Ripheus23

The names of the gate cities are the names of the direction-Aons.

This isn't so, or else the 1st Law of Thermodynamics wouldn't apply to the real universe in the first place. Secondly, the mere fact that people can see stars from outside the Cosmere, disproves the no-access idea, since photons from those stars must be radiating into the Cosmere. EDIT: Also, gravitons from outside the Cosmere must affect the curvature of space inside the Cosmere, since gravity is universalish like that.

I was gonna say that *upvotes*

I wonder if the Ghostbloods want to become like Nightblood in some weird way. Or alternative versions of something similar... like... IDK, maybe they're like transhumanists, but instead of becoming part-robot, they wanna become part robot-spren?

Well as I said, if Vasher was right and it would've been possible to make more Nightbloods, and if it takes Edgli's darkness to do so, she could've only siphoned off part of her darkness in this case.

It had everything to do with humor, sirrah.

Elsewhere, I have proposed a theory that the Shards each hold some Spiritual "darkness" within themselves, that was supposed to be cleansed from them. I base this on the surprising coincidence between the words and concepts in the following (Answer to Job), and the Cosmere overnarrative: There's a WoB that says Endowment was at least a little more involved, maybe, in the creation of Nightblood, than just as the general source of Awakening-magic or whatever. So, theory: Endowment transferred some/all of the evil part of herself, into the sword, which is what went "horribly wrong." (Granted, whatever went horribly wrong was something that Vasher was afraid could happen again, so I'll go with "transferred some" instead of "all" for now.)

Proof, you say? Evidence? Reason? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_noodle: So, as of "now" in the Cosmere, Taldain has achieved 1950s-level technology while Scadrial is still in Wild-West time-territory. Which means that there is a chance that they will gain computers and later FTL, ahead of Scadrial's schedule (barring disasters on this unidentified world).

I have recently had two dreams in which I used a Cosmere magic system. One, I was playing an Awakened violin (I have no idea how to play a violin IRL), the other I was drawing Aons. The violin dream was more vivid but the sense of impending power was greater in the Aon dream. So... I'm still going with Awakening.

Good catch.

Well there are a finite number of stars in the Cosmere, so yes. But the surrounding universe, if it is expanding, is indefinite in scale (although matter is thinning out then). It's probably not absolutely infinite since then there would be an infinite amount of matter in it (to fill all of its infinity---a finite amount of matter in an infinite universe would "thin out" to infinity, which is the Big Rip scenario). Is it expanding? If the physics of the Cosmere cosmos are the same as ours, "just" +Investiture, then presumably yes.

Well, there are only 100 solar systems maximum, in the Cosmere, so unless there are only a maximum of about 100 stars in any given sky (plus a few in cases of binary star systems)... But actually I think the AU star chart is confirmed to have non-Cosmere stars in it, or something like that. EDIT: So if the real universe is indefinite/infinite, so is the Cosmere universe, plus Spiritual power (which very likely would do nothing at all to deter the cosmos from being infinite!).

Yeah but there's a theory in-universe that Adonalsium created the entire universe, not just the Cosmere (I think). The Cosmere is the only region in which Adonalsium has specifically Invested, it would seem, but as Calderis notes:

Analytic philosophy. I don't remember the mule reference but the barn facade talk is from a thought experiment about the reliability of perception: suppose you are driving through a region with a lot of barn facades and one real barn. You see the real barn and conclude, "There's a barn here." Your judgment is based on a reliable form of knowledge-acquisition (perception) and it is a true belief, but it seems mere luck that you concluded, "There's a barn here," on the basis of the sole real barn in the area, so do you actually know that there's a barn there? EDIT: Either that or you see one of the facades and judge, "There's a barn here," which is still technically true due to the non-facade, but... I think these are called "Gettier cases" or "Gettier examples."

The Sibling is a spren, Urithiru is not a spren, unless Urithiru is the equivalent of a spren-blade, but then Bondsmiths don't get Blades and the Sibling is related to the Bondsmiths so... IDK.

I honestly don't know what the AA's are for besides flavor. I usually read them after I finish the book, I think, maybe Elantris was an exception due to the Aons but that was about three or so years ago so I don't remember... EDIT: Although now that I think of it, I'm having a quasi-flashback to reading the AA in Warbreaker before the rest of the book.

This might be true in one respect, quantity-wise. That is, Investiture is only manifested in a finite region of space. But the "Investiture field," for lack of a better term, has to span all of space simpliciter, so it would be indefinite. We'd say there were a finite number of excitations of the field, I guess. Moreover, degree-wise Investiture is potentially infinite: the Spiritual Realm is not divisible in space or time, so the simplicity of its power corresponds to infinity (as a unit, we'd say). There's a reason Investiture has that word for its technical name. X has to Invest in Y, for there to be Investiture. The matter/energy analogue is a byproduct of this, I suppose. So there's Investiture per se (Spiritual degree, potentially infinite: if and only if X infinitely Invests in Y, that is) and then there are things that are Investiture-charged. The charge itself and the charged, maybe. OMG I just got an image of... The Charged Ones ("The power of Sixteen will set us free!")

Hoid has so much power that you do indeed need two L's in the word "powerful[l]" to adequately describe his awesome might. Only Adonalsium was ever more powerfulll. Well and the Bod Geyond is really, really powerfullllllllll...lll.

Egads, man, are you saying you read the AA before the rest of the book?!!?!? *Shuns* *Sprinkles holy water* *Screams* *Sqwak!*

Contrary to unconventional wisdom, the black sphere is a cleverly disguised mule in barn facade country. [Bonus points for those who get the second and third reference.]

@the OP, you have it entirely wrong, or you see, Adonals is but a Shard of Kelsierium.

I'd tell Adonalsium to be on the look-out for groups of 16 people bearing topazes...

The black sphere = (0⁰/0⁰)⁰

As someone who has actually sworn several Vows (with a capital "V," in my head, when I swore them or think of them!), it still... seems... more generally unlikely even so. Not just like, "Well you could legit marry multiple people, but you're not likely to find more than one person you'd want to marry," by analogy. No, it's more like, "If I go Vow-level commitment on something, that tends to exclude the same level of commitment towards other things, even if those things aren't strictly opposite of what I'm committed to."

Proof: this is probably actually true, I believe. THEORY: One day, we will all say, "The WoB says it, I believe it, that settles it."