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Agreed. I really think the numbers are tied more to the planets/solar system than to the Shards. And Bleeder was a kandra but with only one spike, and a spike that gave her Allomantic or Feruchemical powers. Does she still count as a kandra? What would humans who are just spiked to have an ability be classified as? Maybe it's because that's what Adonalsium did with the solar systems/planets? Like, we know the Roshar system is 10 based (except for Braize for some reason), and Adonalsium created the entire system. Maybe it's like, order of creation? That would explain why Scadrial is 16, because it was created last, after the Shattering. */end wild speculation*

I wonder if it could be Ashertmann. Giving in to vice. Shallan's father gives in to his anger, Balat to torturing small animals, Jushu to gambling, etc.

It's definitely not aluminum. Aluminum is almost impossible to get in pre-industrial societies and silver is expensive, but not nearly as rare as aluminum. That's actually one of the reasons why Brandon has to use aluminum in some places, and silver in others.

It's possible, or it could be that the Shards don't have a number at all, and only the planets do. Nah, there are like, 25 palaces.. If anything Endowment's/Nalthis's might be 5. 5 Scholars and 5x5 Returned.

They seem tied more to the planets than the Shards. The entire Rosharan system, which was made by Adonalsium, is 10 based, except for Braize, which is 9 based, which implies that it was all done before the Shattering.

Maybe, but that'd be speculation, not confirmed.

I think just Hoid.

On Arcanum

That's awesome! Definitely put a tea-bearing plant (or would pot be inappropriate for the lols?) in the background.

It's like Constructive Interference. If you're not familiar with that term, when two waveforms meat and interact, it's interference. If it's additive (the waveform is bigger) then it's constructive. If it's negative (the waveform is smaller than either would normally be), it's destructive. So each surge is a waveform. Where they meet, there's interaction, interference. Eddies and wavelets. And those present as a "perk" of those two powers interacting. The Resonances are generally not directly tied to the power. The items that you listed aren't actually Resonances. They are just learning to use each power in relation to the other. Resonances are like, Lightweavers with their Illumination and Transformation have weird memory effects. Windrunners, with their Gravitation and Adhesion get lots of Squires. According to Brandon, Wax's Resonance is his steel bubble (There are some problems with this, that we need clarification on, though). We haven't seen or haven't recognized Wayne's resonance. We haven't seen enough of the other orders to know for sure what their Resonances are. People who have too many powers, such as a Mistborn, don't get any Resonances, because that many powers, the interaction is just too messy to come out as an ability.

Roshar had three full Shards on it for nearly 10,000 years. The way the Shards viewed the cosmere likely influenced how the spren and the people viewed the cosmere. As the people continued to view the cosmere that way, reinforced by worldhoppers stopping by from various directions, the Cognitive Realm as we see it slowly took place. I view it as a dynamic landscape. Most of these planets were colonized by the Yolenese. That means they didn't really exist much in the Cognitive Realm until people started living on them. They were quite possibly just a series of small patches of ground in the Cognitive Realm before then, easy to reach. Depending on when each one was settled, who settled it, and how they thought about the cosmere, the Cognitive Realm's geography took place. Basically, I see it as a natural result of migration patterns and a vague spatial awareness on behalf of the Yolenese or whoever ended up colonizing that planet. A popular theory that I ascribe to involves Yolen being somewhere in that red blotch of stars on the top right of the chart. It would match with the orientation of the Roshar Shadesmar map if people from Yolen saw the stars in that manner and took that mind-image with them as they migrated around.

Yes, but it does say that Isaac came up with the location for the viewpoint that the stars are seen from, the actually constellations, and what they mean and are named and how they're shaped. And they went back and forth on drawing the star chart, but Isaac is the canon on it. Heck, he gets to decide when to reveal the location. Whatever Isaac says about the chart, you can take it as canon. Remember that while Brandon has a couple of people on his team who are familiar with mathematics to a degree, none of them are in fact, expert mathematicians or topologists (though some of the fans are). Brandon just wants Shadesmar to be flat, and thinks he can make it work that way.

