Borio Singaldi

So I don't exactly know the quote word-for-word, and it was actually Wax quoting Wayne, but it goes something like this: "Until you know for sure, pretend like every girl you know has an older brother who's bigger and stronger than you." I think that's so sweet and honorable of him.

No need to apologize, you were simply offering your contrary opinion and broadening the perspective. Thank you for your thoughts on the matter; they have been noted. I'd been skirting around those topics, anyway, and they needed to be said. I'd considered that ettmetal's explosive effects would only come from water, and that stomach acid wouldn't work, but I wanted to avoid that thought for the sake of a good theory. And the metal coating needing to be liquid at one point... honestly, I never thought of that.

"If at first you don't succeed: try, try again." I would apply this to the cosmere movies. If they turn out bad, what's the harm of giving them another shot with better chances?

I've done something like this before, but with existing metals. I have a list of my own made-up metals somewhere else.

Dude. Just don't.

How exactly do we know Nazrilof is his real name?

Yup. She's the master of these. I wish I was as good at them as her...

@Tesh, that is very well done.

YEEAAAH! I got what you did there.

When you fit all of the cosmere novels your family owns onto the bookshelf right next to your bed. Yep, I only have nine, but with Oathvember coming up, I guess you can say I'll have TenSoon.

GAH! You're right, it does! ERROR. CANNOT COMPUTE. CANNOT COMPUTE. And I thought the "Hoid" faces stumped me. I'm starting to think this might be a lost cause and that I should apologize for wasting all of y'all's time. We'll see.

Taravangian, because he's less likely to try assassinating the bride. Who's more likely to browse dank memes all day: Adien or Bluefingers?

For some reason, the link isn't taking me to any question; just a blank page. I actually once asked about who wrote the covers once, too, but I already thought I knew who it was. It's the first theory in my signature, and its title is pretty self-explanatory.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed them (and read the book beforehand)!

Same. That's where I did my studying... for my chapter headings theory. Though I got lunch in the meantime. And you should too, because food is kind of essential to the human body. Anyway: You know you're a Sanderfan when you keep the tab with the info on the Black Piper's Kaladin album just so you can listen to the song previews over and over and over again. When you freakin' live on Scadrial for a day. (Because of recent wildfires billowing smoke in the sky where I live, there was one morning where the sun was red when it rose. I kept inwardly screaming "SCADRIAL!!!") When you compare a beautiful sunset to the cover art for WoK and WoR. When you constantly check the Coppermind at school just because you can. When you spend more time Sharding than doing homework, even though it's your senior year.

Okay, memefication has had to take another looong pause, as I was on vacation for the past while, the site I use was down for a while, and school has started for me with a vengeance. Also, Homecoming a ton of yardwork. Sorry yet again for the delay. This is probably going to become a permanent thing. Anyway, on Chapter 3... Hope you enjoy it! And I hope this doesn't count as thread necro! 'Cause there will be more of these...

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I'll go with saying yes. We see four Herald faces in each chapter heading, but I'm counting them in their pairs, so it's two numbers per chapter.

Okay, here's what I have of the first three parts of WoK and the interludes up to part four. I numbered it with Jezrien as 1, Nale as 2, and up to Taln as 9 and Ishar as 0. The "Hoid" appearances have been labeled as a question mark, since I'm already using Ishar for 0: 112244339955990055224411??88661?3118134994771444248?403127919415775522 When I do parts four and five, I'll add those on.

Oh, that's right! I forgot to mention that! As I was looking through WoK I found a wild card the Ishikk interlude -- a totally unfamiliar face that's not associated with any Herald. It's some smiley guy who looks like he's wearing a mask and a tri-cornered hat. And he keeps on appearing throughout the headings. I honestly don't know what to do about that.

Gah, you beat me to it. Or maybe I could follow the other pattern and see which of us has better results. Which pattern did you use? 1-0 or 0-9? I've been doing 1-0.

