We see at the end of WoR that Kaladin can use his shardblade to transform into many different weapons. What's stopping someone from forming their weapon into all kinds of crazy shapes to win a battle?

Imagine just having your blade loop in two directions and then connect to completely immobilize your opponents weapon. Or even turn it into a 20 meter pole, but REALLY thin.

That Harry (MB) spike himself with the (DF) nails from the Swords of the Cross for the climax of the series and I'm sure everyone who clicked on those spoilers just had the same thought I did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fYLIeZ6ddY

Recently I've been playing on this minecraft server thats based on the cosmere and its pretty fun, tight knit community with a lot of thought gone into the mods and balancing. If you guys are interested give it a try; having more players is always more fun and makes the experience all the better. Its got radiants, allomancy, feruchemy, stuff like aviar, and well as minecraft specific stuff like tinkers and create, so its got somethin for everyone. Hope y'all enjoy

Okay, so I went down a rabbit hole of looking at the Alethi glyphs and how they could relate to the tones. First, my thoughts came from looking at the Shattered Planes and the conversation between Jasnah and Kabsal in WoK. The way that cities took the shape of vibrations on a metal plate. This is further elaborated in RoW when Navani and Raboniel again talk about the tones and specifically the tones of Roshar, referring to the tones of Odium, Honor, and Cultivation. I believe that the Shattered Plains is a giant plate that the tone of Roshar itself is embedded in the stone. In RoW, we see the glyphs of Honor, Cultivation, and Odium in their ancient glyph forms. When they are overlapped, they create the glyph of Roshar. Is it a stretch to say that the radially symmetric shape of the Shattered Plains is the glyph of Roshar, but as its pure tone?

I've read everything cosmere pre wind and Truth . I'm rereading Stormlight 1 through 4 before I read Wind and Truth for the first time. Just got to one of the chapter opener Diagram quotes that says "One is almost certainly a traitor to the others"

I'm trying to remember what this could be in book 3 or 4 and would like a reminder. But if its in Wind and Truth, then I'll RAFO

Is the Shadesmar sun as seen in Roshars cognitive realm the Knell? Or where ambition died? This is literally it.

In other books like emberdark and some of secret history we are not described the shadesmar sun at all. It is not present there and does not play any role in those stories. It is absent.

One of the biggest problems in emberdark is that no one can effectively navigate shadesmar, mostly because of its lack of stable landmarks. The whole solution to the plot is having the navigators come about to solve this issue and give first of the sun leverage.

Dusk really wouldn’t need so much help navigating if the shadesmar sun was visible to him, it could at least establish some cardinal directions to him.

It makes sense then, that the reason that sun is only seen in the region of roshars cognitive realm is because the knell is nearby. This also explains its lack of movement, and weak light. It is not actually a representation of the sun at all, it is just a distant point of light that is close and bright enough to be mistaken for some weak sun.

In this case then, Roshar should be a neighbor of threnody, and the death of ambition.

Not really a theory here, I’m just wondering if this is established? I’ve not seen it mentioned.

Hi friends! I've been working on this previs project for the past year and would love to get your thoughts on it! This scene really resonated with me when I read Wind and Truth and I hope this makes yall feel the same way I did when I read it.

If I yall smile while watching this, I win :)

Very happy with this box! The quality is incredible. I love having those standalone Hoid stories as children's books. My 7 year old daughter loves the dog and dragon plushies and I'm excited to read these books to her.

Shout out to Dragonsteel! Seriously impressed with their team and the quality of the products they put out.

I haven’t been able to find anything definitive so I am asking here. Are Seekers (and other Investiture sensing things like white sand) able to sense Hemalurgic constructs like Koloss and Kandra? The reason I ask is because they are essentially using Investiture through their spikes to change things about themselves such as strength and growth for the Koloss and mind and life for the Kandra. Or at least it feels like the spike(s) for a construct should be an active (kinetic) use of Investiture because they are giving a benefit.

The only thing I can think of for why a Seeker wouldn’t get a reading from them would be something like why most can’t sense Feruchemy as it is an internal manipulation of kinetic Investiture.

So thoughts or a WoB I missed anyone?

Edit: Some people haven’t gotten the RPG books so there is one thing there that kind of triggered this - seekers can sense active metalmind use if they are really good. My thought was that even with a spike stapling new SDNA onto the “victim” of the spike being considered all it does that for a Hemalurgic construct it would have to be active because further/constant changes are happening. Something is giving the energy/calories to the constructs to keep them alive no matter what insane biology it has (like the Chimeras).

We know that all Shards can somewhat see/predict the future, and that clairvoyance is an ability that even mortals can receive through investiture.

Does this mean that Adonalsium had almost perfect future-sight before his shattering? Did It know what was going to happen, and let it happen anyway? How far do you think he could see into the future?

In my personal opinion, It foresaw all the major events so far, and the next ones too. For some reasons It took a gamble and there's a good chance that Its shattering will lead to the goal It seeks, in a few thousand years of time.

