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Here's the WoB Until that WoB in fact, there was significant evidence promoting the idea of a Shard on Ashyn. Given what we know of the planet and the magic system, it is still fairly likely there was a shard there, or that SOMETHING extra has invested itself. Best clue comes from this quote, about Threnody (the only shardless planet we have seen so far): From the readings of Silence Divine, magic is something you perform on Ashyn, strongly suggesting there is some sort of additional investiture. There are other clues, but I'm not really going to go over them. It's also possible he changed his mind, that it used to have a shard but when he sat down to plot it out decided that some other explanation was more appropriate. And here's a random speculative theory for you: Each shard currently on Roshar was initially invested in one of the other planets in the Solar System. Cultivation on Ashyn, and Odium on Braise. Cultivating bacteria makes a lot of sense with the intent of cultivation, after all! This sounds kind of fun (but unlikely). I might develop this.

No biggy. I've got plenty of rep. I'll upvote you and we'll call it a business transaction. One upvote transfer, on your desk by Wednesday morning.

I'm not gonna try Lightsworn Panda, sorry! I can't top that. TheOnlyJoe, I went for a duck duck goose approach, since you're the odd one out. Ideas can be tough!

Big fan of Modesitt myself. I enjoy coming of age and discovery type themes (also common in Brandon's books, go figure), and I enjoy Modesitt's excellent worldbuilding. His knowledge of military and peacekeeping is quite good as well - so many other authors just lump fantasy warfare into the 'It's really unpleasant' bag, and I think they don't do it justice contextually. It's also always good to get people who have considered the role of magic in warfare, and who actively understand and appreciate how warfare can drive innovation and invention for a variety of reasons. That is something Brandon is actually not good at - he doesn't like warfare much, and most of his societies and cultures do not seem to have the sorts of positions, roles, and uses for magical warfare that you might expect. Mostly he avoids the issue entirely - on Sel, the Elantrians were so strong they didn't need any real military support. On Scadrial, the Lord Ruler suppressed any large standing army, and prevented frequent skirmishing. Warfare was unable to advance. On Nalthis, war is mentioned, frequently. However, we don't really see the unique and novel uses for magic, the various roles and implications, etc. We see the lifeless, and the super lifeless, and that's all. Just big one-size-fits-all trump cards. Roshar is the most interesting in the aspect. Sadly, though, surgebinding has been lost for a looooong time - warfare has evolved to basically regular warfare with a handful of super soldiers. Kind of disappointing how little they've adapted their fabrials to warfare in what is supposed to be an extremely warlike culture. Anyway, Modesitt is an expert at exactly that. And though he has his down points in how he writes, especially in his early Recluse books, I still enjoy them immensely. He's also expert at finding characters whose strengths are flaws. Example: In his latest Imager Portfolio series, the MC is a person who is intelligent and dislikes solving things through violence. However, violence and authority are what he is best at, and when the going gets tough he gets tough. It's an interesting duality, because the explicit theme is very much 'Violence isn't the answer', but the implicit theme is 'Even if you've very smart, you often can't find the other alternative'.

I have to admit, I haven't solidified my theories on the realms. Everytime I have something, I find another bit that doesn't make sense and writing special cases out tends to make me through out the whole thing after a time or two. That said, investiture does indeed transcend all realms, though it has numerous special interactions in the spiritual realm.

This is a good theory, but here are some things to consider. Spren are splinters (WoB). Splinters have intent (WoB). Splinters are chunks of investiture (WoB). Chunks of investiture can gain spontaneous sentience (WoB). Nightblood is fundamentally the same as a spren (WoB), and is a chunk of investiture (Warbreaker), has been given an intent(Warbreaker), and is sentient(Warbreaker); thus he is a splinter (Deduction). Shardic intent warps people (WoB) and all investiture has a similar warping effect dependent on the amount (WoB). So Spren and Nightblade almost certainly will warp people over extend periods of use (Deduction). Honorblades, though... we don't know what they are exactly. They are not spren (Induction). They may or may not be splinters. They can bond with people, and most (possibly all?) splinters bond (three different WoB for Seons, Nightblood, and Spren on that). So they might be splinters, in fact should be splinters. But it's strange that they are different from Spren, if they are also splinters of Honor. Also strange that they have no sentience of their own. Not sure how invested they are. If they aren't heavily invested, they may not change personality much. Even heavily invested objects take time (See Vasher and Nightblood). So, overall, your theory holds.

