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TO: All Silverlight staff and students, here is growing list of the classes that will be offered this Spring at Silverlight University. Art 160: Analysis of Cosmere Art. Art 170: Drawing Art 240: Selish Art-Investure connection Art 480: Preserving Art from the Court of the Gods, a Personal view from Professor Scoot. Accounting 378: Economic costs of Invested Abilities. Taught by Professor Steris Ladrian Anthro 100: Cultures of the Cosmere Anthro 220: Religions resulting from faulty historical filters. Taught by Professor Jasnah Kholin and Professor Lightsong. Bio 185: Overview of invested Flora and Fauna Bio 190: Surviving non-Scadrian field trips. Class equipment list includes sliver knife, aluminum dueling canes, and a gun. Note: Due to the inherent danger of the Threnody unit, all students have to sign a waver. Bio 215: Rosharian ecology Bio 235: Taldainian ecology Bio 240: Effects of investure on Human Anatomy and Physiology Bio 270: Singer Anatomy and Physiology Bio 275: Kandra Anatomy and Physiology. Taught by Professor Lann Bio 345: Vaxian microbiology Bio 400: Field Study of First of the Sun's Flora and Fauna: Prerequisites Include Bio 190 Business 380: Allomancy and sales. Chem 230: Metallurgy Chem 235: Allomantic Metallurgy Chem 350: Aonic transformative chemistry Chem 490/590: Chemistry of Soulcasting: All students are required to either have a soulcaster or be bonded to an inkspren or cryptic by the second week of class. Soulcasters can be rented from the book store. Computer Science 130: Creating Intelligence. All students are required to have the proper aluminum coated gloves for interaction with the TA. Taught by TA Nightblood Engr 120: Bridge design Engr 245: Rifles and anti-Allomancy weaponry. Taught by Dr. Ranette Engr 370: Airship design and construction lab Engr 450: Aonic computer design Fab Engr 265: Fabrial engines: Taught by Professor Navani Kholin with labs being run by the Ardents. Investure 101: Basic Realmic Theory. CoReq: with Bio 190 Investure 102: Manifestations of Investure on Major Shard Worlds Investure 103: Manifestations of Investure on Minor Shard Worlds Investure 205: The Metallic Arts. Guest Lecturer: Harmony, Formerly know as Sazed of Terris. Investure 215: Awakening and Biochromatic Breath. Taught by Professor Zahel Investure 225: Surgebinding. Colectured by Professor Dalinar Kholin, Professor Lift (if she happens to show up), and Professor Teft Investure 300: Hacking the Investure systems. Colectured by Professor Zahel, Professor Kelsier, and The Dean of Research, Lady Khriss Investure 450/Bio 450: Advanced Hemalurgic Theory Invested Engr 335: Aonic programming and development. Rotating lecturers from Sel. Note: All final projects have to be submitted to the Elantrians for Safety Testing. We do not want a repeat of the the killer swimming pool incident. Psyc 101: Wayne's world (of hats) Psyc 345: Singer forms and their effect on mental processes. Taught by Professor Venli Psyc 560: Lightweaving and Emotional Damage Physics 212: Allomancy Physics 309: Physical laws in the Cognitive Realm Physics 315: Gravitation. Taught by Professor Sezth and TA Nightblood PE 101: Shard Dueling: Shardblades can be rented from the books store or checked out from the rec center PE 106: Target Practice. Taught by Professor Venture of the Political Science Department Polisci 101: Governmental Theory: Taught by Professor Venture Polisci 210: How to rule without even trying. Taught by Professor Lightsong Polisci 400: Winning Friends and using assassins to take out the rest. Taught by Guest Lecturers Taravangien and Straff Venture Spren 101: Spren Identification Spren 200: The Nahel Bond Spren 350: Fabrials Spren 480: Spren society Theft 101: Con artist and Nobles: Taught by Professor Ladrian the Older Theft 205: Best place to stick a knife in a nobleman: Taught by Guest lecturer Kelsier Theft 315: Forgery. Taught by Professor Shai I am too tired to write any more. Please add more classes. All of Silverlight thanks you. Edit: I added some Mistborn stuff.

Given the time gap between OB and SA 4, it is likely we will see many new fabrial weapons in the next book.

That makes a lot of sense actually. If most of them where as weird as Renarian, then it would make sense that they channeled their grief into something that came close to replicating their old abilities.

One of my friends gave me an Oathstone. Merry Christmas to all.

Merry Christmas to all of you.

I do not think that F-Gold is actually health/healing. There is WoB on this somewhere. Also, it is tied to your spiritweb but I think it is the connection between your physical self and your spiritual self. I think health in the cosmere in general is that connection as well. Imagine this connection as a pipe. When you store "health" in a gold mind, the flow through that pipe decreases. When you tape a gold mind, the flow increases. When you breath in Stormlight, that flow increases, which is why you can regrow limbs and such. Now the shape of that "pipe" is what determines how much is healed and if the healing works and is regulated by Identity. Other magic systems that heal such as Aon Dor do something similar but I do not know the mechanics of it.

