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  1. Fanghur Rahl
    Sure there would, it would just be after Scadrial is put back together.
  2. Fanghur Rahl
    Unless Trell/Autonomy manages to make good on their threat and destroys Scadrial, and Harmony either decides to help deal with Odium before fixing the damage or for whatever reason discovers that after all this time he needs the power to build things up in order to put Scadrial back together.
  3. Fanghur Rahl
    Well, regardless, the fact still remains that unlike Ati or Leras, Sazed does at least appear to have retained considerably more of himself than they did even after nearly half a millennia of holding Harmony (at least I think that’s how long the delay between Eras was?). But anyway, I still stand by my basic thesis that if anyone is going to take up the Shard of Cultivation, no one has a better claim on it than Sazed/Harmony does. If only for purely thematic reasons. It’s not for nothing that I like referring to Ruin, Preservation and Cultivation as the ‘Change Trinity’.
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    The problem with that is that it is a logically inconsistent proposition. You cannot simultaneously feel an absolute compulsion to preserve as well as an absolute compulsion to destroy, because those two states are mutually exclusive. Logically, there would have to be at least some degree of dilution between the intents of Preservation and Ruin within Harmony: he can destroy and he can preserve. Presumably he would feel each compulsion half as strongly as he otherwise would have if he held only one. But it doesn't make sense to me to say that these two conflicting intents render him unable to act at all, because inaction can be every bit as opposed to a given intent as action is. It gets you into a paradox somewhat analogous to asking a genie "I wish you would not grant me this wish". Personally, I prefer to think that the reason Harmony is 'paralyzed' like this is actually due to the fact that what he wants to do actually violates the intents of both his Shards; like I said, Cultivation as an intent fits Sazed's personality far better than either of the other two do in my opinion. The way I see it, the only logical way to look at it is that if a person holds two or more Shards whose intents are in opposition to one-another, the result would have to be a dilution of each intent. The fact that Sazed is able to both preserve and destroy even after holding the Shards for several centuries seems to support this view; he is able to, with considerable effort, act as he sees fit. Preservation and Ruin individually were not able to do that. So looked at this way, if I'm right, if Sazed acquired Cultivation as well, the compulsion imposed by each individual intent would only be 1/3 as strong as it otherwise would have been, which would presumably make it even easier for Sazed to act, not more difficult. And I still can't help but feel that since Ruin, Preservation and Cultivation form an undeniable set within the larger set of Shards, they could very well meld together. I can even think of a very fitting name for what Sazed would potentially become if it actually did work out this way, albeit in a rather ironic sense. 'Potency'.
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    Or it would complete him. After all, Adonalsium was able to function just fine, and those three Shards more than any other are intimately tied to each other. Plus, Cultivation as an intent fits his personality better than the other two in my opinion. I prefer to think that if he acquired all three ‘change’ Shards, they would meld together perfectly into a cohesive whole; he currently only holds two out of three Change Shards. Actually, in a vacuum Preservation and Cultivation are just as opposed as Preservation and Ruin; Cultivation and Ruin are both Shards of change, but with polar opposite ‘directions’ so to speak.
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    I think any Elantrian would probably qualify; from what we’ve seen, they have the potential to rival if no far exceed any Radiant or Mistborn in terms of raw power, at least while they’re near Elantris. Though I suppose this is offset slightly by how ludicrously impractical AonDor is to use when you don’t have as much time as you need.
  7. Fanghur Rahl
    I love the idea that it will ultimately be Sazed who finishes Odium off, preferably immediately after acquiring Cultivation from its current vessel. He does need it after all.
  8. Fanghur Rahl
    No, I meant that the fact that all evidence overwhelmingly suggests no afterlife sucks, not your point of view.
  9. Fanghur Rahl
    What Dreams May Come. Nice!
  10. Fanghur Rahl
    I think he pretty clearly implies that they were; in her internal monologue, she does say something along the lines of people not approving of the king sleeping with his bodyguard or something like that. BTW, I agree with your view. It sucks, but then again reality often does. lol.
  11. Fanghur Rahl
    I wonder whether natural law would also fall under the purview of Honor? Admittedly, natural laws are just st descriptions of how nature consistently behaves, but still.
  12. Fanghur Rahl
    Fool! Groveller, it is I who rule here! Alone I am your rightful master. And I command the Sphere! I will destroy you. You will not so much as touch me.
