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AWESOME. Also, I would like to announce that I hate being sunburned. With a passion. Stupid UV rays.

that led to

That didn't stop Ruin from trying to, well, ruin everything. Plus, the Almighty legitmately fears that Odium (or, to be fair, whoever else "the enemy" might refer to) will destroy everything. If even one of the Shardholders well and truly fears it, to the point that he's going to all this effort to stop it from happening, that has to account for something. Also, hatred can be blind. Perhaps Odium is simply acting on his nature, and can't stop and think what consequences killing everyone and destroying everything would have for him.

Which is what made me think of it in the first place. Then the rest of it came together, and I wrote my tweet.

I didn't mean to imply that only specific people can access Shadesmar (though that is a valid thought), but rather that manipulating it as effectively as Hoid can seems like it would be incredibly difficult. If anything, the one explicit reference we have to Shadesmar - the scene with Shallan and Jasnah - has connected Shadesmar with the use of magic: Shallan's bond with the symbolheads. Now, we can either assume that a planet's magic is a way to access Shadesmar, or it's the way. I'm more inclined to think it's the former, if only because the latter would then exclude magic users on Scadrial. Unless some sort of Shadesmarium exists, that is.

If we're looking at the Seons, Devotion definitely seems to make sense for Aona's Shard. Seons are very devoted to their "masters" - remember what Raoden recalled of the exchange he had with Ien as a boy? And if we look at the pool, well, you'd have to be pretty devoted to let someone you care about find peace there, even if it means killing them. As for the Elantrians themselves, well, they were pretty darn devoted to their city. They sort of had to be, but still.

Hmmm. It's something to think about, for sure. After all, no one's saying that they have to be of only one of the Shards (though if they were, I would be more inclined to think of normal spren as being of Cultivation, which might be another explanation for why honorspren are so different).

Very much so!

I think Shadesmar seems to mirror the Physical Realm, at least from what we've seen so far. Perhaps manipulating Shadesmar to mirror one of the worlds is how you can get from one planet to another? I don't think changing Shadesmar will change the Physical Realm, but rather where you come out when you leave it. If this is true, it is, of course, very difficult to do, otherwise it wouldn't be such a feat for Hoid to be able to do it so well.

the door. Except the ones EDIT: Must have posted at the same time or missed a page or something, so I edited to make it make sense.

It's likely - just like how Shardplate only glowed for the Knights Radiant - but we need more information, I think.

the closed door. We are shameless. XD

that were shut. There, ended the sentence.

rather the Dor Are we Mojo Jojo now?

It might, or it might be Roshar's version of a world crisis. It's sort of hard to tell at this point.

I'm mostly thinking that if Shardblades were of Odium, then honorspren would have always disliked them, and that might have influenced the nahel bond somehow. Perhaps they're of Honor, but something happened to corrupt them.

because it was

I was talking more about when you're purposely trying to show something to someone. If someone is being a creeper and spying over my shoulder, I move. XD

simply would not

too much. But

We've seen references to "The True Desolation." That's a pretty good term for the "something even worse" option, if you ask me.

Technically, it's already fully functional. We're just improving on the base functionality by streamlining the design and adding new features.

-ned rutabagas that That was the old story. We're starting over, remember?

He does. That's probably one of the reasons zas is referencing the exchange here, of all places.

Very likely. I'm just wondering how that affects their bond with Honorspren, and what changed to make them give up Blade and Plate. And what about the Blades the Heralds have in the prologue? If any swords on Roshar are Splinters, I'd be more willing to say it's those: There's even an interesting parallel here between Deific Breath and normal Breath. I wonder why I didn't see this before...