Jonathon

If the cognitive realm represents how people perceive the world and objects and whatnot, why is water the only place for solid land (secret history) and just landmasses in general being completely different (the sea of beads in SA)? Especially if people are familiar with maps of the land

Goat! At the disco

Twenty One Goats

My Goat Romance

Fallout Goat

Imagine Goats

“Grab ‘em by the Goat”

”If at first you don’t succeed, goat, goat again”

”Every goat has a silver lining”

”A long time ago, in a goat far, far away...”

*If the smurphs were goats*

”Papa goat! Papa goat!” “What is it, Brainy Goat?” “Goats!”

Hunger Goats, Hunger Goats: Catching Fire, Hunger Goats MockingGoat

“Et tu, Goat?” ~~Julius Caesar 

“You’re like a Goat in a minefield!”

Who you gonna call? Goat Busters!

*at an AA meeting* “Hi my name is Steve and I’m a Goat” 

I think I’ll stop now...

2 hours ago, Extesian said:

Mmmmm questionable out of context screengrab.

Mmmmm lies...

4 hours ago, Calderis said:

It is taken as a given at this point that Shardplate is composed of lesser Spren. Anyone who's spent any time in the OB channel on Discord recently is well aware that I have an issue with this. So I want to put together all of the options as I see them for Shardplate, and the problems with each. 

I’m sorry this is off topic, but I keep seeing people mention the discord... how would I go about finding a link to join? 

3 hours ago, Calderis said:

You misunderstand. 

If a nicrosil compounder holds any medallion that grants any power, they can store that power for a moment, and then burn that to make their own storage keyed to them. 

In the upcoming era of comodified powers via medallions, a nicrosil compounder, or even a Ferring if it can find a nicroburst medallion, needs only hold each individual power for a few seconds in order to gain that power permanently. 

They wouldn't gain them all at the in the same moment, but eventually as long as they have nicrosil for personal storage, they can make their own Bands, keyed to them. 

It's a perfectly valid concern. 

Perhaps this is how there’s gonna be “mistborn” in Era 3...

16 hours ago, Tesh said:

Brilliant!

I'm going to do some with the symbols of the planets, the Cosmere, and some aons. I've already done the orders of the Knights Radiant. I did post it on here several pages ago.

Note: I TRACED ALL OF THESE! I DID NOT FREEHAND! Or safehand. Fortunately.

Woahh those are amazing!! And even if you didn't freehand that doesn't make it less impressive. Some of us (totally not referencing myself. Totally) can't even draw properly when we trace 

When doctors suck and don't know how to diagnose my illness so I decide that it's from Ashyn and I just haven't figured out how to use my powers yet

I'd reccomend the Zodiac Series, by Romina Russell. It's a four book finished series and I really enjoyed it, and I bet you will too. 

10 hours ago, Tesh said:

*applauds* That was beautiful!

Thanks!  

Normally random stuff like that just sorta pops into my head and so I roll with it. *starts mumbling about frosty the snowman*

Is the shard that "just wants to survive" something along the lines of Understanding?

When you change the words of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer to Kaladin the stormblessed bridgeman:

(possible spoilers?)

16 hours ago, Vissy said:

1) The Shards have discovered the STC source code for Facebook. Show us some of their status updates.

57 minutes ago, Calderis said:

 

Edit: and the third ideal bit kills it too. Taravangian isn't going to change his methods. He believes that the humans cannot beat Odium. The Diagram is right and he must make any sacrifice necessary in order to insure humanity survives. 

In his viewpoint, everything is going as it should. There's no reason to change. 

This may be true about the third ideal but only as Dalinar spoke it. We already know that the oaths leave room for interpretation, however since there are only three bondsmiths and their order seems to be so unique what if each Godspren has slightly different oaths the proto-radiant must swear to bond it?

15 hours ago, Dlyol said:

Dark One has been moved out of the cosmere according to this years State of the Sanderson https://brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2017/

 

My bad I hadn't realized that  

So this is theory is just completely out there and a wild guess without much evidence to go on.  Basically I theorize that "What If Obrodai is the planet where Dark One takes place?". We don't know much about Dark One other than that it's cosmere and the main character is destined to destroy the world.  Based on the evidence from the second letter Obrodai is a shardworld or at least has a splinter of a shard/shardic presence. Due to its correlation with a shard that makes it a candidate for future books and stories and I really don't have anymore evidence than that. It's mostly just intuition honestly, not really a true theory.

Well let me know what you think, and if you have any counter arguments or other ideas to add.

39 Willshaper

39 Skybreaker

29 Elsecaller

29 Lightweaver

28 Dustbringer

Silver

The real problem is that the Spren can't leave Roshar so what will happen the next time Hoid worldhops?

When you stare at the blank pages at the end of Oathbringer thirsting for more and hoping that an extra chapter will just magically appear there... it didn't work

When your at the ER and the first way you think of to describe the feelings of your asthma/lung issues, is by relating it to desolations and how this most recent one is different from all the others somehow, but you aren't quite sure why or in what way...

I agree with you and think that the surges can be pushed and pulled, however my theory is that since multiple orders can use each surge they can only either push or pull on their specific surges

When you're in a C++ class at school, and you finish your code earlier so you sneak onto the shard to peruse the news...

Honestly I just chocked it up to a sort of cliche that lots of authors do. You see things like this in many books where there's an animal/being that is "bonded" or connected to characters in one way or another and more often than not it seems that the gender relationship between the human and the spren (or other such creature) is inverse. One big example of this is Phillip Pullmans His Dark Materials series where people have dæmons that are 90% of the time the opposite gender. I've personally just chocked this up to a reference to psychology. More specifically theories from Freud and his student Carl Jeung about how all people have either an anima or an animus inside them that is essentially their spirit animal. Jeung said that males had an anima (female) and females had an animus (male). 

1 hour ago, The One Who Connects said:

It's actually from having multiple powers, irrespective of what Shards they are "from." The powers themselves aren't actually of any of the Shards.

You would have a resonance from having two Allomantic Powers too.

Ah, my bad it's been a few months since I've read some cosmere so my memory isn't at its finest. Thank you for the correction, and here's a free upvote!  

2 hours ago, Toaster Retribution said:

Don't know if anyone else is aware, since Boss Monster: the next level is a couple of years old, but I didn't know about it until I played it with a friend today. I was looking through the cards and found a hero named Branadin Wordblessed, who wore a mistcloak, was floating and glowing, and holding a spear. His character description had him travelling between planets, referenced copper, and said that he only stopped writing when fighting evil. I happily told my friend that Sanderson was in the game (my friend has read the first two Mistborn, but he paused before the third to read Twilight, because he wants to know how bad it really is). 

I also discovered George RR Martin (Ser Mortin the Deadly, dangerous at weddings) and Patrick Rothfuss (Wrathfuss the Namer, who knows names).

For those of us uncultured people would you mind explaining what exactly Boss Monster is?

2 hours ago, I am Witless said:

Granted, but using everything except the pure alloys makes you gassy every time you burn a metal.

I wish that I could pay attention and finish my college application essays.

Granted, but you forget to send them all in

I wish I wasn't such a bad person