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Okay, it is specifically noted that the shard-blade that Shallan gives Kaladin doesn't scream, but that is clearly Testament, though we thought the reason must be that it was Pattern when WoR came out. But if it was Testament, she was a dead-eye and should have screamed. What the heck is up with that? There are no WOBs with "Testament AND blade AND scream." Maybe the answer is in RoW, but I don't remember that.

I'm rereading WoK, perhaps obviously. I'm wondering if Lirin is right that Wistiow would have given Kaladin's family money to pay for him to become a surgeon in Kharbranth. If he cared about his people, this would be a good investment, but it would be better to draw some kind of contract that Kaladin has to stay in Hearthstone for a certain amount of time.

It's not a permanent change though. As soon as the bond with his shard-blade is broken Moash's eyes go back to dark, much faster than they turned light (immediately if I recall.) I presume if he had begotten children while the blade was bonded and his eyes were light, upon a light eyed woman, the children would have been light-eyed. With a dark eyed woman, I'm not sure the outcome, but I'm not confident they would all have had one light eye. Heterochromia is usually a more complex mutation.

I searched through arcanum before posting this but perhaps I couldn't think of good search terms. My question is, do we know about shard-blade bonding and inheritance? Like if someone is dark-eyed and then bond a shard and become light-eyed, and then they marry a light eyed person, would all of their kids be light-eyed, because that's what's in their current shard-bonded "operative DNA" or would half or more be dark-eyed because that's what's in their (dominant) genes? How about if they marry a darkeyes? Would any of their kids be light-eyed? Would it be at the same ratio as any darkeyes light-eyes pairing? Has Brandon ever answered this?

Thanks Treamayne! Yeah I did see this! I am so bummed that Brandon keeps bumping the sequel here. I almost wish I was an expert on pre-Columbian Meso-American and South American cultures so I could advise him. If it was on Ancient Middle Eastern Cultures, I would try to get the gig myself (well I don't know that I'm a real Assyriologist! Just a dude with a Masters in Ancient Semitic languages and a PhD in world religion focused on the Bible and Ancient Middle Eastern Mythology. But there must be an Andeanist or Meso-Americanist Sanderfan who could do the gig!

I'm pretty sure that the Shadowblazes have some ability to perceive time that we don't, but they also don't understand linear time, so a lot of what prompts the decision to come or not and bond to a human involves whether or not they can sense that the human does have a future as a Rithmatist. There are obviously some elements to this that non-random even from our perspective but I think the reason Joel drew a shadowblaze is that he does have a rithmatic future, but not an "ordinary" one, bonded with an ordinary shadowblaze. The shadowblaze sensed this when Joel touched it and withdrew, and perhaps already sensed something different from other Rithmatists to be in the first place and that's why it came more hesitantly than apparently with other Rithmatists, but nevertheless did come. This is my current operating theory. I think it's better than something with the coin or something with Joel's attitude. I suspect something must have been similar with King Gregory when he became the "first rithmatist", since obviously he was able to know what the lines did without being told, almost like he bonded with an entity more like a good version of a forgotten than an ordinary shadowblaze. We'll see.

One interesting thing we see is a glimpse at what I suspect is the relatively early, but certainly established, space age. I was expecting technology honestly to be more advanced than this by the space age. I don't get the sense there is FTL travel though, and maybe that's not coming. I wish I knew how long Nomad has been on the run. He seems to think people he knew on Roshar would still be alive, and I would have said that I would have been surprised for those who had not become fused to make it to the space age. Anyway, the factions we see emerging are: Scadrians: they seem to be a relatively callous one world government, though not actively malicious, one world government. They don't care about the plight of non-Scadrians. This is consistent I think with what we saw in 6th of the Dusk, just looking for resources to exploit. They felt like someone trying to convince you that their trade is to your benefit in Catan but is obviously lying. Rosharans: Our most significant data here comes from the Scadrians' attitude towards the prospect that Zellian is "Oathed", but more significant data comes from the 6th of the Dusk sequel where the Rosharans radiant ambassador seems downright sinister. Definitely more evil than the Scadrians. It's unclear how many factions there are from Roshar but I hope it's not just evil Odium servants. Threnodites: I dono that happened there but the Night Brigade is terrifying. Their power is that of shades which they now seem to have near total control of. I don't know if this is the only power from Threnody or how much control they have on their home planet, but things are not looking good. Sel: We know people from Sel are players, but not much more. Obviously Elantrians are ridiculously powerful, and the other magic systems we've seen from Sel are also really significant. Other groups are less clear. Any thoughts on my analysis? What do you think the implications of all of this.

Do we know Yumi is this late? I definitely assumed it was not all the way to 6th of the Dusk.

Silver doesn't do anything with stormlight, and it's allomantically (and Feruchemically and Hemalurgically) inert but it's not like aluminum (which actually has an allomantic effect). It can be pushed and pulled on, just not burned by any mistings, or burned with effect by mistborn.

No one posted on this in a while but I think the question of what Yumi is, and whether cognitive shadows are souls or copies, is kind of like a ship of Theseus question. What was originally there is replaced with different investiture, but I suspect the investiture was always dynamic and very slightly flowing in and out of all beings. There's just a much bigger faster plank-replacement when a being becomes a cognitive shadow, and that plank replacement usually happens in place of ceasing to exist as such (though, the matter, energy, and investiture remain) in the non-Beyond. I don't think matter, energy, or investiture ever go to the Beyond. What goes there is something else, though it's closely connected to the Spiritual Realm. I think the closest we ever get to the Beyond is what Dalinar did to allow Kaladin to interact with Tien, but I think that's more like Tien still existing in the Spiritual Realm, which is also really him and more connected to the Beyond to the extent that anything is. I don't know what I'm saying. I say that what came back really is Yumi. My big question is whether she got a downgrade in the amount of investiture she used to have in the process of turning investiture into the matter for a real body.

Hoid basically states on p. 432 and 436 that the father machine is awakened. Where the heck did the scholars on this planet get breath, and learn about how to use it? Or did they manage to awaken with other investiture, and we've only heard about doing it with breath so far? I think I remember hearing a while ago that Vasher learned to keep himself alive with stormlight but couldn't awaken with it. Is that incorrect? Is it relevant?

This makes some sense, but I am drawn to the fact that Elantrian power was super nerfed even in Teod, which had just as much access to the Dor, presumably, as Elantris, and the Ire seem way less powerful in the cognitive realm of Scadrial than they do in Elantris in Secret History, even if they can still do amazing things with preparation, those things aren't applicable nearly as easily as AonDor. Maybe that's just because it's in the cognitive realm, but presumably, the thing that allows for Elantrians in the first place IS Elantris. Or do we think that just greatly amplifies the power and harnesses so much of it that if it is imperfect, it totally gets in the way?

The map being part of it makes a lot of sense, but still, the Dor is in Sel's cognitive realm. The mingled power of Devotion and Dominion aren't just overflowing and trying to break their cognitive bounds at any opportunity like they seem to be on Sel (and moreso if there has been no release for a while). Where is the investiture the map is tapping into, since the Dor is more in the cognitive than the spiritual, leaving perhaps a bit less room for Spiritual Mumbo Jumbo?

Okay so I'm the latest book we see Elantrians seem to have most of their powers off Sel. Where does the power come from? I assumed in Lost metal there was still a bunch of unkeyed Dor available. Does the sorceress just have a bunch of invisible Dor in her tower? Or another unkeyed investiture source that can power AonDor? It looked like they didn't have most of their powers off-world back in Secret History, but a lot of time has passed since then.

Hi all, Are we to assume this is space age cosmere? If so is it as late as Sixth of the Dusk? The audience obviously doesn't know about certain technologies, so it seems like THEY aren't yet on the space age, but is anyone?