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I don’t know how to feel. While I do think that they need to expand the Star Wars Universe more since they erased from canon most of the things we knew(I’m still pissed about that), but I also think there’s just way too much going on with Star Wars. I mean, how are they going to do three storming trilogies at the same time. So, it would be cool to explore more the Disney SW universe, but I’m worried this may cause a decline in quality. I think we are better off staying with the Skywalker saga, and then have some spinoffs here and there, like Rogue One.

You know you are a Sanderfan when you and your History teacher instantly become best friends just because you both like Brandon

Welcome to the Shard! Hope you have a great time meeting us all and looking for theories and stuff. Regarding the Kelsier vs Kaladin thing, Kelsier would win, hand down. Maybe Kaladin when he is more experienced and has said more oaths. A more interesting fight would be Szeth vs Kelsier, pre WoR Szeth

I saw a WOB that said that the vessel’s personality influences the Shard’s intent, so I guess it’s the other way around, as long as the vessel remains under the main characteristic of the Shard. 

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Questioner

I was just wondering if a Shard's Intent can change over time without changing holders?

Brandon Sanderson

Without changing holders? The holder can have a slight effect on how the-- a big effect on how the Intent is interpreted, but what the Intent is stays the same. So it's gonna be filtered. The way it manifests can change, and you'll see that happening, but it is the same Intent. When it was broken off, it took a certain thing with it.

This also made me think that sometime, we’ll see a Shard like Odium changing holder, which would be really interesting, maybe Odium can actually be a good Shard depending on the vessel.

But, back to the topic, I don’t think Splinters can affect the holder, as it only has one part of the intent.

@Rider of Storms Well, I must admit I don’t have much proof, but it’s all that I can assume with the information that Brandon has given us. No one really knows much about Hoid, I think we won’t know much about him until Dragonsteel, and that is going to be in a very long time. Or I’ve also considered him trying to be Adonalsium. Something like what Sazed did with Ruin and Preservation.

I just thought about it, and it kind of seems like Hoid is collecting pieces of other shards, like lerasium, and breaths(which I think is part of Endowment’s power). He may also be in Roshar to get something like honorspren, or become a Radiant. I mean, is the only reason I can think of Hoid showing up in every Shardworld. Maybe if he joins pieces of every other Shard together, he can somehow restore Adonalsium or something.

Just as @Yata said, if we are only talking about skill using Steel, then yeah, Wax would win, I mean, he has practiced with it his entire life, while Kel and Vin only had like 2-3 years. But if the three were to fight, imo, Vin would come out on top.

I think that whenever they have sworn a certain amount of oaths, Radiants can make a certain type of spren make them a Shardplate. For example, Kaladin will be able to, at some point, tell the windspren to make a plate for him, then, whenever he doesn’t want it, the plate turns into windspren again. It’s just a theory, but I think it would be cool.

Because I’ve  already read a lot(thanks Tor, I love you) I’ll probably say I’ll finish it in two days, but I’d recommend to stay away from here until a week or so has passed.

Has anyone else noticed that all the main characters are taking a dark turn? I mean, Dalinar is kind of considering being the Blackthorn again, Shallan is going crazy, Kaladin is siding with the Voidbringers, Adolin killed Sadeas, etc. 

Wait, Amaram has fans?

8 minutes ago, Spoolofwhool said:

The joke would've been better if you had just said "dares to Elend into", because then we would've had to make the connection to venture, versus you just giving it to us. Makes the reader feel smarter.

You, sir, are the Lord of Puns and Jokes, could I be your apprentice?

2 hours ago, Purelake said:

Do any of you see any similarities between Nightblood and the Evil on Threnody? It's been a while since I've read the books, but I believe they are both described in terms of Black Smoke and Consuming Souls/Investiture.  Also, with Nightblood's command to "Destroy Evil" do you think there will be any long term confrontation?  I thought the question in the Oathbringer 5 Update Q&A thread asking if Nightblood had the same investiture now as when it was created was interesting (RAFO'd). If Nightblood is consuming and retaining investiture, and The Evil is doing the same (it seems to have gotten bigger to absorb the entire continent on Threnody), there seem to be some similar things going on. I wonder if there is a limit as to how powerful they can become. Thoughts/Help expanding upon?

