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On 10/1/2023 at 11:40 AM, king of nowhere said:

a stark comparison, though: nightblood only required 1000 breaths. those spears are twice as invested

Could this lend credence to the theory that Nightblood contains a Dawnshard?

On 11/23/2020 at 3:55 PM, Toaster Retribution said:

(Also, can a Sleepless use a blowgun?)

eh, if they can mimic human physiology well enough to talk, I'm sure they can just pucker their lips and blow some air real hard

The test on BS's website consistently places me as a Lightweaver, but I only ever buy Windrunner merch. Guess I'm just an artsy fartsy fan boy.

On 12/2/2022 at 8:31 PM, lacrossedeamon said:

Make "Charles Atlas superpowers" an actual magic system

Yes! This exactly! Just the most outlandish, over-the-top, Bollywood style action stuff, and the in-universe justification is a mix of "they are very valorous" and "it worked because they knew it would." Man it would be fun to read.

On 12/3/2022 at 6:29 AM, CMac716 said:

Last,  assuming the Fused were, well, fused to spren, why do they only get one surge each? Lesser spren? Why do spren bonds grant surges in the first place? On Ashyn it seems to be disease based, so what's the deal with their magic system changing when they moved. 

It only just occurred to me while reading this question that the derivation of the name "Fused" could possibly be that their cognitive shadows have been literally fused to that of a spren, with specific species of spren granting specific surges. Interesting. We know of at least one person who's cognitive shadow was combined with an existing spren, and I'm not sure who came first, the fused or the Stormfather(after melding with Tanavast's CS).

On 11/18/2022 at 6:42 PM, Dreamwa1ker said:

I would love this to be Valor's planet. Mythos just sounds like a place full of badass Spartan warriors or something like 300. Or combo of Spartans and Vikings.

I've noticed a pattern of Brandon's Bad Story Ideas from the Intentionally Blank podcast showing up years later in his books, and one very popular BSI he's had was ancient vikings encountering and battling Cthulu. I'm probably grasping at straws here, but Holy Hell I'd love to read that book.

Edit: I'm imagining a magic system where no one really has any specific powers per se, but being valorous causes you to gather investiture and make you better at whatever you're already doing. A valorous shipwright becomes better at ship building, a valorous warrior becomes better at fighitng, etc. This would justify characters doing crazy cinematic fighting stuff in battles like we see in media such as 300.

On 11/20/2022 at 2:33 PM, TheoreticalMagic said:

where the character is able to essentially 'fast forward' to later time periods, essentially skipping out on the passage of time around them....but for them, only a short amount of time has passed.

If A-Bendolloy can do it, there's probably other ways in other magic systems

I think it's allegorical forshadowing of Kaladin dying, and his cognitive shadow replaces or melds with Tanavast's and the Stormfather. Ie, Kaladin becomes the Stormfather.

On 11/23/2022 at 5:02 PM, BubbaBaggins360 said:

His body dead but not his will, within those winds his soul did rise. It blew upon the day's last song to win the race and claim the dawn. Past the sea and past the waves, our Fleet no longer lost his breath. Forever strong, forever fast, forever free to race the wind.

I think Kaladin will become the Stormfather. He's the only characterthe SF refers to as "Son of Tanavast", and the SF is a result of Tanavast's cognitive shadow combining with the spren of the highstorm. Couldn't begin to tease out the details of how that all happens, but I'd put money on it.

3 hours ago, IndigoAjah said:

Do we know what the Shard responsible for Aether Investiture is? (If any, given we are told the Aethers predate the Shattering)

 

Because if it's Autonomy it makes sense that you'd see similarities across those magic systems 

I get the impression that since the Aethers predate the shattering, Aetherbound can make use of any investiture regardless of source

On 11/16/2022 at 6:37 PM, teknopathetic said:

we have the possible Horneater refugee population in the epilogue hinting at more mass movement or more normalized travel 

wait what? I finished the book last night and somehow missed this entirely!

Without spoiling anything, I'm happy to report that the question of just who Trell is is answered explicitly in The Lost Metal!

My biggest radiant wish is this from r/stormlightarchives, originally posted by u/prayingforsuperpower:

20 hours ago, offer said:

Kaladin and Syl also can share feelings and slightly more (and fully talk telepathycally when she is in blade form) so probably Adolin and Maya`s abilities are a worse version of this.

