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The emperor's soul is the best followed by shadows for silence. That is of course a fact not an opinion but I understand why you meet be confused and think otherwise after all they are all quite good.

I am curious who everyone thinks survived at the end of the book

But does space actually exist or is it just a gateway to the cognitive realm.

How did you know who told you? The person bellow me is Brandon Sandersons secret twin

Granted but no matter what you eat you will never taste anything but pepper. I wish to be able to let people talk to there lost loved ones one last time

Of course I should of realized that. Thank you for pointing that out it does change things.

If you were to bond multiple Spren would you need to be broken in multiple ways or is one crack enough for multiple Spren to use? And if they could use the same crack would someone who has been broken more be more powerful beacuse there is more room for the bond and investiture?

We see examples of a couple creatures that can do that in stormlight archive. The Spren, Syl changes her form all the time including into a variety of weapons and when Wendal is complaining about not wanting to be a shard blade he says he does not want lift using his body as a weapon.

I have always thought of it causing a similar effect as two people burning atium what you end up with is a vision of possible futures then beacuse each shard is focused on the purpose (ruin wants to destroy, preservation wants to preserve) you will be able to find trends in the pattern which let you get a better idea of what will happen. I also believe that the stronger shards can see farther into the future which also will help narrow the paths some. The other shard will be able to see some of the same stuff but they are to focused on there goals and aren't likely to do something that does not help them archive it so they are allowing the likely paths to exist

This is a difficult question luckily it was made a little easier by the lack of novellas. I personally love shadows for silence and the emperor's soul I think they are prime examples of Sandersons work and why we love him they show us the unique magic systems he uses and the wonderful characters that have real problems displayed in a more realistic manor. But with the lack of those two or at least the arcanium unbound I have to go with warbreaker which is the book that got me to read the rest of the cosmere.

I like this theory. I was wondering how does sand mastery fit into it? Is the sand completing the pathway like burning metal, or is it storing investiture which sand masters can then access and use connecting to the sand instead of the source there by acting more like someone drawing an atribute from a metal mind

I was also trying to figure out who survived. I think it was the original, replica Holly kept trying to deny that she was like her original I think that after hearing the whole story she could not bring herself to kill the original there by proving that she is not like herself in the final moments of her life. But I could be wrong. I have to agree the world was great and I would love to see this one as a film the fight scene at the dance place would be incredible getting to see the world change as she touches people would be alot of fun. I liked the complexities of the people nobody was in the right each group had some good motivation but there actions were not. I think in the end we do not see the good people we have those who are lost, which are the checkouts and normal people each group is trying to find something that they can't, and we have those who seek to control the world for there own purpose each believing that what they are doing is better then the alternative Overall I really enjoyed this one and would love to see more like it