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  1. AFdooda
    There is a reoccurring theme across the Cosmere of black smoking Investiture. While not absence this seems to be a kind of Investiture 'pollution' that cannot be directly used without doing something.
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    Khriss seems to think Adonalsium was a being and not just a force of living Investiture. Now I don't think someone Ascended to Adonalsium because that seems... Extreme, but God may have had morals/thoughts/ideology of its own outside the division of the Shards. Also, note that Adonalsium could have split into a different number of different Intents. The Shards do not perfectly reflect what God was.
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    Did this test a year ago or something and got Skybreaker. Did it just now and got Skybreaker. Guess that makes sense, Skybreaker's aren't exactly the most variable types. Did get a total change in the order the Orders (haha) appeared in the list though. Previously got Windrunner really high now its dropped to below halfway and randomly Elsecaller and Edgedancer jumped up loads. Didn't think I had it in me.
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    My only concern is with the chronology. Big epic Shard fight yes, me like... But Scadrial has a whole load of books that take the world through many levels of technology and Roshar is basically still medieval (book-wise). I suppose Shards (as in Knights) helps but at what stage would Roshar and Scadrial meet? If Scadrial was making interstellar journeys and Roshar hasn't even worked out gunpowder that could present a problem. Of course fantasy glowing medieval knights vs metal-eating space wizards would be great and very Cosmere but the two series just seem very far apart chronologically speaking.
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    This may actually be my new favourite Sanderson book. Hoid as a narrator just seems to work and I'm glad that the Mighty Sanderson in the afterword says that more Hoid-centric books are coming.
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    Said Guest Cognizantastic I believe the problem has been fixed.
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    Shard Arrow

    AFdooda replied to Tea Leaf's question in Cosmere Q&A

    But there Syl is barbs or spikes on a shield that hook onto and trap the Shardblade, not truly a net, unless I'm mistaken? Changing the shape of the shield is exactly what we know to be possible. A net that would be thrown/fired/whatever would be different because it would need flexibility while being made from a Godmetal as well as being large, complex and entirely unlike anything we have seen so far. Perhaps it is the viability of non-rigid Godmetals that we should be discussing? A Radiant spren that forms into a wire, is it ductile or rigid like a Shardblade (which, as observed by Adolin, do not break or seemingly bend)?
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    You mention exactly what might be the answer: "It will fear you!" Renarin is connected to Odium by Glys. The Thunderclast could have feared this. We already know Renarin is no ordinary Truthwatcher, indeed his powers are distinctly Voidish. Light making it go away is odd. Perhaps some further aspect of Renarin's abilities? Like what @Jn819 said? An end of RoW spoiler may eventually reveal some answers: Sorry I think my post has been garbled in where it was meant to be. I've replied to posts from ages back, I think? Well, see what you guys make of it anyway .
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    AFdooda replied to Tea Leaf's question in Cosmere Q&A

    Aaaaannndd here is the slight issue with weapons that can change their shape independently. Presumably there is a limit in size but a net of wire would cut through the enemy with ease. Fortunately it is an idea that does not seem to be coming up in Stormlight books because I think it could get very complicated very quickly, although it is a very interesting idea.
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    You know... I totally forgot that Stormlight is technically going to be two separate series going up to ten books. The second part is the Heraldic Epochs, is it? I think that would answer a lot of questions on these forums.
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    @Treamayne and @alder24 's WoBs show fairly clearly that Harmony is a RAFO. We can speculate about how two Shards interact in that way but there's not much more we can say. I do think it is apparent that Harmony is not using tones to combine the Shards, perhaps the tones are not enough to combine two whole Shards into 'one'. I assume that tones could be used to combine the Investiture of Ruin and Preservation in the same way as in Stormlight. Presumably this will be expanded upon in Stormlight 5 and perhaps the limitations of tones will be revealed. Afterall, there must be limitations otherwise the war on Roshar would be somewhat invalidated by an ultimate tone that could end all the problems between the Shards there.
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    This raises the question of whether Harmony is really so harmonious... We know from Stormlight that tones can be used to combine Investitures of different Shards in a peaceful manner. I would assume then that Harmony has also peacefully combined Ruin and Preservation. Scadrial is suffering from corrupted Investiture problems though so I suppose that could be a result of Harmony if things aren't nearly so harmonious. Minor Spoiler:
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    The idea that futuresight may have been a power of Surgebinders before becoming the KR is intriguing. We know Ishar made the KR to impose order on the Surgebinders and stop them going totally rogue. This is a very 'Honor' thing to do and so futuresight may have been restricted or heavily frowned upon from that point onwards. I mean, how much do we really know about Surgebinding pre-Knights Radiant? Woefully little as it's not a period that has been focussed on much so far. Perhaps things could have been very different. What we do know is that spren made the Nahel bonds independent of the Heralds and Rosharan Shards (despite being pieces of Investiture themselves). It can thus be presumed that the spren dictated the effects of the bond in some way and that it was only when Ishar formed the Knights that Surgebinding as we know it began as this directly linked the Surgebinders to the Shards.
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    This is a miracle I never knew happened.
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    16

    AFdooda replied to Tea Leaf's topic in Cosmere Discussion

    The significance of the number 16 outside of the Cosmere may reveal a little inside the Cosmere. The number 16 is associated with wholeness. 16 Shards that together once made up Adonalsium who was essentially all Investiture combined. This kind of stuff is why people argue over whether there could be a 17th Shard in the Cosmere but the weird coincidences that BS is so fond of don't seem to match (yet).
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