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Roshar has three moons, blue red and green, but those aren't Braize or Ashyn. Braize and Ashyn are separate planets in the Rosharan solar system. ^This^ Please see Arcanum Unbounded: Hope that helps

I'm sure many of us do. However, look at it from Brandon's perspective. There are things he cannot show from a Shard's PoV (especially in something like Mistborn E1 - which many/most people begin the Cosmere with) without either "lying" to fans by witholding information (something he laments doing with Kelsier in the Annotations to Warbreaker) or spoiling decades worth of books just to satisify a "gee-whiz" in an early book. Flashbacks (flash forwards if it from a prequel series?) are where we will get these golden nuggets - and we'll be far better equipped to grok the info reveals when we do get them. Anticipation is difficult - but is often the better course (in the long run).

And Dragonsteel - there is a lot of ShardVessel baggage being held in reserve for that trilogy. @Jult @ChipsAHoid @Honors ghost More specifically, first show - Tress Ch 26: Hope that helps

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. That is also Hoid - depending on which version (original 3 volumes or Omnibus) Hoid shows up 3 to 6 times. The White Sand Summary lists his appearances by chapter (in the Omnibus) and notes if he speaks or is "Appearance only."

Right, but as Kelsier showed - you also have to know to ask the question to learn the information. If he had gone into the Well thinking it was a one-time event with no knowledge of a "cycle" at all, why would he have learned anything about why the Well was on a cycle and the reason for a Hero to claim and use the power?

If you have not done so, please read Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. Your answer is there. . .

That's not at all how Fortune works. We have already had it described and seen it a few times in action. For example: Fortune is a Spiritual Realm property, because in the SR there is no time or location (all times and locations are one). Accessing Fortune is looking into the SR and trying to read the divergent Futures (E1Atium and Electrum also access Fortune, in more limited ways). E2 Scadrial the Terris are trying to figure this out, and think it has to do with "luck" because they do not yet understand it. WoBs: The Paintings work on Connection. An artist, channelling the Iridescent Tones puts part of their soul into the work. A returned can "read" that connection to understand what the painting is portraying. Hope that helps

I didn't say "every symbol is a phoneme/letter/word" - I said they were rooted in Language. We see the same thing in AonDor - Elantris : Sometimes a modifier is another Aon, sometimes they are just marks that function much like Diacritics do in language - making adjustments to the original in some fashion. Since Selish magics are much like Programming languages, mathematical functions and symbology need some form of expression beside the base. Interesting, I was unfamiliar with Kelen (though it's confusing to see how the cermonial script is related to the normal script)

Sanderson has said that it was Audience Expectation. WoB: Of course, part of the Handwavium is likely to be "Kaladin felt these things because his Intent expected him to feel these things" (as a consequence of his initial Lurches when first learning to Lash in the Chasms and experiencing the disorientation of changed gravitational perceptions) which would help transition to people more trained on the powers and what should happen, rather than self-training and possibly not having the full picture.

This post is the first and only time I have ever heard anybody say JinDo for the Third Continent - which we know cannot be a part of either of the two we have seen. The only piece of info we do have, so far, is - WoB: Which implies that the Third Continent is likely to be based on/inspired by: MesoAmerican Empires (Incan, Maya, Aztec or related) African Empires (Carthage, Kongo, Luba, etc. There are a lot) Indian Subcontinent (less likely since Dhatri will be using that inspiration) All Selish Magic Systems need to have roots in language in some way - runes (like Nordic Runes, and alphabet) make sense, but unles the knotwork is forming a letter (like in some old manuscripts), I'm not sure how that connects.. AonDor - Obvious witht eh Aons Dakhor - Chants grow the bones into the shape of ancient Fjordel script (Elantris, ch 63) ChayShan - The movements of the arms and legs are "drawing" JinDo scipt with thier patterns, which is why it takes time to build the Dor and release an effect Forgery - Obvious with MaiPon script in the Stamp etc. (things like Hrovell's Alchemy, we have not seen on-screen to know the method) Hope that helps.

