SingingMosaic

OK, so I only just noticed, in going to write my first Nnimm post, that I had neglected their physical description in my final updated sheet. So I promise this is the last time I'm going to do this for them, but here is the final, updated, for really real this time, sheet for the list.

Probably not outside of Shinovar, but my reason is, where would they go during highstorms? Being on the water would make them less safe you'd think. This said, I don't know much about the lives of ducks.

I think it would be equally good written from their point of view, too. For me it's easy to see which side I wouldn't want to be on, I feel like everyone is part of a long and terrible game of Odium's. Some humans have started to figure it out, I think. And when enough Singers figure it out, if they can because their access to information is so heavily controlled and manipulated, there will be an impressive level of righteous outrage. The good thing about Sanderson is that, if that day comes, no matter who's side it's viewed from, it won't be as simple as, oh let's join forces against our common enemy. As we see so often, people are never that simple, and Brandon knows this. Some will. Some won't. And it's between those ends of that spectrum that things will get interesting. I'm excited for this next book. I don't think anything like that is coming yet, but we're going to have a lot more nonhuman perspectives in general in this book, and possibly more in the future, from what I understand. So crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

You can I thought? There's a follow link up above the first heading. I don't know where it is visually.

I started reading TFE in 2015, but stopped because of computer issues. I started again in 2017, and got to the middle of WoA, but I didn't understand what kind of brilliance was going to happen so I didn't have the patience to finish it. In 2018 I started the trilogy again, and this time saw it through because I'd been most of the way through WoA and someone told me I'd appreciate what came next. At the time I was dealing with the debilitating effects of multiple mental illnesses which left me heavily dissociated for long stretches of time, and resulted in unpredictable emotions, cryptic motivations and long stretches where it seemed like my actions were under the control of forces far bigger than me. I had felt so small for years, so silent, and when I finished HoA I knew that not only was I going to follow Sanderson but that he had changed my life and I felt certain he was going to do it again. It wasn't some lightbulb moment. Books never usually get to me because of that. They always depict you getting control back as an aha moment where you snap your fingers and everything is OK, not the terribly draining process that it really is, when you expend incredible amounts of energy just to gain inches that you might lose at the drop of a hat. I never thought I could come out the other side. My life was full of, "This will never change," or, "Just snap out of it," and had been since early childhood. It seemed like after that, I started seeing things in the world that validated the fact that it really is incredibly difficult sometimes, and that just because the progress you fight for disappears doesn't mean you'll never find a way to get it back. Stormlight just reinforced that. I think now that it was only a matter of time, that something would have done it eventually. Someone told me when I was sixteen, when I mentioned facilities that relatives used to threaten me with, that I wouldn't settle for it. I would get out or die trying. I would not stand for captivity. I couldn't see what they'd seen in me then, but I see it now. In a way, he was my way back to the world. Those things aren't gone. The reality of my situation hasn't changed. But I have a different way of looking at and reacting to it, and that started there. I'll always be a patchwork creature, but it isn't all that I am. If I ever saw him I would thank him for depicting people who found that out, rather than just magically realizing it meaninglessly as many authors have depicted. I describe his books, well the Cosmere as that's what I've read so far, as fantasy written by someone who knows how to pay attention.

I personally think that would create some interesting story and RP possibilities. So go with whatever your head/heart/imagination tells you and feedback and whatnot, but that sounds like a cool idea.

Cool, I need something for my weird noises collection. I have a pile of dark blue beads which chime when you tap them.

The highprince Dalinar knocked off a spire of rock? I'm forgetting his name...

I made a cleaned up version of my sheet, which is collected from my version of it and Sorana's version, if you'd like to update the list with it. Took my notes out, did some formatting that hopefully the site will preserve.

Bendel?

Lol! This is brilliant. My roommate just asked me if I was OK because I was sitting over here dying.

Thanks! Do you still need me to edit my notes out and give you the cleaned up version for the list?

So here goes. After chewing over this, revising, bouncing ideas off people, chewing over it some more, and spending a week coming up with a name while making tiny minor edits and reversing them just to make them again, here's Nnimm. I hope I'm not jumping ahead on this, originally it was going in the other thread, but the only questions I have left, I think, are their total, and a question about timelines that might end up having a small effect on their age and skillset. I'll edit my notes out of this for the final version after the last bits are cleared up and it gets looked at. Now hopefully my tags work... @Voidus @Sorana @i think i am here

One could probably be corrupted. If Odium/Unmade get wind of Adolin's protective instinct toward Maya, they could potentially reanimate her. Of course this is pure speculation, because who knows if you can reanimate a spren like you can a Singer? We don't know how that was done or if it's still feasible. This would set a precedent for more of it happening, especially considering no one's going to be having an easy time of the year between 3 and 4, and if anyone mentions Maya other shardbearers might suddenly take more of an interest in their shardblades. I've seen this discussed in a bunch of other places but don't have time to give you links sadly, waiting on a ride.