This fact is part of my pet theory that Adolin is already effectively a 4th or 5th ideal Edgedancer, and when/if Maya is sufficiently rehabilitated he will instantly gain those powers. There's just too much about Adolin that paints him as the Platonic Ideal of an Edgedancer already, this can't just be a coincidence.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/stormlight-premium-miniatures/posts/3633951

They've announced a new stretch goal for the table top minis kickstarter, an as-yet-unwritten about character named Zellion.

Theories?

On 10/1/2022 at 5:40 AM, Nick_Nack_Patty_Whack said:

(I have a dumb theory on Trell being an Odium-corrupted avatar of Autonomy that makes absolutely no sense)

I wanna hear it!

10 hours ago, cometaryorbit said:

 Depends on if Shards are actually mathematically infinite or just too big to matter.

The cool thing is, they can be mathematically infinite and still be smaller/less than/a constituent part of the infinity represented by Adonalsium.

Imagine a number line that starts at zero and continues on to infinity. It's got infinite numbers.

Now imagine a number line that starts at zero and proceeds in multiples of five and goes on to infinity. It has infinite numbers. But it has *less* numbers than the first one. It is a smaller infinity. But it's still infinite!

This is very interesting! What are your thoughts on the theory of Lift eventually becoming the new vessel for Cultivation? I've seen it claimed that her desire to stay the same could wind up meaning that she is able to hold the Shard without being changed by it. How might this interact with your theory here?

12 hours ago, coolsnow7 said:

I take this to be explicit in the text - that T’s path to TOdium-hood started long before Cultivation got involved directly, and that that path kicked off with the Diagram 

I may be misunderstanding you, but didn't T create the diagram AFTER meeting with Cultivation?

18 hours ago, cometaryorbit said:

That post is from 2020 - RoW preview chapters

Ah, thanks. I gotta get better about reading time stamps!

On 7/10/2020 at 3:49 PM, Ixthos said:

I think the more spiritual uses of Surges is a Truthwatcher and Bondsmith thing, and that the other orders are more restricted.

I'm not convinced that Spiritual Surgebinding is limited to any particular order. Doesn't Pattern straight up tell Shallan in WoK that she used Spiritual Transformation to recruit Vatha and the rest into protecting the caravans?

On 7/10/2020 at 8:14 PM, Cheat Commando said:

Why not reshape someone's Spiritweb, provided you have a TON of Stormlight? I mean, they are called Willshapers. 

This sounds like we're getting into Forgery territory, and I think that's pretty cool! Worth noting that Forgery requires relatively very little investiture in order to work, but I could see that being because Forgeries are somewhat temporary. Permanently altering someone's spirit web must surely take a lot more energy to accomplish.

On 7/26/2020 at 2:14 PM, KandraAllomancer said:

Given the new evidence from chapters 7/8 I wonder if the new Voidish fabrial might actually use Cohesion - affecting the space around it, like @Ixthos theorized, and weakening the bonds in the process

What chapters are those? I wasn't aware of anything new being released recently!

This makes a lot of sense! It's one of those ideas that seems so obvious in hindsight that I'm mad I didn't think of it first.

In my re-reads I can only picture Alan Rickman as Sadeus and my heart breaks every time.

Ken Watanabe is an excellent choice for Dalinar, but I also think Dave Bautista would be great in that role. I've often suspected he has far better acting chops than he's been given the chance to show us.

Oscar Issacs as Amaram.

TBH I'd really love to see some really amazing no-names cast as Shallan, Adolin, Kaladin, Lift, all the youngerish characters and come out the gate with incredible performances that make there careers, like Starwars did with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley.

Tom Hiddleston is a great choice for Wit, but I can also see Matt Smith or David Tenant nailing that role.

As for Taravangian, Erick Avari would be amazing indeed but I cant help but imagine Ian McKellan in my head

On 8/10/2022 at 8:41 AM, Rg2045 said:

Just a piece of advice, be thorough with any theories, @Frustration is known to shoot down theories with WoBs left and right 

We need a tag line or a badge or something. "You just got Frustrationed!" or "I have been personally victimized by Frustration's encyclopedic knowledge of cosmere lore"

On 8/7/2022 at 3:24 PM, cometaryorbit said:

There's a lot of the early timeline that is unclear and likely to be further revealed in later books.

One of the back five novels will feature Taln as the flashback character, so this seems the most likely place. We'll get all our answers at some point circa 2035