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I don't know, even if an Elantrian travels to, say, Roshar and they look like a non-glowing native (perhaps a poor example of a world, Rosharans also like to glow...), they are still Elantrians realmatically. The distance doesn't change them internally, I don't think. So if you transported a Hoed there, perhaps their physical appearance would revert to something more normal, but they would still be able to heal. Then again, maybe not. The difference between a full Elantrian and a Hoed is that a full Elantrian is done with his or her transformation, there is no more need for the Dor to feed them energy. A Hoed, stuck as they are, are also in a complete state however - it's just a state that's not quite all the way up to an Elantrian. The Dor doesn't actively feed them investiture, it's not transforming them at the moment, so I don't believe sending them away would "fix" them - that would require a power source, an investiture, that either undoes the partial transformation, or completes it; both of which I find unlikely options.

I don't know, Feruchemical poopminds... close call.

I'd keep clear of involving Adonalsium in the conversation - there is far too little we know. The rules could be different for him/her/it. As for why there are people on Threnody and not on ancient Scadrial, it could be as simple as "not all planets get humans." Ati and Leras chose Scadrial for some reason and decided they want to have humans. So they did. It could've been not a matter of impossibility, but improbability.

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Well. Kaladin appears to at least see Shadesmar in Words of Radiance when he practices Surgebinding in the chasms. Shallan and Jasnah have both been there, though that might be because both of their spren give them access to the Transformation Surge, which requires knowledge and understanding of the cognitive aspects of things and people. Still, Transformation alone is probably not enough to allow them to see Shadesmar. Renarin... we don't know about him, but I think it's possible that seeing the future depends on Shadesmar somehow. I would've put it more in the spiritual realm's domain, but atium also allows for futuresight, and it specifically expands the mind (so it can deal with the new information), so maybe there is something cognitive to it. Szeth probably doesn't count (no Nahel bond), we haven't spend much time with Lift, and Ym probably wasn't far enough into his bonding to see anything; else, not enough time in his head. So maybe. It's possible.

Done with Maskerade. Absolutely great book, perhaps my favorite in the Witches subseries. Not sure why I loved it so much though - I know it was short, quick, and easy to read, but I don't think that would've been enough to make me love it as much as I did. I started Carpe Jugulum, after which I'll probably take a break from Pratchett, catch up on my other authors (Django Wexler's The Price of Valor and Anthony Ryan's Queen of Fire both came out in the beginning of July, I think, and I want to go through at least them before I go back into Pratchett).

I've always understood it that Scadrial itself existed, but had no humans. The ambient investiture was enough for animal and plant life, but nothing sapient. Then Ati and Leras show up, decide to team up create humans (modeled after the ones on Yolen), do so (with Preservation investing himself more heavily in them), and call it a day. The big about rocks having equal parts Ruin and Preservation, it probably doesn't mean much. The Shards, I imagine, radiate investiture, so to speak, which suggests that it permeates everything inside their field of influence. If there had been humans on Scadrial, they probably would've gotten the 50/50 mix by default too. But because they were more... artificially created, the Shards got to choose how to mix them.

Still, neither one is a massive pool of liquid. The size difference is insignificant for the purposes of the argument I was addressing, I think.

It is. But we can't know. And I very much doubt Brandon would answer a question about that.

Though in this particular example, they are unlikely to call her by her name. None of them call their dad Dalinar. But yes, if Brandon wanted this information revealed, we would have it.

How big was the lake though? I don't remember exact description, but the impression I got is that it's no more than a few yards in each direction - more the size of a small swimming pool than a lake.

I don't remember a white sun. The only feature of interest I recall is the lake, pictured as a disc.

I think that's what I was thinking of, yes.

Right, I remember. This thing I am thinking of came later - may have been something in the Oathbringer announcement.

Did I just have my mind blown? Brandon recently confirmed that the mural in Elantris, the one that showed the Elantrians and the lake, is a key to how traveling between realms works in the Cosmere. So it's very likely that the lake is a gate to a different realm - could be the cognitive, could be the spiritual.

Only he said something that made me think that he might. I don't remember what, only the impression it left on me.

All is mostly quiet here on the (Mid)Western front. My grand Pratchett reread is moving along. Lords and Ladies is now done - great book, by the way, the Witches subseries just keeps getting better and better - and I am reading Maskerade. Which, about a quarter of the way in, is even more compelling to me.

Here's your answer.

There is a reason the very first sentence of Slow Regard is "You may not want to buy this book." He makes it abundantly clear that it's not for everyone - and no, he couldn't have made it for everyone, because then it wouldn't work (as well) for those it was intended for. I am very interested in finding out what makes you believe Pat "essentially cussed out people that don't like it." As for the reasons he published it, he wasn't going to. It was a writing exercise for him. However when he give a draft to Vi Hart, she practically demanded the book to be published. Because she was the right audience, and she knew there are others who would love it as much as she did.

@navybrant, the thing about The Slow Regard of Silent Things is that it's not a normal book. That is what Pat tells you in it - not that it wasn't worth publishing. It just requires a very specific audience. Being angry or disappointed that you are not part of that audience is fruitless. It takes a special kind of person - not special good or special bad, just special - to enjoy Auri's broken mind, If you don't you don't, and there is nothing wrong with that - but there isn't anything wrong with the book or the author either. I personally am not the right audience for it either, but I found it a curious read nonetheless. A character study of a very atypical character. Others - and it looks like most of those others are people who have had some kind of traumatic event in the past, or feel perpetually left out, or see themselves as broken somehow - relate very strongly with Auri. And you can't take that away from them - it's their book. It's something Pat has done for them - and himself, - and it's just not fair to expect that all his efforts should go towards pleasing as many people as possible. @cem, Goodreads estimates release dates until an official one is announced. Unless the page gives you an exact date, it could be wrong.

B Ruin A N Devotion hOnor N S A N Dominion Endowment R S Odium N Clearly he misnamed Preservation and Cultivation. The whole -vation is not working out for him. Now, if they were Sustenance and Refinement instead...

Possible? Maybe. Almost nothing is impossible in the Cosmere as long as you have enough investiture. I find it highly unlikely though. I there would be far too much investiture interference for something like this to work.

Radar motif for bronze is what I was going to suggest. Copper would naturally be something with a cloud, or the symbol being obscure. Zinc and brass... A fiery motif might work for brass. Zinc is a hard one.

Gibbletish, anyone?

That's also possible - but Warbreaker kind of implies that Nightblood was forged on Nalthis. There is too much lore that links the events around its creation to that world for it to be simply brought.