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both fair points. Upvoted I'd like to tie this back into the original topic. Szeth is not a cognitive shadow; his real soul was returned to his body... it just isn't sticking very well. Hence the afterimages. Someone proposed that the afterimage Lift sees is Szeth's Cognitive aspect lagging behind his Physical aspect. I actually think the opposite. I think the lagging Szeth is actually the physical aspect that everyone else sees too. Szeth's Cognitive aspect would then move in front of his Physical, which makes more sense to me scientifically. First you plan a movement, and then you execute it. We've seen similar thought processes when mistborn spoiler This would only matter to the few individuals which could see Szeth's "afterimage", who could feasibly get a split second warning of what Szeth's Physical aspect was about to do. I dont have WoB or textual evidence for this, but to me it makes more logical sense that the Cognitive moves first, and then the Physical moves a split second after.

like YOUR waffles! Haha

That is definitely the crux of the matter. The only concern I would have about it would be purely philosophical: If the soul has been so thoroughly and efficiently replaced/altered as to basically be the original person, but made from slightly different stuff, does that person's original soul (in the form it was before being 'transfigured') actually become the new investiture, does it meld and cohabitate with the investiture, or if not, where does it go?

this is the WoB I got my thought from originally:

(Heavily edited after catching up on sleep and enlightening discussion) The soul is the essence of who a person is, and is used fairly loosely by Brandon with respect to only the Spiritual component vs. both Cognitive and Spiritual. Cognitive shadows are what results from a person losing ties to the physical realm, but maintaining existence in the Cognitive Realm by virtue of having sufficient investiture in their souls prior to death.

Exactly then start again from the ashes of another year.

The order of the Phoenix. The order of Pagerunners. The Truthwatchers. All seem equally applicable right now

My wife is due on November 11th, and the end of year exam period begins on November 13th, so... I guess I'll have my parents come care for us and repeat my year Drastic times... oh well... Journey before destination!

I wish no, I have a crappy Nokia Lumia 635

I'll try to get that up, but I'm not very hopeful. I don't have a way to connect my phone to my laptop, and the file is too big to transfer directly. I am completely sure about the accuracy of my transcript though... it's possible he just couldn't remember at the time what Ivory was up to, or misheard the question. I'll see what I can do about audio though. If I do figure it out, I'll edit it into this post.

Still possible that she saw the results of Szeth's work and put 2 and 2 together. It's obvious that he was creepy when Liss had him, that some of his previous owners had people die around him, and that he was very good with a shardblade and had some kind of supernatural power (eye witnesses could confirm). She must have known at least that he had a shardblade and strange abilities. It's possible that Liss figured out more.

I think you meant for this to be a sobering comment along the lines of, "it ain't all fun and daisies", but what you just described is WAY more attractive than I thought the beta reading process would be. You mean you get to rip the book apart AND catalogue every minute detail obsessively in corroboration with a team?! hmmm... I can be persistent and memorable too! Brandon will definitely remember me from Sydney lol. Do I have to live in the States? I'll be in Canada by the time the next one goes to beta aaand I just realized that I should probably email team Sanderson with any serious requests rather than explode all over your thread.

Stormlight burns away alcohol, and if Jezrien somehow still perceives himself as the king of the heralds, then I'm sure he could make a recovery. However, I would be awfully surprised if Navani didn't grill Shallan about Pattern in this next book. From that she should find out about dead/living shardblades and realize that the honorblade is something else entirely. From there it's a very short step to her convincing Dalinar to let her study it. It really is a mechanical means of accessing the surges (like soulcasters), and she might be able to learn some things from it. I doubt that she will be the one to bond it though. I honestly have no idea who would, if anyone does at all. It is the blade that slew Gavilar, and wreaked havoc across much of Roshar. I'd like it better if Dalinar reclaimed oathbringer than bonding this blade to be honest.

Just FYI This happened... definitely not a joke. Friday, June 16, 2017 at Sydney Supanova.

