that. jW

Yep, in addition, if Raoden had an Atium spike and stuck it in Lift, he could steal from her. The spiker's sDNA doesn't matter, only the spiked, and then only if they're non-Scadrian would an Atium spike be 100% necessary (this is all based on that hypothesis of course). jW

Just read through the most significant parts. I dunno, I'm not sold, though there's some good reasoning behind it. I wish we could get something out of Brandon that would help place something; how many years ago Adolnasium was shattered, how long the time of the Desolations lasted, etc. I think there were a lot of overestimates in that thread and assumptions we shouldn't be making, but it's always tough to say. jW

Without an Atium spike, only on Scadrians, yes, if the theory is true. Atium spikes could be used on anyone from any world, because they would provide the Investiture needed to perform the transfer. jW

I think @Yata meant you'd need to use an Atium spike to steal the power or attributes of a non-Scadrian, not that if you were foreign to Scadrial you'd need to use one. I think he's right, too: Scadrians have some of Ruin's Investiture in them already, so nothing special is needed to spike them, any metal can work for the appropriate attribute because the Ruin Investiture is already present. For someone not from Scadrial, though, you'd have to steal their powers using an Atium spike, which is/contains Ruin's Investiture, because they don't have it in them already to facilitate the Hemalurgic magic. That's also why other worlds won't just discover it on their own: they'd need Atium, which only comes from Scadrial. jW

Those actually don't look contradictory to me. He's saying in the first one that you have to find someone with the right genetic and spiritual codes to spike, not that the spiker has to have anything special. Because of the intent and process required, it needed a Shard's interference for it to even be used in the first place. No ones stumbling across it by accident. jW

I'd been presuming that with the knowledge of the Heralds to get them on the right track, it took somewhere closer to a couple hundred years to rebuild (they seem to often not be anywhere to close what we see, and need to be taught even some basics, when the next Desolation nears). I don't know for sure how much that messes with the math though. jW

My impression is that something/someone shattered Stormseat, and with a big enough impact that the cracks traveled far beyond the city itself. The buildings were all on top of what is now the plateaus, and the cracks just didn't exist prior to that event. Kaladin remarks on the shape being like someone cracked a plate, I think, or hit something with a hammer, and of course there's Shallan's perfectly symmetrical pattern she finds. Whether that something was a Voidbringer, Herald, Dawnshard, etc, I have no clue. Perhaps it was a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias. jW

Woah, where did that theory come from? I've never heard it before...I always assumed there had been 99 and they told everyone that was all there would ever be (me, I'd be assuming there should be 100 and be really worried, but it's been thousands of years so it's no surprise they're not worried. jW

That's plenty of time for an awesome trip. I'd make sure you spend a good bit of time in Tokyo, but also visit Kyoto and one of the areas in both the south and north if you can. Hiroshima or Nagasaki too, though you probably don't need to go to both. In Tokyo, Akihabara is fun (the electronics district), Harajuku (fashion and crazy costumes), the fish markets, Asakusa shrine (tons of cheap trinkets in front, but the shrine is way back in there). If you're not claustrophobic, you can try a capsule hotel; we used a youth hostel once that was nice too, or there are plenty of more regular hotels. Try every kind of food you can. Even the non-Japanese restaurants. Japanese food to be sure you get: Okonomiyaki, Miso Ramen (if you're okay with spice, get the red kind), Tsukiyaki, anything sold on a stick at street vendors (usually beef or pork, but sometimes octopus or other things), Takoyaki (octopus fried in batter, served as fried balls). There's more, but those are the ones you might not just run across. Anyways, I happen to really like Japan. jW

That would have been a significantly more difficult challenge. jW

Love it! Edit: Made it my phone's lock screen. jW

Apologies if this has been done before, but I randomly decided to pull together a playlist of my childhood songs, as well as a couple that just remind me of that (two intentionally written to recall the 90's). The list itself is 180 songs, so I included a PDF of the songs (the list wouldn't copy/paste very well) but I also have a link to the Apple Music playlist: Nostalgia. I can probably pull it together as a Spotify playlist as well if anyone wants that. Edit: Managed to copy it, so here it is (spoilered for length): Edit 2: I should have clarified that I'd love to see other people's lists of childhood music. Make a playlist on Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play Music, etc, or just put up a list here, and it need not be 180+ songs like mine. jW Nostalgia.pdf

Nice! Do you know yet where in Japan you're going? I'm only familiar with Tokyo and Chiba, and a little bit with Ishinomaki, where I did some cleanup after the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami. jW

Yep, basically exactly what I was describing. jW

Lol, I'll claim this one easily (I've used nothing but Macs since the 90's, most of my life in fact). I'll even stick to the ones that have true names, instead of just numbers (and 5 different lines, in case you were meaning different types of operating systems rather than different versions): Mac OS X Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion OS X 10.9 Maverick OS X Yosemite (10.10) OS X El Capitan (10.11) macOS Sierra (10.12, still in beta) iOS iPod OS tvOS Mac OS Classic (MacOS 9 and earlier) WLIU, name 2 songs each from 6 different decades.

