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I think we'll get along just fine:) welcome!!

@Chinsukolo Well I really like it. I’ve never seen WoBs indicating that about Dominion (and I understand your definitional argument, though I think the Shard names don’t always 100% correspond to how their Intent actually plays out), but I haven’t seen Shard discussions on this - they were well before my time, perhaps I should look at coppermind more. I’ll try to find some. I wanted to say you’re a possible genius if you just came up with it yourself. But either way, I don’t often completely rethink how I see major things realmatically so kudos for raising a possibility that (after I played it through in my head) actually makes a lot of sense. That intra-planet regionalisation is due to the Shard even though inter-planet regionalisation is due to the CR. Good work. Another thing to add to my tentative head-canon. On the feruchemy aspects and so on, I think really the main difference would just be the role of Intent in the magic. Sel has a much stronger intent component than most other planets because of the investiture being trapped in the CR. Personally I don't think that would change feruchemy much, though you may be right that it could influence the cognitive metals. But I don't think it would have a big effect on the non-end-positive systems.

@Chinsukolo, I’m fascinated by this Dominion/location idea. Do you have any canon or WoB support for that? Or is it just you head-canon from what makes sense. Coz I don’t think I agree, I think the WoB below make it reasonably clear that the location-dependence is solely due to the Shards being trapped in the Cognitive Realm, which is location-dependent, unlike the Spiritual Realm, and that if that happened on any other planet with an end-positive magic system, that system would become regionalized, at least to the extent that you couldn’t’ use it on other planets (even if it’s not regionalized within the planet). Is your argument that on Sel the magic would be confined to the planet no matter what, but that Sel is then further regionalised within the planet because of Dominion? I find this idea fascinating, I’ve never seen it before. While I think the WoB are clear that confinement to the Cognitive Realm will cause the same end-positive limitations off-planet, perhaps you could have a point about localised regionalization. Perhaps the difference is that, because it’s about Connection, if the same thing happened on another planet, anyone Connected to the planet is fine (on-world), but maybe Dominion’s presence on Sel results in people being Connected only to their region, rather than the whole planet. I’m not convinced, but I’m very intrigued.

From the other thread So the Stormfather basically couldn't tell, it seems, before the second oath how compliant Gavilar was. The next oath is needed to bring Him enough into the cognitive realm. I have no doubt Amaram can be redeemed. But even that is subjective. There are people, and spren, that would regards his actions as ok anyway.

Agreed. Perhaps a Green Eggs and Ham cover. Spoilered for ridiculousness.

I think Calderis' reasoning is right. But I think it's more micro. I think it slows down everything, even cells and such, and if you slow yourself down too much your cells stop functioning. Here's a WoB explicitly on the limit if not the exact physiological mechanism

@Ammanas My favourite place to live has definitely been Prague. It’s the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen (and I’ve travelled a LOT) and I never got tired of walking past 800 year old castles, the sense of tolerance and freedom, the beer that is cheaper than water and arguably the best in the world, the Czechs’ love of nature and the lifestyle that comes from being able to drink and party in parks in summer, and in underground bunker pubs in winter. There are no cultural differences between the main Australian cities. I lived in Colorado (working at a ski resort) for a few months many years ago, and Americans have slightly different cultural aspects but are obviously very similar. The Czechs are fascinating. A very independent, free-thinking people (they’re the Bohemians the hippies took the word from), ultra-libertarian (not Ayn Ran libertarian but more nobody cares what you do if it doesn’t hurt someone else – a legacy also of generations of being under austro-hungarian/nazi/communist rule), they’re quite a closed people (my girlfriend is Czech but it was still hard to get to know Czechs there – it’s the flip side of the coolness of their libertarian nature). I do not know jai alai. Favourite dish is tough. Firstly I’m vegetarian now so my favourite dishes of the past are no longer in play. My favourite cuisines are Japanese/French (equal first), then Thai. @Calderis We all have superpowers. They’re regionalized. But you get tired of the same old tiny, deadly things. I had to go out of my way to go cage diving with great white sharks in South Africa, and open water diving with Bull Sharks in Fiji. Gimme big and deadly. @Toaster Retribution Do I like beavers? DO I LIKE BEAVERS? Yeah I stormin’ dig beavers. Civil Engineers with a bushy tail. If I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d date one. My favourite Cosmere character in terms of enjoyment is, without contest, Lightsong. If I were to ever be a hero, it would be along his lines. My favourite character in terms of development and moments of utter emotion is Kaladin. I get goosebumps thinking about the climactic moments with him. And in terms of curiosity, Hoid of course. How could it not be. @Shqueeves Depends on the pillows. One hard, or two very soft. It’s a constant problem for me. If I was a ferring, I would definitely choose the ability to store and tap neck-comfort.

