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    Odium having control of Parshendi doesn't preclude them having been created as caretakers. I surmise that Odium's modus operandi is to use the tools of others against them. What better way to destroy Cultivation than with her own creations. Jasnah doesn't disagree with me, she's just not looking far back enough. As for Honor and Cultivation being buddy buddy or not: we have zero information either way. I see the Oathpact as between Cultivation and Honor...because they weren't buddy buddy. Pure speculation. And I'm not wrong yet.
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    Definitely related to Worldsingers or something.like them. In any case, I'm pretty sure Brandon just wants you to imagine a flute that a man on a trail many years ago would use. I'm sure he knows exactly what his Trailman's flute is supposed to be and also knows that we don't.
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    What we know of the Heralds comes from the PoV of people that were born 4000 years after he Heralds disappeared. I'm pretty sure Jezrien was master of the Highstorms because his magic made use of and protected him from them. Fine, she didn't name them Parshendi. Jasnah doesn't believe that Honor, Cultivation or Odium exist. And "damnation fool" and "fool" reflect how Cultivation thinks about the Shards she has to share her world with, not my personal view.
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    A group of cowboys always has a storyteller or two.
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    What's the context?
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    Cultivation comes to Roshar. Sees it is rocky and plagued by huge storms. Life consists of small shelled animals and plants that can hide. She creates caretakers and calls them Parshendi. She infuses some of the animals with her power to allow them to grow larger. She controls the storms so that they only come periodically rather than constantly. Thousands of years later, her caretakers have been usurped, her great shells are being hunted by the children of that damnation fool Honor, and she's forced to hide from the other fool that killed him. Possible?
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    I say creating Lifeless, changing gloriously colored cloth to grey in the process, with the command "Sew underwear" with the purpose of making grey underwear so that the sewing Lifeless wouldn't all be naked would be the most useless use of useful power.
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    I'm most fascinated by Vasher. I really liked Kelsier. But I have to say that Hoid is my favorite.
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    Maybe it was as simple as Odium facilitating the creation of Seon and Skaze around the time he killed Aona and Skai. Permanent entities taking up huge amounts of the newly free Shardic energy. Enough of the free energy that the remaining energy lost cohesion, resulting in a fully splintered Shard. Assuming he did something similar to Honor, what on Roshar could be the permanent entities that are the physical ties to Honor's Splinters?
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    Why have so many attached "Void" things to Odium? Was this a WoB I missed somewhere?
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    The Vin and Ati I fight didn't result in Splintering. I'm 99% sure direct confrontation isn't a large part of the process. Maybe the final act of killing the Shardholder, but then you have a Shard ready for anyone to pick up. And Odium doesn't pick up the Shard. I presume that he kills and Splinters with the culmination of several machinations. I believe the quote from Elantris you gave is Brandon telling us of Odiums visit. My theory: find people.the target Shard is invested in; engender hate of the intent of that Shard in those followers; through this hate, redirect the Investiture as a feedback loop through yourself then back to the target; finally, direct your own energy into this loop, destroying the Shard...picture Neo flying into Agent Smith at the end of Matrix 1.
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    If acting honorably gives Kaladin abilities...can't we assume that the Thrill is a similar ability attained from acting a certain way? If we can assume that Kaladin's abilities derive from Honor, can we also assume that the Thrill is derived from Odium? Feeling awesome and powerful is a nice incentive to hand out for fostering hatred.
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    Luck would have a Cognitive aspect. If you want a 1 to come up, it will. Visualize the outcome you want, fire up your metal mind, and the outcome will be affected by your visualization.
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    We have WoB that Hoid uses Feruchemy. There are three ways to get access to that magic system: genetics, Shardic influence (gift from God,as it were) and Hemalurgy; and only one of those would be available to Hoid. ; Terrismen were the genetic carriers of Feruchemy. Hoid was leading a group of them to safety. At the time, Kelsier was a postmortem Cognitive entity, possibly holding most of the Shard of Preservation. Now imagine what Hoid would have had to do to figure out where to put what spikes to give himself Feruchemical abilities and you can understand why Kelsier would have murderous feelings toward Hoid.
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    Sash

    Leuthie replied to Stormsong's topic in Cosmere Discussion

    With Ati, you're comparing a name and a word. When fully formed words and ideas are in play, similarities like that can be discarded since we're dealing with a non linguist author creating language systems that all.must be readable by an English speaking audience. Shash as a letter in two unrelated languages is much more difficult to dismiss as coincidence. Their placement in the two stories jumps out as being intentional as well.
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    Or a Breath Savant...hence Vashers interesting abilities in warbreaker?
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    Sash

    Leuthie replied to Stormsong's topic in Cosmere Discussion

    Possible evidence of Shard created humans? Shared language implies shared origin. All Shareholders came from Yolen. If a Shard creates humans, that Shard would seed their language with the Shardholder's own language. If a Shard goes to an already populated planet with previously developed language, such a seeding would be more difficult.
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    Divine Breaths seem mostly Cognitive to me. At least, when Endowed they bestow primarily Cognitive additions and abilities.
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    Nightblood's sentience isn't due to Investiture. Everything we know about Breath is Cognitive in nature. It gives one extra senses, makes one appear different to others, give the ability for non-cognitive entities (like.dead bodies) cogitive abilities and improves the cognitive abilities.of others. The granting of Breath may be an Investiture (the tying of a particular Breath to a particular entity would be Spiritual), but Breath itself seems to be primarily Cognitive. As such, Nightblood's sentience is granted by increased Cognitive presence of Breath. Twisted black Breath, but still Breath. BTW, Spren are entities that exist primarily in the Cognitive realm with only shadows in the Physical. They have no little physical presence, so their sentience can't be expressed in the Physical realm, but who do you think Shallan was talking to in Shadesmar? The goblet seemed pretty sentient in the Cognitive realm to me.
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    Aons work for those who can use them everywhere. They work stronger near Elantris because Elantris is a focus/ amplifier for AonDor. Regionality applies to WHO can use a magic, not where it can be used. At least, that's how I understand it all.
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    That hide their Divine Breaths by believing themselves to be less than they are: Vasher a hobo, Denth a common mercenary.
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    When trying to.convince a lot of.people to.do something, you start wherever you can. Why put off a treaty with the Parshendi just because you don't have ones with others?
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    Seeing as Brandon didn't even know what the pool was when he wrote Elantris (from the annotations its simply a McGuffin that gets Raoden up to the top of the mountain to solve the problem with Aon Rao), there's not much to speculate with.
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    Arbitrary amount of time set by Honor upon Shardblade creation meant to keep shardbearers from using their shardblades without thought. Ten heartbeats is enough time to think about what you're about to do with the blade.
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    Brandon made the "people might not survive till their book" because he made a mistake in telling people who was getting a book and when. He needs to make sure there is still tension when a possible death scene comes up. Stating out loud that people can still die before their book keeps that tension. It doesn't mean he's planning to kill anyone before their book. Dalinar's arc is just beginning. His climax in book 1 wasn't an ending; it was a beginning. What he's planning is going to take a long time. Its possible his plans can be transferred to another (Renarin?), but I don't see Brandon doing that. Szeth will attack and none of the main characters will die. Kaladin wins and the fight leads Szeth to a change of focus for his sense of honor. Just me speculating...
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