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That seems likely. Also, am I the only who noticed how much Alendi and Rashek resembled each other? (probably a reason why Rashek kept Alendi's diary in Kredik Shaw)

My money is on one special plant (or one fix set of plants) from a special place, in which you somehow symbolically "code" the wanted effect.

Coppermind? I knew about the cosmere since... a year ago, probably (it's also mentioned once or twice in the Ars Arcanum), and last summer I started to browse coppermind. Now I'm not a cosmere expert, but know most of the basics.

I, personally, highly doubt it. Probably Trell is his (or her) real name and it's another shard of whatever or even something entirely different. For now we're facing an implicit RAFO.

To be very exact: he was about 18, she about 15, their relationship lasted significantly less than a month and ended with four dead people...

Actually, in SoS there were plenty of spikes (f)lying around, and I guess that will be more or less the case in BoM, too.

A very interesting question is, what effects exactly the potions make. Is it something like a "temporal spiritweb code-change" as with Forgery, having a strong spiritual element? Or has it a more physical aspect and mostly affects the Physical Realm ? Sarene couldn't draw Aons, so I am with option 2. But then, there is a question if all the potions' effects wear off over time... if not, I'll send my enemies a potion that makes them a Hoed the whole time.

Being ascended for a short time he probably figured out, which people will support him and made them the first nobles

Stormlight spoiler:

Well, you get "Error! Unidentified variable. Please re-enter." Have you already tried to turn it off and on again? *Pulls plug out of socket and inserts it again*

On Roshar, both are somehow odd. Star Wars is like a wheel-chair.

Both are mostly done by lifeless (students). Spoilers are like ethernal glory.

I'd rather got neither one flying at my head. The love of men is like a mountain stream three steps from ice. (And point for you if you get the reference)

There was a love triangle in Mistborn Era 1, and somehting like that in mistborn Era 1.5... To be honest I'm not sure if BS really dislikes them.

I guess a foetus has to go throw a developement in all three realms. The Physical Realm is relatively easy - interactions on physical level are relatively easy to understand Since the Spiritual Realm is a place of ultimate truth, the phoetus will be there always the same, regardless of culture and everything else. But here we are confronted with the problem of how the spiritual aspect shifts over time of the pregnancy - and I bet it shifts. The spiritweb basics already stand, but around it, something will happen. Where it starts to get more complicated is the Cognitive aspect. The Cognitive Realm is very interesting: It is based on how somebody or something sees himself AND how other see him, her or it. Here probably the cultural aspect will take place. My theory is, that different magic systems will interact with phoeti depending how their aspects are distributed over the Three Realms (to learn more about it see Chaos's theory about the Aspects of Magic Systems); AonDor, for example has a strong Cognitive aspect; Surgebinding is relatively Spiritual, while Allomancy is very Physical-based: going from this, the interactions with unborn children may be explained better.

...i have no idea what to do with any of those. Calamity is like a Shard... (and please don't kill me)

To be exact: most compatible. WOB: Nepene I have a question, if you are willing. Would Ruin be more compatible with Rayse, would he pick up that shard had he visited Scadrial and shattered him? All the shards we have seen that he has shattered seem rather different in intent than him—Honor, Cultivation, Love, Dominion. But Ruin seems more in line with Odium. Rayse has ruined the days of quite a few people. Brandon Sanderson Technically, Ruin would be most compatible with Cultivation. Ruin's 'theme' so to speak is that all things must age and pass. An embodiment of entropy. That power, separated from the whole and being held by a person who did not have the willpower to resist its transformation of him, led to something very dangerous. But it was not evil. None of the sixteen technically are, though you may have read that Hoid has specific beef with Rayse. Whether you think of Odium as evil depends upon how much you agree with Hoid's particular view. That said, Ruin would have been one of the 'safer' of the sixteen for Rayse to take, if he'd been about that. Odium is by its nature selfish, however, and the combination of it and Rayse makes for an entity that fears an additional power would destroy it and make it into something else. Found here (Nr. 8).

Cultivation and Odium both are acceptable Future-watchers. Probably it has something to do with that.

...I think that depends on the definition of "decent". Not kindling fire is difficult enough, but sheding blood? I guess most of Threnodians are involuntary vegetarians. And not running at night can be also quite difficult...

Both like to wear colorfoul outfits? Skybreakers have a lot in common with unicorns.

Actually, i guess that Gavilar's black sphere has - for better or worse - some relation to Cultivation: Took, Szeth's last owner who did not want him to murder people claimed, while drunk, that he stole a black sphere from the Nightwatcher, who is somehow associated with Cultivation; and Szeth had a very bad feeling about the description of this sphere. I actually doubt that Took was lying completely here. A black sphere is a very specific object, and if it is mentioned twice in the same book it has to have some significance. The part I am not so sure about is, that he stole the sphere from the Nightwatcher. A further question is, if Gavilar's and Took's spheres are two different or the same. If they are the same, the chain "Nightwatcher(presumably) - Took - probably Venli - Gavilar" sequence (with unknown people in between) is strange at best. If they are not the same sphere, then there can be more (and Roshar being Roshar there would be most likely a total of 10 or 100 spheres).

Me too, but I didn't find it.

Coppermind states a relation between the Evil and Ruin. Since the Evil ruined a whole continent that seem relatively legitimate.

It's on the Alethkar map (TWoK), border between Sadeas and Aladar highprincedoms

To 2: While Szeth can see that something goes extremely wrong, he still does not see (or refuses to see) what exactly goes wrong. He has no idea how voidbringers look like. He has no idea that the everstorm - even if he recognizes it as the everstorm - effectively means desolation. And since Szeth is heavily perturbed (effectively: really, really mad) at that moment, he does what he is supposed to do. He also does not give up his honorblade when a radiant is standing right before him, which would be the "logical" thing to do for him.