Elf on the shelf is creepy enough as it is, I do not want it turning into a Chucky sort of scenario.

Its Christmas season in the Cosmere, even though they do not have Christmas. Scadrial: Parents tell their children that if they are good, the Survivor and his crew will leave baywraps, small amounts of coins, or little vials of metals at the fire place or foot of the bed at the winter solstice. Death will visit if the children are bad and steal them away if they are bad. Harmony and the Kandra tell the Survivor and Death which children have been bad or good that year and are most often disguised as either a wolfhound or a Terris delivery man. Nathlis: Warbreaker the peaceful brings a huge tree into town and hands out food to those who are hungry, but beware the sword on his back, for he uses it to smite the rich who try and cheat the poor. Sel: The Elantrians hold a light festival in which the whole city modified with an Aon that turns it red and green for a week. It is literally lit up like a Christmas tree. Roshar: In Alethikar, Kelek will randomly build toys for children, Jezrien can be seen slaying Voidbringers at the darkest hour of the night, and Taln can be seen hauling the weapons of his enemies to distribute to his soldiers. In Azar, the child who writes the best essay and fills out his or her forms correctly gets to pick out a gift from a hat. in Urithiru, Shallan and the ardents soulcast a huge vat of mulled purple wine, Kaladin and Bridge Four dress up as an Iri myth of a man in a red and blue suit who has a cart pulled by Axehounds who distributes gifts to all the children. Adolin and Renarian are the helpers of Santnas claus. Dalinar locks himself in his office because he thinks the lights are a waste of Stormlight and has a war to plan. Lift attempts to eat all the food and Navani makes some Fabrials that give off a happy feeling. Syl dresses up with a little flopply hat that has bells. Pattern looks like a snowflake. The Stormfather does not care as long as Dalinar does not start singing.

I concur, most of the people on both sides are not bad, they are just following orders and hoping to survive TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It). That is why Kaladin is having such a hard time fighting, he sees that most of the people fighting are not evil. There are genuinely good and evil people on Roshar. Dalinar is currently a good person as are Bridge Four. The Fused and Odium are evil, so much so that they do not care about their forces beyond supplying them with an endless wave of helpless meat puppets.

"The protection of the many is more important than the protection of the few."

The thing is, I know people like Lopen, who have a very similar personality. Not to rain on your parade or anything, but from my experience, Lopen's comedy shtick is an actual thing.

Shallan has grown on me as a character since rereading WoR, but I still want to see her demise used to make Adolin into an Edgedancer (preferably sooner rather than later). I also think that Kaladin will swear his 4th Oath at the same time. She is not that great of a character and a great conclusion to either the middle or end of the 4th book or the beginning of the 5th book would be Shallan being obliterated by an Unmade and making Adolin and Kaladin progress as characters.

His arc is not complete. Sure, his OB arc was, but his overall arc from healer to warrior to ruler/leader is not complete. I think at minimum it will end in STA5 but not before then. I think he will struggle with the 4th Oath for a while. I think it has to do with his attachments and letting go of those so that he can lead on a bigger scale. I think that will take him a while, one or one and a half books at least. Also, I expect him to survive into the second half of the series.

Well, we are not sure exactly what nicrosil can do. Sure, it can store investure and an ability, and we have a few WoBs describing that. But actually seeing what it can truly do has not come up yet. I highly doubt that its true purpose is to be used as a battery for the other abilities.

Yes and no. It would unlike anything in the physical realm, but it would work similar to how allomancy pulls investure from the spiritual realm through the metal being burned and into the physical realm effect. This works similarly, only the nicrosil metal mind acts as a focus of sorts and the user pulls the investure out into a blade or plate form.

The investure is part of the spiritweb, it just requires a nicrosil compounder to bring it out and force it into a usable shape instead of using it to power allomancy or feruchemy. The investure would become a shardblade and appear in a form like a sprenblade.

I agree, I doubt that Scadrian Blades would have the cutting ability of a Rosharian blade. Rosharian blades were designed to kill things like Thunderclasts and heavily armored foes, A scadrian blade would most likely be a counter to such blades while giving the user an ability or set of abilities from allomancy or feruchemy. I still think that summoning and dismissing is possible through creative use of nicrosil. Intelligence, likely.

@Wit4EVRJust to let you know, check the date on a thread before commenting. Try not to necro a thread, its just an etiquette thing, not that I am not guilty of it too. Also, this has been resolved in Oathbringer. Just to let you know. Welcome to the Shard.

