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If any Lightweaver gets the ability to convert Stormlight into death rays, it will have to be long after the Desolations are dealt with. Because grinding everything back to the stone age is part of the point.

Translation Convention, to use tv tropes parlance. Presumably Scadrial had some other method of dividing the year up into manageable chunks that didn't rely on a moon.

Sixth of the Dusk: What happens when a human eats one of the parasites? Do they die? Does it fail to produce powers (perhaps the parasites can't survive in a human environment, perhaps the double-investiture problem rearing its ugly head again)? If not, what sort of power would it grant (because it bestowing one telepathic application is not a given, IMO)? Elantris: What is to the west of Arelon, in the circle of a life-size Aon Rao? To the South? Mistborn: Why did Ruin nudge Vin to be with Elend at the end of Final Empire? Seems like she'd be easier to manipulate if she was alone.

At the very least, Kaladin needed someone to jar him out of the rut he was in, and the only way to get him to listen was to appeal to commonality. The rest of Bridge Four don't count, because they all idolize him, which is not exactly conducive to him being told what his mistakes are. Shallan has the connection necessary to get through to him, and the gumption to tell him where exactly to stow his crem dung. (Also, the Stormfather laying out the consequences of breaking his oath, and telling Kaladin in exacting detail that yes, he did break his oath, was a big part of it)

I found the mega-thread that figured out the fractal (Julia fractal, for reference). Cool easter egg.

Have we found the easter egg which is supposedly encoded into the map of Roshar? I ask because at first glance it seems like the mirroring of Roshar and Shadesmar, but that's explicitly noticed in the text, and seems like an inviolate rule of how Shadesmar works. It bears a slight resemblance to the world of Monty Oum's RWBY, whose map was developed with some sprayed condiments on a airplane napkin, but that seems unlikely. Anyone else possibly figure it out?

Beyond that, the continent of Sycla is mentioned, Jindo is mentioned as a people who are very phenotypically similar to Shai's fellow MaiPonese, books in Svordish are mentioned. I believe that's all of them.

When the Shards create life, they look to what their holders know. Their holders are all from Yolen, which we can infer is Earthlike from the fact that Hoid is (well, was) a human. Therefore, every world will have at least one region or organism which is Earthlike, even if it's just the humans.

Out of perhaps morbid curiosity, is there a rank for someone with fewer than -100 rep? Or is that just not the sort of thing that gets "rewarded" with a ranking?

Apologies.

We have to pick one? *sighs* Hrathen. Sarene is a close second (her perspective's fun to read in a way Raoden's never was), but Hrathen beats her out.

Especially with the Brandon-penned pronunciation rules regarding Aons and Aon-derived names (e.g. Raoden is "Rayo-den"), especially when he'd apparently forgotten that this makes basically every name besides Rayoden and Sareenee really awkward. (Add-Eye-Een I'm looking at you). EDIT: Yes, I know he doesn't quite care about how the audience pronounces his character names. It's just the sticklers in the audience, such as myself, who do.

HoA Spoilers:

... I really want to see that too.

It certainly is a major piece of foreshadowing for the mystery of how the Aons really work. However. Where is the forest the Aon points to and, more importantly, where is the Aon that points to the forest? As I recall, it appears nowhere in the chapter headings or arc title pages. Also, the physical meaning of Aon Mea was completely opaque beyond the easily recognizable Aon Aon until Brandon cleared that up for us.

I'd put Adolin in Gryffindor as well. Dalinar, however, can go directly into Hufflepuff without passing GO or collecting 200$ dollars.

Actually it may be more prudent to wait until we get a 3rd version of it, just for purposes of tying together what transpired when. Remember that Jasnah dropped into Shadesmar for a few minutes, and therefore missed much of what Szeth could relate.

