Zeadman

Can't believe i misspelled that. The original last draft i lost, and i had to repair this earlier draft pre-professional edit. So please forgive the terrible spelling and other mistakes.

So, awhile ago i posted a paper i wrote in a communications class. Apparently it didn't upload correctly, so i thought i would upload it again. To quote from my original post, "So, I wrote this paper a while back for a communications class... about a year back... and I promised to post it after I was finished and got the paper graded. I never did, and I apologize for that. Well, here it is. Its terrible, but if you like it let me know. If you have thoughts, please post. I'd like to see what everyone else's head cannon is and where I got it wrong. I did try and get this published in a student publication but it sadly got ignored, which stung. Please let me know what you think." Apparently i can't just upload the Word Doc, so instead i'll provide a link to the Gmail Doc. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7wrh9YZZTDhdGtEMXA1SG1XNDQ/view?usp=sharing

So, I wrote this paper a while back for a communications class... about a year back... and I promised to post it after I was finished and got the paper graded. I never did, and I apologize for that. Well, here it is. Its terrible, but if you like it let me know. If you have thoughts, please post. I'd like to see what everyone else's head cannon is and where I got it wrong. I did try and get this published in a student publication but it sadly got ignored, which stung. Please let me know what you think. Gender differences in the World of Roshar.docx

THANK YOU! If you like i will post the finished product after it is graded.

Its a Communications class where we have to analyze a piece of media. My teacher cleared the way of kings/ storm-light archive, and I've been on a quest ever sense!

Ok guys i need one more favor.... I need to know where Hoid says some snarky stuff in the second book about men having all the deadly callings and women having all the good ones. Can someone help me out here?

Cemci you are a freaking god (or maybe just a shard... the shard of finding? or hidden things... how about revelation?) Thank you so much! This was literally the last piece to my puzzle. Seriously thank you.

Hello everyone, its been awhile sense i was on here. I previously posted a theory about Adolisium being a council of people with shards that "shattered" when they came to a disagreement or something (I now think that that's probably not the case). Anyway i need help with something. In the second book "words of radiance" there is a passage where Shallan and Jasnah are on a ship, and Shallan names the dress that Jasnah is wearing as a "Traditional Alethie Dress" and that the crew thought that the dress was prudish, even though it hugged her figure very well. I need the know what the name of that dress was (and page number), for a collage paper i'm writing about gender roles on Roshar. If someone could help me find it i would be forever in thier debt. Thanks again!

well what i was thinking is that sense the Parshandi use song, and dance and other normal (all be it odd) ways of communication, they are still individuals. they don't have a HIVE mind like the parshmen, who seem to have an "unspoken language" or telepathy, so i think its actually the opposite of what you are thinking but that's just me. as for Odiums reason for twisting the parshandi into parshmen? so he can control them better. and after the last desolation he turned them into docile creatures so they can survive and not be eliminated. also what better place to strike from then when you have infiltrated, and are ignored by all levels and parts of society? Another thing is that i could be wrong, the parshmen could be good, and the parshandi could actually be living all over the unclaimed hills.... and that's why they have not stopped fighting for over six years. just two thoughts both equally valid in my view.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand she won

I live in provo, the same town with both of those unis in it lol. they are UVU and BYU. i currently go to UVU and i will tell you this, if Brandon were to change he would be opened with OPEN ARMS!!!!!!! I am a polisci major, and i would take his creative wrighting course as an elective in a Heart beat if it were an intro course!!!!

HI i am Zeadman! i am new to, so i might be following you on the forums a bit taking away info from your questions ha! Welcome!

Yea sorry. i Do have dislexia, and at times its worse then other times. Actualy what you said about Parshman being Parshandi was kinda what i was geting at. I was thinking it was along the lines of LoTR orks and elves. And yes, the idea that Odium placed Honor in that situation were he had to "die" to do what he needed to do to prepare the humans for what was coming is what i was geting at. It seems like a very usefull, and perhapse the shards only, tactic to kill another shard?

Again though, i still think that the Parshmen are the voidbringers, or at least a part of them, taken by Hate, Odium or what ever, and twisted. I think that the "ever storme" or the "night of tears" will come when they as one finaly turns on their "masters" and starts to slaughter everyone. Just a thought. I realy think that the Parshandi actualy work for Honor, seeing as they tend to actualy see it in Shallan, it might be that they simply see Dalanars people as useing Parshan as some sort of Herrisy, think thatit was them who took and got rid of their "song" and twisted them into slaves. So they started the war. that would make more sense to me anyway.... Another way for Odium to weaken Honor for the final Desolation.