Oh no I didn't save all mine, oops. Anyway I could do it again to get them back, wouldn't be exactly the same, but would most likely be close. I got windrunner on one, edgedancer on another and on this one I got 59 percent lightweaver. I didn't have zero percent on anything, I didn't have more than 59 or less than 10 on anything, which is interesting. I spend so much of my attention on the differences and commonalities in different thought processes, backgrounds etc. that this probably makes sense.

Great! Mine keep disappearing. I'll trade a big ball of multicolored yarn I rescued from my cat.

While I can't speak to all the concepts described because I don't have the background in chewing on the universe that my brain wishes I had, I think it's situational. I think it's different for each person. I think you make a decision and/or your emotions push you into a reaction from which no new connection can grow, but connections only wouldn't grow in that state. So if circumstances ever took you out of it again, you might. So yes, it's finite for many, if nothing changes about things that are specific to their emotions and experiences, but no, if those things do change. A person might be done and really mean it, done and absolutely know it, but they're done so long as the current configuration of their existence persists. That might be for thee rest of their life, but it might not, and there's no way to know whether said current configuration can change enough or not that I've been able to think of... I've known people who tried once, and gave up after that, living alone for decades, never finding anyone or looking for anyone, and some who only tried again entirely by accident, once most of their life had gone by. Some who tried dozens of times. My cousin was married three times by age twenty-three. People are so similar in some ways and so individual in others. I've known people whose minds were so finely tuned and who were so self aware in certain ways that they knew who they loved within weeks of meeting that person, and they never loved anyone else because what they needed was so specific. Some of them got their chances. Others didn't... There's always a next and in that time, things may stay the same, or they may change.. If I didn't hope for change I wouldn't be alive right now. But I sympathize with the things that make people stop.

I would make humans naturally more sensitive to their effects on their surroundings. People in general, I suppose, where they seem not to know, assuming we're talking about all of existence. This specifically wouldn't control their actions, but it would give them finer mental senses designed to make it so that avoiding awareness of consequences would be very difficult. It would be interesting to see how people would react if you couldn't stick your fingers in your ears and ignore the results of what you'd just done, or if you automatically knew if you'd made a mistake in an interaction because you could hear/sense the bad reaction. So while people could still be terrible, it wouldn't be easy to abuse someone and have no one find out for years, for example. As for the other two, I don't know. I feel in my day to day life like I have a desperate lack of information, and like most of us do, and like I wouldn't feel so helpless if I had more of it. It wouldn't be a quick fix. We'd still have to work out what we need to do, but we'd do so with more data, and it would be harder for people to obscure data they don't like from others. I can't think of more because everything I can think of right now seems like quick fixes, and quick fixes feel wrong to me because I feel they lower people's chances of surviving and coming into their potential.

I got coinshot, which I thought was interesting because when I do quizzes of any type, I usually end up its equivalent to "person who sits in the corner and pays way too much attention because they're wired to and can't help it that no one thinks is paying any attention at all." I like oddities to that pattern though, whether they say something about me, the quiz I'm taking or both.

This is my favorite. Something messed with my brain in a way that drastically decreased my musical ability somewhere around twelve years ago, and I still hear patterns everywhere, to the point where I exasperate people because I can so often tell if a sound is organic or just reproduced, my catalog of sounds in my environment and information about them, so on. One of my favorite things when I was little was sitting there and listening to languages I didn't know out in public and trying to figure out what was going on. I could map inflection patterns the fastest, so I think this is why I have so few problems with tones, aside from really specific ones, because I can map your tones and your cadences in my sleep. Anyway, this is supposed to back you up lol my bad, I kind of just wandered off into oooo sound oooo patterns land for a minute there... Anyway if my broken brain can still do a lot of pattern recognition intuitively, a bunch of highly musical, adaptable people are very likely good at it. There is also this, and this is likely, I imagine it was some of both. Oh OK that's what this pattern means. Oh hey for some reason I can communicate more easily with you than I should. And then everyone carries on because they don't know how to know what's significant yet.

Oh, this. I would read this if it were done well, and based on all the chewing on this I can see you did, I think it might. If at some point you need technical help with the writing itself I can give that reliably. Any abstract help is hit or miss with me and whether my brain turns over. If you go with Group One, please don't break HP story canon (this breaks so much HP world canon and that is completely fine with me lol) and have Sirius live. Have them find him in the CR. There's so much potential for those scenes. Where do you have it diverge? Right after book five? In book six somewhere, or maybe in the seventh one where everyone is separated, maybe Remus finds them? Sorry if you did say this and I missed it. Of course, take as much of this on or ignore as much of this as you would like. Agreed, Lumos filling spheres with Stormlight sounds like something that would make a story so much less interesting.

Lol that's OK, my first thought was this little tinny not quite 8 bit level up sequence reading that. That's how I've read and written it, but there are variations in neopronouns. As a side thought because that reminded me, I'm always amused when someone's like, "You can't use neopronouns they're made up," and I'm just like, "Erm ... I have something to tell you about all language..." heh anyway, If Even it's not technically accurate, I wouldn't worry about it. Thanks for the link! If you're using a screenreader, this site definitely has character, it's very quirky, and does what it wants when it wants. So I appreciate it.

OK. Thanks. Should hopefully have a name some time today.