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Looking at history though, those kinds of gender-based inheritance laws will allow a woman to inherit when there is no male heir (at least when it comes to the aristocracy). Consider the English monarchy, it has exactly those kind of laws in place, yet still ended up producing a Lady Jane Grey, Queen Mary I, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary II, Queen Victoria, and Queen Elizabeth II. I don't think it's been made clear what would happen in Alethkar in such a situation, but if anyone could force the issue, I reckon it would be Ialai.

Wow, this is really crazy. You'll fit in here perfectly, welcome to the Shard! I think you're making a mistake by equating the Set's "Faceless Immortals" with the kandra. The only example of the former that we have seen had glowing red eyes, which doesn't match what we saw with Bleeder, or any kandra. This suggests to me that the two are entirely different entities, and that Suit was only framing it in terms that he understood: i.e. he doesn't really know what they are either. Beyond that, there's the whole issue of how Wayne could be a kandra without realising it, or the other kandra realising it for that matter.

We do: And @Yata, that's absolutely not how I read that WoB, but I'll not force the issue. We can both agree after all that you would not expect Adolin or Renarin to display the Royal Locks.

While @Yata is correct in his point about perception, it is irrelevant in this case since Vivenna's children would not have inherited the Royal Locks. Brandon has confirmed that this is correct in the chapter's annotation: Edit: before anyone suggests that Adolin and Renarin could be the exceptions that Brandon mentions, keep in mind that the sequel to Warbreaker is Nightblood, which, being set before Stormlight, wouldn't work with the timeline.

So on the possibility of the hairpins being Haemalurgic spikes: I agree that this is a very obvious possibility, though I suspect that the main reason for this is that there are so few candidates for things that they could be. Case in point, I've been introducing a friend to the Cosmere, and he's currently reading WoR for the first time. We were discussing this scene last night, and he actually asked me if they could be Haemalurgic spikes. The main issue that I have with this (beyond the fact that it's too obvious) is that if it's true and they were just left lying about like that, they'd be losing their charge. I'd at least expect them to be left immersed in blood. So if they are connected to the Metallic Arts, I would actually think it more likely for them to be metalminds. I suppose the other possibility would be for them to be both Dragonsteel and Haemalurgic spikes, but that's a bit too out there. As for the knife, do we have confirmation that it's from Threnody? I realise that this is the main line of speculation due to the significance of silver there, but I haven't actually heard that it was more than theory at this point.

Has anyone considered the possibility of any of the objects in Mraize's collection being Dragonsteel? Off the top of my head, he's got a pair of hairpins and a silver knife (silver could refer to the colour rather than the type of metal) which could be potential candidates.

An excellent point that I should have mentioned. Thank you for making it for me. Allow me to further emphasise it by pointing out that they are definitely not canon. In fact, Brandon's suggested that when he goes back to rewrite The Liar of Partinel, he will do so from a first-person perspective. So basically, you can't trust anything you read in it. I take it that this was directed at me, rather than Blacksmithki? I'll grant you that 16 is a number of special significance in the Cosmere, however, that doesn't mean that Brandon's planning on organising his books around that number. You're stretching things greatly to get that to work, and as it's currently planned, it still doesn't really work even then.

They're a duology, set on Yolen, that tell Hoid's origin story (note that Hoid is called Midius in this one, there is another character called Hoid though which is where Hoid/Midius got the name from) and which lead into Dragonsteel. After finishing Mistborn Era 1, Brandon had a four book contract for the Warbreaker duology alternating with this duology. He'd partly written The Liar of Partinel (and wasn't very happy with it) when he had to abandon it because of The Wheel of Time, I believe. If you're interested, you can find sample chapters for The Liar of Partinel here.

I still don't see how you end up with 16 though. By collecting books together into volumes like that, I'm not able to come up with more than 15 volumes, and that's after introducing some artificial divides into them e.g. separating The Liar of Partinel out from Dragonsteel. And of course, if we don't collect them together like that, we instead end up with far more than 16. The Liar of Partinel & The Lightweaver of Rens Dragonsteel & Sequels White Sand & Sequels Elantris & Sequels Warbreaker & Nightblood Stormlight Arc 1 Stormlight Arc 2 The Aether of Night Dark One Untitled Threnody Novel Mistborn Era 1 Mistborn Era 2 Mistborn Era 3 Mistborn Era 4 Collected shorter fiction @IllNsickly, it's not that different from the Skaa, but you might also want to consider the slavery of serfdom that King Iadon introduced to Arelon in Elantris. There's also the Ardentia to consider, as that appears to be a voluntary form of slavery that one can choose to leave if they wish.

I sort of disagree here (though in a sense it comes down to semantics). I think that, in terms of the magic, everything has a default single lashing towards the centre of the gravity well. The first lashing that a Windrunner does changes the vector of that default lashing only unless it's placed on top of that default lashing, in which case the new lashing is effectively a second lashing. Which means that the Windrunner always has at least one lashings worth of force acting on them, unless they make the forces cancel in some way, e.g. half up, and half down. So when Szeth lashes himself downwards, he's really just restoring that default single lashing.