Well, to be honest, I don't really understand codebreaking, programming, etc., so I have no idea what "K-Z" means. Perhaps "pattern" would have been a better term for me to use than "code". I just think that with a series of ten one-digit numbers, there might be a pattern to it, but I'm too ignorant to know what.

You make a very good point there. (Unless maybe the ettmetal was also a really tiny flake, but who knows?) And while it could still be done for a Thug making a pewter drag... That makes pewter dragging virtually unnecessary. Another good point. Well, if it works, I suppose there could be some super devoted members of the Set or related groups willing to sacrifice themselves by doing that. But too bad for hoping for an assassination attempt with it. That's the thing: While I'm sure ettmetal may has an Allomantic capability and can be burned, its reaction to liquids would make it virtually impossible to find a safe way to do so. Or... what if its temperature was altered enough so that it didn't explode on contact? Meh, I suppose we'll see at some point.

I may not be the first person to mention this, but I suspect there might be a pattern of sorts going on in the chapter headings of each Stormlight book. We know from experience with multiple Sanderson books that the epigraphs before the start of the chapters play into the story, but in a very broad sense in that they don't make sense until either the book or even multiple books are completed. This occurred with Mistborn, and I believe that may be the case with the Stormlight Archive with the symbols of the Heralds in the arches at the head of each chapter. I believe there is a deeper meaning to them we have yet to understand, and I want to try to figure it out. Help with this theory would be very much appreciated. What we know: The ten Heralds each have a number and a Soulcasting Essence dedicated to their name in Vorinism (i.e. the number Jes for Jezrien, which represents 1, or the number Nan for Nale, which represents 2). The Heralds all have known symbols of their faces associated with the symbol of the Knights Radiant, and those faces appear multiple times on each chapter heading. Each time, there are two sets of faces on the archways, sometimes the same face four times and sometimes two different faces occurring twice. There has been a previous example of a cryptic message being hidden in a series of numbers in the Stormlight Archive, that being Taravangian's Diagram message written in a series of numbers that translates into What I'm wondering is: What if those Herald faces (and their associated numbers) are a long list of numbers written as a form of code that extends across either each book or the entire Archive? And if so, what could it translate into? What super important message could we get out of it? Now, I did find a few flaws with this theory, originally. If the Heraldic numbers go from 1 to 10, wouldn't that be confusing as a code form, since the lettering in codes works in single digits, namely 0 through 9. So what I'm thinking is either we could mark down the implied numbers from each chapter headings as Jes - 0 Nan - 1 Chach - 2 Vev - 3 Palah - 4 Shash - 5 Betab - 6 Kak - 7 Tanat - 8 Ishi - 9 or Jes - 1 Nan - 2 Chach - 3 Vev - 4 Palah - 5 Shash - 6 Betab - 7 Kak - 8 Tanat - 9 Ishi - 0 Who knows? Maybe it leads to some grand, complicated message with monumental importance to the Stormlight Archive or even the Cosmere as a whole. Or maybe this is all a dud, and there's no secret meaning to the Herald faces in the chapter headings, and I've been wasting my time. Either way, I would love to have some help with figuring this all out, since I don't really have the requisite time to do so. Thanks!

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but it occurred to me that it might be possible to ingest ettmetal. Like, if you completely coated it in a specific metal that would be suitable to an Allomancer (i.e. tin for Tineyes and pewter for Thugs) and then got them to swallow and burn the metal? Then once that metal is completely burned away, then the ettmetal is all that remains in the stomach, and its natural reaction to liquids -- in this case, the stomach juices -- causes it to explode while inside the person's body, effectively killing them. This may be done discreetly by one person to another as an assassination or intentionally to oneself as a self-sacrifice. In short, ettmetal could be used like an Allomantic cyanide pill. How likely of a possibility to y'all think that is?

Yes, I understand that. I was just mentioning that Inkspren are one of the nine known types of true spren, seeing as it hadn't been mentioned before. What Inkspren could mean, though...? Maybe writing? Just like with lying (as in Liespren/Cryptics), writing isn't a natural law of the world, but it is something that exists as a result of human interaction.