Invocation

I'd hazard a guess at a lot.

That's just Brandon being Brandon. He likes to seed this stuff happening, like his revelation to us that the ending of the Stormlight Archive series is contained within the first bit of The Way of Kings.

Upper or Lower Grand Reef or the Lost River.

23%

Happy birthday!

There's a killstick on that site. No more of me fumbling to make my own, now I can just buy them. Bad idea to let me know about that.

Yeah, y'all lost me at the Space Marines.

Stravomenos nodded, leading the party out of the door and on a winding path through Elendel, weaving through alleys and along thoroughfares, ending in front of a nondescript shack. "This is it. One of the higher ranking Farriers is inside. From here, I defer to you on what to do, Nerin." @ZincAboutIt ======================== Lance stirred on the roof. The door opened again, after that strange man was let in. He watched as a line of people filed out, led by the newcomer and followed them at a distance on their way to a safehouse.

I will.

No, I just never had headphones.

I had my music off the whole time or I'd have done the same.

...Oh no. I regret this idea now. I hate dealing with normal Guardian lasers, much less one the size of Hyrule Castle.

The castle. M o v e d. It's going to be a giant Guardian, only hijacked by Ganondorf.

"When do we leave?" Stravomenos asked.

Hello my friend! Welcome to the Shard! This is certainly the place for the deep content, including (if you want) a copy of an unreleased book called Aether of Night for you to read. It's unrefined and very much an early-Sanderson books (it shows in certain ways) but it's not bad. It's been cannibalized for all kinds of content and is sort of a proto-cosmere novel, before Sandman worked out all the nitty gritty details. We have an RP section if you're interested in that (we have some good times there, but admittedly it's not for everyone) and a section for just about anything else you could want. It's a fun place.

No, I'm talking about showing me this site. You know not what you've unleashed.

You know not what you've done.

Heyo, Mike! You're gonna love it here, there's something for everyone, from general discussion to RPs to just mucking about in the book forums and posting questions or theories.

It's crackpot. Doesn't make much sense, all told, honestly. I was half-asleep making this whole theory. The Deep Ones would be the ones doing it, though, not the humans of the Forests.

No, the Shades are the result, not the cause. The withering is just the function of the Shades doing what they do in a reflexive search for more Investiture to sustain themselves.

Nah, it's fine, I was rambling a bit. The theory is that Threnodites use something similar to the blood connection that Hemalurgy uses to share powers to peer into the Spiritual Realm by way of someone's spiritweb, all in order to gather information and guidance on what they need to do. Yeah pretty much.

You are correct!

21%!!!!!!!!! Sandman is crushing it.

Okay, I'm going to preface this by saying this is not very well thought-out and I'm fully expecting this theory to be torn to shreds, but it's been too long since I let myself post a full theory and I needed to scratch the itch. Nazh, it has been noted, is under the impression that there's something sacred about creating Cognitive Shadows, and specifically Shades of his homeworld, Threnody. Why does he think this? Perhaps they get some use from the creation of Cognitive Shadows, which is what enables them to stay around a bit longer, though they degrade eventually, as shown (IIRC). Looking at spiritwebs. That's key to this theory. A spiritweb being the interface between Physical and Spiritual makes sense; an overlay, almost. Let's say you could spread the spiritweb wide, peer into the Spiritual with the energy it gives you. You'd get a blast of future-sight and the subject would, essentially, become irradiated during it with a subsequent blast of Spiritual raw Investiture, allowing them (or perhaps forcing them) to stay around in the Cognitive longer after they die (which would, of course, be immediately after this blast of future-sight due to the mechanics needed to spread wide the spiritweb). You'd need to use something like Hemalurgy, complete with needing them to be alive. They'd have to be alive for this to work. That's important. It means the person, while still alive (though dying soon), receives a giant dose of Investiture that drains out of them slowly. They stick around as Cognitive Shadows, then, making the Shades, but slowly passing beyond into the, well, Beyond, much the same way Kelsier was fading slowly, just a larger scale. Why do I think this would allow future-sight? The Death Rattles. That seems to be what's happening there, and I don't think it would be beyond belief that another would might have figured it out as well and harnessed it. This probably was part of their fuel for being so scared of the amounts of Shades and what that could mean for the knowledge of whoever lived there. There you have it. Tear it apart. Please. I didn't connect anything and I know it but I needed to scratch my itch.

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