Yes i do! ha! and i just posted a realy (almost rambaling) first post about my general theorys on the whole universe of brandons, so please check that out and feel free to Critizize all you like lol! Any way, yea sorry bout the dubble post. is their a reason for it like, to keep the forums clean?

First... the obligatory "be nice to me i am new here..." ha ha Second, i will start big and go small to help me keep track of my thoughts and so you might be able to decypher them as well.... Alright, so we all know that the shards are part of Adonalsium, some great thing, being, creature, or person from the cosmere, right? then some cataclysm happened and he, it, the group of people what ever it was, broke apart and created the "shards" and the "shard worlds". well Just a cuple of thoughts here, two I had about this in resent days as to who or what Adonalsium could be. 1. Hoid? maybe? I mean he is already thought to have been at the cataclysm right? so what if he decided he wanted to go on a "walk about" and so he gave his most trusted friends pieces of his power and left to see the universe? alright. 2. It could have been a council of people, all governed by cretin laws, and they had a fall out of something, and split into group pairs, like ruin and preservation, and the like, or into two groups each sent out to block their opposites power over the people of the cosmere? kinda an organized civil war type thing? just an interesting thought i had.... Also another one is that Odium could be the "new" council that the "bad" or "corupted" shards, those shards controled by the Scum of the universe like Ryse, created to police them selves, though this is probubly the weakest of my ideas. Alright well on to more detailed things regarding The Storm light Archives. First, i think that here there are actually three or more shards here on Roshar. Hate, Honor, and cultivation. Perhaps a fourth one being balance in the form of the dark presence some times referred to as the "old magic" and a She back west? this could be cultivation blessing people however, but because of the other twos influence on them her gifts have side effects? just a thought. she might not be evil as some call her. It has been firmly established by the "almighty" him self also known as "honor", that he is dead. And that Odium killed him. well he might not have been Murdered as we think of it, but been forced to create the shard plate, shard blades, and other "shard " Items like the blades of the heralds, by circumstances that hate "odium" put him into? because when vin and Ruin went at it nether could hurt one another. it was like a wrestling match with two completely equal forces, so killing Honor directly would probably be imposable. Ok that's my shpeal on the members of the shattered "Adonalsium". I really think that its a ruling council that has broken and has become a civil war.... kinda fits at least for me. Any way on to my favoret topic so far to speculate about! the Parshandi! and the Parshmen! no one has brought this up that i have seen yet, probably have I just haven't found them with my five minutes of searching the forums ha! Any way. Personally I think that the Parsshmen are some twisted form (twisted by hate of course) Into something that he can manipulate. The Parshmen seem to be almost like clones of one another, while the Parshandi, while all very similar, each have their own individual thoughts. They work as a group very well and effectively, and they learn together, but to me as evidenced by the final battle with Shallan were he is killing the Parshandi, and those fighting him remove their gems to take away his source of power, but then some come later who still have them in their beards, because they didn't know about him, that they don't Think as ONE entity. rather they are simply working together in an interecit form (via song, dance and body language) of group cooperation. But the Parshmen seem to have almost telepathy.... So the Parshen are probably created by hate, and the Parshandi are probably their natural form. My thought on the Parshandi as to why they assassinated Dalinars brother the king, is that they thought them heretics, having abused, or "removed the song" of the Parshmen. so they sought a war of vengeance just like Dalinars people did. Again this is just my speculation.... Any way that's all I got.... Let the storm come... lol

OH And Zas agreed! its so hard to find Z men lol

Thank you guys! wow i was expecting like a generic thing saying hi or somthing but wow.... thanks! Cosmeare hu? yea Mi'chelle a former co-worker use to tell me all about thsi stuff so i wanted to look into it.... thanks for the info and warm welcome everyone!

Hi everyone! I am So new here its not even funny! I think a long time ago a friend tried to get me on here to the forums, if this is the mysterious "forums" that Brandon is always writing about and my friend is always talking about. Well my name is Aaron, also known as Zeadman, and yes my name is Derived from Zedicus Zerul Zerander (I know I probably spelled my favorite characters name wrong ok? dyslexia can do that to a guy lol) I have read all of Sandersons books except the WoT and the Alcatraz stuffs though I have been recommended to both of them highly! (meaning I might even start reading them lol) So yea... that's me..... HI!