Child of Hodor

A person could, it's very hard, but it may or may not work properly when the person burned it. An invested thing can be soulcast into something else, like someone could turn a goldmind into another invested metal, but the investiture would be keyed wrong. It sounds like one would break a perfectly good goldmind. It's not clear if the new metal would work properly when burned or not. Soulcasting gold into lerasium may or may result in a a metal that would give mistborn powers. Or that's my understanding of the WoB below.

I always thought of it as spirit web mutation or like someone who eats nothing but carrots and their skin turns orange, but their soul turns orange instead. Brandon seems to be contemplating changing savantism a bit. He feels he's overused it in Era 2. You might say he's become a savantism savant . One WoB he says it's not spiritual damage, but spiritual drift. Another WoB in late 2016 he tells Argent that he is rethinking savantism because it is straying too far from his original intent with it. Another WoB the questioner asks if certain savants can heal spiritual cracks that were created by becoming a Mistborn or similar magic user with trauma as a pre-requisite (most of them). He says they are theorizing in the right direction.

Yeah, he isn't always clued in to all the secrets. Like he didn't think the Unmade were ever made to begin with before Oathbringer, but the Sja-Anat says they were Made and then Unmade. Reading back over his introduction I don't see any indication that he really looks Thaylen. Specifically, he is never said to have the goofy long eyebrows that can be combed back behind their ears. Dark hair, scarred mouth and fingers, violet eyes, that's about it. He uses a Thaylen term for master, but that's the only Thaylen connection. He would have a harder time pretending to be a Sadeas house guard in Oathbringer if he looked that Thaylen. We know very little about him. I had forgotten that Mraize isn't even his name it is a title. "I am called Mraize" the man said "You may use that title for me." - WoR Ch. 43 EDIT Mild WOT Spoiler: I think he's a dragon because his mouth and fingers are all messed up and dragons typically fight with their fangs and claws. The other weapon they use is their breath weapon and he was always playing with that blowgun. Like oral fixation, except breath weapon fixation. I thought the Hunter/Prey talk was from being a dragon, but it's probably from Iyatil being descended from Scadrial Hunters. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Iyatil

Yeah, I think it must be the Singers language when humans first encountered them. Humans may have used it to the extent they could, given they couldn't really use the Rhythms as well as Singers. But, any kind of musical language must have originated with the Singers. I think both the Shin and Horneaters culture are in part a result of them being more under Cultivation's influence and less under Honor / Odium. Mostly because they don't get as much of the Highstorms. Shinovar is protected by mountains that take most of the force out of the storms and the Horneater peaks are above the worst of the effects. Plus the Horneater peaks are right by Cultivation's shardpool. Both Honor and Odium have use for fighting, Cultivation doesn't so much. Providing food as farmers or cooks is valued more than soldiering. The Shin treat their soldiers waaay worse. Probably due to knowledge passed down of how human army aggression triggered the first Desolation. The lore is probably twisted by now many thousands of years later, but the idea of soldiers bringing doom is there. Aside from the whole Shin invasion that we know little about they've mostly avoided war.

Brandon changed it, now Era 2 take place after SA front 5. It could be a Roshar shard or a new combination of them depending on what happens in the next two books. "Footnote: Brandon has since revised the timeline, Mistborn Era 2 now takes place after Stormlight 5." https://wob.coppermind.net/events/192/#e4144 Still, strongest theory is that it is an avatar of Autonomy, imo. The whole freedom from Harmony thing Bleeder was on about, she wanted to set Wax "free", killed herself rather than be controlled.

I like the idea of Broken One meaning emotionally broken, despairing, devoid of hope.

Yeah, I would want it lovingly hand drawn which is expensive, and takes a long time. Animated dramatic shows don't have a mainstream market in the U.S.. Even animated films are mostly comedic. Princess Mononoke is the only example I can think of that broke through and was a minor hit in the U.S. (on DVD, not in theaters).

I used to think that too, but the woman is just art the artist made it was not a part of the diagram that Brandon specified. Brandon actually never talked to the artist about it and doesn't think it's meant to be a specific person. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/181/#e3753 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/100/#e3673 I don't understand why the Voidbinding chart has has 10 surges when the Fused can only use 9. The obvious answer is that the Fused are not voidbinding. But who can voidbind? Also weird there are 10 orders and two are inside the King's Drop which was used to capture an unmade. There are only 9 Unmade and their number is fixed. WoB links hidden for formatting: The glyphs being half like the surgebinding chart and half flipped makes me think of Renarin whose regrowth seems to work like normal, but his illumination seems messed up. Brandon is being coy in these wobs, but it sounds like he voidbinds otherwise why would he have pointed to the voidbinding chart when he was asked what was up with Renarin after WoR? Renarin/Glys is something new as far as we know. He can't have been the first person ever to voidbind on Roshar, can he? Can the singers do it? The ones we've seen bond voidspren don't seem to. Someone has to be voidbinding in this series, darn it! More WoBs

Yeah I don’t need it but since they are trying to do it anyways I was thinking of what’s difficult about it. Its adaptation not translation some things have to be different. Game of Thrones was quite a good show and LotR was a huge success but they had to be different from the books in some areas.

