Oversleep

Today I slept 11 hours. But I remeber only the last dream. I was on a date with the girl I had a thing with about 4 years ago. We were in the ice cream parlor or something. I think we talked a bit but I don't remember it; then she chose something and I spent a long time reading the menu only to order three basic flavors. The next thing I remember was her getting a nice cup of ice cream and me getting a plate (???) with only mint ice cream and then waiter coming to add some kind of powder and then pouring something on it and it transformed into ice cream. I stirred it with a spoon a bit, but it didn't dissolve properly and it was crunching under my teeth. I chewed a little on it and then I said it's bad. Then my family (????) didn't believe so I let them try and then they agreed with me. What is happening with my mind?

You know what? I'm making it into full fledged, crazy theory. Edit: and I did.

This post (and links in it!) answers some of the issues talked about here (but none of the questions of the OP).

THEORYBREAKER AWAKENS! There is no evidence of people who went to Nightwatcher having holes in their bodies! Got you there! My theory is perfectly consistent (aka "not in conflict at this moment") with the canon, while your assumption of being part of the Set isn't. Also, raising a Lifeless Army is just recycling my "making a new Nightblood" goal. You have to go crazier.

Herdazian fingernails are due to human-Listener interbreeding. But it's getting weird again. Why? Because Horneaters are also a result of such interbreeding and they display different features than Herdazians.

Changing the AonDor difficulty to middle. What about other Sel manifestations of Investiture? I won't read Emperor's Soul until June, but feel free to discuss about it (I haven't included them in my list cause I knew nothing about them).

Feel free to do so Obviously government agencies are watching the WHIO to get ideas how to deal with supers if ever superpowers start to show up. It's obviously obvious. We have people here devoted to inventing superpowers and how to deal with them... Hey, Oregon RPs, why are you not getting paid by government? Also, they are keeping an eye on Dark Alley, just in case.

Mist Wars: Koloss Wars. It fits perfectly.

And she's also Vivenna, who had to leave Dalinar to become Nightwatcher, that's why he thinks he went to Nightwatcher. But actually, the previous Nightwatcher was taken over by Vivenna and curses, which are neurotypical in nature are just a result of Vivenna taking the Breath of the person asking for the boon in exchange for granting the wish. Since Rosharans don't have an easily detachable part of the soul, it creates problems which are those neurotypical problems, known as these so-called curses. Vivenna needs all those Breaths to check whether there is an Eleventh Heightening to make a better Nightblood. Outcrazy that.

IIRC even a first drawn line glows. From that moment, when they noticed that sometimes when you draw something in the air, it glows, it's all done. Everything else is just AonDor Marches On. BTW, Elantrians had it very easy, IIRC first Elantrian had a dream about an Aon or something prior to her Shaod. People who built Elantris, however... (assuming it was built) Well, even before a huge focus which amplified magic was created, I assume that Aons just glowed less. This topic is like... Imagine dropping a ton of humans on planet with magic (like Shardworld) and let them be, don't interfere. Then we observe how (and if) they discovered the magic. Because after people know something is there (and there is nobody to suppress reasearch, as Rashek did) just let them be for few thousand years and see what they did with it. What interests me is the moment of discovery. The first person or moment which knocked over the first domino piece, the first in the chain of discoveries. @Yata, I believe that Breath is just outgrowth of Endowment being on Nalthis. There is no action on her side to give Breath to the people (obviously Divine Breath is an exception).

Today I've seen Watchmen for the first time. After the film ended I just sat there with "whoa" in my mind.

A thing that bothered my mind for a long, long time. How did people of Shardworlds discover the magic in the first place? You see, some are far easier to discover than others. Here's a list. Sel AonDor: Medium before Elantris was built and easy after that. It only requires to wave your hand in the air. At some point someone definitely tried to draw the shape of the country and it went from there. ChayShan: specifical movement. Easy. DakHor: no idea how they discovered it in the first place. Scadrial things get a little complicated when you start to consider the alloys, but there always is some pure base metal around. Feruchemy: easiest of the three - Feruchemist feel a natural draw when they touch the metal, nothing complicated, really. Allomancy: the most unintuitive of all the Shardworlds. How on the tenth name of Damnation would somebody get the idea to swallow metals???? Sure, after Rashek Ascended he easily kicked it off, but we have WoBs on Allomancers being born before. How did they discover their powers? We have a WoB on Alendi being a Seeker. Hemalurgy: even more unintuitive than Allomancy. Not only would somebody had to have the idea to stab somebody and after that get the idea to stab himself with it, but also bindpoints come in play. No idea how it was discovered in the pre-Rashek times (there is a WoB that it was used). Nalthis Breath is noticeable and when somebody said the right words things happened to it. And after that it's just research. Roshar Spren bond people naturally and Stormlight can be inhaled reflexively (as seen many times before Kaladin knew what he was doing) and Surges can be used intuitively. On the easy end of the scope. Discuss.

