We see in Mistborn Secret History that when someone dies on Scadrial they are first greeted by Preservation in the Cognitive Realm before going to the Beyond. In all other Cosmere books/worlds, this doesn’t seem to happen.
How and why does this happen on Scadrial?
I am half way through WaT where Odium just destroyed Kharbranth with a tsunami. It shows that despite Cultivation and Odium’s own bounds put in place by Honor, he still has the power to alter the landscape and do as he pleases to Roshar itself.
So why is this the only time he does it? He can easily just cause a massive earthquake on the mountain underneath Urithuru to topple everything. On every battlefield he could just decimate the allied troupes before his forces get there with earthquakes and the such.
I feel like there is so much power he has as a God that he never uses. Same goes with just general reconnaissance. It’s explained he knows everything thats going on but that he can’t divide his attention and that’s why the main characters are able to put plans into motion even tho he knows about them. But why not? He’s a god why cant he divide his attention?
Unless I am missing something about all of this?
Just finished reading WaT Chapter 64.
It was really cool seeing the oathpact be born but I was confused about one aspect.
It’s mentioned a few times that Honor’s power is what led to the destruction of Asyhn. This was news to me as I dont recall this ever being brought up before (it’s always been said that they brought Odium from ashyn and were using Odium’s power). Am i missing something, or was this supposed to come as a big reveal (didnt feel like a reveal with how matter of fact it was stated)?
Also was it ever explained why Nale and the rest were fighting?
Why do people call Mistborn YA?
I genuinely struggle to understand why Mistborn is labeled as YA in like every single online circle.
Sure, Vin is the main character and she’s a teenager but thats abt it.
Her ‘coming of age’ story is just a character arc that a character at any age would be able to go through (going from isolated and alone to accepting love and responsibility).
However because she’s young, it’s labeled as ‘coming of age’. No other person (expect maybe Elend and Spook) are teenagers in the story. There are so many other books that have young teenagers that go through a ‘coming of age’ arc (because by definition as they age and change it’s ‘coming of age’) and yet they’re never labeled as YA.
For example, one of Sanderson’s other booms Warbreaker has a teenager that is a princess that much learn to grow and take responsibility (very much ‘coming of age’ and very much a YA trope) but I never see it labeled as YA, even with having the same straight forward prose as Mistborn.
I personally dont think it detracts from the book if it’s labeled as YA, but the most often criticism i here is people saying they had to put it down because it felt too YA. For those that label it as such, Im genuinely curious what other aspects make it seem like YA?
I genuinely struggle to understand why Mistborn is labeled as YA in like every single online circle.
Sure, Vin is the main character and she’s a teenager but thats abt it.
Her ‘coming of age’ story is just a character arc that a character at any age would be able to go through (going from isolated and alone to accepting love and responsibility).
However because she’s young, it’s labeled as ‘coming of age’. No other person (expect maybe Elend and Spook) are teenagers in the story. There are so many other books that have young teenagers that go through a ‘coming of age’ arc (because by definition as they age and change it’s ‘coming of age’) and yet they’re never labeled as YA.
For example, one of Sanderson’s other booms Warbreaker has a teenager that is a princess that much learn to grow and take responsibility (very much ‘coming of age’ and very much a YA trope) but I never see it labeled as YA, even with having the same straight forward prose as Mistborn.
I personally dont think it detracts from the book if it’s labeled as YA, but the most often criticism i here is people saying they had to put it down because it felt too YA. For those that label it as such, Im genuinely curious what other aspects make it seem like YA?
I was reading a few posts in this subreddit that talked about how clever use of Lightweaving surges could lead to extremely powerful/broken abilities. Here are some examples:
Lightweavers could create sounds to match the rythms of investure and anti-investure to manipulate investure and draw stormlight out of a person or repel it away to defend themselves.
Lightweavers could focus their light to create powerful long beam lazers (like how magnifying glass can magnify the suns light).
I love taking a magic system and bending it to the utmost of its established rules to create broken abilities.
I wanted to start a discussion thread for anyone to post their ideas for how a surge could be manipulated and applied to create broken / extremely powerful abilities.
