Halyo_Alex

As someone who also loves MegaMan, this is extremely amusing. True, though I'm not as familiar with Discworld as I am with what I did make comparisons to. After all, if I was, I'd be making remarks on Discworld similarities instead! And your point about (Skyward Sword spoilers): It is! Hence why I made sure to tag this whole topic with "fun" and "humor", and put that big important disclaimer up top. I also just remembered another comparison, albeit one probably founded on a similar underlying trope of "magic crystals"; you could consider a Lightsaber to be a Fabrial, and perhaps one day we might even see a Stormsaber of our own, as an intentional nod in the space age Cosmere.

Big Important Disclaimer: This is not some kind of callout post of Brandon being lazy or uncreative. I don't think many people would assume that, but just to dispel any potential arguing in the replies, that is not what this is. This is a list of some fun observed similarities/comparisons between The Legend of Zelda series, Star Wars, and Stormlight Archives. Okay, big important disclaimer aside, welcome! As I said, this is just going to be a list of some of my favorite comparisons between these 3 series (seri? What is the plural of series?) and some of the commonalities they share. I'll start with my 2 favorite comparisons, and you can follow up with some of your own observations, if you'd like. Comparison 1: Nightblood is the Master Sword and the Darksaber. Starting off with the thing that a few people have probably already noticed and was the inspiration for this entire post, everyone's favorite sword-nimi can be easily compared to both the Master Sword from Zelda (Aka "The blade of Evil's Bane"), and Star Wars' Darksaber. All 3 are mysterious, special, powerful, one-of-a-kind swords in their respective IPs, and Nightblood has characteristics of both. The Darksaber similarities are mostly visual, though the idea of having to attune/bond to one to properly wield it does apply to both. Nightblood's consciousness/personality could additionally be compared to Fi (fee?), who is arguably the Spren of the Master Sword (and to be honest, you could compare Syl to Fi as well). Comparison 2: Odium/Honor/Cultivation mirror the pieces of the Triforce and the 3 main colors/alignments of Lightsabers. This one is REALLY founded on visuals, as opposed to Nightblood having some mechanical similarities to his comparisons. To be honest, this is pretty explainable as a coincidence due to simple color theory and human eye anatomy; RGB LEDs are all you need to make a human see a full range of colors, so it makes sense that for 3 distinct members of a set, you'd use those 3 colors. The nuance is where it gets interesting though. For the most part, Odium's connection to red is through corrupted investiture, which perfectly fits how red lightsabers work in modern Star Wars canon, being corrupted by the Dark Side of the Force and made to bleed, turning them red. The Zelda comparison is how Demise's Malice corrupts that which it touches, and gave rise to Ganon/Ganondorf, the holder of the Triforce of Power. So what other comparisons have you guys noticed besides these (admittedly, fairly broad) similarities?

This is still one of the most casually mindblowing factoids about the Aethers to me. Like... Is this some new tier of hubris? I almost wanted to say Nihilism but that isn't quite what i'm looking for...

Everyone does stupid stuff sometimes. Even immortal demigods can't be perfect. If you try to make a lock that can't be opened, you won't make a lock.

So Duralumin Compounding or Nicrosil Compounding+, essentially. I feel like there's at least SOME additional depth to it though.

So your real answer is you want to be a Feruchemist.

Gestures to Avatar's Lightningbending. Well you're not wrong. Plus, with Gravitation to throw objects around, Skybreakers could ostensibly be the closest thing we have to actual "sith" if they can make lightning with division, and i mean... The order has turned to the "dark side" in modern days...

"Tis but a flesh wound." "Your arm's off!" "Eh i've had worse."

Being the nerd I am, I can't help but wonder if you can make a faux-force-lightning with Division... Not transmitting electrons through the air but ionizing it with Division and transmitting the reach of Division through the air to someone or something.

I guess I have Elden Ring sites of Grace on the brain, is all.

Dark Souls bonfire except it's a gold plate.

Yeah, "Change" someone from alive to dead.

I mean, compared to Chana, Shallan pretty much IS a baby in terms of age, if you think about it. Plus, that could also hypothetically be part of Chana's herald madness talking, if Death Rattles take that into account.

I mean, I do think that the whole "seeing the future is of the enemy" is an exaggeration or an oversimplification (or both!) made after the Recreance. Odium may be the most overtly interested in seeing the future, but Cultivation seems like an Intent that would be very skilled at it.

I think Renarin or Glys mention that they get visions of what Odium is fixated upon, like seeing Dalinar succumb and give up his pain to Odium and becoming his Champion. At least, there's a bias there, since it's Odium's Investiture.

Fairly sure if this was possible it would be only hearing. You can’t exactly send pulses to someone unless they’re also burning Bronze, or if you use emotional allomancy. Perhaps doing some similar method to this for Zinc would result in a sending method.

I'm wondering if you'd just start hearing the Connection between two things as a tone and rhythm... Those are pretty fundamental, right?

This is interesting, and meshes fairly well with my own hypothesis; that one could store the output of an allomantic burn of one metal inside a metalmind of the same metal if one was a compounder. So, this would imply you can do more with it than just using a metalmind as an allomantic battery.

Considering that entails F-Duralumin Connection manipulation... That's a strong contender.

"I am a stick!" "YES YOU ARE."

Weird invested lifeforms seem to be a hallmark of Autonomy. See First of the Sun's island ecosystem(s).

The real teller would be if White Sand becomes inert if you salt it. It reacts to water because of the lichen growing on the sand grains, like the spores do.

Knights of Truthless Winds Because I'm guessing that Book 5 is going to end in an overall loss for the protagonists to set up for books 6-10, so the title is going to break symmetry at the last moment.

MOONSPREN.

I mean... I feel like that's a given, seeing how they seem to be getting gravitationally spaghettified (not quite, we aren't talking about a black hole here) into "spores" that respond to the presence of water by changing into something VASTLY different in an incredibly short timespan. Now i'm just imagining that they're like clouds of dust that are roughly spherical and that's why the spores fall to the surface of the planet so readily.