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So... there's a Sky Castle, which Realmingsberg has, and there's a SkyCastle, which is completely different! This makes sense! Thanks, AI! (This is so cursed and I love it)

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Hoid devoured 798 tasty souls for Thursday lunch. However, Hoid, who had formerly formulated a terrifying plan to eventually become Adonalsium, decided to devour pine-oranges v2.0 of pineapples; this made Hoid a supremely painful deity of waffles, chortles, and power; Fortunately, Jasnah decided to marry Hoid, instead of telling Kelsier YES to an awkward arrangement of marriage, immediately causing a large explosion of infused quantum gemstone kittens from the INFERNALTALISMAN DEPTHS OF Kaladin!

That's totally fine.

As the surrounding world increasingly devolves into chaos, Realmingsberg shores up its defenses. With the help of its ally, Astrym, it makes upgrades to its skyships and begins implementing the infrastructure needed to make them commonplace.

Good points! I think, however, that Rayse had a similar plan to Tangranavian - in his deal with Dalinar, he makes a reference to sending agents out into the cosmere. I actually didn't know about the corrupted Investiture thing, but I think that the disguise plus the red eyes still suggest Odium's involvement. Cultivation is probably not involved with many events outside of Roshar (although Cultivation being Trell would be a great twist). While Coppermind states that Odium is unlikely to be Trell, as Harmony knows of Odium but can't identify Trell, I think that this argument has flaws. Shards can work under the noses of other shards, after all. I doubt that Hoid is the only person who has practiced god-dodging, and if Rayse knows how to hide his Identity, Harmony wouldn't be able to tell who's on Scadrial. Finally, I think that we don't know enough about Autonomy's intents to concretely say that she's Trell. Autonomy might be allied with Odium (it's a possibility that she helped him splinter some shards), so its possible that they're working together.

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Hello, assorted sanderfans! I have just finished reading the first few chapters of The Lost Metal, and it looks like things are getting spicy. I'm pretty convinced that the Set is following Odium at this point. Odium is preparing for conquest of the Cosmere, and Scadrial looks like his first target. Here are some reasons why I think so. As Taravangian ascended and became Odium near the end of RoW, he decided that the rest of the Cosmere was ruled by ¨impostors.¨ In classic villain logic, he decides to take over the other worlds to ¨save¨ them. As Lost Metal is the first major Cosmere book to be released after RoW, narrative flow would make it a good target for invasion. At the end of Bands of Mourning, we saw someone with red eyes, working for the Set and disguised as a human. That sounds a lot like a Fused. Lord Ladrian's internal monologue indicates that it is disguised, and there's an order of the Fused who have that as their sole ability, so... yeah. From the blurb, we know that Harmoy's prescience doesn't work in a particular town, which is being influenced by the Set. That has served as an indicator that another person/shard who can see the future is in the area, and Odium is the best shard for seeing the future. Please respond if you think differently!

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One of them would have broken quickly. Eventually, the Heralds would become dysfunctional enough that the Fused could take over Roshar.

Wait, Jasnah´s name is pronounced with a soft J?

Nice! Welcome to the shard. Have you read any other Cosmere books?

Inspirational. 10/10