BlackYeti

And now there's this one too: My browser is Google Chrome, and I'm using the Windows 10 OS.

The problem here is that you're not comparing like with like. If you want to say that there are 30 magic systems on Roshar, then that's a perfectly valid thing to do. But what it means is that you're not then considering Surgebinding to be a magic system: instead, you're either considering the individual Radiant Orders to be magic systems, or the individual Surges to be magic systems. If you then want to compare this with the Metallic Arts, however, this means that you can't consider Allomancy to be a magic system. Nor Feruchemy. Nor Haemalurgy. Instead, comparing like with like, you would have to consider pewter Allomancy to be its own magic system, the same with pewter Feruchemy and pewter Haemalurgy. The same is true for each metal in each of the Metallic Arts. This would mean that there are 48 magic systems on Scadrial as @Yata correctly pointed out. If on the other hand, you want to view each of the Metallic Arts as its own magic system, that would mean that you would have to view Surgebinding (and Voidbinding and fabrials) as a single magic system, and so the number of magic systems on Roshar would total 3, not 30. Again, Haemalurgy can be considered as either 1 or 16 powers. If you say that Haemalurgy is only one power then that means that Allomancy is also only one power. You need to compare like with like. Another example of your not comparing like with your example of the first and tenth Heightening (at 50 and 50,000 Breaths respectively) as an illustration of 5 being important on Nalthis. Leaving aside the fact that no Heightening other than the seventh Heightening (5000 Breaths) is consistent with this pattern, you've previously pointed at Scadrial's magics being centred around base 2, and Roshar's being based centred base 10 as highlighting the significance of Preservation's and Honour's supposed numbers. Yet none of the numbers of Breaths needed to reach a Heightening is a power of 5. Indeed you seem to be giving a special significance to the number 10 here. The only thing that 50, 5000, and 50,000 have in common for your pattern is that they are each 5 multiplied by 10 one or more times. Why would the number 10 have any significance on a base 5 scale? It's very easy for the human mind to see patterns in things, this is true even when there is no pattern there to see (for example just look at what people see in the number 42). This is why it's so important to be consistent in your comparisons, it will happen far less if you are. Also, you've already been asked once in this thread not to double-post and you've continued to disregard that request. Please stop doing it: it's actually against the forum rules.

So this is really minor, but the last two times that I've quoted someone it's put a number at the bottom of the quote box when I've posted it. It's impossible to edit the number out because the number is outside of the editable text field: Moreover, when I've attempted to edit it out, it's duplicated the number: Is there a way to avoid it doing this?

From Lift's Interlude in Words of Radiance: The Ring clearly referred to the Nightwatcher as their mother here. This should automatically rule out the Ring as being Cultivation. I'd guess that it's a council of some kind that has the authority to govern Cultivationspren. Whether it's made up entirely of Cultivationspren itself, only in part of Cultivationspren, or not at all of Cultivationspren, and whether or not it only has authority over Cultivationspren, or even whether it has authority over all Cultivationspren, I have no idea. ( I never thought I'd ever have that many instances of "Cultivationspren" in a single sentence. ) Given that Jasnah referred to the Cryptics as being like "the lighteyes of the Cognitive Realm", I wouldn't be surprised if they're involved in it somehow, but that's basically conjecture at this point.

Why do you think they couldn't use the Shards? They're able to combine and take on a human-like form: with a head, torso, legs, feet, arms, hands, fingers, etc. What's to stop them putting Shardplate on in this form? Moreover, what's to stop them from leaving a swarm of their hoardlings outside the plate, thus combining the advantages of both the Shards and the swarm at the same time?

I don't know of any WoB saying that Cultivation betrayed Honour, but I did find this: Note that Brandon could be giving an Aes Sedai type answer here: she could have helped Honour against Odium, and then at some point stopped helping him, so this doesn't actually disprove your idea. However I'd be more inclined to take it at face value at this point.

For the sake of completeness, here's the WoB that @jofwu mentioned: There's not any way around that that I can see, it was really bonded to him.

