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  1. Moash (full spoilers)

    in Stormlight Archive

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    I loved his character till Oathbringer... especially in Oathbringer. Then Rhythm of War happened. He completely spiralled and I can't help but feel very uncomfortable about his plotline because he's not just a character, he's a representation of an issue... and the way his storyline went feels... yeah... just no

    As for Elhokar... I don't like him, it was still a bit yikes but I can't say I also felt a bit like, eh, what goes around comes around. I get that he didn't get what all that power he had meant, I really do, that just isn't enough to get over the fact that he let people rot away to save himself from some embarrassment. Though mostly I just didn't care about him, and continued to not care about him. During the... face-stab then double-tap scene, I was much more worried about Kaladin, and even more worried about Moash. I thought Elhokar would say the words, heal, and kill him, right there, right in front of Kal. So... it was mostly a relief.

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  4. Guess That Cosmere PLACE!

    in Forum Games & Random Stuff

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    8 hours ago, EmulatonStromenkiin said:

    horneater peaks?

    Shinovar?

    Nope!

    Nope!

    1) This place is not easy to reach

    2) This place has been used as a refuge

    3) This place is home to rare creatures 

    4) This place is quite warm

    5) This place has appeared in multiple books

    Bonus) This place has experienced conflict with the homeland of a main character

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  5. First theory post: Siah Aimians… 5th ideal?

    in Stormlight Archive

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    13 hours ago, Russell 9-Fingers said:

    When you say the theory that they are spren (not familiar with it) do you mean spren that have been brought into the physical realm like Ishar’s experiments? 

    Yup. The theory is that Siah Aimians are Honorspren. The idea got lit in people's minds because of that scene in RoW where the Honorspren corpse is mistaken for a Natan corpse (who're descended from Siah Aimians and humans). In the Cognitive Realm, people's shadows point towards the sun, and the Siah Aimian's shadows also point towards the wrong direction. And they're both blue.

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  8. Guess That Cosmere Character! Forum Edition!

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    2 minutes ago, ElMonoEstupendo said:

     

     

    Not Dalinar.
    Not Szeth.
    Not Taravangian.
    Not Lift.

    Interesting choices!

    Not Kelsier.
    Not Sarene.
    Not Zane.
    Not Chett.
    Not Vivenna.
    Not Chiri-Chiri.
    Not Shallan.
    Not The Lord Ruler.
    Not Dalinar.

    1. This character has covered up their past.
    2. This character drains a hero's resources.
    3. This character is healed in two different ways by the same group.
    4. This character has been bad at a lot of jobs.
    5. This character survived the Assassin in White.

    Bonus Clue: This character has the best heart of their crew.

    the Lopen?

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  9. Guess That Cosmere Character! Forum Edition!

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    20 hours ago, ElMonoEstupendo said:

    Not Kelsier.
    Not Sarene.
    Not Zane.
    Not Chett.
    Not Vivenna.
    Not Chiri-Chiri.
    Not Shallan.
    Not The Lord Ruler.
    Not Dalinar.

    1. This character has covered up their past.
    2. This character drains a hero's resources.
    3. This character is healed in two different ways by the same group.
    4. This character has been bad at a lot of jobs.
    5. This character survived the Assassin in White.

    Huh, not Dalinar

    Taravangian maybe, no wait, Lift! 

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  12. Yolen?

    in Cosmere Q&A

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    Yolen is hidden, according to Khriss, and she hasn't been able to find it, so far at least. Though judging by the letters in the epigraphs, Yolen's not completely cut off from Worldhoppers' reach

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  15. Guess That Cosmere PLACE!

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    On 5/23/2022 at 7:48 PM, AceBassMan said:

    It is not T'Telir

    It is not Urteau

    1. This place was used for something other than it's designed purpose.

    2. This place is ancient.

    3. A character arrived through here and escaped through here.

    4. The same character learned a new power here.

    5. This place was both a market and a maze.

    Bonus: This place can only be closed or opened by a select few.

    Looks at clues 5 & 6

    the Azimir Oathgate!

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  16. Guess That Cosmere PLACE!

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    17 hours ago, AceBassMan said:

    Not The Pits of Hathsin

    1. This place was used for something other than it's designed purpose.

    2. This place is ancient.

    3. A character arrived through here and escaped through here.

    4. The same character learned a new power here.

    5. This place was both a market and a maze.

    Urteau?

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  17. Kaladin is treated unfairly throughout Words of Radiance

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    4 hours ago, Letryx13 said:

    Kaladin was complaining about how the light eyes in kholinar were throwing parties despite being under siege. Scar and Drehy pointed out how dark eyed people did similar things, even while fighting was going on. They weren’t saying “not all light eyes”, they were pointing out that the groups weren’t so different. 

