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It really depends on how "real" space is in the Cosmere. Radiation may not be an issue for them The theory presented here was a Spiritual connection between the floor and a person "acting" like gravity. Possibly in the Cosmere, that is all that gravity will end up actually being in the underlying structure... Maybe a Basic Lashing is just shifting the Spiritual connection of a person to a different surface? For Feruchemical duralumin where does it nail down that it is friendship bonds only? Remember, all the Ars Arcanum are presented from in-world character POV. They may not have ever experimented with the kind of connections we're talking about here. It may also not work, but it is an interesting idea!

This is an interesting concept. We know that there is a connection between Nightblood and spren, there is also a connection between the Shardblades themselves and Night blood (source) What is interesting to me is that while there is a connection between Spren and Nightblood, there is also a huge difference, intimated by Moogle above. Namely that a Spren is Cognitive-Spiritual (very small physical) and Nightblood is Cognitive-Physical (very very little spiritual). . To tie this into Shardblades, those seem to be Spiritual-Physical (no cognitive that we've seen). They are all similar but all slightly different. I don't believe that Nightblood has a spiritual aspect, that is why he has such trouble defining evil that he is to destroy. It is a construct of Cognition and Investiture in a physical host. To answer the OP, I wouldn't define Nightblood as alive, he is more like an A.I. missing the code to really define his tasks. I do think that Nightblood would shatter or cause to dissipate a Shardblade and I think the key here is the levels of Investiture. In the same way that it is difficult for magics to affect invested object, and levels of Investiture matter, I think Nightblood's high level of it trumps the Shardblade. Keep in mind that when unsheathed and attacking, Nightblood's merest touch is enough to turn Lifeless and 10' sections of wall to smoke. I am now wondering too... We know that in Shadesmar each glass bead is the cognitive aspect of something on the Physical plane. If a Shardblade severs something's spiritual aspect from the physical-cognitive, it leaves the physical portion around. Maybe the smoke appearing when Nightblood fully strikes a physical object is the Cognitive portion being severed, so that only the physical-spiritual remain. There are theories that a Shard's spiritual aspect are smoke like on the physical realm. Maybe that is true of the objects struck by Nightblood as well? EDIT: I have the worst trouble with quote blocks for some reason...

Well, releasing Allomancy was probably a mistake overall because of what he had to do in order to regulate it down the road, but it appears from Weiry that it was a moot point. Plus outside of allomancy, Atium's value is pretty minimal. It's only value would have been in the payment of Kandra. As to Zane... I don't hold TLR personally responsible for each act, but certainly for setting up and tacitly approving the systems that allowed for the gross abuses of skaa that were present. For Zane, and the individual's carrying out their acts under TLR I view it much like Szeth: Each person is responsible for their own actions, TLR is responsible for setting up the system and allowing it to take place. And those lower on rungs usually take their lead from the ones at the top. Leaders display societal mores, rulers define them, and absolute rulers dictate them.

Fascinating idea and topic! Upvote! for my money, if I'm a Cosmere astronaut, I'd want to at least have access to Allomantic steel, just in case I lost my tether to the ship when I was EVA! it would also make moving within the ship much easier. re: Firesoul Ferring... I'm not sure that you'd have enough brass to keep up with the pace of heat you'd have to be absorbing to survive anywhere near a star. We know that each metalmind has a maximum storage and a maximum transfer rate, so I'm not sure you'd have the "bandwidth" or storage capacity to handle a near star event. I think to do something like power generation there would need to be some sort of heat compounding going on... I really like the concept of Feruchemical duralumin being able to replicate artificial gravity, especially in conjunction with Feruchemical iron and the ability increase/decrease mass. I feel like this is something that we'll probably see in some way, though probably not how we're talking about right now. I would guess that even if it does work like that, it will be personal only so your whole crew would need to be full Feruchemists or Connectors to benefit. Probably what we will see is a play on the Feruchemical duralumin thing tied to the magics/technologies of Southern Scadrial that will allow for Artificial Gravity. I love this topic though! Feruchemists would be much better in general than Allomancers at things like EVA, etc, but I'm betting that Starship operations/flight will be built around Allomantic powers since they are externall focused.

I haven't seen any of those articles lately... the most recent article that I can see that might have something to respond to is one about members of the LDS not producing "Milton or Shakespeare" level fiction, and generally doing "genre" fiction instead. HERE but it is from November so I dont' know if that is recent to Brandon or not. No one is producing Milton or Shakespeare since the 1600's so I'm not sure what the point of the article is really anyway...

