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  1. 1 hour ago, GeoMantrix said:

    13 is the number of tiles one has between turns in Mah Jong, and 14 is the number during a turn, including the win.  Mah Jong has 3 suits, bamboo, cookies (but could be stones?) and numbers.  In Eastern painting, there are 4 gentlemen: Bamboo, Cherry blossom (appearing in Painter's final portrait of Yumi), orchid grass and chrysanthemum.

    Also, there's 4 scholars.  I don't know if they could somehow be the Nalthian scholars?  

    I'm kind of embarassed that though I'm half chinese, most of what I know about these things I learned in college.  

    This is interesting might be worth asking Sanderson about this on the spoiler stream.

  2.  Honestly, at this piont, I'm leading towards 2. I'm going to steal some of Serack's work from his "On the nature of spirits and hion" topic to explain my reasoning.

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    The light spirit divided in half, one bright and a “friendly orange color” the other dull and blue. Chapter 4

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    As always, the spirit split into two to make the devices  Chapter 4

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    this time by way of a single lifting spirit underneath that took the physical shape of two statues, each with grotesque features, facing one another. One vaguely male crouched on the ground; one vaguely female clung to the bottom of the building. Though divided once made physical, they were still part of the same spirit. Chapter 2

     

    Part of Serack's conclusion was

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    When investiture on Komashi manifests on the physical realm and performs work (it's arcanum) it manifests as a dualist polarity, possibly inspired by Yin/Yang Taoism/Daoism (something I am largely ignorant about).  

    I agree with him the book is constantly using the number two and sets of two:

    - The helon is made of two colors 

    - The spirts separate into two when manifesting into objects

    - The story is about two people connected through the spirts manipulation 

    - Two occupied planets (that we known of) and something is weird about them because one of the plants can pierce the Shroud

    - Two white eyes on stable nightmares

    - I know there are more, but I don’t have more time to search the pdf

    In conclusion, I believe that 2 is a likely number for Virtuosity.

    P.S. I could not get the quote system to work.

  3. I think it has been said that shards all have a spefic number. 

    Honor 10

    Oduim 9

    Preservation 16

    So what is Virtuosity's number? My best guess is 14 because of the number of yoki-hijo that the machine could not consume. I think that the yoki-hijo are spilenters of Virtuosity.

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