Ripheus23

I feel bad not to remember this but is it possible for kandra to look like parts of a body and not a whole body? Or, suppose you had a small enough kandra, for whatever reason... Could the kandra on Roshar(?) be hiding as someone's body part?

The cutest thing is a dragon in human form, no arms, except enough cremlings have joined as one right or left arm, and a kandra has formed an opposite arm.

Storm Sanderson's mind, it can't stop us all EDIT: I know Sanderson later said that surviving was only tangential to the Shard's Intent but here he seems to indicate that the Intent really is something like Hidvival or Surhiding or whatever, which isn't "tangentially" about surviving but constitutively about that... so... The alternative there is that "to hide" is the Intent (a Shard of Isolation?), so surviving is just a means to hiding. So maybe now the Shard realizes that if it died, it could "hide" in the Beyond, as it were, which would be the closest to ultimate Isolation it could reach. BUT that alternative violates the precept, "The Vessels don't automatically apply their Intents to themselves." Of course, maybe this is a Shard that has succumbed to its Intent, or whatever, so it is now self-applying the Intent. However, the next idea would otherwise be: the Intent has to do with hiding and surviving inferentially (the meaning of "tangentially" here, as in a geometric/logical tangent, not an "irrelevant sidestep"?), which is where some of the Wisdom equation comes from? I haven't read over the arguments for Wisdom here so IDK but at least assuming a kind of "normal" prudential wisdom might lead to hiding in order to survive. BUT!!! that won't work either, probably? If this Shard is Wisdom, and if Shards don't automatically self-apply their Intents, then we don't have to assume that Wisdom would wisely try to hide and survive?

All of our theories will prove true at least in the sense that in book 12,315 of the saga, we will find out that characters throughout the series have entertained some form of all our theories off and on, all along.

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We usually use it as in, "I got spooked by..." which (probably?) started out as a reference to "seeing ghosts" but now is (usually?) used to refer to when people are doing something clandestine/covert/w/e and they notice someone or something "questionable" and so they abandon their task because they "got spooked." EDIT: So if you think about it, it's the perfect name for a Ghostblood!

It's at least an exercise like conlanging... IDK I have built so many random worlds IDK what to do with them

You're right, "ghost" and "spook" and "specter" are all related. Along with "wraith" and "shade" and "apparition" and so on, although the actual words, not their meanings, are more linked there. And we (Americans) picked up on "poltergeist," too, which goes to "geist" to "ghost."

At the risk of ontological madness I will avow, that the concept of cuteness I would apply to a "cutest being in general" would not be the same as the one I would apply to my girlfriend(?), on pain of spiritual pollution I can only begin to describe

Lifespren?

Your idea for the intro/trigger notion of the magic was really cool

Scientifically, the more helpless something is, the cuter it is, so from an external POV Moash is the most helpless (so many fans want him dead!) so ipso facto presto chango Moash is the cutest being in the cosmere.

What if Odium turns into a werewolf???

The twist is that when Kaladin takes up Honor, he reinterprets it as Sadness...

Unless atium "secretly" encodes infinite power, and a lesser degree of infinity than some other (then we could at least finitely evaluate the steps it takes to traverse from one rank of infinity to another, so to speak), though?

Or to some independent super-axis? In the first case, the relation between Realms is like that between the real and the complex numbers, with a third axis of the origin reflected up to another dimension (the Spiritual). In the second case, all the Realms are perpendicular to the Beyond (presumably), into which we cannot voyage as mortals. IDK what the sum of the texts say though the light-ray analogy suggests general perpendicularity with the Beyond, but the ability to jump over Shadesmar, through the Spiritual Realm, or vice versa, and so on, seems to relate the Realms more directly.

I forgot to add that the Lord Ruler is balanced on the other tip of Nightblood.

