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Yeah. My own idea for Lerasium spikes is that you can't put them in people, but you can eat them and burn them to permanently get the power. Or maybe you can spike someone with it, but their body would just absorb it and it would go away. It would have to be weaker than an Atium spike to be fair, but it wouldn't have the mental downsides of having spikes in you.

It's called the Double Eye. The Ars Arcanum has this: So it's a really old symbol, but Vorin is still using it. Shallan's Devotary made her draw pictures of it. I don't get what it has to do with the Purelake Interlude though. That's odd. Maybe it's a "generic" icon that gets used when nothing else fits.

When I saw the "Popular" star, I was like "Oh, this must be old news if it's upvoted so much already." Then I saw the date as "Today" and knew it was going to be good.

Whoa, I got to be a Sliver without holding a Shard first. This is going to shoot down so many theories.

The forum index says "Emperor's Soul Deleted..." whenever this thread is on top. I was expecting a theory about computer analogies, and how easy it is to delete the soul Shai made for him. edit: Also, to taunt us more, they could add this to Steelhunt instead of just giving it away. Not that I'd suggest something like that.

I've figured it out! Those of us who didn't find it funny have never been in the situation it describes: we've never been around someone hyping Brandon's books at uninterested people. Which means we've never done it ourselves. So when we say we didn't find it funny, we're outing ourselves for not hyping Brandon enough.

He refers to himself as both the Almighty and God before he dies, in the last vision. The title is misleading and ironic for a god that's dead, but wherever it came from, it's what Vorinism calls him. We know the Shard is called Honor because people guessed from the "Child of Honor" line, and someone asked Brandon and he confirmed it. Also Chapter 2 is called Honor is Dead, but I think Peter had to point that out to us afterwards, and no one noticed at first.

Sell. I think the series will hold off on more Shinovar info until Szeth's book. (Also book #2 got renamed, it's going to be Words of Radiance, not Book of Endless Pages.) The next time we see Adolin, he'll have broken up with Danlan already.

Someone on Reddit said the comic is inspired by Brandon being popular with some coworkers, but not others. It's definitely not as good as the Pat Rothfuss / Kvothe one, which was funny whether you liked the book or not.

I want to see them force Odium to take Honor as a second Shard. It's probably not possible for just any Shard to do it, otherwise Preservation would have done it to Ruin. But Honor is good at binding things. Or maybe combine Roshar's 3 Shards into a big explosion that splits into 2-3 new, different Shards. That way Cultivation doesn't get left out. (My motivation is a bit cynical: I don't like honor. I think it competes with more civilized values like justice and individual rights, and that turning Honor into something else would be an improvement, not just a price to pay to defeat Odium.) I think you're right about dumping extra Shards being difficult or impossible. Otherwise, wouldn't Rayse just take Dominion, use it for a few weeks to kill other Shards, then dump it?

Buy. There are so many magic weapons on Roshar already. I want the Dawnshards to be something different. Fabrials and gemhearts are basically the same thing.

Maybe crossing Expanses is more work than we're assuming, or different for every Expanse, and for some planets there's no practical way to get through it.

Buy. TWoK spoiler Odium will be forced to take a second Shard.

I only buy ebooks anymore. It's a switch I'd intended to make for a while, since books are huge, heavy, and often dirty, and I'm always misplacing jackets, or running out of places to put them.

I put this in another thread too, but I think it has to do with dust. Prof told David that the dust from the tensors was mostly harmless, but Megan wrapped a scarf around her face in the elevator to avoid it. I also made her really angry when she got covered with dust after the illusion on the guards.

I put a lot of thought into this! Ruling the world is too dangerous, and would just get me blamed for social and economic problems that no one has solutions to, and assassinated. I'd love to do something for nuclear disarmament or at least non-proliferation, but I'd need to work with some country for it, and they'd kill me as soon as I stopped following orders. So that's no good either. I could create a religion about nuclear disarmament, and claim the right to rule the world after I saved it from nuclear war. That's almost what Rashek did! But it feels creepy. I think I'd just keep going to college forever.

I think it's that his force-field doesn't protect his face very well. When they first explain the jackets to David, they say getting shot in the face is still bad. That makes sense if it's a jacket, but it's not really a jacket. Plus when Steelheart almost kills him, it's by punching him in the face. How about Firefight's weakness? She seems really annoyed by the dust in the elevator, enough to cover her face with a scarf, and flip out and almost kill David over making a lot of dust. Prof or somebody later says that the dust is mostly harmless, but Firefight/Megan seems to really not like it.

I think of it like an alternate "bad ending" to the movie Contact. Humans receive an alien transmission telling them how to build a communications device. A government secretly builds it. Then they turn it on, and it goes all glowy red and becomes Calamity. My evil side wants it to be an entertainment production, that Calamity records all the disasters the Epics cause, and aliens make reality TV out of it. It might double as war propaganda for them, trying to prove that other species are evil. So they'd pseudo-religiously frame it as a "test" for any species worthy to use the powers, but they don't intend anyone to actually be worthy; they just want to watch them kill each other on TV, while being convinced of their own superiority. ... and I think this is going out of theory territory and into fan fiction! But yeah I think it's aliens.

I got it exactly backwards from that. I didn't think of Prof as an epic until he told David to use the broken tensor. Then I figured he was a gifter. But then I got everything else wrong. I figured Prof had illusion power and it came as part of the gift set, and David used it accidentally in the elevator. And that Megan saw it, and considered killing him for being an epic. But that since she changed her mind, she must be an epic too.

I read that as Prof saying "It's over because we ran," and then David realizing why.

It sure looks like a Shardspear! There's room for it to be an amusing coincidence though. Shardblades are inspired by fantasy art, so it's possible an artist created one accidentally, just trying to do "stylized fantasy spear on a book cover" and not realizing he'd just drawn a Shardspear that may or may not even happen in the series.

The Mistborn movie gets changed so much from the book that they release Mistborn: The Movie the book, written by a different author.

I just noticed on a reread that Jasnah's smoke-zapping leaves the men's clothing unaffected, while the Soulcastings to Fire and Crystal included the clothes. That's more evidence that it's a separate power, related to Soulcasting as much as the Reverse Lashing is related to the Basic Lashing, but still separate. It doesn't have to involve a second surge. If the Ars Arcanum is right about the Reverse Lashing just being another use of gravity, then order's "third powers" don't have to combine surges, and can just be a novel use of one of the two surges they had already. It leaves room for her order's second surge to be anything.

Kelsier pushes Demoux into killing that guy who really didn't have to die. Dueling someone to the death for honor, or executing for insubordination, or whatever it was, is really excessive.

I'm curious if Brandon even intended it to be ambiguous, or if he'd gawk at the thread and think it's our version of the Asmodean murder...