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Like, if not then I'm going to start making some wild theories about it and posting them around

There is a WoB from 2018 from the skyward signing that says that Puula is Ire? Can someone more familiar with WoBs tell me if this was said in confusion or something? The audio sounds like it was just being confirmed, but it makes little sense to me and i haven't really seen implications of it talked about before. And it's not on the copper mind. What's going on with that?

My Thoughts while watching the episode: I think that Autonomy building the avatar (the mech suit/power mantle example) for someone to step into makes sense. Specifically for the avatar where Autonomy is bestowing someone with power. It's like making a mini shard with you as the vessel then stepping out and letting someone else be the vessel. I wonder how much control Autonomy has in shaping the will of this kind of Avatar. Like can it for an Intent for the avatar and then the avatar has intent/vessel interactions like shards do? I also think I disagree that the avatar creation is a Bavadin thing. I think that it's an Autonomy Intent thing. Any living being has many facets. Everyday we are faced with choices. Do I want to do Path A or Path B? Well Path A is good for X reasons, path B is good for Y reasons. What do I do? Make a choice based on a compromise between the part of me that thinks X reasons are more important and the part of me that thinks Y reasons are more important? Maybe if I was weak and compromising my drive and willing to let that other part of me influence me! If part of me truly believes that Path A is best then it should strike out and PROVE that path A is best. Same goes for the part of me that believes Path B is best. I think that the making of so many avatars is an Intent driven reaction to every living being (the vessel being the relevant being here) already being an amalgamation of so many opposing/contrasting/differing values/opinions/thoughts/emotions. The WoB about For the men of gold and red, I also thought the Iri were involved. Iri who were in Bilming pushed me towards that too. But looking back at it, it literally refers to them as living statues. And I think it would make sense for Autonomy for it to be lifeless-esque or like the Phantoms. The Phantoms with enough breath to be semi-sentient. Like somewhere between a Phantom and Nightblood. An awakening with an order like "Follow the will of Autonomy" (or whatever Autonomy would want to be used) would be hard enough for me to follow given all the avatars, let alone a creature with limited ability to understand the world (with lesser or equal to nightblood understanding). I'm not exactly sure what the final metal would be in these constructs. I assume it's trellium, but I don't know how they are incorporated. Maybe they soldiers are made with breath and corrupted by spiking them with trellium, hence the red eyes (for corruption)? So, with the artificial shardpool, it's anyone's guess. Shai's thing about this being a thing Autonomy does makes me think it's something that happens on planets without shards on it. Does that mean planets without shards? Maybe there are more planets with perpendicularities than shards? Knowing that TwinSoul and his people are no longer able to be on the home planet, does that mean there's a perpendicularity there? Was there one or was it created by autonomy to attack? (Aether of Night may have answers, but who knows if they are at all true in current cosmere). I guess my guess that the investiture pool can be made from either side of the opening. We know that shardpools are on both the cognitive and physical realms. In this case, the process of taking 2000 jars and pouring them in the cognitive realm of Harmony's planet and needing to do it in the middle of somewhere they can guarantee it's a few hundred feet from 10s of metalborn, would have just been too conspicuous. They were required to do it somewhere more secret and so needed to make the pool from the physical side, which required all the roundabout methods we see in this book.

Scadrial (and the stories told on it) is my least favorite world in the Cosmere.

It's my understanding that they have weapons because that's what they came to honor asking for. They came to honor asking for access to the surges they had on Ashyn so that they could fight against the Fused in the first desolation. We don't know if the honorblades work on Braize because we don't know if they have access to Honor/Stormlight there. But I think the idea was that Honor set up the oathpact with Odium and the Heralds with the idea that Odium/Fused would end up stuck on Braize forever because the agreement was that the Heralds would be tormented there forever for the sake of peace on Roshar. But Honor (according to the stormfather, so unreliable source) couldn't understand Heralds breaking their promise and giving into the torture. So Honor may have saw it as a way to push Odium from Roshar? Or the stormfather has too limited a view of what Honor thought and maybe more of this was a plan than we know currently. I think the Intent of Honor has a really hard time NOT making oaths with people in trouble coming to it with honorable intent. So when the Heralds come and say "We are dying! We need the powers of our past. We will go through the Proving Day challenges and will sacrifice ourselves to the benefit of all Roshar" the power may be too enticed for the vessel to say no, no matter how much they know it may bite them in the future.

