CalaCrisp88
-
Posts
141 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
News
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Events
Posts posted by CalaCrisp88
-
-
In the acknowledgements, I believe "subject exports" is written instead of "experts", and "or" when I think he meant "on time".
In the interlude between parts 2 and 3
SpoilerMoash's interlude, at the end when Odium is speaking. He just says "how?", but this should be capitalized.
3 -
Drawing and visual arts are not strictly one-to-one. You can draw scientific/mathematical diagrams or graphs without it being art. Art is typically something that is inherently emotional, based on feelings rather than science or fact or logic. Of course there can be some overlaps in the two fields; for example, artists may apply mathematical concepts to make their art more realistic or aesthetically appealing. But at its core, art is more about emotions than logic, and Jasnah obviously cares about logic much more.
2 -
Sorry for the sort-of necro. Rather than using progression to age someone, could you make someone's cells grow rapidly out of control, essentially give them cancer or something?
2 -
What a great prologue! Pretty sure that's actually fairly accurate too. Nice!
0 -
- Popular Post
- Popular Post
At Planet Comicon, Brandon read a snippet from SA4. It's from Lirin's perspective in Hearthstone, so we get a bit of an insight into the happenings around that area. Transcribed here for your reading pleasure
Not sure on all the name spellings or the paragraph breaks but I tried, lol. Enjoy!
QuoteBrandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] (paraphrased)
Lirin was of the opinion that tragedy was the means by which the Almighty proved the virtue of men. How else was one to explain the events of the past year?
He ducked his head and stepped to the side respectfully, pulling his cloak tight as <Abijan?> strolled past. He remembered setting her arm in a splint some ten years before, soon after her arrival in the town, though she’d been called <Adi?> back then. Brightlord Wistiow had paid good money for her, and after she’d broken her arm, he’d wanted his investment protected.
Now, instead of a simple smock, the parshwoman wore a fine silken havah. White, which was an odd color. Lirin didn’t think he’d ever seen a human woman wear a dress that shade. But the Fused taught that in the past, the parshmen—or singers, as they now began to be called—had preferred solid and often muted colors to not distract from the patterns of their skin. <Abijan>, like many of the town’s new parshman brightlords, listened intently to what the Fused said about the past. They treated the ways of the ancient parshmen like scripture, but couldn’t cover up that they were more Alethi than they were like those old singers. <Abijan> wore her safehand in a sleeve, and when she spoke to her companions, two townspeople who currently had her favor, she didn’t have even a hint of an accent.
Her skin patterns were swirling shapes, like mixing paint, red on white. Lirin had to admit the pattern was indeed striking against the white robe. He kept his eyes down, however, and remained by the side of the pathway, waiting until the parshwoman disappeared in the morning fog. Such extreme deference wasn’t required, but it was best to be careful when you were known as a potential troublemaker.
Lirin pulled his cloak tight again and continued on his way through the dense fog. Though the sun was well above the horizon, he saw it only as a vaguely circular white blotch. They’d been seeing spring weather lately in Hearthstone, and that meant morning fog. A welcome shroud his chosen activities this day.
As he neared the perimeter of the town, he passed an increasing number of improvised shanties, blankets and tarps stretching between rooftops, making a kind of shelter for the crowded refugees. Entire streets were closed off this way. The sound of plates clinking and people talking rose through the fog surrounding him. These shanties would never last a storm, of course, but they could quickly be torn down and stowed. There just wasn’t enough housing otherwise. Hearthstone, as one of the towns of modest size this close to the Herdazian border, was clogged with refugees these days. In Herdaz, men could claim to fight for freedom, but how free were the corpses they left to bleed into the stormwaters?
In some ways, little had changed, despite the coming of the Everstorm and the awakening of the parshmen. The skin of some involved in the battles changed, but the same old conflicts raged. Those who had a little taste of power wanted more, and sought it with the sword. The normal people bled, and men like Lirin had to try to put them back together. At least it seemed to almost be over. Word was that the resistance in Herdaz had finally collapsed, and the singers were securing dominance in the country. That meant more refugees for a time, but maybe after that, everything could settle back down and men could stop killing one another. Unfortunately, as he emerged from a line of shanties, he found a sorry lot waiting for him. It was hard to get a count in the fog, but there had to be a good hundred people here. And with Hearthstone already nearing bursting, where were they going to fit so many?
—
So the rest of the chapter outline goes—and the rest of it’s in a real big mess—Lirin is there, he’s kind of looking through the refugees for sickness. Really, he’s keeping an eye out for that Herdazian general that had an interlude in the third book. He’s gonna be relevant here, they’re gonna try and hide him. But then they’re looking through the refugees, and one of them is Kaladin!
Planet Comicon (March 30, 2019)17 -
On 3/1/2019 at 10:01 AM, Green Hoodie Mistborn said:
The phrasing “and the one who brought it to your land” to me has always seemed a misdirect.
I don’t think she’s after Vasher at all because I think his separation from Nightblood happened well before Nightblood was brought to Roshar (personal theory, no proof).
