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Ooooh... 2 wishes means 2 BANES!! Mwahahahaha.... Granted, you can create Investiture... by dying and coming back with an extra Breath. As soon as you come back to life you are killed again and your Breath stolen. This cycle is infinite. Also, granted. You can now worldhop. Your bane is that you become an Incomplete Elantrian, after the first time you are killed and resurrected. Good luck creating investiture now that you can't die, and good luck worldhopping with the never ending pain of a dagger in your heart. I'm a horrible person. My wish is for me to have endless stamina and endurance.

Random idea, unrelated to cognitive shadows, but could it be that the land/sea inversion is caused by how humans perceive the land or the sea to be workable and changeable? If you think about it, with the current levels of technology on Roshar, they would find the land easier to work on, more fluid for man to use, but you can't build houses or mines or cities or kingdoms on the ocean; therefore the sea is seen as unchanging, solid, permanent. It would be interesting later on in the SA timeline to see if, as seafaring and water technologies increase, the sea in the CR becomes more of a thick liquid (kinda like syrup) than purely solid, because people no longer see the sea as unchangeable, but just difficult to work. This making sense to anyone but me?

In Soviet Roshar, Heralds torture Odium! In Soviet Roshar, you no enslave parshmen. Parshmen enslave YOU! In Soviet Roshar, the highstorm no kill you. YOU kill highstorm! In Soviet Roshar, I'm just getting started...

This is not Ruin's cake, it is the Nightwatcher's cake. Yes, I know why you were told not to take free cookies...

In regards to the hair fabric thing; Uhhh... what? Granted. you get amazing musical skills. You are immortalized in history as the best musician ever. Your curse is that you can only communicate through music. No lyrics! I wish for a katana that grants sword skills to whoever holds it. EDIT: This post is the 3,000th reply to this topic! The Nightwatcher gives everyone free cake!!!

Pretty definitive, if you ask me. Although I do agree it would make an interesting plot twist, I just don't see how that's possible. Unless... Maybe Vivenna took Nightblood from Vasher, and went to Roshar to hide from him, but she somehow LOST Nightblood, and the reason Vasher is on Roshar is (besides the reason of Stormlight) that he's searching for Vivenna, and by extension, Nightblood. PLOT TWIST CONCOCTED!!! Edit: D'OH! I found a WoB on why Nightblood is separate in the first place. It kills my theory.

Wow, lot of ideas coming from here. I... hadn't considered that. But I do believe that Cultivation's original Shardholder is still alive. I believe there's a WoB on it.

Rain = sky maybe? I dunno. 1: Of course. 2: Would make sense, I agree. 3: Wyndle is a Cultivationspren, and I think there's a WoB on the matter of Cultivationspren + lifespren. Someone find me the relevant link, pretty please? 4: We haven't actually seen the Dustbringers' surges in action, only the end results. I wouldn't be surprised if they tie to flamespren, however. 5: Can your train of thought for this one? Elsecalling doesn't seem like it would much tie into pain, and neither does Soulcasting. Just because Jasnah and Ebony encounter one in Shadesmar (not confirmed as canon) doesn't mean that they are linked... I also (for the Plate theory) think it would be hard to attract the painspren if you are an Elsecaller. I do not believe that they would willingly hurt/kill people to make Shardplate, and they probably weren't into self-torture either. 6: The names might be similar, but I don't know... Kinda skeptical on this one.

Speaking of procrastination... Granted, you can now flip bottles effortlessly. But the next bottle you flip will spontaneously combust, killing you instantly and blasting a crater the size of the Pentagon. You are, however, unaware of this. The curse is that you are suddenly in a room filled with TNT and bottles. I wish for people to stop feeling hatred of me after I become CEO of Microsoft. YAY, I'm a bridgeman now! Bridge Four!

Brandon RAFOed what Vivenna was doing while Vasher was on Roshar, so some theories came to mind. Firstly, Vivenna may have been Dalinar's wife... It would fit into some categories, as Brandon also RAFOed whether or not Dalinar's wife was still alive. Secondly, Vivenna could have joined the 17th Shard. No idea where I got this one from. Thirdly, we just haven't encountered her yet. She could be out searching for Nightblood... Thoughts and/or additional theories?

Granted. You get a ruined car, that blows up your garage. Your curse is that the car was Brandon's one that was stolen, and he blames you for it being destroyed, so you never read another Sanderson book again. I wish for UNLIMITED POWER!!!!

That... explains a lot, actually. Always wondered why Roshar is partial to 9 and 10. I agree that 9 would be Odium's number, as there were 10 original orders, but 9 disbanded; there were 10 Heralds, but 9 stayed away from Damnation; and now "Odium reigns". Maybe the year cycle is also effected? 9 months with highstorms, but 10 in total? Maybe the 10th month is the one with the Weeping? Maybe 9 is Cultivation's number? Just in case Odium's 9 doesn't work out.

