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  1. Andy92
    Honestly I wasn't a huge fan of the book (thought the pacing was too slow), but it's worth reading if you want to read all the Cosmere books. It's not a terrible book but I wouldn't say I loved reading it. For me, Stormlight and Mistborn were a lot better.
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    I think that's The Eleventh Metal.
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    I think the book is setting up for Ishar to be a main antagonist. Nale could potentially be one in a slightly different way, but I have a bad feeling about Ishar in general.
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    I wondered if this was what you meant when I ran across this yesterday. It's an interesting idea. Not sure how long gloryspren have been around though. It seems like each order has a certain type of lesser spren associated with them. Windrunners have windspren, Bondsmiths seem to have gloryspren. So it's hard to tell if they were a "new" kind of spren following Honor's death or not.
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    I think the Shardplate = a collection of lesser spren associated with each Order is pretty valid seeming.
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    Nah I'm just joking around. It's all good.
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    Or maybe the spren actually slipped into where his arm broke off.
  8. Andy92
    This was a very intimidating way to start this thread because right off the bat I worried about feeling stupid if I didn't understand the theory.
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    Elements

    Andy92 replied to Emily's topic in Cosmere Discussion

    It might be because the 16 metals on Scadrial are separated into 4 quadrants: Physical, Mental, Enhancement, and Temporal. I've seen some theories of this based around the 16 Shards as well, that they can be grouped into 4 sets of 4. Edit: To answer another one of your questions, Scadrial definitely is the planet associated with the number 16. This is because the planet was created by its two Shards and that number was modeled after the original 16 Shards.
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    It happens somewhere in part one of the book as well, I just can't remember exactly where. Remember people talking about it when the sample chapters were being released before the book came out.
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    I can see your reasoning here. The Parshendi would have been fully capable of governing themselves, but the parshmen definitely wouldn't have been. I still pictured his story to continue differently than it did after reading Edgedancer though. Not saying his story doesn't make any sense at all, just that it felt like a little bit of a disconnect at least to me Edit: @The One Who Connects I think this is what I was really looking for lol.
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    Technically it's not specifically mentioned this way if I recall. But if Nale knew the secret all along, why wouldn't he have been fighting for the Singers for the past handful of centuries since the Recreance? The book seems to imply he chooses to side with the Singers after the information is revealed that Roshar was their original home, and the humans were invaders. If he always knew this, why wait so long to help them?
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    This same thought crossed my mind. I didn't understand how he wasn't aware of the secret that caused the Recreance. Maybe that's the reason the Skybreakers never disbanded...but I find it difficult to believe that an entire order missed out on the Recreance to the degree they didn't know what even caused it.
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    I could see this as a more justifiable outcome if this is what he ends up doing. I understand what @Alderant is saying with Nale's reasoning (but Nale's reasoning hasn't always ended up in morally sound choices either). I'll be curious to see how has path as an advocate for the Singers is influenced with the Fused being in charge. I mainly hope that his future decisions don't end up being completely negative which is what made me start thinking about the ending of Edgedancer in the first place.
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    Does anyone else think Nale's story arc in Oathbringer kind of undermines what happens in Edgedancer? I personally thought the end of Edgedancer was really powerful in the way that Lift seems to get through to Nale. I knew Nale wasn't "fixed" at that point, but it was a big turning point for his character. In Oathbringer, Nale decides to side with the Parshendi. There's a lot of gray area in this book in regards to the human/Parshendi battles, but it's pretty clear that the Fused at least aren't up to much good. They're servants of Odium that inhabit the Parshendi, stealing their lives from them. When Nale makes the decision to fight for their cause, it feels...sad to me after the events of Edgedancer. I suppose he's not actively looking to kill budding Radiants anymore which is a plus. I wouldn't say I expected Nale to become some champion of the KR or anything, but did anyone else feel surprised about his actions in Oathbringer based on how Edgedancer ended?
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    This may be answered somewhere else, but I'd be curious to know if the rest of the Shards we don't know the names of are all on planets/places we haven't seen before, or if some are hiding out in places we've already heard of in the novels.
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    Unless if it's a metal that predates the original trilogy. We wouldn't have seen it in the text, but it would still classify as being "lost." But I still think the book is about Wayne losing his golden pocket watch.
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    Will Shallan and Adolin have a kid named Davilar?
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    @Farnsworth I saw some of the newer stuff uploaded to the 17th Shard Facebook page. Some of it was on Brandon Sanderson's Facebook page too.
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    My argument about the Lost Metal is that Atium just seems too obvious for a Sanderson book plot lol.
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    Thanks guys. Been wondering about that one for a bit.
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    I know this general topic has been discussed since OB came out, but I have a question about where the Surgebinding magic system originated. We learned from OB that the original humans on Roshar came from Ashyn, and these humans migrated after destroying their home world. The Recreance happened when the KR became fearful of destroying Roshar after learning their original home world was destroyed by powerful surges. Everything we know about Surgebinding on Roshar is that the surges are granted through a bond with a spren (except for the Honorblades). So my question is, do we know if there was Surgebinding taking place on Ashyn that didn't require a bond with a spren? If Surgebinding destroyed Ashyn, how did the magic system work there?
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    This is a pretty good idea. Makes reading Mistborn 2 and 3 really interesting when you're spotting Kel's interactions as you're reading through them.
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    It's easily Vader. I think Kylo Ren is the best part of the new trilogy, but that doesn't make him a better villain than the most iconic villain in the series.
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    I'm gonna spoiler tag all of this for the other books since this is a Stormlight forum.
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