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Silence Divine (the previously proposed Ashyn Story) would be one such, as there is no Shard there (though there are Shards in the Rosharan System). Also, the potential Kite Magic Story would be such a minor shardworld: And, of course, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and Sixth of the Dusk both use this model (though as you say, they are corner cases, since the first did once have a Shard - millenia ago(and currently has whatever the Evil is), and the later does not have a Shard, but does now have an Avatar (though Second and Third of the Sun - the other two inhabited planets do not). We have also seen this environmental magic interaction on Major Shardworlds - such as the Purelake Fish, that are similar to how Aviar interact with Investiture.

Concur - starting the story with Broken Magic did not allow much screen time to develop AonDor. Though a Short Story might be nice, I would prefer something other than Arelon/Teod since (confirmed in the new SotS) we have something else to anticipate: Though, if the old plan holds true - that may also have limited AonDor content. Old WoB:

No worries. I always say the only correct reading order is the one a person chooses for themselves with an informed decision. Slight non-plot Spoilers Good luck and hope you enjoy.

Finally finished editing all seven Dungeon Crawler Carl books for readibility and internal formatting consistency. Now, back to the final fixes needed to finish my Annotated versions of Mistborn Era 1 (with fixed Ars Arcanum tables - the original image is just too low-res for modern ebook readers).

You may want to just check out (or share) our wonderful Admin's Primer - Cosmere 101. I also have a Cosmere Intro ePub that I share with friends and coworkers if you have a way to view/share ePub ebooks (Cailbre, reader, app). Shard's diety is not like the Earth Pantheons (Hindu, Greek, Norse, etc.) - it is more that each is a fundamantal aspect (Intent) of Adonalsium. Shards are more affected by their Vessel (usually the Vessel is more shaped by the Shard) though other Investiture (magic) can be influenced or shaped by thoughts and belief of sapient beings. Yes, after the Shattering, all investiture aligned with one or more Intent. Worlds where no Shard has settled - the magic will be more of a setting element than an active component (such as Sixth of the Dusk, or Tress). Hope that helps

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Good timing, I just finished today. I would say the only thing I may add to that list is: Probably the one most important to understanding the story/spoilers remains: Hope that helps

Kaladin is in a Vision (much like Dalinar's Visions - where is body does not leave, but his mind is in the Vision) - but the Vision's setting is the Cognitive Realm of Braize. The feeling the "wind hates him" is the hint that Odium is causing this (and they are not just nightmares). It's meant to imply this is what the Heralds endured each time they went back to Braize between Desolations (except the Voidspren and Fused Souls were present to torture them even more if they caught them). Please edit your post to mark the Mistborn Spoilers, as this is the Stormlight Archive forum (anything referencing other books/series needs a spoiler tag) - Otherwise, please use Cosmere Discussion when referencing two or more series/books/worlds. Mistborn Spoilers: Hope that helps

Nalthis Essay - Nalthis Short Story (potentially entirely separate from Warbreaker - like how Emperor's Soul was separate from Elantris but the same world) Rather than Dawnshard/Horneater - I'd prefer something after SA5 Depending on the wait, also: - Darksider (Khriss on Taldain's Darkside) - an Isaac Nicky Savage story - A Silverlight setting short story

If it works like the Song of Prayer for Voidlight (RoW Ch 67) then it seems to be a mostly-automatic response - but always with a chance that you draw the Shard's attention with the Prayer (unlikely, but possible).

My problems with the Jasnah/TOdium scene were: She's been built up for four-and-a-half books as a scholar of Logic and History, but failed to call out any of TOdium's logical fallicies (esp. ad hominum) She's been built up as a rhetorician (e. g. her perfect essay in OB), but never "realized" she didn't need to enage TOdium much at all - her job was to talk to and convince Fen (not debate TOdium) I'll be honest, I have not liked Jasnah much at all in any of the books - and this whole scene still felt wrong and OOC for her to me. Not such a Hail Mary - if she had used TOdium's tactics (ignoring the question to attack the method) it should have been easy: No that's not my signature, that's not my letter - you created that from investiture, didn't you. That's a forged document if anything. Not a lie at all. Please spoiler tag your comments, or delete the posts and move all non-SA book discussion to the Cosmere Allowed Spoilers section. This is Stormlight only for a reason, please respect that.

what monolouge from WoK did you use?? If you aren't counting the story of the Wandersail, there's only one "monologue" right? The Epilogue - Of Most Worth