We have wob to the contrary.
QuoteAllomancerSam
Were Vasher and Nightblood separated before going to Roshar, or after?
Brandon Sanderson
After.
Arcanum Unbounded release party (Nov. 22, 2016)Of course, someone else could've "brought" both Vasher and Nightblood to Roshar at the same time, and that wouldn't necessarily contradict anything. But that seems wrong to me. Vasher has lived for hundreds of years. He knows how to worldhop and wouldn't really need help. He probably wouldn't let Nightblood tag along if he weren't actually bringing him himself.
0 -
On 2/4/2019 at 8:38 PM, Kramerfarve said:
This is the precise reason why I believe it cannot be sprenblades. The back blurb has been confirmed to have been written by a sleepless, who are known to be at the very pinnacle of information gathering. They surely would have known that sprenblades still exist and are being used by every generation of skybreakers. Further just because “it was at the beginning” does not mean it couldn’t be something we’ve never seen before (ala dawnshards) as we’ve seen this type of twist before, particularly in another prophecy-esque way (See Mistborn Era 1).
But Surgebinding still existed too... In fact, those who who had sprenblades were all Surgebinders. The blurb probably means that they will become more commonplace rather than hidden, which doesn't exclude sprenblades.
I like the Dawnshard idea, but we know too little to say for sure.
0 -
5 hours ago, Extesian said:
You'll find I've done a post or two
A post or two... thousand
0 -
You never describe where. On land? Water creature runs out of breath, dies. In water? Land creature runs out of breath, dies.
0 -
On 11/5/2018 at 1:38 PM, Stormfather-in-Law said:
I never stopped thinking that the actual effect of a speed bubble would be to mess up anything that went in or out. Like a bullet leaving would have the forward part moving faster than the rear, causing it to rip itself apart and leave more like a shotgun blast than a bullet. Or if a cadmium bubble, it would compress itself into minimum space as it leaves.
Same thing with an arm or leg, really. Pretty much anything that goes in or out should be destroyed.
Objects are either in or out. They don't split.
QuoteKurkistan
If you are standing inside of a time bubble, and throw a spear out of the bubble, what happens to that spear as it traverses the border of the bubble? Are different parts of the spear ever in different "time zones," going fundamentally different speeds?
On that line of reasoning, what would happen to a train and its occupants if Marasi stood next to railroad tracks holding up a Cadmium bubble while that train sped by?
Brandon Sanderson
In general, a large object going through a time bubble is not going to notice. An object is either in or out, and it depends in part on how the object views itself. People inside the train would be inside of its influence, and wouldn't notice the bubble. The spear would go from one to the other, but would never be in both.
source0 -
I'm thinking about going to the Naperville signing. Wondering how many books I should bring? I know he says he'll sign as many as you want, but I don't want to go overboard, lol. I was hoping to get at least 4-5 of mine signed, plus Skyward. I might bring a few of my cousin's as well, that would make 7-8. Think that's reasonable, or too much?
Also, what's the most amount of books one person/party has brought to a signing at once? Just curious
0 -
-
I'm not sure what you're trying to say by this post. Did you assume Cultivation was working against Honor or something?
0 -
On 9/7/2018 at 7:05 PM, Bigmikey357 said:
Haven't seen enough of Drominad (First of the Sun) or Taldain (White Sand) to know either way.
Well, we've seen that they totally have boomboxes in white sand
3 -
14 hours ago, Juanaton said:
I don’t think Gavilar gave a sphere to Eshonai at all. He showed it to her, and talked about it, but he only gave it up to Szeth when he was dying.
Yes, it was made clear in the books he had multiple spheres. He gave one to Eshonai, then one to Szeth. There's also a WoB on this.
QuoteJofwu[PENDING REVIEW]
Gavilar's black sphere. What was inside of it and how many does he have?
Brandon Sanderson[PENDING REVIEW]
Well, it is what you think it is. And he had... yeah... He had access to several. Did we canonize this Karen?
Karen Ahlstrom[PENDING REVIEW]
*shakes head*
Brandon Sanderson[PENDING REVIEW]
No, we haven't canonized it. I'm going to say RAFO on the number, but it is what you think it is and what the third book implies that it is.
source0 -
Just wanna put this here. If a platypus could store his special senses in a tinmind (given that it somehow got Feruchemy) then I think that it would be possible to steal animal attributes with Hemalurgy without having to involve other godmetals and hacks and stuff.
QuotePhantomMonstrosity
Let's say we had a platypus Feruchemist, who can sense electric fields. Could he make a tinmind for that sense?
Brandon Sanderson
Platypus tinmind should work.
source1 -
It's not impossible that Nightblood inspired the idea, but I doubt his killing actually "taught" Odium's forces how to do it. Some pretty wacky stuff happened at Nightblood's creation, so I don't know that simply seeing it in battle would teach Odium how to create something like it. Also, imo, there wasn't enough time between Thaylen and Jezrien for Odium to create a weapon like that, and have it work exactly as intended, simply by trying to imitate another shard's weapon. If it was brand new, something could easily have gone wrong. It felt like Odium had had his blade in store for quite some time already.
