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Okay my theory on this is based on the Iriali religion of the One, that before the beginning of creation a singular entitiy split itself into pieces to experience life. Now this can't be referring to adonalsium as people existed before the Shattering. I think that this One shattered itself into 17 pieces, those being Adonalsium, the dawnshards, and the 12 prime aethers

I know this is an old thread but when I was reading the sandman something that struck me as really interesting is that the endless are a lot like shards. I'm not saying that Brandon copied Neil Gaiman, but they both went about creating their gods in a similar way. Instead of being individuals they are forces, raw components of reality and the human experience. The other interesting thing is that they characterized the gods in an opposite manner. Sanderson made the Shards people changed by the power, and Gaiman made the Endless power changed by the people. also I kinda wanna either make/ see an alternate cosmere where Adonalsium shattered into Death, Delirium, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Destruction and Dream instead of Devotion, Dominion, Ruin, Preservation etc. And also the magic system those seven would create.

I'm going to be a bit more interesting and not talk about individuals who are overwhelmingly powerful more individuals with little or weak powers. I'd say that Vasher or another immortal who's had centuries of practice at swordfighting could do it without an immense amount of trouble. So that would include all of the heralds, Vasher like I mentioned, Arsteel, and Denth. I also think some of the more exceptional users of the metallic arts that aren't mistborn/feruchemists/fullborn could have a decent chance if given a good understanding of how shardplates and shardblades work. Wax could probably either shoot through the eye slits or more likely get enough shots onto a single section to shatter it then shoot the shardbearer. I also think that Spook as he was during Hero of Ages could possibly pull it off, though more due to him being able to avoid getting hit long enough after cracking a section that the shardplate could seize up.

This idea was just a cool concept I had Name: Ragnarök His main powers manifest in a roughly 1 mile aura with 3 main effects. Firstly hyper localized natural disasters occur nearly constantly, earthquakes, massive storms, etc are all on the table. Secondly all living things are filled with immense bloodlust, the need to fight, the need to kill. Lastly any creature affected by this bloodlust is denied the release of death, even if the body completely lacks blood the draugr (to continue with the norse naming convention) will continue to fight until it is physically incapable of doing so. In addition the epic Ragnarök has immense physical strength, enough to throw cars around. His weakness, silence is a remnant of his time in solitary confinement shortly before the arrival of calamity, after that he couldn't stand a lack of noise.

Very good, it makes me terrified and excited to learn what happens in Stormlight 5. It's also good to know who Zellion is now.

Avoid asking yes or no questions. If he has no way to wiggle out through verbal loopholes than he will have to RAFO

I had many theories that I came up with throughout the course of the story, all of which were wrong. Yumi and Painter made up the shard of virtuosity, this being foreshadowed by that hion lines being most likely part of her investiture and needing both parts to function. As well as the fact that Painter symbolizes the creative aspect of the shard and Yumi symbolizes the skill aspect of the shard. Both would use their form of art to do the others job/magic system. Yumi's world is the physical realm and the city that painter lives in is in shadesmar

an interesting concept could be that the crew has a contact in the ministry that has tipped them off that a fellow thieving crew, one that they have a rivalry with yet also work with on occasion may soon be raided. From their the players would have to decide whether or not to help their skaa brethren or to prepare to swoop in and fill the vacancy.

It would remove your identity but not your Identity. The memories stored in a coppermind are a cognitive aspect, while Identity is a spiritual one, also while your Identity does contain part of your personality it is both more and less than that. In addition they wouldn't have they same perception of those memories that the original owner does, the Feruchemist A wouldn't necessarily gain the exact same personality as Feruchemist B. I don't think that Feruchmical memories fade any faster than normal memories, but that might just be with their original host. This may be a bit like soulstamping where eventually the spiritweb "rejects" these new memories.

That doesn't seem to fit with Endowment's Intent, which is to give freely with no strings attached. BioChromatic breath is a reflection of that, once you give someone your breath it is their's truly and utterly

Chromium is already a external pulling enhancement metal, you could continue with cobalt being the pulling metal. The external pushing metal could steal spacial feruchemical powers with nitionol stealing spacial allomantic powers

There are also a couple of theories that lift is the nightwatcher bondsmith but they seem a little far fetched

This is because the cosmere books are canonically translations (à la lord of the rings) and the terms for those parts of armor are french based in english Oh also the lack of common armor is probably due to the fact that for one thing mining for metal is a lot harder on roshar, which means that soulcasters have to pick up the slack. The second reason is due to the fact that metal armor is heavy and hard to march with, and with horses being about the cost of a house the soldiers have to most likely carry the armor on foot.