One more, just made Awesomeness's summon card a square: Why is he in front of an American flag instead of an explosion? I don't know! Maybe the flag explodes in the next scene.

Alright, went ahead and made some more, so heads up Chaos! First off, I started with a group of Chao. Not terribly original. Next thought was an Emerald filled with Stormlight (base image courtesy of Jayden) Which looks awesome, but what if you aren't a Sonic fan? Third Attempt I split the word up. Cha is tea in Japanese, and os.... In the end I went with Chai, because it's more recognizable across the world, and because it rhymes with Shai. Fully original ChaiOS, served in a mug. Bonus: I also did a pirate butler for ArrrrrGent.

Update time! Added the first four pages of Cosmere Theories. As expected, it's been a ride! Cosmere board has 15-20 theories a page so far, about double the density of the other boards. It's amazing and great to see 1/2 to 3/4 of a page covered in theories. I've seen a lot of things buried in there - theories I've come to independently (though with the advantage of Words or Radiance and all it's signings) that I never knew existed and couldn't find, theorists of exceptional quality that I've never met or seen before, and WoBs that were previously buried. So, we're now up to 368 theories - 62 theories over three and a half pages (the last page was only half full). I've seen the rise of the Theorymaster Chaos (something I've been looking forward to) as he breaks out the Gold and pushes his way to the top. I've met Mad_Scientist - an amazing theorist who didn't post many posts (only 56 in Cosmere boards) but yet has managed to claw his way to the peak of the Quality Leaderboard on the Hall of Fame with the seven theories he presented in his short four months on the boards, every last one lengthy, well-formatted, and logical. I just reached Windrunner's appearance, so I'm looking forward to seeing him and his many posts on the Cosmere boards. I'm also looking forward to more from Outis, WeiryWriter and his many posts, Observer, and maybe even a bit of Moogle and Argent (who have been missing as they are mostly Stormlight peeps). So far, Cosmere has lived up to expectations and been a most interesting and very high quality board. Did you see my parody profile pic of Kurk? I couldn't help myself but I think it's fantastic. Kurkistan would have the best regional magic ever.

WHO SUMMONS ME? So yes, creator and curator of the Theory Index is I. As far as it goes, I generally only consider a theory to be formally stated if it's the titular post in it's own topic. Why? Two reasons. The first is that theories stated in the middle of another thread are often contextual - they rely on reading the rest of the thread to make sense of many of the comments, and a properly stated theory really should stand alone and be properly sourced. The second, and much more important reason is, I'm not crazy - there are 730+ topics on the Mistborn boards, and it took me four days and about twelvish hours of work to get them all kind of sorted and onto the Index. There are 13,821 posts right now on the Mistborn boards. Even accounting for topics I could dismiss entirely, I'd be looking at over 200 hours of work to sort em all. And I'd probably get less theories and poorer theories in general than I would cruising the 730+ topics (with a few notable exceptions). Stormlight Archive has 45000+ posts kill me now So, is there a solution? Why YES! The Theory Index is in fact stored on the coppermind wiki, and I welcome and encourage everyone to add to it or correct it (in an orderly fashion). Just click the little edit button near the top of the page. Clear it with skaa if you like, and add your name to his theory as joint authorship (Arrr!), or if you prefer, make a separate entry linking to your own theory just for you! No reason two people can't make the same theory (trust me, they already do). Personally, I would do that myself. If you have any other hidden theories knocking around, feel free to put them on as well. Alternatively, if you post them into a new topic on the boards, I'll add them to the list as part of my usual curation duties. You may also be interested to note Kadrok, that out of the Mistborn, Elantris, and Warbreaker boards, you have posted five theories that I've found and recorded, which garnered 19 total points, putting your Theorist Quality at 6th place currently, behind Kurk, Skaa, Me, Phantom, and Aether. Behind you are six other notables, and approximately 133 other theorists. This is bound to change, of course, as I cruise the Cosmere and Stormlight boards, but it is still quite impressive! I.... like statistics boards. >.>

How an interesting theory like this got overlooked is a tragedy. I will look this over later and get some nice comments up.

