CaptainRyan

Personally, with very little knowledge of White Sands, I imagine this first release will be fairly Cosmere-light. If I understand it correctly, this is only part 1 of 3 for the graphic novel. I would imagine that part 3 will drop far more Cosmere knowledge and that we will only get a bit in part 1 and 2. Also, random thought: Will Hoid be making appearances in these novels? If so, that would be awesome to get some "canon" art work of him!

Legion and Legion: Skin Deep are another pair of Sanderson books that I thoroughly enjoyed. Highly recommend. Also, if you are looking for more fantasy works that aren't Sanderson then my #1 recommendation would "the Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. It is a beautiful, wonderful, fantastic book!

Ah. Sorry to hear that Sanderson does not come close to you. Well, if you need a place to stay in California in order to go to a book signing let me know!

I think, and I am not sure if this is canon or fantasy-land-I-made-it-up, that scene between Kaladin and Renarin was supposed to foreshadow Renarin's proto-Radiant status.

Clever catch! You should mention that to Sanderson the next time you see him - I bet he will love it!

I, too, enjoyed WoR more the second time around. The Stormlight Archive is going to be one of, if not the, greatest fantasy series of this century / all time!

A valid theory with the information we have. One thing to remember is that Hoid described Ati as a "kind and generous" man. So, there is room to believe that at least one original Vessel was a good person. I would be surprised if every single original Vessel was a scumbag haha. Also, personally, I think the "lust for power" cliche would not be very Brandon-esque but that is simply my opinion.

Blighting, this is the theory section haha. Of course I am making assumptions. I am trying to speculate, given the information we have, on why the original sixteen vessels would conspire against Adonalsium. Obviously, some of them did it for greed or power but there were probably good people involved as well; why would a good person agree to destroy a benevolent deity? My guess, based on what we have seen of the Shards, is that either Adonalsium was paralyzed OR became overbalanced towards a certain Intent and, therefore, some people felt Adonalsium needed to be Shattered. You feel like the WoB stating that the Shards do not all have opposite Intents disproves the idea. I say the WoB stating that the Shards could have split into different Intents shows that Adonalsium was more than just these sixteen Intents and, therefore, could have ended up paralyzed. I am not saying this is solid fact and I candidly recognize that I am making assumptions but I do not feel like this is left-field speculation. We know the Shattering occurred. We know that some of the original Vessels were good people. I assume they had a reason for Shattering Adonalsium. I assume Adonalsium responds to Intents in a similar manner to its Shards. That's about it haha. Nothing too wacky, or so I feel. Do you have another theory as to why Adonalsium was Shattered? What do you think motivated the "good" Vessels to rise up and kill their god?

While I find the idea intriguing, I would bet against it because (M:SH spoilers)

I am unclear as to whether or not I can reference this work of Brandon's (the Liar of Partinel sample chapters) so... spoilers!

I think you might be referring to a misinterpreted WoB when you reference an "anti-Adonalsium". Relevant discussion: This is Argent discussing the "anti-Adonalsium" theory in this thread: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/53163-sh-spoilers-adonalsium/?hl=%2Bforce+%2Bopposing+%2Badonalsium#entry406708 Brandon was deliberately vague about the "force" that was opposing Adonalsium. Many people have taken it must farther than he (Brandon) meant. I believe the spren are, in some cases, splinters of Adonalsium and, in other cases, are mixtures of Honor and Cultivation and, in other cases, may be closer to pure Honor and pure Cultivation etc etc. At this point I would say it is pretty tough to gauge which spren are which and how the interactions and mixtures of the various Shards and powers on Roshar affect the spren. That being said, I think you do bring up a good point about how splinters of a Shard can, possibly, have a different take on the Intent of the Shard. I wonder if that is possible and, if so, what ramifications it has.

If you read my earlier reply to Figberts you will see that I said: "After Adonlasium created everything did it eventually reach a point where it could no longer act?" In the same way that Harmony is capable of action now but, as per WoB, will find it harder and harder to act, Adonalsium itself might have, initially, been able to create many things but, over time, lost that ability due to Intent-paralysis. edit: Also, the very first post I made (the beginning of this thread) somewhat indirectly addressed this as well: "Perhaps Adonalsium was functionally inert by the time it was shattered? Perhaps those who shattered Adonalsium chose to do so because Adonalsium had become incapable of action?" I am not saying Adonalsium was always useless but rather I am speculating that, over time, Adonalsium lost the ability to act or became overbalanced in one particular direction.

I think that also makes 3. implausible as well no? If the Honorblade was suffering wouldn't Kaladin have heard it? Personally, I think Szeth is simply mentally broken from being forced (well, sort of) to do really terrible things that went completely against his nature. His mind has cracked under the weight of his guilt.

Not to mention that Kaladin held the Honorblade without hearing any screams.

The Intents definitely mix better together (we see that in Harmony, for example) and the letter to Hoid gives us another clue about how the Intents were better balanced in Adonalsium. The question I was posing is not "Do they mix nicely" but, rather, "When they are all mixed together would we end up, eventually, with the same paralysis that is happening to Harmony?" After Adonlasium created everything did it eventually reach a point where it could no longer act? Did the Intents balance too well? Or were the Intents over-balanced in one direction? I guess the more meta-question is if, as some here have proposed, Adonalsium was truly a benevolent super-Shard then why would people want to shatter it?

I am not so sure about that. Remember, some of the Windrunners flew (fell with style) in the vision so they definitely had access to their Surges still. Also, the Shardplate and Shardblade of every Radiant was said to be glowing until *after* they dropped them.

*slow clap*

Sorry, more specifically some of the Heralds may not be of the same human "stock" as the rest of Roshar; i.e. some of the Heralds may be from worlds where no Rosharan human's ancestors are from; possibly from other Cosmere worlds like Nalthis, Scardial, Sel etc.

Lackey - lots of privilege and little responsibility. [note: I have not read the Alcatraz series... sorry!] Would you rather only have a sequel to Warbreaker or Elantris (as in, whichever one you don't pick never has a sequel)

Bit of a necro post but I don't really see any issue with that sentence. August would have access to all of the information in that sentence (Owen's name, the rock etc.) without needing to be omniscient. I am at work so I didn't finish the whole story but I think you did a fabulous job of representing Wax and Wayne in the few pages I read. Well done!

I am not sure if this has been confirmed or not but I have seen theories floating around that not all of the Heralds are native to Roshar so that might explain odd ethnicities or even odd powers no?

Lifting 600 lbs versus catching the downward swing of an animal that is bigger than a large home are two very different activities. But, hey, believe what you want about a Thug vs. a chasm fiend claw; I certainly cannot prove I am right.

As in most things involving Shardplate, Dalinar's actions are suspect. If we use Dalinar as a baseline then ALL shardplate wearers could catch a massive chasm fiend claw; which, I think we can all agree, is more than a pewter flaring thug could do.

Crap. Well, hopefully before then I learn how to spike myself with Feruchemical tin so that I can just store hearing while that loop cycles!

You are 100% correct. Wow. I completely misread the color in my reread. I feel like one of the Ten Fools. I even opened my Kindle back up and re-reread it just now to confirm and it definitely says blue. I will edit my above post to remove confusion. Nice catch Pathfinder.