Gigalemesh

4 hours ago, Goatbringer said:

I'm really looking forward to being really wrung out by a book. I haven't had the feeling of gut-wrenching shock at a book for a while.

I'd recommend reading Robin Hobb's books, starting from Assassin's Aprentice, they are excellent and will wring you out like nothing else! She is the only author I prefer to Brandon

In terms of anticipation, I don't think there is any one thing I'm anticipating most, just really excited for the whole thing

1 hour ago, bo.montier said:

@Calderis I noticed that on my last read-through as well. What this all points to me, assuming her arc bends towards healing, is that she will realize she gets to decide WHO she is, rather than that being determined for her by either her past or her surroundings. I think then she'll do away with the personas and just become herself, and disguises will be that, disguises, not whole personalities. Then she'll be able to disguise herself as anyone she wants, rather than having to lock herself into a personality. Her real personality will become strong, resilient, and flexible.

Edit: Or she could just not be able to face it and spiral...But i hope not.

I'm also hoping that's where her character development leads, though who knows how long it will take. Hopefully she will at least start on that path properly in oathbringer, if not make a lot of progress 

56 minutes ago, JoyBlu said:

SON OF HONOR / SON OF TANAVAST: This has probably been debated before -- but is Kaladin a literal offspring of Tanavast & the holder of Cultivation or does the StormFather  just call him that because he has taken the Oaths of Honor that Tanavast held highly?

I highly doubt he is there child, that seems a bit ridiculous. I think it's just because he is bonded with an Honour spren. Though I've also thought that maybe he would call all humans that? Or just Alethi maybe

2 hours ago, Jaconis said:

Ahh yes. I reread it. I misunderstood the first time and thought he used an oathgate to get back to Urithiru at the end there. I see now he just ubered with the Stormfather. 

That uber comment made me laugh out loud

3 minutes ago, Seerow said:

My mistake. Spoilered

Cool ^.^ 

13 hours ago, Seerow said:

Asmodean.

Maybe put wheel of time spoilers in a spoiler block? Seems like something people on here might be interested in reading and wouldn't want spoilers for

I think Drehy and Gaz is a bad idea, I know it was probably a joke, but he was part of the system that abused them and was openly antagonist to them. I'm not saying he can't have a redemption arc, but to me it's asking too much for bridge 4 to take him in and even more so for one of them to be romantically involved with him.

On 02/11/2017 at 7:11 PM, bo.montier said:

so If the moustache goes past the corner of the lips and hangs or flares it's moustaches! Common usage (speaking as a person with moustaches!)

Well it's not common usage for everyone clearly, it's definitely not a term at all where I'm from (South Africa), and I have read other books that talk about such a moustache without using the term moustaches, I do also have a moustache myself if that factors in. Anyway I appreciate the definition, I was thinking along those lines

24 minutes ago, Reborn radiant said:

From : https://www.tor.com/2015/08/27/words-of-radiance-reread-chapter-52/

I got the link and the quote from stormlight wiki. 

For all of you who are saying use the light meant use lightweaving, don't you think use the light meant use the stormlight to run faster or something like that? Because that is how I interpreted it. 

Sorry for bringing up an oldpost!

There's a WoB linked on the coppermind article for Ym that just straight up confirms Ym was a truthwatcher, so there's no more debate about it.

However I did also read it as just use stormlight.

5 minutes ago, hoser said:

Beam me up, Scotty!

I can't really explain it, but these seem like personal sized teleporters to me.  The Oathgates seem kind of unweildy for solo travel. 

The clouded windows - could they be used to scry for locations to teleport to?  They don't seem like heater fabrials to me. 

 

Assuming that there is power (stormlight) the planters make sense.  The Parshendi used stormlight to grow more food than they would have otherwise.  Once powered up, hopefully they can grow food. 

This place seems too big for the Radiants.  Was all of humanity supposed to retreat here during Desolations?

That's an interesting point actually, though it's hard to say as we don't know how many radiants there were. There were probably some other people there, windrunners definitely have squires, other orders might too, so that could increase the population quite a bit. Also maybe servants and the like. Visiting nobles or merchants. That does still leave the possibility of a lot of other people being able to come there

Worth noting that lift and male were on top of a building so as I understand it they wouldn't have been protected at all, so it does seem like the winds are less intense, however it could be that the middle of the everstorm is most chaotic part and they hadn't reached there yet

Yeah I'm pretty sure higher oxygen content would definitely help. Obviously though it's hard to say how humanity will have changed due the different conditions (especially if any shards decided to tweak things).

2 hours ago, Calderis said:

@Gigalemesh here you go.

 

Okay thanks, however that still represents a double pairing for each surge, rather than the single pairing of allomancy. Since it's not as simple as a 1-to-1 pairing, that makes it hard to correlate it to a 1-to-1 pairing for anything else.

4 hours ago, Jace21 said:

I dont believe anyome has found where Adolin cut away his chalk mark yet. If I read the chapter correctly then the scoring they found was outside on the balcony, probably from when the blade was falling after Adolin dumped it.

I expect they will put it together, but no one seems to have done so at this point.

Exactly what I wanted to say, they didn't find a mark inside. But outside where the blade fell.

