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I have almost no doubt that Brandon has tiers for at least the powers that he has mentioned on stage. For instance the "Class C self-transmutation abilities" referred to in firefight. I have no doubt that Brandon knows what class B and A are capable of as well.

I was an event assistant for his Memory of Light tour in Raleigh. If someone wanted a picture they would have to give me their camera, I would count to 3 and Brandon would look up right at 3 for the picture. Then look back to whatever he was doing. It was pretty amusing actually.

We've also never seen him use his powers while he's not using his powers. Maybe not using his powers is his weakness.

Like it. Not sure I buy it. But I like it. Brandon is also really good at misdirection, I'm expecting to find out that Calamity is not in fact the source of the Epics. If only because I tend not to believe anything that is "common knowledge" in a Sanderson novel.

I agree with that person who has a number for a name ^^ Brandon loves to touch on religion, but has always strayed away from coming right out with definitive divinities. Even in the cosmere the entities often regarded as gods aren't truly divine. I would be very very surprised if Calamity turned out to actually be an angel. An experiment perhaps. Although that is one crazy experiment.

I believe that Brandon stated somewhere that the Elantrian shardpool wasn't exactly the same as the Well. In fact it seems like he hinted that the one we saw in Elantris may not have been a shardpool at all. Of course it's also possible that pools have different properties when a shard has been shattered. Or it could even be the case that no two shardpools are exactly alike.

WoB is that there is a huge clue regarding how Hoid accomplishes his world hopping in Elantris. So huge that he was under the impression that it couldn't be missed. "Intuitively obvious to the most casual observer" one might say. Given that in WoR we saw: It seems reasonable that the hint revolves around the scene of what appeared to be a shardpool in Elantris. However the two scenes in which it appears don't seem to yield much information. Has anyone spotted this "hint" yet? I'm willing to start a reread of Elantris to search for it, but perhaps I missed something here on the forums.

We know that at least one order of KR did not abandon their oaths, and that they in fact went into hiding. Due to what we presume to be Nalan's continued activity as Darkness, some have postulated that it was the Skybreakers who went into hiding and continued work behind the scenes to halt the Desolations before they begin. I theorize that it was in fact the Stonewards who went into hiding, in Shinovar. There are several small hints that lead me to this conclusion: 1. The traits associated with Stonewards are Dependable/Resourceful. It makes sense that the order which is specifically described as dependable would be the one most likely to maintain their vows. 2. The essences associated with Stonewards are Stone/Rock, which the Shin treat as holy. 3. In WoR we see the following quote from Szeth: The "we are all that remains" is the part that I find interesting here. In the same breath that he mentions the KR. 4. The Shin seem to posses if not all, then probably MOST of the Honorblades. They also seem to have pretty extensive knowledge of surgbinding in general. SOMEONE likely trained Szeth after all. It seems apparent that they went through a lot of effort to preserve their ancient knowledge, and to keep track of the honorblades. 5. Szeth states that the stone shamans would recover his blade if he lost it. As if it were a certainty. The stone shamans must be quite powerful. Simply another sign that they have preserved their knowledge of surgebinding. 6. The Shin are stated as being highly Xenophobic. Which makes perfect sense, because if your entire nation is in fact harboring the last of the lost Knights Radiant, you wouldn't want to encourage outsiders to visit.

Actually, the guess that he may have had a spren is spot on. Since Brandon has said that <you know who> is exactly the same as a Shardblade.

And this is why we love Brandon.

I can't even describe how much I agree with everything said here. These comments are exactly how I feel about all of those books.

There certainly are some similarities... Also Vasher's sword does seem to be roaming around on Roshar as well.

Perhaps a little ambiguous there. I read "not as much force" as slower. But like you said it's not super important. Either way I feel like the speed of any sword swing is not comparable to a dartgun.

"Lastclap" I think? Va...er..Zahel mentions that the only reason they are able to pull that move off is because the shardbearer gets used to swinging their swords more gently than you would with a normal sword, so they're already swinging more slowly in general. A dart is significantly faster than even a fast sword stroke, not to mention much smaller and therefore less room for error. To me these two actions are on two totally different planes. Also didn't the dart come in from over Tal'n's shoulder? Maybe I read that wrong but I thought he caught it without even LOOKING at it. That seems way past Kal's abilities. At the moment at least.

Yeah I upvoted to balance out that neg. The post didn't deserve it. And the rep system around here is silly anyway. But I really don't want to derail another thread with this topic. So let's just leave it at that.

I still suspect that Cultivation's name is Rysha.

This is actually a good call. We've never seen someone who isn't a returned or "evil" use nightblood yet. It could just turn a normal person drab. And drain a surgbinder of all their stormlight, then pretty much quit.

I wanted to know the same thing. It's not much, but for right now I'm going with the assumption that one breath is worth two emerald broams worth of stormlight.

We saw her try to soulcast a stick into fire, which we would assume should be a pretty simple soulcast, only to have the stick basically tell her to go away. Her illusions on the other hand came to her pretty easily, so it makes sense that she leaned on those. Especially in a life or death moment. I suppose we could have seen her try some more soulcasting, but Brandon obviously didn't want her to have that particular tool yet, so it would have just been more scenes of her trying and failing.

You're also making assumptions on the art that aren't supported by the text, Ie: find me any point in time when Kaladin is crouched down and holding a gem heart. That argument doesn't work. We have an entirely plausible explanation: Artistic license. It seems obvious that after further review someone on the team decided that the original depiction didn't fit the descriptions in the text and it was changed to better depict what it was always supposed to be, which is Kaladin landing and glowing with stormlight.

I'm with Argent. Never looked like a gem to me. And as he said the cover art does not perfectly describe any scene, so we can't take its details too seriously. To me it always looked like the artist's rendition of Kaladin pooling stormlight. Edit: I just realized the cover was actually updated. Looks like someone thought it wasn't a good enough depiction of Kaladin using stormlight. More reason to think it was never supposed to be a gem.

Unless you're like me and choose to post Warbreaker spoilers in WoR threads. In which case I like to let people know in the title.

My interpretation here was that trying to bond to a honorblade is a lot like a non-Knight trying to bond to a shardblade. They can get some of the functionality out of it (summoning and dismissing) but not the full suite of abilities like morphing its shape or instant summoning. Perhaps you can "partially bond" an honor blade, in that you can get some of its benefits but not all. So you can summon and dismiss it, and you gain some rudimentary surgebinding, but nothing like what the Herald would have received.

He's actually said that about the pool before. I'm curious what we've missed there.

Well...ok then. I even remember reading that now that I see it and I just didn't retain it for some reason.