Aether

I'm a big fan of Homestuck. So kudos and up-vote for you, Miss Feather!

Thanks. I think I'll ask where Sphere's comes from (id est who or what makes them) and what stop people from mass producing them and collapsing the monetary system. That always bugged me. Might have to make the question a bit more compact, though...

[Out of game] Thanks to both of you. It doesn't seem so crazy now, and the punny side of it seems much more amusing with this explanation. Also, no one wanted to buy my Dragonsteel product? I feel sad now...[/out of game]

In the Brandon store, we get to chose between "signature only" and "signed and personalized". What does the latter entail? I've seen some of you flaunt around books with small titbits of information they asked for. Is this it? Or is it just that I can get him to sign it to my own name?

You seem to again operate under a false premise: the splintering of Honour wouldn't necessarily just produce uniformly sized splinters. From what I understand, when Tanavast's Shard was destroyed, it was thoroughly smashed to pieces (presumably) to prevent anyone from picking it up again within the foreseeable future. I can't find the quote right now, but IIRC, WoB state that there are a lot more spren around now than before the splintering, so it seems that most of the variants we see now (Flamespren, Windspren, Luckspren, Passionspren, etc.) are a result of this. There might be more Honourspren around now then pre-splintering, of course, but I'd wager most of the pieces of his power are reduced to the small pockets of Investiture without much power or sentients that most spren seem to be. Also, even if the splintering ended up creating more literal Splinters, they most likely aren't just "Honourspren" per se, but different types of "honourable Spren". We might very well end up with more members of particular KR Orders than others, but probably not just Windrunners.

[Out of game] (Aether, yes. I can't for the life of me remember your name-tag) I did not know this. I cannot believe there are verbs for this in English! We have adjectives for describing the phases of the moon in Norwegian, sure, but who in their right mind would actually make verbs for it??? [/out of game] It quickly became a bit cluttered, so I'll just kick-start the game again: Buy. There will be Dragonriders of some sort in Dragonsteel, and it will be awesome.

[Out of game] I have no idea how I ended up with four FeatherWriter quotes here.... *Testing, testing* A Shallarin romance would be nice. As long as Renarin gets to blow stuff up! It isn't confirmed, I believe, but Could someone please explain to me how it is punny? I get that "Wax" might have some funny implications, but how does it relate to "Wayne"? (On a side note, before actually reading tAoL, I always assumed Wayne was female. Listening to a Brandon reading of Chapter 1 of tSoS got rather confusing). Didn't [/out of game] EDIT: My scientific experiment seems to have worked. FeatherWriter (presumably) did up-vote my post!

I wouldn't say Syl doesn't call him out - she does voice her disagreement in some instances and shows discomfort at some of the things Kaladin does. However, she does recognize that there are morally grey areas, and that there are instances where reality forces you to do questionable things to achieve necessary goals. Journey before destination, but life before death and whatnot.

Actually, all of the new Alloy of Law-era metals - Bendalloy, Cadmium, Nicrosil and Chromium - existed pre Harmony's ascension, but the technology wasn't advanced enough to produce them (at least partly because of the Lord Ruler), and they thus remained largely unknown. Atium and Duralumin Malatium isn't really even part of the Allomantic metals, but in a group called "the God metals" which, along with Lerasium, are direct pieces of the power Ruin and Preservation. Presumably, there are still Atium-mistings (Seers) around post-Harmony Ascension, but without any Atium around, there is no way for them to know what they are. EDIT: Somehow mixed Duralumin with Malatium.

Sell, because he is arrogant enough to believe he doesn't need it to do what he wants. Jasnah will get a romantic interest in Words of Radiance. He/she will quickly become completely henpecked (also sometimes charmingly called "p***ywhipped").

Well, I respect your reasons for not wanting to set this precedence, so unless I am able to come up with a very good counter-argument, I shall let it be - at least for now. I am not sure I want to launch a epigraph discussion without its own sub-forum though, but I'll look into other ways of organizing it. But thank you all for giving it serious thought and giving me a good and respectable answer.

