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But it is Ulaam in TatES and not Ulaan, so it's presumably the same Kandra 

11 minutes ago, FuzzyLogic said:

but need to re-read some Elantris related stuff to understand what the heck Curses are - because that seemed insanely powerful; well beyond anything I can think of in any other magic system I recall. You can both adjust Hoid's mind and convert a person into a rat. What the actual heck?!

I think it's all Elantrian stuff, but because our only written accounts of Elantrian magic are from the Shaod, where Elantrian magic was practically nonexistent we're probably relatively ignorant about what its true power is. But even there we see Raoden do some really powerful stuff, like teleporting hundreds of miles. And we see the IRE make a device that can forge a Connection to a Shard. All in all Elantrian magic seems very powerful indeed

I think it does, but without any kind of explicitly given name, it's hard to classify it under the Known Oceans

Glad to have you reading again! it's been fun seeing the book through a first timer's eyes

He was super drunk at Gavilar's feast because he was still depressed after his wife died, he hadn't yet gotten rid of his memories.

2 hours ago, earthexile said:

I still think the 5th Oath confers permanent Stormlight, or access to Surges without needing light.

The investiture to power the Surges needs to come from somewhere, if this were the case where would it come from?

During the last secret project livestream Brandon said that all 3 take place in the future of the Cosmere (with the present being approximately Stormlight 5 and Mistborn Era 2). But I think he also said that SP#4 was approximately when Era 4/Sixth of the Dusk is, so that's probably the latest, and the other two are in between now and then

Welcome! What's your favorite Cosmere book and favorite Cosmere Character?

3 minutes ago, Dannnex said:

he says "not even close" when gavilar says something that is actually really close to the first ideal

But he's not looking for the words to become a Radiant, he's looking for the words to become a Herald, could just be very different words

So if it's not the Stormfather, then how did Gavilar get the visions? Did someone else have access to them?

You're not wrong, it just feels so final (although you can still edit after submitting). But welcome to the Shard!

Is the Stormlight Archive necessarily in world? All the book titles are book titles in world but I don't think that has to mean the title of the series is as well

I mean the Rosharans do consider Cognitive Shadows essentially spren, in fact I think some of the Heralds are referred to as at least spren-like. It's just like all the magic systems are all surge binding.

Although his having seen more of the cosmere may have disabused him of that notion too.

But it also doesn't really seem like Yelig-nar. Like sure he's "in control" but like Sig can still do what he wants, and can even leave Aux behind. Plus bonding Yelig-nar seems risky at best  

Stormlight certainly does ask a lot of its readers pretty quickly but the journey is worth it

Yeah that could be a weird kind of Feruchemy, one that can forcibly take the attribute from someone else. And the planet does have some Scadrian influence, as we see the plate with Scadrian writing on it later. Although Nomad also seems familiar with it and Scadrial so why doesn't he notice the connection between these bracers and Feruchemy?

3 hours ago, SwordNimiForPresident said:

An event appearing to be random is not the same as it actually being random. Just because we can’t explain it does not mean it cannot be explained.

There are experiments to tell if there is some hidden variable that we just can't measure or true randomness and the results of those experiments have indicated that many quantum events are just truly random

Welcome to the Shard! It's great to have you!

Yeah Sig wasn't the most common, but I did see at least one or two people mention him as a possibility. Although I think people weren't sure where it would be if it was him

12 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

justice and mercy actually go hand in hand.

Do they? I'd argue that being just usually means not being merciful. If someone deserves punishment and you give it them, that's not mercy that's justice. If someone deserves punishment but you choose to forgo that punishment, that's merciful but not justice

29 minutes ago, cometaryorbit said:

Where are the Spoiler stream videos? I see the project reveals on Brandon's website, but not these.

The easiest place is probably their YouTube channel

1 hour ago, cometaryorbit said:

The strong Intent compulsion of a Shard might not be worth the power to them - very limited freedom of action might make vast power worth a lot less.

(Assuming they knew about the Intent compulsion beforehand...)

If they even knew that there would be Shards when they shattered Adonalsium. How much would the original vessels have even known would happen after the Shattering? I imagine they thought they would get some power but Shards specifically?

1 hour ago, Ta'veren Kaladin said:

A person cannot access the investiture stored by another in a normal metalmind, they can both store in the same peace of metal, there will just be a block where traits have already been stored, like cometaryorbit said.

where do we see that? I don't remember it, although if it was in a WoB then I probably would just never have heard it

I just rewatched the Good Place recently and I definitely just like all out bawl during the finale, and normal cry during plenty of the rest of the show

2 hours ago, cometaryorbit said:

I'd expect it would be like two Feruchemists storing in the same piece of metal, both charges are there but don't interact. (And probably this only works if the spike isn't already "full" of Investiture)?

Has Brandon said this could happen? I guess it would take like an unkeyed metalmind or something, cause I'm pretty sure they've said that two people can't both use the same normal metalmind

And really with everything going on on Roshar, the social order is probably gonna fall a little into disarray, which makes these kind of social class distinctions easier to change one would imagine