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Absolutely, and a big part of why I, too, believe the book will span the 10 days... however, Brandon is also absolutely one for the fake-out and subversion of expectation (to say he revels in it seems an understatement.) Thus, it seems entirely possible we might see a day or two timeskip, or there might be several days within one or more of the five parts. We all remember the prelude then the prologue, then chapter one in WoK... I wouldn't put it past him to break the 5 sections down into several days each as subsections.

Honestly... I'm also wondering about Gavinor. It's a long shot, but hear me out - if the Wind was only able to speak again after the ascension of TOdium, and the Wind has been speaking to the author since childhood, could he be a contender, authoring the book during the second arc? Or Oroden, or (dare I even utter his name?) Adin.

Honestly... I'm also wondering about Gavinor. It's a long shot, but hear me out - if the Wind was only able to speak again after the ascension of TOdium, and the Wind has been speaking to the author since childhood, could he be a contender, authoring the book during the second arc? Or Oroden, or (dare I even utter his name?) Adin.

Gotcha - so you're positing that this cleansing, and the disappearance of both the heralds and the Wind, is one from the past. My understanding of these epigraphs is of a text as-yet-to-be-written as of chapter 6 (much like Oathbringer and Rhythm of War when they were first cited) and the cleansing and disappearance are both still-to-come - Szeth does intend to cleanse his homeland, not just the leaders - though that may well prove adequate.

I believe these two events to be one and the same, both in the 'future' from our perspective as of Ch 6. Are you thinking of the Scouring of Aimia when referencing historical events?

We don't really know that the book will take place only over 10 days. While that's everyone's expectation and certainly what Brandon has led us to believe, it's entirely possible that the Contest of Champions takes place in Part 2 or 3, leaving us with roughly have of WaT for post-CoC. On an unrelated note: I'm surprised not to see any discussion yet regarding Towerlight being used by Radiants while within a certain radius of the tower but then the light failing them beyond it. We've got Lift using Lifelight she metabolizes herself, Radiants using Stormlight from spheres/the storm, and seemingly everyone (though I suppose I don't think we know for sure with Lift) using Towerlight, but only when in the right places... what other limitations are there on the various lights? And could previously unusable light become useable under the right conditions? Could it be that Kal himself even used voidlight back in RoW during/after his final confrontation with The Pursuer?

While on the Coppermind today I noticed a line about Hoid that didn't quite sit right with me: How do we know that Hoid knows that Is there a WoB I missed somewhere?

Sounds about right! Life before death! Refresh before sleep! Journey before destination!

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The biggest issue I see here is the need for any vessel to be adequately Connected to a given shard’s intent to hold it successfully (see M:SH, as well as several WoB’s)… somehow I doubt that Koravellium Avast is going to be particularly Connected to the intent of the shard that ended her husband. Oh storming crem-filled Nale’s nuts! Unless… SHE was complicit *cue dramatic woodchuck* While doubtful, I may have just found my new favorite Cosmere Conspiracy

Presumably they would die as the spike has, well, destroyed their heart while also stealing a chunk of their spirit web... BUT the spike would retain a much greater portion of its hemalurgical charge than otherwise as it's effectively stored in blood... at least until the victim rots anyhow.

The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages The Alloy of Law Shadows of Self Bands of Mourning The Lost Metal (not yet published) Mistborn: Secret History The Eleventh Metal Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania

There are a bunch of videos showing "all the alkali metals," but a bunch of them amp up Rubidium, Cesium, and Francium with a smidge of traditional explosives. Brainiac, a BBC show, was perhaps the worst offender here. When Rubidium and Cesium didn't give them the results they wanted, they simply tossed in they "rigged a bomb in the bottom of the bath and then blew the [rust] out of it." Source. It's really too bad that science is often overly simplified to the point of being incorrect in attempt to drive a point home and therefore be 'of more educational benefit.' Science is plenty impressive on it's own. For example - while Cesium and water may not be all that explosive... the Cesium Hydroxide solution the reaction produces is so basic (alkaline) that it's largely impractical to use or even store as it rapidly dissolves glass in any significant concentration. A fairly reliable source of chemistry info for the YouTubing crowd is The Periodic Table of Videos... they even publish corrections videos when they make an error.