Ah. I remember this now. Relevance noted.

You make some good points. It could be worth noting too, that the different kinds of Spren are, according to WoB, determined by what people perceive about things (see his comments upon Dungspren. Can't find the link right now). They are formed and defined by our impressions of them. Flamespren exist, for example, because we have a cognitive relationship with them. It isn't composed out of "Heat-" and "Lightspren" because we do not perceive the flames as composed of those things, but as a combination of those separate things: a flame. By the same token, we have Windspren, and not also "Gustspren", "Typhoonspren", etc. because we view them as all variations of the same cognitive aspect; and we do not have Spren for things which we do not perceive or care about. The act of measuring them and thus locking them into the different states is just a special case of this - as Edgedancer hinted at.

Thanks. And be reassured, I am not interested in creating 60 separate threads. The point is to have an area where there is the possibility to create several smaller threads without cluttering up the other sub-fora. As Windrunner pointed out, far from every (maybe even most) of the epigraphs are of any interest, but enough of them are. While this is of particular interest for me, as I think it could be rather fun and enlightening, it is however not of high importance. It could be an interesting experiment, but if you feel like it would set a bad precedence, then I'll survive.

Good point, but what is the relevance? I am not sure what you are getting at.

Sell, because there is no way Words of Radiance will be done by then. Wit will have a verbal three-way sparring match with Jasnah and Shallan in WoR. And it will be epic.

I am interested in launching a larger discussion on the epigraphs of the Way of Kings. There are several of them that I find have rather interesting and (I think) undiscovered implications (the exception, of course, being "the Letter", which has a radically different form than the others). What I want to do is to make a collective attempt at milking them for what information they are worth - attempting to find previously undiscovered connections and titbits of information - instead of using them individually in scattered hypotheses. The problem is that a normal thread would make it difficult to generally discuss interpretations and significances of them as they cover largely different subjects and themes. Some of them can be grouped together, sure, but any single thread generally discussing the epigraphs would quickly become cluttered and confounding. I think a separate sub-forum would be just what is needed for making a general epigraph discussion possible. Each separate thread could either discuss a single Death Chant or a single excerpt from Jasnah's Notebook; or discuss a group of them which seem to be linked together. This could be done in the normal Stormlight Archive forum, but I think it would be better to group epigraph threads together in a separate forum to avoid completely overtaking the forum-box and thus pushing down all other discussions.

I think there is an exception to be made for his own introduction thread xD. But yeah, edit the old one instead of double-posting. The exception is if a reasonable amount of time has passed and you now have new information or a new idea. Just be careful not to "necro" the thread, id est reviving a long, long dead thread. Though that is fine too if it was an interesting discussion and that new information has now surfaced that would be useful to the thread.

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Please do! It is always best to be thorough.

I do not think so. WoB state that Leras and Ati couldn't have taken up each others powers because they were fully formed by their individual Shards intent at that point. Sazed could pick up and control them both because: He wasn't formed by either intent (irrelevant of being part ruin and preservation), and Because being of one mind, he could pick up both powers and keep them separate in his mind. If it had to be Sazed for some reason, I think it has more to do with him as an individual and his personality than him being from Scadrial. I do not see any reason why someone outside of Scadrial couldn't have picked up the powers, given they met some other hypothetical criteria than just "being part ruin and preservation". It should also be of note that Brandon has indicated that Hoid has no "interest" in picking up a Shard, sort of implying that he could have had he wanted to. (Though sure, he would be part Adonalsium, so he might meet the suggested prerequisite anyway)

It should also be noted that we know from the Eshonai chapter of WoR that This would suggest that there is a net gain of mass to counteract the erosion, thanks to the Crem - at the very least this far east - though it might build really slowly since the area likely hasn't been inhabited for centuries, possibly millennia.

Lol. I find it amusing that we somehow completely missed the point that Kaladin was supposed to have run away while Amaram was the one who was supposed to have killed Nan Heleran the enemy Shardbearer.

Pardon me for being late, but happy birthday, Peter (slightly retroactively)! How long do we traditionally stay with these names?