Jasnah (we're engaged!). Odium/Rayse: I like the condescending grandfather persona he adopts even though it is a front and Rayse as a mortal maybe didn't act or even look like that. I enjoy his interactions: "There, there. That was a smidge too much wasn't it?" "Taravangian is it?" He squinted, as if seeing Taravangian for the first time. "Little man." "Do you think I will ever meet with you when you are feeling well?" I like to imagine him hamming it up when he goes on about Passion "Passion, son. Wondrous, Glorious PASSION!" Like he loses himself in the moment.

Do what I do and read/listen to them over and over even while you are sleeping

Agreed.

Just because she's paranoid doesn't mean the ghostbloods aren't after her. She goes to great lengths to conceal her soulcasting abilities, but it was probably worth it. The one time I think she's being a bit unreasonable is in dismissing her shardplate during the battle of Thaylen field. She is in a city where giant rockmonsters are smashing buildings and tossing things all over. Keep the armor on, please. Maybe she would heal from a building falling on her but she would use stormlight that could be used for something else and she could still be pinned down and taken out of the battle for a time. She learned a bunch of things from the High spren about previous desolations that are no longer as useful because the Everstorm is new and Odium rides it. Wit gave her information about the Heralds which she has tried to act on first suggesting hunting them down to kill, but now just capturing a couple. She probably knows more details of Shadesmar, but didn't think they were that relevant to share because who would anticipate Shallan and co getting stranded there.

Stormfather and Nightwatcher. They are half-brother and half-sister to the Sibling. Stormfather was the only godspren child of Honor, Nightwatcher was the only godspren child of Cultivation and then the Sibling came along a godspren with a combo of the two parents investiture. It's like the brady bunch if the brady parents then had a kid together.

They had a movie script that would have been really long he says 5 hours but may be exaggerating, they got it down to three by cutting so much out that no one is happy with it. Now they are looking at TV. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/124/#e1809 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/352/#e11074 2017: "Stormlight is so hard. Right, we’ve just got the screenplay in and the screenplay is like *does a gesture* you know, it's like for a five hour movie or something like that. And they're like "We have to cut this down!" "Yes. Yes, we do." And that is super hard" 2018: "They have a screenplay for Stormlight. It came out at 250 pages, which is a 3-hour movie. Which they're like "Eh, this is too long." And it still cut out a ton, so they're now looking at television:

I love the Stormlight Archives, I don't need them to be adapted, but it may be one day and I hope they do it justice. Brandon has said it should be a tv series like GOT, and not movies. With that premise, Stormlight adapted as a 1 hour per episode TV show, what are the biggest challenges to adapting it? 1) Challenging Beginnings. Prelude - 4,500 years later Prologue - 5 years later Cenn gets killed - 8 months years later Kaladin in a cage. That's too much jumping around. It is challenging in the book and would be even harder to follow with all the fantasy names only being heard and the weird setting. I think the first 3 scenes of the show ending with XXXX years later will be unintentionally comical. I love the Prelude, it should be in the first season, but I don't think it should the first scene of the TV show. The prologue is amazing and shows off the magic system well, plus it establishes why there is this major conflict that dominates tWoK Alethi vs. Parshendi. I think we open with that. I'm undecided on what to do with Cenn. Which leads me to ... 2) Sadboi Kaladin He's super depressed and inactive early. His flashbacks need to be peppered throughout. I am tempted to cut down his time in the slave wagon. Prologue and then Kaladin failing to save the sick guy. Next time we see him he tears up the map. End of the first episode he arrives at the shattered plains. 3) Shallan / Jasnah They are far away and don't intersect with the other characters. This is good in a way because it is a palate cleanser from all the misery. 4) What do the Parshendi look like, really? They could look really cool or ridiculous depending. They have crustacean like carapace and marbled red/black or red/white skin. That's most of what we know and there are a ton of interpretations of that. They also should be distinguishable from orcs and not play into the "noble savage" stereotype too much. I'd do a mix of white/red and black/red to the point where their features don't map on to human "racial" traits. 5) Parshendi Music. How to do have them speak in Rhythms without it being terrible, maybe just don't? Hire a poet or songwriter like Kingkiller hired the Lin-Manuel Miranda who created and starred in Hamilton? Their chants during battle are much easier to do there are real life examples, but again we don't want it to be to lean in to one culture too much so that they become like a stand in for Zulu warriors and one of the show's early antagonists is "fantasy black people" Zulu - Song of the warriors: 7) What do the humans look like? The way they are described Szeth would be about the only character played by a caucasian actors, but we would have to stick completely to that, but if we go too far away it is "white-washing". Some of the fantasy traits will look dumb, people from Thaylenah have the eyebrows they can comb behind their ears. Very hard to take seriously. This includes Mraize who is supposed to be an intimidating character.That should just be dropped or relegated to a background extra here or there. 8) Spren - they are awesome, but also expensive CGI. Have to balance reflecting the world and not breaking the budget. Can't make them look like cheap garbage either. I'm sure there are more adaptation issues others can think of.