2 -
I'd never thought about this before, but I looked through a few wobs. It looks like you're not wrong, but not quite right. Apparently it's kinda being stretched across all three realms, not just in the spiritual.
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/332-jordancon-2018/#e9562
QuoteArgent[PENDING REVIEW]
How do visions in the cosmere work? And I'm thinking Realmatically.
Brandon Sanderson[PENDING REVIEW]
So almost always [it's] glimpsing into the Spiritual Realm. But you are often seeing it through the Cognitive, and so like a vision that...
*interrupted for a picture request*
So like the vision that Dalinar sees. What's going on is...being pulled, and kind of stretched a little bit through the Realms, into the Spiritual Realm. Where a Cognitive construct is adding a framework to seeds that are set in place.
Argent[PENDING REVIEW]
So that you can kind of comprehend the Spiritual?
Brandon Sanderson[PENDING REVIEW]
You can comprehend...and also there's a little bit of a life to it. Meaning it can respond to you to an extent. So imagine, it kind of works like an AI. Imagine there's some..you've got that power in the Spiritual Realm and you're adding a framework to it, that it is shining through, and that is giving you the vision. Complicated, I know. Spiritual Realm is supposed to be weird, and we aren't supposed to quite comprehend it, and that's why we've got the Cognitive framework there.
sourceAlso, the spiritual realm is not the beyond.
https://wob.coppermind.net/events/31-arcanum-unbounded-release-party/#e1729
QuoteWard
When Harmony Ascends, he admits he doesn't have a good view of the Spiritual Realm. Does he develop a better one over time? And are there other Shards that already have a very good view of that?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. But it is still something that is hard to grok, so to speak, in-canon, *inaudible*, hard to understand. But he has a much better understanding, and the other Shards, some of them have a very good understanding. The thing is, the difference between the Spiritual Realm and the Beyond is not something that is immediately obvious.
Ward
So, the Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond?
Brandon Sanderson
No, Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond. There are three Realms of existence. The Beyond, some would say... There are philosophers would would say, the Spiritual Realm and the Beyond are one, that the soul gets sucked into and joins the Investiture. That's the idea of the One. But, most people would say the Beyond is not...
source0 -
His metal is Adonalsiumium
(Like Odiumium)
3 -
14 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:
Yeah, but we don't know exactly for sure if Taravangian went to the Nightwatcher before or after Dalinar did. If he did, then it makes it highly likely that Culti could've showed up for him and her statement to a Dalinar still be true. And it wouldn't be impossible for her to have visited Lift either.
Given that Brandon specifically differentiated between 5 years and 5 1/2 years, I think it's safe to say that Dalinar went before Taravingian. Though I do get that the characters aren't always gonna be totally accurate.
0 -
We do have some info about when T and Lift went to the Nightwatcher. In OB we learn that T supposedly disappeared with a "mysterious illness" about 5 years ago, according to Dalinar. Lift, in her WoR interlude, claims that she's been ten for 3 years, which probably means that's when she visited the Nightwatcher. And I believe Dalinar's Nightwatcher flashbacks were 5 1/2 years ago.
I know it's not necessarily exact, but it is a rough time frame for each of them.
0 -
3 hours ago, recneps said:
Ruin and Preservation had to fight over Scadrial -- It was the center of their conflict. Preservation had made sentient life there, because that was part of his original goal. Ruin had to have something to destroy, and so he helped make it. Ruin had to continue to fight over Scadrial because Preservation hid his power there. Except attacking Scadrial makes no sense to curb Harmony's power. Harmony won't be reduced by it. If anything, it's a foolish move. Harmony has lots at stake on Scadrial, and he is quite content to stay here. Why would Autonomy disturb that?
Scadrial, and all creatures on it, were directly created by the power of Ruin and Preservation. They didn't just invest in a planet and the life there, they literally created it themselves. Think of it almost like a massive splinter. I know it's not exactly that, but it's still like a big solid ball of their investiture. You attack the planet, it harms the Shards.
0 -
11 hours ago, ScavellTane said:
You wouldn't prefix a name with 'the'.
Although, the epigraph Sibling could be referring to the Stormfather and the Stormfather himself may refer to another.
I mean, you do call him THE Stormfather.
0 -
It just occurred to me that Szeth and Nale will both have two blades. Dual wielding fight?
0
Spaceships in Shadesmar!
in Cosmere Discussion
Posted · Edited by CalaCrisp88
I mean, FTL isn't the same as worldhopping, but it can be a natural consequence of it, depending on the method you use to worldhop. If you're going between planets in the CR, where there is empty space and no cognition at all, it'll be super compressed. Per this wob: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/87/#e5671 (it's long, so I won't paste it) you can literally "pass lightyears in steps" once you get far away from centers of perception and thought.
Of course, using ships will be significantly faster than walking, and more effective in other ways. That's probably the direction things are going to move for most peoples in the cosmere. But it's certainly not the only way it can happen.