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If someone from Roshar became a worldhopper and was renaming the gaseous Investiture of other Shards as ______light in the typical Rosharan way what would the others be? Honor = Stormlight Cultivation = Lifelight Odium = Voidlight Preservation = Mistlight? Ruin = Hazelight? Devotion = Lovelight? Dominion = Lordlight? Endowment = Colorlight? Autonomy = Solelight? (this is a pun as auto=sole=sol=sun) Ambition = ??? Mercy = ??? Valor = ??? Whimsy = ??? Invention = ??? SP3 = ??? Wisdom/Prudence = ??? We also have some names for combined Light Honor/Odium = Warlight Honor/Cultivation = Towerlight Cultivation/Odium = Ancestorlight? Harmony = Metallight? Dor = ??? I saw there was some discussion on the Cultivation/Odium mix but was wondering if there are any other ideas floating around out there?

Brandon has at least said that Tan wasn't burning Atium during the altercation in order to anticipate the first bullet but anything before that is fair game I guess.

Oh yeah this wasn't meant to be an actionable suggestion just more of a shower thought.

Tan had an unknown influence but also harmony was partially at fault. I’m not sure just gaining cosmere awareness is something like eldritch knowledge or anything. At least we’ve seen a lot of people become cosmere aware and none of them have particularly been driven mad by it. We really need to see Marsh interacting with Kelsier. He’s kinda been like this elephant in the room once revealed he was still alive. I do think we need a SH2 or something to explore both Kelsier and Marsh post Catacendre til TLM but also Hoid (who I think needs all the way to TFE explanations). But yeah as it is it’s very hard to say where his arc is headed.

Rereading the WoBs it does seem more likely that it would be a SH2 or something. Basically all Brandon really said was that we should still be asking questions about Tan. As for the Inquisitor it's possible he worldhopped prior to the Lord Ruler's death (or just after if there were some in the farther Dominances when Marsh unpinned the lot of them). Yeah the Yomens are interesting. Wished we had seen more of them in W&W.

Yeah I assume the argument is based on similarities to either deadnaming or maybe a better comparison is the use of exonyms which is increasingly seen a problematic and often devolve into being considered slurs.

Spears still have edges but tines on a fork are ostensibly just points. I am also curious to what a puncture wound would do because I feel it would have to be very precise and caliber dependent to actually handicap someone physically. Ramifications on the spiritweb are a different matter. Might be like pseudo hemalurgy.

@Elder wanna talk about sliverism since everyone seemed to ignore your comments on that in favor of their inane debate? Brandon has said that sliverism will be explored more in the next MB series. He's also implied that Bloody Tan will be explored more there as well. I'm wondering if these are connected and that Tan is a sliverist. I've also wondered if there might be a second Inquisitor (possibly unknown to Harmony) running around as a world contributing to the idea of Ironeyes as Death spreading through the cosmere.

Might be a side effect of Sazed consciously suppressing Ruin's Intent and Marsh was just grandfathered in having been created under the old system. So the only way to overcome it is let Sazed himself be overcome.

You could also find a duralumin compounder to spike. If any combination is just as likely as any other combination there's likely not more than 5 in the last 300 years but still. Spike one of them and make sure you keep the spike in blood as long as possible. We don't really know how long the Set has been operating.

"The people subsequently known as SoScads" I guess UrSoScads or ProtoSoScads could work but are still unwieldy

I wonder what happens with a primer cube tuned to F-tin would do? Would it heighten (tap) or dampen (store) the senses? Would it do anything? I think we've only seen it used to replicate Allomancy for now.

W&W to me feels mostly like an expanded WoB for books he hasn't written yet (Era "3"). Since it was inserted into the cosmere outline after the fact it was restricted in what sort of revelations it could deal in and what sort of stakes it could have. I am really curious to how different earlier books would have been if Brandon had indulged in the "gloves off" philosophy while writing them. Like would Lemex's secret Terris nurse have played a bigger role or something?

This has always confused me because even as a blade it doesn't break the skin (when the target is living) so why does it need to do so for other iterations? I assume that otherwise it makes them too OP so its kinda like speed bubbles not cause redshift but still weird. Anyways shardwire for the win.

We use the Arcanum for as close to possible verbatim transcriptions which aligns more closely with in universe copperminds and the Coppermind is for encyclopedic analysis which correlates to the in universe Ars Arcanum

It could be some early installment weirdness or him getting mixed up in the WOB. I don't know if and other depiction of Radiant Soulcasting makes note of specific gems but the WOB specifically says that Soulcasting (with no implication that he means fabrial Soulcasting given the question) has extra restrictions regarding the polestones.

We know the Ghostbloods and who knows who else have worldhoppers on

From Coppermind: And supporting WoB:

I can't remember was there even a garnet in that scene. Radiants are still limited to what polestone they have access to in regards to Soulcasting.

Jasnah can Soulcast at range which might work on the principle you've proposed

She appears first in

Ooh that could be interesting. I've been wondering if there is a secret Inquisitor worldhopper that's been running around impersonating Marsh.

Originally the Shattered Plain were going to be on Yolen so I assume that was where it happened in the first draft. And because of that I assume the Shattered Plains are now where Honor was Splintered.

The AI is called Seslo which is not an Aon so not likely to be a Seon

I'm with @TruthlessofNalthis that we shouldn't assume that all subsequent Iriali a necessarily related to a specific group of earlier Iriali. If there was an original event that caused a diaspora it could be that different sects didn't agree on which planet was the Second Land. There could be multiple groups on there own separate Long Trails.