Straff Venture

Brandon says that his best writing he has done is The Stormlight Archive, and I share that opinion.

I think this works as well. As to what emeralis said, I never said the name will change you in the same way. That would make no sense. Each person is different, and sees names a different way.

Interesting point about perception. I would say this is largely based around name trends over time and geography. For example, if I was told someone I had never met was called John I would probably imagine them as an adult white male, though I am certain there are a staggering amount of times when I would be wrong. Other people might think differently depending on the Johns they knew on a local level but I would account most of the variations to cultural tradition.

I've always prefered the tripple shard storm theory. Storms give crem and water for life, (Cultivation), Stormlight for Honor's magic (Honor), and they destroy a lot of stuff (Odium). If Odium pulled out, we'd probably get milder rains that just gave Stormlight and crem.

Thinking of this, I wonder what's up with the Weeping?

This seems the most solid theory to me. The series is said to have 30 or more magic systems which will likely be derived from all three of the shards. The series is called the Stormlight Archive, implying the significance of Highstorms will be present in almost all areas of the books. Plus, the nature of the highstorm as already mentioned holds the traits of each shard.

Ok, Thanks Rubix

Hey Nightfury, great to have a new guy here. Keep reading the rest of Brandon's books

Just a word of warning - if you don't want any spoilers regarding the books you haven't read yet don't go in the "Cosmere Theories" section of the forums, as its basically a minefield for all things Sanderson.

Have fun, and welcome.

Today when trying to enter the chatroom, I was unsuccessful with a message saying I did not have authorisation, though I have entered before. Does anyone know how to solve this?

Thanks.

Or some preAdonalsmic cave drawings written in a High Imperial ketek.

Thats likely actually a lot easier than it sounds, seeing as you can get away with anything in high imperial when of course nothing makes sense anyway

One of my curses is that I always enjoy the POVs that have the fewest chapters, bar Kaladin. I love Szeth so it would be great to get a book for him

Yeah I agree with a lot of this and I probably didn't elaborate my opinion enough. What I really refer to is the 'proactive' meaning. So while people see our name as having meaning because its 'our' name and they couldn't imagine us with any other name (like Observer said, which is a great point and I wouldn't have remembered it otherwise), which is the 'reactive' meaning, there is also the meaning that our parents chose before or just after we were born ('proactive') which seems generally absent from our original names.

This is a great topic to discuss, keep it going

Speaking of the heralds, in one of Dalinar's visions (the Nohadon one, I think), it is mentioned that people forgot the Heralds between desolations; if this is true, then that might be evidence for the parshmen are voidbringers theory; if they could forget the heralds, they could forget the cause of the desolations, right?

How can they forget the Heralds between Desolations if present Vorinism mentions them?

Does anyone know who draws the Uk covers? I'm curious.

Ah, my fault. I misread your tone (again). I think the "what ever" (that you failed to delete, I guess?) in the middle of your second sentence threw me off a bit.

To reiterate, don't worry Kythis, even though it's devastatingly complicated AS EASY AS BREATHING, it starts to make sense after a few days MOMENTS of study. Except be sure to watch out for the spikes OBEY THE ADMINS, OUR BENEVOLENT LORDS AND FRIENDS.

I can imagine this being written on the wall of some derelict Gulag in Siberia with a skeleton lying on the floor below it.

While Brandon RAFO'd the Szeth & the Oathstone question, I think it's just honor. For one thing, he thinks about disobeying the oathstone towards the end of the book. In one of his interludes, however, he mentions that if he disobeys the holder of his oathstone, then his soul will vanish, instead of being condemned to eternal torture. Brandon has pretty much said yes that Szeth's surgebinding doesn't require a spren. I think he gave the asker of the question a gold star...Right?

Correct. And the way you have put that reminds me of the Heralds' fate while between Desolations. Maybe there's a connection?

Sure if you have an uncommon name, Yamato, but what about the millions of people called 'William' or 'Samuel'? I'm confident in saying that most parents who call their child William do not name their child after a famous William, but simply think the name is a fairly good one that will be looked upon normally by other people. Even my name, which is very rare in the Uk, has no significance to my family or personality, or even my heritage (it is a Greek name, so I am named from a place I have never been).

I find it ironic how a name that we use on the internet for almost all of us has infinitely more meaning than our original names.

Tell me that's not the best name ever.

Truly

It would be great to know the reason behind everyone's usernames on the 17th Shard, though admittedly there are a few very obvious.

Mine, to start, is for two reasons. First, I like Straff Venture's evil style. Secondly, Straff comes quite close to my real name (Stefan).

So what about you?

Oracles burn electrum, actually. Malatium is unconfirmed.

My bad. Thesaurus.com engage!

Does anyone know what the '-ium' phonic means? Its used in a lot of contexts so I'm not sure (we get adonalsium and odium, but then we get atium too).

Could Sigzil be pretending not to know stuff? Maybe Hoid planted him on Bridge 4 to watch over Kal and make sure he fights Odium rather than joining him?

I really need to finish this second listen through... I can't remember enough of Sigzil's parts to speculate anything with a foundation...

Hoid told Kaladin to look over Sigzil, which seems an unlikely request if Sigzil himself was powerful enough to worldhop.

I think he might be aware of more than we have gleaned from him yet, though. I'd compare the knowledge he shows of Roshar to that of a Keeper from Scadrial, which might mean he knows something about the greater picture.

They're pretty sweet lessons, you have to admit.

Totally.

One must also consider that "there are metals that every allomancer can burn", from Q&A, I think. (Although not atium, weirdly enough. It may be that Atium only had mistings while it replaced temporal metals like bendalloy, and now that the table is complete it can be burned by anybody. Or not (speculating here)). What was the name for Malatium mistings, anyway?

Oracle perhaps? We don't know for certain.

You might already know this but theres a whole set of lectures like these on youtube, under the channel "writeaboutdragons". A lot of them are relevant to other parts of writing

It makes sense for Odium to splinter Honor so it can't just be taken up by the next person who walks by.

The Cosmere has some pretty amazing places to live, so I'd like to know you're choice of location on each of the four cosmere worlds.

Here's mine:

Scadrial - Tathingdwen - From what I hear the mountain scenery is pretty nice.

Roshar - Kasitor - Low risk of being crushed by highstorms or highprinces, and a view across the ocean.

Sel - Elantris - Where else?

Nalthis - T'Telir - Colourful and rich.