Nesh

He's probably just running late.

What YouTube channel will the stream be on?

So is the "Cosmere sequence" the in-universe chronology? If so, there's a major, retcon/continuity error there with Warbreaker.

That's fair I thought since they aren't even afraid of Heralds, who knows how much punishent they can take, but I see your point.

Well, yeah, but he waffled on it with the kind of. That could mean may things such as "some are agents of Cultivation some aren't and there's still the possibility of them being corrupted by other Shardic ifluence.

I thought it was a nickname for their race. So there are indvidual Sleepless and the Sleepless race.

A race being a monolith is unlikely and there is a WoB that says that they are kind of agents of Cultivation and kind of allied with another faction, so I kind of figure that the individual Sleepless can have different goals just like humans, and might possibly be corupted by Autonomy.

That is a good point, but don't Dysian Aimians do their best to hide their true nature when posing as humans? The Coppermind has this to say: Hordelings are usually about the size of a finger,[4] and can be as large as a fist.[9] Hordelings on Roshar often resemble native creatures known as cremlings simply to make them less noticeable to casual observers; they can take other forms.[10] The hordelings of each Sleepless are not all identical, and often serve specific purposes.[6] For example, because Arclo tries to pass as a human, many of his hordelings have protrusions on their backs that resemble human parts such as skin or eyeballs; he is also able to speak with a passably human voice.[4] However, hordelings cannot actually shapeshift, so the nature of a Sleepless body is always visible upon close inspection.[4] Sleepless therefore tend to cover their "skin" when possible, or use the appearance of older skin[4] or tattoos[3] to obscure their true nature. Maybe these Aimians are particularly good at obscuring their nature, or Suit just never noticed. That said, yeah that is a point against the theory, I won't take that away from you.

We know very little about the red eyed Faceless Immortals that the set was working with. WOBs that have recently come to my attention make me think that the might be Dysian Aimians, better known as Sleepless. They are capable of imitating humans like the being we see in Bands of Mourning and are functionally immortal. hey are not confined to Roshar as this this WoB from the Skyward release party demonstrates: Questioner Are there any Sleepless spies on other planets? Brandon Sanderson Sleepless are not confined to Roshar. Skyward release party (Nov. 6, 2018) We also know that at least some of them are affiliated with an unknown group (The Set) in the Cosmere as told by this WoB: Hoiditthroughthegrapevine Are the Dysian Aimians agents of Cultivation? If not, are they in league with another group (excluding the Knights Radiant) that we have seen? Brandon Sanderson (written) Kind of yes to both – kind of General Signed Books 2018 (April 17, 2018) So they have the abilities and the the possibility to fill that niche. The only hang is the red eyes thing, but that could be from being co-opted by a Shard like Autonomy as is the prevailing theory about who Trell is. I know it's not a lot to go on, but it's just something I wanted to throw out there.

I didn't get any WOBs unfortunately, by the time my family's numbers were called it was after midnight and we had an hour and a half drive back. Thankfully for the future we now know we have friend privileges and can cut in line so we don't have to wait five hours. My uncle was his best friend growing up so, we have a pretty good in with Brandon.

Must have been a site glitch, because it was there after the announcement, then it disappeared for days and now it's back. Good to know though, would have hated to show up and him not be there.

It is, but when I was searching for it on their site it wasn't showing up. Very odd.

I'm a little concerned, the signing has disappeared from the host's website. Was there a cancellation?

I'm going to try and be there.

Happy to help.

When it came to iron and steel I just remembered that their abilities were alphabetical: Iron comes before steel, and Pulling before Pushing.

Have you tried looking at the Mistborn RPG sourcebooks? They might have something.

I admit there's some minor speculation on my part, but it's all based off of canon events and statements.

Ah, but Preservation has great future sight. Ati didn't need to be evil at the start. Remember they made a deal to create life, a deal that Leras reneged on, both of them gave up significant portions themselves to create life and even the planet. Everything is destroyed eventually, even this planet we are on will be. Ati only wanted his end of the bargain to be held up. A return on his Investment as it were, instead he got locked up for at least 2,000 years while Leras concocted a plan to murder and as he is God's destructive force personified and he was only doing what his Intent demanded. Form a certain perspective you could say Preservation's the bad guy. He's the oe who broke the deal (Understandable given his intent but still. Locked Ati up for Adonalsium knows how long, with the intent of finding a way to kill him. I think it's perfectly understandable that Rui went a bit nits.

I mean we know that Shards a Vessels have a contest of wills and that the Shards wikk eventually alys win out. The es=ffects beig rather less drastic if you're well-suited to the Shard, like say Rayse.

Ati could have started out like that, but remember he held Ruin for likely thousands of years, by the time we see him in Era 1 his mind would have been far more Shard than Ati. By that point the Shard wouldn't really have been moderated by Ati's influence and likely would have reset to default: destroy things. At least that's how I read that part of The Letter.

So this is sort of a game, take a Cosmere character ad say what known Shard you would be best suited for and then justify it with a quite or other in book evidence. There are a couple caveats: Since we haven't actually seen anything of the "Shard that just wants to hide and survive" that one is ineligible. For characters that have Ascended like say Sazed or Dalinar (Yes, the Oathbringer spoiler is just for that mention of Dalinar) you must pick a Shard whose power they haven't held in canon, it'd be too easy otherwise. I'll start us off. I think Vin would be well-suited for Cultivation. As evidence I prevent this quote from Hero of Ages, it just seemed very Cultivation-y to me. "I can't decide if you're a fool, (...) or if you simply exist in a way that makes you incapable of considering some things. (...) You said that the only reason to create something is to destroy it. (...) We create things to watch them grow, Ruin. (...) To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before."

There's a couple WOBs that are relevant here: So in short Shardic intent is... complicated. You can fight it, but eventually it will will. The holder's interpretation is like a filter that decides how it manifests. What we do know is that Bavadin is a hypocrite. She doesn't want people interfering on her world(s), but interferes in other wolds. Paalm's entire philosophy was about freeing Wax, and Elendel from Harmony's "control", making them more autonomous in other words. Harmony does guide the people of Scadrial, (At least the ones up north) as shown by the Words of Founding and an all his actions in Era 2 with Wax. So the attack on Scadrial could fit Autonomy's intent from a certain interpretation.

We know Autonomy likes to meddle on other words Kriss being from Taldain and the writer of the Ars Arcanum would be an expert and said so in the Arcanum Unbounded essay. Plus we know they have an Avatar on Obredai and First of the Sun. So all evidence points to Autonomy in addition to the above I don't think there's a Shard whose intent is chaos, at least not yet. That would actually be Harmony, if he lost control. If I may quote the Final Empire chapter 8 epigraph: Discord being a synonym for chaos and all...

Duralumin iesn't burn out when used, it burns at a normal rate, it just affects the other metals.