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This seems more like Chekov's "Guns - lots of guns" scene from the Matrix... Any unidentified character which could be a Herald could be a gun...

This was very interesting, thanks!

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Well, Restares is mentioned twice in the book. Glad I have an ebook version for searching... Firstly, Restares is a candidate Gavilar lists as a possible murderer, and later when Amaram is deciding Kaladin's fate, he says that Restares persuaded him of something. I don't think we really can tell much about him, other than he is important. Blood of my Fathers, Peter, you can be frustrating

I would like to announce that I have a General Relativity exam to revise for over Christmas

I like how Brandon is second guessing our questions now. The Feruchemical Atium for Marsh is a puzzle; glad to know there is a proper resolution. Thanks for the report!

You are correct, it gives +1 to a couple of dice rolls (can't remember which). I have my own thoughts on the subject. Remember that Feruchemy only works with attribute people already have. So, in the spiritual realm, all humans already have some level of luck. I posit that this luck affects how people interact with the spiritual realm. And since the three realms are interconnected (somehow), what happens in the spiritual realm affects the physical realm. What we can learn from the RPG is, in my opinion, that luck is related to an individual's intent. If an individual tapping luck flips a coin, but has no interest or investment in the result, then tapping luck does nothing. But if you are trying to gain something e.g. money from a random event, then tapping luck might help.

Depends upon how you define alien, really. You never know, ANYWAY looking forward to the second MB trilogy

But you can't change your identity, only store and retrieve it. You don't change in that process. I think that, by two Feruchemists working together, then they could share metalminds. If a Feruchemist stores her identity in an aluminiummind, and she stores other attributes simultaneously, then the stored other attributes do not have an identity attached, and so could be used by another Feruchemist. At least that was how I interpreted it.

From my signing with Brandon on tAoL tour, I asked him Q. Are there 50 Allomantic Metals? A. "Nearly. Does Harmony have a metal?" Q. Is that an alloy of Lerasium and Atium?< A. "You're along the right lines." (full questions here) This got me thinking, and so now I present the 67 Allomantic Metals!! 16 Natural metals Atium and 16 "Atiumatic" Metals (Including Malatium) Lerasium and 16 "Lerasiumatic" Metals The alloy of Atium and Lerasium, "Sazium" and 16 "Saziumatic" Metals Total: 16 natural metals + 3 god metals + 48 god metal alloys = 67 metals If this is true, then even given the metals we know, most of Allomancy (and Feruchemy and Hemalurgy) is unknown. And no, I'm not going to try and guess the powers of most of these metals. The only one I will posit is "Sazium", which turns a normal person into a full Feruchemist, and some of its alloys might turn people into Ferrings.

Actually the point of "if Hoid is an alien" is an interesting once, from a Cosmere point of view. The answer would, I am sure, involve how exact Preservation and Ruin were in creating humans (and horses, and all the other common elements). Is there a genetic difference between a person from Scadrial and a person from Nalthis? If they have been isolated for a long time, evolution would push them in slightly different directions. But I digress. I am very excited for the second MB trilogy. and when I reread tAoL I will look out for more subtle clues. Though probably won't find many...

I has hoped that the next trilogy would be as modern as possible; I would like to see a mobile phone without any (non-aluminium) metal in it. Though I suppose that having it so modern might date the book very quickly. I doubt we will see much space travel, since there probably won't be a Cold War-like pressure to develop it. But I would like to see civilisation spread significantly beyond the Elendel basin. OR perhaps there will be a space race, or equivalent pressure for something important, between Elendel and the other people. That could drive Scadrial in an interesting direction.

It only confirms that Aluminium and Duralumin steal the allomantic temporal powers and feruchemical spiritual powers, while gold steals feruchemical temporal metals. That's it I'm afraid. It also states that Atium steals Allomantic Atium and the allomantic temporal metals. I thought that we knew Atium could steal any Hemalurgic property; is this the case? Have we got a quote for that? It also calls Presevation's metal Larasium; I think this is the first time it has been mentioned in text . Do you reckon this is official spelling? It was Lerasium, right?

This doesn't particularly surprise me. This doesn't mean that the three shards are native to Roshar. It just means that, at some point in the past, there were three Shards present at once. It doesn't mean there are three native Roshar Shards. It makes sense for Odium to not be native to Roshar; otherwise why would he have left to destroy Aona and Skai, and possibly others as well? Now the Last Desolation has come, I think that Odium has returned to Roshar. I foresee two ways in which this will affect our understanding; either Voidbinding is not related to Odium, or Voidbinding can manifest throughout the Cosmere, a la Lightweaving.

I still have a question. How in Damnation is Demoux still alive? And worldhopping? I am going to say lightweaving for now, since we know that can work almost everywhere. But still. Well played Brandon, well played.

Sorry, have adjusted the first post; hopefully it is more clear now. The issue of etching is interesting, but I don't think we have seen enough of glowing plate to know if the glyphs were etched in a real-world way, or if they are etchings based on some part of the magic system. Buy couldn't they remove etching with acid or something? The extent to which Plate owners decorate their armour would suggest Plate is more malleable then we are giving it credit for being.

