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yeah eventually. he watched his best and only friend die MINUTES AGO. Again, you’d only write a character in denial to postpone that emotional revelation. one we never get. and if he was in denial, wouldn’t Aux’s lack of response have been a HUGE punch in the face?? being forced to confront reality in a brutal way??? we just get 2 words of reaction! again, if that’s the case, Brandon needs to *say* that. you can’t build up that emotional climax, not deliver on it, and offer no explanation. if he was putting his emotions aside or whatever, it needs to at least be implied. no matter how you look at it, this was just a mistake in the writing. it’s one of three things: 1. grief written extremely poorly 2. a character in denial with NO resolution or even indication. 3. a character expertly and intentionally handling their emotions without any indication that they’re doing so. all just writing mistakes, none of this can be explained in-world, this isn’t what brandon wanted readers to take away from that moment.

interesting idea, but I think the conversation with Hoid largely debunks it. Hoid was off world, he wouldn’t have been affected by the time dilation, meaning that conversation wouldn’t have been possible. you could argue that weird connection things were happening that made hoid also slow down, but that also doesn’t track. hoid only has connection to sig, and at this point Sig doesn’t have any sort of connection to the planet other than linguistic, so it couldn’t be transferring via that chain. so if there was any sort of time dilation happening, it would have to be via said gravitation distortion alone, no connection shenanigans, which again, would mean hoid wouldn’t be affected.

how does preservation make sense then? it was created with 0 dawnshards?

countercounterpoint: it still just comes down to Buildup vs Payoff. 172 builds up his fear of loss SO MUCH and then we get very little resolution. It just 100% feels like there wasnt quite enough proofreading, which tracks, given the way these books were written. if brandon was trying to intentionally signal “hey isn’t it weird how little grief Sig is showing?”, he wouldn’t have built up that emotional climax so much, and he would have signaled that weirdness harder. and why would he even do that, the only point of having a character be in denial like that is to build up an even greater emotional climax where they have to come to terms with reality. we definitely don’t get anything like that. it’s not exactly the action that i have issue with, it’s the way it’s handled. we just get those 3 words “it hurt anew”. like i actually can’t think of a WORSE way to show that a character is expressing grief. might as well have written “Nomad proceeded to feel grief. Anyway…” it’s also weird given the pacing, like aux sacrificed himself *minutes* ago. a habitual slip like that makes sense if it’s farther in the future, but wouldn’t he just…still be thinking about it? Like, he should be in shock, he should be a wreck. at the very least address the lack of emotion. like “nomad couldn’t afford to think about that right now” or whatever.

my thoughts exactly, I think sig has to be at least 200, with my personal guess being around 400. He mentioned that Nomad had an encounter with a shade, i don’t remember him saying anything about the shade being involved in his death.

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Just finished the book, and its gotta be one of my favorite Cosmere stories of all time. But one aspect of it just felt.....so off. After Aux sacrifices himself to give Nomad his final burst of flight, Nomad's reaction is just.....wrong. like its literally just the wrong reaction. He's obviously sad, but one moment in particular just ruins it. He's back in unity, just a few pages later, and we get this: like what. I don't think I need to explain how this is weird. it COMPLETELY took me out of the book when i first read it. The nahel bond is one of the most intimate relationships I can even imagine. Your spren is literally your most constant companion, and with Sigzil specifically, he's been bonded to Aux for maybe hundreds of years. Your best friend, your most intimate companion, who you've been with for entire lifetimes just died...and you forget????? And it's not just that, that last line is terrible too. "it hurt anew when he remembered" That just sounds weird right? like you could make the argument that Nomad was talking out of habit, he didn't literally forget, but even still, we should be getting more pain from him. those 3 words "it hurt anew", are all we get, and the story just continues. just "it hurt". that's all. no further description. He should be a broken man at this point. He should be fighting through tears. His ONLY companion through all these years of running, His ONLY friend, just DIED SACRIFICING HIMSELF FOR YOU, and we barely get anything. The weirdest part is, Brandon did an amazing job at writing the fear of grief. The scene where Nomad is swinging on Aux as a chain under the ship as they climb the mountain, that was beautiful. I genuinely felt as terrified as Nomad did that Aux was about to sacrifice himself. The tension there is insane, and the way Nomad mentally screams at Aux to not do it, its just awesome. (Page 172 if you want to reread it. It's the ENTIRE PAGE too. We get actual CONTENT regarding this conflict, rather than the TWO WORDS we get after it actually happens.) That's the sort of reaction we should be getting AFTER Aux sacrifices himself too. the actual specific moment where Aux sacrifices himself was...alright I guess. it was very high in emotion, but I still think it wasn't as good as page 172. It's the aftermath of this moment that I specifically have an issue with though. nomad should not be as high-functioning as he is. I think part of the reason I feel this way is actually because of page 172. it set up Aux's death SO WELL, showing us how TERRIFIED Sig was of losing him. and then he does. and we get barely anything. The payoff is just not there. also. it's weird because I know Brandon has written grief well before! Kaladin's entire character for example. RoW is tragic. but I feel like he just..... absolutely missed the mark with this one.

