Ripheus23

Too bad for you, everyone is right about the music theme of the upcoming title but it just so happens to be The Xylophone of Yelig-nar.

IDK, Jasnah's burn on Amaram is pretty wild. I'm talking about the whole, "Yes, if I remember correctly, she entertained each and every military-age man who came to her when she was with child, in the hopes that something of value would stick to you," remark, which is soooooooo nasty if you think it through

I'm running out of bizarre Cosmere theories/arguments/interpretations. Or, worse, I've already run out of them (at least, not one has popped into my head today). I propose we develop a random-theory generator. Something like _________ is caused by _________ for the sake of theme _________. Like, say, "Hoid's desire for instant noodles is caused by the "survival" Shard for the sake of reconciling the fantasy genre with modern cuisine," or suchlike. I realize this is similar to the joke-theory thread except here we don't need to come up with theories ourselves, if we could but program the Internet to do so for us.

1. How long would it be? 2. How many times would God become Incarnate? 3. What would the magic systems be? 4. Would Ruin manipulate the prophecies? 5. Would Jesus be a woman who became transgender?

He'd say, "I'm Chaotic Neutral."

Maybe "Trell" is the name of a Shard we know because we know the name "Trell," and we know the Shard of [whatever Trell is the Vessel of] as the Shard attacking Scadrial

OTOH... Although "more likely to be opposed than some others" doesn't translate to "more opposite than Autonomy and Endowment would be," granted. That being said.... ... is an interpretation I more or less share.

That's from Douglas Hofstadter, I read it in his Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. There's a discussion of life as aperiodically crystalline involved in this. So, I've been told by several posters here that Shards are not crystals and that crystallography is not directly relevant to Realmatics as such, but I am fairly sure there's a chance that this is not so except in the superficial sense that Shards are not what we usually think of as gems/jewels/crystals. Anyway, let's suppose a Spiritweb is a time crystal in a higher dimension of time. That is, there is mortality where we experience a limited number of moments present by present; there is sempiternity where moments are perceived, but immortally; and then there is eternity, where all the moments are perceived at once, in the form of time-lines. This perception (per Flatland's illustration of dimensional perception) involves a higher dimension of time. But geometrically, there's nothing disallowing a higher dimension of time than that, where not just several time-points but several time-lines are perceived at once, as time-shapes. The Realm where time-shapes are perceived is the Spiritual Realm* (the Cognitive Realm is read off time-lines, where a line is like a proposition, which corresponds to a sentence, which is a string of words). But these shapes do not move (or if they do, it is not in a lower dimension of time as such, so their "motion" or change would be quasi-alien in quality). Their lines are locked in place. They look like graphs, or webs, or crystals. Maybe even books, after a fashion (sets of strings of "words"**). Shards, then (this plays into my guess that Adonalsium's personal magic system was based on books). *[You might think the disavowal of temporality in the Spiritual Realm, or the conflation of all times into one, or their irrelevance as such, as attested to by many WoBs, would have it not be true that the Spiritual Realm is a higher dimension of time. But indeed the conflation description proves the point, instead, and makes note of the sense in which "there is no time" in the Spiritual Realm: there is no passage of time, as such (though even this is not necessarily absolutely true, else how do Spiritwebs change during Hemalurgy or Splintering or whatever---is change not an intrinsically temporal concept?).] **[One might think "the Perceptual Realm" is a better name for the Physical Realm. Since the Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond, and since the Beyond would be transcendent, the Spiritual Realm is not transcendent per se nota. But what differentiates it from the Cognitive Realm, then? There is, though, a system of philosophy that describes such a layering of information, Kant's. For Kant, the three levels of units of information were percepts, concepts, and ideas. Perceptions, cognitions, and ideations. These can even be made to correspond to the three universal sentential types, i.e. imperative, declarative, and interrogative (prescriptions, assertions, and questions), in that the meaning of an individual word is a command to think about that to which the word refers (a percept), a concept relates manifold percepts (declarations/assertions of concepts), and an ideal is a "focus imaginarius" that unifies the assertions (a guiding question).]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but a recent Shardcast revealed/indicated that there is a third possible Shardstorm , Cultivation's. We've been told that WoK and WoR foreshadow the ending of the entire SA, or something along those lines. This is a very condensed prediction, therefore, but: like the dual-storm cataclysm at the close of WoR, there will at the climax of the SA be a tri-storm apocalypse.