Apologies, I misinterpreted your previous comment. And you make a good point about Kaladin reverting back to dark. Now I want to know if the original radiants' kids before the recreance had light eyes... Like if they conceived while being light eyed haha. I could accept the bloodlines component I think. I would want to know that Renarin had either Dalinar's or Eva's color. What do you guys think was going on with Kaladin's brown to amber to light blue transition?

awesome! Though it's too bad that freckled, redhead Shallan can't have red flecked irises... That would look amazing

I feel like this thread has progressed sufficiently for me to make a slight alteration... What about imprisoning actual radiants? Can we brainstorm that? For example, depriving them of stormlight is easy enough, but the spren can still turn into weapons and other things to help their radiants. I feel like you would have to make some pretty drastic threats to discourage a spren from breaking their radiant free on their own.

oooo! Where is that?! And is it talking about when Shallan first bonded pattern as a child, or just when she summons him or reinstates the bond later on in life?

I forgot that Shallan has pale blue eyes. I wonder if that was her eye color at birth. It seems that windrunners are blue like Kaladin... But are lightweavers also blue? I also wonder if Hoid's 'life-sense' via Breath can detect radiants. Maybe that's how he recognized Shallan at the fair. Also, Calderis was saying yet another different thing, just mentioning that IF eye color was genetically inherited, then it could also relate back to the people that picked up the Shardblades, and not just the radiants. What I am saying, is that we have no confirmation that eye color runs in family lines at all, beyond being 'light' or 'dark'. In fact, the drastic variety in the Kholinar bloodline makes me think that while 'lightness' is heritable, the color is not. That is completely different from the way it works on Earth, but earthly genetics doesn't really apply anyway.

Brandon actually gave quite a long answer about this one (and maybe the original asked could clarify more), but the sense that I got was Renarin being uncomfortable touching people had to do more with a part of his specific autism-spectrum, and less due to anything magical going on. He was simply more comfortable with his brother than with strangers. Also, can I just say that I find it highly appropriate that my reputation level right now is "silent gatherer"?

I dont know how to separate the audio out of the video, and it's stuck on my crappy iPad mini so I'm not sure I can do that. But if you pm me I'd love to learn! It'll have to be after my exams are done though. I already took too much time away. I do have the audio for my personal questions though, so I'll try uploading that in this thread later on. My notes, and interview, were taken during the book signing. I think the main Q&A was yesterday (Australian Sunday), but I couldn't go to Supanova yesterday. Maybe someone else covered for me haha

That's not at all what the quote means. It means that for any given darkeyes-become-shardbearer, their eye color corresponds to the specific blade they bonded. It says nothing about genetics or even lighteyes bonding different shardblades (for example, if adolin bonded a windrunner blade, somehow I doubt his eyes would turn blue).

Brandon alluded to this today in Supanova. Someone said, "please dont kill Dalinar, that's all I want, just don't kill Dalinar!" And he responded very seriously, "you will enjoy this next book!" But then he added, "but... Ehhhhh... It's gonna be painful..." So make of that what you will.

that was me! I actually cosplayed as Brandon with a part in my hair, comic shirt, dress coat, and jeans, but it was subtle haha I dont think even he caught it. I have audio of the first half of his seminar, but had technical difficulties in the second half I also have audio of my personal questions for him, but the supanova staff said no recording of the main q&a so I hastily jotted down notes of anything new or interesting to me that I'll put up soon. Edit 1: Here is the transcript of me asking Brandon questions: Edit 2: Here are my hastily scribbled notes from the signing. I think I got everything that could be considered 'new'. I didn't write a lot of things about writing process, world building, new author advice, and release dates (Oathbringer coming November 14th in Aus and USA, November 16th in Britain) Edit 3: My 20 minute video file of the seminar turned out to be a little over 2 GB, so it isn't letting me upload it to Youtube, Facebook, or the shard, or email, or anything else... but honestly it isn't anything that you can't hear by listening to his posted lectures. There weren't any new WoBs of note from it and people were specifically directed to avoid spoilery things in their questions.

one of my questions that was answered today was, 'for darkeyed people that bond shardblades, does the new eye color correspond to the specific type of shardblade that was bonded?' And I got a solid yes. I didn't have time to ask about inheritance patterns though.