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6 hours ago, echaozh said:

No, as the channeler of Honor's power, Dalinar can release Odium off Roshar. He made it sure by asking Dalinar multiple times.

And Odium made sure to mention that such a cavalier release would result in Roshar going boom.  (Although Odium, now I think of it, is not the most reliable source, especially since his perpendicularity isn't even on Roshar to begin with)

It appears as though Odium is fully trapped.  Mistborn spoilers: 

3 hours ago, Stone warden said:

True. Do any orders we have met share those surges?

Bondsmiths have Cohesion.  Since Oathbringer will concentrate heavily on the Bondsmiths, I would ask for something cool one could do with the surge of Tension, or something cool that Brandon knows the Stonewards can do, that they might not know about in-universe yet.  (A la Radiants with the surge of Illumination being able to shoot lasers at people, or Radiants with the surge of Transformation being able to create radioactive material)

On 11/11/2017 at 5:46 AM, Stone warden said:

So that my question to Brandon isn't wasted is there anything pressing we need to ask. 

I was going to ask for an example of a stone wards ability because I love the sound of the order but feel ill get a massive RAFO

Not necessarily - Stonewards can get (IIRC) Tension and Cohesion, so asking for a cool example of one of those surges will probably get you what you want.  

4 hours ago, CaptainRyan said:

There is a long running joke (and I use joke loosely here) on the forums to offer new members a hemalurgically spiked cookie because... reasons I guess. There is no actual connection between this overly repeated joke and anything in the Cosmere.

I think it began as a bait-and-switch: a new person would be lured in by the promise of cookies with the thinly-masked intent of spiking them when they got close.  

In which story, specifically?  

21 hours ago, Master Knapper said:

I don't know about the characterization and pacing issues, I trust Brandon more than myself to try to fix them.  My thoughts are around how you can keep the majority of the story intact as cannon, with so much of the larger picture canibalized for other books.

Assumptions:
-  Former is a Shard, short for Formation (borrowed/superseded by Preservation &/or Cultivation)
-  Decay is another Shard (borrowed to become Ruin)

 

I like the idea of splinters of a shard being treated like sons by the shard, and the intent of the splinters being perpendicular, if not in outright conflict, with the intent of the shard (Formation vs Slaughter and Dispair). 

 

In my opinion, Formation is no longer available.  Looking at Rider of Storms’ Theory in the cosmere theories board, I am thinking if Formation is replaced with “Justice”, you could have the same Fell Twins that the shard created and then lost control of.  The splinters are battleing each other, and the people are forced to be the game pieces/ scorecards in the battle between them.  I don’t know if you need another shard trying to manipulate the twins.  If needed for the story, if could be Autonomy (Trell) or one of the unknown shards.  I think Odium would be more direct.  If there is a Chaos shard, it would be a good candidate.

The thing is, a lot of the competition between Slaughter and Despair was cannibalized to create the conflict between Preservation and Ruin in Mistborn.  (Notice how angry and saddened Preservation is about Ruin doing anything in Mistborn, and compare to the Former's relative nonchalance in Aether) So you may have less to work with than you think.  

Hrm.  I guess Wit's only excuse is that he didn't know it was an Honorblade when all he saw was the tip.  Of course, he connected the dots once he saw Taln, but until that point he didn't want to assume.  (He generally doesn't, unless it's funny or he wants to provoke a reaction)

6 minutes ago, Ward said:

In the Epilogue to The Way of Kings I noticed that Wit refers to "Talenel's" (ugh. Brandon you cagey weasel) Blade as a Shardblade instead of an Honorblade.

"And then a bright, silvery blade rammed between the massive doors, slicing upward, cutting the bar that held them closed. A Shardblade."

Wouldn't Wit know that this was no mere Shardblade? Wouldn't he know it was an Honorblade?

I thought that was from a disembodied 3rd-person perspective, instead of Wit's own.  

On 11/2/2017 at 11:36 AM, Toaster Retribution said:

Tom Hardy has always been my top pick but he might be a bit old.

And yeah, Bales Batman voice is horrid.

It might be fun as Wayne's version of Ironeyes, though.  EDIT: Even funnier, bring back Marsh's actor for that scene, with the Bale Batman voice coming out of his mouth when he says his lines.  And switch back to Wayne's actor once the perspective changes back to Marasi.  

