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Raodin drove me nuts, and Serene, while shes pretty intense, was exactly the same as every other female character in the cosmere (seriously, I love BS, but I feel like all the female protagonists are pretty much the same person. Though of course, there are small differences). I'd have to go with Hrathen, just cause he's so conflicted, with Galladon the hilariously pessimistic dula as a close second.

don't be ridiculous-- more likely, they just eat the flying beans swept up by highstorms

I don't know; I feel like Teft's whole past is probably mysterious and tragic enough, without the random addition that he's secretly a divine force, caught in the middle of an eternal struggle of self inflicted torture and repeated amnesia. not to mention he knows almost nothing of magic, and he remembers his family (that last bit I'm not so sure on, but I think I remember him saying something about it...). I'd throw in a few kittens, but they all died in the fall.

shard of redundancy. you can only do things you already have the power to do

Basically any time someone discovers they have amazing superpowers, they'll whine about it for about a million years. Every girl who's even slightly relevant to the story is fabulously attractive. Jasnah will marry an old geezer like Thom. Every magic ritual involving women includes stripping. Magic is sexist.

I am bitter, by the way. But that's not the point. Dalinar is probably going to survive until book five; i'm pretty sure Brandon has officially stated that book will focus on him, though i'm way too lazy to double check. I would not be surprised if Shallan and Kaladin ended up a couple, or he and Adolin competed for her affection at the very least. The way I understand it, Kaladin was promoted to the fourth dahn at the end of book one (i understand there are some technical differences,but that's essentially what happened, no?) compared to that, a relationship with a lighteyes of middling importance doesn't amount to much. Plus, they're just so compatible- highly intelligent surgebinders-in-training with a tendency to get themselves in trouble.

Surprise! everyone is royalty.

obviously some spren have the capacity to manipulate the world around them- honorspren and Chasmfiend spren are just a couple of examples. from there, is it too much of a stretch to say that at least some of them exacerbate the phenomena they're associated with?

In both cases, Leras still held the shard. Vin and TLR just borrowed its power, not held it entire.

I could be wrong, but I remember reading that shards can be reformed. So while Odium might not be completely invested in the affairs of a worlds people, to say he has no interest would probably be unfeasible; he would most likely take steps to ensure something like that never happened.

I wish. I've wanted to see a start to finish list ever since I first read alcatraz. If you find one, post the link, kay?

Kaladin jumping the chasm, Dalinar giving up his blade, the HoA scene where Elend gets his head chopped off & the subsequent final battle. Oh, and pretty much anything with Hoid in it. Non-Sanderson? I don't know for sure, but Dumai's wells definitely comes close.

how does that explain why sixteen can be divided into three whole integers? please clarify.

Additionally, If the Parshmen were rational when not under Odium's control, then people were told that Odium had been defeated, they would probably assume that Parshmen were now harmless. They'd still be bitter and racist, though, so they enslave the people who had victimized them for so long.

Just a short while before TWoK took place, even the idea of creating a fabrial that could block a shardblade was deemed impossible. the quote should read "they can only take the shape of a shield, for now."

If we define cognitive as "having intent," all of the shards would fit into the cognitive category as well.

I think this is the right idea. Honor didn't say "i'm probably dead," or "as i make this record, Odium is about to shoot me in the face with a bazooka." he says "I am dead. Odium has killed me." He seems fairly certain, and, as dead people don't write messages, that means the journal was designed to play after his death.

statements like "things do not brake evenly" kind of go out the window when you're talking about near-omnipotent forces being shattered into incredibly powerful components, each one of which represents an ideological intent.

I think its more likely that there are four categories of the shards, assuming there are categories at all (which i think is likely, considering how much Brandon likes to subdivide). Adonalsium is believed to be balanced, with none of its components having been originally more powerful than the others. dividing the sixteen pieces of Adonalsium into three compartments would leave the universe fundamentally unbalanced, with either the physical, mental, or spiritual facets containing one more shard than the other two. In Mistborn, there are four categories of allomantic metals- physical, mental, temporal, and enhancement. I believe the shards of Adonalsium may reflect this pattern- sixteen shards divided into subsets of four, which are divided into four shards apiece. Not to say that a three-group system is completely unfeasable. However, if it were to occur, I think it would follow closer to the pattern of the three metallic arts; five positive shards, five negative shards, and six neutral shards. Positive being Shards like Honor, Endowment, and Preservation; Negative being shards with greater potential for misuse, such as Odium and Ruin. Neutral shards could really go either way- things like Devotion, seeing as a person can be devoted to good things, like charity work, or bad things, like torturing puppies. Thoughts?

I had absolutely no idea there were people out there who love Brandon's work as much as i do. kinda stupid i know, but somehow ive been spending my time picking apart his books piece by piece, and never even realized there were so much easier ways to find out about Hoid. Like the internet As you can probably guess, my names not really Nightwatcher, though i love the concept. Josh was already taken as a username, though. Looking forward to cosmic discussions!