Aradel

I would like to point out that it has never been said that two shards have to be a pair to make a magic system together. Ruin and Preservation, Devotion and Dominion are all paired and share a shardworld; but Endowment is alone on Nalthis. Cultivation and Honor are not required to make a balanced system or be paired to share a magic system. A shared system may even be a natural reaction to two shards occupying a shardworld; I remember Brandon saying something about how magic systems are a kind of natural reaction to a shard's power.

I lean towards creative/honest for Shallan, just because those traits are the ones Brandon stressed in TWoK. Some people have thought that Kaladin's brother was going to become a surgebinder but he died, so we may never know.

Only a little bit. There's no reason the heralds couldn't use Honor's powers to supplement their own. Shards and splinters are just peices of a whole after all. So they don't really have to have splinters of Honor. Well, I did say I'm recalling a quote from somewhere. I'd try and find it if I wasn't using my mobile. True, but I only said it might be one reason.

I remember Brandon making reference to individual Splinters (not Slivers) and how they can have magic of their own. The heralds might be connected to that. And before someone points out that Honor hasn't been splintered, I've been thinking that when Adonalsium shattered peices smaller than Shards broke off as well. Meaning there may be people on Roshar and throughout the cosmere that hold Splinters. (Maybe that's one reason Brandon doesn't like reffering to "Shardholders"; because then you'd have Splinterholders, which sounds stupid.

If you can deny them stormlight, they're toast in any number of ways.

How do you define total self-mastery except by calling it dominion over yourself and/or devotion to a cause.

We learned a bunch in the HoA annotations, some of it was guesswork we did that was confirmed by Brandon.

The real question is wether Brandon is familiar with 7th Sea, or if great minds think alike.

I don't think it'd happen. But it's both scary and funny at the same time. Makes me wonder if someone could have an inherited spike. Like the parent gets a spike in their heart, and when the parent dies or is ready to die, the heir implants the spike in themselves, and the next heir and so on. If it's a blessing spike, it may be re-charged every time it changes hosts. Or it could be a kind of master-student thing, with one coinshot passing an A-steel spike to their student when they die. I'm imagining a supercharged spike within a few generations, but I don't know if spikes have a maximum charge or if charges from two or more people can be put in one spike.

Actually, AoL had my favorite ending -- most likely because it wasn't so much an end to the story as it was a "that's all for now, come back later". So it's a matter of opinion mostly.

Now that I think about it, the Worldbringers were the leaders of the Terris people before TLR. Hasn't Brandon said somewhere that the Worldbringers and Worldsingers are very similar? Early organizations that seemed to be more knowlegeable about Shards than they should for the time period. Is it possible that the Shards brought small groups of people with them when they came? Freinds and family maybe? Ati didn't get corrupted by his Shard immediatly. If they did, the group would mingle with the normal population and leave descendants who're just a bit different in their genetics. Since the Terris have historically kept to themselves, it would be a good explanation for why they're SDNA is different.

Rubidum... Rutabaga?

Nice. Did you pen that on the spot?

Ever notice how the metals that give you more bang for your buck tend to have the steepest limitiations? Steel is like that. Sorry Void. On the other hand, you could become the first to join me in the thug/steelrunner camp.

Szeth has radiant powers but Brandon has said he's not a radiant. Could he have gotten his powers from the old magic? (Nightmother or nightwatcher, I don't remember)

First, I wonder why the Terris, as a people, are so different from the rest of Scadrial. If their SDNA is so different, they can't have the same origins as other Scadrians. Second, if the people across the ocean are just as different, would they use allomancy or feruchemy differently as well? Last, I remember a topic not too long ago where we talked about how much effect a world has on the magic system, as opposed to the Shard. That quote clearly states that the people using the magic also have a distinct effect on how it works.

Use the D&D alignment graph. Lawful, Good, Chaotic, Evil, Nuetral. Replace good with selfless and evil with selfish.

Physicspren are watching you all. I'm impressed with myself that I managed do catch most of that without ever having taken physics, but I didn't fet all of it. Layman's terms please?

It's Commissioner Gordon actually. Another relative of mine. (Gordons and Goradels are very close.) But the only way to settle ecscalation is to use something so overpowering that your opponent can't stop it! Or quit. That works too.

Poor people use lamps and candles when they don't have enough money to light their home. Literally.

"...you can't take the sky from me...." Firefly was a special case, the theme was good but it didn't have much in the way of an actual soundtrack.

TLR used feruchemy to cheat the system. Being a sliver was not the source of his power.

Meaning ordinary Nalthians born with a single breath (which makes up the biochromatic part), but I'm not sure about spontanious. Pregnancy usually doesn't happen without... well you know what I'm talking about. I can still see it counting as a fifth entity, Vasher just didn't think to add them because he's never seen someone born without a breath.

Compounding works for allomancy too. Right now some of us think it has to do with storing allomantic power in metalminds, but we're not sure. Apparantly three people can post in the time it took me to write this.

Wait, that statement made sense. ... I'm confused.