DrakeMarshall

Hey, I was expecting to get turned into bleeder, so I'll take it. I'd sooner work for the Lord Ruler than be possessed by a hostile shard that may or may not be Odium.

Granted. The nightwatcher, deluged with so many requests, decides to hire an intern to handle some of them. Wayne becomes the nightwatcher's assistant as a summer job in between mistborn novels, and it is he who is assigned with giving you a bane. He is also assigned to handle all future wishes you make. Your bane is that for the rest of your life, your possessions are inexplicably swapped for other random objects. I wish to become a kandra.

Szeth is book five, and Eshonai book four? Hm... That changes my predictions somewhat...

What things am I excited about for oathringer? ...all of it. The ending of WoR makes sure of that.

My predictions for the end of the first five books in Stormlight Archive: Dalinar will have properly bonded with Ishar's old honorblade and will thus be a herald and part of the oathpact. As such, he will be the designated champion for honor. In response, Odium will appoint Eshonai as his champion. Dalinar will defeat Eshonai, and in some way prevent Roshar from being destroyed, but he will not ultimately defeat Odium. Kaladin will become the head of the order of windrunners. He will probably be the character that is dealing with voidbringers and stormclasts and all the horrors of the desolation, more than any of the others. In the fifth book he will die. Probably his death will have something to do with saving people. Adolin and Shallan will get married by the end of the third book or the beginning of the fourth book. Shallan will become a full member of the ghostbloods, and as such, cosmere aware. If Shallan chooses to inform the other radiants of this, then they will know that the fate of the universe may very well depend on them. Since Dalinar will potentially no longer be able to serve as a highprince in his new role, Adolin may well end up the kholin highprince. At the close of the fifth book, I predict that it is possible that Shallan ends up trapped on a different world. It is also possible that they both die. Szeth will hold on to nightblood and carry out Nalan's goals, whatever they are. I can't predict with any confidence what happens by the fifth book, but in Oathbringer he will definitely confront the stone shamans. It is possible that Szeth ultimately decides to betray Nalan, but if he does so, it will be in the interest of carrying out true justice; he won't break his oaths. If he survives the end of the fifth book, he will probably not be taking on a major role. Zahel will, by the fifth book, have become a radiant. I don't know enough of the different orders to guess which he would belong to. Elhokar will change dramatically. Not sure if it will be a good sort of change or a bad one though. I predict that he will either survive the fifth book's ending, or be killed in the fourth book and not have made it to that ending. Renarin will be some kind of tactician for Alethkar during the third book and dealing with a desolation. I predict he will stick around during the second set of five books. Taravangian will nearly tear the new radiant orders apart. Szeth will ultimately kill him. It is possible that some of the things Taravangian has done however will be instrumental in ultimately saving Roshar. I predict that at least one of these guesses is dead wrong and at least one of these guesses is dead right.

The bane was it's lack of being puny then? Also I think there would have been a second n in the request if that was intended... EDIT: Ooh also, even if you did choose to interpret the request as punny instead of puny, tossing wit in might just make it punny. I randomly found this gem by @Argel while browsing a thread...

Granted. Wit sneaks a rabid flamingo into your house and runs away cackling as it ransacks your kitchen. On the bright side, flamingo bites probably can't spread rabies... I wish for THE most spectacular bane someone can come up with related to the words: super, pink, flamingo, or rabies. Take your pick.

The nightwatcher gives you a funny look for expecting people to be simple, or that she has the power to fulfill a wish of that scope. Then she gives you a signed copy of Words of Radiance and a pat on the back in consolation. As your bane, you always perceive shadows to be going the wrong way, towards the light. I wish I only needed three hours of sleep a day.

Granted. You have this wondrous power, exactly as stated. For your bane, you are made irrevocably mute, and consequentially will have a very hard time stating that they have the ability. I wish for the third heightening.

Well... I know this one has already been answered... But I really must live up to my role... The nightwatcher informs you that you already can play any instrument without practicing. Just not very well. She then cackles evilly and takes your left eyebrow as a price for this information. Since I didn't actually technically make a legitimate post in this game I won't wish for anything here.

