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Absolutely awesome. Thank you.

I have always found ironic that the Lerasium's alomantic function is to rewrite your sDNA. By the way, Leras died. I'm pretty sure that when he stabbed Elend he was trying to convinve Vin of taking the power of the well for herself. I guess there's no future plan from or for him.

The best scene I have ever read is at the final of "The last arguments of kings", when Jezal is in his throne crowned as king, and Bayaz comes and confirms what we have seen along the books, humiliating the king and making a puppet of him. That scene was so perfect. I really think that Abercrombie did an extremelly good job with the First Law, the end is Sublime. (With Bayaz, happens more or less what Shardlet said about Dalinar. We see some hints of what he really is, even everyone tells about not trusting a mage, because they only want their own benefit. But I have to admit that he seemed a nice guy at the beggining).

Be welcome to the site! I am a huge fan of the Cosmere and I love the Stormligh archive too. Hope you have a good time there, see you around!

Having on count my theory... Is the Nightwatcher able to move its physical aspect?

I really wasn't basing on Dalinar. I was more thinking in the way that all the shards we know tend to have their own plans, and to accomplish them by interfering in the world they are bonded to (all but Odium, of course). We have seen Ruin and Preservation fighting in some kind of strategy duel while the first Mistborn trilogy, we have seen much or less the same between Odium and Honor. Of course we haven't any confirmation, but I wouldn't be as surprised at all if Cultivation has it's own great plan (even beeing one of surviving Odium). It isn't neither the first time that a shard uses its shardpool to change the people (Aona's, Slaughters') or to gain power upon others (Ruin).

Have we confirmation about that Kal vs. Szeth fight? Seems much likely to happen, but I think that at the moment we don't. I think that the only thing MW wants with the cover is to reflect what is the book about. Neither flashbacks nor a single 1v1 fight seems as important, having on count the tons of content.

Excuse me for my poor exposition windrunner. I wanted to mean that, once on the Valley and without the confirmation of the Nightwatcher beeing a shardpool, we don't know if it is able to move through it or it stands in a concret place. As you said, the Valley is a concret place but not everyone finds her. We can guess so much things about if people knows or doesn't where it is, but the truth is that outside the book we don't. I personally thing that there's something odd around it in case that it doesn't move, if not everyone would be hipothetically able to find it. Tried to explain myself better here. Hope you understand now Gloom, for what I know, there's no need of people beeing broken to find her. Anyways, I agree with the possibility of Cultivation cursing and blessing in specific ways to fit with it's plans. If I'm not wrong, that shard isn't bad seeing the future. Edit: Will change that point to do it more understandable

For what we know, Old Magic hasn't been practised with groups, and as you say directly intervention from Shards isn't as strange at all (Endowment is a clear example). I haven't anything to say about the Curse, as you name it. Maybe it's a shardic restriction, or maybe it's part of the Cultivation's shard ideal. No one said it was a possitive-end shard, so that would fit. It remembers so much to the Silence Divine's magic system. Maybe it works in the same way. Hum... does someone have any information? BS magic systems have always have a benefit and a downside, I don't know if, some shards work in the same way.

Well, hello everyone and welcome to my post. I have been thinking for a while about what we know of one of the Roshar's magic systems known as "the old magic". For now, and basing on my faulty memory, what I remember so far is that: -The Nightwatcher uses the old magic to bless and curse at the same time those people who go to ask for something. -It is far on the east respect from Alezkar. -It's in the Valley, which is a concret place, but once in, we don't know if it moves through the territory, or it stands in a concret place. -When using the old magic, it puts something in you via rewriting your spiritweb or changing some physical/cognitive aspect of you. -It's said that the Nightwatcher is a spren. Well, I guess not much humas on Roshar could find a difference between a shardpool and a spren, but what is almost sure is that it isn't human nor voidish. Obviously, we haven't enough information to confirm anything, even including what BS said at the Spokane convention (thanks to those who were there and asked the questions), where he said that the Nightwatcher, the old magic and a shard are all related; but anyways, what has been in my head for a while felt in the right way due to this answer. So, my thoery is that: The Nightwatcher is cultivation's shardpool, or at least is strongely bonded to the shard. The old magic isn't a mystery magic system, it's only the shardholder of Cultivation acting as it's shard demands. It "cultivates" something inside of you, but as every MS has to have a limitation, the cultivation is a double side edge, cursing you at the same time of the blessing. How the curses work respect the blessings and the individual who asks for them, I don't know. It's also unknown why not everyone is able to find it, and I haven't anything consistent about it. Maybe I'm so much wrong or I have missed something important, but this is my theory. Some thoughts about it? P.S: If someone has had the same idea and posted it, I looked for it in the searcher and I didn't find anything. P.S2: Again, sorry for my deficient english.

Welcome to the forums! Hope you have fun, Josh.

Something importan here Something important here too, it's clearly said in TWoK (from a Dalinar's PoV) that the Stormwardens use gliphs in their books, which no one has done before and Dalinar thinks it's something quite disturbing. But if I'm not wrong, the ardents have already the social acceptacion for reading and writing, so in case that my memory isn't failing, writing in glyphs wouldn't be necessary for them.

I think that Brandon said that at the time of TWoK, the Selish people were the most advanced ones refering to Cosmere awareness, but that they found hard to worldhopp to other worlds because of the inestability of Shadesmar, which by the way means that the inestability seems permanent or, at least, for a long duration. I was also wandering... Has someone thought about how do Selish people travel to Shadesmar? I have right now a ridicolous theory for the Elantrians: If they are creating a connection between Shadesmar and the physical Sel when they use the Aon Dor, wouldn't be as easy as drawing a portal and going through it? It's said that surviving in Shadesmar it's the difficult part, not going to it (for what i know).

Well, hi everyone. I'm from Catalonia, Spain, and this is the first english forum I have never been at. While I have a decent english level, I'm still doing some big mistakes (and I'm not native, so I won't get some of the expressions you constantly use), but I think that joining this fansite after being around for a year worths it. Nowadays I have read all the Brandon's published works, and I even got White Sand and Aether of Night by mailing him, beeing TWoK my favourite book so far. While the translation complicates some aspects of the understanding of the cosmere, I got there when I read THoA and TWoK and I saw "something" in both books (you know) that took my curiosity up so I surfed the internet looking for information and here I am. That said, I hope to be fine there, and to debate the theories of this site with other users. Cya!