Hey @Quantus - Classically trained chemist here: I hate to break it to you, but Francium in water is WAY more tame than that video - the video in question is showing a hydrogen bomb test from the 50's (nuclear, not chemical). It's been passed around a few times as 'FRANCIUM' but is really just clickbait. In other, frankly far more interesting news about Francium: 1) There's only an estimated 30 g of Francium in the entirety of the earth's crust! It's radioactive and decays so quickly (it's got a half-life of 22 minutes), we've never been able to gather a large enough sample to know what it actually looks like in metallic form. 2) Sodium is actually the most explosive/dangerous of the alkali metals in water (though Potassium is WICKED nasty when it forms oxides and superoxides (then it's a contact explosive). "But Smye!" you exclaim. "I learned in my chemistry class that the elements become more reactive as you move down the periodic table! How can Sodium (or even Potassium) be the most explosive?" I'm so glad you asked. You're right that Francium is far more reactive than those lighter elements (though slightly less so than Cesium, thanks to relativistic effects)... BUT, it would produce barely a whimper if a sizeable amount were dropped in water. Why? In the words of Theodore Gray "Reactivity, as the term is used by chemists, does not accurately correlate with the size and spectacle of the resulting explosion. When an alkali metal is dropped into water, there are two separate stages to the explosion. First, the metal reacts with the water, tearing off and liberating hydrogen gas. Second, and this part doesn't always happen, the heat generated by the first part of the reaction ignites the hydrogen gas, which burns, sometimes explosively, in the surrounding air. It is this secondary hydrogen gas explosion that produces the visible flame above the bowl of water and/or lake, not the initial reaction of the metal with water (which, of course, tends to happen mostly under water). And it doesn't matter which alkali metal created that hydrogen gas: Hydrogen is hydrogen, regardless of its source. All that matters is how much of it there is when it's lit, and how well it's mixed with air before it's ignited. Generally speaking, the hydrogen gas explosion contributes more to the overall visible size of the explosion than does the initial metal-water reaction. And this brings into play an important fact: When you go down the periodic table from lithium to cesium, the atomic weight goes up from 6.94 to 132.9. Higher atomic weight means fewer atoms per unit of weight, and the amount of hydrogen gas generated is directly proportional to the number of atoms. So 5 grams of cesium liberates only about one twentieth as much hydrogen as five grams of lithium, and a bit over one sixth as much as 5 grams of sodium. You might think this would mean lithium gives the biggest hydrogen explosion, but as you can see from [any high school chemistry demo] it reacts so gently that it never gets hot enough to actually set off the hydrogen. And if it did, it's producing gas so slowly that very little would still be close enough to be ignited. Sodium and potassium are the happy medium: They produce lots of hydrogen gas, and they do it fast enough that it is still around when they get hot enough to ignite it. In fact, sodium often waits just about exactly the right amount of time to allow a large plume of hydrogen to accumulate and mix with oxygen from the air before igniting an almighty bang. In a very real sense the slightly lower rate of reaction of sodium compared to potassium makes it a perfect time fuse, an essential component in any fuel-air bomb." So, in short, Ettmetal would be more explosive than Sodium - which is still quite terrifying in the right circumstances - but nowhere near atomic bomb level scary.

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So I’m listening to the spoiler livestream (no quotes/spoilers here, don’t worry) and @Jofwu asked a question that inspired a new idea that I’m rather taken with. We know that BaM is/was connected to all the Spren on Roshar. We know that basically everything that the people on Roshar have a cognitive ideal of has an associated Spren. Spren are certainly things/beings that people on Roshar think about and have ideals around… Could it be that BaM is/was the Spren of Spren? (And possibly Spren of Spren of Spren of Spren of Spren…) thus explaining (at least in part) the connection to all Spren? And if not, does such a meta-Spren exist? Do we have any WoB’s on this? And if not, what are your thoughts?

Or simply by bonding with a lesser spren akin to greatshells

Seconded. Let's leave that one at the door. If your curiosity needs scratched, a quick Googling can give you a rundown

This seems incredibly unlikely as Sazed speaks of Trell during Mistborn Era 1 (HoA) which takes place prior to Stormlight... I like your thinking, but I don't think it holds water. *edit for typo

Not only is he stretching his influence through the Cosmere, he's now invading other intellectual properties... Storming brilliant he is, if sketchy as all Braize.

Also on Reddit: Lurcher Here are the lists of things that I've noticed could be reasons why certain Herald images get chosen. I also picked up on alot of this stuff because the folks over at Tor have done a WoR re-read and have a dedicated "Heraldic Symbolism" subsection they devote for each chapter. They speculate as to why the specific herald(s) were chosen. Specifically Alice Arneson (one of the re-readers) has seemingly done some good research into this, so I'll give her credit for a lot of this. I mostly listed these out for my own reference as I've been meaning to do so (since I usually keep them in my head when figuring this out when reading). Herald themselves (mentioned, talked about, or actually has an appearance) Some object associated with a herald (example: A specific herald's honorblade) Member of Order (ex: Kaladin=Windrunners=Jezrien) Characters portraying divine attribute behavior (example: Loving and Healing) Characters portraying the inverse of divine attribute behavior (example: Hating and Destroying) Herald of <concept> - things associated with that concept. Known examples: 1) Shalash: Herald of Beauty 2) Nalan: Herald of Justice 3) Jezrien: Herald of Kings 4) Taln: Herald of War 5) Ishar: Herald of Luck Roles associated with a herald Known Examples: 1)Chana: Guards 2)Taln: Soldiers/war 3)Ishar: Ardents/religion 4)Vedel: Physicians Essences (https://coppermind.net/wiki/Ten_Essences ): Essence, body focus, Soulcasting properties...(this one is a stretch as I've never really could pinpoint this well enough) Jester/Masked face (as mentioned in other posts on this thread). This can be tied to chapters with Wit them or tied to concepts related to him, the biggest one (I think) being storytelling. How'd I do? Note: I loved the "Four Lifetimes" chapter's heraldic symbolism in Oathbringer (I'm a little over halfway through the book), but I thought that was great showing the different roles/lives Kaladin has filled: Surgeon (Vedel), Soldier (Taln), Guard (Chana), and Leader/Windrunner (Jezrien). Bravo. Peter Ahlstrom How did you do? Pretty much a home run. There's only one thing you're missing, which you may have implied, and that's the gemstones. Also, there's a little bit more to #5 that will be explored further later in the series. Your "Four Lifetimes" analysis is spot-on. Congratulations. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/116/#e8892

Here's a decent summary I've been meaning to update...

WE? *grumble grumble* But seriously, congrats on being one of the lucky few.

FOR THE LOSS!! It's the opposite of For the Win, often employed by peewee football players or community league baseball teams who are sick of the sports their parents are forcing them to play, so each team is competing to lose during the playoffs so they can finally be done with playing left field.

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