Granted. In the spirit of still being ironic... Whenever you stop time, it stops for you as well. So pretty much, nothing noticeable actually happens when you use the ability. And anyway, are you implying that you can stop time "for a time"? That seems... Paradoxical. I wish for a bottle of shampoo to wash my stack of human-hair fabric.

Granted. You can stop being an idiot on the things that matter. But you are too much of an idiot to do so, even though you now have the capacity to. I wish for a pile of cloth.

Bondsmiths are a legitimate candidate too, yes. It fits their temperament a little bit as well, since they bind things together and wouldn't want the radiants to fall apart. Although the cover-up for just three might not be all that easy, now that I think about it. Since there are only three of them, those three are under close scrutiny. It might actually be easier for a different order to let most of their members abandon their oaths while the core of the order secretly keeps their oaths. Even other members of the order would probably not know that some of them didn't abandon the oaths. Still, we shall see what Sanderson does with this in the future.

Hm... Yes. Yes you are. The nightwatcher grants your boon. You get enough lerasium to make you as powerful as the lord ruler. In exchange, you are bound to a Scadrial version of the oathpact. Odium attacks Scadrial and you are doomed to endure centuries of torture on Braize, like Talenel did. I wish for some chouta.

Purging records actually is a real possibility... Because the heirocracy may well have purged the histories of certain events.

He is manifesting his power as a god metal... Probably not a new metallic art. As for what other shards have to do with metal... The fact that magic on scadrial is metal based has more to do with the planet itself than with the resident shards. Scadrial is a special case because it was created by shards (which might give them more control over the magic system than shards would normally gain on any old planet). This is why it is an interesting question I think. On some planets, the magic system is wholly natural. But on Scadrial, it is hard to say exactly how much control the shards had over the formation of magic systems. Scadrial is also interesting in that, so far, it may be the only world where we see a new shard arriving and beginning to invest (Odium does not reside on Roshar but it has been said he also does not invest on Roshar). The implications of such interactions on Scadrial are interesting.

Interesting... Krandacth and I arrived at the conclusion it was the stonewards using different pieces of evidence. I hadn't even thought about how they might have created the stone shamans. Regardless, a quote in that thread does confirm that the stonewards participated in the recreance. That pretty much invalidates this theory.

I go for two months without making a new theory, and today I make three. Well, here we go, anyway. This one will be shorter and more straightforward than the other two. According to Words of Radiance, one of the ten orders did not participate in the recreance. According to Words of Radiance, the stonewards were very much like their patron, Talenel. In particular, they were steadfast and unrelenting. According to the prologue of the Way of Kings, Talenel was left bound in the oathpact when the other nine walked away. It makes sense that the order that is full of stubborn people who would fight to the bloody end would be the ones who don't participate in the recreance. There is also a certain elegant symmetry to the stonewards being the order that did not participate in the recreance, and Talenel being the herald that did not forsake the oathpact many years before the recreance. This is all just speculation of coarse... But in the absence of more information, I think that the stonewards are a pretty good candidate for being the order that didn't participate in the recreance.

I for one like the current title It was what made me pull up this thread. Although this might just all be a red herring. Also, another thing you might want to edit is that you wrote "mastermind" instead of "metalmind." More on topic though, I think the theory is likely correct.

I don't believe that pewter dragging is savantism exactly... But it feels like building up the ability to pewter drag is somehow altering one's spirit web a bit. I would hypothesize that learning to pewter drag might let you approach savantism to a small degree, but would definitely not constitute being a savant in of itself.