Sorry. I guess I skipped the fundamentals. IRL we have matter and energy that are really the same thing in different forms and can be converted into one another. The Cosmere adds a third axis to this model - Investiture. After the Shattering, all investiture in the Cosmere aligned to one of the 16 Shards. All magic is powered by investiture in some way. So, when we say Metal is a Key, we mean that when an Allomancer burns a metal, the "key" is opening a micro-path to the Spiritual Realm (where the bulk of all investiture resides - Dor Excluded) and Preservation's Investiture entering the physical realm takes the form of the effect defined by the "key." When a Feruchemist stores Strength in a Pewtermind, they are draining an attribute from their body and converting it into investiture, then storing that investiture into the PewterMind. When they later Tap the storage, they are converting the stored investiture back into physical strength. So, the example I gave for the Dor is just an Allomancer skipping a step. Instead of Burning a metal to make a path for Investiture to enter the Physical Realm and do "work" (the effect of the metal) - they have investiture already in the physical realm and simply apply it to themselves and use it to create an effect. It only works with Intent (they have to know they can do it, and how it works) and only could work with a source of investiture that is either of-Preservation (Mists) or Unkeyed (An allomancer would not be able to burn Dor on Sel (Elantris planet) that has not been unkeyed from the Dor in Sel's Cognitive Realm - which is the process Ghostbloods used to get Liquid Dor they could bring to Scadrial). WoBs: Hope that helps.

In Allomancy, the sDNA determines what metal can be accessed - the metal itself only acts as a "key" to preservation's investiture - much like an Aon acts as the key to allow the Dor to create an effect. It's tied to Realmatic principals in the metal's atomic structure. WoBs: But, that's just normally how the Manifestation of Investiture (MoI) in their Spiritweb can access investiture - if you have unkeyed investiture (like Liquid Dor) the misting can use that to fuel their Allomancy - just as Vin was able to use the Mists as "every metal" when she burned them - despite them being Preservation's power in a Gaseous Investiture form in the Physical Realm. If you read Tress - you should have also seen how the Realmatic properties of Steel and Iron were used to influence the Aethers. Unkeyed and Unsealed Metalminds are different. An Unkeyed metalmind can only be used by somebody with the appropriate sDNA of that metal (they have stored attibutes, without Identity, allowing anybody with that F-Metal to access the storage). Unsealed Metalminds are a bit different, because it includes an application of Feruchemical Nicrosil to, somehow, "loan" the person with the Unsealed Metalmind the ability to use the metalmind. In the case of the Dor, it would not be in the form of a Stored Attribute. Compounding shows us that an external source of investiture that has been "filtered" into the right storage attibute can be stored or tapped (that's what the previous WoB mentioned about the Feruchemical Charge in burned metal changing the "key") - so it should be possible, in theory, to Store Liquid Dor (or another Unkeyed source of Investiture) as a Feruchemical attribute. However, we do not yet know how this would work, if possible (RAFOed for future Mistborn books). WoBs: The main difference, for this discussion, is that Allomancy is normally an End-Positive MoI - it uses external sources of investiture by default (like AonDor or Surges) - whereas Feruchemy is normally an End-Neutral MoI - it does not lose investiture (End Negative, like Hemalurgy), but it also does not, naturally, access external sources of investiture either - which is why you have to hack the magic some to allow the MoI provided by the sDNA to use an external source (compounders do this naturally, because they have both sides - Allomancy and Feruchemy for the same Metal). In neither case is the sDNA doing anything but telling your Spiritweb (and therfore your cognitive and physical self) that you can use the specific MoI the sDNA is for. Hemalurgy is stealing this piece of sDNA from one person and forcefully stapling it onto somebody else (with an end-negative loss during the process). The sDNA isn;t powering the magic, it's saying you can use the magic if you can power it.

Welcome to the Shard. Everything except Stormlight Archive and Warbreaker? What did you think of White Sand? Did you read the Prose (non-canon) or the GN (Omnibus or Volumes). Were you aware that Warbreaker (slight spoilers): Not required to be read first (no order is "required"), but most would recommend Warbreaker before Words of Radiance. Have a great day.

Should the Policy post maybe be updated? Possibly, something like (edits italicized):

Why is this a lie? Yes, at one point Sigzil swore oaths but for all intents and purposes he's no longer a radiant. Sure he has a living shardblade but that's it. He doesn't have access to surges and doesn't follow his oaths. Ultimately, the distinction isn't super important. It could just be that he's lying to further mask his identity, he's saying what will give him the best chance at entering negotiations, or he still thinks of himself as a radiant and that's why it's a lie even if other people (me) wouldn't label him a radiant. They did not ask if he was Radiant or currently bound by Oaths. They asked if he had ever said the Oaths. He has said oaths, so he lied - even if he was answering the actual question that he is not currently bound by Oaths (though he has other binding(s))

