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I see that dragon shape and that's all I got. I do remember reading somewhere that the receiver of The Letter is a dragon. And maybe it's under some crem...
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Seeing I'm relatively new here, I originally posted this in the wrong forum. WeiryWriter ask me to place it in this forum and thread....
I finally got around to transcribing the few minutes I had alone with Brandon for a Q&A at the end of the Seattle signing. Some of the questions were from tor.com rereaders, some were mine, and I found a couple on the 17thshard forums. I told karaokeang I’d post what I found, so here they are:
Q: Are larkin and lanceryn one and the same?
A: There’s a little bit more than just [being] one and the same, but in some ways they are.
Q: Do all greatshells have spren?
A: In order to survive with the science that I built, the greatshells almost all require some sort of spren to keep them from collapsing. (I suspect greatshells in the water may not require them.)
Q: Did Adonalsium deliberately shatter itself?
A: Hmmm, good question! RAFO!
Q: Why didn’t Kaladin’s brand heal if Lopen can regrow an arm?
A: It comes down to how one views oneself. It is the answer that you think it is. So really what that’s saying is Kaladin sees himself as branded.
Q: Does Shardplate use a spren?
A: That’s a RAFO.
Q: Can Glys, Renarin’s spren, be a box?
A: The box is not his spren.
Q: Is a Desolation caused when a Herald breaks under torture?
A: This person is asking the right kinds of questions. (It’s since been confirmed from another Q&A that when the Heralds leave the place of torture a Desolation occurs. Taln is STRONG.)
Q: Who’s Nahz? The person who retrieved Shallan’s notebook…
A: You have seen him before.
Q: Why does Urithiru not have hallowed stones?
A: That’ll be answered eventually. It’s cultural, not magical.
Q: Why does Lift feel that Darkness isn’t a real person?
A: Because Lift is an interesting person who has her own perspective on the world.
Q: Is there anything that I should have asked that I didn’t?
A: Probably not… Do you know if anyone has figured out the hidden things in the map of Roshar? (We discussed the pattern 15 code for a bit. I’m glad it’s been solved! He said that it wouldn’t be earth shattering, but it would be cool to know. And boy, it was!)
Q: I picked up the Easter Eggs for Mraize being a Worldhopper. It was actually the sand that did it, having been fortunate enough to read White Sand.
A: Now there’s something odd about that sand. What color is the sand in WoR? (And I couldn’t remember it was pale! So lost an opportunity, darn it!)
(Speculated that I thought that at one time the Parshendi had used Odium spren or Unmade, and they must have finally divested themselves of the spren and that’s why they forgot how to get a lot of the spren forms. And they were trying to figure that out and things have taken a turn for the worse. He said no comment.)
Q: Are the Parshendi at the village the only Parshendi there are? Besides for the Parshmen...
A: The Parshendi as a people were all at Narak. Barring any scouts and things like that. That doesn’t mean that there might not be any other Parshmen out there that have bonded spren, but they would not have been part of this nation – any more than if you found another human that they may not necessarily be American.
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Ah, I didn't know. I'll take care of it.Would you mind posting this in the seattle signing thread in the Events forum? That is where signing reports are supposed to go.
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That's true. I wonder if it's mental torture. But who knows if they're all tortured in the same way...Neither Taln nor Nalan seem to show any visible signs of torture though, and Taln at least was really tortured.
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I finally got around to transcribing the few minutes I had alone with Brandon for a Q&A at the end of the Seattle signing. Some of the questions were from tor.com rereaders, some were mine, and I found a couple on the 17thshard forums. I told karaokeang I’d post what I found, so here they are:
Q: Are larkin and lanceryn one and the same?
A: There’s a little bit more than just [being] one and the same, but in some ways they are.
Q: Do all greatshells have spren?
A: In order to survive with the science that I built, the greatshells almost all require some sort of spren to keep them from collapsing. (I suspect greatshells in the water may not require them.)
Q: Did Adonalsium deliberately shatter itself?
A: Hmmm, good question! RAFO!
Q: Why didn’t Kaladin’s brand heal if Lopen can regrow an arm?
A: It comes down to how one views oneself. It is the answer that you think it is. So really what that’s saying is Kaladin sees himself as branded.
Q: Does Shardplate use a spren?
A: That’s a RAFO.
Q: Can Glys, Renarin’s spren, be a box?
A: The box is not his spren.
Q: Is a Desolation caused when a Herald breaks under torture?
A: This person is asking the right kinds of questions. (It’s since been confirmed from another Q&A that when the Heralds leave the place of torture a Desolation occurs. Taln is STRONG.)
Q: Who’s Nahz? The person who retrieved Shallan’s notebook…
A: You have seen him before.
Q: Why does Urithiru not have hallowed stones?
A: That’ll be answered eventually. It’s cultural, not magical.
Q: Why does Lift feel that Darkness isn’t a real person?
A: Because Lift is an interesting person who has her own perspective on the world.
Q: Is there anything that I should have asked that I didn’t?
A: Probably not… Do you know if anyone has figured out the hidden things in the map of Roshar? (We discussed the pattern 15 code for a bit. I’m glad it’s been solved! He said that it wouldn’t be earth shattering, but it would be cool to know. And boy, it was!)
