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  1. Green Hoodie Mistborn
    Stormlight is pure investiture, so we don't know how "efficiently" it may power other magic systems or things like Vasher's breath requirement. There is something about the Returned and their need to feed on other breaths that has never quick made sense to me, and I sense that the solution to this issue is somewhere in that. EDIT: also I've always understood this to mean that Returned have access to all the abilities granted by the 5th Heightening, even if their Divine Breath is hidden, so life sense, perfect pitch, etc...
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    I agree with this... which to me is perhaps the most horrifying thing of the Recreance almost. 1 they killed their bonded companions and friends. 2 they left those dead companions to be weapons of horrifying power for those who had no bonds to hold them in check... What, oh what, could cause those orders to abandon their bond, murder their friends by doing so, and leave those weapons in the hands of weaker men (people)?? Especially since we know one of the orders which did so was the Windrunners, dedicated and bonded to Honorspren?!? Sigh. Such a sad thing I wonder what happened to spren whose KR died of natural causes (old age) in all the eras between Desolations?
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    Couple all this with what I'm surprised no one else mentioned. The Parshendi know about honorblades knew they left one in Alethkar presumably with Szeth, otherwise we need to start looking for another Honorblade in tWoK/WoR somewhere and they know that surgebinding is granted by Honorblades. I also don't understand the apparent power differential between a fully powered KR and a Herald, but I'm assuming that has to do with us having never seen a Herald in good standing with his Oath, wielding the full might of Honor and their Honorblade.
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    I think Argent was referring to the "remain in blade form for others to pick up and use" portion of my post, and that he thinks the KR didn't know they would remain if they broke their bonds. Not sure I agree with that, but pretty sure that is what he was talking about.
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    He did say that he was going to switch up the writing order so we didn't have to wait as long between 2/3 this time like 1/2.
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    How does the physical aspect relate to Jindonese being able to access Chayshan in Elantris? Or the Dahkor accessing their powers in Elantris and Toed still? Just curious and got me thinking about the regional aspects of the magics on Sel.
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    Nightblood But we don't really know too much concrete about its powers.
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    A few points... Whatever it is, it is enough to crumble the current KR, so it is applicable to current times as well. (scary) I don't' think it's Gavilar's stone, because Szeth hid that after assassinating Gavilar. I DO want to find out what that is though. I love the idea of a reverse TLR, trying to kill off enough spren to reform Honor as a shard that someone could then take up. If that is what they are trying, I think they are going about it all wrong, but what do any of us know about trying to reform a shard? I kind of agree with Kier, MAYBE the KR spren agreed with the plan? re: Recreance - AAggghh, which KR thought ti would be a good idea to force their spren into sword form and freeze them there and give such powerful weapons to non-bonded people?? Terrible idea!!
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    Or it could have been the chaos of battle and either Vasher or Darkness (if he knows of awakening) could have awakened the tarp to prevent Adolin from being killed by Szeth as well? I still don't think that Darkness/Nin is going to make Szeth into a "real" skybreaker by getting him a Nahel bond That begs teh question for me... what or how will Szeth use Investiture to power Nightbloods abilities? I can't wait to see Szeth on screen wielding Nightblood in Shinovar
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    Welcome to the 17th Shard! my suggestion is to re-read everything he's written in between new publishing's! But not to worry, I'm sure we'll get a couple of short stories and a novella or more this year if past years are anything to go by that are surprises! if you've never read Brent Weeks, he is great (and Brandon recommends him as well). Other thing to do is start perusing these forums and salivating over minuscule clues like the rest of us!
