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I feel a new thread would be more appropriate than Dalinar's Blade one, because there really are (at least) three different mysteries here - where is the Honorblade, how did Dalinar get a hold of some unknown Shardblade, and who is this person who claims to be Talenel'Elin.
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Let's talk about the dude that showed up at the gates of Kholinar in The Way of Kings epilogue. I have, for the most part, been firmly in camp "he is really the Herald Talenelat," but now that I think about it, Brandon has been coy about him for as long as we've been asking questions about him. Literally every time he answers a question about Taln, he will talk about how we don't actually know whether that guy is Taln or not, he might just be saying - and thinking - he is. So let's talk about him. FireArcadia pointed out that when he appears before the gates of Kholinar, he speaks Alethi with no accent: Which is suspicious. In his interlude from Words of Radiance, he not only seems to speak an ancient version of the Alethi language (to the point where Dalinar, Elhokar, and Bordin can't even understand anything but a few words), he also appears to be... withdrawn. I will have to reread the interlude when I get a chance, but he is definitely more coherent in the epilogue there - he actually understand what is being said to him, and responds appropriately, instead of just repeating his mantra. Which, I should point out, starts before Bordin gets to him (because Bordin tells Dalinar that "this is all he says" or something to that effect). It's almost like he got out of Damnation, said what he could in the epilogue, and then went completely insane. See this post about the latest relevant WoB and some of the debate.
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Don't sweat it, I think many of us are just a little burnt out. I had to take a break from glyph deciphering too.
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For reference. And I don't even know anymore... the glyphs behind "Roshar" are the only thing I can think of. I am defeated. By a map.
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Woah! So. Much. Stuff. Also, there is definitely something fishy with Taln. Brandon has been cautioning us against our assumption of his identity for years now. I have to wonder if some mind / body swap happened in the last 4,500 years...
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Yea, good call on that. I didn't know it meant lament.
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I was trying to keep this thread mostly Wor-free, so more people can participate, but I'll say that I've thought about what you mentioned. It is an integral part of what made me see the connection, even if I don't discuss it specifically.
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Shinnovar is protected by the mountains on its stormward side. Aimia probably doesn't get hit as hard as Alethkar, but it should still get some action.
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Wow, this is all sorts of awesome!
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I don't know, that new highstorm is some pretty bad mojo. It could take all of them singing to create it - and their numbers could explain why there is no record of another Everstorm in the past.
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Hemalurgy is usually fatal, and very damaging at best. But it should be noted that it's a pretty poorly understood art - there is much to discover. Also, don't assume Hoid is trying to reassemble Adonalsium, we don't know that. It's just a popular theory.
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Damnit, I was hoping I'd get away with this. But the alternative is pretty boring and doesn't fit the "there are ways to do some really cool things with lerasium" (unless he is referring to using lerasium as a metalmind or hema-spike).
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I assume you are referring to the Houston signing? Because those are the relevant questions: Q: How about the other way around? Can a Parshendi bond a KR spren? A: Historically, the Parshendi were not made Knights Radiant, or the parshmen weren't. Q: Can they become squires maybe? A: Historically they did not, but it's not impossible. So the verdict on the Parshendi manipulating the ten Surges is still a no-no. A Radiant Squire, from what we have seen, is just a person who can draw in Stormlight - they can't necessarily do anything with it, just use its passive benefits (strength, speed, healing). As I see it, my theory stands!
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Oh, hmm. Hmm! I think we've been thinking too small about the effects of lerasium. We've always kind of assumed that it either turns people into Mistborn or amplifies their Allomantic power. But this WoB leads me to believe it can do much more. If you use perform Hemalurgy (Ruin's magic system) with atium (Ruin's body/power/metal), you get to steal any Allomantic power from your target. We now know that Hemalurgy does this - and potentially many other things - by stealing a piece of the target's spirit web. Well, what if lerasium - a metal we also know can modify a person's spirit web - can do something similar, only instead of stealing bits of your own sDNA, it does... something else? I guess what I am saying is, what if lerasium's effects are not restricted to the Metallic Arts (when used by Allomancy?) the same way atium's effects are not restricted to them (when used by Hemalurgy).
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The Selian on Roshar could've caught a ride from one of the other worldhoppers he hangs out with.
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I believe you can Forge somebody else, but you need to know them really well - and, as you saw with Shai, you most likely need to experiment a lot. I doubt your unwilling subject will cooperate in the tests - unless you have the bound or something. Sentient objects... I'd probably treat them the same way as other people, though not as complex. Much of what Nightblood is all about is "Slay evil." So you would need to figure out how that Command relates to his nature, and you are mostly done. Unless the stupid amount of Investiture it has interferes with the process - which is very likely, considering that we know that different Investitures don't play nicely with each other (e.g. you need to be stupid powerful to Steelpush a Shardplate).
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I don't think so. The Parshendi need those "basic" forms (e.g. artform and mateform) to perform tasks we, as humans, can either do naturally (ahem, mate) or can be trained to do (art). It almost looks like the Parshendi have a very small cognitive aspect of their own and need to temporarily bond with different spren in order to be "complete," Realmatically speaking. The voidforms are different, however, they are "forms of power" - forms that allow them to access some Surge-like powers. On top of that, those forms come from spren whose Investiture is from Odium, which could explain why he is able to take over any Parshendi who take on those new forms; if the Parshendi have no, or very little, cognitive presence, them bonding with a voidspren would result in a large amount of... Odium's cognitive presence, in the form of his spren, merging with their own. Taking over, usually.
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Those of you who've been to signings... help!
Argent replied to Pechvarry's topic in Events and Signings
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I don't think that's the case either. The reason for the Snapping is to update your sDNA and "make room" for the "can burn metals" part. Lerasium already dies that.
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That's a pretty solid summary, but I don't agree with your stance on Elend's transformation. He was undergoing some pretty traumatic events - namely, dying - but it wasn't the pain that turned him into an Allomancer of prodigal strength. It was the lerasium bead. So I maintain that it is a special case of using a tool to modify your spirit web.
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If there is something off about her mouth, I wouldn't have been able to see it without your comment. But this is a very good Jasnah!
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Fair enough, it's possible that the Parshendi gods predate Odium. I will look into the lore to see if anything contradicts this, and if not - will update the original theory.
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Drat! I was going to argue the both genders theory first, but couldn't think of an example, so I went with monogender spren. Serves me right...