I can't find any articles recently that mention Brandon or LTUE online, maybe I'm not searching well enough, but my guess is it will be something not related to him? Hopefully someone going or with knowledge can shed some light on what he means.

Agreed Moogle, I think the Glimpses are a great move on Tor's part, probably even better than full chapter releases, though I hope they continue that as well, I really enjoyed today's Glimpse in fact.

The journey stands on the edge of a knife... but seriously, the hype can be dangerous because it *might* lift expectations too high for some people. or.. it could be the most popular fantasy series in a long time. Storms know that BS must be winning over most of the GRRM fan base with just even the pace of his writing production! I'm hoping that the massive release is due to the 4 year hiatus while he finished off the WoT, that said I also hope that they continue to give glimpses and chapter releases for future books as well because I love the advanced build up that gives me personally to my own expectations. it's like smelling a great meal being cooked when you're starving (hypebolically speaking)!

Ipad auto correct for "spren". I think I edited them all to correct...

There could also be confusion on the "primary character" and "main PoV characters" as asked in those 2 questions. Navani might get POV chapters, but not be the main flashback character in a book, which is how I would read "primary character". When was that WoB, he might have shifted his plan since then. And like Peter said, the back 5 are a ways off yet! Things will definitely change before the last one is here!

In the Shallan sketches she has drawn spren around the skyeel, but she also notes there are deflating sacs under their small wings as they dive... So there is probably some buoyancy thing going on, combined with a lower than earth gravity and small wings/undulation for acceleration and navigation. Spren May help skyeels generate the lighter than air gas that inflates their buoyancy sacs though...

Not so far, though I have introduced him to plenty of people!! I wish I had people to sit and theorize with irl, so much faster than typing...

It's fairly well established that in some way Spren are controlled by the beliefs of humans. With Cusicesh though, it would have been very weird for people to start expecting this one spren to show up at 7:46am every day and look to the origin for 10 minutes... that is one of the reasons that I think there is something very different going on with it.

That is an interesting idea, but I feel like that would have been mentioned in tWoK if it were true. Pretty much anything else possessing a Gemheart was pointed out as such, really just greatshells though. I would think Ryshadium would have as well. Maybe not, but this one doesn't feel right to me anyway.

I didn't do the downvote so I can't tell you. I thought your tone was fine, though I am confused as it seemed that you were disagreeing with me, but now you say you agree with my premise... I am curious, if you agree with my main point, but not with my specific points, what are your reasons for thinking TLR is a monster? If murder, attempted genocide/force breeding programs, agents created through the slaughter of multiple people (Kandra, Koloss, & Inquisitors I'm looking at you...), laws requiring murder of (presumed) innocent women, and the general state of oppression that he set up AREN'T grounds for being considered a monster... what is? Even in his world he is considered evil by the skaa at least.

I agree with this concept. Spren being Cognitive creatures bringing a low level of sentience to a bonded creature makes sense... WoR (released) spoiler: I also love your user name! @Serendipity... since GHM is my username and your text says you have a Mistborn hoodie... do you actually have one? I'd love to get my hands on one, but I"m not crafty...

The only information we have is from tWoK, where everyone who sees it calls it a Spren. I'm pretty sure that because it was a focus of the interlude, we'll see more about it in future books, but for my money, I think that Cusicesh is an amalgamation of hundreds (thousands) of previously bonded KR spren and the faces that we see are the faces of the humans to which they were bonded at the time of the Recreance. The breaking of their KR bonds drove many(most) of the bonded Spren slightly mad/mindless, like a bonded Seon during the Reod. For some reason these gathered in this place and Voltron into a giant water spren in at 7:46 every morning to look towards the Origin... Maybe this is a location where an order, or more than one, broke their bonds and oaths? EDIT: @Moogle - do we have instances of Shallan/Kaladin being tired after interacting or starting the bonding process with their spren? Could be that Cusicech is trying to bond with those present?

I kind of hope that you're playing devil's advocate here, and I don't want to derail this thread too much further. it is interesting that TenSoon says that "(TLR) was not an evil man." (Hero of Ages). I really can see it from both perspectives, that TLR was and was not a monster, that he was "just doing what he had to do to save the world from Ruin.", but I agree with @name_here it doesn't excuse the excesses that he allowed the nobility or the Inquisitors in their use of the skaa. Honestly, your argument that the law to murder skaa women applied to consensual relationships as well make it a worse law in my eyes. I guess my limited sympathy of TLR is overwhelmed by my own agreement with the First Ideal of the Knight's Radiant: To me, TLR chose horrible methods to achieve his "preservation" of the world, and he was indeed a monster. Or at least became one in the last centuries.

