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On 1/27/2024 at 1:23 PM, Lunamor said:

I wish for a normal sleep schedule.

Granted, you get a schedule emailed to you, the timings listed are all quite normal.

I wish to taste something new and delicious

When Tress began to walk away with "Charlie", contemplating how she's changed and how that has created a distance between them, and then stopped. I got it at the same time as she did

4 hours ago, ThatRedHead717 said:

I have seen Herald Portraits floating around the internet in some scattered places, but I want to see them all in the same place, so I'm betting other people will too. I have arranged them in what seems to be the standard order for the Orders. Starting with Windrunners, then Skybreakers, and so on, following the Orders that share a Surge all the way around to Bondsmith. 

I have also included the Honorblades in the same order so you can easily glance between them and see the blade each Herald bore eons ago. 

Hope yall like this as much as I do

 

ps, anyone know where the Battar portrait is? I couldn't find it.

No official Battar portrait has been released yet

But there's some fanart, like this: 

The novella Dawnshard implies that the Dawnshards - some kind of super hyper ultra Commands of Adonalsium were used to tear Adonalsium into pieces.

On 2/17/2023 at 2:35 AM, JohnnyKaizen said:

I know this is a very old post, so I don't know if anyone will even see it. But, that said, in Ch 38 of Way of Kings, when Teft first feeds Kaladin stormlight..Sanderson describes the stormlight coming off of Kaladin's skin as white. Then his eyes snap open, and they leak light too, with a "faint amber (yellow) cast."

So this issue with his eyes has been around from WoKs. And what about his eyes would cause the investiture leaking out of them to be yellow, but the investiture coming out of the rest of his body to be white?

Okay, good catch! Found the relevant section: 

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Teft froze, eyes widening. Wisps of Light began to rise from Kaladin’s body. It was faint, but there was no mistaking that glowing white Stormlight streaming off his frame. It was as if Kaladin had been bathed in sudden heat, and his very skin steamed.
Kaladin’s eyes snapped open, and they leaked light too, faintly colored amber. He gasped again loudly, and the trailing wisps of light began to twist around the exposed cuts on his chest.

From chapter 38 Envisager, after Kaladin is tied outside during the Highstorm.

And in the chapters before... was that smiling face even actually the Stormfather? I'm no longer sure... there's a lot of weird things in the early Stormlight books

On 2/13/2023 at 6:52 PM, The Sovereign said:

I suspect that this is Enlighted version of Renarin's Lightweaving, people seem to think that the stained glass fortune ability is his Lightweaving, but I suspect that is actually an effect created by the combination of Honor, Cultivation, and Odium's powers. 

Agreed, I also think that is his version of Lightweaving.

And the Futuresight is perhaps something like a Resonance, Illumination of Progression.

On 2/8/2023 at 0:41 AM, lacrossedeamon said:

Cultivatium?

sounds like an alloy of Atium and Cultivation’s Godmetal

1 hour ago, Trusk'our said:

I know that this is a rather nit-picky opinion of mine, but doesn't saying that "Hemalurgy was stronger back then" and "Hemalurgy is weaker now" mean basically the same thing?

How... dare...

just kidding, we all nitpick here

I'd say no, it's not the same thing because there are three values: Hemalurgy at its normal strength, Hemalurgy at higher than normal strength and Hemalurgy at lower than normal strength; and I'm saying that I think the transition was from the second to first rather than first to third.

It's a significant difference story wise too, I'm saying Ruin was affecting Hemalurgy back then, and Harmony hasn't weakened Hemalurgy

(I’m drawing a blank character-wise for why he'd make that decision except that maybe he can't do that level of overhaul to a magic system, or he's Preserving that system that lets Ruin perpetuate – or something along those lines, that it's because of his Intent)

I'm for the theory that it isn't any weaker now at all, it was just stronger back then because Ruin was pushing through more power from the other side

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Namely the nonstop references to other cosmere magic and people (seriously, The Emperor’s Soul even got into this thing somehow).

Yes, it did feel rather self-referential compared to how elegantly the crossover elements were handled in Tress 

Also, yes! Autonomy should've felt like a bigger threat. That's a Shard, people! So where's that sheer presence of Ruin? Of Odium? Of Cultivation?

Regarding the Wayne dialogue, I read that as Wayne overgrowing his old skin, so to speak. And I generally didn't like Wayne's interactions in first read-throughs in the prequel books either but did find them funny upon reread, so I'm reserving judgement until later, if/when I get around to rereading it.

Oh hey, nice to see this has a thread!

I didn't look into it too deeply, but... I'll just copy paste what I had on it over here

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I wasn't sure how Silajana was broken down, though I did know a name "Nilanjana" which was what popped up in my head first, but I was pretty sure that's Neel+Anjana. Sila is stone, Jana could mean a person. So, "person of stone", "He or she, of stone", was my first guess. The 's' is usually aspirated, iirc. English isn't great for transliterating Indian languages... there were a lot of suffixes it could've been. Based on which 'a' was a schwa, which was a long ā, it could've been a lot of different things. But "origin" makes a lot of sense. And we're going full Sanskrit.