Unfortunately, this is not so. Some combinations of primitive bosons count as fermions, and vice versa. The boson/fermion dichotomy is a second-order distinction. That being said, matter and energy are interchangeable to some degree, and what counts as bosonic on one level while fermionic on another, might be thought of as alternating descriptions between, err, Realms... So if we finagle the concepts enough, we might find a place for Investiture as such?

In the technical sense, that's true, but as far as the sense of "I'm runnin' outta this metal to burn" or "I've got a lot of this metal on me" goes...

Depending on who's holding that Shard, yeah. Like, IDK, Wayne. Or Teft (forgive me!).

A prostitute-turned-pornographer who was arrested and forced to build a memorial that became a weapon capable of detonating the sun. I might've had an odder idea for a main character as such but I'm not remembering any examples at the moment.

In physics, bosons and fermions are particles defined in terms of Bose-Einstein statistics and Fermi-Dirac statistics, respectively. Now, this is a meta-distinction, since particles whose elements are bosons might sum up to fermions, or vice versa, and/or so on. So, let's say bosons and fermions are like "matter" and "energy" in general (physically/metaphysically), although it's not clear off the top of my head which would be more like "matter" and which more like "energy" (it seems as if intuitively material or energetic particles can fall into either statistical category...). Now the Wikipedia article on plektons says: This sounds reminiscent of Investiture, to me.

*Cackles maniacally* We could even argue that we don't know Ruin or Preservation that well, or Honor! We know NONE of the Shards! So Trell is not a Shard! *Cackling fades into the distance* But srsly, if we know Bavadin well enough, then the argument in the thread about bringing her into play in the SA, is fine, since it was in the SA that her name was introduced, after all, no?

Totally forgot this!!!

1. It would be a decent boss battle for the first 5-book arc. 2. Szeth and Kaladin thematically would work well as Ishar- and Taln-like fellows. Beyond that, no reason, except I like this meme: 3. I have no idea EDIT: But in any event... IDK, Dalinar just flashed a perpendicularity into being out of nowhere, it took Sazed mere moments to figure out how to intentionally move his entire planet through space, etc. If a protagonist picked up Honor it might not be that hard to figure Herald-sealing out. Especially if it's like a mere-verbal-agreement issue, or routed through the Honorblades. As for... The new Heralds might have new powers. Szeth might have Nightblood, after all.

*Screams like someone in Szeth's mind*

Szeth and Kaladin will become new Heralds to replace at least two who will have permanently died by the close of SA5...? (Szeth:::Ishar, Kaladin:::Jezrien?)

I know. I said "whereas matter that became his (by magical thermodynamics) is what has ended up in Nightblood." The matter Ruin got at the Shattering was atium; atium thermodynamically transformed other matter into Ruin-Invested matter; but that later Ati-matter is not atium. EDIT: It would be like atium particles decaying into other particles, I guess you'd say. The later particles would not be atium but would still carry the Investiture-signature of Ruin (since Intent is not a merely Physical relation).

I forgot about that, although I still don't know if that's enough to count as us "knowing" her. I feel we'd "know" her if we actually explicitly saw her, herself, in action, not just via avatars and their potentially alternative mindsets. (Though that begs the question as to whether she really has a specific mindset in herself anymore, if she ever did!)

I think the Investiture-assignment upon the Shattering was that of the, IDK, let's just say 16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 "units" of Investiture in the Cosmere at the time, 1/16th of that total got assigned to each Shard. It doesn't seem like the "units" all had to be next to each other to get assigned to a given Shard (Autonomy going about and "igniting" her pockets testifies to that), so arguably there could have been a few units of Ruin-assigned Investiture "particles" within Nalthis' grasp. Another option is that matter or energy in the vicinity of a Ruin-pocket got converted to Investiture that was as such assimilated into that packet, and this converted matter/energy made its way to the Nalthis area, or was already there. Maybe atium is the automatic matter form of Ruin, meaning the pockets of Investiture he got at the Shattering automatically were atium in form, whereas matter that became his (by magical thermodynamics) is what has ended up in Nightblood.

I wonder if the titles of all ten of the books will form a ketek, like the part names do... The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Oathbringer ... ... ... ... Brings oaths Worded radiantly To the King of the Way Well NM that doesn't actually make any sense

Little did heckillwingit know, the 17th Shard did not actually exist but was a cleverly disguised Wheel of Time forum, created by Adonalsium to prevent the Shattering of the Dark One... But will Lord Foul be freed? Only Melkor and the Crystal Shard know...

Ambdonhondev. EDIT: "Devambhondon" flows more, hmm...