I was reading this theory Yata opened up a little while ago when I had an interesting thought. Halfway through voicing this thought as a reply to the thread, I realized that it was sort of a tangent from his discussion. So here we are at an entirely new theory. Where do the metallic arts come from? Sanderson has said that the ability to use metallic arts is part of the physical DNA of the inhabitants of Scadrial (which explains why it is hereditary). We know that magic systems spring up sort of as a natural result of shards and planets interacting... But Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial, so it is hard to say how much of the three metallic arts were intentional and how much was natural. Let us consider how god metals work. Right now, we know of three: Atium, god metal of Ruin. Lerasium, god metal of Preservation. Trellium, god metal of Trell. Atium follows the standard rules for any metal. It can be burned in allomancy by either a mistborn or an atium misting. Lerasium, however, can be burned in allomancy by anyone at all. Why can anyone burn this metal in particular? Maybe this is because lerasium is the metal of preservation and allomancy is the magic of preservation... What about mistings though? Is it possible for someone to be a lerasium misting, if anyone can burn it already? Maybe the genetic trait for being a lerasium misting is actually what makes people mistborn, since it likely results in a strong connection to lerasium? And what of trellium? Who can burn trellium? Presumably, a mistborn can burn trellium, since it looks like a mistborn can burn any metal (even non-allomantic metals, although it would probably kill them). Would there be trellium mistings though? Assuming lerasium is special in that anyone can burn it, trellium is probably something like atium, which means there would be trellium mistings. And yet, where would the trellium mistings come from? Surely there weren't always trellium mistings. For most of Scadrial's history, trellium didn't exist. Why would the human population on Scadrial possess the latent ability to burn a metal that did not yet exist, and may never exist? If the three metallic arts are intentional, that means Ruin and Preservation deliberately embedded the genetic potential for being a misting into the humans on Scadrial. This would imply that without shardic intervention, Scadrians would never produce a trellium misting. It wouldn't be in their genetics. But if the metallic arts happened more naturally, that means the genetic potential for being a misting could be more fluid. This would imply that as Trell invested in Scadrial, this may actually have created a trellium misting trait within the human population. Suddenly people would start naturally being born as trellium mistings in reaction to the fact that trell invested in Scadrial. These are some rather interesting questions I think. I personally believe that lerasium mistings are indeed actually mistborn, and that the Scadrian population will indeed start manifesting trellium mistings naturally. But this is more about the questions themselves than about my opinions on them. I open up the discussion to you all.

It is hard to determine whether Vin exhibited savant levels of pain immunity, I think. You see, normal pewter bestows some level of pain immunity. It is difficult to know for sure if Vin's levels of pain resistance were savant level or normal pewter allomancer level. Pain is hard to judge by because it is something an individual experiences. Strength, however, can be objectively evaluated. That is why I found it telling that Vin was stronger than Ham, despite the fact that without magic, Ham would be stronger. In regard to the death rate of pewter savants... Before her ascension, I would speculate that Vin was perhaps close to death at some times. She certainly pushed herself harder than a non-allomancer could survive... I don't mean to say that Vin had to have been a savant, but it always seemed like a significant possibility to me.

This is something that occurred to me a few years ago, when I first read through the epigraphs about spook being a tin savant. Vin burned pewter pretty much constantly. She often went without sleep because she was burning pewter and didn't feel the fatigue. Furthermore, she has burned pewter instinctively for as long as she can remember. I also suspect that learning to pewter drag might be something that approaches savantism... And Ham also notes that Vin was stronger than him when both of them were burning pewter. I've always figured that Vin must have been a pewter savant, for all the above reasons. In my time on these forums, however, I have never heard anyone mention this idea. So here I open up discussion and speculation on the matter.

Once you reach the realization that Zahel is Vasher, there are a lot of interesting details you get from a re-read. This is definitely one of them. Another one was how Zahel always seemed to notice people even when he wasn't looking at them. He knew when someone was at his door before they made themselves known. He also knew without looking when Skar was messing with his Tarachin set. I think it is fair to say that this awareness is from the heightenings.

The nightwatcher grins evilly as she hears the wording of your request. People will stop hating you after you become CEO of Microsoft. Until then however, their hatred of you is greatly amplified. Because everyone hates you, they don't ever end up putting you in charge of Microsoft. I wish for an awakened hemalurgic spike.