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    I was only half serious... but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. He started invested with 1000 breaths, but he as absorbed many more of the years of use. Just because the black smoke is linked to those breaths in some way doesn't mean that their investiture is lost... maybe it's been building in the sword ever since it was created, and every time it gets used it grows in power? Maybe soon it will be ready for the ultimate battle with Odium after having absorbed hundreds of years of investiture... To awaken steel does require the Awakener to be sitting on 20,000 breaths too... maybe that plays into how powerful Nightblood is/will be in some way. Fun idea
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    Well, the AoL Ars Arcanum says that being a gnat is "useless" as there are no other metals to burn for Duralumin to act on... but I wonder about a Gnat with access to another magic system... Gnat-Skybreaker FTW (or loss...)! It would be very expensive for a Mistborn to become a Duralumin savant as well, because it would instantly use up whatever other metal you burned with it and you'd have to keep it flared which would increase even further the effect. So it would be be both expensive and very noticeable goings on if you were continually cycling through your metals... unless you just flared Duralumin and didn't burn anything else. Don't know if that would work or not...
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    Gah, someone is going to have to help me track this down, but I could have sworn that there was a WoB where he talked about the "2 greatshells in the KR chart which combine to make the head of a single larger greatshell"?? Was that in the actual book with characters discussing that somewhere from tWoK? was it a discussion here somewhere? I vividly remember someone saying that those were 2 different winged greatshells which then form the forward facing head of another greatshell stylistically.
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    Love it and way to go!! This ranks up there with the guy who had a fake "Book of Endless Pages" dust jacket printed for the WoR signing in cleverness, but WAY surpasses it for dedication and work!!
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    The only reason I don't think this is likely is that it is too much like the Well of Ascension and Ruin plot line... I'd be a little disappointed in Brandon if he pulled the same plot for this series that he did in Mistborn. The flipside to that though, is that Odium's release on the greater Cosmere would provide an amazing amount of conflict on other planets which we've seen before such as with Harmony on Scadrial, and Endowment on Nalthis. I wonder if the other Shards (besides Harmony) have been plotting and planning for Odium's escape to try and defeat him, ever since he was captured in the Greater Rosharian system? Maybe that explains the sudden movements of Endowment (i.e. the "sudden" blossoming of Awakening in the Hallendran a few hundred years prior). Maybe Endowment foresaw something that needed her to move and start using a lot of her power to create these massive Divine Breath Splinters... You wanted wild conjecture?... Maybe Endowment is VERY good at reading the future, and maybe she saw the need to get the Returned created so that they would get all scholarly and create a weapon of great power, one that would end up spanning the galaxy to reach the conflict with Odium at just the right time to destroy him... "Would you like to destroy some Evil today?" You heard it here first everyone... Nightblood is Endowment's long term plan/play to kill Odium!
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    Spren gender is an interesting thing, doesn't Syl appear as a man at one point to one of the side characters only briefly? She can take pretty much any form that she desires at the time, and yet "her" association with the Stormfather (another interesting name in context of this discussion, as he is very obviously male to those who interact with him), is that of father/daughter so they clearly have default genders even in the cognitive realm? The "over spren" who sent Wyndle, Nightwatcher I'm looking at you!, is referred to by Wyndle as "she" also, so it seems pretty clear to me at least that the "higher orders" of spren have both the gendered concept and self/identification with genders in the cognitive and physical realms both. I still think it will be impossible for a "mortal" magician to render themselves permanently another sex, either as a disguise or as a translation of their gender identity. The best someone can get, without Returning, IMO would be a combo Roshar Lightweaver/Sel Forger, someone who is able to "transform" through the power of lightweaving could probably combine that with the power of Forging to achieve some amazing soulstamps/Essence Marks Off topic: It is also interesting as I think about it, that they are called "Soulstamps" and not "cognitivestamps" or something. The Forgers clearly seem to think of the magic as effecting the soul rather than the mind/cognitive aspect to give it that name, since they have such an established theory of Realmatics at least..
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    I think with the full re-founding some honorspren might take the plunge and attach themselves to some of the squires that Kaladin is cultivating in Bridge 4. It's interesting that at one point Kaladin almost seems to translate over to Shadesmar IIRC... and all those windspren at the end of the fight scene seem mighty suspicious to me!
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    I suppose it's open for interpretation, but I didn't get a sense of sarcasm there, I thought it was pretty specific. we'll have to wait and see I guess. I don't think there is any official confirmation that the dragon directs the 17th Shard.