Vishwadhar would mean "lord of the world" with the base words being Vishva (world) and Dharan (bear / hold / wield), it's a title of a Hindu god, Vishnu. World's Edge is a possible translation, Vishva+Dhar, but given how Silajana is translated, I would say it's less likely.

The amount of pronunciations and meanings "Suna" could have... it's too much. I don't even know if the 's' is aspirated (like sh... yeah I don't know why aspirated 's' sounds aren't just transliterated into 'sh' either). But going by context, that these are the names of Aethers...

I remember going through my references and ignoring certain definitions but now that I think about it, some of those translations could make sense. Like "execution site" or "place of slaughter" if it was referring to the Aether corresponding to the Crimson Sea.

It's probably not "zero", "empty", "void", that's more commonly transliterated as "sunya" ("shunya" would be better). It sounds grand, but I don't think there's an Aether like that, iirc. But there could be an Aether of Investiture nullification out there, I guess. Tress' world probably wouldn't realise what that Aether would do, and so it might've gone unremarked within the scope of the story.

It's possible that it refers to a Verdant Aether, and means something like "bloom" or "bud" or "fruit", but I'm not sure. Verdant doesn't produce vines with flowers or fruits, either in Tress or AoN.

It could also be the Sunlight Aether, for "beam of light".

So I got a few possibilities for Suna!

The Valley itself having an effect didn't even occur to me

But given Raboniel’s comment about Lifelight, Cultivation’s connection to the place and the abundant flora in that place, that place is definitely steeped in Lifelight.

But *is* that place special? Urithiru is the Sibling’s body manifesting into the physical realm like a spren turns into a shardblade.

The Highstorm probably contains Honor’s Perpendicularity.

Cultivation’s Perpendicularity is up in the Horneater "Oceans".

The Valley is just... the place where the Nightwatcher resides. It's possible it's not special by itself...

But given that it's Brandon, it's eminently possible that that place has many secrets buried. 

We know that Cultivation is an original Vessel from Yolen, who participated in the Shattering of Adonalsium. And that her Vessel is named Koravellium Avast, and that she is a Dragon.

Oh and it's very likely that she once slammed Hoid.

On 10/13/2022 at 9:33 PM, Treamayne said:

Most likely, the breaths are gone and have returned to the pool of investiture in the Spiritual Realm. I say this because we know:

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Llarimar stared out through the bars, staring at one of the flickering lanterns hanging from the stark stone wall. “I was a priest, even then. I worked in the palace of Kindwinds the Honest. I saw how he lied to play political games. The longer I stayed in that palace, the more my faith waned.”

He fell silent for a moment, then he looked up. “And then you died. Died rescuing my daughter. That’s the girl you see in your visions, Lightsong. The description is perfect. She was your favorite niece. Still would be, I assume. If you hadn’t…” He shook his head. “When we found you dead, I lost hope. I was going to resign my position. I knelt above your body, weeping. And then, the Colors started to glow. You lifted your head, body changing, getting larger, muscles growing stronger.

“I knew it at that moment. I knew that if a man like you were chosen to Return—a man who had died to save another—then the Iridescent Tones were real. The visions were real. And the gods were real. You gave me back my faith, Stennimar.”

 

 

Breaths might be weirder than that

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Questioner

With spikes, would you be able to actually transfer Breaths, when they get to the other planets?

Brandon Sanderson

So spikes rip off pieces of the soul and so Breaths are not going to be part of the soul. You could maybe get a divine Breath but I haven't really decided on regular Breaths, they're kind of stuck there in the Physical Realm which is not a thing that spikes are dealing with. Divine Breath, potentially, because that's something that's actually melding onto your soul. But, you know, when you're using the Breaths they reach through to the Spiritual Realm so, maybe if you got it while the Breaths were kinetic, right, while you're using them, then you might be able to rip them off. I'm not a hundred percent certain on that one.

Bystander

There's still things to decide upon.

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah there's still things, like I have to kind of see. My instinct says no right now. But, you know, how they interact is not something that I have-- Yeah.

Shadows of Self London UK signing (Oct. 19, 2015)

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Stroniax

Is there a way to harvest BioChromatic Breath from a planet, if it holds any? (If a person dies, and their body turns to dusty he dust of the earth, then doesn't [Nalthis] therefore hold thousands, if not millions, of BioChromatic Breaths?)

Brandon Sanderson

Possible. It would be the same thing as harvesting the nature of Preservation or Ruin, which--on Scadrial--took the form of nuggets of metal.

