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If that were the case, the Ghostbloods would be monumentally stupid. They have access to multiple perpendicularities. In fact some of them surely have carried dun spheres through one in form of the change in their pockets when returning home.

It really does not matter for some questions what the gas is, in relation to some unclear phenomena. They could sail at a time they picked. That means they either control the release of the gas or they can predict it. That needs an explanation.

I would hope so. However, isn't anything set in the Rosharan system a continuity issue? The Knights Radiant can now move quite freely within their system. And surely there will be a lot of novellas set in the Rosharan system during the back half of Stormlight Archive. That would have to be #3, with #4 bringing back an old protagonist. Somebody we have seen, but who has not had his or her own story. That points back to old stories. Can this to be younger than Final Empire?

That raises the question of continuity, doesn't it? Apparently the Ghostbloods have connections to Threnody and it would affect the upcoming Nicelle Sauvage book, wouldn't it? I cannot resist. We have neigh multiversal agreement on that. Isn't that kind of a waste? I thought Brandon wanted to do something other than Roshar in these books.

If you fire a cannon in Shadesmar, will the cannon ball come down where it would if you figured in the curvature of the Earth, or will it come down where a shot on a flat surface would come down?

But if Windrunners use Adhesion to fly with less drag, they are using another Surge, not te same Surge differently.

I posted on r/Cosmere. Upon further consideration I think people should just pick questions they like. And I think we have enough questions. It would be nice if people voted up questions.

Mistings did exist. I suspect the early bunches of Inquisitors were weaker.

By estimates I mean guesses. Yet I notice that quite some people guessed the/an aether world correctly. Yet I doubt they are all about aethers. In fact that is not even that desirable. So anybody ready to update his or her predictions? And a few questions. Does anybody think that Brandon's reading of Kingmaker was not an accident, in the sense that it is one of the coming two? When exactly were #3 and #4 written? Was that before or after Brandon mentioned an idea about a sequel to Emperor's Soul? OK, I'll go first #3 - Emperor's Soul 2 Shai and the Gyorn - working personal title (based on the cover) #4 - Kenton's story I used to think this is Demoux' story primarily based on ruling out options. Yet then I thought that Brandon's perspective is much longer, so when he says old we need to really track back.

Can you give a few pointers to people who have never done ths as to which subreddits to use? Most of us have never asked an online question to Brandon.

Good questions. I planned on asking about the five or so best questions here and to put them onto Reddit. As I have never done this I am absolutely open to help? @Argent

Does the one we already have cover that: What does the Cognitive Realm of this planet look like, considering the spores are the equivalent of water, and water is solid in the Cognitive Realm of both seen subastrals?

are the moons in orbits determined by gravity are all oceans filled with spores are the Iriali members of the same group that did or will inhabitate Iri on Roshar when is the story set in the time line where does the air that allows ships to sail the dry seas come from are the vines susceptible to salt and silver after sprouting Does it rain? Or does all the water come from beneath the planet? Are there areas with no spores? (Shinovar-esk normal-ish places). Do these people have the ability to drink saltwater and survive? (potential RAFO territory) What is the planet called? Just as the spores rain down on the planet, does matter or energy or investiture from the planet go to the moons - is there something keeping the whole planet from being covered in spores, and are the moons at risk of running out of spores? Brandon mentioned the Princess Bride as an inspiration - are the spores likewise in any way conceptually related to Thread from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series? Are the moons positioned around the planet like the numbers of a clock - so all twelve equally spaced around the equator - or do they have a more exotic distribution? How accurate is Hoid's statement about the proportion of the sky being taken up by the moons - are they visible from every location on the planet? What does the Cognitive Realm of this planet look like, considering the spores are the equivalent of water, and water is solid in the Cognitive Realm of both seen subastrals? Are the spores part of the Aether system - so each could in theory become an Aether - or are they byproducts, i.e. would a Verdent Aether form from a spore or would it itself be able to grow spores, or both? Will we see the effect of other colours of spores getting wet? Do the people eat the vines produced by the Verdant spores? Is this the world the Iriali lived on before Roshar? Are the moons core Aethers, and are there core Aethers on or near other worlds? Is this planet know to worldhoppers known to worldhoppers besides Hoid? What do they think about it? If Foil lives in those oceans, how does he survive it? Anything to add?

It may just be economics. It is the shortest distance. Technically the sample chapters never say that the moons are over the equator or even that they are regularly distributed over the planetary surface. That follows only from orbital properties. If you are willing to take the Verdant moon to be on the equator by chance and/or the moons to hover by a force other than gravity, all bets are off.

The spores "filter down". We must assume that the moons eject them on purpose for an unknown reson by an unknown mechanism. But I am afraid the eclipses dictated that they are on the equator and Diggen's Point is a tropical island. Regular occultations require a satellite over the tropics.

Why then did she consider the butterfly suicidal although it did not fly over a Verdant sea? That was a finished aether whose spores it had come from had already reacted to water.

So we are talking about an island that happens to be made of a type of rock that yields protection against the spores and happens to have a deep aquifer of potable water and happens to have a harbor withinh reach of volcanic vents? Technically it is possible. But only technically.

I must say Brandon at his most scathing is in Allomancer Jak. This book pales in comparison to it.

It happened exaxtly as they wanted to depart and kept happening when and where they wanted. The spores were not liquid before they wanted them to be. Now it is possible that this happens periodically in a large area, but even then, how do they predict it and what causes these vents to be so universal?

Are you giving those fractions as fractions of the area or fractions of the arc?

They know sugar in appreciable quantities. Glorf is called caramel-haired. That implies that everybody knows the color of caramel and it is made from sugar.

Yes Wood is cheap enough to use plywood in 87 forms. They have conventional agriculture outside Diggen's point. I cannot see how that would be possible without rain. I dare not speculate about the heat capacity of Invested spores mixed with variable amounts of air. No data at all. Solar tides. And yes, there should be no lunar tides, but there would be none, even if the oceans were wet.

We do not know how extensive the spore oceans of Glorf's world are. But they do pose an interesting challenge in terms of physics. So let's make a list. Albedo This signifies the ability of an object to reflect light. Obviously a bright object is better at that than a dark or even black object. And this is a problem. One of the moons produces black spores. We are looking at a black spot at equatorial latitudes of an extent of at least a few hundred kilometers. If you sail that sea at day time, you'll be backed. And there will be severe winds. Hot air goes up and coller air is sucked in. Clouds The oceans are dry. They do not evaporate much water. Clouds that lose their water as rain will not be replenished. Lands and islands surrounded by a spore ocean will see less rainfall. And less cloud cover will worsen the albedo effect. The lands north and south of the Midnight Sea will be deserts when that dry air comes down again. Heat transport Here we are entering unknown territory. On our planet the higher latitudes are often warmed by warm ocean currents. These transports are likely less efficient on a world with dry oceans. Do we have an oceanographer or meteorologist under us? Storms Tropical storms are generally generated over warm, wet oceans. They will not form without evaporation. This will lessen transport of materials and species. Any other effects? Should I keep updating this?

There had been a tree on the property once, but it had done the sensible thing and died a few years back. savage

They sail on fluidized matter The air acting as the fluidizer (engineers have a broken relation with the concepts of liquids and gases sometimes) comes from vents in the ocean floor: But where comes the air from? At the first reading I simply thought about pumps, pipes and compressed air in the harbor. While that would work locally, working locally is insufficient. It needs to work the whole trip. Is this some arcane art at work? Do the spores themselves or the things they sprout into cooperate to cause this effect, that is is that a pseudobiological effect to capture/infect new hosts? Any other ideas?