We know kinda what they are. Just not what that means for how the are used or what they can be used for. They are commands/intent use by Adonalsium to create everything. They are also the commands by which Adonalsium was split into the Shards. We don't know how they were used, but we know that they leave a strong imprint on their holders, like Hoid. We don't know HOW to use them, but we know that at least Rysn's can't be used without some other way of manifesting powers. That's why the sleepless are allowing her to live on the condition that she does not become a surgebinder. We also know that dawnshards were used to destroy Ashen and that Honor was worried the knights radiant would do it again on Roshar. Honor also was worried that humans wouldn't be able to survive without use of the dawnshards. When we put all this together, I get the idea of something close to the infinity stones in Marvel, but without a source of manifesting on it's own. They are ultra strong artifacts that when used together have been able to rip god apart, and in the past people have used them to accidentally bring destruction to a planet. There's still a lot of questions around them, but that's the gist so far as far as I understand

I think another thing to keep in mind about the honorblades is that honor was granting power to the heralds that was in the same realm as the power they just used to destroy their old planet. The planet they fled and in the process brought Odium. It's very possible that the limitations in the honorblades were a direct result of trying to limit the power that these people could manifest. Then, when the nahel bonds with the different spren started to manifest, there was a system in place to allow more power to come out because it required this bond that has the limiting factors built in. Instead of limiting the power available the same way, the bonds limit the intent that the power can be used for. A windrunner couldn't do what Szeth did in TWOK.Kaladin almost lost his powers just by standing by while an assassination plot was happening. I think the limitations of power based on intent is a far more limiting thing than needing a little more stormlight.

Based on the warbreaker annotations I would assume that a returned would be able to change their height/voice. We have a specific statement about height, and it seems to me that voice could also be included in the list since changing the shape of the throat would lead to a change in voice and we know they can change weight/height. Depending on what you mean by the 'perception of self', it may have more to do with mastering the divine breath than their perception of themselves. They have the ability to change their hair/height/weight/ect. to disguise themselves with enough control. I don't think this is by changing their perception of themselves though, but I don't think we have a specific statement to say one way or another.

I could see something like this happening for sure. Especially when you think that the shattered plains may have been one of the areas with more singers in it since it's on the other side as Shinovar. Although with it being on the other side of Alethkar (which we know had a lot of radiants) from the Horneater Peaks and Herdaz which we know has hybrid groups maybe geography isn't the best argument. Especially with oathgates everywhere. But if the singers were in the unclaimed hills area, it would make sense that singer refugees went to herdaz/horneater peaks and that the fighting often took place in Alethela and that the would have attacked the eastmost city (Stormseat). Then they could take it to the Herald's homeland this time. That could be cool.

These are some of the ones I was thinking: This could be about Szeth and Kal rather than the assumed Shallan/Kal thing so far I also don't know how it would all play out exactly but I like the idea of Szeth going home and it's all bad. I could see Szeth being corrupted somehow and picking up rule of a devastated Shinovar.

Can you explain what you mean by this or what you are referencing with this? I wouldn't be surprised if the Herolds spoke with a measure of rhythm. We know humans have the ability to recognize it. We know at least some Horneaters can hear some tones (may be the singer blood). But the Herolds are very invested so it would make sense if they were more in tune with it. Like how Brandon said that there are familiarities between the tones and what seekers hear. I think that one of the death rattles could very well be talking about a herald being corrupted.

Hello all! With the new SA5 update on reddit we know that at least one of the death rattles will be taking place with Kaladin and Szeth in Shinovar. Does anyone have and guesses on which death rattle(s) they think it will be? I have some ideas but obviously they are pure speculation. I don't have time to put in all of my thoughts at this moment but I think some relating to reigns and maybe Black Fisher may come up. What are some of ya'lls thoughts/hopes for it?

