Nitpicking

Correct. Sorry.

If you think about it, you could argue that the Sibling is half-dragon, since Kor is a dragon and Tanner a human. I don't think that's right, what with the Sibling being a spren, but ....

Right. I was saying that Iyatil ... oh, right, I was combining Iyatil with Mraize. Stupid brain.

Working with Lift, Vasher finally comes to understand how Stormlight/Lifelight/Towerlight work, and as of the Back Half, he can Awaken using Light.

Are you in the right area? This is the forum to discuss the novel Wind and Truth, and how it relates to other Cosmere books. We only see dragons on-screen in ... let me think ... Tress of the Emerald Sea. And the non-canon Dragonsteel Prime. And I guess in WaT, in the form of Endowment.

Folks should keep in mind, this is the Stormlight-only forum. The Secret Projects are not in that category. A spoiler-warned mention might be OK, but otherwise, you can ask the mod to move this thread to the anything-goes forum.

And that's foreshadowing for his lastcatch, when he stops a storming Shardblade. At Worldcon in San Jose, I got Brandon to pose doing a lastcatch with someone cosplaying a Shardbearer.

I picked that ambiguous title to avoid spoilering people outside this forum. So, did everyone else realize immediately that Shallan killed Iyatil exactly the way Adolin killed Torol Sadeas? It's even a fight between combatants who have, but don't use, Shardblades (because they can't). Brandon was winking at us, as Shallan thinks about winning because of Adolin's lessons. It occurred to me: Iyatil's spren was a corrupted Inkspren. She couldn't do lightweaving. We know it was done with stormlight, because the anti-stormlight knife dispelled it. That means Mraize must have created the illusion, anchored it on her body, and it lasted for a very long time (or he kept renewing it). Timeless Spiritual Realm, I guess. Mraize got very good at lightweaving very fast, didn't he? Also, apparently corrupted Cryptics can grant normal lightweaving, which sort of means that their other surge must be different from normal Elsecalling.

The Returned don't (necessarily) kill to survive. They just turn people into Drabs. "Just".

Brandon has said that some Shards are not associated with any number. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/47/#e677

I happened to run into this WoB: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/188/#e3921 Bat'Chor is (it would seem) based on a real friend of Brandon's, "Bat-ultzi, a Mongolian ... He'd throw his shoes at people if they offended him. He was such a character that I got very interested in Mongolian practices and history."

I just happened to come across this WoB (spoiler, I guess, if you haven't read the Stormlight Archive):

I don't see it that way. Autonomy has never been Invested on Scadrial, but her servants sure seem to be able to use at least some of her power. The Nightwatcher didn't flee, and she's directly equivalent to the Stormfather in terms of power. If he could open a Perpendicularity, why couldn't she? For that matter, their Sibling seems to have all of their own Light despite both parents abandoning them.

You're talking about the being who informed Mr. Suit that he would be permitted to serve in another realm before blowing him to bits, yes? Anyone else looking forward to Cognitive Shadow Edwarn in the modern era Mistborn books?

Taravangian is exactly the sort of person who would try to make evil Heralds (who he thinks of as true heroes, of course) to counter the Ten. Nothing stops his willing subjects on Roshar from swearing oaths. If he can find and recruit, say, Ghostbloods (or any worldhoppers) from Scadrial (who have a Connection to Harmony), he could make an Oathpact to bind Sazed, since he's now Honor.

Have you met Highprince Adolin?

Work ceaselessly to free her mother from the Final Fantasy crystal prison she's currently in? (Seriously, Roshar could be the setting for FF game, easy.)

I happen to be rereading Alloy of Law, and Miles Hundredlives compounds gold to heal better than a Radiant, including recovering from literally having his brains blown out by Wax. You have to assume Rashek could do it better than Miles. And also has pewter.

She doesn't appear in Dragonsteel Prime. Presumably, she will appear in the actual Dragonsteel when Brandon writes it. We're getting into the time he predicted from the beginning, where you would in fact have to know the background. In my estimation, obviously I can't read the mind of Brandon Sanderson (just his writing).

Brandon's an amazingly fast writer, but he also keeps adding more stuff to the list of future works, e. g. the entire Wax and Wayne series, the Secret Projects, Isles of the Emberdark. And the time between Stormlight books is always longer than he intends. Granted, occasionally something is removed or delayed, e. g. he originally intended the Warbreaker sequel to come between books of the Front Five.

More Dragonsteel Prime spoilers: The context of the reveal would be the Back Five, by which time things will be different. Don't forget, Hoid was arguing with Frost way back in the epigraphs of Part Two of The Way of Kings. Confirmed by Word of Brandon. The ending of WaT is actually a related DP reference, where Hoid uses a Tamu Kek to commune with draconic spirits. That's only true at this exact instant. Isles of the Emberdark will be along any day now and Frost is an on-screen major character there, although not a main one (I don't think). Brandon is very much a planner, I would bet that he knew about Emberdark before he finished WaT.

Dragonsteel Prime is out of the Spoiler Zone, right? In DSP, Frost has a non-intervention policy and repeatedly violates it, notably by ordering the Sho Del to let the humans retreat. "They have earned their victory." He also has the draconic ability to communicate mentally with anyone in the Cosmere with no time delay, so he could commune with Dalinar without leaving Yolen. The only flaw in my crackpot theory about Nohadon being Frost would be, Dalinar doesn't have an obvious a tamu kek, which seems necessary for draconic communication. I keep wondering if I missed something in an earlier book. This is a SPOILER for an unpublished work (not yet in the Spoiler Zone): EDIT: Frost actually said, "They have earned their retreat." I hate when I do that.

How's your futuresight? If I have the timeline right, it'll be 25 years at an absolute minimum before Brandon starts writing Dragonsteel. (10 year gap minimum before the Back Five, 2 years minimum to write each of five Stormlight books, then a ridiculously optimistic 5 years for the Space Age Mistborn trilogy, unless he does Dragonsteel before the Space Age.)

It becomes a question of exactly what the words mean. Brandon draws a distinction between nahel bonds, which are purely spiritual, and luhel bonds (as with the Aethers in Tress) where something physical is given to the Cognitive entity. IMO, the connection between hijo and Yoki-Hijo is more spiritual (in the Cosmere meaning) than physical. It's a temporary thing, but .... Maybe Brandon has another word for this stuff, I don't know. I think (haven't checked) that he classified a Seon/master bond as nahel. It's worth mentioning that "nahel" translates as "holy". I think Yumi would call her Connection to the spirits holy.

You're clinging hard to the human perspective. From the point of view of the Singers it looks very different.