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Anything more strenuous than "crap" gets auto-corrected to cosmere words, e.g.: storm, rust, damnation, WTF. EDIT: I thought there was a replacement for "WTF", my bad.

Actually, with the butterfly stroke you could have your arms oscillating back and forth between sticky (pushing water behind you) and normal (returning to starting position) and everything else slick. This setup also appears to work for any stroke where the arms leave the water, if of course the Radiant in question could keep the rhythm going. And keep from thinking about it.

Of course, you could go the opposite way - increase the friction so that you have more traction in the water.

As others have mentioned, it's a function of his Heightening. (I see what you did there, BTW)

The cover, the dust jacket, and the pages. (Serious answer to be edited in later)

That is a spoiler for a different series entirely.

RE: Hoid writing letters to Shards that like him - barring of course off-screen Shards - what are the odds that he could have counted Ruin among that number, before the Catacendre?

If TLR is Rashek, then he probably wouldn't have access to the Era 2 metals (if only because he'd have known that any metals he brought to such a battle royale would be picked up by the Inquisitors). If "TLR" is shorthand for "a Fullborn," then yeah, they'd have access to anything and would be basically invincible.

Brandon is on-record as not caring how people pronounce his names. I tend to call Vin and Kelsier "Vann" and "Kellseeay" (maintaining my native American accent).

I don't think this is Autonomy hating on sand mastery, per se. I think this is more the Kerztians misinterpreting Autonomy's directives to achieve more autonomy for themselves (which she's fine with because it's the sort of behavior her Intent likes to encourage) and the people of Lossand getting tired enough of the diem's arrogance that they look the other way.

OB spoilers:

You say that as though that behemoth of a thread showed any sign of slowing down.

The darkeye glass ceiling is gone so far as Dalinar might be concerned, but the rest of Alethkar (let alone the rest of Roshar) don't exactly agree.

The Heralds have been getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop for a long time, for periods of "a long time" covered by most forms of immortality. Aharietiam was them attempting to carve out some rest among all the madness and chaos. (Which, of course, as you've seen from Taln's and Ash's viewpoints, not to mention the cameos from other Heralds, was rewarded by 4500 years of deteriorating mental state, followed by yet another Desolation whose staging ground isn't on another storming planet. Yay Oathpact!)

In reverse order: All the Heralds have a resurrective-immortality deal, which is how they've lasted so long. All the other Heralds made the decision to abandon Taln on Braize (otherwise known as Damnation), because he'd died first and thus locked away the Voidbringers (or as we now know them, the Fused). They'd noticed that if it was anyone else, they'd have cracked immediately and thus started another Desolation. The Recreance is a separate issue, but what the Stormfather is talking about is that when pre-Recreance Radiants twigged to the fact that oh, hey, humans aren't really the good guys here, Honor was always able to talk them down from the cliff. However, at the time of the Recreance, Odium's splintering of Honor was in full swing and Honor's sanity was deteriorating to match. Hence, when contemporary Radiants looked to Honor for guidance, his senile ramblings made things worse. Aharietiam is the Last Desolation, where Jezrien and co. left Taln to the Voidbringers' tender ministrations and told all the humans on Roshar that the Desolations were over and that the Heralds were going to retake the Tranquiline Halls. a third event, one that we don't have all the details of but had something to do with the breaking of the ardentia's power. (I think. I could be wrong, I'm remembering this off the top of my head) EDIT: Thank you to everyone who corrected me on this.

With that said, there are Mistborn spoilers that could provide a workaround, but they haven't happened yet in-universe as of OB. BoM spoilers:

That Coppermind reference stems from a really old WoB where Brandon said that Hoid's plot-sense came from "an unknown application of Feruchemy" (referring to Fortune, long before we knew the term). I wouldn't put too much stock in it.

I would, if only because Kaladin's issues in OB don't spring directly from his own mental state, but rather from the dilemma that he (and by extension all the Windrunners) find themselves in. Kaladin in WoR, by contrast, allowed his depression and his hatred for lighteyes to kill his spren and stand aside while the king was murdered. w/r/t Shallan, however: (OB spoilers)

Firing might be a problem, as the spren can't make multiple pieces. (Guns are also comprised of multiple pieces, but there's probably a Cognitive workaround for that) EDIT: Assuming there's no live spren attached, I'd go with a Sharddagger. Otherwise, the major draw of a sprenblade is its versatility, so I'd choose all of the above.

A pattern I've noticed with Stormlight books: The book directly after a given character's flashback sequence will have that character regress in some fashion. This is where Kaladin's arc in WoR came from, and it was where Shallan's arc came from in OB.

Well, we know that the parshmen (i.e. the singers in slaveform) were put out to stud whenever a fertile female was found. And their masters were highly motivated to keep their workforce at a stable population.

He's referring to the chapter title, with Hoid and Shallan talking. The Girl Who Looked Up was the first iteration of the story, that Shallan told Pattern back in Urithiru.

I'm fairly certain she had a compass, given to her by the Ones Above, which allowed her to track the Aviar.

Oathbringer spoilers: