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But you could use Tearlight for the Tears of Edgli (which also happens to be the Nalthian System Symbol).

Well, since we know that in Blade form the Shardblade needs to "sever" the spine to kill (eyes burn out when the Shardblade passes through the spinal column/brain stem) or sever the primary nerve to deaden a limb (Hobber's legs' connection to his spiritweb was severed when the Shardblade [Honorblade] passed through his thighs). We also know that Shardblades do not damage or impede the flow of blood through the "severed" limb; which is wht a Blade deadened limb doesn't rot on the body. In MtG terms, that could be worded as: My conclusion: blunt force/impaling damage (hammer/rock/mace) could possibly "sever" a specific muscle if the impact would damage the nerves controlling that muscle then that muscle would likely become deadened. Ex: Shardhammer to the thigh and the Quadriceps becomes deadened, , ,

Re: OP - Interesting theory, but I doubt it is the case. It is likely only possible before the First Oath, or we should have seen more of this behaviour from Syl since Way of Kings (especially in RoW when opening the lamps for the gems). ANd more likely, Honorspren are a special case since they are Honor-only (so possibly Cultivation-Spren may also do this by being Cultivation-only) I too prefer to call them Liespren when in a list of mixed spren (and Dustbringers in a list of Radiants - whether they like Releasers or not). However. . . Ah, that is not the case. An attracted spren is in the Cognitive and a small portion of it is visible in the Physical when it manifests in reaction to it's attracted emotion or environment (much like the tongues of the anticipation spren appearing as what the Alethi interpret as small flags - or the heads of the Glory Spren appearing as a small golden orb). None of the Sapient Spren that form the Nahel bond do that. A Cryptic in the Physical will react to a lie - but a random non-Radiant won't attract a Cryptic by lying. Note: A nascent radiant's lies to themselves might be part of what allows a Cryptic to start the bond (see Shallan/Elhokar) but is certainly not required (see Tien).

If you have read Rhythm of War, you may notice some similarities for the scene with Dalinar and Nale in Ch 47. I don't know if it has been confirmed, but I'm fairly certain the Steel and Iron lines are the Allomancer seeing their Connection to surrounding sources of metal (then Pulling or Pushing on that connection to affect the metal). That would also account for why it is hard to see Lines to invested metal - since investiture resists investiture - so it would be hard to make or see Connection of an invested target

Most (all?) inquisitors were immune to control by emotional Allomancy due to their Copperclouds. If an inquisitor made their own "servant", that inquisitor would have to be lacking in Copper as well.

Do we know if Stennimar played Tarachin before his Return? WoR Spoilers It might help explain why Lightsong is winning without effort if it was one of the "skills" he retained (like the juggling).

Concur. That Broadsheet quote just strikes me as if they not only can't navigate out of sight of land*, but it almost seems like they don't consider the possibility. I'm probably reading too much into it, but there was no indication of "oh, blown off course - let's try to find a navigational method." Instead it was "sail eastward and hope to find land. . . " *which reminds me - if we can get map scales, and use those to determine Scadrial's circumference then we can likely calculate horizon drop-off (since it is unlikely share the √(height/0.5736) calculation) Of course. I was just using the term because "the peoples whose descendants would eventually become known as SoScadrians" is a mouthful (and far too reminscient of "the artist formerly known as Prince") Yeah, until ~300AD is was the pair of Polaris and Kochab (slightly closer to Kochab and that star in Draco during Ancient Greece)

There is at least one old (archived) post with changes (not necessarily content), and we do have this Word of Brandon on the Subject. Please see PM I don't think there were dedicated Typo threads on these forums for Elantris, but might have been on the TWG forums that predate these. Good Catch

The spoiler period for Lost Metal is not yet over (Planned through 1 Apr 23) - so anything dealing with that topic needs to stay in the spoiler area. Even after the spoiler period is over, topics dealing with two or more Cosmere "categories" belong in Cosmere Discussion (where spoilers are allowed after the Spoiler Period is ended) - if asking information about Scadrial in the Elantris Subforum, it will always need a spoilers (subforums always require spoilers for areas outside the subforum's criteria). Please see the Spoiler Policy Here and the TLM update here. All of that said: it is speculated that AonDor is confined to a geographic Connection; and a sufficiently knowledgeable person might be able to manipulate that by changing to which geography you are Connecting. This is unconfirmed speculation but consistent with events seen in recent releases.

