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The alternative is to ask a spoiler-free questions that could still be interesting (to us). Questions about physical appearance, favorite X, irrelevant (for the story) bits of worldbuilding (e.g. what games do kids play in Alethkar?), and so on are all safe for the general Q&A.

I don't think I can agree with this. Harmony is a God with a purpose - two purposes, in fact. And often times he can't act on either one because the other one blocks him. He can't, for example, save somebody because half of him wants to see that person die. And on the other hand, he can't kill outright someone, because half of him wants that person preserved. The way I see it, he really only has two options - move pieces, people, around and trust that they will act as he wishes them to, or find ways to act in a way that pacifies both of his Shards. Not easy either way.

We don't know. He implied it's something similar to how the ending of The Hero of Ages is right there in the first epigraph of the book. Whether the Stormlight ending is in the epigraphs again, or somebody's random thought, or something in a vision, we don't know.

Which is one of the reasons I want to make sure "innate" is his term, not our interpretation.

Shardholder. Shardbearers are the guys in The Stormlight Archive, Shardblades and Shardplate kind of stuff.

Going by the book. Assume what we know about his motifs is true and valid.

We do?

Unless her telepathy comes from trellium itself, and her Allomantic or Feruchemical abilities come from whatever the spike stole.

Funny thing, I answered something very similar to your question last night. Here.

Simple poll. We see a lot of Harmony's influence in Shadows of Self, with some (both in-world and out-) agreeing that moving people like chess pieces was the best thing he could do to avert crises, while others disagree with his methods as being too close to being Bad. Obviously there are are nuances, but ultimately what do you think - was he right or wrong?

Ouch on that spoiler =\

Another question (along the lines of): Would a kandra who digests the corpse of a Dakhor monk gain any interesting abilities or be different in any way?

Right, I wanted to verify that he called it "innate" instead of "inert" or something else.

I don't know, it seems like a tenuous connection. For one thing, it looks like Endowment didn't create Nalthis and its humans, she just came and, well, endowed them with Investiture. So she probably wouldn't have been the one naming the planet.

Yes and no. Jupiter's storm is what inspired him to create the highstorms - "wouldn't be cool to have a world absolutely ravaged by superstorms?" kind of thing.

The fact that evolved - or were created - on worlds other than Yolen is definitely interesting. Not a game changer yet, since we barely know anything about such ancient times, but interesting nonetheless. The Highstorms lacking rotation... I sounds like they just kind of pour out of the Origin and travel across the planet. Excited about Roshar being specifically and manually sculpted in its shape. I wonder about the reasoning behind this - leave a message, similarly to how Preservation left its footprint in the world? A signature? A whim? Something about how the realms interact?

Meh. Brandon's wrong.

One of the more interesting interpretations comes from The Hero of Ages, actually. This comes from when Sazed meets with the First Generation: I believe I have also seen the phrase in reference to cognitive shadows.

I am really glad you cleared that Kinetic vs. Innate Investiture bit. Was "Innate" the word he used?

Are you serious here? Because there are at least two, maybe three interpretations of the title that make more sense to me than that.

After reading the prologue I was inspired to convert from a tie guy to cravat guy, but I just couldn't find photos of people where they pull it off in modern clothing. I had the sads.

I was talking with - to - someone about tidal force several days ago, and I think the reason fast-moving objects change trajectory when passing through a time bubble's barrier might be related. Tidal force, if you are not familiar with it, is actually more of an effect, a consequence of how gravity works - namely, the fact that gravity is powerfully affected by distance. You usually hear about tidal force(s) in the context of cosmological bodies and, well, tides. To illustrate with an example, our moon exerts a stronger gravitational pull on objects on the side of the Earth closer to it, and a weaker gravitational pull on objects on the opposite side. So pools of water closer to the moon are pulled harder than those on the other side - therefore, tides. The reason I think this is relevant in the context of time bubbles is because we see something similar as objects enter or leave the bubble's border. Take a bullet shot from inside a bendalloy bubble for example. Once the bullet is, for instance, halfway out of the bubble, you've got half of it in normal time and half of it in compressed time. From here it really depends on how Brandon interprets the science, but one possibility is that because the molecular structure of the bullet will be in a constant flux as long as the bullet is passing through the membrane, this flux will result in some really annoying to calculate vibrations. Small vibrations, but maybe enough to change the trajectory of said bullet - or any other object - unpredictably.

WHAT

This is pretty much the only reasonable guess we've had. Plus, the book description says so. Now, I don't know how much we can trust said description, but it's a confirmation of some sort.

Something in a different thread made me think about how Ruin can talk in people's minds, and I came to a conclusion that makes me happy. It's not Hemalurgy that puts you on Ruin's speed dial, it's his Investiture. A Hemalurgic spike would, by definition, have some of that, so you'll get to hear his voice. Pieces of atium touching your blood might have the same effect because atium is Ruin - which could explain the conflicting answers we've been getting about whether the Lord Ruler's was spiked (yes, his metalminds were his spikes, and yes, he could hear Ruin's voice, but there was no actual Hemalurgic charge in his bracers. Which makes sense too, as it would interfere with the age he is storing there). Somebody asked, not too long ago, maybe in the AMA, whether things would've worked out differently if Vin had done what Rashek did at the Well - taken the power, become a new Lord Ruler. This is not the exact question, but it was similar enough to count. Brandon's reply included a bit about how she would've had to pull Rashek's atium Compounding trick if she wanted to stay alive long enough to maybe do something different in another thousand years, which would've opened her to Ruin's influence. Which, to me, sounded like it was the atium that allowed Ruin to nag Rashek all these years, not an actual Hemalurgic spike.