  13. Fanghur Rahl
    Purely just a fun post, since Brandon has said outright that fans are free to assume whatever they like about precisely what the Beyond is since there's no canonically 'correct' or 'incorrect' answer regarding it, but what's everyone's favourite pet-theory regarding precisely what the Beyond is? Personally, I like to think that it's something like the afterlife scenario in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Basically, when a sapient being dies, and they are able to accept and embrace their own mortal end, their soul's 'travel' through a non-place also known as the Beyond to the end-point of the universe (the time the universe 'ends'), the Omega Point, where all souls merge together to effectively become the God of the next universe to be created by them. Incidentally, if they aren't able to let go of life, they effectively stay trapped in the Beyond, leeching off of each other's memories and experiences until they reach the Omega Point the long way... unless a breach into the Beyond is accidentally made, then they basically become the Fused. Great series by the way, though in my opinion not as good as his Commonwealth Saga. Obviously I don't think this is what Brandon has in mind, though given the implied cyclic nature of the Cosmere universe, I think it would have a certain fittingness to it, that and it's just such a clever idea of what happens in the afterlife. Anyone else have any novel ideas of the Beyond they'd like to share? Like I said, purely just for fun. @NeutroniumAlchemist, you'll appreciate this I'm sure.
  14. Fanghur Rahl
    LMAO! I see what you did there!
  15. Fanghur Rahl
    Honestly, as crazy as it sounds, I kinda like Sam Neil as Odium actually. Watch the movie ‘Event Horizon’ to see why.
  16. Fanghur Rahl
    Honestly, I kinda could see Gal Gadot being a pretty good Jasnah, albeit with some artificial tanning.
  17. Fanghur Rahl
    Yeah, I much prefer that interpretation, personally, just because it leads to far fewer potential plot holes. In the whole of forever, there has to my knowledge never been a single concept of a truly omnipotent deity that actually cares about and interacts with the universe that doesn’t inevitably self-destruct under even trivial logical scrutiny (even Sazed says essentially this in Hero of Ages). BTW, Brandon was the one who has on several occasions likened Investiture to thermodynamic laws, I’m just going on his own words here. I see Investiture as essentially being ‘spiritual energy’.
  18. Fanghur Rahl
    So the first time I listened this Way of Kings, I had been under the impression that when they spoke of it taking ten heartbeats to summon a dead Shardblade, they were basically just using that as a poetic way of saying ten seconds (or whatever the Rosharan equivalent is, since on a battlefield ten seconds may as well be ten years a lot of the time). But now that I'm listening to it a second time, I realize that it explicitly says that it literally means ten beats of the heart; the faster its beating, the less time it takes. But what relevance can how fast a person's heart is beating have to do with how long it takes to temporarily resurrect a dead Spren? Is it something to do with the spirit web?
  19. Fanghur Rahl
    Well, technically unless Ruin explicitly specified a specific date in the future, I don’t think the two situations are equivalent. ‘Eventually’ is extremely broad after all. Either way, I grant the point.
  20. Fanghur Rahl
    I dunno, Odium arguably violates his oath by fleeing when Dalinar briefly ascends; he’d agreed to a contest of champions, the context of Dalinar’s request clearly implied that he meant right then and there. But when it became clear that Dalinar was lost to him, he turned tail and ran. If that’s not violating an oath, it’s pretty close.
  21. Fanghur Rahl
    Honestly, that’s as far as I actually think it’ll go; like I said, this is less something I think will actually happen than it is a daydream. However, I absolutely do stand by my opinion that if anyone is going to acquire Cultivation, it should be Sazed, because he’s incomplete without it. The Change-Trinity should be united!
  22. Fanghur Rahl
    Well, kinda. Assuming the second letter to Hoid was written by Harmony; he did say he would see about helping Hoid in his quest, which I think is probably fairly safe to assume is his quest against Odium. All the others basically told Hoid to storm off and stop meddling.
  23. Fanghur Rahl
    Yeah, it’s hard to think of a Shard name that would adequately sum up Sazed then. The best I’ve come up with is ‘Maintenance’. lol.
  24. Fanghur Rahl
    Well Brandon has hinted that Harmony will get involved against Odium in at least some way, so who knows? I have something of a daydream of Harmony travelling to the Rosharan system at the end of Stormlight to confront Odium, only his inner conflict renders him not able to properly defend himself, resulting in Odium almost killing him. But right at the 11th hour, Cultivation shows up, baton passes her Shard to Harmony, and that completeness allows Sazed to turn the tide and ultimately destroy Odium. Like I said, probably won’t happen, but it would be absolutely epic if it did.
  25. Fanghur Rahl
    Actually, I think that they are sufficiently compatible with each other that someone holding all three wouldn’t have that much problem acting. There’s no real incompatibility between hatred and honor; just look at Ned Stark, he clearly hated Cersei and the other Lannisters for their actions, but that didn’t stop him from acting honourably toward them (much to his detriment).
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