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I hadn't heard the theory before, myself. But please remember that RAFO can mean anything from "Oh that's a juicy secret" to "I want to see what happens when the fanbase gets ahold of this RAFO."

I would say that they should stay in mateform during gestation and nursing, for the best effects. Mateform is specifically designed to make childbearing easier, it sounds like. The physiology and added fat of the female form makes for healthier offspring. Also, the physiological changes involved in changing forms would probably not be good for the fetus.

As Cal said. Ico's father is a deadeye, and he says his daughter ran off chasing impossible dreams. And Timbre says that her grandfather was killed in the Recreance.

It's because there doesn't really seem to be a pattern to the few lines that they know, so a line could be pretty much any shape. So you have to get the shape and the intent right at the same time. With an almost infinite number of shapes and an almost infinite number of intents, striking the right one is...well, almost infinitely hard

Parlin and the events of Warbreaker take place before SA, and as Karger said, he was a contemporary of Vivenna. And we saw him very messily dead. Breath and Biochroma don't allow for self-healing at all. Sorry.

They walked away from their Oaths, like the Radiants did. The Oathpact itself wasn't technically completely broken, but their individual Oath, the spirit of it, so to speak, certainly was.

I said prelude, not prologue.

The other 9 haven't been tortured in 4.5k years. They were fairly normal in the prelude. It's been since then that they went wacko.

Here's one that talks about it a bit. Go to the link so that you can see the attached images: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/255/#e7111

Do you mean they would heal to a stronger physical state? No, it's not desire for change, it's self-perception. If you truly believed, down to your soul, in a specific self-image, that's what you would heal to. Just wanting it, or seeing it as a goal, wouldn't be enough.

The Coppermind is great for this stuff: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Roshar#Pre-Desolation_Roshar

All the Heralds are mad, yeah, and we shouldn't trust them very much. But, getting their stories and information from them, then mining it for useful data and taking all of it with a reasoned eye should still yield helpful information. They could be used to fill in gaps in knowledge for instance. I'm sure someone like Jasnah would be able to sort through information and judge its accuracy fairly well.

@OrangeJediDo you have a Costco membership?

Felt is the third son of a minor noble on Scadrial, according to Brandon.

We often do them in the signing thread, too, because the big WoB thread is pretty bulky

If anyone needs a recorder, I have one that you can borrow. I'm in South Jordan.

I wasn't going to say anything, but yes, please

Why is the entire joke in the title, too? Has she read SA? That's hilarious

The Mists weren't ever trying to kill people. They were trying to Snap people, but the amount of trauma needed to get that to happen ended up killing people, mostly the very young/old/ill. The deaths were a standard bell distribution. The Mists were basically ramping up and Snapping as many Allomancers as they could, in order to get ready to fight Ruin, if he were released by the holder of the Well. Once the Well is used, the Mists go back to a more neutral state. Unless, of course, someone ends up releasing Ruin. Then the Mists kick into high gear and start Snapping anyone with a hint of potential, even those who normally didn't have enough to Snap (this last part is my theory).

Here's a list of confirmed worldhoppers: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Worldhopping The only one I can tell that's missing is Riino, the lighthouse keeper in OB, who's the "oh so beautiful" guy in Elantris.

Scadrial doesn't have a moon, Brandon just thought it was a great pun. Especially since they didn't have a moon so they wouldn't get the pun.

Devotion and Dominion are all crammed into the Cognitive Realm, so I really don't think that it could be either of them.

We really don't know very much about them. We know that they were involved in the destruction on Ashyn, and that Honor thinks that they're inaccessible. And that one is different than the others, and that they are said to have the ability to bind anything.

So Taldain was the most advanced, but then something happened to short circuit that, so they might not be the most advanced any more. Sel hasn't been asked about much, but there is this one: