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The original one was before we'd 'seen' Autonomy There's one that implicitly distinguishes the Shard without a planet from the Survival Shard but that's also before we 'saw' Autonomy

Ditto but my best guess is Connection- but to have access to Yolish magic. The question is whether you can spike powers out of a Yolish god-corpse...

The corpses themselves though are interesting

How d'you like them waffles?

When You're sick and a storm comes, and you run outside into it for half an hour to breathe in stormlight. It doesn't work. You're surprised and a little sad. You stare for a moment at someone you don't like, blink, imagine them being cooler, draw them and give them the picture. It doesn't work. You're surprised and a little sad. You get drunk on whisky with gold flakes while focusing on storing health. It feels like it's working. The next morning you tap the health. It doesn't work. You're surprised and a little sad. But mostly you wonder if you were wrong about a feruchemist being able to tap and store using metal they've swallowed. You see two twin kittens. You measure one. Nothing changes. You're surprised and a little sad. You run a fractal generator on your computer and at no point does it jump out of the screen, buzz at you and accuse you of probably killing it in the future. You're surprised and a little sad. Though much more interested in psychedelic art. You walk up to a closed door, say "Mellon!". It doesn't work. You're surprised and a little sad. Then you chuckle to yourself, remembering that was from Lord of the Rings, which OBVIOUSLY isn't real, and just burn steel instead. You delay helping your partner with her job application to finish a "You know you're a Sanderfan when...Part 2" post.

This Reddit WoB from yesterday isn't quite what you're asking but is something. Mainly posting it coz I usty saw it in my Reddit browse.

I did a theory on this a few months back. I think it's not a settled thing by any means but it may give background into what Calderis is arguing.

A Dr Strangelove-style suicide dive into Odium's perpendicularity with her mate Larky, one final adventure for old times, Rysn singing softly to Larky of the great Beyond while wielding Nightblood and wearing a suit of aluminum, until.. experience ends.

I figured all the Shatterers were originally friends, hence their involvement in the Shattering together. But I'd never seen that and it's a great one to highlight. And of course anything could be true for the original Vessels, but then being friends are one point makes sense to me.

You're probably thinking of the recent FAQ Friday where Brandon said the text will be clear about whether Taln is really Taln or not long before his book, he won't drag it out like he did in WoK Prime. But he doesn't say that will be confirmed in Oathbringer. You may of course be thinking of pine I haven't seen

The last one was the most compelling because it relates the two things (the rest could just imply at the time of White Sand). But I certainly agree it doesn't disprove anything, Brandon's warned us about takingthe exact wording of his WoBs too seriously and Khriss just may not know. So yeah while I think the evidence weighs against it being the cause of the 'policy' its definitely still possible. And until we know it's wrong I feel comfortable in liking it

@Calderis it's a lovely theory that immediately clicked as being sensible, but also as not quite matching particular things I've read. Here's a few of them. So I think you see what I'm getting at. everything about Autonomy, from three brief wording in AU to the WoBs is using present tense. The last one particularly uses present tense while talking about the isolation of Taldain, saying to me that the 'present' in that present tense is not White Sand says, but 'modern' Cosmere. Buuuut probably can't rule out Autonomy doing that sometime in the timeline, the way to tied in the Intent makes some sense. I just don't think it is the cause of the "policy of isolationism". So I like it, I feel the evidence says its not the case. And while I know that WoB, it has got me thinking again about other possibilities, like Endowment. But once again a nice, creative, enjoyable and upvoteable theory brother

Aluminum feruchemy stores identity. The idea of an unkeyed metalmind (and they are not my specialty) is if someone with aluminum and, say, gold feruchemy they can store their Identity in the aluminum metalmind, which makes them have no identity, and at the same time fill the gold metalmind. Because they have no identity while they do that, the gold metalmind is not keyed to a particular identity, which means any gold feruchemist can tap it. Edit - ninja'd by a better answer

I think the view on that is it's from an unpublished work - spoiler for Liar of Partinel ( first two chapters of which is available on his website) The problem with the lerasium idea is how did him stealing it make it worthless? Unless he just means it's now worthless to Scadrians.

