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I've mentioned this before somewhere, but it's very likely that there is a shardpool in the south. Iyatil (from Stormlight) is of Scadrian descent somehow, which means her ancestors worldhopped away from the planet before the Basin knew about the south. My theory is that Harmony moved one of the pools to the south (or a potential new Harmony pool ended up there) during the Ascension. Then, after their lands froze, a group of Hunters (who up until then had been the leaders of the south, but now faced disgrace and possibly persecution for losing the 'mandate of Harmony') found the pool, and realized they could use it to run away. By the way, I really don't remember a mention of the shardpool in SoS... when/where was that?

Something weird is going on with light and time bubbles, because it should be red shifted. So there definitely is evidence that light behaves differently from other things. If the deflection wasn't random, Wax would have learned how to shoot through Wayne's bubbles long ago, I think. In the end, the reason bullets deflect is probably just to stop shooting inside a time bubble from being too overpowered - if Wayne could slow down time while Wax just picked off every opponent with careful shots, the books wouldn't be as interesting.

No, this was earlier, in Fedrex (?). I think it was when Ruin found out the atium wasn't in the city. My point was that in that case, the connection to Vin was broken immediately. Maybe that doesn't mean that the 'hole' in the spiritweb was gone though, I dunno.

I think it's the actual page the url points to that's being parsed, not the url itself. The topic is the title, so it should be easy to find. (It might break in topics/subforums with dashes in the name though...)

Once, when Vin lost/removed (don't remember which) her earring in HoA, Ruin immediately disappeared.

And Wayne too!

But in BoM, when someone mentions the Cosmere, Wax sounds really confused, which implies it's not a common term...Maybe I misunderstood Wax' confusion there though. I dunno.

(I haven't read SH yet) I've thought about this, and the only thing I can think of is that he used his personal connection to Spook, rather than Preservation's power. Perhaps the connection was augmented by Preservation, but the actual 'link' was Kelsier's own. If that's not it, then I don't know.

Wayne name-dropped the Cosmere? I guess that's because he's listening in on lots of people all the time...

How would the two Scadrian pools fit into this, in the ash era?

I'm not sure if the shards have that much influence over how their magic system develops...

We don't know how strong the Hunters' temple bomb was though, and I think the Set has that now. I doubt it was nuke-level, but probably much stronger than most other explosives.

Jasnah did name-drop the Cosmere at some point I believe, so she might know about other planets, and possibly worldhopping. I'm not sure how much she knows about the shards though - her conversation with Hoid, especially regarding their views on God, could mean lots of things.

No, I think it's Captain Falcon.

More of a multiliner, but anyway: “How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.” - Rand al'Thor

Oh, right, I was supposed to go donate blood today. Thanks for reminding me!

The pits actually were Ruin's shardpool. I think it's unclear if the pool was the actual pits, or if there was a real pool somewhere below the mines. That said, in WoR Jasnah exits the Cognitive Realm somewhere that probably isn't a shardpool. Of course, she's special since she can Elsecall, but if you read that extra scene with her that's posted somewhere (from Oathbringer, or just a scene on its own? Not sure), it seems like you can't just exit from anywhere. That implies there are other, perhaps 'lesser', perpendicularities. Also, doesn't Hoid use worldhopping to travel faster on a planet too? We used to think Hoid used worldhopping to get to the WoA before Vin, but that's not the case (anymore)... If he does, then yeah, shardpools can't be the only naturally occurring perpendicularities.

I thought the mists just snapped people who were unsnapped Mistings to begin with... But then again, that would mean a LOT of unsnapped mistings in a mostly skaa army, for example. I dunno...

Better yet: give just a few objects lashings in directions that are almost straight down.

There are contradicting WoBs, one saying the planets were all there before shards got there (the one Obi-WanLebowski posted above), and one (some?) saying Ruin and Preservation made Scadrial. I was just trying to reconcile the two. In any case, I don't doubt a shard could have the power to create a planet on their own.

I don't remember that... But at least one of the visions Honor sent to Dalinar was a prediction of the future.

We don't know for sure that foretelling is specifically of Voidbringing, that's just what Vorinism teaches. It might be true, but... Renarin, for example, might have Surgebinding foretelling.

Spren existed before Honor splintered though - the Knights were around before then. I don't think we know if the lesser spren existed, but (some of) the more sentient spren definitely did. Maybe the sentient spren were splinters Honor (and Cultivation) made while he was alive, and the lesser ones the result of the splintering? But some lesser spren seem to be more aligned to Cultivation... I think many spren might be splinters of Adolnasium itself, though. That could just be a reference to them creating life on an existing lump of rock (or one with life, but no people), though.

I'm surprised shardblades are even composed of something that could be called 'metal' to be honest.

Odium is more knowledgeable, I think that's his biggest advantage (regardless of if he truly is opposing Harmony at the moment). I don't think he has absorbed power from the other shards, since apparently he doesn't want his Intent changed. Absorbing even pieces of other shards would probably do that.