RadiantNights

Just to clarify the post above me that elsecalling isn't the ability to teleport anywhere in the real world but the ability to take your physical self and others into shadesmar completely. Also I like the shard boomerang idea but the thing I was picturing was like what xena warrior princess used. It's called a chakram and it's basically a sharp circle so it wouldn't come back to you like a boomerang but you could just dismiss it then resummon the spren in your hand.

Yup that's it. That quote along with his talk of "one becoming many" aka andonalism makes me think the irali are more cosmere savy than most on Roshar. There's a word for that isn't there? Like how aware a people are of what's actually happening in the cosmere?

Totally called the mass exodus I think. I posted awhile ago about all irali being world hoppers from the line in yms interlude. He says something like "we irali are of the long path of which this is the fourth planet." or some such. Even though this is from WoR cause I can't see anything form the other interludes in WoK being a world hoppers other than the 17th sharders.

Well what if 70 or 80 years isn't really that long in the life of a radiant. Wasn't it in one of the posts that they have pretty extended lifespans due to stormlight (being able to be alive for multiple desolations). Also some of the minor but soon to be major characters like lift and trader girl are still pretty young

OK here's my weird theory. Hoid is actually what's left of andonalism after what ever andonalism was shattered. I think he is like the consciousness of the God that once was after all the emotional shards of him were ripped out. Does that make sense? It would explain how he knows so much about the cosmere and how to make all the magic systems function. He knows because when he was whole he knew everything and he kept all that knowledge but lost the majority of the powers. As for what he's doing well what if he was now trying to get rid of all the bad parts of himself that now rampage across the cosmere. He was in mistborn when ruin shard was absorbed and became harmony and now he's trying to get kill rayse and get hatred gone from he cosmere so he can't shatter any more of the good shards like on sel. And didn't Sanderson say that hoid was there when andonalism shattered? What kind of person could survive an event that epic. I think anyone there would've been killed so the only way hoid could've been there and survived is to actually have been whatever andonalism is. Weird theory I know but it makes sense to me. Kinda. He's just to powerful and knowledgeable to be a regular dude.

So brandons website says he's like almost half way through writing shadows but what the heck is the plot going to be? Are we gunna keep fighting crime with wax and Wayne or are we gunna explore more of this new post-harmony world? Does anyone know?

Is there a WoB out there that says how many Parshendi there are outside the alethi warcamps/shattered Plains? I think eshoni says she had 20k stormform warriors and like 1000 refused to change. Now I think we can assume most of the stormforms died in the battle and the everstorm/highstorm and the others maybe survived but other than those couple thousand that survived on the plains how many Parshendi are out there in other parts of Roshar? It says at the end of WoR that with the coming of the everstorm, all the remaining Parshendi will turn into voidbringers but how effective can the voidbringers be if their numbers are only in the tens of thousands? I think a couple dozen knight radiants could take out that many not to mention the normal armys. So is the coming desolation really gunna be that bad? Maybe they were more prepared then they think by killing off all the Parshendi before it even started

I think it's just how animals on Roshar are, not to be overly simplistic. The animals all seem to be crustaceans of some sort (except horses which some believe to come from off world anyways) and most crustaceans have mandibles to help them eat. It's kinda just like how insects and lobster have antennae. 2 totally different animals yet they have delevoped this same sensory appendage

I kinda always thought the truth was the total opposite from this. Instead of hoid being a shardholder I thought he was what's left over of andonalism after andonalism shattered itself. It sort of makes sense when you think that hoid isn't bound by a shardic intention as 'king of nowhere' says because he got rid of everything of the shards inside of him. As to what hoid is doing all over the place, well what if he wanted was unpleased at how the shards binding with humans changed them and now he wants to splinter the shards so they can effect the cosmere in ways they were meant to instead of being warped by human intention?

What exactly are the unmade, I'm not really understanding it. Are they spren or some other being?

Also I just realized that one of mraize's worldhopping trinkets is a lock of golden hair. I know everyone assumes that the hair is from the royal locks but couldn't it be hair from an Iriali but from another shard world?