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    There is nothing to prove that Darkness knows about Nalthis, only that he possessed Nightblood somehow. Vasher may have showed up and ended up in a fight with Darkness on Roshar for some reason that we don't know yet. The earthquake and chasm which lead to the Reod was caused naturally as far as we know right now. It isn't related to the splintering of Devotion by Odium because Elantris takes place only a few hundred years before Way of Kings, but Odium has been confined to the Greater Roshar system for "millenia" according to the Response. I'll be surprised if it ended up actually being natural, but so far as we know it was/is. All other "world spanning disasters" aren't natural in origin (note I don't consider a highstorm to be a "disaster", just a natural feature of Roshar...) the deepness is Ruin, the ashmounts are caused by Rashek, the Everstorm is Odium rocking his power. I do agree that the Desolations are world hopping events, but I'm fairly certain that they are confined to the Greater Roshar system (at least ever since the Oathpact was taken).
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    I still want to get a plausible idea on how these letters are even being exchanged since Hoid is actively hiding from the group this dragon is sending after him!!
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    We know from a WoB that Lerasium re-writes the sDNA, so no emotional stress required to "break" that soul: Source
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    This is what I was saying earlier! Glad that there is some confirmation for my thoughts Returning as a transgender person on Nalthis would be the "easiest" way to change sex, though still almost impossible since it depends on Endowment offering you the chance to be sent back... For a mortal to get at that ability, I'm still saying a combo of Lightweaver (Rosharan) and Forger
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    To me this puts Awakening and sharing of Breath into both of the categories a little bit though. Inherently you have a breath that you can use to awaken or give to someone else, so in that way it is base sDNA linked and not requiring brokenness to achieve like other magics, in the vein of Forging and Feruchemy. But I do think that when you give the breath away, it "breaks" you/causes fissures as you go through the Drab to non-Drab transition (potentially) and just the various emotional states that come with giving and taking breath. Every time you see someone given a large amount at once it is almost an ecstatic event for the people. So it is high and low emotionally, which would put it into the "breaking" to use category.
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    Just based on the Larkin-owning I think she will probably not end up as a Radiant. Other other side of that argument is that Rysn is the one to return the knowledge of Larkin's stormlight sucking properties to the Radiants in the nick of time so that they can fight the threat that "X" secret society poses to them with these creatures... and thus joins and becomes a Willshaper (Darkness and his "Skybreakers" are shown to have one in Lift's Interlude). I love the thought of Lopen being something more than "just" a squire or Windrunner and being of a different order, that would be fun and he does seem to fit the descriptions well enough for the order to me! Axies I really don't know about though I like the idea in concept. We know that his form of Aimian can at least manipulate their skin/bodies enough that he uses that ability to keep his notes about spren in skin color patterns... I tend to think that the "can get free any time" has to do with his ability for body manipulation. The points in favor of Axies for me are: the shadow toward light, like Jasnah, and the being genuinely surprised about what city he was in in the alley. like Jasnah, he really is a scholar searching out the entirety of the truth related to Spren that he can. My question... why is he studying spren of all things? Did one appear to him to bond, acting strangely for any spren that he had seen before and that in turn set him on his quest to catalogue all spren so that he could figure his bonded spren out?
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    I agree that "broken" doesn't necessarily carry the negative connotations for somone like our world would think when they see "broken", that it means changed, or even opened to the point that it can accept something outside of itself. As to attitude and snapping, I see Zane as a very ruinous person who was subjected to very ruinous tortures that broke both his mind and his spirit to snap him, but he was still able to snap... Re: external forces Snapping people For Scadrians, the ability to even use allomancy is genetic and then they have to snap on top of it, which I don't believe is the case for any other world we've seen thus far. I guess I agree in theory about the pain vs. snapping point, though it would be impossible practically without another form of magic which would indicate an already "broken" soul. The second part of your statement though... I wonder if Elantrians have "no choice" in the matter or "no choice that they remember". In the same way that Returned (outside of Lightsong at the end) don't remember Endowment offering them a choice on whether or not to come back, but she(?) evidently does, perhaps pre-splintering Aona was doing that as well, but now it's more mechanical like the mists? I wonder if it could be resisted...
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