Actually all that feminine/masculine division was made based on the book a woman wrote. Writing and arts and science can be done one handed (as you mostly just write) and fighting requires two hands. As Hoid put it, isn't it convenient that male activities consist of finding somebody who would stick a blade in your stomach but female activities are just sitting around and having fun?

At the beginning of the first book, when Kelsier plays hide-and-seek with an Inquisitor which follows Vin out of the Canton. He draws his attention by emotional Allomancy and Inquisitor notices, so that's a thing.

Are Hemalurgical constructs (or just spiked people) more suspectible to emotional Allomancy? I am not talking about controlling them; I am talking about manipulating their emotions. On one hand, koloss and kandra seem immune to emotional Allomancy until a certain threshold is reached and then they are controlled. On another hand, Inquisitors were suspectible to emotional Allomancy.

Are those the same two images? I can't find answer.

Okay, let's say we have a Rosharan leaving in the wild where there is no law other than natural law and natural law between people (such as: it's impolite to kill somebody who let you stay at his fire and so on). Such character established his own code of honor and morality and never breaks the laws he imposed on himself. Would he attract a Skybreaker spren (highspren, but IIRC we still don't have official confirmation)? If he indeed becomes a Skybreaker, how would he react to other people living by their own laws which allows them to do things he finds conflicting with his own law? If he moves to civilization, what happens if his law conflicts with the law of the state?

Isn't a belief of three parts of human being body, mind and soul also a thing? I swear I read it somewhere...

Well, Surgebinders show up naturally as people exhibit traits which attract Nahelspren. I guess that Oaths are also natural, as I can't see how Nohadon could influence all the spren to adhere to the Way Of Kings. I think something else is happening here. Oaths are a natural part of the Nahel bond, Nohadon just codified them in his book and built parables around them. That way Knights Radiant had a universal embodimient of their ways of life and in turn the Way Od Kings influenced later Radiants who had it easier to live to their Oaths as they could read the Way Of Kings and meditate about the wisdom it holds. In fact, when I first read the Way Of Kings (this was my first Sanderson book and I knew nothing) this struck me as odd how swearing Oaths can influence magic at all... and how could a book influence the magic! Then I learned about cosmere and when you know that Surgebinding is of Honor and know stuff about how magic requires Intent and so on, then it all started making sense.

It's the state non-authors and non-Serious Authors consider to be a Serious Author. That way you won't ever consider yourself a Serious Author but it will be a perfectly existing state XD

From my university to my home it's a long trip - usually around an hour. But today I got lucky, as all the buses aligned perfectly and I made it in 35 minutes (lifetime record). It was around 11:30 am, so I thought I could nap for few hours... except I realized I left my keys at home. The classical irony, my keys are locked in the house, like 5 meters away and I can't reach it :| I called around to find somebody else with the keys. My parents told me that I wouldn't be able reach them at work (reasons, details unimportant). My sister got a key. One way trip to her university took me an hour and a half. The worst part is that have I checked whether I have keys before I've gone home, I could have just go to her and fetch the keys much faster as our universities are like fifteen minutes apart. So I wasted 3 hours what could have been avoided if I a) hadn't had forgotten the keys in the first place b ) wasn't so used to having keys all the time I would have checked. Eh.

Around page... 290, give or take 20, isn't there a change which is not listed? Something about Natam (changed to Leyten) being on duty. I cannot give the quote as I noticed that in Polish edition there is a change not listed here. I don't know whether translators messed up or something was not listed here.

It's not like you have to change uniforms, equipment and weapons to switch back from chasm warfare, as you call it. The biggest change was in the formations, as you have to cross bridges and whatnot. Recruits are first going through many years on the battlefield in Alethkar and only then sent to Shattered Plains. Oh, and if you're really going to argue it would be hard for Rosharans to change back to the style of fighting they used like 5 years ago and spent many generations at war and they have legacy of war experience... then it is borderline impossible for Scadrial to even raise an army in the first place. Sorry, but no double standards please. Again, Scadrial armies were of course led by commanders, noone is arguing against that. I'm just saying they had very little experience and skill. Let my rephrase what I wrote last time: If to properly organize your army you have to use bureaucrats, then where is your chain of command? You should have been using officers. Where are they? As for the confusion on the time period, I am not sure about it either.

This is gold XD