I liked it quite a bit, too. Silence is gruffer and somehow more genuine than cookie-cutter femme fatale #27b (Who incidentally made at least 5 appearances in various guises over the course of the Dangerous Women anthology), for all her lies and murders. The shades sell a visceral sense of the danger that Silence deals with on a nightly basis and I can honestly say that I dismissed the foreshadowing of the twist until it was sprung on us. It was rather refreshing.

Well at that scale things get simplified to "there's a dot here" psq. But yes, it's a good thing too. I can just imagine Raoden's (Or Taan's, I guess) face when he discovers the problem over the course of, idk, designing a new mosaic pattern for his (or Raoden's, I guess) audience chamber floor.

We've seen what happens to a city shaped like Aon Rao: It's inhabitants become sparkly, extra-durable gods, like Twilight "vampires" without the bloodsucking. Or the stupidity. However, I don't believe that cities, in and of themselves, would be incorporated into base Aons the way the Chasm needed to be. Aon Aon has a coastline, a lake, a mountain range, and now a ravine in it. Aon Mea has those things, an extra line and arc mirroring the coast and the mountain range, an X denoting (per WoB) a particularly fertile valley (presumably one by the river Kalomo, but the map in the front of Elantris is suspect), and the region wherein the Shaod can work. EDIT EDIT: I have come to the conclusion that we don't know enough of Sycla to really make informed Dor-related conjectures about it. We know Aon Aon, and we know that a diagonal line running from the dot to the top corner of Aon Aon might be the Aredel River, and we know that the Chasm isn't supposed to be where the map says it is. That's it.

There's that problem, and also the problem posed by "singular room in the Physical Realm." The only lip service that Preservation ever gave to the Physical Realm (at least by the era of the Final Empire) was the presence of the mists, and that was all he needed to Snap people and keep an eye on things. (Not to mention, of course, that Odium is already present on Roshar, via his hatespren and the Everstorm)

How would you get Odium into the same room as Nightblood, exactly? How would you get Odium into a singular room in the Physical Realm to begin with?

Even disregarding Hoid's "personal beef with Rayse," the fact remains that unless Odium was framed for the murder of Aona, Skai, and Tanavast, (a laughable claim w/r/t Tanavast due to testimony directly from the horse's mouth), he's killed 3 shards personally, without suffering apparent injury. That makes him a fearsome enemy to have. However, if Aona and Skai had faced him together, it may have been difficult but it probably would have been in their favor (given Odium's fear of Harmony, by WoB, who contains the most contradictory pair of shards we have ever seen). Hence, there was some schism between the two that either Odium engendered or that he capitalized on. We don't know the details of Honor's death, but it stands to reason that Odium couldn't pull the same trick with Honor and Cultivation as he did on Sel, whose intents are far more synergistic than Devotion's and Dominion's appear to be. Which probably means he pulled a "Go look at the distraction!" on Honor. (obv. far more involved than that, but I'd be willing to bet that it boils down to that)

We keep saying "recipient for Odium" as though he's going to suddenly stick a spike in them and puppet them around, like Ruin did with his champion, and I don't buy that. The level of hate one has shouldn't matter to Odium - in fact, more raw hate might be less useful, especially if it gets in the way of their utility as a manipulated pawn. Take Dilaf, for example - his raw, all-abiding hate for Elantrians, not to mention his sadism and callous disregard for his underlings, would have made him a terrible pawn of Odium's. Unless of course a bludgeon was the right tool for the job, and even then he would be manipulated into a lethal trap the moment he became more trouble than he was worth. And unlike Hrathen, Odium would have no qualms about doing so.

I've been rereading the two available books of the Stormlight Archive (WoK and WoR, for posterity), and I get the feeling that Odium is definitely a more competent opponent than Ruin. However, he got caught in the Desolation trap, which makes me wonder how competent he could actually be? I don't believe for a second that he'd fall for the champion thing, not at face value anyway, but if it was used as misdirection? If Kaladin was meant to pull things that Odium would write off as distraction? How would, in your minds, Dalinar and co. defeat Odium?