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To me it seemed like the aspects were gone but now he was able to have memories of them. While he never forgot the previous aspects in name he never really remembered anything more than that and their specialties. I felt like the biographer was able to put together a full enough picture of who they were that Stephen could interact with the memories of them which would hypothetically be equally as complete a picture of them as when they were alive as all of the information of who they were was in his head anyways. I assume that were the story to continue he would develop new aspects who would move around with him, and then he would also be able to access the memories of his old aspects where ever. I kind of thought the whole thing with J.C. and the phone was a precursor to what I'm describing. Also on that note how does the whole thing about J.C. shooting the gun, then knocking him out of the car never come back? Am I crazy? It was brought up like every other chapter and then nothing really came of it.

As far as the guitar guy why put him in so many scenes if it is not hoid? Sanderson specifically told the artists to draw the faces in the clouds and rocks for example, i don't see this kind of thing as an accident. Why would an artist include this kind of thing without word from Brandon? I mean of course it's super possible it's not him, maybe he's chilling on dayside or something and we'll see him in the second series of graphic novels. Brandon doesn't seem to make mistakes or have accidents in his work (obviously the earlier stuff is an exception). While he does do things he may regret later or doesn't have completely planned out but as more work comes out the plan is probably becoming more solid. We have seen hoid in all of the novels (not necessarily novellas or shorts) so why would this be an exception? Perhaps the WoB referencing Ais comment isn't in the graphic novel (yet at least) so the guitar man was the replacement

I mean if the sheath is a perfect fit the actual sharp part of the blade might never touch it. Imagine that the sheath is a half inch longer than the sword and like a quarter inch wider with the hilt stopping it from reaching the edges. If this is the case perhaps it could cut through the sheath if it was not inside it but I don't really see any issues with the magic system here seems more of a physical issue.

"write 100 cosmere books"

I like these ideas and I think the similarities with wyndle will prompt Brandon to make the aethers be more of a unique system. I like that you mentioned the net result as we don't really see an end-negative unless there is something about the god aethers (very possible I am mistaken I am not so well versed as you haha) which is think is something Brandon likes to include in his magic systems. I am very curious to see how this plays out.

I think that we are agreeing lol I just wasn't as comfortable making such specific statements as I didn't have the quote's ready. You showed another good example of what I meant with the changes - perpendicularity - and definitely were able to say some things for certain that I did not know but I think in spirit we are saying the same thing. I kind of figured the cannibalization to the mistborn gods but I didn't want to confuse anyone as I wasn't sure. Very interesting the thing about Darro though, and good to know about the magic system, I think that it had a lot of use beyond what we saw and the greater Cosmere implications are endless. As far as speculation goes I wasn't saying not to speculate, I was just saying that with things like the gods being used elsewhere show that there is not much in this book to use towards theory crafting - other than Darro and the magic system - I never meant not to do it. My post was just to make clear that while Brandon has incredible foresight and when the books come out everything seems so perfect and planned out, he is making it up at he goes. While there is an outline it is subject to change, and often does, we just have to roll with the punches as they come, much like Brandon himself does. Thanks for the info though I did not know all that.

I think that because of Brandon's prolific work with insane foresight and planning we assume that he has everything all figured out. This is certainly not the case! He probably makes huge changes and pivots all the time, for example I was just reading about how he is not happy about Wax's savantism and wishes he could go back and change it. That is for a recent publication imagine how he feels about Elantris. We love it but I'm sure he would rip it apart and re-write it were he given the chance and time. I would say with this one that there are certain things that are kind of cannon - like we see an aether elsewhere in the cosmere - but still completely different. Like the rules of how aethers work and what there abilities are could be completely different by the time anything is released. Another possibility is that he might cannibalize different elements of the story for different stories. If you check out Way of Kings Prime or Dragonsteel you'll see a lot of this kind of reusing of stories but usually with many changes. Some of it is cannon I'm sure, but with the amount of changes - small or large - taking anything as cannon and working it into your theories could be more harm than good.