ScarletSabre

That may be, I've read about the inspiration myself, but considering we've seen that Stormlight runs out, and that in Shinovar the Highstorms have lost their Stormlight to become regular storms again, or even just a (at least comparatively) mild breeze and drizzle. That makes me think that there's gotta be some point or barrier or cave or Spren or whatever that recharges either the air or whatever's left of the storm with Stormlight to make it a new Highstorm. So if the storm is one storm that needs to be recharged with new Stormlight, is it the same storm? Ironically it's like the old conundrum of replacing every part of a ship with new, but the same, parts. In my opinion at least, with the Highstorms not being regular and needing to seemingly be recharged, and with the Stormfather able to send a Highstorm in the middle of the Weeping, there must be an origin point where new storms come from. But like you said, I don't think we have any WOBs about it, and if anyone can find any either way, I'd love to see it myself ^^

Hmmmm, the Origin not being a physical place is an interesting idea (The place where storms come from? It's inside us all, you airsick lowlander.), though rather than a cave, my own mental image when I think of a place where storms that circle the earth periodically come from is more like... (Apologies in advance for my writing, I tend to use run-on sentences and don't space well, and this is just a quick scribble on my phone before bed.) Kaladin paused, Lashing himself backwards to slow his momentum, hanging in the now still air. The stormwall behind him roared across the oceans, churning the water like some great hand scooping at it's surface with fingers made of thunder and lightning. He was here. The Origin lay before him on the horizon, the only thing visible for hundreds of miles all around. It was... different, than he'd expected. A short cliff jutting from the still sea water, the Western side smoothed into a ramp down to the water's edge, while the Eastern side was more natural, having crumbled and eroded from time rather than constant Highstorm weathering. The stormward side tapered to a point as it met the waves gently lapping at it's surface, almost apologetic, as if pleading for the buffeting winds to stop. This combined with the rounded edge of the leeward side made the island look like an enormous stone teardrop to Kaladin's lofty perspective. Like the last tear of some great god. At the very centre of the flat top was... something. Kaladin didn't really know how to describe it. A pillar of light extended into the heavens far above him as he floated towards the Origin, but it didn't glow with the bright, raw power of Stormlight. It was softer, he could look directly at such a brilliant beacon of light without needing to let his eyes adjust as he did when peering into a gemstone. It seemed to hum and pulse, and as he drew closer he could see the column of light was actually comprised of hundreds of thousands of smaller ribbons of light, like the kind Syl became when she danced beside him in the air. Some were as thin as his finger, others as thick as his whole body, but they all seemed to spin and spiral around one another as they rose and fell in their vertical stage, seeming to pulse gently, almost flickering like a flame in a gentle breeze. So yeah, I kinda get the mental image of that kind of thing on a lone tiny island on the opposite side of Roshar, on the antipode of the whole continent. ^^ Oooooh, perhaps the Origin is Honour's Shardpool. Your thought on the storm getting stronger again after it passes Shinovar is interesting, but with the Stormlight expended before it gets there I'm not sure how that would work... unless perhaps the Origin is just beyond Shinovar, and the storm continues Westwards until it hits some kind of barrier and then is reinfused with Stormlight? Either way I imagine someone on the Shin coast would have noticed if a Stormwall like the one we've seen Kaladin head into suddenly built off their coast, even if it was heading away.

So, a few things I was wondering about the Origin of Storms (Which I'm fairly sure some eagle eyed poster will direct me to a WOB that I've completely overlooked that answers all of my thoughts/questions, and point out I'm an airsick lowlander ^_^) So the Origin is where all Highstorms come from, and they all blow from East to West. Therefore no ship has ever visited the Origin, as they are all destroyed in the Highstorms, and even the one Hoid tells Kaladin about, designed specifically for the purpose, got hit by one and obliterated. My questions/thoughts are as follows; Has anyone ever tried to sail to the Origin from the West? Leaving from a Shin port where the mountains provide a buffer to make the Highstorm a simple storm? Sure, it'd be dangerous to sail in a storm, but I'm fairly certain one that can toss boulders the size of cars is a smidge more dangerous. What effect would the Highstorm have on a submarine? With Navani's advancements in Fabrial technology I'm sure they could Macgyver some sort of submarine (perhaps a yellow one ~) that could travel beneath the waves. I'm no sailor and don't pretend to know what effect a storm like that would have beneath the waves, hence my curiousity. Could Kaladin, or any Windrunner/Skybreaker, reach the Origin? We've seen that during a Highstorm Kaladin is constantly replenished with Stormlight for his Lashings, and seems at least somewhat immune to the buffeting winds so high up, so with bags filled with Spheres to recharge in each storm, and the storm itself filling him up as he passes through it, could he make it to the Origin via Lashing travel? And finally.... What IS the Origin? Considering what we know of Preservation and the mists from Scadrial, there must be some kind of Shardic influence on it. Not simply Odium, either, as he's responsible for the Everstorm, so perhaps Honour before he was shattered? Since the Stormfather is a Cognitive Shadow of Honour mixed with a Spren that sends the storms, I imagine it's whats left of the Shard's Cognitive Aspect using the power to send out pure Investiture in the storms, with the Spren "Vessel" that is the Stormfather,'s Cognitive intent to send storms via the power. As though the Spren himself Ascended with the Shard, but only being expanded in the Cognitive realm due to being a Spren, and manifesting as storms in the Physical realm in the same way Syl does as a Shardblade. Thoughts? Theories? Slander at me for bringing up some probably Storms-cursedly obvious ideas? Bring it!

