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Rayse's too smart for the champion plan to work as bait, but if he ignored the champion long enough for them to do some serious damage... Adolin shanked a guy because he'd had enough of their crap. There's definitely stuff there for Odium to work with. Now whether such manipulation would work is an obvious RAFO. Szeth has gotten himself attached to a sword who is very enthusiastic about his job, and has just learned that his countrymen wrongly betrayed him to a lifetime of guilt and slavery. Again, there's stuff there for Odium to work with. (Especially with Nalan as an unwitting proxy). Odium's definitely got his pick of champions.

Is there a way to track which of your posts got you that latest rankup?

It'd need to gather some allies first. Form an Order, if you will. Oh, and use Hemalurgy spikes as bowling pins. (Sticking them in people? ew, Gross!)

They have spaceships, which means more mass to lift with Gravitation, which means you need to pack more Stormlight into the vehicle, somehow, and then double that if you want to make a return trip. The equation isn't impossible to balance (we do it with more mundane fuels all the time), but it would be very difficult to figure out (not to mention construct) possible spaceships with massive tempests whose leading edges are referred to as "walls" circling the globe every few weeks. The ones with the Surge of Gravitation are the Windrunners and the Skybreakers. I'm of the opinion that it's either Scadrian or Taldaini explorers, myself.

The Coppermind says it's to the west of Alethela, which rules out 1/3 of the continent. WoB on how it could withstand an Everstorm says that it's on the east side of the mountain. There's no word on what is visible from the tower where Dalinar talked to the Stormfather, or what one can see through the window in the room at the end. However, I still think we can tell where it is. The most obvious candidate, the Horneater Peaks, are ineligible because their eastern side is within Alethela territory. That leaves the Misted Mountains, the mountain range dividing the Purelake region from Azir, the peaks in Thaylenah, and the Irish and Rirish peaks. Szeth's flight was from the Shattered Plains to wherever Urithiru was (And he knew where it was, because he'd used the spot to meditate before). Szeth thinks he was rezzed in the Frostlands, which would put his trajectory almost due west of the Plains, but we don't know if he's right. If he is, that rules out the Iri and Rira ranges, and possibly the Misted Mountains as well. Nalan, Szeth's savior, was last seen in Azir, menacing Lift. His and Szeth's conversation after Szeth's rebirth is held on an "empty rock expanse" which is literally everywhere outside of Shinovar, and thus spectacularly useless for the purposes of deducing Urithiru's location. Given this evidence, I suspect that Urithiru is in the mountain range marked as "The Valley," just west of Tu Fallia, but I admit the case is far from conclusive. Edit: Except of course for the fact that I misposted which direction Szeth ran in. It's fixed now.

That makes sense for monstrosities like Aon Reo or Aon Teo, but simpler ones like Aon Mea? WoB is very explicit that Mea denotes a region on Sel, as triangulated by Aon Aon and by that X.

As others have mentioned, that doesn't make sense. The Aon needed to come first, so that the Elantrians could know how to shape their city. Therefore, there are regions in each cardinal direction from Arelon that are incorporated into Aon Rao.

This idea came to me suddenly. Why is it that, with 10 surges, the number of possible combinations outstrip the number of known Orders? Surges: Gravitation (G) Adhesion (Ad) Division (D) Abrasion (Ab) Progression (P) Illumination (I) Transformation (Tf) Transportation (Tp) Cohesion © Tension (Te) Known Orders: Windrunners: G-Ad Skybreakers: Ad-D Dustbringers: D-Ab Edgedancers: Ab-P Truthwatchers: P-I Lightweavers: I-Tf Elsecallers: Tf-Tp Willshapers: Tp-C Stonewards: C-Te Bondsmiths: Te-G That leaves 36 two-Surge combinations not covered by any Radiant Order. (8 more that would use Gravitation, 7 additional which would use Adhesion, but not Gravitation, 6 additional which wouldn't use any of the previous Surges, and so on) It got me wondering about discrepancies, and I noticed that, of the present day roster of Knights Radiant, only Renarin - a Truthwatcher - can see the future (a power he used to write the countdown). This particular detail becomes even more interesting when pared with Honor's assertion that "Cultivation is better at this [seeing the future] than I." So why, then, is there an Order of Knights Radiant - a group, that is, which can form bonds with beings that are of Honor - displaying powers that Honor is self-admittedly incompetent at? My theory: There is a breed of Knights Radiant which are of Cultivation rather than of Honor, and the Truthwatchers are one of these.

