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I'm pretty sure we have confirmation that "Lightweavers" is a Radiant Order (we do). Personally I see the Lightweaving as a manifestation of a "Light" surge. Why one order associated with it gets the name, I dunno. Also, as far as I remember Hoid has access to Yolen Lightweaving not Roshar Lightweaving. We know they are analogous manifestations of investiture that has something to do illusions but presumably they have different sources. -
All of the readings (except the Lift interlude) were already transcribed. Shardlet had a separate recording of them which he posted a while ago. Also, the links don't seem to be working for me.
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Yay! Some really interesting stuff here. I like the question on the Selish Eras, though its a shame he couldn't remember more specifics. @Argent, I believe the [???] is "programming-based"
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*gollum voice* Yes, my preciouses, fall into my trap... Curses! My evil plan has been discovered. Yah I saw it on Reddit too. I wish I had known someone had already posted that. In all seriousness though I found this one a couple hours after the first one and I almost just posted it in that thread but I had put the location in the thread title so it just felt wrong. I spent like five minutes paralyzed trying to figure out what to do...
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I guess Chaos. Personally I think it makes sense as a Surge, and I would kind of say that molecular motion was a "force," maybe. I really can't think of anything else that would fit there, I'm open to suggestions though. (Also Brandon didn't say they were off track having fire where they did, and Heat sounds better as the Surge name than fire, but I dunno) Natans - So far the surges have been pretty much tied to physical forces/stuff, then again the cognitive realm does play a significant role... I just see manipulation of the weak/strong forces as necessary for soulcasting to actually happen. On the using them to generate Heat... Maybe? I don't really see it working but perhaps I'm missing something.
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I find the weak/strong forces to be more likely the Transformation surge since the breaking/forging of the bonds at the atomic level is what defines a substance. I like Heat as a surge because it is a fundamental force/attribute/quality of matter. Fire is a mere chemical reaction. Heat is molecular motion itself, to be honest I would be disappointed if it wasn't a surge.
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I agree, that is one of the few differences between my chart and theirs. I have that surge as "Heat." Fire, to me, doesn't really make sense to me as a surge, especially since it is an Essence.
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What is with me and finding new signing stuff today? Here is a YouTube video of the Oct-9 signing in LA. Somethings that I thought were notable are Shadows of Self has been "bought" by Tor and they are planning to release it a year after WoR (so March 2015) with Book 3 of Stormlight being that fall/christmas season. Also he mentions potentially naming said third book "Skybreakers." Which is interesting because previously he has said "Stones Unhallowed." I know which one I prefer.
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I guess you could say I'm in the "side-effect" group. Though it is just how it works. In order for people to access a shard's power the shard needs to bestow investiture upon them. (I.E. if Odium just showed up on Scadrial people would be able to just burn raysium, he would have to do something to give them that ability) On the feruchemy thing... I dunno. I view it is as "mutation" in their sDNA that didn't spread to the rest of Scadrial because of their insular nature. Though that strays into a debunked theory of mine so who knows. Mwahahaha
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Yah, I think Brandon has mentioned that allomancy and the other metallic arts are among the least "powerful"/most restricted magic systems. They rely more on tricks and ingenuity than raw investiture.
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Preservation gave humans a part of his investiture so they could be sentient, not for them to use allomancy. We don't know how any of the metallic arts first came to be used.
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Also Shallan is confirmed as Transformation/Light(lightweaving).
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I don't mind pm-ing it to people who ask for it but I don't want to post anything with steelhunt spoilers with the current ban on them. If the admins say it is fine then good, but until then I'm going to abide by the current policy.
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Since that is stuff from the Steelhunt, I would at least put that in spoiler tags.
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You can't, only admins/mods can move threads. You can edit the op to add spoiler tags (click on the "special BBC code" button and select spoiler or add [spoiler*] around the spoilery text without the *) Also, because I'm a nitpicky person, it is spren not spreen.
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Theory: How Gavilar got the Evil Sphere of Doom
WeiryWriter replied to Lightflame's topic in Stormlight Archive
I think you mean Jasnah, not Navani who is his mother. I also highly doubt Jasnah sees Cryptics. We know she is a different order from Shallan and it has been implied that each order had its own kind of spren. Also Jasnah was surprised by the Cryptics when Shallan showed her drawings of them. She says something along the lines of "I had thought... But no" which I interpret as her believing Shallan was part of her order which proved false when it became apparent she had a different kind of spren. As for the sphere being taken from the Cognitive Realm... I doubt it. Those orbs are the cognitive aspects of objects in the Physical Realm, so I don't know how that would work. -
So a couple people on tumblr went to a signing and asked quite a few questions. They posted them here (complete with recording and transcription). WARNING: THAR BE STEELHUNT SPOILERS! I'm most excited about the confirmation that Shallan has transformation and lightweaving as her two suges/abilities. (and that my surgebinding chart is pretty much correct.
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I agree, it is entirely possible. I didn't mean to give the impression that I didn't. I just wanted to point out that it was a corrupted spren as opposed to a "voidbringer" spren since the two have different connotations.
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1- Actually he saw a "corrupted spren" which 2- We have no idea what the "old gods" of the Parshendi are. I find it more likely that they are the Unmade rather than corrupted spren.
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First of all, Preservation and Ruin did not design their respective magic systems. All three magic systems came about through the realmatic interactions of the two shards and Scadrial itself. They did have the ability to fudge with the rules as is evidenced by Preservation replacing the external temporal metals with atium/malatium but He didn't design allomancy. Also, I don't think we are supposed to post spoilers from unpublished works on the boards, even in spoiler tags. (Especially Dragonsteel since that is just about impossible for most fans to get a hold of.)
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I thought of another question, "What is the likelihood that we will see the shardworlds explored in Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and Sixth of the Dusk beyond those two stories?"
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Not so, it is possible for the donor to survive being spiked, ergo the power is stolen when they are spiked not after they die.
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This quote talks a little about this. I interpret as meaning some spren are wholly of one shard or the other with the rest being a mixture of the two. I think restricting it to just bonding spren would be more useful.
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20 - I posted about this earlier in the thread, its a quirk of feruchemy being realmatically based. We won't get anything from asking it. 29 - The current status of Sixth of the Dusk is discussed in the Miyabi interview. Basically Dan and Howard are taking longer than expected to finish their stories.
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Actually Brandon usually attributes the emergence of ferrings to the mixing of feruchemical genes with allomantic ones. It is mistings that became more common as a result of "dilution" with the effects of the original nine allomancers consuming lerasium got spread out.