The very old version of Reputation had both upvotes and downvotes (it's why, to this day, you cannot see who gave you an Upvote/Rep). If you read the entire thread, and the admin comments at the end, you would have an idea of how/why he was in the Negative Rep range (IIRC - many posts were deleted by admins for violoations of the site rules). Excerpt from the Rep Change Thread: Hope that helps

Loses energy would likely be more accurate - TOW: In the Cosmere, Investiture based Deposition occus because Thermal Energy is converted to Investiture - no heat is released at all, and the resulting Solid is Cold. If you have read Mistborn, you may have also noticed that the forming Shard first appears as gas (or Mist. . . ) before assuming a Godmetal Solid. Likewise, Energy transfer occurs with Cadmium and Bendalloy bubbles, and that is how they avoid Redshift and Blueshift - as enregy transfers directly to<->from the Spiritual Realm converting investiture for investiture realmatic conversions. While the Surge of Transformation does primary change the Spiritual Identity of an object (though that object's Cognitive Lens; much like Forgery) - most Surges act directly on the Physical Realm. When they do not, you get different effects (like a Bondsmith's Spiritual Adhesion - the Surge of Adhesion applied to Spiritual Realm Connection). WoB: Hope that helps

Keep in mind that part of the difference is that Taravangian purposely tried merging the two shards into one new Intent (Retribution) - although he does not seem to have been completely successful. However, Sazed purposely did not combine Preservation and Ruin. He uses the name Harmony as how he manages two separate powers, not one combined power (so far). HoA Ch 82: The powers have mingled now, but they were never actually merged into one single Intent (so far). WoB: This would be one of the more stable Combinations. WoB: Hope that helps

That's the thing, though. Bavadin has not yet been shown to ever interpret "Autonomy" and "doing things alone" - Just as Ati Interpreted "Ruin" to be "Entropy," Bavadin appears to interpret "Autonomy" as "Survival of the Fittest." Greatest Hits (known so far - Minor Spoilers, White Sand and Mistborn): (Historical) Created Sand Mastery, then had the Sand Lord appear to both siblings with opposite visions To Lossa, the Sand Lord (avatar) granted Sand Mastery and bade her use it to protect settlements - birthing the Los'seen religion To Kertz, the Sand Lord appeared to tell him "your sister has stolen my power and it is heresy for anybody but me to control the Sands" - birthing the Ker'reen religion This, as expected, spawned a multi-century war on Dayside On Darkside, we don't enough information to know exactly what happened yet, but we do know Skathan has somehow become immortal and gained power over Starmarks (interestingly similar to another human vessel for an Avatar of Autonomy we do have information about). White Sand - The Sand masters had become "lazy" so the Sand Lord instigated a new crises (the main plot of the book) to put them in a Survive (and grow past your stagnation) or Die situation On Sel, Jaddeth (implied Avatar of Autonomy) has guided the Wyrns to attempt an Empire on the continent of Sycla/Opelon . . . Twice In this case, the empire has become trying to stamp out the remnant religions of Devotion and Dominion, by forcing each country to "convert or die" Backed the Set on Scadrial and gave them assistance, then basically left them to either "prove thier worth" and meet her goals, or be defeated and they would invade. Drominad - The entire Pantheon is essentially a trial of learning how to survive and trap there, or die trying WoB: Hope that helps

I'm sorry. I still don't see an Intro post, can you share what else you have read from Sanderson - or was it only Stormlight? Also, keep in mind that Moshe, his long time editor, retired after Oathbringer - and that contributed signifcantly to the changes seen in RoW, TLM and WaT. So, if you have not tried his other work (Cosmere or non-Cosmere), then everything published before 2018 hits the same standards you saw in WoK. The Emperor's Soul is, to me, one of the best novellas in Speculative Fiction (no caveat - Fantasy, Sci Fi, Sci Fan - all of it), for example. For the record, my Cosmere Reading discussion is here - My take being that there is no one "correct" reading order and the best thing for new readers is to make an informed decision for themselves based on pertinent data and personal preference. That said, I would never recommend starting Cosmere with Stormlight Archive. It has the highest learning curve coupled with the most detail lost because there are so many references that will not resonate without the other background (the first Cameos were in the first interlude of the first book, for example - Blunt, Grump and Thinker are each from a different Cosmere Story). It's certainly good enough that one can read the story without getting lost (many on this site did start with Stormlight Archive first, after all), but things like the Letter (epigraphs in every book) are just a whole lot of names that mean nothing without the other books and so don't add what they should if WoK is your first-ever Sanderson or Cosmere. He also has good non-Cosmere stories and series, like Rithmatist, Cytoverse, and Reckoners. If you are, instead, looking for non-Sanderson things to consider next, we have the Recommended Reading thread as a list of Non-Sanderson books and series - all updated to page one so no searching for updated lists and organized by Genre. First post includes instructions if there is something missing you would like to recommend. Hope that helps