5 seasons a book might be stretching it a bit. I'm going to use Game of Thrones as an example here. They've done 6 seasons (so far) for 7 books, and those books are 700-1000 pages. I will admit that I don't know how far through the books the TV show has gone (I don't actually watch it myself) but they must be a fair amount through the series. So I think that 5 seasons a book might be stretching it out way too far. We may have to put more chapters per episode in or increase the episode time. Half an hour is way too short for something of this scale. As for season length, I am unsure. GoT has consistently 10 episodes a season, but other programs I have no idea of. So, if each episode covers, say, 3 chapters, then to get a single part of a book done (by using the interludes as markers) it would take... 4 or 5 episodes? So then if we put in 2 parts (10 episodes) a season, then it would take 2.5 seasons for 1 book, so for a total of the first 5 books it would be 12.5 seasons. Considering the interludes, that could possibly add up to 13 or 14 seasons. And, if you think about it, having the end of tWoK and the start of WoR in one season would be better. We would see Kaladin freed and start to reform the bridgemen all in one season would work equally as well as splitting those two plot points in half. Oh... right. The prologue and epilogue. How could we insert those without plonking them in the middle of the season? @The One Who Connects, any ideas?

I agree with the first 2 ideas. Live action would fit SA's "gritty" side with the darkeyes and the bridges and everything. Plus you could never really capture the air of nobility of the lighteyes in a cartoon. Episode length depending on the base chapter is a good idea. You wouldn't have to painfully stretch out short chapters or cram longer chapters into a timeframe. BUT. There are like 80 chapters in the first book alone. The only way you'd get decent seasons is if you fit 2 chapters per episode, and even then, 40 episode seasons would be a bit tedious to watch. I don't really think that LotR style movies would have the same effect, Brightness Enna. The technology for filming would get better as the 10 movies was filmed, so the first movie would look similar to how the 80s movies look to us when the entire thing is published. And as much as I would like to have 10 Stormlight Archive movies each as long as a LotR movie, try finding a movie producer with the time, budget and patience to make 10 2 hour movies, each with about 1 1/2 years of filming and another 1/2 year of editing time. So long movies for individual books would be tedious to make. You also have to remember that people will want to watch this. If you give them 20 hours of Sanderson greatness, they will either be intimidated by 20 hours to watch a series or they will loose interest halfway through the series. OR they finish the entire thing so that they drown in Stormlight lore and will probably babble to their friends for a week in unintelligible words about Sanderson and Stormlight, because they have had 20 hours of stuff forced into them and they are now as mad as Taln. Speaking of babbling... Wait, what is this "Anime" you speak of?

I believe that a TV series isn't the way to go about a Stormlight Archive story. Only a movie would have the budget for the effects and everything, and even then it'd be pretty Damnation hard to do Lashings and the glowey smoke coming off the skin. And how would you fit all the lore elements into it? It'd just be "in your face" without anything making sense. Like Batman v. Superman. That movie made 0 sense because we had no context. There'd be a major plot point, but it made no sense because it required information OUTSIDE of what was on screen. Something major, integral to the plot arch, made no sense, so the rest of the movie from that point onward was just... Nonsensical. This would be a problem for the SA movie. How do you explain the Recreance to the viewer? The Knights Radiant? The non-reader viewers, the ones who watch a movie because they can't be bothered reading the book, would have no idea of what the Heralds are or what those weird glowey things following people around are. They didn't read the book, so they'd have NO CONTEXT. Let's face it, a Stormlight Archive media format would just be a very bad idea. Counter arguments? Anyone?

Wait.... Spearhead. Spearman. Kaladin. WORLDHOPPING KALADIN CONFIRMED!!! This is a joke, BTW.

We could still name it though. I think that Sprenium or Sprensteel is my favorite. I think calling it similar to steel sorta fits, as steel is a mix of iron and coal/charcoal, so an Investiture + "Cognitive Matter" mixture would fit. If you see what I'm saying. If you consider the "ethereal substance" a gas (of sorts) then the mist that appears while summoning a Shardblade could be the temporary ultra-quick conversion of gas to liquid, before it changes to a solid. It would be really quick, so the mist appears like condensation. AND we see it mentioned multiple times that condensation appears on a summoned Deadblade. Thoughts on this matter?

Stretching it a bit, I know.

What would you call the shardblade material? Shardsteel? Sprensteel? Souliron? Or maybe... they are made out of DRAGONSTEEL?

Granted. The song sounds like the theme of Game of Thrones, and you get jailed for copyright infringement. Fortunately your food is so good that you get employed as the cook with $100k annual pay until the end of your 3 year sentence. You get your own house within the prison, away from the other prisoners. Your bane is that the jail is in Damnation. I wish to become CEO of Microsoft, so that I can do the world a service and make Age of Empires 4.

Granted. The slice of bread tastes delicious. Your bane: You constantly feel like punching everyone you meet, and if your temper overtakes you, you commit Grand Theft Auto. I wish for humanity to be as wise as Taravangarian on his "better days", just short of passing a law that makes the populace commit suicide.

Granted. You are locked in an obsidian cell to prevent you from comitting anything evil. You stay in said cell for the rest of your miserable life, and everyone forgets you exist. EDIT: The cell is thousands of miles below ground, so far down that you hang above a pot of lava. I wish to read every Sanderson book ever, with no obstruction to me reading AND remembering it.

Wouldn't Odium need a blade for his champion? If so, there might be only one Odiumblade in the future...

Ok. I assumed that the Old Magic had a system similar to the Surges. A universal fabrial would make more sense, however. Would said fabrial use 10 different gemstones, or another 11th variety, a god gem, if you will? Which is more likely?

If Honor has Honorblades, why don't Cultivation and Odium have their own blade variants, that grant access to the Old Magic or Voidbinding? Maybe even blades that combine Honor and Cultivation's power, giving one Surge and one "aspect" of Old Magic? Opinions, ideas, anyone?