Green Hoodie Mistborn

Ooo, interesting question, do the heightenings also prevent tricks of optics? I would think it'd have to do so to give you "perfect color recognition", but an interesting question for sure. The dress has been pretty definitively explained so far, both in the lovely xkcd coming linked above, but also in other "publications" like Wired I think someone of the 3rd heightening would be able to see the dress for its' true colors. The dress is facinating though, when I first saw it, it was definitely white/gold and my wife saw blue/black. I was later able, by focusing just on the dress, to get my brain to see it for what it is, a poor exposure shot of a blue/black dress. Now I can slide back and forth while looking at it... it's quite fun!

i think the assumption is that both Jezrien and Kalak's blades match the other 7 described as "works of art". it could be the case that either of them were more plain by design of their wielders. One thought I had, sparked by this renewed discussion... Shardblades were "made in imitation of honorblades", as we have learned from Syl. The WoB that Moogle noted above talks about a dead sprenblade changing form over a long time. But we have seen Syl and Pattern (to a lesser degree) changing form very freely with the thoughts of their bonded KR. If Honorblades are the pattern for Shardblades, then it is possible, that like a living Shardblade, an Honorblade can freely shift form to conform to the wielder's thoughts and needs. Szeth may not even have realzied that it was possible and he always expected it to be a sword, therefore it always retained its sword like shape. If someone else were bonded and wielding it, it might lengthen or change based on their thoughts and needs. Just another possibility in this giant guessing game...

I'm not sure how I feel about this idea. I like the idea of Dalinar taking up Honor's shard, but at the same time, I don't want Brandon to "cheapen" the story-line/effect of having Sazed take up Ruin/Preservation from the Mistborn books. It would make me feel like the Cosmere was just a big D&D campaign where each player's favorite character from different adventures/smaller campaigns got to ascend at the end as their big send off. I would much rather see the humans of Roshar manage to figure out a different and more difficult way to beat Odium. Seems like a 5 or 10 book arc (depending on which one Odium is finally defeated in) is more deserving of something more than, "I assembled Honor, now I'm as powerful as Odium...". Maybe that is what Brandon ultimately has planned, and I'm sure that it will be well written and there would be struggle even in that plot arc, but it would feel weaker to me since he has already completed a series in that way.

It's interesting, because that WoB says we don't see much of those, but we will see some. But just above that he says he's still not sure exactly which PoV character the 3rd book will be for still. If Dalinar is the PoV character, I would assume the level of Tension usage in the book will rise appropriately. I think he took that question to mean when will we see Stonewardens in action as they have those surges specifically, and both Willshapers and Stonewards probably won't be till the back half, so yeah, probably not much Cohesion, but we should finally get some Tension going on in book 3 with Dalinar! I've been out for a bit, so I'm not up on the WoB, but if Eshonai is the PoV for book 3, and IF she ends up being a Willshaper, I also feel like that wouldn't happen until the end of Book so we still wont' get to really see Cohesion happening. If Szeth ends up back as the PoV/flashback character, and assuming he becomes a true Skybreaker, then we should get to see some nice Division action. If Adonlin manages to go Dustbringer we will get some beginnings of Division and Abrasion working in "cohesion" (sorry, couldn't resist).

As far as Aether's being canon... what if what Nale used to heal Szeth wasn't a Fabrial, but was an Aether? Just because Szeth assumes it is a Fabrial and Nale says he could use a Fabrial to heal him, doesn't mean that it was one. I have another thought, but it would get really into the Aether's and mechanics so I'm sure I can't post it because of what Chaos mentions above.

For me it's not even a choice... Gold/Gold Timeless (from the MAG list, I posted it to the Twinborn Names thread for reference). Pretty much unkillable, "possibly immortal", though that would more likely be atium/atium Miles was truly a BAMF... Shame he made bad life choices!

We do know the upper bound to Vasher's arrival on Roshar should be max of about 300 years given what is currently know about timeline and chronology. Lower bound has to be 10+ years since he trained Adonlin as a child/young adult and Adonlin is something like 23. he would have required time to situate himself on Roshar and be accepted to the Ardents before being placed high enough to train a high prince's children.

Tor does have a weird concept of "in the same year" since they state in the blog post that they are going to come out in 2015 and 2016 respectively, though only separated by a few months. Is there a "publishing year" that I don't know about, like Fiscal years?

Also explains why the SoS status bar took so long to creep forward! He was figuring out if he had just drafted one or two novels

I love that title. Very evocative, calling out to the theme/tone of the book as well as armband metalminds (to me at least)... Hoping there is a secret "two-fer" going on!!

My favorite complete story... I would have to say is Mistborn: the Final Empire. It was such a fresh story in the genre that it kind of rocked my world a bit. Even from the outset premise, "what if the hero of prophecy had failed and now the dark lord has reigned for a thousand years...?" was awesome. Then you throw in the cinematic metallic arts and all the great fight sequences, the layers upon layers (there is always another secret) and it has to be my favorite story. Part of that is sentimentality on my part too as it was my introduction to Sanderson. I also really, really enjoyed his two short "hard sci-fi" stories Elysium and Firstborn. Favorite scene that Sanderson has written for me would have to be one each from tWoK and WoR where Kaladin says the 2nd and 3rd Ideals of the Windrunners. Each one sends chills through me every time I read them.

I think the reason Cryptics don't like the term liespren is because it's actually the opposite of who they really are. They appreciate a lie really only so far as it helps reveal a truth, from what we've seen from Pattern thus far. I agree pretty strongly with the take from the WoR Re-Read over at Tor.com: and if that is the case, then Honor and Truth are what aren't getting along. It is also interesting as Weiry pointed out earlier, that Brandon's original name for the Cryptics was Truthspren. I can see why Truth and Honor don't get along... they conflict in the real world as well sometimes. It's hard to mentally separate Honorspren from Honor the shard, but they have to be a subfacet of what we think of as "honor". I think they represent forthright, upstanding leadership (and protection, dealing honorably, and a willingness to sacrifice one's self, all irrespective of the law. Truth OTOH, cares only for the truth, if the truths are painful it is still better to air it than to protect someone from it. Sometimes it takes deception to get at a greater Truth, but only to a point. Case in point, Shallan & Pattern. He pretty much arranges and forces her to face very painful truths, so that she can grow as a KR and have the tools to deal with all the different things swirling around her. Also, he and Shallan use deception as Veil, to infiltrate the Ghostbloods, to get at the Truth of what is going on in the world (and on a smaller scale, what happened to Jasnah, etc.)

I think those categories hold true for non-surgebinding spren. Surgebinding spren however seem to fall more in the "ideal spren" category to me rather than emotion As for Cryptics being "Lie Spren", as Moogle noted, most of what Pattern calls lies aren't deception per se, but usually are things that humans use descriptively as vehiclces for truth, but themselves are not true. Metaphors, similies, hyperbole, figures of speech, etc.

To me,there is a big difference between the Rosharan fabrials and the "Mist Fabrials" at a basic level though related to Investiture and it's interaction with Foci. In Fabrials, the Investiture is the Stormlight, which is stored in the gems. The gems are the Focus to the power that the Investiture accesses. In Allomancy and Feruchemy however, the Investiture is hardwired into the Spiritweb and the metal is the Focus for the Power of creation. I readily comprehend Rosharian Fabrials, they are essentially a ROM chip magic system. Hard-coded and basically inaccessible, but when you supply power it does what it's designed to do. Mechanical Metallic arts however do not yet make sense to me, as it would imply that the investiture. I've read the "Mist-Fabrial" theory and I guess it is correct, but I'm not sure how you infuse mists into metal. I don't really understand infusing a gem with Stormlight, but at least the crystalline structure can be viewed as a storage matrix or sorts. With Metals that is harder to visualize or conceptualize.

That's the one! Argh, can't believe it was Steel Ministry site that I couldn't think of...

That is one of them I was thinking of Weiry, but in researching another question last week, I came across a WoB (that ended up not being relevant to that discussion so I didn't note it) that specifically talked about being able to use non-Scadrian metal for Allomancy. Agh I can picture the site layout and colors, but not the name... I'll find it eventually I hope. Tangent - the whole "not being able to SoulCast gems" thing, I think is another one of those in world fallacies, a la "there are only 10 metals for allomancy"... I think the issue is you can't use fabrials to do it, but I suspect/wonder if actual surgebinding Soulcasters can do it.

It's not the metals that have the link per se, but either way we have confirmation from WoB that metals from any world will work for Allomancy/Feruchemy/Hemalurgy. WoB on metals in the metallic arts: I'll be hunting for that other WoB as it is far more elusive right now... but it says the metal source doesn't matter in terms of planet, etc.

You can get the pdf free at Brandon's website! http://brandonsanderson.com/books/warbreaker/warbreaker/warbreaker-rights-and-downloads/#versions

Let's broaden the discussion a little bit... I feel like Dalinar would actually be an anchor at an established news channel rather than use social media himself, though he probably would have a facebook page. Elend on the other hand would definitely have a vblog on YouTube. Sazed would be a Wikipedia moderator I picture Sarene on Snapchat with her witty one liners to people, and Siri being an Instagram kind of person

Publish your theory anyway! Then when the answer comes it could prove you right, tear you down, or just provide ambiguous fun fodder for the debates

We've gotten big ol' "RAFO" on that question, but my surmise is that Nightblood would win that without much competition. What I'm wondering and thinking about now however is... what if Nightblood is on par with the Honorblades in terms of investiture and power? We know he is magnitutes more powerful than a regular shardblade... and so are Honorblades. I wonder if Nalan gave Szeth Nightblood, specifically so he could combat the power of the honorblades that the Stone Shamans are holding. Though if that is true about Nightblood = Honorblade in power, then a Shardblade should have no problems fighting Nightblood in combat either since Syl wasn't hurt by Jezrien's Honorblade.

I can't agree with you here... Renarin's eye healing was almost certainly a byproduct of his bond and unconscious stormlight healing precisely because of the fact that you point out, why would someone think to consciously try to use stormlight to heal something that they a) view as part of themselves (bad eyes) and isn't an obvious wound to be healed. I also point to the Lopen's arm which automatically started to heal itself the first time he inhaled stormlight. As to Glys' knowledge... it's so hard to say why/how a spren remembers things. It is almost certainly related to the level of the bond, but each of the bonded spren we've seen thus far seem to know a differing amount about the "hidden/historical" information than others. Pattern developed mentally very quickly... maybe because they had already advance their bond and were just "healing" it at the point we're seeing, or maybe because Pattern gets knowledge back faster than other spren types. Obviously the Stormfather is an outlier or a bonded spren, but he seems to not really gain much (yet) from his bond with Dalinar in terms of intelligence. Maybe he'll get some sanity from bonding, that would be nice. In one of Lift's interludes, Wyndle makes a statement that he had "holes in his memory, even with the precautions his people took..." so he seems to know more for his bond level than Syl who did it all on her own and has remembered everything very slowly and/or out of context.

Good call on the summon when needed aspect of a Shardblade!

I was trying to be facetious with the "bit", Nightblood is way more powerful but we don't have a good scale other than the quote above on trying to steelpush invested objects to tell us how much more powerful. At the very least he is the combined investiture of 1000 Nalthus humans + whatever he is consuming from the wielder when drawn fully.

Per WoB they are the same thing, only Nightblood is a "bit" more powerful: So really you're just choosing power levels when talking about shardblades. I prefer the one that doesn't possibly accidentally consume the spark of my life... (Rosharan Shardblade)