@StanLemon, @AquaRegia, @Oltux72, @Zapata, @Jofwu Just as another thought to add to the discussion (because I hadn't seen it mentioned). From AoL Broadsheet: I know this does not address a Brown-Water Navy, but if there is no equivalent of the North Star (and we know there is no moon) - then it is unlikely to have an equivalent of the Sextant. Without that, they seem to have not developed any method of Blue Water navigation. If the Bennet were the pre-ascension sea-faring culture that mapped the coastlines (and their knowledge allowed Sazed to restore the continents); but they were cultually wiped out - then where is the impetus for the survivors of the Catacendre to pursue Blue-Water navigation techniques? Previous discussion focus on "why sail over the horizon" (Trade, exploration, warfare, colonization) - but the 'why' is secondary to 'how.' Which begs the follow-on question of - if the Bennet's teachings helped restore the continents then they must have known about the SoScads in pre-ascension times (to map the coastline of the Southern Continent). Did TLR supress and wipe that information to keep the control group separate? Were their navigation techniques also lost/wiped? If the Keepers only had the results of their labor (maps) - but not the techniques of how to navigate and sail Blue-Water - then the Words of Founding would not have that information to learn. Without a sailing culture or open-water navigation techniques - any developement in open-water exploration would have to have significant motive to be developed.

My theory, such as it is, is that The Evil is a Splinter of the combined chunks of Ambition and Odium: Coppermind: I also think the nature of the clash created the first Shades from people who died in the cataclysm and that the nature of the shades means that people killed by Shades can become a Shade (though that is unlikely to be the only means of creating a Shade - due to Nazh's comment in Secret History). So, I guess after all that, I would say that, I think a Shade is a cognitive shadow of a person that has been tainted by the combination of Ambition's and Odium's remnant Splinter(s).

Welcome to the Forums. You may want to consider starting with Mistborn, Elantris or Warbreaker. That said, I hope you enjoy The Way of Kings, and if you go back to the start of this thread, you can follow @Amira's journey through the same book and see her theories and our discussion (all spoilers were tagged) as you go through the book (since her posts are chapter-by-chapter). So, you've only read through Goblet of Fire for the Potter series? Did you intend to go back and finish those eventually? While the movies are good, they don't really compare to the books. Manana

Welcome Back I doubt Lift knows about Windrunners at this point; but I would imagine that Kaladin would think the opposite - "What do you mean I can stick things together and an Edgedancer can heal people. I wish I could heal people - I could have saved Jaks, Dunny and the rest. . . "

From the Coppermind and WoB: It should. Easiest way to remember for long-established books is in a Subforum - all unrelated items are tagged (this is Stormlight Archive, so any reference off-Roshar gets a tag).

Except that Shallan had been using the TestamentBlade on the Oathgates for days - she could have left it behind at any time, but most likely right before OB Ch 8: Unless you think she used Pattern to kill her mother years before they met - she was using Testamant on the Oathgate until she could finally summon Pattern instead and left Testamant behind.

It connects to the table of Essences in the Ars Arcanum. Each order is connected to a gemstone, which is also the color of the glow of their Shards. Foreshadowed back in WoR ch 72: Where Garnet is the gemstone of the Lightweavers and the color their shards glow. . .

