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It sounds like higher innate Investiture simply makes your immune system better at identifying pathogens and producing antibodies for them. If that's the case, then Rosharans' better health is due to a longer list of immunities (acquired over time) and shorter time fighting off pathogens, not to some magical resistance against disease. The common cold virus, a virus completely new to Roshar, would be something the natives' immune systems would literally have no experience with - so they wouldn't (immediately) recognize it as a pathogen, and wouldn't start producing antibodies to fight off the viral attack.

Crunching through The Providence by Fire by Brian Staveley (whose last name I have to look up every. single. time.). I am around the one third mark, and it's already noticeably better than The Emperor's Blades, the first book in the series. So much more action, higher stakes, big reveals. Not a huge fan of where Adare is right now, in terms of plot, but I expect her story will pick up soon.

We don't know whether the magnitudes of the Nightwatcher's curses and boons* are related. * It bothers me that this is the phrase used in the books. Curses usually go with blessings and boons with banes. Boons and banes has a certain ring to it.

Foreshadowing, hopefully Kvothe did get pretty caught up in the story.

As I understand it, there are really two factors here: Windrunners have an unusually high number of squires compared to the other Orders. Kaladin, by virtue of being a Windrunner, inherits this perk. Each Order has its own unique category of perks, so to speak. For the Lightweavers, it's something to do with artistic talent, I believe (the in-world Words of Radiance hints at this). It stands to reason that for the Windrunners, it would be something related to their squires. So Kaladin's "strength of squires" is his counterpart to Shallan's Memory-taking ability - both are related to their Orders' "passives," but are more... custom at the same time. Another Lightweaver might not have the ability to take Memories, just as another Windrunner might not share Kaladin's vague "strength".

The Way of Kings takes place entirely in 1173, I believe, and the Alethi have been warring for five or six years (Kaladin kills Helaran five years after Gavilar's murder), so 1168 or 1167.

Lerasium, probably, yeah. Though visually I like duralumin the most.

You know, he probably will sign it A note though, no body parts. He might do something like a hand or forearm, but he generally shies away from signing people.

Because we know that most, if not all, magic systems can be powered by an Investiture source different from their native one, with varying degrees of difficulty. So any Awakener should be able to Awaken things using Stormlight - especially considering how similar, or compatible, Stormlight and Breath are. Vasher's ability to feed his Divine Breath (which can serve fuel for Awakening, and is therefore closely tied to the magic system) with Stormlight is a further confirmation to me that Stormlight can fuel Awakening. So for Brandon to just straight up say he can't... I have to believe he is referring to Vasher specifically, not Awakeners in general.

Brandon will sign anything his - paperbacks, hardcovers, merchandise, art, etc. If you have a tablet or an e-reader (case) you want to have signed, he will take care of those. If you carry an anthology, he will sign it (or at least his own story) as long as he is a part of it.

I would very much settle for similar. But I am surprised Vasher can't Awaken with Stormlight. I choose to interpret this answer as "he hasn't tried (hard enough)" not as "it's impossible".

Plague of Sniffles! @Kurk, the Inca would disagree with your disappointment in the Plague of Sniffles.

Holy crem. Nahel bonds can be and have been passed! Hoid's sword being an Awakened blade - debunked! Nightwatcher:Cultivation = Stormfather:Honor - congratulations, we now have two completely contradicting WoBs on the topic! Let's use this one in the future - the Nightwatcher is Cultivation's Cognitive Shadow or something similar enough. Probably go with the "similar enough" until we clear things up further. The double misting question... so lerasium-metal alloys turn people into Mistings? Is this new information only to me?

Hmm, perhaps. Not important either way.

As a part of... was it Worldbuilders? Brandon agreed to livestream his writing process, and he chose Rysn's interlude from Words of Radiance as a demo (you can see the recordings of the videos on his YouTube channel). He had a chat up and he would look at it occasionally as he was writing - and instead of people asking him about the writing he was currently doing, he would see Sharders picking his brain about the Cosmere. Well, not only Sharders, but there were certainly a few questions.

Oh, yeah, most attendees are not Sharders. I was talking about chats like this one - events Brandon means to dedicate to something other than being hounded by us (I remember a similar situation when he was livestreaming writing Rysn's interlude).

Cultivation's ability to see the future well might be a problem.

Unless maybe an all-out attack will provoke Cultivation. She might not care much for humanity at the moment, as Wyndle seems to suggest, but she is still sticking around, so there is something on Roshar she cares about. If Odium were to threaten than something strongly enough, combined with the danger of her own Splintering, she might actually step up and get in his way. The way I see it, right now she is fine just letting humanity do its thing, like it has been doing for the past several millenia - a stalemate doesn't really affect her that much; but if Odium were to jump in for realz, she could feel threatened enough to take action. And who knows where things would go from there.

Look at my fancy RAFO!

Or didn't use it at all. We are still in the dark on this one. You are probably going to get a literal RAFO here. I mean, what kind of an answer are you hoping for, 5 light years?

Depends how you look at it. The Desolations could just as easily be interpreted as the times when Odium feels confident enough that he can finally destroy that odious world (or whatever else his goal is). It's not that he keeps his hatred in check - he is just smart enough to know that a dam unleashed does more damage than a stream allowed to flow freely. Because metaphors.

I build my own.

There is really no reason to doubt that. The Heralds are directly tied to the cycle of Desolations, and they also go to Odium's backyard between Desolations - which makes all those things connected. Plus, the Voidbringers - literally the things that mark a new Desolation - work with Odium's Invstiture, are possessed by Odium's spren, and serve Odium's goals. There isn't a single piece of evidence that I can think of that points in the direction of the Desolations being independent of or unrelated to Odium.

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It's almost weird to see so (relatively) many Cosmere questions be answered in a roll. I am just too used to seeing a RAFO every second or third question...