I'm reading The Lost Metal (the only one cosmere book I have left to be up to date) and came across this paragraph of Moonlight telling Marasi that Bavadin is scared of how scadrians are advancing. But that got me asking, what is stopping Autonomy to give her people the technology and means of doing it? Being a Shard she should know (Sazed said in Alloy of Law to Wax that he expected some advances that hadn't come to pass yet).

At first I thought about her Intent, let people advance independenty (as seen in Isles of the Emberdark). But if not her, what's stopping Retribution or say, Invention doing the same?

Moreover, whats stopping Retribution taking all the parshendi in the Spiritual realm and get out with supersoldiers? (He has Kharbrant in there)

Thanks!

This is flagged “no FoD spoilers”, but if this question is answered in FoD I’d like to know that it’s answered, but don’t want to know the answer itself.

In TSM, while Nomad is in the lab with the Scadrians, he says his old oaths again and both sets of his old armor Spren try to push into the physical realm. I don’t have the text in front of me, but he makes a comment like “but it wasn’t investiture he was missing”. What…exactly was he missing?

Was he missing Connection to honor bc he renounced his vows? Did something happen to his Identity that makes him unable to use surgebinding normally? If anyone has the time, I’d be interested in an explanation of what, exactly, is required to utilize an invested art.

Thanks!

Spoilers for Emperor's Soul, Stormlight 5, Mistborn era 2 and Isles of the Emberdark

Were Hoid and Moonlight married at some point, between Era 2 and Isles?

Moonlight is one character that we've seen lose her memory (undergo a full Identity flip really) in the Lost Metal.
An interesting snippet on why her specifically, from the Lost Metal:

"Can’t tell these days,” Moonlight said, “if I’m keeping watch on him, or if he’s keeping watch on me. Realistically, we’re both just keeping watch on the same third parties…”
“What. Hoid?” Marasi asked. “He’s been in Wax’s employ for years. He’s an odd fellow, but…”
In the next truck, Hoid glanced at them—past Marasi—and nodded to Moonlight.
Damn. What in the world? How much of her time had she wasted on bank robberies or protection rackets, when this was going on?
Whatever this was.
“Has it ever struck you,” Moonlight said, “how art is so destructive?”
“Art?” Marasi said, frowning. “Destructive?”
“Each new movement consumes the one that came before,” Moonlight said, starting them forward as the traffic began to creep into motion again. “Chops it up and feeds on the corpse. Takes the bones, but drapes new skin on them. Each new piece of art is in some way a parody of what has come before.”
“You sound like an artist yourself.”
“I have certain talents,” she said. “My experiences have given me an interest in the quirks of the artistic world—and its … values, you might say."

This sounds right up Wit's alley. And then we hear in Isles (conversation with Starling) thathis wife "doesn’t remember ever having been my wife". This could potentially be another SoulStamp incident after TLM.
Maybe a tenuous connection but curious to hear what others think.

The Fate of Roshar is in Your Hands... War for Roshar, now available on Kickstarter 

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The War for Roshar Kickstarter is now live! This 2-4 player asymmetric strategic war game, designed by John D. Clair, allows players to face the very same challenges of their favorite Leader characters in Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. Not only does the game allow you to experience similar strategic challenges of the world of Roshar at war, but the Leader driven nature of this game's advancement perfectly emulates the importance and agency of the characters within Brandon Sanderson's novels. Be sure to check out the official trailer for the game as well!

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r/Cosmere AMA with Johnny O'Neal this Thursday, 10/15, at 12:00 PM !

Join us for an AMA on the r/Cosmere subreddit with Johnny O'Neal this Thursday 10/15 at Noon EDT! Ask your questions about the canon lore within our games, mechanizing the Cosmere, and any other Cosmere games or War for Roshar questions you might have.

I'm trying to understand glyph drawing from the stormlight archive.

I don't know if this is correcto way of doing it.

I used the glyph index in the coppermind.

Feedback is aprecciated

Just finished Tress, and one thing I noticed while reading was the interaction between activated spores and iron/steel, specifically the two sprouter tools, where the steel trowel pushes spore growth away, and iron plate pulls spore growth towards it. this tracks with how in allomancy iron pulls and steel pushes on metals.

Further, we have seen in Song of War notes that fabrials use spren and their reactions to different metals to create different effects, and I assume the same will hold true for aethers.

So we know what iron and steel do, but what do you all think about the other metals? I have some ideas:

physical metals:

• iron: pulls growth in its direction
• steel: pushes growth away from its direction
• pewter: stimulates denser, slower growth. (ex: verdant vines would be denser, with protective bark)
• tin: enhanced precision when growing?

mental metals:

• zinc: growth is faster
• brass: growth is slower
• copper: ignores intent from luhel bond?
• bronze: enhances intent from luhel bond?

Enhancement metals:

• aluminum: insulates from silver (and id bet other metals and forms of investiture, from what else we have seen aluminum do.
• duralumin: amplifies effects of silver/other metals
• chromium: honestly no idea what chromium or nicrosil should do
• nicrosil: ???