I am not sure that I want a angry time bubble with Wayne's personality running around.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Iron and Steel allomancy are not using some weird form of magnetism or gravitation. As described in BoM when Wax and Marasi are holding the bands, humans and metals are the same thing. Given that they can both pull investure from the spiritual realm, I think that is what it means. It also means that pushes and pulls are the allomancer manipulating their inherent spiritual connection to the metal. Which might also explain why the line emit from a point higher than the center of gravity. The investure pulled through the focus forms a bridge between Allomancer and Metal, that bridge can then be manipulated to do things. This works with aluminum because aluminum is an investure sink, so the allomancer would just be pouring investure into it without forming the bridge. And a metalmind or hemalurgic spike resists because it is invested and there for the allomancer has a harder time forming and manipulating the bridge between themselves and the invested metal.

That may be one of the various applications that require a mechanical usage of Allomancy.

Kelsier is not a shard, he is an agent of Harmony and sort of a sliver. Sorry to burst your bubble.

The titles of the books so far have corresponded with titles of books in-universe. The Series title, Stormlight Archive, is similar and actually tells us about the series as a whole. The Stormlight Archive, otherwise known as the gem library, is a massive information storage device and the books(gems) contained with in are the story of Roshar. The Archive is the back up for Human/Rosharian society. What ever is happening next, most likely at the end of the first five book cycle, will be cause for the archive to be used in some way that goes beyond what we have seen so far. It is possible that the Archive is a way/holds instruction for Dalinar's Radiants to get off world if things go down hill in the fight against Odium. It is noted in the books that Urithiru has alien architecture. It is not from an another planet, but it is the societal escape pod that the humans or the Heralds build in case they lost the war against the Singers. I think the archive originated as a instruction manual for the operation of the city. The reason that the walls look like they have gemstones is that they do. The gemstones in the walls act as a way for the city to not fall apart when it lifts off. It is a structural integrity/life support/defense system/computer system that spreads through out the whole of Urithiru. We know that some of the Heralds were not born on Roshar, I am willing to bet Kelek is the one who built it, possibly before he became a herald. I am also willing to bet that it is based on the design of the floating cities of Ashyn. Given that the city is possibly a ship it would explain why the Oathgates are all centered at Urithiru. The Oathgates are not for trade, they are to allow the human population to escape when Odium decides to commit genocide against the humans and end the fight once and for all. That is why they can operate with only one shardholder and why they have to be unlocked at each of the gates instead of from Urithiru. Additionally, that explains why they are so large and also why the control room can transport on its own. I am willing to bet that the Oathpact and whatever else that holds Odium back was in response to Odium preparing to wipe out humans once and for all. Which is why the Heralds made the pact with Honor and Urithiru was not used. Just like the origin of shardblades was lost, so was the origin and true purpose of Urithiru. The Radiants started using it as a base because it was isolated and the life support systems functioned enough so as to allow humans to live there. Even the old Radiants did not know exactly what they where living in. When the Alethi find the tunnel leading out of the basement and into the surrounding mountains, that is not an escape route, that is an exhaust port for what ever engine allows the city to fly. The gem column is probably a part of the engine/reactor that lifts/sustains the city. The unmade was somehow feeding off of that, which is why it was in the basement attached to the gem pillar. I think the Sibling might be some sort of Spren based AI, which is why it is crucial for the functioning of the city. The pillar, the lifts, and the gemstones in the walls remind me of Atlantis from Stargate: Atlantis. Down to the life support that functions without the city being active. I also think that Ash may be responsible for all of the current problems on Roshar. That story that Hoid tells Shallan about the girl who climbed the wall is about Ash leaving the ship/base of the humans when they landed and been given Shinovar. The light that came in was Stormlight, which might have allowed the humans to regain control of their Surgebinding like powers and is why the Singers went to war with the humans. The Singers did not want to see their world destroyed, so they decided to wipe out the humans, that hatred of the humans is what led Odium to taking their side and creating the Fused. The war must have destroyed the human ship, which is why Kelek built Urithiru as a way for the humans to escape. It is also why the Cryptics, which are tied to constants of the universe, bonded the Lightweavers and require them to say Truths instead of Ideals. It is because the Truths are meant to restore what was lost instead of build something new like the rest of the Radiant orders. The Lightweavers are also the key to running Urithiru because their truths restore, which is why Shallan was able to remove the Midnight Mother from the gem column because she is tied to the city by virtue of her order that reflects Ash the Herald. I know this sounds very far fetched, but think about all the information we have so far. The archive is not just an archive, it is an investure powered computer. That is what ties all of this together.

I disagree with Scadrial being a low investure planet, I think there is less ambient investure because the shard(s) that build the planet poured most of their accessible investure into the planet and its people. Remember, Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial and the humans on that world from scratch, which is why Ruin could change the writing on paper and in metal minds, but Odium and Honor can't change the information in the Way of Kings or in the gem archive. That is an awesome Idea, a shard weapon that has the same effect of a shardblade, only you can take out a target from a mile away.

Living Shardplate can be summoned and dismissed at will, as evidenced by the Windrunner in Dalinar's visions.