Ripheus23
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The best thing is not to narrow down your ideas but to train your mind to juggle larger and larger numbers of ideas at a time. When you reach that stage, you will be able to build entire universes (meaning: sets of local religions, lists of named wars, categories of spells, linguistic flows, species of plants and animals and elsewise, and so on and on and on) at the drop of a hat. (I'm not joking, btw. The filter at the end of all this is: you'll just have to up and make a choice as to which built world you want to actually commit to paper at some given time.)
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Maybe there are Shin like Jasnah who can go over? I can't remember if Elsecallers can "stay" in Shadesmar at will...
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I think the Honorblades are on Roshar, but I'm probably wrong somehow like if they are in Shadesmar...
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Maybe the Ghostbloods initiate their presence on a world by finding people with Connection to the concepts of ghosts and blood, so show up on Threnody in one context, Scadrial in another, Roshar thusly, etc. ...
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Brandon Sanderson Oh, and I'm not exactly certain why the Three Virgins were surprised. However, this line from Kiin always cracks me up. I think of three virgins, think of them very surprised, and. . .yeah. Anyway, I'm sure they got more than they expected. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/133/#e2037
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Umm the Three Virgins are mentioned in Elantris. They are probably Sel's moons but I'm suspicious.
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We know Autonomy has Avatars, whatever those are. What if there are many other Avatars out there, including as survivors of otherwise dead Vessels/Shards? Guesses: Nohadon was an Avatar of Honor. Nightblood is an Avatar of Ruin. Austre was an Avatar of Endowment. Jaddeth/the original Wyrn are/were Avatars of Dominion. The Three Virgins were Avatars of Devotion. The Evil is an Avatar of Ambition. Odium doesn't seem like a guy who'd want Avatars, at least if those pose a personal-independence risk... EDIT: Define: Hoid = Avatar(Hoid)
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OMG what if Nohadon was an Avatar of Honor?!
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Otoh Shallan is obviously the Nynaeve of this world so who knows
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The Ceryneian unicorn
Obscure unicorn-theoretic being that resembles a deer more than a horse.
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If Unity is a being who has never before existed, who was not yet killed therefore, why would Odium be like, "We killed you!"?
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The Stormlight Archives, in which the cuendillar seals abandon one of their members to Shayol Ghul until going crazy and becoming main characters after the Dark One is *possibly* beaten. Discuss.
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Stick wielding Nightblood.
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There's an archaic use of the word "passion" that would fit with Odium's known nature, though not necessarily for Odium's explanation for his use of the term. Also, it's a use that, though archaic, Sanderson has a pretty good chance of knowing (the example I'm thinking of is a peculiar section from Pilgrim's Progress), although whether he really does and really applied that knowledge, here, I can speculate on and not much more for now...
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I'm surprised no one has said fearspren
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I should have said, "Either Szeth and Nale will be the contest-champions, or their square-off will be one of many that would seem like candidates for the championship fight, without ultimately being the thing." OTOH Szeth and Nale (and with SA book 5 being Szeth-centric?) sound like a right good combo for the ultimate (midpoint) endgame.
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The Physical and Cognitive Realms are their geometries, so to say; the Spiritual Realm is only symbolized by geometrical relations? EDIT: Or, to put it mystically, the P/C Rs are symbols of the SR
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What if Nohadon was Odium's son somehow? Actually, what if the evil champion Is Mr. T and Dalinar, whose own champion in the 'personal hero' sense Nohadon, out of wishful thinking decided to appoint Nohadon as the champion against Odium, which would resurrect Nohadon, and Idk... Two robed politicians fighting or what haha
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Could the USAF be an "inherently criminal organization"?
I will admit, my initial reaction to the "Storm Area 51" meme included a peculiar ambivalence. I had become accustomed to thinking of America's nuclear/"national-security" administrations as the major criminal organizations in the government due to e.g. Bomb Power by Gary Wills. So if I was going to think of a particular branch of the military as contaminated by those criminal forces, at this point I would have pointed at the US Navy on the grounds that (a) the Trident submarines are the most demonic weapons the US has (as far as I know) and (b) I live about 45 minutes from the town where the major Trident base is located (the Poulsbo/Bangor area, near the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton)---so the image of the Trident submarines is called to my mind on a regular basis as such. (Unfortunately, also, my dad was a nuclear submariner back in the 80s and one of my two main managers at work is also a former nuclear submariner.)
Now this is actually a little peculiar, otherwise, since my obsession with the Vietnam War USED to prompt me to fixate on the USAF as especially symbolic of what is worst about the US military government. In fact, I had a theory that because the separation of the USAF from the US Army was mediated in part by America's role in the corruption of the Geneva Conventions (the pre-70s exclusion of air-war regulations therein), and because the USAF had so meticulously carried out the holocaust of Vietnam, then by the Nuremberg standards there seemed to be grounds for believing that the USAF is an inherently criminal organization, one where even just joining is a crime, then.
Now, we don't know what kind of higher-end physics weapons-system development is actually going on at Area 51. It could be reverse-engineering of alien technology, I suppose, although until there is a strong working model of FTL (besides the Alcubierre hypothesis, say) I will remain exactly skeptical of the idea. But we know that they are working on higher-end physics-based weapons of some kind there, because that's just what the government does, after all. And since it is a sin to try to use the powers of creation to create these means of destruction as such, we know that some of the people at Area 51 are sinning, and indeed it appears that people there who are exposed to dangerous materials are treated badly (I remember hearing about this years ago, though the details escape me), for example.
It's also worth noting that the Dugway Proving Ground, another (international law-wise) criminal setup (because they work on chemical and biological weapons there), is not terribly far from the Area 51 region. Apparently DPG is administered by the Army, though, but anyway the point is there's a little constellation of darkness in this area of the US, so...
... it would not be unfitting...
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What if the final contest is Szeth vs. Nale? I'm sure this has been suggested before but otherwise... EDIT: OTOH, maybe we'd have a series of battles between opposed characters like in A Memory of Light, and Szeth and Nale would be one of many, like Kaladin and Vyre, Dalinar and Ishar, Shallan and an Unmade, Stormfather vs. an Unmade, Nightwatcher vs. an Unmade, the Sibling vs. an Unmade, etc.?
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Perhaps Honor knew he would die and so planned for a new Vessel, and Nohadon was to be that Vessel? If you think about it, Nohadon is like all the good in Kaladin plus all the good in Dalinar, maybe...
