Windrunner

Questions like those are not really what I was getting at. More along the lines of confirming the fact that Hoid was indeed referring to himself when he was talking about the man who didn't know who he was.

It's not that uncommon for someone to refer to themselves in the third person in such a context. If he no longer believe's he's the same person he once was, or if he's since "found" who he is, then it doesn't strike me as particularly notable. A good question for Brandon though.

No worries, man. Thanks for the compliment! I wanted to do well with it, considering how absolutely crucial Hoid is to the cosmere.

Brandon's heavily implied that they're spren, and I'm inclined to trust Dalinar knows what he's talking about. He's said before that spren form symbiotic relationships with creatures to allow them to grow as large as they do. I think that these are just spren, probably released from some natural fabrial at the chasmfiend's gemheart when it dies.

Heh, I was freaking out a tad when I saw this. I wrote the majority of the article, so I was kicking myself for forgetting that reference XD

Hey Solan, good to have you here! I'm a huge fan of TWoK as well, counting the days to WoR. We do have info on book four, if you want to know, but there's a tad of a spoiler involved. Hope to see you around!

Heh wow, that's pretty cool Nice catch!

I'm gradually getting used to it, Kurk

I agree with hoser, and strongly feel that Dawnshards are not a type of Blade. I think they're something we're not supposed to really understand yet, and I for one would be disappointed for them to be yet another type of magical sword. That being said, I have no evidence to back this belief up XD

They definitely knew it was there. The surgeons agreed that it was too risky to attempt to remove.

This isn't intended to be a 100% canonical image. Michael Whelan is doing his perspective on a moment in the story. And we have confirmation that the person on the opposite side of the canyon is supposed to be Eshonai.

It wouldn't surprise me if you didn't need there to be any active Aons around to seek an Elantrian. With all the glowing they do, I think there's quite a bit of investiture running through them at all times. I'm less sold on the idea that Seekers could sense items invested with Breath. It takes an Awakener of the Seventh Heightening to see that. I think if it's possible, you'd have to be a seriously powerful Seeker to do so.

I would like to announce that I, get this, used the wiki to actually look a fact up... And for Roshar too. It's looking better every day.

They were the "Piercings of the Hero".

A couple of useful (I think) quotes on these subjects.

The shadow of self is actually a reference to what's left of Leras's mind. Maybe we'll get more insight into how much of Sazed's original self remains?

This is a sort of corollary to my Shardic Constructs theory, it's been a work in process for a while (Although corollary sounds a tad pretentious...). However, it got stopped by a problem that I couldn't seem to get around for quite a while. So I'll start there and then move onto some other stuff. In the old topic, someone brought up this quote. I couldn't get around this. I believed that Cognitive aspects were created by the interaction of Spiritual and Physical aspects. But how could one exist primarily in the Cognitive Realm? I think I have a potential answer to this question now. Humans are primarily Physical, right? They exist on the Physical Realm, everything they consciously interact with and see is in the Physical Realm. So presumably the same would be true of a creature that was primarily Spiritual in nature. But what if a creature was more balanced? Nearly half of both? I think that they would "exist" primarily in the Cognitive Realm, and would live and interact there. So hopefully this is that problem solved. Now, onto what I'd planned on saying the whole time. Last time I connected Spiritual energy to sentience, how it interacts with the Physical portion of a creature gives it a mind. However, given a little thought, it's obvious that it's not quite as simple as that.After all, Radiants get filled with Spiritual energy all the time, yet their mind isn't too enhanced. Returned and Awakeners don't seem to be any more intelligent than your average person. There are minor Cognitive changes, but as a whole, it's not doing a lot. So, what gives? I think the reason for this disparity we're seeing here is that the Spiritual power needs not just a Physical conterpart, but a Physical structure to create a Cognitive aspect. To use a poor analogy, this is like the difference between dipping a chip in some dip, and baking a several layer cake. Returned, for example, are suffesed with power. But it's not built into their Spiritweb, it's just sitting on top of them. A layer of Spiritual power, like dip sits on a chip. Same goes for the Radiants. However, when this power is added to the Spiritweb, such as in Hemalurgy, it can work to create sentience. The perfect illustration comes, I think, when you look at the Divine Breaths and Seons. Divine Breath is not sentient. It's not structured at all, so it's not really conscious either. But then again, look at the Seon. The Aon itself is the Splinter, and it has a structure, a Physical form in the shape of an Aon, so it is sentient. A thought that just occured to me right now is that this structure could be responsible for the Splinters that have their own intents separate from the larger Shards. It's obvious that unstructured Splinters like the Divine Breath don't really have an intent. But a structure could posssibly constrain a Splinter's larger intent into something more specific. It would probably be worth asking if the personality of a Seon is affected by that Seon's Aon. All right, what do you guys think? Comments and disagreements are always welcome, that's how we figure out so many cool things!

That was what we thought the case was until recently, but Brandon confirmed that Forgeries would be less effective the further you are from MaiPon. So I think it's not unreasonable to believe they all get weaker the further you get from your native land.

Aye, that it is! I'll change it, and see if anyone can see what's different XD

Awesome dude, good to have you here! If you've got any questions, let me know. Are you planning on checking out any of Brandon's other works, or has Mistborn about done it for you?

I would like to announce that I totally gave Chaos that 512th rep point I didn't want to, but he was soooooo close XD

Here's a more recent one from the reddit Q&A as well.

Shiv claims to have totally called that one from the first book XD

Why do you need to be anonymous? It's not difficult to explain in an adult and respectful way why you objected to a post, so why the need for the mask? If the reason for your downvote isn't self-evident and you feel the need to explain yourself, then downvotes shouldn't really be a concern, because even if the person you downvoted doesn't like your response, others reading it will probably counteract it. I just don't see why anonymity is required to explain why you didn't like a post.

Taravangian, no question. I liked him, Jasnah respected him, he cared for his people. And then it turns out he's a mass murderer... It was like being hit by a train.