Walin

Great to see a new person on the Shard! Have an upvote, and stay away from the cookies; they're Invested with Ruinous ingredients. I've read all the cosmere books and concur about what happens when there's no more content. It just feels like everything is boring again.

So this comes from someone reading one of my posts (which included "Wilsoooon!") in the Discord channel. It was saying a temporary goodbye to Calderis: "Caalddeeeris! (To the tune of 'Wilsooon!' by Tom Hanks)" They said that they misread it as Wilsoon, like Tensoon. I then said that Wilsoon was a kandra who formed into a volleyball on a deserted island for survival. No relation to Wilson, because this island was on Scadrial. Then, someone said "I would read that fanfic." So here it is. Wilsoon was hardly eighty years old, and had obtained permission for sea travel. The other kandra saw it a fitting first training assignment, to learn trade with foreigners. He had multiple optional objectives, but only one requirement: to trade for coppermind memories of the Survivor. This action was obviously much different than Wilsoon's other objectives, which were just continuations of his training as a kandra. He could choose to complete or just attempt any number of them, which was fine with him. He often had a habit of indifference to his studies, and had a preference towards more vague projects.Thus, he could put out however much effort he wanted, and call the goal achieved. In order to have a higher chance of success, the older Generations determined that a voyage by sea was necessary. Medallions that stored the Survivor's memory had once circulated in Northern Scadrial, according to rumor among the historians. However, those who found the memories most important--the inhabitants of the southern continent--would have taken better care of the memories, and kept more copies. For some reason, Wilsoon was not to have a mentor on this trip. He considered the frustration of his teachers, and had determined that they would rather be studying history in peace than to spend more time trying to explain things to him. They would choose this, even if the time spent would be on a quest to discover new knowledge: some that Harmony had declined to share. The briefcase Wilsoon carried contained his journal, clothing, a compass, and the assignment log. The kandra had sent him to the docks with a few coins and a general sailing ticket. It took him the better part of the day to find the ship he was supposed to board; there seemed to be more passengers there than would be expected on a merchant's ship. He supposed that one-way tourism was still popular, though he didn't know why. This is the first post of maybe some more; I'm splitting it up because I write slowly and would rather notify people that it's starting right now, rather than dump it all at once.

I'll sign up and edit in my name later. EDIT: My name will be Rennid, a man who has lived on Darkside long enough to know he likes Dayside better. His alibi says he's been working in the city for over three years, but it's actually two...Yeah that's it.

Well maybe Bendalloy Compounders can just produce medallions for the world. I think that makes it more powerful than just never having to eat again. Chromium Compounding would imo be best used when trying to escape people. Hide in the jungle, they’ll never find you. Hide in a sand desert, the wind will pick up. Hide in a city, doors will open. Etc etc

So this title is pretty clickbaity, but also a great description of what I'm trying to say. Kind of like "Net Neutrality" describes the topic, but is misleading on the surface. When those Scadrians develop rapid prototyping machines, they're going to invent selective laser sintering. Since the powder used in this process doesn't have to have to be as good for Allomantic ratios, and it's powder already I think that street Allomantic suppliers may try these instead of proper Allomantic flakes. Much like people nowadays buy cold medicine and try to isolate the active chemical which can be changed into the active ingredient for meth (very bad idea as it involves high temps and pressures, which is why meth labs explode), people will steal SLS powder from factories, and try to bake out the polymer binding out of it, and sell the left over "metal" (which includes metal and some waste) on the down low. This comes from me being in Engineering and learning about rapid prototyping right now. Not a super serious theory, so I'm putting a /w on it. (Since /s stands for "The preceding text was sarcastic," I made /w, which means "The preceding text was one of Walin's favorite type of theory, one that is partly a joke and partly a serious thought")

"Be Sharp." Then it would study and possibly become another Awakening Scholar. I want to have a sword smart enough to understand words with multiple definitions. So it would cut real well, but it can also cut to the point. And it's the sharpest knife in the drawer. This Sentient Awakened Object is going to be a pretty sweet sword. Hopefully it's actually smart and not just a pun master, because then it'll just meme poorly until it gets Investiture. But if it does get Investiture...hahahaha creator of puns we cannot dream of. Stab it through a dictionary, or just let it listen to an audio reading of a dictionary (if it can't destroy like Nightblood can). Then unleash it on your foes.

