Gaelan

The messenger whispered. "Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty. They sat atop the world's highest cliff, overlooking the land and seeing nothing."

"Huh?" She looked to him.

"'Can beauty be taken from a man?' the first asked the second.

"'It was taken from me,' the second replied. 'For I cannot remember it.' This man was blinded in a childhood accident. 'I pray to the God Beyond each night to restore my sight, so that I may find beauty again.'

I'm sorry to bring this up, but having read MB: Secret History, I'm almost inclined to believe that this actually refers to the ending, when two people are talking atop of a hill (Sorry for not being more explicit, I don't know how to open a spoiler bar, though if you have read the scene I guess you will probably know what I'm talking about).

I mean, they do of course NOT have this dialogue (neither of them knows about the God Beyond at the time of MB:SH), but I read it and seemed somewhat familiar to what Hoid says. Any thoughts or have I just gone mad?

I just would like to point that there's WoB somewhere that states that mundane objects can have a limited amount of investiture. Maybe something related to Nightblood? I remember reading that it was closer to the cap than shardblades. 

Anyways, my point beeing that if Nightblood is relatively close to a cap, I can't see an hemalurgic spike holding Adonalsium's investiture. Not even 16. Correct me if I'm mistaken or I did misunderstand what Sanderson says, please.

One sec, I don't really know if this has ever been answered, but the thing is that when Szeth dies he doesn't awaken in the cognitive realm. Is this due to him not having cerebral death, or that death itself doesn't work the same in Roshar than in Scadrial? If no one knowss, that might acctually be a good question to ask.

Got one if you please to ask:

Did Hoid and Rayze break their friendship before or after the splintering of Adonalsium? 

Guess will be a RAFO but if you don't know of anything maybe it'll be useful to know wether Odium hates Hoid because of Odium or because of Rayze

Brandon Sanderson convinced Stick that he's not a Stick

Excuse me, but it is known that the best team would be made out of sticks. They would have like absolute self-confidence on their actions and a strong philosophy: They are sticks. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just imagine how crazy would the teamplay be 

Excuse me if I point out that I don't agree that much with the Mistborn timelines, since we can see pocket clocks (is that expression correct in english? I don't know, sorry) and some water containing mecanisms in the first trilogy.

Similarly, more than in medieval Roshar could be experiencing the Reinassance (furthermore, they are rediscovering fabrials by the time of the Stormlight Archive)

A few months? I SWEAR it took just one single day in my case, and one friend of mine had to wait the same time than me sending the mail at a different time.

By the way, we have seen a worldhopper who comes from White Sand (everyone who has read the book might know who is he), so at least we can confirm that some of the major characters still there for the official version (at least Khriss and B***).

By the way, I haven't said that yet, but when I got the hardcover version that I won here, Brandon wrote (literally): "The nightwatcher is way way old. She does not like hoid".

Don't know if it can be useful in any way, but enjoy it

Thank you, I'll use it together with the info that Brandon gave me with the emperor's soul book.

Well, I don't know if this can be done, but can someone tell me the new information (related to the nightwatcher theory only) given in the steelhunt by pm? I just want to include it (as a spoiler, but anyways) in my main post so we have a more exact theory and knowledge about what the Nightwatcher (and Cultivation) is.

Thank you.

I'm going to upvote this because the pics are awesome, but I'll point that if I'm not wrong highstorms tend to have a major water component.

Nicely worked anyways.

Vedeledev... well, the attributes don't seem to fit at all, but has someone wondered what happened with Gaz? I mean, we have all assumed he's dead (me too, and I still thinking that way), but maybe, and just maybe, he could be... well, something else. I can't see the way he has been corrupted but we don't know a single thing of his past, and he fits with the "corruption" factor you have mentioned in your theory.

I can't even agree with myself, but it's just another possibility on the air.

I don't exactely remember their names, but I've thought for a long time that the "Ghostblood" or however they are named in english are a strong possibility. When Gavilar is about going to die, he says that some high princes that here in the 17thshard we have related to the mentioned group mustn't get that stone/gem/whatever.

Oh, come on, confirm that Cultivation and Nightwatcher are related already!

 

On a side note, do we know whether there are any Slivers in the Way of Kings? I'd be curious to find out.

When I got the confirmation that the Nightwatcher couldnt go out of the Valley and was definitely not human I supposed so. I know this is not an answer for my theory but still happy to be at least in the right track.

Was Dalinar's petition to the Nightwatcher related to his sons?

Is Elhokar actually seeing Cryptics?

By what way can people see/describe unknown things when they are about going to die?

I wonder no one has asked any of those questios.

YAAAY

Thanks very much. I'm so happy of that.

He can't necessarily hear them all the time, but he has interacted with them all and knows them all personally.

When he says all, we are talking about Sazed too, aren't we?

I mean, this may sound quite stupid, but this means that Sazed has to be substantially more Cosmere aware in "Alloy of law" than when he became Harmony.

Edit: Thank you so much for asking those questions.

What about Marsh against Vasher? Would be quite balanced, Marsh with all the stuff he has against Vasher, who can awaken things and of course has nightblood.

What do you think?

Helping people and reading are both a pleasure, and together are sublime 

I will tell you my opinion if you release that content, I personally find worldbuilding interesting, anyways.

What about annoyance? Honor, Odium, Ruin, Preservation, the rest of the shards and Adonalsium's opposite force would go to defeat it.

Maybe Sazed is limited by his shard's intent. I think we had a discussion of that a week ago or so.

Remember all, by the way, that this is just pure speculation, we will have to wait until we can argue with ideas based on confirmed things. Maybe we will see something of this in WoR, but I don't think so. Four one-thousand-paged books means lots of information, but maybe we don't take anything until the second arc. Cultivation hasn't had a major paper (for what we know, again) in TWoK.

@Miyabi

 

Oh, you meant actual questions, the kind normal people ask authors...

 

...

 

I got nuthin' 

Upvoted because I am as you are

By the way, I imagine that he will RAFO my questions, but just asked what Miyabi demanded.

Large scope?

Will you expand more on the Cosmere if you get done all what you have planned?

Are you going to eventually release more content like WoK prime or the old Dragonsteel?

You can do some good stuff if you write it in the right way, but isn't Brent Weeks doing much or less a similar thing in his new saga? It is definitely not the same that what you are purposing, but kinda looks similar.

However, not a bad idea