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I love this interpretation! A lot of people seem to be thinking this refers to Shalash, but this makes a lot of sense too. Syl is an honor Spren, so there’s an obvious connection to the wind. She’s also considered almost royal in Shadesmar, so that kind of connects to the king part. Maybe it’s stretching it a little, but it’s an awesome and original idea.

A five course meal with Amaram. I’m hungry right now, plus I could give him the evil eye for the whole dinner. Would you rather be forced to spend a month in Patji but with Dusk as your guide, or spend 20 minutes alone in a vision with Odium, no saying what he will or won’t do?

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I want to see Shallan burn. I’m sorry, but it’s true. In OB, I felt like her character arc was a big circle, and she just goes round and round, not making any progress. I didn’t feel like that in WoR. She had a decent amount of development considering her screen time and reached an important milestone by the end. But as everyone else on the forum has been pointing out, Shallan doesn’t go much of anywhere in OB. We get all these developments like Wits advice and her growing instability, but at the end she decides to play it safe. Sure, she decides to stop forming new personas, but that’s like a baby step. Sanderson made it seem like some huge accomplishment, but i feel like it’s not huge enough to justify all the tension in Shallans POVs, which just happen to dissipate magically at the end. Shallan gets a happy ending without having earned it in my opinion. She’s still lying SOOO much though there are hints that she’ll work on her problems more with Adolin in the future. Honestly, I want Shallans world to fall around her. I want her lies to disintegrate in her hands around her and have her true self revealed to the world. I realize that she’s had a traumatic past, but in OB it feels like everything falls into place for Shallan and gets everything she wants. In order to redeem her character I just want her nice little world to explode around her. IMO, if Shallan is going to overcome her problems, she’ll first need to lose everything. Since she’s not going to confront her inner struggle, something drastic will have to force herself to. Well, I’m done rambling. Just to be clear, I don’t hate Shallan. I just feel like she’ll need to really suffer in order to get past her obstacles.

After this comment, I get the sudden feeling that my question contained all the possible answers and now nobody else has much to add . Thank you for the answer though @King Cole. I wasn’t sure about how breath worked. Ah I didn’t see you omniforce. I wonder how I forgot about gold compounding. So obvious that I was oblivious to it, I suppose

I think they could, but I’m not always the best with these kinds of questions, so I’ll leave it to the experts. Obviously, fullborn have access to an infinite supply of oxygen and heat as long as they have metals. My main concern is that if the lungs are full of air they’d burst and the fullborn would die. I’m not sure if compounding breath means filling the lungs with air, or simply bypassing the lungs and oxygenating the blood directly. If it’s the latter, a fullborn could avoid bursting lungs by breathing out all the air in the lungs before venturing into space. However, air accumulates in the digestive tract as well, so I don’t know if anything else might burst or not. Also, I get the feeling that there are adverse effects to having oxygen streaming out of your body due to gas exchange, even if the oxygen is constantly being replaced. I don’t know what any of the effects this might have are, though. I wonder if compounding weight would prevent oxygen from escaping the body since it has to increase density to prevent the body from collapsing... Thoughts, ideas, opinions?

This has actually been discussed before, @Weux082690. Still, good ideas

If you’re doing comedy at all, I’d reccomend some of Lightsongs scenes with Blushweaver. And Wayne’s POVs are always great, especially when he acts as Professor Hanlanaze to get into the party in SoS, and when he tells Ranette a last goodbye in BoM. By the way, Merry Christmas y’all.

Sixth of the Dusk was actually brainstormed during Season 8: Episode 16 of Writing Excuses in 2013, and wasn’t built into the original Cosmere plan. Warbreaker was published 4 years before that, so the connection you found was probably coincidental.

My thought is maybe some of them are connected to inspired by Sanderson works, but definitely not all of them. -Graves was released in 2011, three years before WoR, so likely the name is just a coincidence. -It’s generally agreed by fans that Talon was drawn from Assassins creed and Thief games. I can’t find specific source confirming it, so maybe he could be based on Mistborn, but it doesn’t seem likely. The other ones seem to work though. Ashe was released in 2009, Shen in 2010, and Illaoi in 2015. Also, there’s a hero called Azir, so that could be another connection. Most of the heroes in LoL are intended to allude to other video games, movies, books, and myths, so it is entirely possible that one of the developers is a Sanderson fan. Thank you for bringing it up @Matt O because I would never have noticed it myself.

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Dear God, it’s amazing. Even after listening to the samples a few months back, I was in no way prepared how awesome the entire album turned out. Each piece was like reliving parts of the book, and I could see the story playing out in my mind. I’ll be honest, it made me hyped for a movie (I don’t care if the logistics make it seem impossible to make a good one; I have hope). My personal favorite piece was The Assassin in White. It was the perfect combination of menacing, sorrowful, and suspenseful. Every time the music gapped before crescendoing into the next part, I imagined Szeth breathing in stormlight. And the drums! Anyways, I loved it. Feel free to comment or share your favorite song if you’ve listened to it. And if you haven’t bought it yet, I HIGHLY recommend it.

