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  1. ZenBossanova
    Before Words of Radiance came out, almost no one even wanted a book about Shallan. She looked like an petty silly girl. Think about how much people hate Szeth. People felt that same way about Shallan. Or take a look at Wax and Steris in the later Mistborn books. Steris was incredibly unpopular... until the Bands of Mourning, where the romance suddenly clicked and no one could have been a better match for Wax.
  2. ZenBossanova
    The actual WoB on that is a bit ambiguous. It is possible for Shallan, but it is certainly not written in stone... or metal.
  3. ZenBossanova
    Justice is too dispassionate for Odium + Honor. In any case, I was using Vengeance for Odium + Autonomy. But as long as we are thinking this way, would Odium + Cultivatation would be Wildlife? Something that expresses life, but as 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'.
  4. ZenBossanova
    Of course, we all said the same thing about Shallan before Words of Radiance.
  5. ZenBossanova
    Pardon, Maxel, you are right. There was an interesting WoB in an interview Brandon did while in Spain regarding everyone except Jasnah... maybe. http://www.jotdown.es/2016/12/brandon-sanderson-i-want-to-show-in-my-writing-that-there-is-something-inherently-good-inside-human-beings/ I wouldn't see this as completely definite, as he gives his characters room to grow and act on their own.
  6. ZenBossanova
    Besides, Jasnah is Adolin's aunt. While Jasnah might be all for throwing out gendered traditions, I doubt she would still be interested in marrying down. Of course, if Kaladin is a KR, then would it really be marrying down? She is definitely going to need someone her intellectual equal.
  7. ZenBossanova
    Call it Vengence. It is happy to act on its own, but to also hate those things that need hating / need to be avenged. That said, I don't think Autonomy is going to leave her star. If Odium is picked up, it will probably be by someone on Roshar.
  8. ZenBossanova
    I worry that people on Roshar are all going to go to "hell" when they die, at least until Odium is defeated.
  9. ZenBossanova
    It was all just a dream and Kaladin is really just an accountant.
  10. ZenBossanova
    Technically right, that the surges are universal, but the magic/power of Honor and Cultivation was blended both in the formation of the Heralds and the KR. Notice, that orders range from Honor to Cultivation and everywhere in between. I suspect that is particularly odious to Odium.
  11. ZenBossanova
    I have long suspected that the people who shattered Adonalsium, did it because they thought it was a desperate necessity. Odium may be taking this to the next level, and shattering the shards as well. He may consider this vital for mankind, as he (I suspect) thought when he helped in the original shattering. Vital enough to continue shattering shards. Notice, that Honor and Cultivation blended their surges, so Odium may be particularly opposed to them.
  12. ZenBossanova
    I really like Creationspren for LIghtweavers and Firespren for Dustbringers for secondary spren. (I still think Adolin will be a Dustbringer) There has also been a WoB on the main Elsecaller spren.
  13. ZenBossanova
    My suspicion is that they way Odium shatters Shards, is the same way the Recreance destroyed spren - you get people or Shards to act contrary to their investiture. For Ambition, he fought until he/she was less ambitious. For Dominion, he fought until he was not exercising dominion. For Honor, he would fight to make him unhonorable. So between the Heralds and the KR (both highly invested, perhaps the KR more so, by sheer volume) abandoning their oaths, Honor was splintered more because of them than Odium per se. I bring this up because Honor couldn't walk away from this fight, because of his honor. But neither could Odium, because of his hatred. Honor understood perfectly well what Odium was planning and purposely walked into it, because that was his nature. And neither he, nor the Heralds and KR could walk away, without damaging Honor. Fighting the long fight was the only honorable option, even if it cost everyone dearly.
  14. ZenBossanova
    Very true, yet we have not seen anyone burn it yet. Perhaps in the next book. I see a WoB that shardblades are body of a god, but I don't see one about shardplate. Plate seems to be very different from blade. Spren don't freak out over 'dead' plate.
  15. ZenBossanova
    Keep in mind, most of the periodic table is metals. but only about 16 and the godmetals, are allomatically burnable, or ferochemically active. Is it really Tanavastium? I was going to argue it would not be burnable, but do we have a WoB on the metal in the last Wax and Wayne book? Is that a godmetal? And is it burnable?
  16. ZenBossanova
    What interests me most about Vasher on Roshar, is that each Returned is sent back for a reason. Is that reason he came back, the conflict on Roshar right now?
  17. ZenBossanova
    And that suggests to me, that the Rosharan Afterlife is highly significent.
  18. ZenBossanova
    Thanks for the clarification. In that case, I have to expect that Rall Elorim is inhabited with either ordinary dead Radiants, or those Radiants in the Recreance. You only (?) become a cognitive shadow if you have sufficient investiture. The primary people we know about that fit that catagory are all Radiants.
  19. ZenBossanova
    Is a Cognitive Shadow different from a soul? If my Cognitive Shadow did something, then did I do it, or just my ghost clone?
  20. ZenBossanova
    On a related note, I have wondered what the effect of the Nahel bond is for people, after they are dead. Are those shadows of ordinary people, or shadows of Knights Radiant, or more interestingly, Knights Radiant who broke their oaths in the Recreace? Brandon has repeatedly said that in order to bring the dead shardblades back, you would need the original person. Is the original cognitive shadow enough?
  21. ZenBossanova
    While I am very suspicious that we have Odium meddling here, another possibility is the Old Magic. We know Dalinar went there for some reason. Perhaps, Renarin was that reason. Dalinar wanted him to be a mighty warrior or something, and that is what he asked the Old Magic for. And this is the way that "wish" was being fulfilled.
  22. ZenBossanova
    I suppose part of the question is, where do you get that much investiture without taking it from an existing shard? I don't think ascension is inherently murderous, but the current supply of investiture is limited, and the main source is the shards themselves.
  23. ZenBossanova
    If people gain surges and power because of cracks in their soul, perhaps Szeth will be particularly powerful because his bond to his soul is so damaged.
  24. ZenBossanova
    My guess is, each surge will have a physical surge, a cognitive surge and a spiritual surge. So, for Shallan, that will be making images, helping people see things (or maybe her memory?) and helping people become things. I expect Dalinar will be able to bond things together, and bind people together, as a nation or army.
  25. ZenBossanova
    The idea of nexus=perpendicularity probably won't work. That would mean that Roshar has 3 (why 3?) perpendicularities. Could the third have anything to do with the shard that was on Ashyn? Or, Braize? This is too convoluted.. probably.
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