4 hours ago, Solant said:

I don't know if this was mentioned yet, so forgive me if I am repeating someone else, but did the heralds have spren? I realize it wouldn't be required since the honor blades granted surges so spren wouldn't be needed. I was thinking the unmade could be the corrupted, or "unmade" spren of the heralds after they had been broken 1 by 1 at the beginning of each desolation. This would explain the theory of each unmade corresponding to an order of radiants.

As far as we are aware no, the Heralds didn't each have a spren, we are told that their bond was directly with Honour through the honourblades and he provided them their powers. Thinking about it though I'd say it's not impossible that their bonds with Honour took on a life of their own over time and became a special spren. I don't think that's the case personally but who knows. Also I'm no expert on all the WoBs and popular theories so I don't know either if this has been talked about before.

37 minutes ago, Erunion said:

So, would the middle sister lose her Royal Locks if Vivenna had a dozen children?

I think it's probably that only the children of the monarch will inherit the Royal Locks, not that people lose the locks when they aren't in the running. @Marethyu316 suggested this previously and it seems the most sensible to me. You don't ever lose the Royal Locks, you just don't inherit them unless your parent is the Monarch 

2 hours ago, Wreith said:

Sorry I misunderstood use of "they".

Yes I very much read it as the second. The two mixed breeds were the topic being discussed. There's no reason to suddenly change focus except to intentionally confuse, which, as frustrating as his answers can be, Brandon generally doesn't do.

Well the previous sentence is "humans and parshmen don't have a common ancestor" so he did change the subject at least temporarily to humans/listeners, and I assumed that the two "strains of humanoids" referred to the two he had most recently mentioned, so I don't think it's ridiculous to read it that way, though I may well be wrong.

edit: the question he was asked was also referring to the relationship between humans and parshendi

On 31/10/2017 at 4:12 AM, joesleepsalot said:

for Kelsier

I find it hard to believe kelsier will become a big player, Brandon has specifically said you won't need to be cosmere aware to understand SA, and I find it hard to believe kelsier would/could conceal his powers while being a big player in the series. This doesn't mean they can't become knowledgeable about shards and whatnot, but it has to evolve naturally in the series so people understand with just the books, and having Kelsier come in and dump all that info feels like a cheat. I mean Zahel hasn't revealed cosmere knowledge to Dalinar so why introduce another character from another series to deliver this info, especially when having someone like Jasnah doing it would be more cohesive in-world

On 03/10/2016 at 6:48 AM, cometaryorbit said:

Just as how Surges come in pairs, I'd suggest that fabrial types are inherently paired. So we can speculate on the counterparts of the two “unpaired” known types.

Where does the idea that surges come in pairs come from? I haven't seen that anywhere. Unless you are referring to the pairs of surges surgebinders have access to but those are each in two different pairings so I don't see how you can use that to conclude fabrials are paired. That being said some of them do have obvious pairings so it might mean they all do.

Yeah Brandon has definitely said that Roshar is heading toward a magic-science combination technology, so stuff like that is certainly possible 

I've seen the argument that maybe soulcasting could be used to restore the books, but once again we get the issue of not knowing what was in the books beforehand, I guess it depends how long the books have been destroyed and wether they exist as destroyed in the cognitive realm or have retained some sense of their intact state.

mistborn secret history spoilers 

3 hours ago, JoyBlu said:

I'm pretty sure the stone in Urithuri couldn't be scratched by a shardblade??

I'm pretty sure there has been no mention of that, not in the chapters at least, I'd say I might have missed it but it seems unlikely given we have just seen proof it's not the case.

3 hours ago, JoyBlu said:

The mustaches.  He had more than one?

Yeah Brandon uses the term moustaches in other places as well, it's strange and I haven't seen it anywhere else, as far as can tell it's just a big moustache though

53 minutes ago, Marethyu316 said:

@Wreith I think @Gilgamesh meant humans when he said "they", not the Listeners.

(Granted I already deleted part of my response where I misunderstood something else you were saying, so I could very well be wrong...)

You are right, I fully believe the listeners were there pre-shattering, and that they are fully native to Roshar. And I'm not even saying that humans weren't there pre-shattering, I haven't thought enough about it to say for certain what I think either way. I just felt the quote was ambiguous, he says both strains of humanoid existed beforehand but does he mean humans/listeners or does he mean horneaters/herdazians? If it's the first then the humans could have existed on another planet pre-shattering, if it's the second then yes humans must have been on Roshar before the shattering. I read it as the first but it seems @Wreith read it as the second. Sorry if my question was exasperating but I was just interested in the interpretation, didn't think I was "jumping at shadows" by just asking a question  

8 hours ago, Toaster Retribution said:

 

Is this the book where Gerald appears? I really must read it in that case ;-)

Sorry, Gigalemesh. Really can't help myself.

Hahahaha oops, not my best day for spelling it seems

12 minutes ago, Salkara said:

Just reread the spoiler policy. I'd mistaken the "no spoiler tags required after 6 months" bit to mean not required in any forum, but it looks like (you're right) that only applies to the forum for that book or series.

Cool, I wasn't 100% sure