Treamayne

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You are going to have to provide sources if you are going to make claims like this. Like this: The Sequel to Elantris is (tentatively) named Dakhor and set in Fjorden. Yes, Jaddeth will return - but that return has noting to do with AonDor. In Fact - it's because of a loophole they found to Ignore AonDor: The Dor is the composite of the remnant investiture of Devotion and Dominion, forced together into the Cognitive Realm. Because it is in the Cognitive realm (instead of the Spiritual Realm) and because the Selish Shadesmar has location - all Manifestations of Investiture on Sel are tied to location (AonDor uses Aons and is teid to Arelon, Dakhor uses the ancient Fjordell Script and is tied to Fjorden, Forging uses MaiPonese characters and is tied to MaiPon, etc.)

So very sorry I screwed that up. With my luck, you have not yet read it either.

Not really. Investiture, like energy, can't be created, so when you charge White Sand, it's the "leakage" of investiture that charges it. You would likely need a Breath worth of investiture to keep yourself alive, so you would need to lose a Breath, or make all your Breaths a bit weaker, to charge the Sand. Either way you're losing investiture and you will run out of Breaths to Awaken. My point was it doesn't have to be your own Awakening (or other Kinetic Investiture). Just sticking to CotGs, go stand in line for a Session and enough random people will probably be doing something close enough to have recharged your sand. . . The point was the sand can be charged without a chold becoming drab to give you their breath.

And without making anybody Drab. Well, the Allomancy would still be tied to Preservation, so I think it would be difficult to power it with breath or something. Though, that brings up a different thought - if a stored attribute is investiture, could a Returned with H-Feruchemy store attibutes to consume weekly? Oh, I'll store 25% of my weight each day and consume-it-as-breath on Friday. . .

Seems inefficient. Instead of making one Drab per week, make one corpse per week just to die of having too many spikes. I think a better way would be to get some Taldain Sand, let it recharge by exposure to Awakening (or other Kinetic investiture), then form the Luhel Bond and absorb the stored investiture (making the sand black again - repeat as necessary)

And it only costs your life, soul and sense of self (with few distinct exceptions).SP4 Spoiler Edit: Sorry - mistracked which spoiler section was which

Sorry, but you are confused. Investiture on Sel is tied to region (and therefore Language and Culture): Dakhor is tied to Fjorden and the ancient Fjordell script - the mechanics are similar to AonDor's ties to Arelon; but they are not the same. What is shown, but not confirmed, is how the movements in ChayShan relate to the language of Jindo. We also know that Forton uses Investiture for his miraculous poisons and cures - but we have no other data on his homeland (Hrovell) or how those tie together. Also not correct. Khriss said she thinks the land is becomming self-aware. AonDor is not the Land. AonDor is one Manifestation of Investiture on Sel tied to the Land of Arelon (not the whole planet):

To be fair, Trusk, isn't "use Hemalurgy" your answer to everything?

A throwaway line, but it is said by someone who survived whatever happened in SA and all the "Unite Them" "I am Unity" talk in SA it feels like it has a double-meaning much like Honor's visions saying "Unite Them" may have multiple meanings or at least a meaning Dalinar hasn't hit on yet. To me this line reads like Nomad is reflecting on the creation of Unity the Shard or something of similar significance beyond ending wars between groups of people. Certainly seems possible that there is a double meaning - this is Sanderson afterall. However, when I read that line, I took it to be Nomad throwing Cinder King's lies in his face. He repeatedly says he is trying to unite the populace of Canticle; but he's really just trying to conquer. This was, to me, Nomad pointing out the distinction.

It's not the beads (SA and M:SH Spoilers) Also, just because he may be referencing Shadesmar, doesn't mean he's referencing Rosharan Shadesmar - it could be a reference to the space between worlds.

I did not get that impression - it seemed to obviously point at Shadesmar to me. The impression I had, however, was that they "met" long before they bonded. Maybe even while he was still a Windrunner. Maybe Nomad made enough impression that years after "meeting" Aux discivered he was no longer bonded and then sought the bond. (TSM CH 15): The way the "ground is made of obsidian" just screams Shadesmar to me. Jasnah and Shallan have both referred to Shadesmar as "another world" - though I agree that this use here is suspect.

Understand and concur - though while reading I did note that Nomad also never said or implied that he held one of four Dawnshards. It felt to me more like he thought there was only one - the one he held. That may also play into the way it Commanded his abilities to protect itself. If Hoid conned him into becoming a vessel for a Dawnshard and didn't even clue him into the nature of a Dawnshard and its dangers - well that might explain some of the latent hostility in their interaction.