There's this really weird quote from Ym in his interlude. He is fitting the little boy for the pair of shoes when the little boy asks why he's going to give him a pair of shoes for only a story and Ym explains how they are "one". He then explains how at first everyone was "one" and knew everything but experienced nothing and so the "one" split into many. (exactly like andonalism) Then here's the quote the little boy asks if the "one" is God but Ym says he should accept no God because "we are Iriali, and part of the Long Trail, of which this is the Fourth Land" This quote made me wonder. The "Long Trail" and "the Fourth Land" really sounds like the Iriali people have been traveling from cosmere planet to cosmere planet for some time and that Roshar is the fourth one they've settled on. They also seem to be much more "cosmere aware" than the rest of the people we've seen in any of the Sanderson books, I mean not even Harmony really knew what andonalism was. So are the Iriali all descendants of a mass immigration of worldhoppers? And if so where would they have come from?

I would love another interlude about the 17th shard. Possibly a viewpoint from someone actually in the organization. Another lift interlude and rysn interlude are a must have. I need to know about the larkin and how lift met wyndle. Maybe even wyndles pov? An interlude from the queen in kholinar would be really interesting to. Find out how she went so bad. Also I'd like to see an interlude with the parshendi who didn't change to stormform. I think jasnah is going to have chapters in the whole book not just interludes though. Her story arc is just too important to not have it be a big part of the third book

Shardplate would have to stretch pretty far to fit a parshendi in multiple forms though wouldn't it? Instead of a chasmfiend in shardplate what about a ryshadium or an axehound or best of all a whitespine in plate

Don't you think that since rysn was bonded with a larkin there's a pretty good chance she would be a future radiant in the second half of stormlight?

So a larkin can absorb the stormlight from a surgebinder but can they absorb everyday stormlight from a gem and can they dish out the stormlight they have already absorbed like a stormlight canister? If they could it would be pretty handy for a surgebinder to have a larkin around at all times to steal light from everyone and everything. Could be why they're so sought after.

Did the kid die before life used regrowth on him? I figured that she only healed his cut throat not totally brought him back to life. Also side note why did they make the kid the emperor when it was obviously lift who used regrowth? I feel like she got robbed of the throne

But can regrowth bring people back to life?

I was wondering if maybe someone could build a fabrial that uses storm light to do things that breaths would do like Awakening and such? This question comes from scene where nalan uses the fabrial to bring szeth back to life. Could that have been a breath fabrial? Could szeth actually be an awakened human like a lifeless from warbreaker?

I keep thinking nan balat will somehow become the champion for odium. He seems the most sadistic of the secondary characters, pulling off legs of cremlings and beating his axehound pups. How long before that sick behavior starts to get pointed at humans? Especially since the ghostbloods have kinda an influence on him after kidnapping him off their estates. They might push him over the top and point him in the wrong direction. Seems like he might attract a voidspren with all that nastiness Edit: ohhh just thought of this to. If balats girlfriend (forgot her name) were to die he would go really dark, he described her as the only good thing to ever happen to him

Pokemon and Roman legions? Sounds like my kind of book. Starting Codex alera as soon as I get off work.

So I should read king killer, malazan the fallen and wheel of time? I mean we have at least two and a half years till the next storm light book comes out and I can't just reread Sanderson books till then. I might go crazy

OK so I've read a lot of books in my time (every book b. Sanderson has put out) and I find myself being extremely disappointed in non-sanderson books Like I read joe Abercrombies the first law series and was so mad at the ending of that series. Seriously like in 10 years when the first half of this series is out I believe people will be thinking "George r r who? Tolken who?" I still have my favorites like 'ready player one' and the eragon series but i feel like other authors can't match his writing skill and story telling ability. Does anyone else feel this way? Like Sanderson is completely taking over the high fantasy genre?

Just have to say my favorite Wit moment has to be when he switched places while driving the coach in WoR. "He ran off giggling like a child, he did" I can totally see hoid doing something like this but he's the only one who thinks it's hilarious. Also think about this... He must spend like 95% of his concentration trying not to let info about other shard worlds slip out accidently. Could you imagine how confused people would be if he let the word allomancer or feruchemy or an-dor slip? They already think he's strange but he would go to nuts if he mentioned anything like that

I would say that since the radiant wasn't around to feed the plate stormlight anymore they just stopped being live spren and became more armor than spren. Yet when someone got the idea to put gems in the back and feed it stormlight again the armor began to regrow itself and be more like the real deal again. I bet it took awhile for that to come around though, just like the gems on shardblades took some time after recreance. I think when someone does finally get some live shardplate it's going to be way cooler than just armor though.