True. I feel like we have more than enough in Stormlight though . Envisagers, 17th Shard, Ghostbloods, Sons of Honor, The Diagram, Stormwardens (kinda), Skybreakers, I'd count the Sleepless as this. Stone Shamans as secret keepers of the honorblades. There is a theory that the Curates who excommunicate Dalinar are part of a secret splinter group because they dress weird and seem off to Dalinar. The Stormfather might also be sensing they are off, although Dalinar is also feeling the Thrill. It reminds me of when the Stormfather sensed The Diagram's spanreed takedown of Dalinar coming. All that said, I think the only known secret society that would kill a child simply because they could surgebind is the Skybreakers. A rundown spoilered for length.

Sibling! Stormfather is Honor's godspren, Nightwatcher is Cultivation's godspren, the Sibling is The Sibling because they are of both H&C, so they are related to both Stormfather and Nightwatcher. I had a thread on Honor as Father and Cultivation as Mother. It was more about the symbolic nature of Honor's Stormlight fertilizing Cultivation's Gemstones to power the magic.

Nale let’s his minions do dumb, dangerous things so Helaran charging into a battle to kill Amaram isn’t totally out of character. In Edgedancer he let’s his two radiants unwitting pick a fight they can’t win against a Sleepless. Im not sure their bodies were cold before Nale was like “OK, I’ll go kill the actual surgebinder now.” Lift rushes from Arclo to the orphanage and Nale is already there. Like he knew the whole time and was letting them fail on their own.

The Skybreakers never went after Shallan after she killed her mother because she stopped bonding pattern. The bond wasn’t broken, but on hold or something. She wouldn’t draw their attention. Plus if Nale sent a minion and they failed he’d go himself to finish the job and he might not bother if she is no longer exhibiting signs. Nale clearly noticed something up with Jasnah in WoR prologue. But he never acted on it. He doesn’t always follow through. I doubt the mother’s friend was a Ghostblood, they don’t hate radiants like this guy and the mother seemed to. This happened 6 years before the books, around when Gavilar was killed. The Diagram wasn’t founded until after Gavilar died. Couldn’t be them.

I think he is the Binder of Gods because he founded the Oathpact and the Oathpact trapped the Fused on Braize. The Singers refer to the Fused as their Gods. It could also be, as pointed out above, some on Roshar worship spren as gods. Ishar founded the KR and forced the surgebinders and their spren to get in line. Spren can't just give the powers to anyone anymore, they give more power with each oath spoken. WoR Ch. 42 Epigraph: "But as for Ishi’Elin, his was the part most important at their inception; he readily understood the implications of Surges being granted to men, and caused organization to be thrust upon them; as having too great power, he let it be known that he would destroy each and every one, unless they agreed to be bound by precepts and laws."

I think they do know about the Diagram or that Taravangian is behind Szeth's recent assassinations at least. Mraize seems to dismiss Taravangian out of hand, but is close to figuring out Tezim is Ishar. This was before Mr. T became king of Jah Keved. He was still only ruler of his island city.

He would be a heavy favorite to win a straight up duel. I was only saying she is the one entity in the system that even has a shot against him.

Terrible preface, btw. I know Dalinar just learned to read and write like a week before he started writing the book so it is in character, but it is still not a good read. By far the worst epigraphs. The # of chapters in OB really dragged that preface out. 122 chapters versus 89 in WoR, 75 in tWoK. Other Parts have stand-alone excerpts from Mythica, or several different letters from Shards. Part I epigraphs are one long meandering passage. Especially when he starts listing things and rephrasing the same idea of things he's not. My suggested edits spoilered for length

That's true we don't know. Especially with all the female heralds besides Ash who we have little idea of what they've been up to.