Sorry, my post was before yours. Tangentially - on which version(s) are you basing your comment? If you haven't read the Omnibus, then your position may be relatable as the non-canon Prose was flawed (hence - remaining unpublished), and the three volume GN was flawed differently (even if it used to be canon). But the Omnibus not only fixes all of that, but adds new (canon) content written by Isaac - plus Khrissalla's Journal (in the style of Navani's Notebook from SA) as the story's version of an Ars Arcanum. (example - White Sand Spoilers): To me, that's what propelled White Sand from bottom-of-the-list to top five. If you have not given it a chance, you may be passing judgement based on old data. If you just really hate GN content (I can relate - I won't consume audio/video only - if there's no transcript I'm not interested) - the White Sand Summary has been recently expanded and updated to facilitate those that won't read the GN (please PM if you find mistakes). The Journal page has the worldbuilding transcribed (like SA pages), but can only use some artwork excerpts due to copyright issues (where the SA pages link and show the entire page from SA). Have a great day.

I feel like you are possibly overthinking this a bit. Unreliable narrators are a thing - and from Nomad's Perspective of experience with both orders utilizing the surge of Gravitation, I took this passage as him trying to interpret what he feels based on his experience. Arcanist or not, if he hasn't specifically studied mass vs. gravity then he would mentally interpret "feeling heavy" with "lashing down while standing." And I would not put a ton if weight (pun intended) on Wax's experiences as well - since a cursory search did not find an example where: Wax Tapped weight While standing and still trying to fight Wax almost exclusively stored weight while moving and fighting, or tapped weight while in a steelpush, or tapped weight while falling, or was stationary. I'll do a more thorough search when I have some time, but feel free to cite an example of Wax fighting on the ground while tapping weight, if you have an example handy. Otherwise, the only known examples I can find are Sazed at the Gates and Sazed breaking out of teh Kandra jail - both of which emphasize that Tapping iron makes fighting difficult without other mitigating factors. HoA Ch 78: So, basically Sazed had to use the weight to simply fall on the Fifth - and specifically did not tap Steel until he had released his Ironmind - because Speed without Strength would not help at that weight. . .

Here's the scene (I-5): The relevant WoB was years before RoW (2015):

Here's the WoB: That was 2015 - so well before The Sunlit Man. . . Yes - it was in the Dawnshard Novella. Ch 19:

Doesn't this already exist in this thread, 22 pages of quotes and counting. Not that I am averse to multiple, but there should be a significant difference in that case. Such as, if the OP was willing to organize them on the first page (by source, book and/or author, maybe) - or if one was specifically books and a separate thread for movies and/or games. . .

The extra-hot places were the Torio Wastelands - away from the steam geysers, and also away from where Yoki-hijo were removing spirits from the ground by having them become fabrials: With the Shroud in place, the ground was cool - and the Father machine took the shoud from the YH enclosures and used that to heat the ground to maintain the illusion and captivity for the YH:

The heat in the stones was specifically mentioned to be due to the Spirits (splinters) in the stone - and was specifically mentioned to be lessened in the Epilogue beause enough Spirits loved dramas enough to volunteerily become Hion - lessening the numbers residing in-and heating the stones.

Kiin was there - he was not the one to mention the splotches. Raoden was there - he also did not mention the plotches Dilaf was not there - he was in the south, travelled to Elantris to get his wife healed, she was healed incorrectly and committed suicide, then he returned south to get away from the creatures that murdered his wife. After the Reod, he returned to Kae because the Elantrians were gone and Wyrn needed a spy in the city to plan the invasion. I cannot stress enough that the "black plotches/spots" are the areas where the Shaod has started to turn their skin to silver, but could nto finish the transformation. A Pre-Reod Elantrian is already uniformly Silver in color (all this explained in my first post in this thread) and does not have spots, splotches or whatever. The silvery skin turns dulled gray. Yes karata has wrinkles, they all have wrinkles eventually. It's explained in the text. Go reread the descrption of Riino or the Ire and you will see a difference in how extensively the wrinkles appear. The longer you have been Elantrian, the more wrinkes seen when the Dor is not suffusing the body. It was also his first book, and required changes for the 10th anniversary edition because some of the Cosmere lore was not in place when it was written. Which version are you reading?

Can't know for sure without more information, but they at least seem related to me. . .

I think Nomad's issue here is actually related to Hoid's issue in TotES. Hoid specifically mentioned "needing an invitation" and Nomad receives exactly that - Natives volunteerily accepting him as one of their own. After that event, his Connection issue seemed to be solved.

You do not. Excellent summary and analysis. I will point out that it's possible that Brandon was worried about slowing the climax - we can't know why he chose what he chose unless he tells us - but this was the one rotten fruit in a bushel of awesome.