That could just be via sort of winding the metals together without alloying them, if I am not mistaken the rpg has a similar item (I know it isn't really canon, but the idea still makes sense) My theory is that alloying a god metal only has an effect in the metallic art of the opposing god, otherwise the god metal more or less overrides the other metal. Old atium and malatium both are sort of the opposite of electrum and gold respectively. For feruchemy and hemalurgy all alloying does is weaken the effect of the god metal. I imagine that pure F-Atium doesn't just store youth but overall condition, while tapping you are being Ruined to your weakest stake, entropy is working against you, but when you tap pure F-Atium you become your peak self. I imagine that using lerasium alloys in hemalurgy just stores indefinitely with no loss of power (or much less)

where did you hear that from? this is the closest I could find that said anything like that, and the first is more recent.

Listen if you need a break from this take a break, there is enough here to keep going off of that things will be fine. If you really don't feel like doing this any more than stop, and anyone who get's on your case about it isn't worth paying attention to. you don't even have to completely stop with this, just post whenever you feel like it rather then on a strict schedule, even the most fun tasks can eventually begin to feel like work.

No, no shards aren't allowed, but any other being is allowed. I debated a bit on whether to put nightblood on the poll but decided that the threat that nightblood can pose varies wildly depending on who's wielding him.

Just wanted to see who is viewed as the most dangerous character, I put both the Heralds and Five scholars on this list due to the fact that I wanted them on here but it would have made it a bit of a mess. Dangerous in this context isn't how strong they are in a fight, it is more so about how much harm they could cause on a wide scale.

Remember many Aonic characters (those from the area around elantris) have part of their names based off of Aons (RAOdon, tAAN, IADon)

This, there are view things that I would ever like to down vote, but this comes close. For Kaladin to die in the story would completely trivialize his entire arc of choosing life before death. Sanderson can hit with some emotional gut punches at the end of his books, but he only does this to reinforce characterization, not destroy it. P.S sorry I don't have any personally beef with you, it's just that I feel that killing off many main characters in stormlight feels as though it would be a betrayal. A major theme of the entire series is in the Immortal words "life before death". The noblest sacrifice in the world can in reality be easier and less helpful than continuing to live.

Sorry I meant conscience only somewhat, also whether or not nightblood views you as evil depends on your own self image no that's part of the point of making theories, peer review It might be that once she is released it wont be possible to put her back, that the situation is not right yet, but either was Ba-Ado-Mishram is gonna be found by someone, probably Shallan

I hope you aren't one of the people who for some reason sees Oathbringer as one of the worst stormlight books for some reason. Do you have many other major interests besides the Cosmere?

OOHH I've been waiting for the chance do do this. (in order of relevance to the main plot) Shallan finds Ba-Ado-Mishram and has to carry her gemstone around from world to world to keep it from the ghostbloods Szeth swears the fifth ideal and accepts true responsibility for his actions, but in doing so he acknowledges himself as evil meaning that nightblood kills him, but in doing so nightblood gets the last little push needed to truly develop a conscious. Dalinar actual ends up choosing Adolin as his champion, fulfilling both of their arcs. Dalinar in his difficulty giving up control and Adolin's in his feeling that he is useless and has nothing to of major value to contribute anymore. However Dalinar intervenes to save Adolin (or Odium's champion if it is someone Dalinar cares about) thus not only forfeiting the contest but also "killing" the Stormfather Kaladin finally ends up becoming the new main vessel of Honor's power as Dalinar is no longer a candidate. I picked these characters as they were some of the main viewpoint characters in the first halve (the fifth being venli but I have no idea of how her arc will finish or even if it will be finished in stormlight five.)

Why does everyone keep dissing Electrum, if you think about it someone who is determined to win at any cost is more dangerous than someone with super strength. For one thing it will keep you in the fight for longer, most of the time people fall unconscious due to shock not as much actual damage, there is even a direct example of this in the cosmere in the form of dalinar taking several arrows and still fighting (though some of this is the thrill). Second the human body is much stronger than anyone gives it credit for, most of the time someone's physical limit is based more on how much strain their muscles can take rather than ability to exert force with said muscles, with enough will someone can more or less override your body's attempt to stop.

well I'm guessing that a prime aether is simple an aether that has some amount of sapience, the original 12 may be strong enough to rival Adonalsium but there descendants would not.