This involves a lot of speculation, as well as reiterating the Shardblades are corrupted idea. Here we go. I am assuming that Blade and Plate are manifestations of some Spiritual part of a Radiant, perhaps a manifestation of the Nahel bond. As such, Blade and Plate have a spiritual connection with their radiant, allowing them to be summoned and banished at will. We see evidence of this in Dalinar's vision with the Midnight Essence; he sees the helmets of the radiants appear and disappear, and gets confused. But in the present day, only Shardblades are summoned and dismissed at will. Plate cannot be, otherwise Dalinar would not have been surprised, and wouldn't have to put on his Plate is is described. Thus the difference between Blade and Plate is that a Blade can form a new spiritual connection with someone, where the Plate cannot. This might be the reason the Plate requires stormlight to function; it doesn't have a spiritual source of energy like Blades do. Anyway, the corruption of Shardblades that we talk about might be this; Shardblades are a Spiritual Manifestation, and so someone possessing one who did not originate it it akin to having a piece of someone else's Soul attached to them. This would be unnatural, and (Mistborn series spoilers) Evidence for this is that Syl doesn't dislike Plate, only Blade. So the difference between balde and plate (forming new spiritual bonds) is the reason Syl hates one not the other. I should not that I have already thought of a problem with this; if only Blades are corrupted, why did the Radiants abandon both Blade and Plate? But I digress. What do people think?

The food thing is important, I think; Jasnah is very bad at soulcasting organics. I doubt, therefore, that she is of the 5th Order, since its soulcasting properties are Wood, plants, moss. But I think Shallan is clearly of the 6th order, due to soulcasting blood and being honest (to access Shadesmar) and creative. - from tWoK Chapter 72.Jasnah here is talking about spren being linked to Radiant abilities. The above quote would indicate that Jasnah had assumed Shallan of being in the same order as her, but revises that opinion when she see's Shallan's spren. Therefore, Jasnah is in the 7th order, whose Primary/Secondary Divine Attributes are Wise/Careful. This would seem to fit Jasnah, since she is both wise and very careful at hiding her natural soulcasting talent.

I think this make a lot of sense; if it were a physical or cognitive focus, I believe that the person using the magic would have to be on some level aware of the focus. But that seems not to be the case with Kaladin and Szeth. Physical Foci Aon Dor - The Aons themselves The Metallic Arts - The Metals Cognitive Foci Awakening - Commands (since it is possible to use unspoken commands) Spiritual Foci Surgebinding - ??????

Kaktach means Kak - t-ach 08 - 09 - 03 (month week day), right? I think that is the only date we are given where it is the 9th week of a given month. Is the rule -at unless there is a hard consonant before it, ie when the month is Kak. That would make Shashatan being 06 - 09 -02, and Vevates being 04 - 09 - 01. This looks a bit better. Unless the rules are generally a lot more complicated than I had assumed...

I think, for Odium, his Champion has not yet been born. One of the epigraphs from tWoK struck me. - Chapter 57 EpigraphThis sounds like Odium's champion to me, and one of the characters will have a chance to kill him/her, but won't because at that point the child is innocent. "Life before death" etc. ANYWAY it sounds like a shard doesn't need a champion. I agree on Preservation (x2) and Ruin at the end of HoA, but I don't think we have enough evidence to say that anyone else we have seen is a Champion. If that's even a concept off of Roshar and away from the oathpact.

Thanks Peter, any hints on how to correct it? EDIT: Just found some corrections myself; previously, the sixth month was called Shah, not Shash. And I have changed all Ishi months to Ish instead. Now, this spreadsheet works with every date given in the epigraphs of tWoK.

I have put together a list of all the Vorrin contractions for the normal 500 days of the Roshar Year, out of boredom/curiosity. The link is here I thought that since I went to so much trouble creating it, I might was well share it. The pattern is (from the Coppermind) is full Month -suffix week -suffix day. So the 5th Month, 8th Week, 4th Day is Palahakev. I created this using a couple of do loops in Fortran, and as such a few names came out weird, and are noted in the document where changed. If you think my suffixes are wrong, or have any other suggestions, please get back to me on the forums. Thanks!

I think she fits creative/honest because she has to be honest in order to soulcast! That is established. Not only does she use a Garnet to do her first soulcasting, but she transforms the goblet into Blood, which is the soulcasting property associated with the Shash. I reckon that considering she doesn't know what she is doing, soulcasting would default to the soulcasting property associated with that Order of Radiants. Combine that with her creativity, and it seems to fit Shash exactly.

Maybe having these visions are due to an ability of one of the Orders of Knights Radiant. We know Dalinar is not the only one to get them. - Chapter 66 EpigraphThis seems to suggest that others are going to wherever it is that Dalinar goes to see the visions. I think this makes a good case for the at least one Radiant Order having a strong connection with the Spiritual Realm.