It would be cool, but if my memory is right, the Evil was only mentioned in SfSitFoH, not described, I don't think any Threnodite dares to Elend Venture (see what I did there?) into the "Evil chunk" of Threnody

On 12/21/2016 at 2:34 PM, Drake Marshall said:

Granted. You are transformed into a massive maelstrom of energy. You are the size of a star, and burn with the intensity and power of a star... But instead of heat and light, you exude magic. Rather than being powered by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen, you are a manifestation of the very essence of energy. Anything that gets to close to you disintegrates into raw energy. Your distant light bestows unusually potent manifestations of magic upon all the planets in your orbit.

Your bane is that, also like a star, you are inanimate, and not at all sentient. You are simply a colossally powerful burst of pure magical energy. A wholly unreasoning piece of the natural world.

 

I wish for the return of all ten heralds in their full glory.

Well, you have me here

7 hours ago, Chasmfiend said:

1) You continually get hungry, and even if you eat, it doesn't fill you, but you cannot die from hunger. Your hunger will consume you.

2) All humans will forever stay away from you. They will never talk to you. You will never have friends. All good human contact has been taken from you.

Your bane:  You already have two. You don't get more.

 

I wish for two even worse banes than I gave.

1) All of the people you get near to will get a disease that will cause them to die in one month

2) The Nightwatcher will summon The Flash so he can travel back in time and KILL BRANDON SANDERSON! 

I wish to read Oathbringer!

On 12/14/2016 at 4:10 PM, Kynedath said:

Back in elementary school, I wrote a short story about a cyborg mushroom who had to save the forest from the trees. He had a giant lazer that could kill the trees in one shot, but there were so many of them that he had to get out his cybernetically implanted cell phone and call up the grim reaper to kill the rest of the trees. I also drew a picture for it. I "lost" that picture. And the story. And my pride.

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23 minutes ago, KnightRadiant said:

Pet chasmfiend. No one said it had to stay my pet.

Would you rather want to be able to have all of Brandon's vast Cosmere knowledge, but be unable to share it until the books are actually released, or be unable to get every book until two months after it's release date, but be able to understand every single reference and what it means?

The second option. That's what happens anyway, since I live in Mexico.

Would you rather meet Sazed or Jasnah?

16 minutes ago, The Quiet One said:

So does he write it the day before?

I suppose, I don't know

State of Sanderson is normally posted in December 19th, Brandon's birthday. OMG! It's in just two days! I'm most excited for Mistborn and Elantris

I think there is a limit in every investiture, if someone could just take all of the Stormlight in the world, it would be OP. I think of this because of Mistborn. Someone cannot digest unlimited metal, the only kind of investiture that I think doesn't have a limit is breaths

4 minutes ago, king of nowhere said:

When one of your coworkers enters into your office shouting "colors! colors!" and your first reaction is wondering if he's a nalthian worldhopper.

Alas, nothing so spectacular. As one of the enterprise chemists, I am in charge of preparing dyes under 5 grams of wheight, and so he was just asking me to make a color. Still, I tried to tell him about nalthis. I don't think I was much convincing, though.

Are you sure the guy wasn't Vasher in disguise again?

When you wake up in Monday and you look like a zombie and you tell your mom: "Mom! The Shaod got me! Take me to Elantris!

21 hours ago, SoulWeaver said:

That's a fascinating idea that Trell is a corrupted shard, or combination of shards. I would also submit that he is another whole shard/shards of Adonalsium (Shard of Chaos as opposite to Harmony possibly? i.e. Honor and Odium are opposites) or maybe he is from outside Adonalsium. Either another whole deific entity, or a shard of Adonalsium's opposite/counterpart. 

That would be a let down. I think Trell is Brandon's chance to introduce the Cosmere in Mistborn, I mean, he has introduced it, but not as much as in SA

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