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A neural net trained to write text based on Oathbringer

So I may have trained the GPT-2 network on Oathbringer and it outputs some.. interesting texts.

Sample here: https://pastebin.com/NFM7F6nc

And all new, bot original, prologue for book 4: https://pastebin.com/LzQBMSRH

Nice, I'd like to see a first person novel in Cosmere.

The Dalinar thing is pretty much confirmed by Dalinar in-world so I'd agree with that.
With Kaladin, I don't think it was as much stopping a highstorm but making a break in it winds - probably by neutralizing them - only right around him.

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 he opened a pocket in the storm, creating a calm wake behind him

it doesnt look like it would require a lot of pare - it was in my opinion just a clever usage of the surge.

For Shallan, considering amount of stormlight at her disposal, her artistic skills, memory, and sheer desperation of the battle, I don;t think it's a stretch she could make ilusions in that number (she was also exhausted at the end of it) - the soulcasting thing is weird though, she's not experienced and didn't dip into CR ( though Jasnah mentions that the borders were rather thin), but sheer power wouldn't be replacement for skill.

The power buff seems to hit only Dalinar in my opinion, the rest are not nearly as powerful nor is the power buff required to explain their achievements.

While I liked the idea of Eshonai becoming a Radiant I think we might see it now with her sister and her possible redemption arc instead, might end up as Kaladin of Listeners. Also it's interesting to see that Listeners treat higher Spren as servants, I guess they never had partnership with them like Radiants have.

Hiya. What books have you read so far?

33 minutes ago, Belzedar said:

Could a power line support a person's weight without snapping? Lamp posts and manhole covers might be safer.

If I was an urban planner on Scadrial, I'd just install the spikes in the ground at regular intervals. That way coinshots won't be tempted to litter, or cause random property damage.

Or you know, ban steelpushing in cities. Coinshots are very small minority in society anyway and it's not like they can't move around like everyone else.

33 minutes ago, Wreith said:

I thought them keeping him alive was explicitly stated. They just couldn't (wouldn't?) attempt a soulforging to heal his mind.

I'm not necessarily arguing about this specific case, though what they consider alive might be very different to what we consider alive today. There are people who were clinically dead for considerable time that were then revived, how would it work in Cosmere? When does the soul get released to go Beyond?

22 hours ago, Wreith said:

The Emperorrer wasn't dead, but as you say, vegetative. His soul was still there because he was still technically alive.

I wonder about that. Would brain-dead (or in persistent vegetative state) person's soul be barred from going Beyond in Cosmere? How much of a brain function must you retain before you are realmatically dead?

I'm pretty sure you can edit your original post, no need for questions to be in their own ones

I think she might lose control over her aspects - maybe the new pictures in her notebook are result of this? I doubt she could bond more than one Spren though - shifting personalities would prevent that and if bound, could possibly kill that Spren. I also doubt Dalinar could (or will if he could) "unite" the aspects of Shallan, I feel strongly that this is something she will need to deal with on her own while growing as a person and as a Lightweaver.

Given that I couldn't vent to anyone about it, about 5$ above the retail price

1 minute ago, SLNC said:

Whose? I really don't get it right now.

Illuminati. Confirmed

2 minutes ago, paperstones said:

Well, the woman has her safe hand covered. I wonder if she is on another planet, Braise or Ashyn, with Roshar in the background.

I'd go with Braise and the woman being Shalash (and the man Ishar) , makes sense to feature two Heralds and Braize might be where they went inbetween desolations.

2 minutes ago, Skyline said:

It's not unsupported, weakly supported you could say, but it is literally described as a spike - a very important element within the Cosmere.

I wasn't expecting anyone to prove or disprove anything. I was just thinking out loud about possibilities but I'm getting the impression it's not appreciated around here.

It's just that theories are usually more structured and offer more evidence. Thinking out loud is a speculation and should be presented as such. Don't get discouraged though, if you have more ideas you can post them and people will agree or not, based on information and interpretations they have.

2 minutes ago, Shadowfax said:

I think a time-keeping fabrial would be sufficient. In the latest Dalinar chapter the Stormfather includes the passage of time as a force, like gravitation. Gravitation is a surge. I do not see why the passage of time could not also be treated in the way we'd think of gravitation, adhesion, etc.

I might have worded that wrong but this is what I meant, the time keeping fabrial using power like gravitation (as those surges are the physical forces themselves(?)), instead of reacting to some Spren-frequency

I have a point from someone that doesn't know anything about how fabrials work so if there is some info on this feel free to correct me :
If this were true it would also provide some interesting info about time fabrials - they would need to be connected somehow to time itself vs time-keeping like normal wind-up clocks do ( though on perception of things can have quite an impact on their CR self so a wind-up clock might get connected to time after all).

4 minutes ago, Weltall said:

Connection medallions might be a short-term workaround but you'd still need to do whatever steps are required for Initiation into a given magic system in order to get the magic and really screwy things might happen if you stop using the medallion and are no longer connected to the region.

We don't know what metal might steal Connection but since Brandon has said it's possible we know one or more of them can do this, not counting atium which can by definition. And we have a number of metals with no currently known Hemalurgic property, even before you start looking into godmetal alloys.

That may be, I just wanted to propose something that wouldn't involve killing anyone. But that makes me think - is Hoid spiked? He's holding Breaths,came to Roshar for something, is an Allomancer and who knows what more.

We don't know if there's a metal that steals Connection though it's probable. There is an easier way, using unkeyed Duralumin medalions (metalminds) that store "blank" Connection one is able to Connect to the land they currently reside in. It was used in BoM mostly as translation device, though it could supposedly be used for manipulating magic as well.

4 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

I feel stupid for having to ask this, but what is an aether?

It's a type of magic from unpublished book Aether of Night, you can request a copy here : 

Threnody and First of the Sun sound awesome, I'd love to see more stories in their systems, but I'm always sucker for lore-heavy books so Silverlight it is!

40 minutes ago, egagwes said:

Also new here, just wondering if Edgedancer is on Kindle?

It is! https://www.amazon.com/Edgedancer-Stormlight-Archive-Brandon-Sanderson-ebook/dp/B06XRHRHPH Though you might want to buy whole Arcanum Unbounded instead.

As for the original question I would go for Edgedancer, it's on the same planet, so you won't have to switch mindsets and it's significantly shorter.

20 minutes ago, Blightsong said:

Taking the Dawnshard, known to bind any creature voidish or mortal

The living Shardblade doesn't bind anything though, it's a result of strong bond between KR and their Spren ( unless he meant to destroy, or whatever happens when your eyes get burnt out)

 

20 minutes ago, Blightsong said:

The Knights Radiant must stand again

20 minutes ago, Blightsong said:

And … without the Dawnshards [stresses that these Dawnshards are essential].

In the vision, Honor talks about refounding Knights Radiant - that would include the living Shardblades they would have (as they so far are formed before the last oath is said).  I don't think we saw Dawnshard yet and it seems to me that it would be something from Honor himself rather than created by Spren who imitated Honorblades to create bond with KR.

4 hours ago, OathKeeper said:

He was going for an epic team-up.

I always thought "unite them" was referring not to Alethkar but to Parshendi and Humans together.

We don't really know if Parshendi can be squires ( they supposedly can't be KR). Personally, I'm waiting for Gaz to squire up