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  1. ZenBossanova
    Actually, a shardblade is extremely easy to hide.
  2. ZenBossanova
    But if there were a person who could help Nightblood grow and develop, it would be Cultivatation.
  3. ZenBossanova
    Lift did make seeds grow, so it isn't strictly people only.
  4. ZenBossanova
    Odium restored the Connection & Identity of the parshmen. Not that I expect he is ready to help here.
  5. ZenBossanova
    How creative can we be in using Regrowth? Could Renarin use that surge to restore the books in the Library?
  6. ZenBossanova
    If you recall, Forgery (as used in The Emperor's Soul) could make profound physical changes, by giving an artificial Spiritual Connection.
  7. ZenBossanova
    A better question might be, how does having some Listener blood affect the kind of bonds people have?
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    That might be a problem if the mask is in the Cognitive Realm, but if it is in the Spiritual Realm, then it could be a natural consequence, because the Spiritual directs the Physical. It would be a kind of Forgery.
  9. ZenBossanova
    I was my understanding that pre-Shattering magic was not Investiture-based as it is now. I think there is a WoB about that. But there's little to nothing about it that is fully canon. So are Dragons shape-shifters? That does not sound very Brandon. My own headcanon is, that Dragons relate to the Cognitive and Spiritual realms differently than humans do, but not necessarily better or worse. Rather, different, much like we see the Parshendi or Aimians. (What actually comes to mind is Zerg vs Protoss) In that vein of pure speculation, I can see them wearing a kind of Cognitive Realm mask. So, not physical shape shifting, but Cognitive thought-shape-shifting. Or perhaps a mask in the Spiritual Realm.
  10. ZenBossanova
    Considering that Nightblood was an attempt to recreate a Shardblade, perhaps the Half-Shards that have been made, could be related to some of Vasher's acquaintances trying to recreate Shardblades and shardplate. I am sure Roshar really needs a few more conspiratorial groups.
  11. ZenBossanova
    New Endpapers! https://www.tor.com/2017/10/26/revealed-the-full-endpapers-from-brandon-sandersons-oathbringer/ Now we have Jezrien and Vedel as well.
  12. ZenBossanova
    What I am reminded of, is Szeth's comment about Urithiru being the only place beside Shinovar, where the stone is not unhallowed.
  13. ZenBossanova
    If was a discussion between Eshonai and Venli, discussing how the power to summon storms has been used before.
  14. ZenBossanova
    Ok, I did find that quote. Yes, Venli did say that. I will concede this is almost certainly not the first reverse storm. However, I did find quotes with Eshonai and Venli talking about how this was used before. So, what is new then? What didn't happen this way before? The storm is just the latest Everstorm, and the reverse part, I will admit, appears to be usual.
  15. ZenBossanova
    I will just leave that here, as it seems appropriate. Many of the major parties knew a storm was coming. Even Syl could sense that. What was different, was the direction it was going. Remember, the storm-form Parshendi were aiming it in one direction, when Adolin surprised them, and they turned around to deal with him, while they were in the middle of calling the storm. Adolin (inadvertently) made them point in the wrong direction, and set the storm going in the right direction. No one predicted the direction, in spite of the fact that several spoke of the storm.
  16. ZenBossanova
    Better to saw, race exists, but it is a fuzzy category, if you look too closely.
  17. ZenBossanova
    That is a logical possibility, but hardly an elegant answer. How would everyone know about it, unless it had happened before? @Blacksmithki @Fulminato The car analogy is apt. If I have a new car, it is new. It doesn't mean there was no car before, or that the concept of 'car' is new. How does everyone (everyone in the know) know about this, if it is the first time? That leaves a LOT MORE to explain, if you insist on that. Ok, ladies and gentlemen, I need to get back to work. Have fun discussing. I will be back later this week.
  18. ZenBossanova
    If I purchase a new car, that hardly means that I have not had a car before. @Blacksmithki @Fulminato It could only be 'old of design' if they had them previously.
  19. ZenBossanova
    I have yet to see solid proof. I am seeing a long chain of inferences. That does not mean there was no storm before, only that the timing and/or direction was different this time.
  20. ZenBossanova
    How does this mean that there have not been Everstorms before? How would Parshendi from hundreds of years ago, know that this time we would have a storm, if there hadn't been any Everstorms before? Likewise, in the first POV from Dalinar in WoK, we learn about the Everstorm from the visions he has been having. If we have to assume that this is the first ever Everstorm, then you actually have far, far more to explain, than if we understand that the Everstorm was a usual aspect of a Desolation.
  21. ZenBossanova
    If space and time are connected (ie space-time) then if you are able to effect space, then affecting time should be a side effect, if not a direct effect. Investiture is as fundamental a physical quantity as mass is in ours. It would also suggest some kind of link between Investiture and Information. Even in our world, Information has been suggested as a fundamental basis for Quantum Mechanics (Wheeler called it, 'It from Bit') and even more recently, Gravity ( Erik Verlinde and his theory about gravity from entropy, which is closely related to information).
  22. ZenBossanova
    I was under the impression, that perhaps, we had Heralds of ethnicities across Roshar. Of course, ethnicities 4,500 years ago would relate only weakly, if at all, with modern ethnicities. Jews are not that dark, on average. They could have been lighter, but arguing about what genes were like 2000 year ago... is difficult.
  23. ZenBossanova
    Dan Dos Santos does amazing work.
  24. ZenBossanova
    There is only a hint we will see Vivenna at all. Take those ideas with a grain of salt.
  25. ZenBossanova
    Ok, I asked again, and I was told that one was definitely Jezrien and the other was probably Shallash.
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