Even if the rest of house Davar knows about it, if it was her Father's Shardblade, that would reveal too much to those outside the house. Either 1: that their Father is dead and hence passed it on, or 2: that he is in no position to stop his kids from selling a blade that they forced him to relinquish, which would undermine the house politically and even further financially as well. It's like trying to sell your dad's hand that has the bio-metric fingerprint password to your families vaults... it's going to raise questions regardless of its provenance! I've always assumed the family doesn't know about the Shardblade, but I guess we'll see in WoR (I hope!!!)

This... and also the wanton slaughter of the Skaa by Inquisitors in the streets after the uprisings while he sat there impassively? Allowing his Inquisitors to run around murdering as they saw fit? Murdering the person who his religion said was the hero of prophecy because he didn't want an outsider to have the glory? Castrating any potential Feruchemist that he could find so that there couldn't be a Mistborn/Feruchemist threat to his rule? Turning his Feruchemist friends into weird shapechanging creatures who if you remove the spikes from they become mindless scavengers? Not to say that stopping Alendi didn't end up being the right thing to do, and Preservation's power surely impacted his decisions on how to order and structure his empire, but he is still responsible for the methods and societal norms of that Empire, so ultimately they fall on him. Therefore, monster. Remember that it was a LAW that any skaa woman who slept with a noble was to be murdered so that she wouldn't have a child. That's a step beyond abortion, which in our own world is a hot button issue, it surprises me that people overlook things like premptive abortion and other things about the society that TLR set up. Let me count the ways where TLR was a monster... EDIT: I do still like the character though. I am a big Dexter fan too though so it's not that surprising I guess.

I actually like TLR as well.. glad I'm not the only one!! if not for him, Ruin would have won long ago! Hurray for holding the fort until Vin/Sazed could save the day! I never noticed until learning more about the expanded Cosmere, how much Perservation's Intent drove TLR. I almost (almost) feel sorry for him, which is a victory for Brandon's writing that he can make me feel the least bit of sympathy for someone who is clearly a monster!

Yup, me. Got it... it'll be interesting to have a POV from an Oathpact breaking Herald for sure! @PeterAhlstrom no problem, we're just curious and insatiable as you well know!

I would think that Eshonai counts as being mentioned, since she does appear in tWoK even if not by name. Is the 2nd herald, Nalan, the only one we don't think we have a sighting for yet? I somehow don't think that the 10 Heralds are going to primary POV characters in the Stormlight Archive books. Talenel is supposed to be an Interlude POV in Words of Radiance, but aside from that, we don't have any 100% Herald appearances. I followed up with a question if we'll have seen all 10 primary character by the end of WoR or not... we'll see if we get a reply to that one though.

As I'm reading this topic, I can't help but think of the topic just posted talking about Focuses. To me these expanses have something to do with the focuses related to the magic systems on those worlds: Expanse of Densities : Scadrial : Metals Expanse of Vibrance : Nathis : Color Expanse of the Vapors : Ashyn : Unknown, but the sickness makes me think of Vapor rub! Expanse of the Broken Sky : Sel : AonDor The last is a bit off, but hear me out... I agree that the key pieces of information we're missing are who named these, when, and why? My thought/theory is that EoBS had a different name until Odium shattered Devotion and Dominion. After the splintering of Aona and Skai the Spiritual power is raging there (mindlessly), possibly endangering the Cognitive realm now, which would explain why Shadesmar is a dangerous place to travel to from Sel. EDIT: @metacognition - I think it's a stretch to take a Section header from one section in a trilogy and correlate that to a map label in a map in another book. Maybe not, I'm just skeptical and I like my idea which is in conflict with your own a little.

We know there is something linking Shards that are present on a single world. @skaa - I agree that Rayse came later, but it must have been a LONG time ago, since there were 100 Desolations, each with a rebuilding time between and the last one being 4500 years prior to the current storyline. Also, the magic would have had to develop in concert with all 3 shards based on how Brandon has said that magic systems form on Shardworlds. We have this previous thread which also touches on this topic. @ccstat - I don't think that Leras and Ati were friends before they joined on Scadrial. WoB says that they were drawn together in an opposites attract scenario. I definitely agree that relationship has something to do with where Shards settled, though I don't think that they are necessarily positive ones. it would be interesting if Rayse were somehow Tanavast's younger brother based on the Purelake theology though. Do we have confirmation that Rayse is on Braise or is that still theory/speculation?