I think that since they have to admit things to themselves that they are hiding, then it might encourage insanity. Memory suppression is a way to cope, and without that, you could very well go insane. Also, if you have a dependency, it's very hard to break. So if you're dependent on coping, and you lose one form of it (like memory suppression) I think that you would develop a new coping mechanism real quickly. I think this is why Shallan develops her multiple personalities so quickly. So yeah, it's really probable that most Lightweavers have some unhealthy coping mechanism, which could include self harm. However, keep in mind that when Shallan stabbed herself, it was to observe the corrupted painspren, not to cope. And since Pattern is a younger Cryptic who hasn't bonded anyone yet, he probably doesn't recognize self harm as a possibly habitual thing. He just got worried because it was out of character for Shallan, according to him, because he didn't know why Shallan was doing it.

After getting some squires Kaladin found new hires But they didn't replace Bridge Four Because they got trapped near a door And the Windrunner escaped with some liars

I think, like the Thrill and Sja-anat, and even Re-Sephir, not all Unmade are bad. Since Odium has his influence back, this may change. It’s just that when left alone, they act how they want, which may be bad or not.

Ah; I thought you meant that the increased reaction speed comes from zinc, which they don’t have. To make this post not just a non-discussion reply, I’ll put my thoughts on the most powerful Compounder: Iron-Iron. They’d have a lot of weight to throw around, and if coming up against a steel or brass compounder, they could just pull the person past them, or even around them, like a gravitational assist. Except instead of “assist,” it’s “throw you miles away.” Also, they could do a self-destruct that takes out a city by slingshotting upwards, then tapping All The Weight and Pulling the city to them. Ultimate destruction.

No, they basically slow time around them; their body speeds up and their mind makes thoughts at the same speed as their body. In Shadows of Self, Bleeder stared at Wax incredulously when using steel, when he was moving at her speed. It’s just that you don’t get smarter; you just think faster. I’m not good at computer science, but I think it’s like this: steel decreases ping times, but zinc increases the amount of RAM available every ping. So zinc effectively speeds up pings (hence Brandon saying that you get a little bit of bullet time) but you can also perform much more complex functions as well (when Brandon said you can make intuitive leaps).

I think Moash will win the race to Replace Jezrien and Kaladin will be stuck at the lowly tier of Knight Radiant. That will up the Evil Herald count to either 2 or 3, depending on whether Ishar is delusional or a traitor. It would be cool if Kaladin just lopped off Moash’s limbs with his Shardblade and told him to apologize to Roshone or Elhokar’s Cognitive Shadow before he got Regrowth’ed with a fabrial or something.

Great theory. Is it confirmed that Nohadon was a Bondsmith? That would make the most sense, but as he said “Not all spren are as discerning as honorspren” may have indicated that he was a Windrunner. What surges did he use in the vision?

It definitely depends on the spren and Connection to society. I think that maybe if you come from some society with a completely different set of values, however, it may be different. Your Connection to it could make killing the hypothetical victim for a massive gain in life a good thing. However, the society would have to be large enough to get spren that share their worldview...so if it's small, you only have two edges to your tripod being removed. There's still that spren. If you have a spren that agrees with you though--you'd have a Nightblood on your side. Which I think can't happen with Windrunners; protecting is specific enough to not be subvert-able by different cultural values. Guess it's time for an Honorblade to do stuff like that

@ChaosI sometimes feel like some people get more upvotes than their posts warrant; for example I got 7 upvotes just for getting the first reaction thread up about the small site change. And the AKS thread was an upvote generator, as opposed to some other theory threads that got only a few upvotes. Though that's less of a problem with the upvote system and more of a me-being-picky-about-my-opinions sort of thing. So actually, that wasn't meant to be a complaint but more of a notification that I like short theory discussion with some upvotes rather than an ongoing thread with just a bunch of opinions being expressed for the course of eight years. But AKS was only a few weeks so I don't really have a problem with it.