I've been to a few of Brandon's signings in Britain at this point (one in 2011, one in 2014, and two in 2015), so I can give you more specific information. Firstly, we don't know yet how extensive his visit will be: there have been times in the past where he hasn't ventured far beyond London, and then there have been others when he has toured extensively around the country. He's mentioned coming to the UK a couple of times that I know of so far (once in last years State of the Sanderson blog post and, as has been mentioned previously, once on Reddit) so I'm hoping for the latter. When touring Britain the overwhelming majority of his signings (including all of the ones I've been to) have been held by Waterstones. These events are ticketed, and they are not free: I remember it costing £6 in the past, though it wouldn't surprise me if it goes up in future. The first two that I went to actually reduced the price if you had a Waterstones card, but the ones in 2015 did not so I don't know if they'll do it in the future or not. Additionally at past events, if you bought the book that he's touring for at the event, they would actually deduct the price of the ticket from the price of the book. However since I always bought the book in advance of the events, I never took advantage of that and thus can't remember if that was standard for all of them. At every signing that I've been to there has never imposed a limit on the number of books that Brandon will sign, and he has even been willing to sign other things as well (for example I've got a signed promotional poster for the 2014 event that the staff were kind enough to give me, as well as signed copies of his unpublished White Sand and The Aether of Night that I printed out). That being said in 2015, he did impose a limit of only 3 books that he would personalise. I'd advise you to get you ticket in advance of the event: I don't know what the chances are of them selling out, but I'd guess high (even in 2011 the staff commented on how popular it was, and then on the last occasion Brandon mentioned that it was getting to the point that they'd have to start holding them offsite). You can buy the tickets over the phone and collect them on the day if it's awkward to go there ahead of time. I hope this helps.

There could certainly be other types of spren there, however we do not know that there are, which was my point. To quote Shallan: "no supposition should be treated as axiomatic." Thus the possibility of other spren types on Braize should not be taken as evidence for Cultivation's presence there. Also, for future reference, when linking to theoryland, try to avoid linking to the search results themselves: these can change over time. It's better to link to the interview page itself. Like so: http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1178#23

I'd argue that this could come down to perception again, similar to how Wayne didn't notice that the unkeyed goldmind that Wax gave him was a metalmind until Wax told him it was. It wouldn't really be practical for an Allomancer to carry a bunch of metals around in their mouths: the risk of the metals falling out at a critical moment, or accidentally swallowing and choking on them would be too high, plus it would make it difficult to talk. So they would instead swallow them to prevent this, thus new Allomancers would be taught that they needed to swallow them and consequently the perception would be created.

I'm not sure about that: after all, Zane did hide that coin from Vin by putting it in his mouth. This would seem to indicate that inside the mouth is considered to be inside you, thus I don't see why you wouldn't also be able to burn a metal in your mouth. I suspect that burning a metal inside a capsule could work, though in the case of harmonium doing so would open yourself up to the risk of the capsule failing somehow.

I've looked up the exact quote, Elhokar actually says: This sounds very much like the Cryptics' symbol heads to me. (Please note that I'm not saying that he is seeing Cryptics, only that the description sounds similar.)

Why would Ruin's number be 1? I don't think we've ever seen 1 as a significant number Scadrial. 16 has been prevalent throughout all of the metallic arts, including Ruin's own Haemalurgy. I honestly think that any other number you could come up with for Ruin would be a stretch, but if you were to try, might I suggest looking instead at a base 2 number, since the metals are all organised by base 2 numbers. Where's your source for this? Ashyn certainly suffered a cataclysm in the past which elimited most of the life there, but how do we know that it was caused by Odium? (I'll grant you that it's likely, but I don't remember hearing confirmation of that.) Braize on the other hand, as far as I know, has no life on it at all other than the Splinters inhabiting it. (I would disagree with @Spoolofwhool here, I do consider Splinters to be life. However that's not really relevant here: we do not know the constitution of the Splinters, they could all be of Odium.) We do not know how Odium killed Honour. I don't see how it could have been caused by the trapping of Odium however: Hounour died post-Recreance, that's millennia after the trap was sprung. Again, where are you getting any of this from? We don't know what Hoid's goals are, we only know that he hates Rayse. Where's the evidence for other worlds trying to keep Odium imprisoned? Which is the group that's working to free Odium, and how do you know that all of his followers would need to be purged in order to free him? I understand that you say that the next part is your own theory, but why do you think that there's a dragon on Sel? The letter was most likely written to Frost, why do you think that this is not correct? And why do you think that the recipient is or was a Shard's Vessel? Granted, they can do this, I just don't know of any evidence that Cultivation has done this: "could have" is really a good basis for a theory. I've read BoM multiple times, I'm very familiar with it: which part are you referring to? Again, it seems that I'm not really understanding your argument properly. Yes, I'm also very familar with the events of Middlefest, and of the WoBs that say that you can use Allomancy on other worlds and with non-Scadrian metals. This is possible because the metals, as I said in my previous post, open a conduit to Preservation. Preservation exists primarily in the Spiritual Realm which is time/space independent, thus Preservation can be reached in this manner from anywhere in the Cosmere, despite the fact that he is located on Scadrial. The Investiture does not already exist within the Allomancer. My personal view at the moment is that the numbers are most likely connected to the planets themselves, not to the Shards. Thus 16 is significant to Scadrial, 10 to Roshar and Ashyn, and 9 to Braize. I'm not trying to stop you from looking for ways to tie the numbers to Shards, in fact I would encourage you to continue (after all I could be entirely wrong on this), but that doesn't mean that I won't point out a mistake if I think I see one.