But Isaac is Brandon's art director, he's the one that came up with the chart and painted it... He means flat, but distorted as in space there doesn't mean the same thing as space here, which he explains at other times about how places that people are only sometimes thinking about are points. Brandon literally refers people to Isaac when they ask about the chart. I also didn't disagree that it could be from Yolen. I'm disagreeing with it influencing the cultures that the constellations are based on. With everything that's been said of the chart, it has to come *after* the Shattering and all the planets were established. The person, singular, who comisssioned it, had the painter create the constellations according to his or her travels and understandings about the cosmere. The other people that live on that planet or whatever, have different constellations.

Sorry, that would go the other way around. If stormlight could be considered raw investiture, then it can be used as fuel for any of the other forms.

Sorry, but I pasted the WoB that tells us where this is from. I thought it pretty definitely answered that question? And it would have to be painted after the Shattering, since Scadrial the planet wouldn't have existed before the Shattering, and so that solar system wouldn't have had any significance (or be shaped like Vin). In addition, the people who live on the planet that would see these stars as they are wouldn't call them what the Patron does. The Cognitive Realm is flat. If it were a large bead, there would be curvature, and there's not. Anyway, my original point was that there were a number of WoBs that addressed the questions and theories. I just picked these because they were the first ones on the list. I just wanted to suggest that going to Arcanum and using keywords related to your theories would be rewarding because a number of them have been addressed and I wasn't up to answering/debating every single one

Pretty sure Feruchemical gold heals the soul. It's stormlight on steroids. And the Shardblade has to reach the person in the first place. And again, I've said this like three times: ALL the magic systems can be hacked to be powered by another. So yes, you can use stormlight to power Allomancy, and you can use Allomancy to power surgebinding. Given the information we have, I think it'd be much easier to use stormlight for Allomancy than Allomancy for surgebinding. And for Allomancy, you wouldn't really even need stormlight, you could just get more metal, since metal from any world would work. And also, please see Weltall's post about double posting.

How are you separating the soul from the body?

Fair enough, but Then I doubt a fullborn could heal from that either meaning and it means that shardblades are even more deadly that I previously stated so that kind of proves my point No, because we know a Fullborn can recover from beheadings, a la The Lord Ruler. I think Miles mentions it a few times too. Miles also survives being literally blown up. A Radiant can be killed by severing the spine or completely crushing the head. Double gold heals more powerfully than stormlight. Atium doesn't need to last very long. You see the Shardblade coming, you avoid it, you pewter dash up, and sever the head with your enhanced strength. You might need one or two slices if the person is wearing Shardplate, but it will crack and break under pewter-strength, and then the head is gone. And a Fullborn...what Weltall said. There's just no winning against a fullborn with access to all the metals. And Allomancy is extremely portable. Any planet's metal, or even soulcast metal, will work. Stormlight will evaporate or leak unless you have a lot of perfect gems on you, and trying to get other types of investiture to power surgebinding is iffy at best. It most definitely does not work anywhere, and would need knowledge and skill (if then) to power it with something else.

Oh oh oh. A T-Shirt that says "The T is a Plant" I would laugh so hard.

I'm pretty sure it's easier to hack Allomancy to work off of stormlight than it would be to hack surgebinding to work off of metal. Also, according to Kaladin in WoR

Yup.

But in your scenario, the surgebinder wasn't on Roshar, and didn't have unlimited amounts of stormlight. And a surgebinder can heal a bolt to the head, but not a beheading. So burn atium for 10 seconds, cut off the head, done.

All of the systems can be hacked to power the others. That doesn't mean it's easy. Getting investiture for surgebinding from Allomancy (metals) would be super hard. So the surgebinder would be without investiture. Allomancers can use metal from any planet. And if it's a full Mistborn, they're going to be able to use coins and such to (eventually) crack your Plate, and pewter to break through it, and evade cuts from the Shardblade. And if they have atium, the surgebinder is basically screwed. And that's not even counting compounders, who are ridiculously overpowered in some cases. A Steel compounder would flatten the surgebinder in pretty much 10 seconds flat. Also, a gold Feruchemist or a kandra would likely be able to heal from Shardblade wounds. A gold compounder can heal even from beheading.

Jofwu made a thread about it just yesterday with interesting points