Jondesu
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Actually, to be fair, Hoid's grudge is against Rayse and Bavadin, not necessarily Odium and Autonomy. Odium just sounds like a Shard that would always be bad to have around, but Autonomy shouldn't be. Autonomy would also be a Shard unlikely to significantly warp the Vessel's mind, so Bavadin's personality is likely still intact, making it likely that Hoid doesn't necessarily have a problem with the Shard of Autonomy, but with it's Vessel only.
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If there is, flying around in the middle of a storming highstorm would have come as close as we can imagine probably, so Kaladin (and Szeth, maybe) should have already experienced that.
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Wow, that's an interesting connection I never pieced together, since I haven't reread that since the WoB came out about Bavadin. I wonder if the Iri were originally Daysiders, who migrated enmass from Threnody due to the harsh conditions or on Autonomy's instructions, but carried with them the concept of their "god", and spread it throughout the Cosmere. That could also very well fit with the idea of a pantheon of gods that are all Bavadin, established originally by the Iri on one of their previous stops.
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My library just got White Sand and is holding it for me! Might return Arcanum Unbounded so someone else can read it sooner, though I'd like to reread at least Edgedancer.
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My gut tells me it would be unsettling.
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The Good News Thread: I'm So Excited! And I Just Can't Hide It!
Jondesu replied to traceria's topic in General Discussion
My offspring isn't quite old enough (he's about to turn 5), but I hope I get that chance too. -
BTW, I'm totally ambivalent about which planet I start on. I plan for Quintus (who I think I'll carry through most games) to in theory have access to the 5th Heightening, Allomancy (at least as a Steel Misting, maybe Mistborn), and others as I make them up, courtesy of Hoid, who used him as an experiment in addition to grooming him. Obviously some of those wouldn't be true if a game mechanic used one or more of those magics, though.
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It's all on The CW's site and app now.
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Someone asked him if that's what Odium was doing (in the context of the Diagram) and IIRC Brandon said Odium "wasn't pulling a Ruin", implying he wasn't changing the written words like that. Edit: Question 58 here too http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kwt='odium'
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Originally from Nalthis, Quintus had gained much experience in the intervening years, and spent centuries studying at Silverlight and researching across the worlds. His old master, Hoid, had been absent for most of that time, leaving Quintus to discover his own path and knowledge. Now, Quintus felt the winds of change blowing in the Cosmere, and wished to set things right if he could.
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Brandon has said it would burn away piercings that were Feruchemical metalminds (perhaps even ones that weren't), and that it "would look really weird", so I think it's safe to say the metal itself is destroyed, not just rendered inert.
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I think we'll definitely see multiple Knights from the same orders, major and minor characters included. After all, if the Adolin as Edgedancer theories come true, he'd be the second after Lift, and [Edgedancer spoilers] I'm hoping we get a number of Windrunners, Stonewards, Dustbringers (Releasers, sorry) and Skybreakers, since they'll be among the best fighters of the orders, and Roshar's going to need that. More Edgedancer spoilers:
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A chullhat like a coonskin cap (maybe it'd have to be a cremling or a small axehound actually).
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Actually, it's beyond even that for the Ryshadium. Khriss describes them as almost sapient, which is the term Brandon uses for human-like intelligence and self-awareness. All animals are sentient, and some plants (especially on Roshar, perhaps), but few if any approach sapience.
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Rhyming
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I know there was a WoB confirming it was Renarin, though I don't think I can find it right now.
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The Surges they get relate to their order, not their personalities (though those lead to them being chosen for their order, so there's still some connection). Kaladin's Surges as a Windrunner are Gravitation and Adhesion. We see him stick things (and people) to other things quite a bit, especially while practicing with Rock, Lopen, and I forgot who was writing it all down.
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Brandon has said that the Beyond is something he wants to leave a mystery, since it allows separation from the religions of the Cosmere, and real-life religions with afterlives. He probably won't ever bring someone back from Beyond, nor show us what it is or looks like.
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Edgedancer spoilers: I would expect it's likely that there are card games in the Wax and Wayne era, but I don't recall them being mentioned. Other than that, I don't remember games coming up much.
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From the passage you quoted, it seems clear it's a physical thing, though we know also that "steps crafter for Heralds" wouldn't be ten strides tall, unless the Heralds have shapeshifting abilities (never shown or even really hinted at if so), since they're normal human sized. Thus, that information could also be exaggerated or outright false, but since the Dawnshards are apparently a big deal in early mythologies (certainly pre-Hierocracy, I'd say), there's a good chance they really existed. Honor also talks about them in one of Dalinar's visions: I would love to find out more, but I think our information is just too limited to even get a good theory going (there are some, but they're widely varied). EDIT: Some other threads
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Having a Bad Day?: Get 'yer Hugs here!!
Jondesu replied to Curious Anamaximder's topic in General Discussion
I'm still trying to fully wake up, at 1:30PM on Sunday, after falling asleep at 4AM Saturday morning (insomnia kept me up until then, but I'd slept normally Thursday night). 30+ hours of sleep (with no more than an hour disruption at most), and I still feel like I could crawl back in bed and go back to sleep. -
If liquid could be Awakened (and I think it might be possible but not very effective), then imagine if you could also Awaken gas or even plasma. The potential as weapons would be crazy. I think the fact that it wouldn't naturally hold together would be the biggest hurdle, though.
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I think that would be almost impossible to form as a mental command. Too many possibilities. Destroy Evil was already a tough command (I think intentionally to a degree, attempting to force as many Breaths into Nightblood as possible), but that one would probably fail. Vasher's command to his cloak tassels was probably the most complex successful command we've actively seen, but it relied on having a very specific purpose. Protect Me was closer, with the cloak, but that was still a fairly straightforward mental command (blocking anything coming at him that would hurt him).
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Long Game 28: The Awakening at the House on the Hill
Jondesu replied to Wyrmhero's topic in Sanderson Elimination
I'll go for both AV and Arin. BTW, someone (I think in the latest MR game, not here) started calling me Jond, which is freaky. Jon or Jondesu, but Jond is just weird. -
I think it's fairly likely that that person didn't actually die, but whether it was Chromium Feruchemy, or they were a Kandra, or any number of several other possibilities, it's tough to say. And we can't rule out that sometimes people are dedicated enough to an important cause to actually kill themselves trying to achieve it. I personally don't think that's likely in that case, but it is possible.
