selerian

Hi everyone! I am an italian fan of Brandon Sanderson. I really, really enjoy looking for obscure hints and making up weird theories about books I read, and Sanderson is just the perfect target. I am forcing my friends to read his books to have someone to speculate with, but i got bored to wait for them and started looking on the internet. The coppermind wiki is just fantastic, I felt really stupid ad how many hints about the cosmere I had missed, and I really enjoyed reading other people's weird theories here. i meant to stalk a little longer before to appear, but i am not good ad waiting and really wanted to answer some threads xD. About me, I am a 20 years old very geeky physics student - very geeky even for a physics student, which is no small feat. I enjoy reading, travelling, asking for a fruit juice while all of my friends drink, arguing, and wasting my time over just-apparently-simple physics problems. I am sorry if I make mistake with my english or my sentences are not easy to understand. It is obvioulsy not my first language and i learned it quite irregularly. Happy to join you all!

I think it should be considered that Surgebinding is not the only major magic system in Roshar. The appendix refers to "ten levels of voidbinding and Old Magic". Considering the allomancy\feruchemy\hemalurgy parallelism in Mistborn, i would expect voidbinding and Old Magic to be organized in a similar way to surgebinding. So three times 10 power each, that is likely what BS meant with "30 magic systems". Telcontar: How did you find out the exact orders of Shallan and Jasnah? I am confused by this bit: If you determined that Shallan is number six, if i understand correctly you say orders 5,6 and 7 could Soulcast. But BS stated that a single surge is shared only by two orders (and if it were different, symmetry would be broken), and Jasnah specifically says there were two orders of Knights able to "inherently Soulcast". About Regrowth, "life" or "healing" seems reasonable to be a surge to me. BS is logically extremely accurate, but he doesn't seem to care so much about scientific accuracy, and while difficult to scientifically define "healing" and "life" sounds pretty good like natural forces. Last point: is there some evidence of "travel" being a surge? It seems that a light-related surge exists - if it does, teleportation might just be one of it powers, without being a surge in itself.