Jonathon

I've had the same issue in the past, and I don't know if any alternative method of contact. I eventually just gave up

The thing is resonances aren't just perks of Knight Radiant orders. They also occur on other planets with other magic systems (i.e. Wax and Wayne have resonances). Resonances are caused by interactions between dishardic magic systems, meaning when influence from more than one shard is present (KR surges have influences from both cultivation and honor; Wax and Wayne both have allomantic and feruchenical powers which are from preservation and ruin). IIRC Khriss makes a mention of resonances in... I think it was AU? I'm not sure on that one...

When your trigonometry teacher asks "Does anyone know how to describe compounding?" And you immediately think of Mistborn (and subsequently realize you were the only one in the room thinking of mistborn)

I suppose a major question which it seems was glanced over on this thread, is why (If the plains were shattered by a weapon or something, in perfect radial symmetry) was the Oathgate not affected? I mean, why is it the only part that breaks the symmetry? If it is just a building composed of rock and other such material, even if the building itself used magic to withstand the shattering, should not the ground underneath have fallen away regardless?

That is oddly specific... If that turns out to be even remotely accurate then I'll give you like... three whole high-fives

I like how we're all debating and guessing at what this mystery project is going to be, and saying that you're disappointed because there's no longer a possibility for it to be this thing or this other thing. I mean honestly, we're acting like we wouldn't all drop about $100 dollars even if it were a ten page short story written in pig Latin. But in all seriousness, I don't think it'll be anything cosmere related, just a novel that may be standalone, or may have a sequel in the future. Something like Rithmatist with how it came out a while ago, but still has no sequel.

What are winds of winter and doors of stone??

When you read Rick Riordan books and try to apply Realmatic theory to the gods and Demi-gods in his stories (currently reading the Trials of Apollo series; would recommend)

My one hundredth post: I have 100 rep! And along with that I get to be a house lord.... I'd like to purchase some atium?

Mistborn era one spoilers: im not saying I disagree with you it's just something else to think about

That's a very optimistic way to look at your pessimism in this scenario... then again who am I to judge. I'm probably the only idiot out here thinking that they're gonna be at the very least "decent". I mean, it is Sanderson work so it's sorta impossible to make it suck... probably...

Thanks for the corrections, Im not exactly very good at locating WoBs when I'm gathering info, so sometimes my logic is iffy at best. I agree that it feels wrong in a way for an order of the KR to have the ability to reverse whatever process the Bondsmiths did, but at the same time that's the only mention of the Bondsmiths doing something notable that can be called bonding and what else would the Releasers be releasing things from? Perhaps whatever the Bondsmiths did to the voidbringers was a power they already knew they had but they just had never thought to try it on beings before, and the Releasers have some kind of opposing power to them. After all it seems like the orders work with a tight balance around them. Whilst one order may be very strict about the law (skybreakers) another believes in staying true to yourself whether that's legal or not (lightweavers). Oh and in regards to their resonance I didn't think it would be right to start theorizing about that when we've never seen a dustbringer and don't fully know how their surges work (after all each order uses the surges differently -- i.e. Shallan's soulcasting compared to jasnah's) Also that post was literally something I threw together in my head and immediately posted so when you say "some of it may be spot on" we'll have to agree to disagree