Watching the newest WoB shardcast made it apparent to me that there differing views on Shard/Planet Interaction. I want to get people's opinion on how I view it. I would post some of the WoBs supporting but I'm new and can't do links. WOB: asmodeus You've said before that a lot of the magics we see across the cosmere come from an interaction of Shards and their Investiture with the planets they Invest in. What does this mean practically? If Scadrial explodes tomorrow, will Hemalurgy stop working across the cosmere? Brandon Sanderson Hemalurgy wouldn't stop working, most likely, but it could. There are ways that you could make it stop working. I kind of mean that the Shards are an innate part of physics in the cosmere, and the magics that arise are an innate part of physics because of that. Like atium seeped out into the Pits of Hathsin, in the same way, these magics are just gonna leak out, and different places are going to affect them. You'll see Lightweaving happening in different places, and the way the Shard is interacting with the local... The way the Shard is is going to affect how Lightweaving is administrated in the various magics, but it's still gonna be there. Hemalurgy is kind of a similar thing to that. You will see Midnight Essence, you will see some of these recurring ideas popping up, and these are like natural parts of the physics, but they're influenced by the Shards on the local planets. I don't know if that answer, that's gonna be a really fun one for them to transcribe into the Q&A thing, because I go around in circles on that question a ton. Put this part in when you do it. Footnote: It was a really fun one. YouTube Spoiler Stream 4 (June 16, 2022) Other Known things: Rosharan Magics Ashyn Uses similar surges as the Rosharan magic system does today. The magic is now sickness based. The magic was not always sickness based. All of the rosharan system was specifically set up by adonalsium for a specific purpose. Shards can have investiture in parts of the cosmere that they are unaware of until they look for it. When aware of it, they can shape it in a way. "Shards influence and tweak certain Investiture, giving it a kind of spin or magnetism, but all Investiture ever predates the Shattering--and in the cosmere matter, energy, and Investiture are one thing" Scadrial was created by Ruin and Preservation but they didn't create the atoms themselves. My Interpretation: I think my interpretation is much like Argent's was in the recent WoB video, but I don't think he had all of the main points readily available to push this idea forward. While I don't think it's totally accurate, I think it helps understanding to think of all investiture and magic as particles for the sake of this. In any given spot you may have matter, light, gravity, magnetism, electric charge, magic (such as midnight essence or lightweaving particles), ect. With these raw materials from a location, magic systems are formed. I would liken it to how different communities would use stone vs wood vs clay as base building materials for their civilizations based on the materials available and the weather forces they see regularly, except on a galactic scale. While typically not cognizant, the shards (either the power or the vessel or a mix of the two) bring magic systems into being based on what is available in that vicinity and how those magics interplay with the shard. It may be possible for a shard to intentionally bring more materials to in area to allow a specific interaction between themselves and the materials to come forward, but probably don't do things more than that to create a magic system. For Roshar, we know that Adonalsium created the entire system for a specific purpose. While we don't know what that purpose is or how it works, if we think of the system as a singular thing it would make sense that the system has a specific set of raw materials. If all investure is just a part of physics then these magics would be part of the raw materials of the system. That may explain why pre-sickness Ashyn, post-sickness Ashyn, and Roshar all powers relating to those surges. There's something about the area that makes those magics more prevalent. I think it would explain it better than the surges are of Honor/Cultivation. That would mean that Honor/Cultivation had a hand in the creation of the unchecked surgebinding that destroyed Ashyn, and then also mimicking/forbidding it on Roshar. We know that Ruin and Preservation very intentionally made Scadrial by jointly gathering and arranging atoms in a way that subfused every atom with thier... attunement? We know that Lord Ruler and Fuzz at times have tweaked the world to have the magics play in their favor (creating mistwraiths, forming the Pits, or changing the metals used to include Atium). But it makes sense that it would be outside of their abilities to have it be "if you burn iron you can now lightweave", because lightweaving particles don't seem to be one of the materials that are readily available in that system. One of the talking points in the stream was that it could be inherent to the shard and that endowment would likely do breaths wherever she was, but that breaths may look different. I would agree with this based on this model. The breath, the magic endowed to each person at birth and the possibility to come back and be endowed with extra life, is likely an effect of how that shard's essence interplays with the materials around it. We may think of Nalthis as a place with a lot of the magic particles that power Tin at scadrial, and other magic particles that can bring awareness/ect for awakening. If endowment was instead on a planet with a lot of gravitation surge and connection surge maybe instead your breaths would help you fly and you could use them to forge a connection between things, but the mechanic of being born with a little and being able to pass them around would likely stay. Let me know what you think. Feel free to add ideas if you think you can support it or bring up some counter arguments. I just was listening to the podcast and I couldn't help but feel the ideas weren't fully fleshed out when Argent was talking about it, and it didn't sound like the other people that disagreed were necessarily disagreeing with the key points. Thanks all!