Extesian

Here's the rough transcript of the Oathbringer draft Prologue. And here is a ttanscript of an interlude involving an Ardent and a romance book.

Yeah Brandon gives a good description here

Maybe this is wrong but I'd thought about the realms in a pretty simple way. Physical is three dimension (I'm ignoring time here) hence the worlds are spherical, cognitive is two dimensions (hence flat), spiritual is in one dimension (I'm not certain on the last but it seems that way from descriptions of it). I think that's inherent and not a result of belief. I think once all people of all worlds know their planets are spherical it won't make the cognitive realm 3D.

Given Roshar (continent) is a slice of the Julia Set I have a notion that Adonalsium took a cooling planet and applied some kind of force to it, matching a Julia Set equation, as it was cooling. I'm no geologist, so whatever rock is formed when magma cools, that's what I'm guessing. as for crem, I'll just leave you with this.

Yeah the WoB was a few weeks ago and as soon as I saw it I figured tart was the asterix. The reason Honorblades are less efficient, because they used to draw directly from Honor but now he's splintered they need a heap of Stormlight to grant the Surges then even more to use them.

I don't think there's any hint of perpendicularities in Threnody other than Khriss' reference. She may be wrong about there being no stable one, but she seems confident. The origin of the unstable ones, who knows. I still think the investiture used to power them, however they form, may be the twisted chunks of Ambition's investiture though.

When this site goes offline for half an hour and I feel three years come off my life. (No, you guys do a Nobel-winning job, no complaints from this guy! I mean, it's true, but it's a price I'm happy to pay :))

This is an interesting idea, the Raymond E Feist model. We know that things people believe in (well, think about) manifest in the cognitive realm. We also know Autonomy hijacks religions and can even represent a whole pantheon of gods. So it's a legitimate question. Maybe some of the realmatic experts can weigh in on cognitive and spiritual aspects. I want to say no, that spren are different and Autonomy has other reasons. But it's a worthwhile idea (whether or not it's been posited before).

Eh I figured the topic meant I was confining it to Windrunners but fair clarification. I feel the WoBs together spell out pretty clearly that it's numbers as well as strength, I agree the second one is either not worded well or is too limited. But never bad to clarify these things.

I feel like there's many perpendicularities that form but only one 'Shardpool' per Shard. Elsecallers use perpendicularities to transport so I wouldn't be surprised if there are small perpendicularities, stable or temporary, that could form in places with high concentrations of investiture. But I think a Shard only has (or would only typically have) one Perpendicularity, at least per planet, based on this WoB. Thetext in bold is not conclusive but makes it sound like there is only one per Shard. Of course he could just be talking about a minimum ninety. I picture it as a Shard mostly being on other realms but their presence in the physical realm can only be in one physical place, and that's where the perpendicularity forms, so only one per Shard according to where they started investing in the physical realm. But then anywhere there are local intense manifestations of investiture they can form. Those are from a Shard's power but are not the Shardpool (I know it's not his term but it's useful to distinguish, if that idea is right).

Yeah we have this and I've never seen it contradicted The only other ones will be god metals and their alloys which, as Brandon days below, aren't really metals.

No stupid questions here Anything is possible but yeah the resonance (unique power their order gets from the combination of their two Surges) is strength of squires, where the Radiant enables others to power up a bit. So it makes the most sense that he is just a squire. There are also sources on this.

Quite right @Djarskublar, I had a brief brain fade with that part I think.

Just to emphasise to my Ardent friends out there, I don't predict the future! I study the past, I find patterns, I do complicated mathematical modeling and check models against past data, then apply my models to the most recent data to work out how much of a gap there would normally be between the most recent highstorm and the following one, adjusting for seasonal variations and current conditions. But predicting the future? No. That's a disgusting habit.

@Pagerunner I assume you have seen the megathread where this was originally discussed, theorized and confirmed? There's also this handy breakdown of the maths by @Argent I've spent a lot of time researching this, trying to understand the maths (I still don't really) and trying to figure out any symbolic or practical significance. To the point where my profile pic is a slice of the Mandelbrot Set, a related mathematical fractal. But I've come up with nothing. However I at least feel that it's also related to the cymatics that the cities are based on (presumably as the geography was formed by them). I'm no mathemagician but I do know they're quite separate mathematical functions. But a rough, uneducated feeling I have is around Adonalsium building Roshar through mathematical functions in the form of vibrations (have a swirling ball of molten rock, set to cool, apply massive vibrational force to cooling lava-ball, resulting continent matches applied function). The cymatic patterns are then (deliberately) smaller-scale vibrational patterns within the wider one. No idea if that makes mathematical sense. But it's the directing my mind went before I too realized I didn't have enough to post a theory from it. I don't think it has some meaningful purpose, that he specifically used a slice of that particular function. He mostly indicated that it was because he liked the look of it. But he did say that a lot of his planning is around mathematical functions and fractals, and that that does have some significance for understanding creation history, so that's why I feel it's about Adonalsium using maths to form planets. And the only way I could think of that 'working' is by vibrational force. Choosing the Julia set itself, I have my doubts that it's too meaningful.

There's a couple of WoBs on it I don't know if there's been anything about a difference if they're in physical form but it doesn't sound like it is a serious problem.

I must admit I'm the other way. The fact that a body "helps" may just be the language he used but I figure there is more to it. This WoB makes it sound like it: Knowing how to do it could just be getting yourself a body. But it sounds like more. And Returned always have bodies yet it sounds like the Scholars had to learn to.

Yeah I always thought Threnody was the likely one here. And I agree that First of the Sun is almost definitely not Shard-based. There are a couple of pretty firm WoBs on it (though not definitive).

Yeah the Poland signing had this I think it's simply about sDNA? We've been told before Hoid is essentially not human any more I'm guessing it would be the same answer about TLR and anyone else who has had vast changes to their sDNA.

It was asked in 2015 I think yes in the way @skaa said, that it relates to larkins and Nightblood. But yeah nothing definitive i could find.

Good catch Spool, I'd never seen that one. I didn't think the Worldhopper definition was decisive but that certainly is!

This is the main one I know I don't know of anything that says he doesn't have a Shard though, there's a lot of debate about it so I'd be surprised if there has been a WoB confirming our denying it. But very happy to be proven wrong if anyone can track one down.

I think it'll be about Bondsmiths which makes sense as it's Dalinar's book. So I think it'll relate to this or this I like to think the first one as Brandon has said we'll know what the Black Sphere does in this book and I think they're related. But maybe it's too early for that discovery and it'll be the second, relating to how the KR got their oaths.

This one

I feel sure I've seen a WoB saying there are only 16 other than god-metals and their alloys. I can't find it anywhere but I'm almost certain. But I wonder if it's possible for other metals to have allomantic effects on other worlds? I doubt it but it's the only option i can think of other than god metals.