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  1. Argent
    Yaezir is widely accepted to be Jezrien, whom some of us suspect to be the old drunkard / madman Szeth meets briefly in Gavilar's palace; the one who asks "Have you seen me?" while Szeth is passing through the hall with the Heralds' statues.
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    Stones Unhallowed and Skybreaker are both confirmed working titles for two of the books. Whether they will remain the same or change (a part of the reason Stormlight Archive #2 is Words of Radiance - as opposed to Lightweaver, I think - was because Brandon had just finished A Memory of Light and wanted to name SA2 after something with "light" but not use the word itself again), we'll have to see.
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  4. Argent
    Why wouldn't Ashyn make sense for the Halls?
  5. Argent
    Oh, wow, nice! Good questions, good answers.
  6. Argent
    Yea, well, I so called Syladin as a ship and you all laughed at me. So there! Also, yes, this should've been all in the other thread.
  7. Argent
    Urithiru is pretty much in the center of the map.
  8. Argent
    Investors is the best term I had come up with as well. We could maybe use Invester, as it is not a real word...
  9. Argent
    I wouldn't include compassion in neither the curse, nor the boon. Very high intelligence usually correlates with lower ability to feel empathy, so this inverse relationship between Taravangian's intelligence and compassion levels could be simple physiology. As I see it, the boon is his intelligence, and the curse is its randomness.
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    Good stuff! I wish we could get more information about the history of the Ryshadium - they don't strike me as just some random horses being Invested a long time ago by accident. They are man-made, I believe.
  11. Argent
    You should flag this for Words of Radiance spoilers, by the way. Okay, so now we are waiting for Nightblood to come one - I doubt he is going to reveal anything until then, not about this. Syl, though... I can't think of a reason for her to be restricted to only weaponry. I am curious to see how Kaladin will utilize her.
  12. Argent
    Hmm, there's that too. I wonder if becoming a long-term Sliver of a Shard has similar personality- / memory-overwriting effects as the one present when a person becomes a Shardholder...
  13. Argent
    Huh. I am immediately reminded of the book Arts and Majesty, which is "the foundation of the masculine and feminine" arts (Chapter 25: Monsters). It, being a book, was probably written by a woman. A woman who intentionally - and subtly - gave control over all the Shardblades to men? Something's fishy here...
  14. Argent
    I've been wondering about a proper name for them. We've all been using "magic users" but that's not a very... cosmere term. I don't know.
  15. Argent
    Imagine mounting the free hilt scabbard from my example on a mining cart (yea, I don't know why this came to mind). All you need to do is move the card along some rails you've set up in your camp, away from the battlefield, and your sword - which you've summoned and bound near the enemy lines - traverses hundreds of yards, cutting everything in its path. And it could get worse. You could make the thing spin. Or you could stand on top of one of those flying platforms Navani came up with, except much smaller and lighter, and go fly above the enemy lines. Summon the blade, put the hilt scabbard on it, bind the scabbard's gem to one on your glove (for example), drop the Blade on the ground, raise your platform a little higher (so the Blade is not sitting on the ground, but is on maybe waist level), and just fly around. The Blade will mimic your movements, but it will do so through the enemies.
  16. Argent
    I think you are reading too much into it. I understand it as "day 1 - sun 1, day 2 - sun 2, ... day 80 - sun 80, day 81 - sun 1, etc ..."
  17. Argent
    I don't know if I'll call it pleasure... She was removing four criminals from the streets of Kharbranth, and she has had some bad experience with at least one man in the past. Some even speculate she was raped, though I think that's going a little too far. So she had her reasons.
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    No, but now that you mention it, I am a little disappointed...
  19. Argent
    Good to know. I love signings, we get so much new juicy information
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    Ah, but we don't know enough to claim that voidspren can force the listeners to change forms. We know that once a listerner embraces stormform, then it gets damnation near impossible to resist Odium - both Eshonai's experience with the Rhythm of Peace and the song epigraphs suggest that. But can voidspren force their way into a listener, make them embrace stormform? I don't think so - otherwise the Parshendi gods would've never released their hold on the listeners; they would've just kept forcing voidspren into them.
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    Surgebinders are not Slivers, let's clear that up. For somebody to be a Sliver they need to: be alive (e.g. Seons from Elantris can't be Slivers) have held most of a Shard's power at some point of time have lost this power, one way or another (which leaves them "deflated" and has some weird effects on their sDNA, as per WoB) I don't think this distinction seriously affects your ideas, but I wanted to clear it up.
  22. Argent
    Shhh, it's okay, the whole self-respect thing is gone. No more talking about it. Ignore it.
  23. Argent
    Gee, Peter, try not to be too helpful all the time...
  24. Argent
    @Chrono, well, she kind of did. She had forgotten all about Pattern until she progressed far enough into her studies with Jasnah that it was much more natural of her to think critically about things - including herself; which was one of the things that led her to acknowledge that she is lying to herself.
  25. Argent
    Please refer to my previous post, this is getting worse...
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