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Thanks @Nathrangking, it's a good guess. I didn't think of that. We don't know how related greatshells and santhids are, or if they are a type of greatshell. They are smaller than the others we know of, such as Chasmfiends and Tai-na, but those do bond with spren, in away, with the gemhearts, so they must be aware of the spren around them.

I've wondered about that Santhid that Shallan Encounters. We've seen that Brandon hasn't told us everything about Greatshells and their gemhearts, and left the scene with the cremlings vague. There's a lot to find out about the fauna of Roshar. 1 - Why did the santhid choose to save Shallan? 2 - What is the relationship between santhids and greatshells? 3 - Are santhids actually a small kind of greatshell? 4 - Would santhids have the same kind of spren-bonds as greatshells? People wouldn't know, because they wouldn't have found any gemhearts because it's considered unlucky to hunt them. (Mraize, a seemingly high-ranking member of the Ghostbloods has a santhid scull in his collection. Maybe he would know?) 5 - How does the anatomy of a santhid work, because their tentacles I don’t think would work like a jellyfish’s. Perhaps it would move like a portuguese man o'war, but faster, and it would be able to steer with its fins. 6 - How intelligent are the greatshells? That santhid seemed very intelligent. 7 - How sentient are the spren bonded to greatshells? 8 - What do the spren get out the deal of binding with them, and how big are those spren, compared to the kind that lessens the effect of gravity? 9 - How do greatshells have gemhearts in the first place? They’d be pretty old, each one, if an actual gem that big forms inside of them, and if that’s how it works, what do they eat that gives them the minerals needed to form them?

@Tesh Kholin She was extremely embarrassed. By the way, how to you create the signature preferences?

@Meannadarie Haha! So many people have stolen his phone! My mom ran over one of his driveway lights.

I started with Elantris. It was, at the very instant I finished the last page, my favorite book. Every Sanderson book after that was then the most perfect book there could ever be. I've read SA thrice this year, and I've noticed that whenever you open up to a random page, there is always something interesting happening. Even during Kaladin's depression stages, Brandon pulls you on. Brandon Sanderson is amazing and there is no one here that shall ever disagree with me!!

Adolin will join the ghostbloods because, a, Shallan leaves him for Kal, b, Renarin gets all the attention even though he tries so hard to please is father, and c, because Navani dies and she was pretty much the only one who cared about him. Dun dun duuuuun.

I'm planning on doing an oil painting of thousands of arrows being sucked straight toward Kaladin's shield. I will use vivid colors and the "invisible lines" of the arrows will make Kal the exact focus of the artwork. It'll be a long project, but that's my favorite "image" in WoK.

Yah I have a hardcover. I've read WoR three times now, and the sleeve is all torn up. What's funny is when you bring it to school, and it won't fit in your backpack, so you have to carry it around and everyone comments about how big the book is. I'm doing a book report on it, and I am literally bringing a brick as a representation.

@Staphylococcus @maxal I can't relate to all that stuff about what characters/books you like/dislike. I just think that every single thing about Brandon's cosmere is absolutely perfect and amazing. I could not point out a single flaw if you asked me. Sorry for not being helpful 'bout that.

I don't think that Adolin will be a huge part of the archive, I'm just saying that he won't be pushed aside.

I don't think that he'll push Adolin aside. The readers don't notice him very much, but there's still a lot of story about him between the lines. I think Brandon will eventually make Adolin's hard life clearer to readers and characters, and If he did get rid of Adolin, it would be like making the promise of "this guy will have a big story" and breaking it. I've been listening to Writing Excuses, and one thing that Brandon and the others define as important in writing is that you cannot give the readers a tidbit of something and let it die off. It makes the readers confused. http://www.writingexcuses.com/

You will seriously not believe this - many people don't - but I read that in four days on audible. Double tasking and staying up late, of course.

You sure that it was cryptics? I may have missed something, but I thought that it was the influence of Odium, with the shadows in the corners of the king's eyes. Other rulers and characters have had that, I think, and Elokar mentioned that when Kaladin came, the shadows went away. Am I wrong?

Don't worry, ten Stormlight books are planned, and then Dragonsteel, and I wonder if Brandon will ever sneak Pinecone the cat in. He's never done cats, except the mentioning of lions.

Do you think that, in the future Stormlight Archive books, Adolin's efforts will become clearer? Anyway, @Jedal, I think that it's awesome that you can relate to spook so well. As readers, we want to be as amazing as those characters, want to be important. I branched off from that the wrong way. I've read books my whole life, and, being an optimist, I see the good things about trials and hidden pain. And that's not a good thing. I've grown up a privileged kid, not rich or anything, but still so much more privileged than so many people. As a bookworm from a young age, I saw all the tragic backgrounds of characters, saw how awesome they always always become, and I started wishing for terrible things to happen to me so that I could become as strong and experienced as them. Little did I know that most people that go through such hard things break down. The ones who were already strong enough to push through are the ones that become main characters. I'm one of those people that want to be different, and self-prescribe(wrong word I think) themselves with a whole bunch of different mental problems. I'd do that to make myself be more of a character, rather than simply a person. I probably have at least one small disorder, but that's beside the point. And then I start hating myself for how stupid that is, and than I keep on hating myself because that hate is a trial in and of itself, and then I realize that I'm thinking the same bratty way, and then I shut down, go blank and emotionless on the inside, to stop the turmult of spiraling thoughts. And then it starts all over again, in many different kinds of ways. (Sigh,) So, mostly I'll cover it up and just be happy. It's a problem that I can mostly ignore. I'll listen to audiobooks, ted talks, and podcasts so that I'm listening rather than thinking. It helps, and gives me motivation to simply read, write, draw, excercise, and work on my education. It's not all as bad as it seems. Back to the beginning, it's all just about how I think about things. When I do things I love, it brightens my mood and I don't get those stormcloud thoughts in the first place. So, my point apperantly is, in away, that my life is both chaotic and simply bright at the exact same time. (Those are both better than feeling nothing, though.) You were all talking about that kind of stuff . . . and I could relate . . . so yah . . . go Shallan. . . . (Embarrassed smile) I can't tell how I sound in this. Do I come across as one who has gone through a trial, or one who isn't prepared at all for the more tangent of life's difficulties? I, myself can't figure it out.

I'm 15; I don't really sell them, but I'm planning to. I'll be doing portraits of people's kids.

I'd guess I have most in common with Shallan, too. I've slightly curly red hair and freckles, I'm an artist, and I can go on and on about random facts of flora and fauna. In school I work best when the teachers use visual aspects. I can remember pictures better than most other things, besides random facts that have nothing to do with anything. In my own mind, I run through possible witty conversations, and when I type or write, I can come up with clever things to say, but when it comes to talking to people face-to-face, I go quiet. I do lie to myself, and that's a problem in my life. I know that all this might seem a bit too much like Shallan, but it is the truth. Here, I have proof of my artistic ability. I'll hide it in the spoiler. Don't look at it if you're going to be judging me for bragging. And it's sideways.

Very smartly noted. I remember reading that and only noting that an odd number was weird and Hoid's distaste for cremlings. I agree that he was vaguely referring to the seventeenth shard. Perhaps Hoid is going around, trying to uncover some secrets about it(, while remaining hidden from the seventeenth shard)? I remember him saying something like "There is little I don't know, but that little bit can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes." Also, somewhere online, someone said that you can catch Hoid using allomancy on Roshar. Can't find that. Could someone tell me about that?