Brandon has not answered that - fan theory is 2^10 (or 4^5). I personally think it is four to the fifth power (4 metal quadrants + godmetals at least makes using a calculation to the power of five fit the worldbuilding) since we know the timing would be a realmatic effect of how Preservation's power interacts with the Spiritual and Cognitive nature of Scadrial, rather than a "chosen" number). Likely, it's 1024 because of author reasons where he wanted something based on pairs (like the metals) but closer to an even millenium (2^16, which would make more sense is far too long for the timeline at 65536 years - and 2^8 (eight pairs) is too short at only 256 years. . . ). Justification in worldbuilding likely came after choosing the number itself. WoB: Hope that helps PS: Further evidence of a "Hero" before Rashek - he could not know it was a pattern of 1024 years if the Well he used wasn't at least the second iteration.

Thank you - I meant gravitational acceleration and misspoke about terminal velocity. My Apologies.

Interesting theory - but it is just a theory. We do not know that the MoIs interact like that - afterall, gravity affects a 1kg ingot and a 100kg ingot the same, they fall at the same rate with the same terminal velocity (excepting other factors like friction and wind resistance, of course). It could be that Sanderson will treat F-Iron as a Nonbo with the Surge of Gravitation. We do not yet have enough information to determine at this point. Edit: Duh Me

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. Please stop. We get it, you disliked Rhythm of War and have stopped reading Stormlight Archive. You have not read WaT and don't even know what is being discussed. You have your thread to discuss what you did not like and why - please stop just adding random negative comments to every active thread. Or, go discuss the other Cosmere books you did like in their Forums (if you have read other Cosmere books, since I do not see an Intro Thread to tell us what you have or have-not read). If you have only read Stormlight Archive, that may be a contributing factor to your dislike; as it is the series with the most crossover from other series (by a lot). Based on your reactions thus far, you may not enjoy Elantris very much; but you might find what you like in Mistborn Era 1 (The Final Empire, Well of Ascension, Hero of Ages). Hope that helps. Thank you for your time and understanding.

Or, Sazed in HoA:

Here's that WoB: On the one hand, they are using power from a source other than themselves. On the other hand, they are not Compressing the power (2x Heat, 3xHeat, etc.) so it is still only a trickle of power - so it may be more about skill with accessing the power than actual Savantism which would permanently warp the Spiritweb. Related WoB: So, much like the Coinshot skill of separating steel and iron llines from the midpoint of an object (Kelsier pushing and pulling on different parts of the cage bars in TFE, Wax separating a bullet's steeline into the three separate components to only push on one in BoM) which was not a Savant ability, just exceptionally practiced skill. Hard to say until/unless we see it in-story or Brandon answers the question directly.

Stated is a bit strong. Implied because Scadrial is likely around 5-6k years old and the Well refills every 1024 years (old enough for society of Alendi's time to have Gunpowder). The Terris prophecies had to have been at least one Millenial Cycle before Alendi, or they would not be known and spread - which implies the Well had a Hero access it at least once before Rashek.

Do you mean something other than the Roshar Date tutorial (six pages) on the welcome pop-up? Rosharan Dates are also explained in this article from Sanderson's site. Hope that helps

@DrPhysics Can weigh in here but my understanding: F=MA (Force = Mass * Acceleration) which also means that given the same Force, as Mass decreases, Acceleration increases. This works in the air because his Push force is a constant aournd which the changing Mass and Acceleration affect one another. Running on the ground (or simply moving a limb) is the province of F-Steel, because F=MA is constantly changing as the Force generated by the Feruchemist (Wax) is always in flux as they interact with the ground and environment. Since Skimmers are actually storing and tapping Mass the interactions and results are different that Steel which appears to mostly affect fast-twitch muscle function for the Feruchemist themselves.

There were several UNK Hero from the Well 1024 years before Alendi Alendi Rashek Vin Sazed