Asha'man Logain

I took Syl's statement to mean each subset of spren were basically like the same person. You know, all deathspren are attracted to death and act in the same way given the same stimulus. The same way all deer act the same, but deer do not act the same as snakes, both animals but different KINDS of animals. Unless they start to form the bond, in which case they seem to gain sentience from the human, while the human seems to gain some of the spren's powers, both feeding off each other and growing the aspects they didn't have before as the bond grows stronger.

Yeah, I've decided that if i could have anyone's superpowers it'd be Magneto. He's my second favorite after wolverine

Thank you, I like the symetry to that particular situation, and this is a world where symetry is very important.

No. Magneto can manipulate the entire elctromagnetic spectrum. His sheild, for instance is a form of energy not just a magnetic field. Fot instance it can stop cyclops' optic blast among the other energy weapons the humans used. Plus if nothing else magneto could manipulate the steel and iron inside Kel, and Kel cannot heal himself.

I think that Renarin was sick and dying, Dalinar asked for his son to live, his boon was a living if not healthy son, and the curse was losing his wife's memory. It kinda balances out that way. A chance for having his son in his life, who he loves, but loses his wife who he also loved.

Could it be this is where Odium is buried? (or held in check or whatever his end of the Oathpact was) The mention of symetry got me thinking about how the Ardent could reproduce most of the sacred cities via sound waves, what if this place is Odium's version of that. OR I just thought of this one, maybe this is what Odium did that broke the universal use of magic. You know the teleporting to the KR capital and stuff. If the placement of the symetrical cities was important to the universal access to magic, it would follow that making the world (or at least continent) wide map unbalanced would, well, throw everything off balance. In (vague) support of this, symetry is holy to the Vorinists, maybe it's more important than they remember. EDIT: because i don't know the difference between "throw" and "through"

Yes, that's true it could quite possibly be that. Also with the new Q&A we got, it seems to me implied that Odium did cause the quake, but somehow was there last before there were Seons. So maybe he put some sort of time-bomb like device after shattering Aona? I find it suspicious that he'd blatantly state that the last time Odium was on Sel there were no Seons, but not confirm he didn't cause the earthquake. I still think the Shards on Sel made the Selians, as seems to be typical on the other worlds.

Well first of all he never explicitly stated he did in fact create humanity. However, i'm going to have to assume it's like the ruin/preservation dichotomy. Can the humans we see on Roshar truly be made solely by Honor? They are acting very contrary to his intent at this time. They must at least have some other part of another shard inside them in order to have any kind of free will, let alone the blatant disregard the Alethi have for honor.

Wouldn't that only happen after it's written down? Of course thinking of it this way brings a new dimension to what Shapeshifty Guy (cannot recall his name at the moment) is doing. Isn't he going around catalouging all the spren he can find? and 'writing' down his findings on his tattoos? If this is so, he could be singlehandedly binding the spren around the world... interesting.

A problem I see with this though, is the dead Greatshell spren. It seems that there are spren that form only immeadiately after a greatshell's death. These would seem to be unconnected to anyone, the only possible connection it would have would be to the greatshell, which is dead by this time. Everything else seems to have a spren attracted to it that works on a live being. Even deathspren show up at the cusp of death not after it. Or that attracts the spren to an event currently happening, flamespren to fire etc. I seriously doubt the flame spren hang around after you put the fire out, and certainly don't only appear after it's out. I guess these could be 'special' or important spren to the way the world works as we are given a tantilizing glimpse, then they're never mentioned again.

Didn't brandon confirm that returned are Slivers? I thought i'd read that repeatedly here. Having a portion of endowment's power has to be very different than merely using the magic system generated by the Shard's presence. My question would be, given you can give a Uberlifeless the fifth heightening, would it be able to use it's seperate breaths? We know returned cannot give away their deistic breath, without performing their one-off miracle, but can use any additional breaths that they've not consumed yet. Also, I do not think that the Uberlifeless would need to consume a breath as it is not a piece of endowment, and thus wouldn't need to replenish.

Yes, but that doesn't speak to how rare it is. In fact if the taxes on it are so high that he turns to illegal smuggling to keep more profit, does that not suggest that aluminum in particular is expensive?