yes and that's nonsensical, it still states that a majority of three is possible. actually, upon review, the entire rule is nonsensical. Upon a vote of players? we aren't voting players. We're voting votes. the sentence structure is fundamentally flawed. grammatically incorrect. Proper phrasing would be more like and that's still not perfect, just fixes the fundamental flaw. you still need to define "voting" better in the first place.

i refute this, the rules state “a majority of three”. there is no current process in place which states a rule may be updated automatically when it’s information is outdated. 3 is no longer a majority, but the rule is still in place as such. but its also impossible for us to have a “majority of three”, since three isn’t a majority. therefore the game can’t actually continue until we lose one player to inactivity, vote on a new proposal to change that wording (which is then able to pass since we will be able to have a majority of 3 at that point) (or vote for proposal 66 which would be able to supersede it) sry for double post editing in quotes sucks on mobile

just vote for proposal 66 and that doesn’t matter anymore retroactivity go brrr

Proposal 66: Referendum: Any proposal (e.g. even one that breaks prior rules) immediately passes once it receives a number of Yeas greater than or equal to the number of Active Players multiplied by 2/3, added to the number of current Nays. This rule applies retroactively to itself as a proposal, but not to any proposals with a Proposal Number less than 66. reasoning: you'll catch on. if you're confused by the math, its 66% of active players, with one aditional Yea needed for each Nay. So each Nay still has voting power and cancels out a Yea. Proposal 67: The Abolition of Turns: The current concept of a "turn" is removed, (e.g., the idea that it is one player's "turn" at any given moment and that they must complete (or pass) an action before play may continue), and a "turn" shall be redefined as a "Post". A "Post" is a message sent in this thread consisting of any action, proposal, or otherwise game-state-altering declaration, with the exception of casting a vote. A player may make one Post every 24 hours, with no regard given to whether any specific player, or any number of players, has made a Post before them. If a player has not made a Post for 48 continuous hours, they are considered an Inactive Player, and all rules shall apply to them as thus. reasoning: i got no fn clue whose turn it is, and this game is gonna die so fast if we keep waiting 24 hours for a player to pass. you'll notice this proposal breaks many rules, hence i need a different way to pass it, hence proposal 66. proposal 66 also breaks many rules, hence it applies retroactively to itself. Proposal 68: You Thought It'd Be That Easy?: The complete abolition and deletion of ER#3. reasoning: i mean cmon, is it really nomic if we don't jump into the deep end?

2004 - Dannex is born, and it is the most glorious day in all of human history

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A lot of these are spoilers depending on what you’ve read, so read on carefully. Not as far as we know. Probably not since We don’t know. It might be possible. by attacking them. idk what you’re asking here. he used his power to fight them, they lost. it wasn’t exactly a physical fight, likely happened in the spiritual realm. Not entirely sure what you’re asking, but the investiture tied to those shards still exists. also not sure what you’re asking. There is such a thing as a Splinter, which is just a concentration of investiture. Spren for example. When a shard is destroyed, it is Splintered into many smaller parts, like the Seons on sel. These two are related. A god metal is physical investiture. like how water solidifies into ice, investiture solidifies into a god metal. each shard has its own god metal. Honorblades are made of Honor’s god metal. It’s been a while since i’ve read stormlight, but I feel confident in just saying “No” to this. someone else can elaborate. I think he’d be released, but again, it’s been a while since i’ve read stormlight. i’m not sure the stormfather even could “kill himself”.