Gotcha, that makes sense. It still feels realnatically wrong but then we're all like people trying to figure out Newtonian physics but have only been given 5 quotes from Principia. And given the mystery of how instantaneous travel can happen at all, it has sense

Kingkiller Chronicles A man takes 20 years to write a story about a man who needs 12 hours to prepare a story that takes 48 hours to tell and 500 hours to read.

@Roadwalker that's genius. Absolute genius. @Kered I... make it happen. Pleeze make it so.

Man this thread got long while I was asleep. And since I woke up. I’ll summarise my thoughts, and put in WoBs later if I need to. I think Pattern’s worries about being killed have more to do with Shallan almost severing her bond by repressing her memories as a child, but that action made Pattern scared she’d do it completely because of the past. I agree that Syl could have been Nahel-bonded in the past and not locked in Blade form. Firstly, her particular radiant could have died pre-Recreance but then the Recreance happened before she bonded again. Secondly, all orders (but one) took part, but does that mean that literally every radiant from those orders individually broke their oaths? Maybe not. As for the question of why the Stormfather survived, and why he refuses to be locked into shardblade form, I have a fairly simple (but hopefully realmatically sensible) answer The Stormfather has Connections flowing everywhere in Roshar, to people, to Honor, to…everywhere. This is what gives him omnipresence. Sure, that WoB indicates that the merging with Honor’s CS is a big part of those Connections, but I’m inclined to believe many of them existed before because he’s the storming Stormfather. And those Connections kept him alive when death could have been possible (or death was never possible simply because he was too Connected to other things to depend on the maintenance of the Oath for survival). I think that he doesn’t just want to avoid being a Blade because of the Recreance, he bonded before then but refused to become a Blade. I think he (and presumably the other super-spren) are so Connected to many things that they can’t, or would simply be foolish to, confine themselves to a single physical form. Similar to the way that once a Shard invests in a planet, they can’t just leave, they’re too connected to it.

Not on theoryland. Its from the Krakow signing

Here it is. I'll try respond to this thread more generally in a bit

@Calderis I think we imagine folding space the same way. Obviously it’s hard to compare the Cognitive Realm to anything in real life, and the analogy isn’t exact, but in the Cognitive Realm things between planets are so condensed as to be very close to it. You’re right though, it’s not exactly the same as folding space, where there’s zero space in between. And definitely a fair point on the Elend thing. That was the WoB I was thinking of but I hadn’t read it recently enough, that does sound like part of his physical form at least is entering the Spiritual Realm. I feel, though, that can’t be done simply for a physical person, that he may have partially entered it and glimpsed things from where he was, but that a) that’s a long way from entering it fully, and dropping back into the physical realm in another location, and that the amount of investiture required to get you fully into the Spiritual Realm would vaporize your body. Yeah Shards are in the Spiritual Realm but they don’t have a body any longer (sure, when the Vessel dies the body rematerializes but as a Shard, they have no body). So I don’t really disagree with anything on a grand scale, and for sure my ideas about physical interaction with the Spiritual Realm are not fully formed or all that evidence-based. And I still am happy to be proven wrong, and find out that all instantaneous travel involves bypassing space via the Spiritual Realm. It just still feels a bit realmatically wrong to me.

I knew the middle one but I'd never seen the other two. I.......disagree with the first. I think it's a misunderstanding, or most likely he just meant people travelling 'forward' in time in the sense of time dilation. I also don't believe the last one because of it's messed up nature for fiction, the whole paradox of if anyone will ever be able to go backwards in time, they one day will, which means that they already have, which means the present is too fungible. I'm really curious about those though. If I get the time I'll do a bunch of research and add them onto my Unmaking the canon thread. But yeah I would be completely shocked if Brandon allows backwards time travel in the Cosmere. Forwards, maybe - but I think it will be limited to time dilation.

Ah but @Calderis I missed the core of why I don't think Harmony would want to do that The whole idea, in my mind, of Preservation sacrificing himself was to ensure that Scadrians are Preservation to their core. He didn't just want people to be sapient like on other planets, he wanted them to be much more of preservation. That's why I can't see Sazed upsetting that balance and it makes more sense to me that he'd expel the extra Ruin elsewhere.