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Proof: Hoid is the Doctor, who has many incarnations. Robert Jordan was the previous Doctor, Sanderson is the new one, but this means that Sanderson is not really Sanderson, but Hoid, all along. THEORY: Eventually, all the weird moons in the Cosmere will be sucked out of their respective orbits and collide, forming a new Shard-level being.

Kaladin doesn't feel the Thrill because he is so depressed that his heart has turned into a black sphere that sucks all, even negative, emotions into it. Kaladin is going to become a new Unmade---in fact, the new Nergaoul---and a new Herald (replacing Jezrien), combined, so he will be the villain of SA arc 2 once he takes up Honor and Odium. Syl will take up Cultivation after Lift and Dalinar accidentally kill Her so the final battle in SA10 will be Kaladin fighting Sylphrena. *removes blackspherefoil hat* *Squawk!*

I forgot to mention this by name in the OP, my idea is that the Moon Scepter is a Selglyph of the moon itself, or "based on the shape of the moon," at least, if it's spherical. (I don't remember if it is spherical or not, on top or what.) So anyway, in another thread, I argued about the visual similarity between some Aons and the cymatic patterns of Roshar. It was counterargued that the Aons are derivative of language marks, not cymatics, so no-go on the notion. However, I later read that the Aons are natural to Sel, in that they seem to have been handed down to people from the sentience of the landscape. So, it seems to me that there could actually still be a cymatic tie-in, somewhere, here, if the different Selish countries are split off from an overarching cymatic pattern involving the entirety of Sel (a spherical cymatic pattern, or curved ones, or whatever). It remains to be seen, though, for one, whether there is a cymatic pattern that can be decomposed into e.g. the simple shape of Arelon.

Proof: Stephen King wrote THE DARK TOWER, which was the crossover series before the Cosmere came along. THEORY: Adonalsium's real name is Adonalsiumuislanoda.

OMG haha

One of the things Khriss says in AU is that it seems random who becomes an Elantrian. Now I have a theory that a spherical Aon/Selglyph/w/e is possible, but instead of being a representation of Sel as such, I think it would be a representation of the moon. IDK if the Dor overlaps Sel's moon too, so maybe this theory is a no-go, but anyway my resulting guess is that who becomes an Elantrian has something to do with the phases of Sel's moon. (I only thought of this on the ground that Sarene, IIRC, brings up the, "Where does the moon go?" question at one point, which could be an example of hyperforeshadowing...)

WoB first, theory second: Actually, a second WoB, THEN a theory [this pushes the subject towards the wider Cosmere, granted, but I'm only using Rosharan words so...]: Elsewhere (I'm not gonna look it up right now) we've been told that Judaism is the main inspiration for the form of Vorinism, or something like that. So, "Adonai" means "Lord" and was used in place of YHWH due to a proscription on speaking the Divine Name. But there was also another word used, "Elohim." (OK, sure, there are also "El Elyon" and "El Shaddai" and so on, but those are more like titles than names.) "Elithanathile" reminds me of that one a little. So, I have a quasi-theory that Adonalsium's name was, in part, or sort of, or whatever, something like "Elohium," or "Adonaielohium," and that over time this mutated into "Adonalsium." *Squawk!*

I was looking for a WoB about the meaning of the word "Nahel" and found the above along the way! *Squawk!*

What if the Aviar itself became an Elantrian with Royal Feathers?!?! *Squawk!*

The meta-premise for this story is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain but set during the initial expansion. The idea is that there was a random flux-confluence during the IE, that took the form of a sort of computer. Since all particles were close together, all become entangled with the particles of the computer (which is not necessarily made of metal as we know it; think of it more like a sort of proto-leptonic* "artifact"), so the "programs" of the computer become "entities" (angels and demons, say) that influence/interfere with the subsequent evolution of the universe. When sentient life emerges later, it comes pre-loaded with the "program"-spirits, which is the cause of "demonic possession" and like phenomena. A corollary to the above is grounded in a philosophy of ethics like so: moral value/goodness is defined as a specific object in the universe (in the same way that we think of, say, a given galaxy as a specific object). This object is intrinsically good, and other objects are good if and only if they become parts of the good object. (This is hypo-Platonic [not hyper-Platonic], so to speak, in that the Form of the Good is in re instead of ante rem.) Living things, on average, when they exist, automatically become part of the object of good. Now likewise, good actions, or right actions, are first defined as the natural activity of the good object (which is then conceived of as a sort of cosmological animal), and then secondly as actions by other objects that are integrated into the universal justified action of the good object. So, the Machine from the beginning is defined ethically, and hence subserves an eventual good-versus-evil narrative for the entire cosmos. QED-ish... EDIT: The motivation for this idea is as a reflection of City at the End of Time and The Familiar, which are both stories about technology developed at the end of time and then sent back into the time of the initial expansion. Here, the cosmological technology is an effect of the initial expansion in itself, rather than a long-term corollary. EDIT 2: *Made up of something like muonium or tauonium [apparently atomic/molecular matter devoid of quarks, if I'm reading the source material right]. Or maybe even made of neutrinos, if that's possible, or whatever neutrinos are made of. OR, for the most exotic/coolest/powerful image, allowing that there were ever unitary inflatons [particles whose decay brought about the particles that decayed into everything else as such], the "metal" of the ur-computer would be inflatonic-crystalline in structure.

I can't tell if anyone is agreeing or disagreeing with me

I think he implied that he has yet to put crab people in a story, which implies that my crustacean-theory of the singers/listeners/w/e is wrong

Mark Z. Danielewski: [Edit: I realize I did Mistborn instead dangit :P]

Or, not "change" so much as "adjust." This would explain the "Passion" thing: Rayse is trying to reinterpret his Shard's Intent. So while there is a WoB about him being self-deceived in relation hereto, technically, there's wiggle-room in the wording. Namely, although the Shard is indeed Odium right now, it could become Passion. (And Rayse is envious of the other Shards, in the classical sense of wanting to bring the other Shards down so he can be raised up. Envy has been described as "one of the vices of hating mankind" (emphasis added from Rawls, AToJ, somewhere [don't have the book at hand]), so Envy would be another candidate reinterpretation. So maybe Rayse is lying to himself such that he has subconsciously interpreted his Intent as Envy while trying to consciously interpret the energy of Envy as pure Passion.)

Extremely interesting idea. IDK how quite to add it in, but Khriss in AU says something about the theory of Taldain's Investiture originally being "Autonomy radiates the Investiture to Taldain from the sun" or what.

What if it was an evil Aviar? An... Evilar?

The Chronicles of Narnia The Cosmere as a whole: The Children of the Last Days: The Cthulhu Mythos: The Shannara series [only the original, technically]:

... an Aviar that had ingested an Allomantically viable metal, was imbued with Breath, and had bonded a spren? After being Spiked with a Spike that had gotten the powers of an Elantrian? *Sqwak!*

There goes my Lobstershendi theory

If Brandon Sanderson wrote on the walls of ancient buildings, everyone would know who actually created them, and why, and we wouldn't have shows like Ancient Aliens

Elantris: Mistborn: His Dark Materials: The Neverending Story:

I've definitely not had enough coffee today because this is a super-weird sentence to me right now

... then how come the Dakhor monks can go demon-mode in Arelon?

Ninth of the Night? Twenty-third of the Dawn?