I don't think so. Spren are sometimes visible and sometimes invisible, for example, while Syl is usually invisible to everyone but Kaladin, she can make herself visible to someone else if she chooses. How visible they are, however, clearly depends on the type of spren, since Pattern is visible to everyone all the time. The listeners can apparently see all spren even when they're invisible to everyone else. So while Kaladin clearly saw/heard the Voidspren that night, there has been no indication that he has done since, which to me implies that the spren is usually invisible to him. I think you're working off of a false assumption here. I don't think that when the listeners hear the Rhythms, they are hearing other listeners. Rather, I think that the Rhythms exist externally to the listeners, and the listeners are singing along to the Rhythms. Brandon clearly implies this here: And here he indicates a way that a non-listener could interact with the rhythms: I think this should demonstrate that the Rhythms are not a listener "hive-mind", and thus the fact that these listeners can hear the rhythms does not mean in and of itself that there must be survivors from the original "Parshendi" as you put it.

How would Adolin know that it originates from his actions? It was done in such a way that it's likely that he wouldn't ever find out about it, and if he did, he'd likely be as confused about it as we are.

Your wish is my command!

No, you're not, I also find it the least interesting at the moment. It was great to start off with since it was resolving that plotline which we'd been speculating on for the past 3 years, but now that we've had that payoff, I'm definitely more interested in the other plot threads. It doesn't help that Kaladin is far from my favourite character, Brandon needs to bring back Jasnah soon!

Now that Mraize's finally made an appearance, I'm left wondering where Iyatil's hiding. She's had more than enough time to get to Urithiru after her attempt to assassinate Amaram failed, and we know how good she is at concealing herself.

How in the name of Harmony's Lost Unmentionables did you manage to get to that point so quickly!? I only just got there now, and I started reading from the moment that the chapters were released, and I skipped the first one since I'd read the Thrill already. You wouldn't happen to be a Sparker would you?

I'm not sure I understand your question. Urithiru has always been in the middle of the continent, the Oathgate didn't move it anywhere. The Oathgate moved the Alethi army from Narak to Urithiru. The Voidbringers summon the Everstorm at the Shattered Plains as you say. The Shattered Plains are to the East of Urithiru. The Everstorm moves in an easterly direction, away from Urithiru, towards the Ocean. It then circles the planet to arrive back at the continent at Shinovar. Why do you think that it would hit Urithiru before Shinovar?

There is crem at Urithiru: Dalinar could only open the trapdoor at the top of the tower by slicing through the crem with his Shardblade. There may not be as much crem up there as there is at the Shattered Plains, but if there's enough to form an obstruction at the top (which could be as much as a kilometre higher than the Oathgate platforms), then it seems likely that the Oathgate doorways could have been encased in crem, if not as much as at the Stormseat Oathgate.

Brandon recently tweeted an image containing a new map of Roshar that pinpoints the location of Thaylen City (I've put the image in the spoiler box at the bottom of this post so it doesn't take up too much space). I've updated my above graphic to include this new info (and to incorportate @Pagerunner's above suggestion of limiting the Aimian Oathgate to the islands). Edit: Having had a chance to study the new map a bit more, I now notice that it also gives the exact location of Urithiru, so I'm replacing the graphic with one showing showing the precise location of the Urithiru Oathgate pairs (in blue instead of red).

Dalinar can remember his wife's name in the flashbacks because he hasn't yet visited the Nightwatcher. Keep in mind, the flashbacks are not the characters remembering their past. They are the result of Brandon telling the story nonsequentially, so therefore he can embed details in them that the characters wouldn't remember in the main narrative. This is also why he is able to have flashbacks for dead characters if necessary.

That doesn't look much like Vin to me. I was thinking it was probably Spook, the Lord Mistborn. Are you sure about this? Anyway, these do look really nice. I've backed.

Vivanne? Did you perhaps mean Vivenna? I just don't want Brandon to kill Jasnah, again... I don't think I could take it a second time.

Why do you think that Jasnah will be wrong? I would have thought that the map of the Silver Kingdoms is good evidence that she is correct. See my earlier post about this for a more detailed explanation:

I really like this. It's probably the best proposal for their positioning so far. The problem I've had with the semicircle idea is that, in one of the descriptions of Urithiru that I quoted in my last post, it clearly states that "The edges of the lower levels melded into the mountains to either side", which would mean that the field with the Oathgates in cannot extend to the cliff behind Urithiru. Therefore, the Oathgates could not form a complete semicircle, at most, it could form a minor arc. And as you point out, a circle in the middle of a field can't really be said to ring the field.

Jasnah returning. Szeth going to Shinovar to Destroy Evil. Meeting Glys. Meeting the Nightwatcher Dalinar exploring his new powers. The introduction of a Radiant from an Order we've not seen yet. Kelsier stealing Lift's dinner to remind everyone who the Cosmere's true master thief is.