I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. 1 * 16 = ? ⇒ ? = 16 Can you elaborate on what you meant here? I think that this is a stretch to be honest. Firstly, where did you hear that there are only 9 gems used in the Rosharan currency? According to the Coppermind there are 8 gem types which we know are used in the currency. Now, there are 10 types of Polestones (gems that can hold Stormlight), and of these 10 only smokestone and heliodor are not mentioned in the article. I don't recall seeing anything that suggests that only 9 of the 10 are used in the currency however. Which of the Polestones is the one that you say is not represented here? [Edit: I've found the reference now, you were right .] Regardless, if we assume that what you say is true, then this is a result of the cultures on Roshar. It does not say anything about the laws of the world's magic. On your second point: Cultivation exists only on Roshar as far as we know. I thus don't see how the number of planets with life on them is relevant to her. I take it you're talking about how they receive Kinetic Investiture? If so then this is not correct. On Scadrial, the people do not have the Investiture inside them. In regards to Allomancy, when the metals are burned a conduit is opened to Preservation through which the Investiture travels: i.e. it comes from outside the Allomancer. In Feruchemy, the Feruchemist weakens themselves, and converts that attribute to Investiture to store in the metalmind. In a sense the Investiture didn't really exist, and was not therefore inside them, before they converted the attribute to the Investiture. And finally with Haemalurgy, a person's Innate Investiture is being ripped out of them and converted into Kinetic Investiture in the spike. Technically this one does come from within the people, but crucially it doesn't come from the Haemalurgists themselves. Unless of course you're talking about Innate Investiture, in which case everyone on every world has Investiture inside themselves. I'm confused as to what you're saying here, but I don't see how it supports the proposition that each Shard has a number associated with them.

I really like this theory. It very nicely explains the thing that has been troubling me about the medallions since I first read BoM, and I would be very happy to see it borne out. That said I would like to ask for a clarification on one part of it. So if we take, as an example, one of the Feruchemical copper medallions: this would work by having the harmonium grant the ability to tap the nicrosilmind which in turn makes the user into an Archivist temporarily, and thus able to tap the memories encoded into the coppermind. Why couldn't you let the harmonium instead grant the ability to tap the coppermind directly and thus remove the need for the nicrosil? Is it because the harmonium is only allowing the user to tap the metalminds, but not store in them? Thus if a non-Arcivist wanted to record their memories in one, they would be unable to do so without nicrosil. And more importantly, by the same logic, a non-Trueself would be likewise unable to store their Identity in an aluminiummind, so an Arcanist would not be able to create an unkeyed coppermind without nicrosil involved. Do I understand your logic correctly here? If so, are you proposing that tapping and storing are treated as different abilities by harmonium, and it can either be used to tap a metalmind, or to store in one? Or are you saying that tapping the metalmind is the real power here, and storing in it is simply a means of "charging it up", and thus outside of what harmonium can replicate?

Here's a comparison of the two symbols, with the latter rotated to match the orientation of the former: Now, excuse me whilst I mourn the final death of my Cognitive Surgebinding theory . May I have better luck next time I guess.

He definitely had his Hoidsense during the events of the first Mistborn trilogy. source That sounds exactly like Hoidsense to me.

Well I just used the Alethi font and Transliterator program linked below to come up with the following graphic: I don't know if you were after something handwritten instead, but if so you could at least use that as a template.

That's not what is meant here according to this WoP: In future, please try not to state speculation as fact: there are people who will assume that it's actually been confirmed.

Have you tried "Ideal" or even "Words" in place of Oath? And there was I thinking it was strange that I'd missed it given how thorough I thought I'd been in going through all of his WoBs on Reddit as he posted them, but you seem to have put far more work into this. Nevertheless, now that two separate people have reported seeing this, I'm leaning towards us having missed it somehow . I guess we'll only really know if we were right if Oathbringer comes out and it's not in there .

I haven't been able to find it either, but then I'm very bad at searching Reddit . So really I'm just trusting what @maxal said here.

No it's not. If you go back a page you'll notice that I specifically asked @maxal whether she was referring to that WoB, and she responded in the negative. There is apparently another WoB on Reddit where he said that it will be in Book 3 specifically.

If we extrapolate this into other other exotic senses: what about Warbreaker Spoilers

It has been confirmed that they can do this.