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I've recently finished the main story and optional bosses (I have not done the 100% Trophy/Achievement) of Clair Obscur Expedtion 33, It post really engaging question plus it can be as short and streamlined as you want it to be or as long and mini-game filled as you want and they are all valid experiences. Also I've recently started playing The Alters, It is a survival / base builder / social management type of game, but the hook for me as a Brandon Sanderson fan is that the setting feels like one of the books.

Thanks for replying. Regarding the Cosmere books I have not read (or DNF), The Way of Kings Prime, Aether of Night, White Sand (waiting for prose version). Also another person reminded me about the Father Machine from Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. Although it still did not overdraw the investiture. It dumped a sort of pollution, the original ecology of the planet was no longer present, but the planet it self is still there.

Is there any information regarding overdrawing the investiture in a given area? An analogy I can make is from the game Final Fantasy 7, there is an area that draws massive amount of their world's equivalent for investiture and uses it for everyday/mundane purpose. The effect then is that area appears to be blighted. The Reod was closest thing I can think of, but as mention in the book, the investiture is still there, Elantrians just can't properly utilize it. I think the short version of my question would be: What happens to a place when there are no S/shard/s in residence to regulate the I/investiture cycle, and the local inhabitants are using up the I/investiture faster than the natural cycle can replenish it?

Shards: Harmony - Sus as hell, Kelsier might had "encouraged" Sazed to become Discord so he can proactively defend Scadrial. Whimsy - Agent of chaos, will piss every faction equally, lots of agents doing stuff in the background. (I feel that Whimsy have a similar vibe with a character from another Intellectual Property named "Aha the Elation") Virtuosity - ???? - might had already self-splintered. Valor - Against the Odium part of Retribution, and is willing to fight. Reason - True neutral, might had been the founder of Silverlight but no longer resides there. Mercy - Pissed off at what happed to Honor, not happy with Cultivation, willing to work with Retribution with the intention (of backstabbing them) Edit: granting Retribution a twisted version of Mercy's clemency. Invention - double agent, the power likes the invention of new things on all sides. Endowment - Wants to stay out of the war, but as the resident shard of the origin planet of Nightblood, seen as siding with Retribution. Cultivation - In hiding, currently the number one on Retribution's hitlist. Autonomy - fun situation, some of the avatars might pick opposing sides, and Autonomy is fine with it. Ambition - are the splinters of power of Ambition truly out the game? Retribution - will initially come out ot the time dilation at a technological disadvantage, wants to play pokeshards and catch em all, thinks he can pick up the previously splintered shards. Planets without Shards in Residence: Threnody - the mercenary force Night Brigade will be a major threat on their own, current employer unknown. Sel - Retribution will target the Dor, and the threat within will be exposed, the Ghostbloods will help in dealing with the issues and thus will have a mutual defense treaty with Scadrial. Aether(s) - feels that they are not part of the conflict and that they are above it.

My understating was Adonalsium created the 3 OG, Wind, Stone and Night. Wind sang to Honor, due to the instruction to protect, to shroud, to nurture. Eventually the Stormfather was created. Night was picked by Cultivation, however Night left so Cultivation created the Nightwatcher from the remnants. Both Cultivation and Honor then created the Sibling from Stone.

Yes. Although I had a lamer idea that Nergaoul would manifest as a battle horse/motorcycle/hovercraft for the True Desolation Era/Modern Era/Space Era

For some reason the analogy I thought off was, Tanavast as Honor setup the Stormfather as his automated out of office reply while he went on an extended vacation. Also I guess the power of Honor really wanted to break off with anything to do with Tanavast. As for BAM and the rest of the Unmade, I really do hope we get more on the back half.

TLDR: Is there an explanation why the power of Odium wanted the spren/unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram as a vessel, while the power of Honor did not consider the Stormfather? I wanted to make a pun with the movie There's something about Mary, then I realized it's a 26 year old movie, so not sure how many people know of it. There might be a WOB I have not read regarding this, if there is, can I get a link. I had an assumption that being a sapient creature one of requirements for a vessel, so both should be in the running, but the Stormfather was not truly considered as possible vessel. Also I'm confused about BAM's mindset/attitude, all I see was she truly cared for the singers and hated the humans before imprisonment then hated everything during her incarceration, I don't see that as enough to make her a prime candidate as Odium's Next Top Vessel. Was absorbing the power from the well of control really that potent? Also I'm guessing she's still a treat to Taravangian's hold on the power of Odium.

Thaylenah will act as the hub city for cognitive to physical / physical to cognitive trade. (This explains the Thaylen merchant in another book) There will be a rehash of the "Man who calls himself Taln", plot. (I'm not cool with this, maybe it will just be a flashback scene) The Blackthorn will get Nergaoul as a weapon. (And Brandon will write the story in a way that the audience will be hyped for that to happen)

Thanks good to know. Actually I'm trying to find out if the listeners will get extra benefit from the 2nd Heightening, but I guess rhythms are different from pitch so it might not give a benefit at all...

