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@Treamayne thanks for the reply bro. Yes i knew about The Aztlanian , that's y i made this post actually since I know Brandon cares about representating cultures truthfully Now I know this might sound silly , afterall it's only a fantasy novel and truth is even if Brandon does make it just western Europe but with brown ppl well most PPL would still praise it and i would be disappointed but I would still read it too . I wouldn't quit the Cosmere over it. But well there is such a thing as the Truth and I guess that's y I'm arguing for it . I didn't know about your stormlight spoiler referenced before. About the listeners. Thank you for that info I also didn't know anyone could apply to be beta reader. I will apply to be one for the future trilogy. Thank you so much for the link .

Ok so I'm posting this here in the hopes that this will eventually reach Brandon. Ok so yeah I'm Indian from India who was assigned Hindu at birth and well this is going to be a teeny bit charged culturally but it should be ok cause afaik there are only 2 other Indians here on this site and both agree with me. Ok so this is about a planned future trilogy of books set on one of the Cosmere worlds called: This world supposed to be one of the core worlds of the future, possibly secondary only to Roshar, Sel or Scadrial and this world is based on Hindu philosophy , but the problem is Hindu philosophy is welded inexorably to the Caste system. Now you are not gonna believe the number of Castes and Subcastes here in India. Simply put : THERE ARE 28000 CASTES AND SUBCASTES HERE IN INDIA!!! I'M NOT JOKING!!! Even Indian Muslims ,Christians , Sikhs and Buddhists have the Caste system to varying degrees , despite them being nominally based on the Equality of all Men before God or Nirvana ! They have had the Caste system since they were born here or brought to India. That's how pervasive Caste has been historically and it continues to be the case even today . I'm afraid Brandon will downplay the number of castes on the Indian world and thier pervasiveness and the lack of social mobility inherant to caste by making it similar to : (Stormlight spoilers ) It:s probably best he does that but well it won't be Indian inspired then , it will just be mediaeval Western Europe but with brown ppl. I'm torn, on the one hand , I hate the Caste system and how it has stunted India historically. It has literally ruined RUINED the lives of atleast 30 billion ppl over the past 3 millenia and continues to ruin the lives of like 1.3 billion ppl to a large degree even today and will continue to ruin billions more lives for atleast 3 more centuries , maybe even longer. I'm not using hyperbole, the sins of the Caste system are great enough without exaggeration. To put it in perspective for y'all Western folks , the Caste system was wayyyyy, wayyyyy worse than the Transatlantic Slave Trade in every metric since it lasted longer , continues even today and has affected billions unlike the relatively paltry millions the slave trade affected. ______ But yeah anyway on the other hand , well Caste also defines India. Caste is as important as Gender or Skin Colour to us. More important actually. Again I'm not joking. So yeah I'm torn between wanting an accurate representation of Indian culture and the knowledge that it will ruin that world if Brandon translates Indian society exactly. There are fantasy novels by Indian authors that downplay the Caste system for that very reason, but they focus on Indian gods a lot however so it's still an authentic representation of India. That won't be the case with the Cosmere Maybe if the world of Warbreaker was the Indian world it might have worked but I don't think this Cosmere world will. ______ The Caste system ruined us you know. We could have eclipsed China without it . We come relatively close even now with the chains of Caste binding us still. Without caste, we would have been greater than China as we have better geography , like we are closer to the Arab oil fields and we sit at the centre of a naval trade route which holds 70% of global trade and the entire Indian Ocean is our lake even today. China on the other hand has to compete with America and even Japan for control of the Pacific. So yes, without Caste , India might have been equivalent to USA in wealth and power even _____ I hope Brandon can like capture that...... the Truth about India and Caste. This isn't even my Athiests dislike of religion anymore you know. Caste has gone way beyond Religion, Transcended it into becoming something sinister and purely Evil . Such has been the case for atleast 2000 yrs. I hope Brandon has atleast like a minimal Caste system with atleast 500 Castes and a throwaway line on how that world could have rivalled Roshar or Scadrial or Sel ,if it weren't for Caste. Apparently Brandon has two individuals named Rahul and Kelyani assisting with the world building. I'm afraid however that they might potentially be Caste Apologists who will downplay the vicious oppression of the Caste system historically and in present times. Ok Das All Thank you for reading and I'm sorry if this topic made you uncomfortable , but it is the capital T Truth. Edit : Now I know this might sound silly , afterall it's only a fantasy novel and truth is even if Brandon does make it just western Europe but with brown ppl well most PPL would still praise it and i would be disappointed but I would still read it too . I wouldn't quit the Cosmere over it. But well there is such a thing as the Truth and I guess that's why I'm arguing for it . I believe Brandon too cares about representating a culture truthfully. The fact that he has shyed away from writing the Aztlanian cause he's afraid of misrepresentating native American cultures proves it.

