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  1. drunkenbotanist
    Every day we stray further from Ado's light
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    Someone's been drinking the Dor juice a little hard
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    Kelsier's brief history as a shard definitely helps I feel
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    Copper seems to work similarly to the suppression fabrials in RoW, only more general
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    I don't think dalinar or the stormfather are strong enough to defeat a compromised Odium after the shard holder were to break his word. The implication has been that cultivation would kill Rayse. Cultivation doesn't want to kill Taravangian, she just got him there. Todium realized that Cultivation won't take the chance to kill him, so there's no reason he can't break his word. Dalinar realizes the only chance to finish the contest with Odium not participating is to kill himself. Which he decides not to do: "the choice of honor is life"
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    At the beginning of the book, it seems like the Shroud is being set up to be the fallout from the splintering, but it's a fun reversal of Brandon's if it is actually the Yoki Hijo that are
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    So this is leaping off of what someone said speculating the father machine maybe required a Dawnshard. So is there any reason for a Dawnshard to be present? If Virtuosity splintered herself with a Dawnshard, and as part of that there were 16 large pieces (that became the 16 potential yoko-hijo), then Virtuosity would have made a performance of a mini-Shattering of Adonalsium. A virtuoso performance? The sleepless we see could have came there to investigate rumours of a Dawnshard being present. This satisfies meta-reasons too by Brandon giving more info about the locations/uses of the Dawnshards
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    Virtuosity could have splintered herself with a Dawnshard. And the sleepless who is on the planet may have made the assumption that there is one here and is investigating. Edit: I made a separate Post about this just now
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    Re: the pact Since the wording IIRC is "to not interfere with each other" then two shards agreeing makes sense, because they agree they're not interfering which each other but working together. Also: it drives me crazy knowing that Brandon has his own wiki that absolutely has a secret timeline. Honestly I hope when he retires he publishes his internal wiki
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    Also Navani and her ardents go from WoR making tents from the rain To OB making wristwatches and space heaters To RoW making fabrial tasers, a giant floating ship, a fun flying glove, oops and antimatter bombs and then basically a spaceship. Only now at the end of RoW she's hooked up to a super fabrial machine and all signs point to that drastically speeding up her innovations. Also in either here or in Dawnshard they hint about computers with logic spren. I think 30 years will involve quite a lot of change. But they're not developing along the same technological path as scadrial, it's much more fantasy.
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    In ROW when Are killed by They also release black smoke in a way that taken all together seems like good speculate as involving investiture being "destroyed" (Not literally possible but maybe it's Intent/identity being destroyed as opposed to corrupted which makes it red?)
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    This has come up before and i remember people speculating that it was the artwork, which he had more than usual influence on. Like the faces at the beginning of each chapter
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    Brandon has repeatedly mentioned for years the desire to do the disease magic, named the book, written a chapter or two And the disease magic in inextricably linked to the backstory of Ashyn I don't think he scrapped it
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    Also could be that in the meantime, they've gotten better at the trellium technique, bind point, how to charge the spike, etc. Among all the other reasons above
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    It's explicit in the book that she sees the way she helped dalinar potentially could have made him a better tool for odium... But cultivates him anyways
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    Just a note lift doesn't turn body fat into lifelight she turns food into lifelight and is constantly nearly starving because she isn't actually eating
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    Atiums/ruin's investiture cycle uses atium geodes Are gemhearts analogous? Only with probably lifelight to help the crabs grow
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    Aluminum insulates investiture and silver insulates the realms? Or is aluminum hostile to "kinetic" investiture and silver hostile to "non kinetic" ^not the first time these have been speculated on before
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    Metals are not really the determinant of color for "respiratory pigments" (or not exclusively determinant), if it has a porphyrin ring or heme group (unlike copper binding Hemocyanin), the side chains of that influence color. It's all about ~conjugation ~ There are a variety of porphyrins and their metabolites that can be orange. Color is widely influenced widely by the side chains of the porphyrin. Chlorocruorin is green, and binds oxygen, but has iron Chlorophyll is green and binds magnesium but doesn't bind oxygen, isn't a respiratory pigment Cobalamin (vitamin B12) binds cobalt, is red
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    The bands storing mist somehow is another reason why they could have been places outside and why they are completely drained in TLM It's not perfect, because "well how do they draw in mist on their own" but some people have speculated about the bands in a way that could work for that Or maybe that specific location was special for attracting the mists...maybe it was where Sazed ascended, moved around a bit.
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    Who prosecutes war crimes in the cosmere
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    If you're able to shove your spren into the spiritual realm theoretically you would no longer be location locked. You wouldn't have access to stormlight but if it was around you should be able to use it, or dor, etc
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    Can we actually imagine though the room you kill god in Like presumably Brandon has that scene in his head or did at one point. I really wonder what that is going to be like The 16, with the dawnshards in the ---- secret lab/basement/dungeon/roof of massive temple in a thunderstorm/in the cognitive realm so everything is weirdly colored --- very excited to see what he does with this in like 20 years
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    Random thought but we know that one side effect of the presence of the aethers is A LOT of air production, enough to make the the seas traversable. Could the blimp aether be floating on top of a sea of air? The aethers could be doing something to keep the atmosphere in, or keep it concentrated enough that they stay up. In this idea, the "stilling" would be course corrections. Brandon loves his reversals, and it would be a fun one if the emerald sea actually meant the sea (of air) the emerald aether was floating on.
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    Regarding the silver on the boats not being replaced. Eventually it probably needs to be, however the spores have very little investiture, unlike say a Shade What i want confirmed is that Twinsoul's creations are more/completely resistant to silver, that resistance to the effects of silver also something to do with identity or connection
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