"I glimpse at his implications, and the world opens to me. I shy back. Impossible. Is it?" This is perhaps off-topic, but I think that confirms that Mr. T saw into Shadesmar during his stroke of genius. And, back on-topic, I don't believe the "wanderer" who "makes no sense" could be anyone but Hoid.

Then why call it a "Full" Lashing in the first place? Why not call it a "Binding" or something like that? Do "Full" Lashings cost more Stormlight to start and maintain than "Basic" Lashings? Because that would be the greatest evidence towards my theory.

Maybe in the course of sparing no expense they ran out of budget? I think the project was more for an anti-allomancer safe than it would be an anti-allomancer guard protocol.

6/7 on the Emperor's Soul one (Is Emperor Ashravan's life in danger, really? I'd argue that at the time of the story, no. ) 6/6 on the Warbreaker one (Can Siri use Breaths? Technically, she can, but I picked the negative answer) 11/13 on Stormlight (Two simple brainfarts - I'd automatically connected the picture of Shallan to the question about Jasnah, and forgotten that Navani hadn't gotten an interlude yet) 6/7 on Elantris (had totally forgotten that Iadon committed suicide)

We know that Aon Aon consists of a straight line for the Arelish coastline, a curve downward for the Atad mountains, a dot in the center for Lake Alonoe, and another line coming off the curve for the Chasm. Furthermore, Some Aons, e.g. Aon Mea, have additions which correspond to physical features of the map (in this case, the x denoting an especially fertile valley and the extra shape around the central Aon denoting the region in which the Shaod can take place). In that vein, then, what do the 4 circles around Aon Rao really denote? The two circles encompassing Aon Tia? The Circle in the middle of Aon Nae? Heck, what are the rotated and mirrored versions of Aon Aon supposed to signify, map-wise?

I always assumed Emperor's Soul would work better as a stage play (musical numbers on the minor side). Stage trickery has easily advanced enough for things like the spontaneous mural and the pit trap, not to mention that you can refocus it onto being a character study of the central cast of Shai, Gaotona, Frava, and Ashravan very easily if you cut out the fight scenes.

No tears over here, but I definitely had a moment of respectfully glum silence for that brilliant man.

I thought the Dor (in all it's forms from AonDor to Forgery) was a hodgepodge of the remnants of Devotion's and Dominion's powers, manifesting through the land because there's nothing conscious directing the power like on Scadrial or Nalthis.

Hey, I've just exhausted all of Brandon's published Cosmere works, and I'm eagerly anticipating more books! And that Mistborn movie project. And most things Mistborn, come to think of it. I'm overthinking this. Glad to be here!

In the Ars Arcanum for Words of Radiance, it calls the Surge of Adhesion a "Full Lashing" and the Surge of Gravitation a "Basic" or "Reverse" lashing. However, I'm wondering if a "Full Lashing," in addition to sticking things together, also makes the stuck things believe that down is the direction that sticks them to the other thing. Basically, I'm wondering if both Surges aren't being used simultaneously when the Radiant in question is performing a "Full" Lashing. Is there evidence to support this?

He's also the one who annotated that map of Elendel on the inside cover of The Alloy Of Law.

Mistborn - Spook has a Welsh accent. Terrismen and Women are ambiguously brown, and everyone else is white. Also, time bubbles red/blue-shift light. Stormlight - Lopen is a one-armed Michael Peña. I don't care what the descriptions say, or how he's voiced on the audiobook. I can't say his lines in anything other than Peña's perky pseudo-mexican accent. Thunderclasts are a cross between scorpions and rock wraiths from Dragon Age, but bound together by lightning rather than lyrium. Broams are fist-sized, marks can fit in someone's palm, chips are those glass things you put in pots when you don't want to use soil. Szeth is bald (EDIT: Turns out he actually is bald! Hehe, who knew!). Sadeas has a Snidely Whiplash moustache, and is the only one on the Shattered Plains who puts more time, effort, and spheres into his hair than storming Adolin. Which is really saying something. EDIT: Pattern warps the pattern of whatever surface he's on at the moment to become fractal-esque, save for a central point of origin.