So I was thinking about the orders of KR and what we don't know about them, and I just noticed a few things. Firstly i was reading the article about dustbringers on the coppermind and noticed that it said they called themselves the releasers (which I already knew) and hated when they were called dustbringers which was a name created for them by the public. That's the part I didn't know, I had assumed that they were just given that name or something but it turns out the only reason they were called Dustbringers is because the people likened them to voidbringers. The ACTUAL name of the order is the releasers. And that got me thinking. They're called the Releasers but what are they releasing? It made me think about how another order is called the Bondsmiths -- but what are they bonding? So along with this relation between these two orders -- one creating the bonds and one releasing them -- there's also the fact that we know that Brandon has said there's something weird going on with this order. Not only that but one of the only heralds we haven't found mention of is Chana, the dustbringer. We know that the surges of Releasers are Divison and Abrasion and we know this quote from the prelude But other than that we know very little about the Releasers and their powers. It is heavily implied from this quote that their abilities had something to do with fire and we already know what the surge of abrasion does so that leaves division to be the one creating this fire. What are they dividing though, where is this fire coming from? Well if you wanna be scientific about it, they could be dividing the molecules of people/things and thus creating a nuclear explosion making fire. Perhaps this is why people compare them to voidbringers -- because of destruction. This, however, is if we are thinking scientifically, and this is the cosmere so that's the opposite of what we want to do. We know that the cosmere has a third state of existence. Matter, energy and investiture. In our world you split matter to create energy through the reaction. But what if the dustbringers can use their surge of division to split the inherent investiture inside of a person? Or if they could perhaps separate the person and the investiture rather than just splitting it inside of them. I believe that this is why they are called Releasers because they can release a person or creature from investiture perhaps from a spren bond or, hmm... let's see... from an odium spren. Now we know that the bondsmiths did something to the voidbringers to make them into the parshmen so perhaps they bonded them to something to stop them from being able to change forms. The Releasers, as per the name, likely have the ability to release them from this bond and let them become the voidbringers once again. This last part probably will never be addressed however as the everstorm is doing that job anyway. This "theory" is really all over the place so I'm sorry about that I just made a few connections that I wanted to put out there before I forgot them so that they could be discussed. So who wants to discuss them with me?

And instead of complex libraries that they'd have to find and fight their way through, it would be complex legal bills and laws meant to slow them down

When you're still hopeful to become an allomancer, and assume you haven't snapped yet but then think about all the bad stuff in your life and think -- I definitely should've snapped by now

Renarin's the source of much speculation But all he wants is to be one who fits in Is Glys friend or foe? Will he fight toe to toe? When oathbringer comes we'll have a celebration People wonder if Adolin's a traitor They question the morals of his behavior But soon we will know The next book will show Is he evil, or everyone's savior? Members rallied for Aether of Night Behold the numbers, they're quite a sight But then many did leave Left the sharders to grieve But a few won't back down from the fight From the shard I took a long break But that break was really quite fake I lurked here and there Read some posts everywhere Now I'm back, knowing all that's at stake

If I am not mistaken, I believe that has been confirmed to refer to the bead of lerasium he took off of scadrial

Granted. You can now control all of the attractions at the animal kingdom in Disney World. Your bane is to always have a desire that you don't know the source of and can never quench. I wish for magic to be real on Earth

Don't post anything else!!! I'm gonna go find some of your old posts and give you rep so that you can get to 1337 at the same time as 1337!!

I have this working theory that literally every cremlingn we see in SA is in fact part of a sleepless. So, watch out for any correlation between cremlings and main events in the book to see if you agree

Now how can that be when I am CREATING theories and ideas and enlightening the way people think? I am spreading ideas amongst others I am cultivating their thoughts. Sometimes you reap, and sometimes you sow....

Ohh, don't you worry my friend, the next conspiracy will be dedicated to you After all, someone's gotta keep the balance around here... Just you wait

Check in for an edit on my conspiracy theory topic before you sign off for the night (unless I don't get to it until tomorrow)

@Calderis I have a very important question: Will you forgive me for inciting question upon question about you even being real due to my lackluster attempt to entertain you with a conspiracy theory?

Actually the high spren are the spren that bond to make people skybreakers. The cryptics, aka liespren, are the ones that shallan and elhokar see and possibly Gaz too, I'll have to re-read that section before I decide whether or not I believe he's seeing the same. But perhaps you are right and they're just there to watch people. We see their obsession with truths and knowing secrets in the first two books and they seem to keep appearing to characters who are near the action without always being part of it. Also they seem to appear to people near other radiants. Elhokar is near Dalinar and Renarin quite often so the cryptics could be monitoring the other radiants through Elhokar. And Gaz is near Kaladin a bunch at first and then once he leaves he joins up with Shallan who had the first cryptic to bond to a person since the recreance. Perhaps they wanted to see if pattern was alright and check if it was safe to bond with more people. After all if pattern has been bonded with shallan since childhood then that may be the very first instance of any spren-bond with a person since the recreance but we don't know for sure since we don't have any information on how long jasnah has been bonded with Ivory. This could show that the liespren are ambitious about trying to recreate their ranks of lightweavers so perhaps they'll be bonding more people very soon...