It may be necessarry just for him as well. He is Koloss blooded, perhaps that mnakes him more vulnerable than normal humans to emotional allomancy. As for inkthinker, it is my understanding that before we discovered electrolosis aluminum was VERY rare and hard to come by. I seriously doubt such a rare material would be wasted for anything not specifically intended to be immune to allomancy. But as they have electricity someone may have discovered how to get aluminum easily.

Didn't they also say in one of the earlier books that people used to call him 'Ironeyes' because of the color, but grew uncomfortable with it because it could also mean Inquisitors? (foreshadowing I thought)

I hesitate to give any import to the pool in Elantris. Going by the annotations that seem to be written at the same time as the text, Brandon does not seem to know himself exactly what the pool was. It certainly does not sound like it has any cosmere wide effects. However, he could have reinterpreted it that way after the Well in Mistborn. I just don't think initially the pool was that important. EDIT: Cause it's the end of a long shift and I can't spell.

No. Where can i get a copy of this or any other non-published works? or pretty much anything Brandon has written?

I think perhaps the Humans are more of Odium than the parshendi. What's the most extreme outlet of hate? Killing. And the most extreme method of killing? War. Yes, ostensibly the Parshendi started it, but we have an entire race (that we've seen) acting in accordance with Honor, yet the few Humans who act with Honor are so out of place terrible things happen to them in their society. Maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Usually the main characters, or most of the viewpoint characters are on the side of good (culturally). Maybe this time it's been switched?

Nightblood was created to destroy evil. That was his Command, his entire purpose of being. Whether they knew it or not when they made him, they probably thought he'd have to know what was in someone's head to know if they were evil or not. This was likely (either consciuosly or unconsciously) in their heads while they gave the Command. I think that is why Nightblood can read minds. Chaos, in the annotations of Mistborn 3, Brandon does directly say that right after Spook removes his accidental spike, that Kelsier does in fact speak to Spook. I cannot recall right now what the exact circumstances were, if Kelsier read his mind or not, but Kel did speak into his mind.

True, true. For some reason I think that the 'Old Magic' was someone using one of the three (Soul Surge or Void) possibly in an unexpected way. The "she" they talk about is apparently immortal. This would have given Her enough time to come up with new an interesting applications.... Or i could be reading too many Sanderson novels, heh. Either way, if spren are the focus on Roshar, then each different order would have to bind a different spren, correct? Are there only 30 spren that can form the Nahel Bond? As Silus said we only have one book, 10% of what we need. I suppose anything is possible.

I don't think surgebinding and Soulcasting are the same, nor one the subset of the other. IIRC, Brandon said something about 'depending on how you look at it there could be around 30 different magic systems'. I think this means that soulcasting, surgebinding and the third (voidbinding?) are different types of magic each with 10 subsets. This doesn't mean that spren can't be the focus as both systems do use spren, but that would mean that different orders of surgebinders would have to bond different types of spren, according to your theory, yes?

I didn't even think about the returned being obviously resurrected..... And Lightsong was a main character, who died and was brought back, and this was built so well into the magic system i didn't even think of it like that. Poops, foiled again!

ME! For any role, i'll even cross dress and look 10 years younger to be Vin

I've thought this too as the Rosharan Shadesmar exactly imitates Roshar. Maybe thats how you travel worlds? Go to the Cognitive realm, think it to the world you're aiming for's shape, then leave. Although now that i say it it seems a bit Tel'Aron'Riod-ish. Also Brandon says in the mistborn 3 annotations that Kelsier did move on to the afterlife that exsists in the cosmology, but piggybacked a bit of his mind into the void left by Preservation's death, until Vin takes it up, and shoves him out.

I've seen reactions from this that range from, that they'd fight to the death and Kal would win, to thinking that Szeth would lose the fight, then change sides abandon being Truthless. I think based on some info i just ran across I may have figured it out. They're both right! I think Szeth will lose, die, come back, no longer Truthless and get with the Good Guys. The ONLY reason I think that this is even possible let alone likely is a quote from Brandon in his HoA annotations: Well, start picking it apart guys. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

I have to say at first i disliked this theory, then as the post started piling up it became more and more likely to me. I'm not ready to espouse it, i think something is a bit off somewhere, but all in all I lean heavily towards this. Good job!