    Not exactly my point. I'm a bit exhausted of these topics, tbh so I'm not gonna rehash the whole thing for the umpteenth time. Hmm, I think you can find all these old topics easily enough by visiting king of nowhere, ILuvHats or Gray's profile (I have way too many posts for even me to sort through), Gray also went through the whole thing in a Shardcast, iirc she explained it as the right to anger, the episode should also be easy enough to find.

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  18. Sooo... What's with thaylen eyebrows?

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    On 5/3/2022 at 1:43 AM, Duxredux said:

    I can't remember the biology term, but if most of a population gets killed it can drastically reduce the gene pool causing the descendants to exhibit a fraction of the genetic variance of the old populace. The physical characteristics of the different Rosharan cultures seem extremely homogenous within each culture, even taking into count the Parshendi heritage of Horneaters and Herdazians (https://wob.coppermind.net/events/451/#e14463) likely introduced at least 3-4 thousand years previously.

    With the Desolations causing mass culling of the population and setbacks in technology, closing of the Oathgates, and loss of Surgebinding transportation methods, I'd guess that at some point there were groups of people scattered across the planet with very poor methods of traveling without getting annihilated by Highstorms. Populations and technology developed, but because traveling in a world of Highstorms is a tricky and expensive business, the different cultures largely remained homogenous with genetics from intermarriages quickly getting diluted back to the dominant culture, because generally most people marry someone very near geographically, especially if communication is limited.

    So... I think that @Wrae and @Returned both make viable arguments. It probably has a writerly reason at the core. Maybe Thaylens just find long flowing luscious eyebrows really attractive, but I could also see the option that the Thaylens who rebuilt Thaylenah the last Desolation just had long eyebrows for some reason and all of their descendants do as well. Maybe there was someone notable that at that point in time they aspired to be like, so they cultivated the eyebrows rather than trimmed them.

    I think I got all of that, except this part right here:

    "so they cultivated the eyebrows rather than trimmed them."

    How the hell did they cultivate their eyebrows?! By not trimming?! Are you telling me that there are people out there who need to trim their eyebrow hair when it gets too long!?!

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  19. Kaladin is treated unfairly throughout Words of Radiance

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    4 hours ago, Treamayne said:

    Battalionlord Teofil might object to that statement. RoW Ch 40

    So it took a Darkeyed Battalionlord and a Lighteyed Queen to get the storming fools to act against an invasion (because you obviously can't trust a Darkeyes without a corroborating lighteyes; nor can you trust a female without a corroborating male - <sarcasm drips in background>)

    I can't find any version of "not all lighteyes!" in Oathbringer. Did you mean RoW, or perhaps this quote:

    OB Ch 70

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    OB ch 70~ish, just scroll back a bit, see Kaladin and Bridge 4 talking about Azure's unit and Tenners

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  24. Double Hemalurgy?

    in Cosmere Q&A

    Posted · Edited by Honorless

    On 5/21/2022 at 8:52 PM, Ixthos said:

     

    (and there are hints from a non-canon novel that a decapitated head will regrow the body, rather than the body regrowing a head). 

    Just the opposite actually, iirc! Hoid (who else, lol?) was surprised that his body regrew a head rather than his head regrowing a new body

     

    If it's two separate powers, I think you can steal them at more or less normal power.

    Seran had a... system where the victim was placed above the recipient so the spikes went through the victim's body and into the recipient's. That seems to me like a system to facilitate stealing multiple attributes from the same victim. Edit: nope, it was for efficiency, to reduce Hemalurgic Decay (here's a WoB explaining that:

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    LadyLameness

    The Inquisitors keep spikes in jars to stop the Hemalurgic decay. Is that clotted blood? Like, does it just work with clotted blood?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It will. So what's going here is the spikes have to - this is a weird Cosmere thing - the spikes have to think they're in a body and you gotta trick them. You don't need to use blood but that's the easiest thing that they could do to make it work. You could also leave it in a piece of meat.

    LadyLameness

    You can put the stake in the steak!

    Brandon Sanderson

    You can put a stake in a steak. But there are plenty of ways to do this without doing that. But yes, it's pretty gross.

    LadyLameness

    Not that I think they have consciousness very much, but I imagine that they're a bit stupid if they think that clotted blood is the same as a human body.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes. You're just tricking the stupid piece of metal that has a little bit of extra Investiture and has become slightly self-aware, and so it keeps its charge and doesn't... yeah. There are much better modern ways of doing this that have started to be used.

    JordanCon 2021 (July 16, 2021)

     

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