One I'm honestly astonished to never have seen suggested here, as it fits perfectly in my head (mainly thanks to the Audiobook version of Mistborn having such fantastic voicework by Michael Kramer), is.... Stephen Fry as Breeze. If you've listened to the audiobook of Mistborn, then just recall the way he enunciates "Delegation" in it, and try and tel me I'm wrong

True, I didn't think they were the Bands of Mourning in the same Magic Hack way the Sovereign's Spearhead was, but if I recall correctly, didn't an epigraph or conversation in WoA or HoA explain that TLR's Atiumminds were actually lots of different metals, with very little Atium in them? That would suggest that they were a proto BoM, not giving powers but all kinds of metalminds in one handy-dandy set of bracers. TLR would definitely have lots of health stored up in them too, though I dunno how much a Fullborn Compounder would actually need to survive spear stabs, he HAS been flayed, burned and beheaded, so I imagine he'd have a lot stored up, just in case. He also moved with Ferechemical speed when fighting Marsh and Vin, so he had SOME attributes stored in them. So how drained must they have been for a non Duralimin or Mist enhanced Vin to be able to push them, even out of his body?

Hi all! So I had an idea for a game, (and I have no idea if it should go here or in another subforum, so let me know if so!), which is..... coming up with cool nicknames/titles that could fit in the Cosmere or just other Sanderson works. So like Stormblessed, Survivor of the Flames, Dawnshot etc. The basic rules are.... Give the nickname/title, and a quick explantion of where it would come from, and possibly an example of how it would be used. I'll start us off with a nickname that's been rattling around in my head since I first read Way of Kings, but haven't used properly yet. Stormforged. A nickname like Stormblessed, but instead of being one with the wind, they would be tempered and hardened by an experience in a Highstorm. My idea would be a man of Horneater descent losing some of his joviality and becoming more of a warrior after being involved in a fight during a Highstorm, getting an edge to him. "There goes Unlutan Stormforged.... The one who slew a Lighteyes with a boulder the Stormfather threw at him." The forename is a work in progress, since I can't recall proper Horneater naming conventions off the top of my head, aside from remembering just a bit of what Rock's true name is from the Audiobook, but not having a storming chance of spelling it outside of my inner monologue. Hope you all like the nickname and the game itself ^__^

Just something that's been in the back of my mind since I started my reread/relisten to the Final Empire series.... When Vin pushed TLR's Atiumminds from his arms she was at what we've dubbed on the forums "Mistpoint", burning the mists to the peak of an Allomancer's potential minus ascending to being a Vessel. However, once they were out, she no longer held the mists (As far as I recall, don't have the book or the audiobook in front of me at the moment...) Yet she was able to Push on TLR's Atiumminds without them, despite the fact that they SHOULD have been Invested to all Braize, especially if they WERE the Bands of Mourning. Just wondering if we have any thoughts/explanations? Maybe Vin still held the mists or a fraction of them, and I'm just forgetting, but it seems like a continuity hiccup with metalminds being hard to sense/push on, or them not being Invested, the Bands.... Though considering they were definitely Atiumminds, they should have been Invested.

My personal pet theory is that Renarin will see the truth in Adolin's claim to not have had anything to do with killing Sadeas, either through theTruthwatcher's ability to see things (perhaps visions of the truth when lies are spoken?) or detecting falsehoods. This will drive a wedge between the two brothers, as Renarin will be torn between his love for Adolin and want to support and protect him, and his own desire to be strong and useful, and the intent of his order and ideals and oaths. Renarin might end up being the one to reveal what Adolin did, thus making Adolin bitter and resentful for just doing what should have been done months, if not years ago, and end up leaving the Princedom in shame.

Hi all! Finally became a member of this site after ghosting for months ^-^ And I thought I'd start off my posts here with a quick theory/ramble/note that jumped out at me when I was relistening to the audio book of the Well of Ascension for about the sixth time. So something that jumped out at me was Vin struggling to identify the Kandra spy on the crew, specifically when she's first interrogating Tensoon about how to detect Kandra. When she's told a Kandra is immune to emotional Allomancy and cannot use Allomancy or Feruchemy, should have been able to eliminate the members of the main crew that night as not being the spy, at least if what I propose would work. The crew knows Vin has been experimenting with new metals, Ham and Elend certainly do at least. All she would have to do is get each of them alone one by one, and say she thought she had found a new metal for Emotional Allomancy, and ask them to test it with her. Burn Brass and Zinc, and soothe/riot their emotions, telling them she should be making them feel sadness when she's really rioting happiness, and ask them to say what they're feeling. A Kandra would have to guess at the emotions, and if Vin switched which ones she was soothing/rioting and they kept guessing wrong, she'd have her Kandra. That combined with sensing the burning of the other Allomancers on the crew would let her eliminate all of them in one night, then let them in on an impostor being there and have them on the lookout themselves. Of course this wouldn't fit in with Vin not wanting to suspect them at all, especially Elend, but it's a simple solution that I would have thought would come to an experienced Allomancer/streetwise scammer like Vin. Thoughts? I'm certain there can be arguments made either way, such as Vin not being THAT experienced with Allomancy yet, but I'm curious what you all think. And if we can come up with other simple solutions to problems in Brandon's books ^^ Thanks for reading!