Q: I picked up the Easter Eggs for Mraize being a Worldhopper. It was actually the sand that did it, having been fortunate enough to read White Sand.
A: Now there’s something odd about that sand. What color is the sand in WoR? (And I couldn’t remember it was pale! So lost an opportunity, darn it!)
(Speculated that I thought that at one time the Parshendi had used Odium spren or Unmade, and they must have finally divested themselves of the spren and that’s why they forgot how to get a lot of the spren forms. And they were trying to figure that out and things have taken a turn for the worse. He said no comment.)
Q: Are the Parshendi at the village the only Parshendi there are? Besides for the Parshmen...
A: The Parshendi as a people were all at Narak. Barring any scouts and things like that. That doesn’t mean that there might not be any other Parshmen out there that have bonded spren, but they would not have been part of this nation – any more than if you found another human that they may not necessarily be American.
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Why is Mraize's sand pale and not white? (Brandon gave me a hint about the sand color at a signing. I couldn't remember what color the sand actually was.)
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“So yes, I Adolin Kholin— cousin to the king, heir to the Kholin princedom— have shat myself in my Shardplate. Three times, all on purpose.”
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Brandon asked me what color the sand was when I brought it up at a signing. I couldn't remember, but I saw it's pale when I checked later. In White Sand it's either white when powered and black when drained. I don't know what to make of the fact that it's pale.
I think Mraize is a Herald as well as a Worldhopper. He's been tortured.
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Well done!
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Adolin talks to his blade. I'm thinking it's likely he may be able to form a bond with it and revive it. The spren aren't really dead, but mindless.
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Nice!Hmmm for a radial pattern, if you look at the map of Roshar, the stamp on the lower right corner is written in a rotation.
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All Brandon would say at the signing is that "the key is in the book". He was quite specific about that and repeated it a couple of times. There may be some hidden meaning or not so hidden meaning in that. He wouldn't answer about pattern 15. Even after I begged
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That Ketek observation is really clever! If I get some time on the weekend, I'll see if there may be any indexing with that. I wish Peter would at least give us the epigraphs that are pertinent (if any others are
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That's pretty interesting! I know bronze detects allomantic pulses, but I never thought about it being used to detect surges. We've never really seen mixing of magic systems like that before, have we?
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Here's a slightly cleaned up version of what I had. OSX or Linux already have Perl. You can download Strawberry Perl for a PC. I couldn't upload it as code1.pl, so I renamed it code1.txt. You can run "perl code1.txt". Or rename it to code1.pl on a pc and run code1.pl. For unix flavors, you have to change permissions on the file after you've copied it - "chmod 755 code1.pl".
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I could probably read it. I wrote a simple piece of a Perl hack code to break up the numbers in pairs and index into paragraph 15. The interesting thing was that arrays are zero based, so I put a dummy character in position 0 to offset the string so 01 would index into the first letter. I'll try the different number splits that have been posted a bit later.
I wish there were some hints about what epigraphs are important. Maybe someone can ask a Brandon for hints at a signing. I'm going to one this weekend, and I certainly intend to!
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The problem is that it's just numbers and we don't know how they split up and what they relate to. That's why I made the assumption they must be related to the only other paragraph from the Book of the Second Ceiling Rotation. I did some research on the net with ciphers when I started looking at it, and most of those don't seem to use numbers. They use letter for letter substitution. Or recursive algorithms using strings against other strings. Yes, ultimately the strings may be ASCII or other binary representations with XORs and other mathematical operations, but that's not exactly what we're dealing with here.
There's been some really clever and interesting speculations on this thread!
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Peter sort of confirmed the metal ingestion. When I mentioned "I just saw Hoid ingest allomantic metals!" when we were doing the gamma read, he said none of the beta readers had picked up on that...
Hoid is sometimes kind and helpful, but he has this ruthless streak in him. I think we've seen enough of him to know that he'll do anything and grab any abilities to achieve his goals.
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There were two instances where I noticed that Hoid used or prepared to use powers/abilities that don't exist on Roshar.
In one of the flashback scenes with Shallan, we saw him ingest metals. She was wondering why he would potentially add poison to his own drink.
When he's tuning his instrument before playing for Kaladin, he thinks that perfect pitch makes it a lot easier. This means he has at least 200 breaths.
We already know he can travel through Shadesmar - we just don't know which power he uses to travel.
Did anyone notice any other instances of him using or preparing powers?
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Yeah, that's been noted. When I posted this, I didn't realize a thread had already been started over here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6398-wor-chapter-84-code/
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Yes, I think it has to be from The Diagram. Even assuming that leaves many, many possibilitiesRemember, this code is part of Taravangian's Plan. That context ahould be kept I think.
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Just for yucks, I tried to use the numbers as Pattern broke them up as indexes into pattern 1, and I got
TealTeaeloaellTolutTaTubTuaelleuTlaaoalblulloioooouleeallletealadlTeulettTtaeaattTeullTeoaeleaul
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We think these are the dates of the highstorms.
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I didn't realize this thread had been started. I typed up what I've tried over here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6404-cracking-the-code-in-wor/.
Maybe a mod could move it into this thread?
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Hidden Things in Map of Roshar?
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That pic of Peter was definitely worth an up vote.