Yes, this is a big problem with the Elimination game in general. There are always people who think "I have no special abilities, so I am useless", but that entirely misinterprets the way the game works. Some groups that I've played with have people who basically try to get themselves killed off if they don't have a role, so they can wait for the next game and hope they'll have a role. With most games in general, we're conditioned that in the game world, we are special, and the things that are special about us will be part of the game. Not so with Elimination - at first, it appears that the game is what will make you special, but soon players are divided into two - those who gripe about everything because they expect their game abilities to carry them, and those who realize that judging and manipulating people is the real ability. The game abilities in the original are more for flavour, a little something to spark discussion.

There are no splinters on Scadrial, confirmed by WoB. That said, seems likely that splinters require a focus, so a Scadrian splinter would probably have metal somewhere.

You know, the country of Kurkistan is on Sel... Seeing as the country is shaped like a cat, could it be the Selish branch for the Caton of Inquisition? With unique cat location specific magic?

I could beat a werewolf - Go, Chess, Civ, Counterstrike, Smash bros... Yep, I could take him at anything, really.

The Santhid pic is way more awesome than my brick, to be fair. I mean, it was even made by someone whose name is Awesome.

Got bored, so I made some parody/joke profile pics for members of the site! These are all in good fun, so don't sue me. PorridgeBrick Swimming-lee Kurkistan Skaa ChaOS Arrrr-gent Awesomeness Summoned TheOnlyJoe Kobold King The Greypilgrim TheOnlyJoe's consolation Mailliw73 Ashiok Xanas the 18th Shard Leonardus BreathTaker Delightful Leftinch Baine Aether Quiver (Animated) Random Fractal Of course I made one for myself, too. Because if you can't laugh at yourself you'll be the only one not laughing. T_T

It's quite possible it might not mean anything. So imagine this - you're an immortal shard, travelling the cosmos. You don't want to be tied down to one place, so you travel for oh, say, 500 years. Space is pretty boring though. Maybe you should go to a planet and do some things? Before you know it, you're invested. We know Odium resisted being invested for a long time, and then finally did. We know that uninvesting yourself is tough. We know there's at least one shard travelling in space and not invested in a planet. We suspect that Endowment only invested themselves 500 years ago (though it's possible they were previously invested on a different planet prior, dunno). Anyway, long story short, I think boredom is the correct answer.

Just updated my profile pic today. Threw on the TES symbol originally, just to have something there and because Forgery is super keen. Went ahead and drew a modification earlier today, Turned out alright. Had to add some inside shadow to make it not be so fuzzy when resized by the forum image resizer (which works better with high contrasts), and I might increase the thickness of the left side of the cat for visibility at the 32x32 level, but I'm happy for now. Larger: 1015x1015 version

Mistborn Boards complete! 306 theories. Only about 31 of those are listed as proven/disproven, but I figure the number should probably be closer to 2-3 times that much. I will hopefully catch more on my second pass for editing purposes after I'm done getting all the boards up there. Kurk finally passed skaa in the Quality Hall of Fame as well. Next up, Cosmere Theories!

Unfortunately, Gold does not let you become a different version of yourself, only to see different versions of yourself. Which is too bad, because otherwise you could get a Twinborn who essentially makes Feruchemical Essence Stamps.

Aon-powered Nuke sounds like a terrible idea. You could blow up Elantris, but by the time it got to Fjordell it wouldn't even be a firecracker.

That... does sound cool.

We have WoB that Seons would work. I personally believe Returned would too (I made the first theory on this entire concept). As for nicrosilminds, unlikely, as they 'belong' to a person. Could be wrong, though.

Aons seem to be useable by any Elantrian, as demonstrated by the light plates and teleporter plates. I'd like to share some ideas for realmatic tech and weaponry, but I'm saving them for some big theory threads I'd like to show after I'm done my index. Aons, however, seem fairly easy to automate given their nature as programmatical structures.