George Clooney (obviously) Brad Pitt Julia Roberts (actress, but I assume that counts) Tobey Maguire (does that count since he wasn't one of the stars?) Dang…I can see faces of some of the others, but can't quite come up with their names without looking them up. jW

Minor niggle: the kerning around the I's in that font is poor, so they're too widely spaced and almost hard to read. It took me a moment to understand that the top one was "Bondsmiths", for instead, because it looked more like "Bonds m ith". It'd probably require some manual repositioning, but it'd look a lot better if that could be fixed. Otherwise, love them! I think I might make one my iPhone's background, and @Argent, I'd happily turn them into wallpapers if @jofwu was okay with it (though he/she could do it better with the original files, probably). jW

Sorry to resurrect a mostly dead thread, but I didn't want to create a new one when this one fits so well. The discussion has mostly centered around the fact that Splinters are supposed to be "Power of Adonalsium which has no person caring for it, no… no person holding it, which has attained self-awareness." (Thanks @Argent). Divine Breaths don't seem to have any self-awareness of their own, any self-awareness, yet they're considered Splinters, and that seems confusing, but I think I have one possible answer. We have at least surmised (not sure if it's confirmed) that regular Breaths carry a Cognitive command with them, part of the Awakeners own mind, as it were, and that they actually gain a bit of sapience or at least sentience from that, since that Breath is originally part of someone's soul. What if Endowment is imprinting knowledge from the original person when she Returns them, but it's actually the Divine Breath that is aware and in control, and the person themselves has already passed into the Beyond? The body of the person who was Returned would be used by the Splinter that is the Divine Breath, and she would imprint that person's original Breath onto it to give it a starting point for developing it's own self-awareness, and then that Splinter is bound by a portion of Endowment's own Intent to find it's intended beneficiary and Endow them with the healing abilities of that Divine Breath. That would seem to me to wrap up the confusion between Divine Breath, Splinter, and the splinter not seeming to have it's own self-awareness, without anything needing to suppress it's self-awareness. jW

He's been confirmed to not be a Worldhopper, but we don't know if he has a Shard or not. I lean towards not, but it's possible. jW

Awesome theory! I followed your link here after posting nearly the same theory, so I'm just here to pass along an upvote! jW

Brandon's said fairly explicitly that they're in blade form because they modeled themselves after the Honorblades, so they sort of reverted that form when they "died". However… I wonder if the concept of resurrecting a dead blade could be significantly affected/hampered by the fact that they've been recorded in detail by Shallan (if not by other scholars before, who have certainly kept records even if they weren't up to Shallan's standards)? What if a Blade is resurrected only to be unable to change shape, or even leave Blade form, because it's been measured like that? jW

Something else I've been thinking about related to all this (I think others have at least touched on it, so I apologize if I step on any toes here): While all of the worlds, except Scadrial, as far as we know, may have been visited, affected, even Invested in by Adolnasium, the impression has definitely been that Roshar may have received some special focus and work from Mr. A (I love that name for him). What if the magic systems were all actually put in place by Adolnasium, and when Honor and Cultivation arrived, their power was required to work within the framework that had already been established? Without significantly more Investiture than they may have even been able to Invest, it's possible that they simply wouldn't have formed their own new unique systems. We know Odium's magic simply worked with the existing systems, though that likely was because he didn't want to invest more significantly, but perhaps Honor and Cultivation ran into the same situation without intending it. It's also possible that they did form Surgebinding between them, but the Fabrial magic and the forms of the Listeners were both preexisting from Adolnasium's Investiture, and they had minimal if any impact on those. I don't really see any particular Intent of either Honor or Cultivation present in either of those, beyond the tenuous idea of the bonds involved, so they strike me as possibly having no connection to Honor or Cultivation. jW

Definitely, Raoden would be in a very interesting position to try to reassemble the Shard(s?). My headcanon has been that Honor will be reassembled eventually (and I know many here share that opinion), but if Brandon were to unsplinter any Shards, I think reassembling Devotion and Dominion (as Unity) would be a more powerful story, and Raoden being the one could be amazing. I think if Sarene didn't become an Elantrian herself and died of old age or something else, Raoden would be willing to give up his mortal life and risk traveling into the Cognitive to somehow direct the Dor back to the Spiritual Realm (assuming it does truly belong there and doesn't instead just need to be controlled somehow). That could be an amazing scene to visualize, though I'm not sure exactly what it would look like. Raoden in the middle of a storm of Dor, threatening to rip him apart, yet gathering and directing it through a rift he opened between the Realms… I'm getting chills imagining it myself. jW