Temporal metals, (gold, electrum, cadmium, and bendalloy), i have no clue either. maybe their effects reflect feruchemy's abilities? feel free to suggest some and I can edit it.

finally, what the hell is going on with silver? From my understanding it seems to be lethal to investiture based organisms, like shades and spores, but as far as i know does nothing to spren. it is not used in metallic arts except as part of electrum. I assumed silver was invested on threnody from ambition prior to its shattering, but that no longer seems to be the case. aluminum has always stood out to me as being out of place in metallic arts, but silver NOT being in metallic arts while having significant effects stands out even more.

just a note that i have not finished Wind and Truth, secret history, fires of december, or yumi and the nightmare painter, try to mark spoilers please.

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Hi, I finish Oathbringer some days ago and I love it. I can’t stop thinking about personal theories and questions, so i will just spill them out! (If the answer to some of these are just “RAFO”, tell me so i can avoid spoilers, thanks) (If some of these things I named sound weird it’s because I read the books in Spanish lol)

-Was Elhokar going to be a Lightweaver?
I remember that in the first book he mentions seeing things and describing them similar to how Shallan describes pattern when they meet. So I assume its because he was going to be a Lightweaver.

-What big lies does Elhokar hide so much to become a Lightweaver?

-The spren Hoid finds in the end is the pattern Elhokar was supposed to had? It’s in Kholinar

-Does Hoid became a Lightweaver because he actually fits the oaths and lies, of course he has many of them, or because the spren just feel like it? Lol

-How does Nightblood have so much investure when it’s not that hard to create more like him? If i remember correctly, you need to be 9th elevantion an give a 1000 souls to create a weapon like Nightblood, i know that really few people could get into the 9th, but if a god like Susebron just get nuts one day, he could get an army with invested swords. (Fck scary)
I’m missing something? (I know that it’s unknown to them the possibility to awake steel and rock)

-The Radiant in Amarams army:
They mentioned that someone was close to the first oath in the Amaram army, at first I thought it was of course Kaladin, but they said that him becoming a Radiant was not expected. So, who?
That’s when I got exited the most with theories, i think it’s Tien. (Was 😢)
At first i thought it was Kaladin girlfriend, the one that left. Why? Idk, I just feel that my boy needed someone now that he feels alone.
But the more I think, it feels like Tien. I have two theories for this.
First, Syl mentions that she was watching Kal for a long time but she can’t remember this time clearly. Maybe cause when Tien died, she went with Kaladin instead.
Now, the second and the one I like the most, he was going to be a Lightweaver. He used to find those cool silly rocks for Kaladin, and he mentions a lot that the rocks were actually pretty cool, for me, that’s an expression of art appreciation that Tien was showing, or maybe he had some connections to Shadesmar and that’s why he saw things different to the rest. Also, when Tien “confronted” problems, it just seemed like he gets paralyzed and then continues like nothing happens, almost like Shallan did when she was younger. They share so many things.
And now that I mention paralyzed, could he have been a Truthwatcher like Renarin? That’s why he reacted like that sometimes?

That’s all, please no spoilers, just say RAFO if needed.

I really love this book and the questions it gave me, easily my top 2 SLA. (WoK top 1)

Thanks!

I remember some very vague conversations hinting at Dai-gonarthis having a very significant cost to use, but was there any clarification as to what that is in any of the books? (I don't read the words of brandon).

We know that someone can avoid having their emotions pulled or pushed by wearing a lining of aluminum on their heads, such as within hats. However, if a rioter for example were to be wearing such a hat, would that disable their ability to riot the emotions of others? Does this protection work both ways or only one way? We know the rioting can also be disabled if aluminum is pressed onto the chest of a rioter, but does that mean that pressed on their heads wouldn’t disable it?

"Always the next step"

Never gotten a tattoo before. I've wanted this one for a couple of years. Agonized over the decision, to be honest. But now I pulled the trigger, and I could not be happier with it!

I randomly thought of the idea of the cosmere having a hero shooter, similar to marvel Rivals or Overwatch, and I can’t stop thinking about it. There are so many different possibilities that would be so cool to see.

Just some roles I think would translate really well are:

Tanks: Wind runners, koloss / koloss blooded, pewter arms (thugs), lurchers, blood makers, etc…

Dps: Coin Shots, skybreakers, dustbringers, etc…

Support: edgedancers, truthwatchers, Elantrians, etc …

I know there are tons of different abilities I’m forgetting but these were just off the top of my head.

This could also allow for an Interesting Ammunition mechanics, like breathing in Stormlight, and swallowing metal as a way of reloading. Allomancers could also flair their metals allowing for a stronger attack but costing more ammo.

I’d love to hear anyone’s thoughts and recommendations on this idea.

Say I stab Hoid or a Bloodmaker with a spike, and they heal, is the spike still charged? If it is, does the stabby lose the abilities? Infinite gold feruchemy?

Sure compounding means you can exist without eating anything, whatever

But have we considered a bendalloy twinborn story as the cosmere's premiere competitive eater. Metric tons of hot dogs and chouta disappearing in fractions of a second

The caloric output of nations gone in minutes

The mustard consumption, off the charts