17th Shard Forum Q&A (Sept. 26, 2012)

Well... I used to be concerned that the Cognitive Aspects of Selish people just got vapourised after they died...

But that idea of "plasma demons" has given me entirely new concerns. Svrakiss might be really dangerous then

On 12/5/2022 at 8:45 AM, Eternal Khol said:

Ive had that though too that The Evil is some kind of Fain or corrupted Fain shadow or something like that and i definitely think its plausible. Brandon has even said that Fainlife has spread off of Yolen “in significant ways”…

I'm starting to wonder... could Fain be a type of Aether?

 Also, I don't remember if you saw that theory regarding Elantris’ walls and White Sand... now I'm starting to wonder... what if that's a form of Fainlife? Admittedly, that idea mostly only stems from them being white in colour.

And yup, lacrossedeamon, had the same idea! The Evil being a hostile ecosystem makes much more sense for how people managed to escape the continent than a malevolent powerful entity.

Bringing Fainlife over to infect another planet might also have given Odium the excuse he needed to attack Ambition.

Really looking forward to that Threnody novel! The Evil, the Deepest Ones, the Night Brigade (Dust Brigade sounded cooler, dammit!), and oh boy, isn't that name really interesting after reading the sample of a certain Secret Project

Maybe Hoid used Aon Ene to overwrite the curse rather than actually edit any Aons? (Basically, adding extra modifications of his own and invalidating part of the original modifiers)

Like, maybe the Sorceress just stated "the Sorceress' Home", and the Aon had to define what that meant via Intent but Hoid defined the Sorceress' Home as specifically the Rock.

Because I don't think Hoid could just delete part of the Aonic structure, if he could then this wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.

I'm not sure how curse became verse though...

But maybe Aon Ene strikes again? Ene isn't just the 'add modifier' Aon, it also means "wit". Maybe Hoid defined the meaning of Aon Ene to change it into the latter.

...I believe Vivenna, Sisirinah / Siri and Fafen also had a brother, though I forget his name

So Queen Vivenna of Idris...

and Prince Consort (someone look up the guy's name), husband of... uh... Queen Susebr-... Queen Susan? Let's go with Queen Susan

Or... is Susebron going to give up his Divine Breath after Siri dies? 

It's a possibility

But I certainly like the possibility you presented better!

Iirc, in the book, that wasn't the case. Only the base Aon Aon was drawn with the chasm line...

but... that might still have been an incomplete Aon, just complete enough to work.

I think the Aons might work even better if the chasm line is drawn for every Aon Aon

Cosmere spoilers

Wait, was Moonlight = Shai confirmed?

It was a beautiful book! Quite a few amazing quotes regarding the nature of memories that'll stick with me. The setting of the story was amazing.

Anyone else's heart just about stopped here? (Ch 60)

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Because, ouch.

But I also kinda wanna read a version of the story where... y'know where I'm going with this

It was really great! Brandon has come really far

Excuse me, just listing the Aethers we got so far

Twelve Oceans + Twelve Moons + Twelve (Thirteen) Aethers

Emerald Sea for Verdant, which grows vegetation

Rose Sea for Roseite which grows (silicate?) crystals

Sapphire Sea for Zephyr, air

Crimson Sea for unnamed, spikes

Midnight Sea for Midnight Essence

unnamed Sea for Sunlight, light

The thirteenth Bone spores Aether (I wonder if that refers to Fainlife? Did Fainlife come from Aethers?)

So... the Midnight Mother is a Corrupted Aether

Also the Ire built Elantris! Called it! (Hoid needed membership to a group to become Elantrian)

I think Hoid was narrating the story to someone from First of the Sun, given how he was talking about magitech and the way he referenced navigation & Aviar

That rocket at the end killed me 

As did the laptops, hah. I think those are Seons?

Lightweaving is scary. It really only sank in with the Sorceress using it

Aons are really the best magic. Creating geas and transmogrification & mental curses. So scary!

White Sand... is making me really curious with how it behaves, it's very similar to Aethers. Also seriously, that magic just looks more and more pathetic with time.

Also that's two people (possibly two Dragons) living beneath a sea, studying Aethers (or perhaps Xisis and Foil are the same entity?)

Oh and Hoid referred to capital-F Fate again, and referred to her as "her", so... the final Shard?

Luhel Bond, a new kind of Bond! 

Also how the metals influence other magics. It's interesting that Preservation’s alteration of metals? means they have an effect beyond that of the Metallic Arts. First Fabrials, now this. I wonder how the other metals might work with Aethers!

First canonical appearance of Dragonsteel!

It was mentioned in The Lost Metal that the legend of Ironeyes has spread onto other worlds, kinda like the Cosmere version of the Grim Reaper, but I was still surprised when Triss directly referenced him!

Also Hoid said something very alarming:

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“I once ate an entire rock. Had to fight off its family first though.”

Uh-oh. RIP Rock

/just kidding... hopefully