If an individual that already have perfect pitch got to the second heightening, will they have additional benefit and/or resonance? Also are there wobs of this nature? the other wob I've seen is the one saying that an individual would be well regarded in most of the Nalthian cultures.

Is there a Wob that would indicate the Tech Level of South Scadrial during the time when the Five Scholars roamed the Cosmere?

I have a another question, so after some mroe reading, it was mentioned that futuresight is influenced by the shards, hence Ruin's futuresight is geared towards being good at killing the opponent, Preservation's Terris Prophecies, yes it's directly from a shard, but it's still futuresight. Endowment's a bit hard to identify since I don't understand it's intent. Odium's seems chaotic and the usual method of obtaining it is morbid, and if we'll ascribe to the theory that the Diagram is Cultivation's I would say it is "branching", it had those conditions like If Dalinar tries to unite the high prince, then kill him, but if he is to become a warlord he can be an ally. So my question is should it have been that Elend's vision be of destruction since he was using Atium? or was it also considering Elend's intent?

I have a question about that, I think it was mentioned that Renarin was at the "root" of the black out section, so was the branch black because of Future sight interference? or was is black due to Odium not being able to see Renarin's branch, I'm thinking the letters golden glow might be due to Odium being able to see the those possibilities? and since Odium cannot see Renarin's line it became black (just a wild speculation).

So I think we can assume if someone wants to hide from the Shards, they can utilize fortune and/or any form of future sight as a defensive measure,it will be their choice to act upon the vision or do they need to act upon the vision and usually they act against the vision to become blacked out or blurry?

I have some questions regarding futuresight and/or predicting the future in general: Why is predicting the future generally frowned upon in the Cosemere? Was Elend's Duralumin-Atium burn a form of Futuresight? or rather are the normal Atium burn already considered Futuresight? Hypothetical, if a version of the Diagram was written for the whole of the Cosmere, and Golden Glowing letters was shown, will the Mistborn / Atium mistings (or anyone that can burn Atium) show up as Black? How about the Aviar Sak (the one the predicts where someone might die). Will the Returned be blacked out as well?

Yeah... I was trimming my post because it became too long, but kinda ended up editing out the question. But there was a part where I was speculating what type of books would each shard world excel at? And at which point will there be an Open-planetary trade of information?

I have a question that stems from this WOB: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/224/#e6865 I'm guessing Silverlight will be one of the place that people can read books all over the Cosmere. And Nalthis is another a good guess for another place that might have several off world books?

Your explanation makes sense, I just got carried away with the future sight globe, after reading about future sight being tied to the Spiritual Realm and that a Shard's Power normally resides in the Spiritual Realm, and then the Ire's device for taking up Preservation. I just made/forced the connections.

I wanted to ask about the device the Ire, (Alonoe to be precise) wanted to use during the event in Secret History and the globe Riino has, are they of the same making / construction / materials?

I've just finished Good Omens from Amazon. It's really Good!

I've just seen all 6 episodes and I like them all. It is a very good adaptation of the book. I don't think I have anything bad to say about the show, (maybe I'm still not over how "meh" the last few episodes of Game of Thrones was, so I've set my expectations low for all upcoming Fantasy Series). Now on to the good: Casting was fantastic! The humour is very British (I don't know how to say it any other way) The changes made from the book are great, some of the internal dialogs that only works on page was dropped so they will not fall flat, and the last scene they added was so Good, it will make you watch it at least one more time just to see what, when, how, and to look for all the details. Soundtrack, the show made good use of the soundtrack! Lastly I want to say I want more, because the show is that Good, but I am afraid that if we have another series It might not be as good...

I have question regarding the Shardworlds: Yolen is the most Earth-like from what I've read, Is there any particular period on Earth's history? Is it pre-industrial revolution? or Mordern-time in which we have the global warming issue? Is is safe to assume Sel is just like Yolen/Earth, a terrestrial planet with diverse Biome (Forest, Desert, Grasslands, Coastal Regions, etc) just bigger? Among the Published work I read, Roshar felt the most unique, has it always been like that even before Honor and Cultivation? Was Ashyn and Braize more like Roshar in their earlier periods? Scadrial was a creation of Ruin & Preservation, does it mean the whole Scadrian Solar System was a creation or just the planet? or just the lifeforms? Can we have more details regarding Threnody? so far I visualize the world as 2 huge continents, one is Woodlands with some patches of Homesteads and Small Towns and the other as an "Evil Forest" dungeon type, also that there are always killer shadows outside. Taldain is a huge desert planet, just like that "other franchise"... But Taldain is 2 for the price of 1 world, that it has a darkside world . Drominad System, we only have a book on the First of the Sun, and the place feels like a "Tropical Paradise", (my examples are Hawaii, Phuket, Boracay, Maldives, Seychelles), but with a twist, the Tropical Paradise wants to kill you. So does all the habitable planets in the Drominad System like a Kiler Tropical Paradise? are there variation like Killer Grasslands? Killer Mangrove Forest?

That is what I was trying to say. Also I think I do not like Kelsier's quirk, the one that he want/try to be a God in the eyes of his followers...