If you mean this section: (Ch 72) Kaladin clearly sees her, in a direction she could not be, and the only way her illusion could get to the other side of both the chasmfiend and Kaladin unnoticed is the same way she made the illusion walk back in Ch 60: So, if she is in the lee of the rockfall, hiding in shadows and illusion; and Pattern is moving her illusion on the far side of the chasmfiend and Kaladin; then the blade in Kaladin's had has to be TestamentBlade. Dead blades don't change shape either - but we clearly see the blade used by Kaladin, then Shallan do both. I think we all agree with this Right, just like her calling 'Pattern' when she summoned the TestamentBlade in Narak - this is her as an unreliable narrator setting the foundations of her future lies to herself. So, an illusion talking with her voice (via Pattern) moving (via Pattern); but she is blocking out that she attached those illusions to Pattern even as she does so - by lying to herself and saying "this would be easier if. . . " So, even as she is doing things that prove she had a previous bond with Testament, she has to convince herself there are other reasons why and how she is doing what she is doing. In the more mundane realm, Sanderson could not make any weirdness too obvious in WoR or it would spoil the reveal in RoW.

Precisely. We know the Chasms used a Testament Blade because: Shallan is shown to be hiding by a boulder using a shadow illusion while: At the same time Pattern is hosting an illusion of Shallan moving in the open and "yelling" to distract the Chasmfield while At the same time Kaladin is holding the Testament Blade. So based on that, we can deduce: Testamant's blade can still change shape like a living Shardblade (for whatever reason) Every instance of a Shardblade we see with Shallan in WoR is likely to be a TestamentBlade (Tyn, Chasms, Narak). Shallan calling for Pattern in Narak is the start of Veil "protecting" Shallan by covering over memories. Since Shallan is getting close to the Truth about her mother, but isn't nearly ready for the Truth about Testament - she "says" Pattern to summon the TestamantBlade to lay the foundation of future self-deception. You can tell that Shallan's interactions with Renarin change subtly once they find a way into the Oathgate Chamber.

Keep in mind that the reason why a normal (dead) Shardblade can't activate an Oathgate is because they are no longer "malleable" (or current wielders haven't figured out how to do it on-demand and quickly*) and so can't become a "key." However, we do know that the Testament Blade does still retain the ability to change shape (either because Shallan "expects" it to do so, having had access to the Testament Blade while she was alive - or because the damage to their bond is different than a normal DeadBlade) because we see her, through Kaladin's viewpoint, change the TestamantBlade into a dagger and gardening trough for scooping out the side of the Chasm wall in WoR. Activating the Oathgate has nothing to do with the amount of investiture in the Blade - since the investiture comes from the gems and Stormlight in the lamps and in what the transportees are carrying with them. *DeadBlade's shapes - WoB and Coppermind

Also, keep in mind that how a Surge is expressed will not necessarily be the same with different orders. We've already seen that Adhesion is different for Bondsmiths than it is for Windrunners. The difference for Renarin's Illumination (from Shallan's) may be because he's a Trutwatcher, because Glys is Enlightened - but most likely it's both (as Illumination seems very personal even amongst Lightweavers). Shallan's uses of Soul Casting do not match how we have seen Jasnah Soulcast. Etc. So far, Gravitation seems to be the only consistent Surge, with Wundrunners, Skybreakers and Heavenly Ones all using it pretty much identically. And that seems to be the exception. . .

Anybody can burn a GodMetal. WoB:

Welcome to the forums. I would suggest you write to Gollancz directly. The Cover Gallery only shows a version with the border.

To clarify, and make sure I understand your point correctly: Are you asking if there is a connection between the Parshendi War-Pairs fighting together and the Alethi Offer's Spouses going on-campaign to Scribe for their husbands? If so, I wouldn't rule it out - but I would be more inclined to take the War Pairs as a sign that gender is not as important as form. If you have adopted Warform, you fight. If you have a once-mate - you fight together. Similarly, Demid (Venli's once-mate) researched with her in Nimbleform.

I figured as much, which is why I posted about the tools. It also helps to hang around long enough to check how your post went through, especially if there was a glitch in the Matrix. From the annotations to Ch 57: So, we won't know what happens to Tonk Fah until/unless we get the next Nalthis book - but Vivenna showing up in Oathbringer isn't an indication of time passage between the events of Warbreaker and OB - since she could (and likely does) have Fifth Heightening Agelessness.

Oh come on - that's both awesome and classic (ref)