Cones For Eyes

I added some stuff to the Elantris page! It was a few edits in before I discovered the preview button (dur ) so you'll have to excuse the long list of edits on my part. Anyway, just wanted to check if this was the sort of thing you guys are looking for. I dunno if theres too much detail or not enough. It's certainly more padded out than some of the other book summaries I looked at but I dunno if that's cause they should be more detailed or mine should be less. Basically any constructive critism will be helpful! Oh, and never fear, I'll get round to finishing parts 2 and 3, a character list and maybe some other things at some point.

I especially like the way the cloak wraps round the picture and comes up from the bottom! Just spitballing here but an interesting approach might be to buy an actual cloak, cut that into strips (up to where you tie it around your neck of course) and then add more strips of a similar looking material to it. If it was a cloak in the first place, it would probably have the required weight to it to make it flare. Dunno how expensive cloaks are though.

Oooh, I like this quote. Ripples in the fabric of creation itself? I'm curious as to what this fabric of creation is. Does that sound like these ripples are, on some level, occuring on all three rhelms? And we also run into the chicken or the egg problem. Are the ripples causing the allomancy or caused by the allomancy. Either way, it seems sensible to extrapolate that the Dor is caused by/causing a similar rippling in the fabric of creation. Whatever that is...

Well, if it was just normal water and normal moons, the tides wouldn't be as regular as Voidus has said. You would get times when the tides are particularly strong though when the moons are aligned but something tells me there's more than just physics going on with those high storms... Also, we should start a crew of baseless speculators

I have been trained in the deadly arts of ninja-ing in the very monastries of Fjordell! But yeah, complete coincidence that I happened to get to that chapter just as you mentioned wavey magic stuff in the mistborn thread. It is interesting though. Will more magic systems have a wave like component? Is it a fundamental part of the Cosmere that magic systems can display this kind of behaviour? Maybe it's only to do with the way the magic manifests on these particular shardworlds? So many questions

I was rereading Elantris whne I came across this interesting little line in chapter 28 when Raoden is learning about the Dor. This reminds me a lot of the allomantic pulses that seekers feel in mistborn. I'm not really sure what the significance of this is but I feel it can't be accidental that both are described as pulse like. Are any other magic systems described with pulse/wave like properties?

I've never really thought we had anything concrete to go on at any point but I do like my baseless speculation

Wave-like behaviour? Almost sounds like you're suggesting wave-particle duality! Would Brandon have gone into that much trouble? He does have a scientific background....

I think I follow...maybe I have a problem with, for want of a better term, the wave model of allomancy. Without going into horrible physics-ey details, two allomancers burning copper near each other would create regions of stronger and weaker shielding. This is just the same effect as having loud and quiet spots when you have two speakers near each other. This doesn't seem to be the way that it works in the books. I get the feeling that seekers feel pulses but we shouldn't be treating allomancy as some kind of wave phenomenon proporgating outwards from an allomancer. That's my gut feeling anyway.

No Peeking? Does that imply that there indeed some way for us to "peek" at this mysterious big face? Or that merely, at some point that photo will change to include the big face? So many questions!

It's possible for a lurcher to use allomancy to "act" as a centrifuge. Whether it's practical is entierly another matter. Also, coinshot as a human nailgun? Rather mundane use of powers though.

Bearing in mind that I've only read up to The Bonehunters, I would say my favourite "character" is Iskaral Pust's Mule

If I had to guess, if a normal strength mistborn can't pierece another misting/mistborn's coppercloud, I can't see a reason why they would be able to pierece their own while it's active. Does this make any sense? As for the stacking copperclouds, I would instinctively assume that they could stack. Many plausable explanations have already been offered to explain why Vin and Kelsier were detected at Kredik Shaw. At the very least, I don't think that event falsifies the stacking copperclouds conjecture.

Y'know what? Some part of me knew that you'd figured it out. It just wasn't the "conscious, typing the reply" part of me... Eitehr way, massive fail on my part

It's a reference to humans having rod cells at the back of our eyes that see colours and also that Inquisitors have spikes (which are kinda cone shaped) in their eyes. Ok, it's tenuous but I came up with the name late at night

A Malazan and Dr Who fan, I like you already I've only otten to The Bonehunters in the malazan series but there's so much you have to figure out on your own to do with the magic and gods etc in that series. I think the cosmere is similar for Brandon cause there's clues everywhere but until he releases an overarching Cosmere book, we'll have to figure it out for ourselves!

Haha, I didn't think such an off hand comment would draw such attention! When I wrote my post, I had forgotten about breaths. It seems like either the breaths or colour could be considered as the consummable "thing". You could also consider it as having to consume breath to be able to access colour just like you have to consume metal to access this mysterious well of power. The only problem I have with this is that the well of power that allomancers gain access to seems to come from a different rhealm that only allomancers can percieve where as colour can be perceived by all (even drabs). With further thinking on the WoK front, do the books make reference to drawing power from the stormlight itself or merely using it up in the process of performing magic? If it's the latter, then it's not actually too out of line with the other magic systems.

I'm a lil noobie so you won't have seen me around I guess it's similar in the other shardworlds then? Colour (excuse my british spelling ) providing a gateway to access power in Warbreaker and the aons in the Elantris. Havn't read WoK in a while but it seems like stormlight is the source of power rather than acting as the gateway.

I'm not really that familiar with the background theory behind Brandon's books but something struck me while rereading final empire and I was wondering if it can be explained in terms of realmantic theory. It seems that when an allomancer swallows some metal, physically at least, it just sits in their stomach until they start burning it. Up until that point, it behaves just as you would expect metal to when it's passing through someones body. This is evidenced when Kelsier first trains vin in atium: However, there is a clearly another effect to swallowing the metal than just the "physical" reaction to it. Quite often when Vin swallows some metal, she describes being able to feel a well of power appearing. To me, allomancers don't just burn the metal for their powers - it seems like they are tapping into this new well of power and the metal in their body is just something that enables that process. Does any of the theory confirm/refute this? Like I said, not too familiar with the theory so sorry if this has been covered before! (Also not quite sure if this belonged here or in the mistborn forums :S)

Introductions usually start with a hi: Hi! So I decided to start a reread of all of the Sanderson stuff but this time watching out for any Cosmere related stuff that I might have missed out on the first time round (mainly cause I had no idea what the Cosmere was the first time round!). First book(s) in my reread is the Mistborn trilogy. I wanted other people to discuss theories with and generally all things Sanderson so I've ended up here. Outside of reading Sanderson, I'm a bit of a physics geek (starting a doctorate in astrophysics soon actually) and I like photography as well. I guess it's fair to say that I'm a fan of fantasy in general. Some of my favourite (non-Sanderson) series are Shadows of the Apt, Malazan Book of the Fallen and anything by Trudi Canavan. Looking forward to discussing theories! P.s. can anyone see the geeky dual nature of my profile name?