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Hmm okay, the question remains then... And it's in the Database!

(merged this back into the original thread, we really only need one per signing) Thanks! On the Oathgate question did he happen to specify the "they"? Like were "they" the people who built the Oathgates or are "they" the new Team Radiant and friends? Also that is what I thought might be going on with the hair. Thank you again for asking! Edit: Just to confirm these were all asked by you?

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, just fixed it.

psst if you need some help on that I can help

I finished my last pass this past weekend, right now it's just getting proofed.

Let's see, I had a bunch a couple days ago but never wrote them down... -Can any Oathgate go to any of the 11 locations (i.e. could they have used the Shattered Plains Oathgate to go to Kholinar instead of Urithiru)? If so why are there 10 platforms at Urithiru.{Asked, but circumvented by Brandon} -Honorspren and windspren have been described as "cousins", do Cryptics share a similar relationship with creationspren? -Can Shardpools be used as a tool for Realmatic transition (such as moving between the Physical and Cognitive Realms)? -Are the Unmade Splinters of Odium? (Probably RAFO-bait) -According to Peter, Mraize is from Thaylenah, does Shallan just never mention his eyebrows or is he not ethnically Thaylen? -So Alethi hair "breeds true" based on the individual's ancestry, why then does Renarin have more black than Adolin? {Answer below} -You've said that Alethi and Irali hair shares similarities with the Royal Locks of House Idris, does that mean the "breeding true" inheritance pattern is a matter of lineage rather than genetics, as is the case with the Royal Locks? -Was there a King of Alethkar directly before Gavilar? -What if the Throne of Idris passed to someone who was not the child of a monarch? Like if they were the niece or nephew of the previous monarch. Their parent would not have passed on the Royal Locks to them, but if they gained the throne would they spontaneously manifest the Royal Locks? Would their children if they were born before? -What are your plans with regards to the Jasnah sequence you wrote while in Europe this summer? Will that be in Stormlight 3 or will it be released as a separate novella? -Do you still plan on writing the "King Lopen the First, King of Alethkar" short story? -Does hair that is still attached to a person's head get cut if a Shardblade passes through it? If not if that person had the Royal Locks could they change the color of the hair "below" the cut? -You've said previously that Ashyn does not currently have a Shard, did it *ever* have a Shard? -Is Aon Rao the Aon that Raoden mis-interprets? Is its true meaning something closer to "Investiture"? ...that's a lot of questions and I know I'm still forgetting one...

We know that the Shardworlds themselves have an influence on the magic systems that manifest on them so it would follow that they affect all manifestations of investiture, including things like spren. Sel has Seons and Skaze which are spren-like but Roshar has something special that allow spren to exist.

TES takes place after Elantris (though we don't know when) and it does takes place on the same continent as Teod, but it is fairly distant from it (or at least the capital is).

There's a WoB where Brandon says Drabs lack innate investiture: (source) However, this is a subject of debate at the moment that has not yet been resolved, hence me hedging between the two.

Basically as I understand it, most every person in the cosmere is born with a certain level of innate investiture. For native Nalthians a portion, or perhaps all it isn't clear, of this innate investiture is packaged in a "Breath" which can be separated from the individual, similar to how some species of lizard can detach their tails, leaving them as a Drab. Non-native Nalthians cannot use their innate investiture to Awaken, because it doesn't have the detachment mechanism that Breath does but neither do they read as Drabs to those with life-sense.

Happy Birthday Peter!

Ooooh, would you mind sharing your list. Also minor nit-pick but "Reod Elantrian" is not actually a canon term, the Reod was a singular event not an affliction.

We have no WoB, except a RAFO.

He did. I did not mean to imply otherwise. All I was saying is the Parshendi had under their control an Honorblade via Szeth and his Oathstone, which they promptly abandoned in the Alethi countryside.

It was Szeth's.

It's not explicitly stated in text, but it is heavily implied. Taravangian is terrified out of his mind and trying desperately not to lose control of Szeth. He knows that there are Radiants out there, but if Szeth were to find that out Taravangian would lose a very valuable tool. Basically it's too convenient of an excuse to actually be legitimate (though some disagree). 7 Blades are with the Shin 1 Blade was with Taln 1 Blade was with Szeth and is now with Team Radiant in Urithiru 1 Blade was retrieved by a Herald Did you mean Taln's blade is unaccounted for?

That implies that Seons were around when they were doing this, which is not a definite thing. We know they were created at the time of the Splintering of Devotion and Dominion but not how.

It's mentioned that spheres do not last through the Weeping, they are far too small. They are only thumbnail-sized (I think), most of which is glass. All it says is that the gem has to be larger, though it does not specify the exact size.

To be fair that only talks about three of the Aons, and only gives an origin for one (and even that is somewhat apocryphal). Some Aons do have such discovery stories but for the most part it was trial and error over who knows how many years.

Not necessarily, some worlds had humans before the Shards. (I'm pretty sure we have WoB on that, but I don't have time to look for it now). Edit: Found it: (source)

Kaladin is not a splinter, splinters are not human. Syl, as an honorspren, is a splinter though. Also Shards can voluntarily splinter off portions of their power without being Splintered, as is the case with Endowment and the divine Breath and Honor and Cultivation and the spren. (that's a lot of ands...)

Endowment being a recent arrival on Nalthis was a pretty common theory at one point, I think Windy was the first to propose it.

It's a possibility, but it would be difficult.

It's an idea that has been brought forward before but I sincerely doubt it. We have direct WoB that it is really hard to Return if one isn't a native Nalthian, and that Hoid is from Yolen. The timing is also weird. Hoid is as old as the Shards, Returned are relatively new by comparison. We know that Warbreaker takes place between HoA and WoK in the chronology. Returned started appearing about 600 years before the events of Warbreaker (Manywar was 300 years, First Returned about that time before that if I remember correctly). Let's be generous and round that off to a thousand years before. That puts the First Returned at roughly 1500 years (I'm rounding up) before the events of WoK. The Heralds disappeared 3000 years before that and existed for who knows how long before that. I bring this up because we know that Hoid predates the Heralds. So Hoid is immortal somehow, and we don't know exactly how, but since he had to have had it before the First Returned (in order to live long enough for the First Returned to happen) it can't be because he is a Returned. (If that makes sense?)

It's a possibility. Though ruby spheres use the "fire-" prefix and the associated stance is flamestance so maybe not.