Commander Azure

So I know that there have been a lot of discussions about Shallan's mother maybe being a herald and I was thinking about that a little bit. if so, she would have died 7 years or so before most of the action of the series takes place. My theory though comes when you combine that with Taln saying that he was "late" in his speech. Could it be that the Desolation, and what allowed Elim to escape Braize, was that Shallan's mother was sent back and almost immediately broke, allowing Odium's forces back onto Roshar? Then it could be that that Taln was late for, because I believe there's a WoB somewhere saying that Taln didn't actually break, he just eventually realized that he could leave.

If it only requires the third ideal to get a shardblade but the fourth ideal to get shardplate, why is shardplate not significantly rarer than shardblades after the Recreance?

I was writing an essay for school, when I realized I had accidentally capitalized Identity. Anyone else have any funny stories like that?

9 Unmade. The Sibling. What's 9+1? 10? Now, above, some people have theorized about how each Unmade corresponds to one order of Fused, and how Honor's Surge is unavailable to the Fused. Therefore, by corrupting the Sibling, they could get access to Adhesion. Which makes me think that each of those spren (the Unmade, the Sibling) corresponds to one Surge. However, the hole in my reasoning is that the Nightwatcher and Stormfather exist too. How valid do you think this is, however? On a side note, the reason the Radiants have two Surges and the Fused have one is because the Fused are of one Shard and the Radiants of two.

Um, what? Where are you getting this info?

My favorite part was when Spensa accidentally called Kaladin "Jerkface".

I'm not sure if I'm misremembering and I doubt it would relate to Nightblood, but I'm pretty sure black "light" belongs to Ruin (I'm recalling the black smoke when he escaped from the Well)

Yeah, that too. I'll edit my original post with all of the hints people find.

So, how certain are we now that Thaidakar is Kelsier? Thaidakar is called the Lord of Scars by Hoid (Lord of the Mists reference, and the scars on his arms most likely), he is described as having a situation similar to the Heralds (again, Kelsier). There are probably other hints that I missed, but I think it's a pretty safe assumption. This post will be edited as more evidence is posted. EVIDENCE: The Lord of Scars Situation similar to that of the Heralds Wit threatened to "slap him around again"

Only two Radiant Orders have access to each Surge. However, three have access to Stoneshaping: Bondsmiths, Stonewards, and Willshapers. Stonewards and Willshapers each use the Stoneshaping Surge in Book 4 (Won't go into detail, as I don't want to put it on the spoiler boards), but Dalinar "healing" the temple in Thaylenah, in Book 3, was described by the Stormfather (I think) as an application of the Stoneshaping Surge, and, in addition, the Stormfather told Dalinar that Stoneshaping is the other of his two Surges.

If people in the cosmere were to find a planet with, say, just molecular life, do you think they'd put a giant speed bubble over the whole planet (knowing Brandon, that's probably possible) and watch how life evolves? That could be amazing for science.

Sazed wasn't actually God, he's...god. BIG difference comes from capitalization. He made Elend's body physically whole again but lower-g gods can't get the spirit back after it goes away is basically what happened. I understand your viewpoint having just read the first three mistborn books, but once you learn more about what's happening behind the scenes and read his other books, you'll start to realise what can and can't happen.

I think he means, "when was that established?"

Although I certainly see possibilities for this type of thing. Also, can Allomancers burn Iron consumed in food?

Look. I have absolutely no idea how feasible this idea is but I just had the idea that the Rhythms the Parsh hear is somehow related to the pulses Bronze mistings hear. Please, prove me one way or another, but it is certainly interesting.