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My personal theory is that the extra power of the Ruin Shard was expended in modifying the koloss into a true breeding race of humans and modifying the mistwraiths back into kandra that don't need Hemalurgic spikes to maintain a coherent cognitive aspect. This obviously has implications for the impending atium respawn but I have no idea what that could be.
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I have a basic question Brandon might answer: Is spiritual DNA shaped like a helix?
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I'd like to know what the most over-the-top reaction from Team Sanderson has been when Brandon pops up with another novel for you all to send through the publishing pipeline.
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That last question is fantastic. Now I'm going to be thinking about anti-investiture and all of its applications, especially aluminium. The question about an Aluminum Gnat touching metal with a bloody hand is also a good one. I've often wondered if a Gnat could cut their hand, touch a bridge, and destroy it completely when they burn their metal.
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There is WoB somewhere which says that it is difficult to bond 2 spren, especially if the spren are of different orders. However, Brandon did leave some wiggle room that suggests that it may be theoretically possible.
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Miles Hundredlives was killed at the end of The Alloy of Law, and when he died he spoke a phrase that was reminiscent of the death rattles seen on Roshar. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=948 has a question asked by Mason Wheeler: I would be interested to know if we'll get any clues about what Miles was talking about when he died, and if it really was a death rattle, or if it was something else.
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I asked for it several weeks ago, just prior to Brandon's departure for the Firefight tour, and haven't received it yet. -
Brandon Sanderson got bored one day and started doodling on a crumpled napkin with a mostly-dry pen. The resulting novella won three awards and spawned a subreddit and two new sub forums on the 17th Shard. Brandon Sanderson knows where Waldo is. Not because Waldo told him but because Brandon wrote down where he wanted Waldo to be, and Waldo was there. Brandon Sanderson got bored one night and scribbled a stick figure onto a rough piece of cardboard with a blunt crayon. The resulting MtG card became more valuable than the Black Lotus and had to be banned in tournament play because it was so awesome that opponents kept conceding after it was played.
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Brandon Sanderson creates diamonds for his wife by placing a piece of coal under one of his manuscripts. The coal is crushed almost immediately. Brandon Sanderson Dropped one of his manuscripts once. The United States Geological Survey made him promise never to do that ever again. Brandon Sanderson wrote a novel so quickly one time that the resulting friction melted his keyboard. Brandon Sanderson knows why the answer is 42.
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This is amazing. All the up votes! Brandon Sanderson understands Foucault's Pendulum. Brandon Sanderson created a magic system that solved the traveling salesman problem, just so that the books of his favorite authors could get delivered to bookstores more efficiently!
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Brandon Sanderson accidentally flouted Kürt Godel's incompleteness theorem with one of his magic systems. Brandon Sanderson is not allowed to stay in Utah diring a snowstorm. The last time he did so, thousands of trees died to provide the paper to print the resulting novels. Brandon Sanderson wrote the ending of The Neverending Story.
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Brandon Sanderson once made a thunderstorm change direction by threatening to write a novella that disclaimed its existence. The thunderstorm was diverted so hard that it rained out in one minute and dissipated immediately. The resulting water irrigated the entire state of Utah for a week. Brandon Sanderson had writers block once. It was the worst ten seconds of his life. Brandon Sanderson created a magic system that solved P=NP.
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Brandon Sanderson wrote Words of Radiance by cutting down a tree and slicing it into sheets of paper. When he did so, the first draft of the story was already there. Brandon Sanderson already won all the Hugos, but he ran out of space to display them so he gave them away. Brandon Sanderson accidentally recorded a 16-hour Writing Excuses podcast that was so awesome it spontaneously created three Bestsellers. Brandon Sanderson doesn't need electricity to power his computer. The stories are so awesome that they warp reality and spontaneously generate electricity. The electricity he doesn't use runs the printing presses at Tor. Brandon Sanderson once walked through a bindery with a worn pencil, a single sheet of paper, and a pocket dictionary. The bindery burneD to the ground, but no one was harmed because they fled when they saw Brandon coming.
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Plot to Destroy Adonalsium - CONFIRMED BY BRANDON
TheOneKEA replied to imriel452's topic in Cosmere Discussion
I like the idea that Adonalsium's divine hatred played a part in its Shattering, but entropy is hardly an undesirable Intent when it is joined with the rest; it's only when it is separated from the rest that it becomes undesirable. -
What object would be moving towards them? I'm envisioning a 100m to 300m runway with a great big metallic blast shield at one end, and the Twinborn would push on that Allomantically to get started down the straightaway. The big question here is now the Twinborn in this case would impart that momentum to the object they're pushing, because muscle power isn't going to work very well.
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Someone should ask Brandon if a Drab on Scadrial is more likely to Snap and gain allomantic powers.
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There is WoB that synesthesia on Nalthis would not affect anyone who had the condition until that person reached the Fifth Heightening, at which point things would get "really weird".
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I was thinking about the WoB where Brandin said that a double steel Twinborn can move pretty fast but that they would eventually have problems due to friction. This made me wonder if a double steel Twinborn could move fast enough that they could launch an object into the air, like an ultralight aircraft, by pushing it down a straightaway to get it up to the necessary speed. I also wonder if a TwinSteel Metallic Catapult as manufactured by the Southern Scadrians could be used to launch bigger objects, like a jet-sized aircraft.
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*fanboy flailing* Brandon is amazing. I am so very much looking forward to these 2 books.
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I once asked the question "How many lumens does it take to reach the center of Shadesmar?", so I think it is reasonable to use that unit of measurement. Does Brandon actually have any passages in which the size and shape of the gems and spheres is directly linked to the light emitted?
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Whooooooooooaaaaaaa. I can't believe Brandon revealed so much!!!!! The Stormfather's existence as a cognitive shadow makes so much sense. When he told Dalinar that he would not be a simple sword, he meant it! Maybe the Stormfather isn't actually capable of becoming a Blade, because he's not actually a spren! Also, it makes it even easier to think about why the Cognitive Realm is so dangerous on Sel. There may be TWO cognitive shadows wandering around attacking everything They can reach...
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Wow! That question about Nightblood's sheath is AMAZING. And the question about Reod Elantrians and Shardblades is SUPER AMAZING.
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Do Honorblades consume Innate Investiture?
TheOneKEA replied to TheOneKEA's topic in Stormlight Archive
That's reasonable. The only reason why I even thought about this was because of Nalan's in-universe characterization of Nightblood as a Shardblade and the WoB describing Nightblood as a very powerful Blade. Since the Honorblades are also supposed to be very powerful, the similarities stood out to me. Someone going to the Orem signing tomorrow should ask Brandon if Honorblades are dangerous in ways other than what Syl described to Kaladin. A question like the thread title will probably get insta-RAFO'd. -
I was thinking about the connections between Warbreaker and The Stormlight Archive and I stumbled on an interesting fact. We have WoB that Nightblood will kill its wielder by consuming the wielder's Innate Investiture, which can include the wielder's Spiritual aspect (in whole or in part). We also have textev that Honorblades consume dangerous amounts of Stormlight. This suggests to me that if an Honorblade is wielded in the same way that Nightblood can be, it will eventually kill its wielder. Does anyone think this is plausible?
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Someone very badly needs to send this to Peter Ahlstrom. I can picture Brandon laughing until he can't breathe at this thread. 10/10, would read again!