My first thought is expending blood to produce a reconstruction of a crime, from a crime scene.  (e.g. you come upon a mugging and can expend blood to have ghosts reenact the crime as it happened)  Then the rest of the plot involves tracking down the elements suggested by the recreation, e.g. the reconstruction has one party dodge over to a trash can or something, where the detective finds a murder weapon.  To preserve the tension of figuring out the mystery, the simulacra caused by the spell need not have faces.  

14 minutes ago, Farnsworth said:

They could go really crazy with the colors there. Really bring to life the contrast between the colorless nations and the colorful ones.

Not to mention, of course, how viewpoints under the different Heightenings would mess with the saturation.  

19 hours ago, King Cole said:

Well, Fullborn are litereally gods so... They can't die, have infinite strength, fly, move at superspeeds. If they wanted, they could literally crash the moon onto scadrial

What moon?  Scadrial doesn't have one.  

2 hours ago, SilverTiger said:

Yes, magical research probably distracts from scientific research, especially in places like Sel (Elantris), where magic is used a lot (also goes for Nalthis, Roshar). Places like Threnody, where the shades kill anyone who light fires (necessary for steam engines), have active resistance to scientific research (also goes for Taldain). Honestly, I'd say that the cosmere is not going to progress scientifically, because magic research will distract them. Scadrial has Harmony actively working to encourage it.

Non-Invested technological progress will probably fall by the wayside on many Shardworlds, true.  However, that does not mean that scientific progress will stagnate overall.  Outside of edge cases like Threnody (where the environment actively punishes mechanical development and provides no alternative) or, say, the Final Empire (Where certain technologies were suppressed as potential threats to TLR's rule), it will simply develop along Invested lines instead.  

2 minutes ago, jofwu said:

We don't have a glyph for Thalath I think? And last I checked, nobody had cracked which highprince glyph was Ruthar's. (There's a guess, but no clear confirmation)

But "Th" is a known component of the Alethi syllabary that I don't see on Harakeke's new chart, which is where my confusion sprang from.  

On 10/7/2017 at 3:15 PM, Harakeke said:

I took a crack at organizing my notes a bit. It's mostly guesswork, but I think I like it better than the current single-letter key.
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Where's "Th" on the consonants listing?  As in "Ruthar" or "Thalath"?  

23 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

A book and a novella. Not quite one book, but less than two...

Last I checked, a novella was a type of book.   EDIT: Also, Kelsier didn't exactly save the world in TFE.  

3 hours ago, Overstorm said:

I've always thought it's a ring of ten interlocking circles.

Kinda like Ten Rings from Marvel:

(just without all these other symbols)

Or the crossed swords.  

17 hours ago, Weltall said:

As mentioned, Brandon left hints in the original trilogy that Kelsier was dead but not gone. For example, the second voice that Spook hears, and which Vin hears as she Ascends. He explicitly says this was Kelsier's voice in the annotations. Brandon has been dropping additional hints to this effect for years; for example when he wrote up his idea of how a Kelsier/Moiraine fight would go he has the former drop hints that interesting things could be done with hemalurgy...

So yeah, whatever might have been the case as he was in the process of writing the books, by the time we got them he had firmly decided that Kelsier was going to remain a participant in the story in some form.

That link (the Kelsier/Moiraine fight) becomes hilarious with knowledge of SH.  

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"Please," Kelsier said.  "I already saved the world.  It only took me one book, I'll add."  

Aons in their current form did not exist pre-splintering.  

Soulstamps contain a crude image of MaiPon as their setting mark, not the Rose Empire.  

3 hours ago, Yata said:

Gold Feruchemy could do that too

Barring shenanigans with Compounding or jailbroken metalminds, he wouldn't be able to attain a greater level of health than he already has (because he'd need to put health in to get health out).  Stormlight healing has no such constraint.  

On 9/29/2017 at 9:16 PM, jefftucker0525 said:

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Why would you even joke about that?

If Nomon (or any of Roshar's moons, for that matter) were in a geosynchronous orbit with Roshar, that would mean it would never deviate from its position (i.e. it would never rise, nor set, nor do anything but hang there).  Arcanum Unbounded has a pretty good diagram of all three moons' orbits, and they happen to be overlapping ellipses.  

28 minutes ago, Argent said:

The long vowel thing is an Arelish convention - you take the name's base Aon (Rao for Raoden, Ene for Sarene, Kii for Kiin, etc.) and you pronounce them properly (with two long stressed vowels), while all other vowels usually remain closed. So RAY-OH-den, sar-EE-NEE.

Shai is not from Arelon (or Opelon, which is very similar culturally), so her name doesn't necessarily follow the same convention. 

I thought Opelon was the Aonic name for Sycla.