I know it's said to be a "dwarf galaxy cluster microsubset" kind of thing, and some of the systems are visible from others directly as such. However... What if the Spiritual nonlocality principle means that it's possible to subsume star systems, into the cosmere, with discontiguous transit from system to system? The cosmere itself, then, is just a very special subset of all star systems in the universe [or at least the local galaxy, maybe]. The Set, arguably, would be self-aware of this enough to where they deem the fact important enough to name themselves after, on some level, maybe. Also, if the question of the Continuum Hypothesis exists in the cosmere, and among the Set, what if the Shards are defined as having "countably infinite" power and Adonalsium had "uncountably infinite" power? And unlocking the Continuum Hypothesis would play a role in gaining access to greater Shardic powers? It's said in a WoB (I think) that people are watching the Sel situation closely. Let's suppose the landscape goes fully sentient/sapient/w/e and as a recursively living incarnation of a magic system based on the "code" of reality itself: maybe the ensouled nations would learn how to resolve the Continuum Hypothesis...

I am hoping that the Dawnshards turn out to sort of be objects of the kinds we've seen so far. I don't think they are sa'angreal, even of Choedan Kal magnitude say, for Stormlight; it seems more like the Honorblades represent a similar enough function, plus if you're IN the highstorm... So, it seems possible that what the Dawnshards are is given from the text as it stands, plus WoBs. Like, if we could possibly guess some core motive thing about the Ghostbloods cosmere-wise, from such info, why not the Dawnshards? Let's assume that this is not literal enough to be taken literally as it stands. The theme is motion towards a spiritual reality. We know that there had to be a way to get the Ashynites to Roshar. There was a way to destroy a whole planet, from which the whole remainder of the planet went (minus stragglers and tough-it-outers). What if those were somehow one and the same? The Dawnshards, let's suppose, were a means of Spiritual transit like the Oathgates are for Shadesmar, but that as they were used, they began to devastate the surface of Ashyn. Without the Dawnshards, then, no one can open a perpendicularity in a controlled state such that stable "transit" to Odium's Spiritweb "pocket dimension" is possible. So without the Dawnshards, the Rosharans seem doomed. However, they also pose an immense risk in themselves (just like the Choedan Kal, as it turns out!). This would also explain why people think of Ashyn as the Tranquiline Halls: the Dawnshard-temple-gateway structures were the Halls. QED? [P.S.: this amounts to a prediction that at some point the characters might open a portal to Odium's Spiritweb, via a Dawnshard, and try to "attack" him using mass power Surges which would be an interesting scene, but I imagine that this would be like when they fire that super-laser at Sephiroth/Meteor in FF7...] EDIT: [to the above scene possibility prediction: but maybe they could send the spren into the portal. Let's imagine that they try to channel the Everstorm and the highstorm at the same time, through the Dawnshard, into Odium, but this doesn't work (like it didn't work to laser-hit Sephiroth/Meteor), makes things worse maybe even, so voila a deluge of spren appears to flood through the gate into Odium, to transpower his idea that he is "Passion" (since the spren are passions, if you will), which might be like ] EDIT 2: Revised theory: the Dawnshards are the ten maximums of ten types of magic object. So a maximum Blade, a maximum Plate, a maximum Soulcaster, a maximum Oathgate, ... although I can't clearly think of ten types of magic objects in the SA, as such...

What if, before the Dawnshard cataclysm, most human Ashynites, or some large enough number of them, or whatever, lived in the Cognitive Realm of Ashyn? It seems (I think per WoB) that the Ashynites came to Roshar via Shadesmar. So wild idea: the Dawnshards do something in/to/with the Cognitive Realm. Like, they're not just Surge-weapons, but Perpendicularity-weapons, or what. EDIT: OK so I guess the WoB says something about the Spiritual Realm. So revised: Dawnshards are Spiritual weapons that directly damage Shadesmar, which damage gets transferred to a Physical planet?

OTOH it's a hell of a possibility to throw in.

No, the answer is that Lirin is going to become the next holder of the Shard of Honor edit: and Cultivation is going to pass her power to Hesina [or Cultivation is Hesina!]. Edit 2: And the residue of Tien will merge with the Sibling to become the next holder of Odium Kaladin must kill his resurrected brother to save Roshar Will he do it?!?!?!