Acolyte of Radiance

A line in wit and truth supports this, ( something something the homuncules says says)additionally, there is Is the “I began as words on a page” line, maybe referencing how in fantasy homuncules are typically man made. Maybe he started out as some sort of yolish semi human. Also explains the name hoid, he stole it from his master who awakened him . This is probably false, though I’d like to hear thoughts

This post has been made, but it’s possible it is 19 in my opionon

Swap devotion and whimsy

Adin becomes a squire and is oradens substitute brother/friend/mentor and this will be a ploy point in sa6

They were interrupted by odium 

Dalinar could maybe have beat odium, but it would have resulted in losing everyone he loves. Vin was distraught over elend , but people she cared about still lived and she killed ruin. This contradicts wind and truth.

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Why is it seemingly different than the cognitive realm on Roshar? Mists vs Beads

Odium makes people make decisions with hate and powerful emotions, while reason the mind and making decisions logically. Il

Nostalgia

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6 minutes ago, Treamayne said:

There are many WoBs on the book that may be titled Silence Divine, but this is probably the WoB you mean:

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Over my life reading science fiction and fantasy, I've noticed the trend of books becoming larger and series becoming longer. As both an author and reader, what do you prefer? What do you think of this trend of large epic fantasy series versus things that are complete in one volume. And also, can we expect anything similar from you, like Elantris?

Brandon Sanderson

Good question. I (like I think most fantasy fans) have both a love/hate relationship with the big series. You don't grow up reading Wheel of Time without wanting to do your own big series, which is where Stormlight Archive came form. At the same time, big series have certain issues to deal with, such as the big plot sprawl. Which we love, but I think we all admit is kind of an issue related to that. Just like if you're gonna take up running marathons, you're going to do certain things to your legs and knees, there are certain costs to having the big epic fantasy. And so, I really do also love the self-contained works. One of my favorite novels of all time is Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Brilliant single-volume epic fantasy; he does in a book things that other authors aren't capable of doing in fifteen books. And I really think that there's... single-volume epic fantasy is our version of short story for overly verbose fantasy writers. I really like doing those.

I do have a few more I want to do. The main one that I want to write as a standalone is called The Silence Divine. I don't know if I'll keep that title, but it's about a world where the magic is based on bacteria and viruses. So they have evolved to try to keep their hosts alive while they're inhabiting them. So what they do is, though they make you sick, they also give you a magical power while you have the disease. So, if you catch the common cold, you can fly. And then you get over it, and you can't anymore. And the story's about a kind of SWAT-team-type city guard, and all the things they set in place. Like, they keep people in quarantine so they can catch a disease if they need it. And they try to keep their immune systems really weak, so they can immediately catch these things when they need them, and a day later be able to use the powers. And it's about someone who invents penicillin. An ecoterrorist who will invent penicillin. It's an epic fantasy single-volume, I think it will be really cool.

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Is there a reason why there isn’t one? It’s weird, espacally with the addition of unoathed.

Didn’t micro kinesics get named dropped by honor?

Ketek at then end of the book proves the nonsymetry

He can’t go two seconds without teaching a new student, they had to lock him in a dark room to stop him from teaching. He needs therapy.

Is retributions 19? 1? 11?

Which WoB was it that said a disease based magic was on Ashyn? I remember a dissertation power system mentioned Im a WoB somewhere.

Dragon steel prime isn’t totally canon

I believe two sides would form on threnody and that the smaller side will leave to canticle, and the other side becomes the midnight brigade and joins sazed but then either betrays or helps them beat retribution and then leaves.

With the reveal of adolnasium spren, is this still a possibility? ( theory was saying unmade were spren or avatars from other worlds.midnight mother was an Aether, spren like  sja-anat was an avatar of endowment.)

Is the kandra his assistant? Colleague?

14 hours ago, NewGuy 16 said:

Oooh, some cool theories here! With regards to the potential of a 4th shard, Taravodium ponders the other shards in I-4: The Wrong Lesson: “He instead was most curious about the fact that two of the Shards appeared to be missing, completely vanished from interacting with the others. Hidden. One he understood with some effort. But Valor—where had Valor gone, and how did she hide from even his eyes?”. We also have some discussion of the other shards from Tanavast/Honor's perspective—for instance, chapter 115: Binding gives us: “WE COULD SENSE EACH OTHER. ALL EXCEPT A FEW—LIKE EURIDRIUS, HOLDER OF REASON—WHO HAD VANISHED. OR LIKE AMBITION, WHO HAD BEEN DESTROYED”, as well as “I MADE ONE FINAL ATTEMPT AT LOCATING VALOR, THE GREAT DRAGON GOD MEDELANTORIUS—AS SHE WAS A WARRIOR WHO WOULD SURELY JOIN ME. MEDELANTORIUS WAS NOT TO BE FOUND, UNFORTUNATELY”. Granted, these chapters are 7000 years apart, so things might have changed, but it seems the suggestion is that Reason might be the shard that took Taravodium some effort to understand? 

I stubbornly believe valor is in the meditiate realm with her being a dragon and through the fact only endowment can talk to her. That’s why tanavast a human can’t reach her.

Hoid can communicate with valor for the sole reason he has the meditiative realm dragon bone

She is a dragon, could she put all her investiture in the meditative realm, and that’s how endowment can talk to her. For endowment is a dragon too, and it explains why non dragons can’t reach her and hoid can.