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I need those star charts. They are too beautiful not to have hanging on my wall.

You know, I imagine that Hoid is exactly the kind of person who would go around with Lift breaking into places and stealing people's dinners. That sounds right up his alley.

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At that point, I'm nitpicking. The presence of shards, and the relatively short time spans we are looking at give us a lot of leeway. It's more than within the realm of possibility that there are stars with 10 gas giants somewhere. However, such a system would have been extremely unstable during its formation. Our own system was a violent, chaotic place for the first billion years. A system with 10 giants would be many times worse. Of course, Honor and Cultivation probably spent a long time looking for the perfect system, like Ruin and Preservation did. As for Autonomy regulating the system, that's almost a given at this point. If a planet were actually close enough to a blue-white supergiant to be tidal locked, then its dayside would be a burning wasteland that would set your lungs on fire if you ever tried to set foot there. Also, depending on how old Scadrial is, it's probably had its rotation stabilized by Preservation, since it doesn't have a moon.

Basically, in the Sirius system, the white dwarf was the larger of the two stars. They were both large bodies, but not so large that they collapse into neutron stars when they exhaust their fuel. If Taldain orbits a blue-white supergiant, then it will definitely form a neutron star, possibly even a black hole when it dies. For the other star of the system to already be dead, it would need to be even more massive. This opens up another possibility, however. Perhaps Khriss is actually mistaken. The other member of Taldain's binary is actually a black hole, and the dust cloud is the outer edge of the accretion disc. The ultraviolet radiation would be from the inner edge of the disc.

It is possible for Taldain to be in a stable orbit between the stars, called a Lagrangian point, but for that to happen, it would need to be MUCH closer to the white dwarf than the giant.

My apologies. By "Everything" I meant the systems other than Taldain and Roshar. Even more complications arise with the moon of Taldain, as tidal forces and conservation would cause the planet to start rotating underneath it, with the boundary between the sides as the equator, and the centers of the day and night sides as the poles.

But Khriss also said that the empires largely pretend they don't exist. Fjordell and Arelon have had an incredible amount of interaction, they certainly haven't ignored each other, like Fjordel and Rose Empire.

This all but confirms the theory that the earthquake was a deliberate attack on the Elantrian magic system. I'm guessing it involves some sort of mass withering event, when a lot of investiture is concentrated in one place. Silence's battle in the story probably formed a minor one.

Wow. Lots of information to parse through. I'll start with Ow, the physics is painful. 10 gas giants? Rust and Ruin, our system is barely stable with four! Also, Taldain orbits a blue giant? This definitely confirms my theory that Autonomy has a regulatory effect on the climate of Taldain. Otherwise, the dayside would be a molten wasteland hotter than Mercury. Everything else checks out, though the Dromanid and Roshar have rather generous habitable zones. This is possible, and doesn't need the stabilization of a shard like Scadrial and Taldain. It's also interesting to learn that Sel is a heavy planet, and that there's a third major empire somewhere.

Okay, thanks. Sadly, Bozeman is probably too small for the Oathbringer tour. We're still like a year out I guess, so it's just a waiting game.

This post had been a mother load of WoBs. I guess he's feeling as ecstatic as we are about having nearly finished the first draft. @Chaos: Brandon said he was tentatively coming to the Montana region next year for some sort of convention. Do you know what convention that is? I can't think of any major ones around here.

Okay, here is a complete list of WoBs from the Reddit thread. This is complete as of 10:15 MST. It goes without saying, but obviously, spoilers for lots of stuff. I think that's everything. If I missed something, let me know.

That's very cool. Thanks for posting this here. Maybe we can use this thread to collect the rest of the WoBs from Reddit?

Maybe Odium does get killed at the end of the Front Five, and someone, like say Bavadin, takes up his shard and combines them into the awful mega-axis of evil. It might explain why it looks like Scadrial is under attack from both Autonomy and Odium at the same time. Thoughts?

Idos Domi, that's a bad average. And here I thought an average of 60 was bad... Anyways, just take Calc 3 from Chaos. He's fun. And a rather terrible white board artist, which is entertaining in its own right.

Don't Radiants-to-be need to be spiritually broken in order for them to have the specific spirit-web topography to start using surgebinding? Perhaps the Heralds needed to be in a similar state, or possibly a more extreme version of it, in order to hold the power. This could also explain how the desolation so were a trap for Odium. By torturing his enemies, he gave them the power they needed to defeat him.

Yeah, that would make more sense. It would also explain why it's so hard for Khriss's group to travel to planets without perpendicularities. The idea of some ancient structure, perhaps a remnant of Adonalsium, sitting out there in the depths of space, is just appealing to me I guess.

I'm calling it now. SIlverlight is an ancient, severely damaged starship that was abandoned somewhere. Khriss's group (which is probably not the 17th) discovered it and decided to make it their base of operations. Speculation of course, but this is the most immediate, most awesome idea that popped into my head as I read the essay.

Haha, yeah. If such a thing were to actually exist, it would cause a paradox...

It's worse than becoming a Hanzo main! Oh wait, wrong forum...

I heard it got deported to Mexico.

That just about describes my state of mind right now. 2016 now holds the record for the most storm-invested insane year of all time.

Well, according to Nostradomus, Putin is the anti-christ...

"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit." And so modern fantasy was born.