Nightblood. Fully 3rd person limited.

I don't know of One but you may be thinking of this?

I agree and add to it the WoB i posted elsewhere That implies the Stormfather may not be as aware of what's going on in the Physical Realm as people may assume

Yeah I think the key is that it's an ideal. The other ones are oaths. Either watt that Machiavelli one shows that we can't, as readers, think that someone acts incompatibly with it and 'breaks' it or isn't bonded because of it. It seems to be very loose compared to the actual oaths of an order.

@Calderis But strangely I can't find a WoB on proto radiants. Anyway I think the Stormfather was instructed to share the visions with anyone he starts bonding with, and Gavilar was in that category. I think the first Oath has fixed wording but is quite flexible actually, hence the last one. And it's clear Gavilar does suit it notwithstanding the first Oath.

Welcome to the Shard! This is a really interesting post. I agree that its unlikely anything would work on a dead arm. I think realmatically, that arm is spiritually severed from the rest of the spirit web so spiking it wouldn't work. That said, if the arm is just severed from the rest of the spirit web, could the arm itself still have the SDNA necessary? Hmmm. Not to spike something out because that requires (as far as we know) the heart. The interesting one for me is severing a spike with a Shardblade. My feeling is that a spike has no individual identity so severing it isn't severing it's spirit web. Spikes can be split into smaller spikes and used I think, they're just not as effective. So I think it would still work. But that is an interesting point about what a spike is in the spiritual realm. I get the feeling there's an answer I haven't seen.

Oathbringer is the Bondsmith book so we'll find out plenty about them, and the existing ones. This EoB may enlighten I'm looking forward to the skybreakers. I want to know about dustbringers (who he elsewhere describes as 'really weird").

Now I'm past the 6 month mark, I've been here long enough for some people to know me but short enough that not many know me that well. So if anyone is interested, ask away For easy background, I'm 37, male, Australian (raised in Perth but live in Canberra), I recently lived in Prague for two years and I've been reading Brandon for a bit under two years (enough for one reread of the full Cosmere collection so far).

It's been a distracted couple of weeks for me Sadly we have to wait a year to see if my Stormfather prediction comes through for you! Meanwhile I predict that you overtake me by...mmmm...July 25.

Finally hit the 1000!

I will have the e-book arrive at midnight (and as I'm aussie I think it's before other countries?), read out voraciously without pause and then switch between that and the hardcopy until I finish. Then I'll read again and take notes. But my first read will be faaaast. I'm already storing zinc...

Happy Independence Day to my American friends out there! Enjoy your family, fireworks and freedom and think of those of us who remain under the brutal yoke of The Empire July the fourth be with you. *nods sagely

I don't think it's about Hoid. I think its about the spren. You'd have to be a pretty reckless spren to bond a dude that will almost definitely confine you to an agony cycle of half-death. This is the guy who will watch worlds burn to get what he wants.

There's also a WoB Edit - I only just noticed my reply was on a thread I haven't even looked at properly. It's a pretty good idea @Calderis. I hope you're wrong, I want Taln to be the perfect hero. But there's certainly some merit to it. I'm a bit doubtful because Taln was originally a PoV character, a demi-god going mad. But of course you're proposing the madness is what causes the betrayal so yeah, why not.

Actually he is only referenced, by Ais I don't believe anyone has figured out where the reference is. I certainly couldn't. Edit - sorry I read too quickly, I'm not sure about the graphic novel. That reference was to the prose.

It's some nice thinking, I had some similar theorizing at one point about skin color. However this thread discussed that and a WoB recently was a problem as Brandon said that the skin color differences was due to random genetic variation. As for the sun being invested by Autonomy rather than the planet, I speculatively agree. My theory was that the atmosphere is directly but we also know this So I'm a believer

Thanks for the input so far folks. I've added a section to the start for Cosmere terms, like Fullborn, that we use but are not actually canon so if anyone has an suggestions I can throw them in