I'm thinking that maybe one of the Dawnshards broke, or even got destroyed, and released a massive load of energy. Seeing the other theory/WOB that gemstones are made from Investiture, I think that if it can "bind any creature voidish or mortal" (much like the King's Drop) it probably has a big amount of Investiture. Perhaps it was an intentional thing by Honor during the Last Desolation to wipe out a large number of Voidbringers, seeing as the Heralds were getting weaker and the Voidbringers needed to be struck hard? Actually, I think any number of highly Invested people could have done it. But for now, I'm set on the theory that one or more Dawnshards got fractured or destroyed.

The doll seemed like an odd action. Maybe Hoid was trying to get rid of Investiture so the Voidbringers wouldn’t find him, but that doesn’t make much sense. I guess the girl he told the doll to “take care of” (in either a protective way or a guiding way) will be super plot central in the Cosmere later on...

Do you think the laundry lady could become a Radiant? I thought during the Interlude that if she was that traumatized by Shallash ripping a painting, that she could potentially be broken enough by it to bond a spren. Maybe she was already broken, depending on her reasoning for being so dedicated to laundry. The fighting in Urithiru during Part 5, full of stabbing wounds of higher-ups (more valuable clothing) was probably enough to break her if she wasn't already. Thoughts on whether this counts as being broken?

I haven’t been following this thread very much, but any accusation throwing seemed to be pretty passive (-aggressive?). As in “Hey you know, that’s a completely false interpretation of that passage.” Rather than, “You didn’t even read what you just quoted. I can’t trust shipping threads anymore.” Though given that the Shard is always that calm-ish, it has the same effect or worse than on reddit, where angermongering and trolls are expected. To me personally though, I think SLNC was expressing a strong opinion in an unharsh way; I’m referring to his post at the top of this page, since I haven’t read any more than about 6 pages tops on this thread and can’t say for sure about the other 33 unless I read them. There have been some far more flamey posts that haven’t antagonized me, but I’m not the same as anybody. Okay, to throw in my two cents to bring the thread back to KaladShallAdol—in/an/in: I think Shallan is probably best off alone for the gap between Oathbringer and Book Four. She’s way too unstable to commit to a relationship, and both Kaladin and Adolin aren’t good for her except platonically, imo. Once she stabilizes her personalities and maybe even speaks the Fifth Truth, then she might get one.

So did the change require an addition of code or a deletion of code (or deletion, with some added to fix resultant bugs) @Chaos?

I personally enjoy love triangles, but after the wedding I would much rather no love drama happens, however plausible. I'm glad that the dress color can be explained as a non-symbol.

Heh. There's always a loophole that can be exploited.

I see that we can only upvote now, and then retract that vote. Good thing! I've seen people take out their disagreement with downvoting, which, much like in reddit, is both an inappropriate and somewhat common response. The voting system is to appreciate how well-thought-out posts are, and occasionally to cheer a great idea. Taking the power to express anger via downvotes, I think, is a pretty good idea, for a number of reasons. 1-People who give factual information in a ship thread to disprove stuff won't get the heck downvoted out of them. I've never been a target of this, but I have seen it happen and it kind of discourages arguing against the crowd. 2-When people get a high number of "you got an upvote" messages, but few upvotes, it makes it seem like their post was polarizing and is getting a lot of hate (and support) for it. Again, this hasn't happened to me, but I know that people have left the Shard because of it. Now when this happens, it's shown that the reason is because many of the upvoters thought a post deserved, say, 5 upvotes, and are removing their upvotes to keep it at the level they want (not downvoting because they hate it). 3-I like lists. I'm putting a reason 3. I also like meta humor, which is why I put the last sentence. I also like to give context for my humor because much of it is cliche, and thus I put a legitimate reason for it, like the last sentence. I also like to follow the Rule Of Three, which is why I put the last sentence. I also like Excessively Long Jokes, which is why I put the last sentence and this one. I forgot why I was going to write this sentence. The preceding sentence was supposed to be different.

Whoops I upvoted and downvoted you right afterwards; I upvoted again, just explaining the "Two people upvoted you" message you probably got. I think that the Azish are more bureaucratic. At least, if we're counting what they're primarily known by. Vogons are known for rules and bad poetry, while the Azish are mostly known for rules. You could say that essay writing balances it out, but if we check the stuff people say about them, I think that essay writing is not part of what they're known for.