No. Agelessness is very different from a Cognitive Shadow. Both are forms of Cosmere "Immortality" but do not have the same cause or effect. The Wob that spelled this out (without, I note, saying the list includes all options) is: Ageless people are those using Investiture to extend their lifespan (Khriss, Nazh, 17th Sharders like Galladon (Elantrian), Baon, and Demoux - Elantrians are Ageless - likely due to the Shaod causing them to be suffused-with, and sustained-by the Dor (but not confirmed) Since we see other Sel natives become Ageless (Kaise, Shai) there could be some other factor, or they could just be using a different means - Some of the Ageless are also just using time dilation - by remaining close to large sources of Investiture, time moves slower for them there, so they can skip years or centuries on any given planet while only having experienced a fraction of that time at SIlverlight (theorized, implied, but unconfirmed) or other very large sources of investiture (also implied that all of Sel expereinces time at a different rate than the rest of the cosmere due to the Time Dilation of the Dor being in the Cognitive Realm) So, Cognitive Shadows include the Heralds, Returned, Kelsier, Threnodite Shades, etc. - There are different "kinds" of Cognitive Shadows, and the details we have so far are vague - because, based on current data, most of the CS entities we have seen are not just a Cognitive Shadow -- Returned are Cognitive Shadows returned to their own Body and kept there by a Splinter of Endowment; so they are Splinters as well as Sahdows -- Heralds, are also Cognitive Shadows with Splinters, but rather than their own body, Honor somehow made it so that they form a body for themselves out of investiture --- Ditto the Nightmares in in YaNP which are (most likely) corrupted Investiture Cognitive Shadows forming a body for themselves as a Nightmare, or being formed into a version of their old body by Father machine (in the simulations) - Conversely, the Yoki-hijo appear to be Cognitive Shadows of Splinters (as they seem to have been a Splinter before becoming a Cognitive Shadow, unlike Heralds and Returned that became Cognitive Shadows , then received Splinters) -- Threnodite Shades we have very little data on, other than they may have had something similar to breath before dying which is why they become Shades - and those Shades appear to be different than a normal Cognitive Shadow - So far, Kelsier (specifically during M:SH parts 1-5) seems to be the closest example to just a normal no-frills-attached Cognitive Shadow (existing in the Cognitive only, no link to the Physical) - but it's implied we don;t have the whole story for that either. WoBs: 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 (hopefully) useful forum tips and information. I'll do my best to avoid spoilers for anything other than Mistborn Era 1, since I do not know which books you have or have-not read. As @Sophrosyne said, the metal which a Misting is able to access is determined by Spiritual Genetics (sDNA) which determines (on Scadrial) which Manifestation of Investiture is attached to their Spiritweb. So, for example, when the Mistfallen were forcibly Snapped by the mists - it was not the Mists that decided they would be sicker longer as their Spiritweb Manifested A-Electrum access. Thier sDNA already had that proclivity - and when they were Snapped by the Mists, the bump in investiture was enough to activate a latent ability that was already present - but did not have enough power to Manifest without the help of the Mists. WoBs: (Slight Spoilers for Mistborn Era 2) Hope that helps.

And, by technology, you mean the Common Cold? So you can't leave Ashyn if you want to fly anymore (not that you can fly there long either, until and unless you keep reinfecting yourself and hope you don't develop an immunity). WoB:

Can you give us this reference? The only one I can find was Wax in AoL (Ch 13): And that was more speculation than declaration of fact or opinion. Unless you mean the conversation in BoM that was more about the Unkeyed Metalminds (Ch 3): Which is also not a MeLaan quote. . .

Added, but to Epic Fantasy, based on Author's quote: Though the description retains your Urban Fanatasy description, for context.

Mostly linked to my list of "WoB Questions" I'll never get to ask. Most of my Headcanon is related to the answers I believe to be true until we get more data either way to prove or disprove my hypotheses. Sel Taldain: Scadrial: I'm sure there are more, and I'll update later when I have time to think of them. . .

Please see PM. This is not the place for spoilers in thread titles or content. That is why we have discussion forums.

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful Forum tips and Information. Please keep in mind that this is the Introduction Forum. For a discussion like that, it should be posted in the Cosmere section to either Stormlight Archive or Cosmere Discussion (depending on if stories outside of Roshar will be discussed. Each forum section has a nifty blurb on the Main Page. Also, Spoiler Policy requires that Wind and Truth discussion remains in the Spoiler Zone until the new release spoiler period has ended, so you could use either of those forums instead if you will discuss SA5 material. Examples: Also, you can edit your thread title by editing the first post (three dot menu, top-right of the post) if you want to use an "Introduce Yourself" thread title; then use that title for your eventual post about Shallan in the appropriate forum. Hope that helps