i personally think it's Aimia in the cognitive realm but u could be right too

woah , deja vu, my friend said the same theory just minutes ago yeah this could be possible. if so , we have no way of knowing who tho. it could be any child who will grow up to be important in the future . again in my original post I mention that Sja-Anat or bam could have lost some of thier thier memories of that time when they were unmade , perhaps even several times over thousands of yrs, by Odium and hence had to read about the Wind talking to both humans and singers to get to know that happened. u speak as if this is somehow not still a great number of yrs . also that's the lowest possible estimate. The highest possible ones are around a millenium.

i disagree. i feel we haven't been given enough words about her to make a judgement like that ok but that's still thousands of yrs of history she was awake in well as i said In the original post , the writer must be someone ancient if she heard the Wind talk to her in her childhood since she stopped talking a bit after Odiums arrival and only started talking again after Tara's ascension. That makes the pool of suspect very small. It isn't Hoid, it isn't the Heralds , maybe some ancient singer or spren could qualify. Maybe the speculated spren of Truth even. But I feel like my theory that it's Sja Anat or Ba Ado Mishram has more bite u know.

ok i can understand why you don't consider BAM as philosopher or historian due to her being imprisoned for so long and perhaps not having time for other stuff during the time she was the commander of the Singers, but why not Sja-Anat? i don't think we know enough about her to rule her out. Besides who will be better at being an historian than someone who has actually lived through most of it , some lost memories not withstanding. Also who will be better at being a philosopher than a being that has literally millennia of experience and is of Honor, Cultivation and Odium ? Hmm come to think of it , maybe Hoid is a good fit too, but I like my initial theory that Sja Anat is the author better. Hoid writing it well it seems too early for that in the timeline and . Oh wait nevermind, Hoid knows about Kal and Szeth's quest to find Ishi'elin in Shinovar. I believe Kal told him that the Wind was speaking to him too. Also I doubt Hoid spent any part of his childhood on Roshar.

I'm neutral on the romantic relationship myself but wouldn't mind it if it happens.

Alright I think that the author of Knights of Wind and Truth is none other than the Unmade Sja-Anat or the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram . My theory is aluminium foil hatty , yes , but i believe I have some light , vague evidence in the epigraphs. I believe this epigraph is about Sja-Anat's or Ba-Ado-Mishram's childhood, when they came into existence as a newly created spren, either by Adonalsium or by Honor and Cultivation, before Odium Unmade them as one of his own. I believe this indicates that the Wind stopped talking to PPL soon after Odium arrived on Roshar and did not start to talk again until the Final Ten Days . This rules out Jasnah or the Shin scholar or anyone born in the interim . So the being writing the epigraphs should be vastly older . Older than Odiums arrival on Roshar atleast and they are reasonably intelligent . And two of the known Unmade fit this criteria . Yes , the epigraphs refer to them reading that the Wind spoke to both humans and singers , not them actually watching it. But maybe that's cause in the process of becoming Unmade they lost thier memories of then recent events. Not to mention that it's been implied that Odium unmade them multiple times. We know that Ba-Ado-Mishram was many things. A Commander of the Singer armies for one. Should it surprise us that she regards herself as an historian and philosopher as well. Perhaps she also regards herself as an author of a book We have also seen that there's more to Sja-Anat than meets the eye. So could it be that she regards herself as an historian and a philosopher and an author. Esp with her philosophy of freeing spren by Enlightening them. As far as we know, neither Sja-Anat nor Ba-Ado-Mishram know about the quest to find Ishi'elin. BAM on account of being locked in a gemstone and Sja-Anat being generally ignorant of it. You might argue that Glys might have told her about the quest but I feel it's unlikely Glys is in active communication with Sja-Anat nor do I feel they are a minion to her. So yeah that's my crazy theory. It's probably wrong but i think it might just be true. Thanks for reading so far

So like the sun was just rising over the pits of hathsin . That means that the half the Western Dominance and all of the southern and farmost Dominances as well as the southern isles were still in the night . Millions of PPL must have lived there . Did sazed accidentally kill them all while remaking the world. I'm pretty sure it's mentioned somewhere, may e in a wob that only the PPL in the caverns survived.

So yeah , as we know the cognitive realm of sel is choked full of investiture from 2 shards. Now Brandon has said in a wob that if there is too much investiture in an area it can lead to temporal effects like slowed down or accelerated time. I propose that as a result time goes extremely slow on sel. So maybe Elantris 2 should occur around the same time as mistborn era 3 and elantris 3 at the same time as mistborn era 4 . That's my theory. Thank you.

Damn it. I came to the same conclusion as you and even posted it lol

Good explanation , you have my upvote but I'm sorry to inform you that others have already come to this conclusion before. Btw full metal Alchemist would also fit very well in the cosmere

So in the ars arcanum of RoW khriss says : And in TotES we learn that xisis lives under the aether sea researching something. Most probably the aethers. So what are the odds that xisis is foil ?

If anyone can burn pure Atium to get it's allomantic effect , can anyone store youth in Atium too ?