I feel like whenever the Lord Ruler is involved, there’s no debate. It’s stupidly difficult to top him. No other splinters are equal in pure power (unless you count Kelsier, who is basically a second LR), so unless his opponent is a Shard, the Lord Ruler is almost guaranteed to win.

You should totally do some themed foods for men vs women in Alethkar. I don't have my copy of WoK and WoR with me right now, but I thought I remember some descriptions of soups. I don't know if any details were included other than that the women's were sweet and the men's were spicy.

Do you need to buy the 10th anniversary edition to read the scene or is there a version online? I checked Sanderson's website but didn't see it there.

Well the spoiler was about another worldhopper people spotted, so I don't get the joy of discovering them myself . Thankfully it wasn't anything super relevant to the plot.

We don't know if reincarnation occurs anywhere other than on Nalthis, but I doubt the evil kandra or whatever it was was talking about reincarnation. In my opinion, I think the most likely meaning is that Suit would serve Trell by becoming a cognitive shadow. The fact that the kandra used the term "realm" is a good indication that it was discussing the cognitive realm, and we've seen its possible for cognitive shadows to form on Scadrial in SH. As for how Suit would become a cognitive shadow, we can only speculate. The process could be similar to what happened to Kelsier, so maybe Suit could be exposed to Harmonys perpendicularity. But that would bind Suit to the pool, so I don't know how he could serve Trell. And there's always the possibility that Trell could have formed a shard pool, though it's unlikely he's been on Scadeial long enough to do so. Anyways its mostly speculation at this point.

NOOOOOOO!!! I visited Extesians account and accidentally saw an Oathbringer spoiler while perusing the topics of discussions he's been in. My life is in shambles...

Yeah, you'd accelerate constantly if you lashed yourself while removing friction. You could basically travel from one end of Roshar to the other in a matter of an hour or two. The only problem would be decelerating. I can't imagine it's easy to stop moving when you're moving at several times the speed of sound.

I'm not trying to say Surgebinding isn't extremely powerful, possibly more powerful than allomancy. I also know that there's a lot about surgebinding we don't know about yet. I just think that the metallic arts feel more scientific in that even though you think you know everything about the system, you really don't. At the beginning of Mistborn, we thought there were only 10 metals, and only later realized that there were more metals we didn't know about. And even after we knew what all the metals did in feruchemy, we're learning about duralumin and nicrosil in BoM. On Scadrial, it feel like there's been a continual process of discovering how the metallic arts work. In surgebinding, meanwhile, everything has been discovered already. Not in the books, but at sometime in Roshars past, the abilities of surgebindging were better known. Instead of being a continual process of self discovery, there's a cycle involved; everything that the characters learn has probably already been learned before. We don't know exactly what each Surge does, but once we learn what it does, I feel like there wont be more to discover. Maybe my impression is wrong because we're so early in the Stormlight Archive series, but I just feel like allomancy and feruchemy is a better parallel to scientific discovery than Surgebinding is, and that's why I prefer the Metallic arts to Rosharan magic. I don't think I got my point across very well in my last post and hopefully I explained myself better.

Mistborn because allomancy rocks. The most fascinating part about the system is how similar it is too actual science. You have to discover exactly what the limits and capabilities of each metal as well as how they work in unison. Discovery is central to allomancy and feruchemy, even though we know a lot about it already. There's always another secret. Surgebinding, on the other hand, feels more spelled out. Each surgebinding has only 2 or 3 specific ways it can be used. For example, the Surge of Gravitation allows you to use only either a Basic Lashing, Reverse lashing or a full lashing. Although these abilities can have interesting applications to them, we know precisely what they can do and their doesn't appear to be any secrets about the abilities. Plus, as others have pointed out, becoming a surgebinder binds you to your oaths.

This is actually reminds me of a question I had. What are the limits of a steeldancer as opposed to a normal steel compounder. Even though the former is not limited by friction, my understanding of feruchemy is that there is an investiture cost to compress an attribute, so eventually you'll reach a point where you can no longer go any faster. Does anyone have a idea what this difference is between this limitation and the limitation of normal friction? In other words, how fast could a steel dancer really go, conceivably?

What's the limit of Pewter compounding, because I couldn't think of one, really. Basically, your body is expanding due to increased muscle mass. My original thought was that eventually your heart couldn't keep pumping blood to such a huge body, but your hearts a muscle too, so it could become larger to compensate. You're skeletal structure stays intact, I assume, so is the limit the point at which your bones start fracturing from the sheer pressure of thousands of pounds of muscle exerting pressure on it, or is there a more obvious limit I'm missing?

When you notice a penny on the ground and instead of picking it up, you start staring at the sky to see where the Coinshot went.

Wait, so Taldain hasn't progressed technologically since Bavarian began the isolationist policy? After seeing @Weltall's quote, I thought Taldains technology continued progression, just separate from other shard worlds. Also, Sanderson's grammar in the above quote is confusing. Can somebody confirm that Sanderson is really saying that Taldain froze technologically?