Extesian

I dunno

One reason I'm really looking forward to it is I think willshapers will be one of the most interesting orders and we'll get to see Venli mad shaping wills yo. I feel like most or all of the flashbacks will include Venli from eshonai's perspective (reinforced by this) She will have no idea what's going on but we will and I think we'll find out a fair bit about Odium's plan that led to the Everstorm. I also think we'll get more stories from their mother which will teach us a lot about the Listeners and therefore about the False Desolation and Ba Ado Mishram. But yes most of all I look forward to more Songs and finding out much more about the history of humans on Roshar.

This thread is still going? Ha! Alright, gemstone archive edition (Oh merciful Austre this thread is in general - spoilers for OB below)

My belief is that when an Elantrian goes through the pool and into the cognitive realm, they are suddenly literally surrounded by investiture and they can draw on that to protect them from the CR/to complete their transformation. We do know its possible to survive. Hoid has done it. Secret history spoilers You just need mad protection

Autonomy, man. Freedom, man. I won't have The Man tell me what to do, man.

totally worth it

Better update my head canon as Ash may not have been alive before the exodus

Ha yeah i was in a random mood that day

Hmm recruiting? Does it? I use mobile so I admit I have no idea what a title is

Why y'all speaking pig latin

We'll see if anyone is old enough to get this

This was my head canon, that the Heralds were great leaders on Ashyn and magic users, and they were immortal from that magic (any magic powerful enough to break a planet could have immortality options). They then broke Ashyn, evacuated their people and set up in Shinovar. Kept leading their people against disgruntled Singers until Odium made them Fused. Then they went to Honor asking for the Herald gig. Fitted to me because of the references to Jes being a great king iirc and with the Heralds having powers not just from the Honorblades eg Taln's speed.

Morgan Freeman for M-Bot. Anything else is Folly.

So I'll post my wedding invitation here coz it's the first real ketek I've ever done and I had to have SOME Brandon reference there, obviously...

I couldn't disagree harder ever though I've never tried eggnog.

I certainly knew nothing about these things until the community cracked the mystery of the shape of Roshar. Then that made me read about it still don't understand it but fractals sure are pretty. The Cosmere. Is there anything it can't teach us.

The shape of the Rosharan continent is based on a slice of the Julia Set, a mathematical function. In this case a fractal. (Not that exact slice) My user pic is a different fractal, the Mandelbrot set. Stormlight spoilers for what is quantum mechanics based

The confirmation is Brandon saying its in a continuity with one of his novels, and the use of Cytonic technology. We don't really need more confirmation than that but if official confirmation comes from Brandon I'll let you know.

In that case I'll start with a spoiler that's only for the 17th chapter. The answer to which universe Skyward is set in. SPOILER for chapter 17

A common view is that they're hemalurgic spikes, which 'excise' parts of the spirit web. But I'll leave the medallion experts to explain more, it's my weak area.

I generally avoid this thread because it's less about realmatics than personalities, and because adolin is a nice guy who I don't find particularly interesting nor care much about, but that's a really boss post @Calderis . I'll have to think about whether i agree realmatically, but it's a cool way to look at it. I'm tentatively inclined to agree.

It's a question that had bothered me as well until we got an answer last year Odd answer though.