In early WaT, Kaladin mentions that he has to collect his armor spren.
I always thought Living Shardplate was just summoning random Windspren (or whatever spren makes up your order) from the area around you to transform into plate.
But this makes it seem like there is a set number of windspren chosen to be his Shardplate that will never change and try to follow him.
That leads to so many questions:
If he is too far away from his armor spren, can he not summon his Shardplate (just like if Syl is too far away he cant summon her)?
Since windspren are visible, can everyone see Kaladin’s armor spren as just a big collection of windspren? There is never any reference made to Jasnah’s armor spren being visible?
I just finished Stormlight and loved the scope of the story.
I want another epic fantasy series to dive into with a huge world, large cast of characters, dense and detailed lore, large scope, and long word counts.
I found Malazan and Wheel of Time to be really good options people always bring up. I know Wheel of Time is the more similar to Stormlight however I am also very interested in Malazan from the discourse Ive read online.
If anyone is able to list like the differences between Malazan and Wheel of Time, as well as what they do best and not as good (compared to eachother) and overall the vibes of each sorry, that would be super appreciated!
How is Nightblood so powerful that it’s able to kill Odium? A literal god?
Warbreaker spoilers below!!
If i recall, Nightblood was made with only a Thousand Breaths which in the grand scheme of things, especially compared to a god, is unimaginably minuscule. If a thousand Breaths is enough to kill a god, cant a city of Nathis just sacrifice a small city to make multiple Nightbloods and have the power of multiple gods? And be unstoppable?
I just dont understand how such a small amount of Invesisture (Breath) is able to create such a powerful god-killing entity.
I say this with all the respect and love, but I just don’t get it. I have tried reading the Shadow of the Torturer multiple times now and I just dont understand his prose.
It’s not just that I dont really understand the story because of the unreliable narrator. Sentence to sentence, I find his prose so convoluted that I cant even follow whats going on. It took me like 30 minutes to read the first chapter and I still dont quite get the actual actions and mechanics of the scene that is taking place.
Maybe I’m just not smart enough. But I just dont understand what makes his prose so highly rated to many people.
I say this with all the respect, as I truly want to understand and dive into his works and have the appreciation for them that so many people do.
Halfway through Rhythm Of War.
With his new Bondsmith powers, Dalinar is wondering if he could recreate the Oathpact to prevent Fused from being reborn and thus helping their war effort.
However, I thought the whole point of the Everstorm and the reason Odium created it was to bypass the Oathpact and bring Fused back to Roshar regardless.
Wouldn’t a new Oathpact not matter because of the Everstorm?
One of my favorite corners of Cosmere discussions is seeing people come up with their own magic systems.
I love magic systems and I’ve read about lots of fan-made systems in different corners of the internet and in different fictional universes, but most of them don't quite capture the same feeling Brandon Sanderson's and the Cosmere do for me. They all feel too broad or too trope-y or too vague. Not a diss at all as I love those kind too. Just leaves me yearning for magic systems that feel more like the Cosmere.
I think, at least in my mind, what makes Sanderson's magic so special is that it usually starts with a very specific, almost simple core ability. Then he builds on it with conditions, limitations, costs, and clever interactions that make it feel incredibly deep. Like how allomancy and all its complexity was built from basic building block of magnetism.
I'd love to see what this community has come up with. If you've designed a magic system inspired by Sanderson's style and laws of magic, share it! Whether it's just the core idea or a full write-up, I'd love to read it.
Obviously there are connections, and for some orders it’s more prevalent and obvious: i.e Honorspren and the Windrunner order.
But for other orders I’m struggling to find the connection. Like for example, why do Elsecallers have Inkspren? What do Inkspren have to do with the ideals and oaths of Elsecallers? I don’t really understand why Inkspren are tied to that order and not any other random spren type.
Kind of an unimportant and random question, but something I find myself thinking about lol.
Just started RoW.
Navani off-handedly mentioned that it’s common knowledge that Urithuru once held a spren like the Nightwatcher and Stormfather called the Sibling.
For the life of me, I can’t remember this ever being discussed in previous books. Am I just forgetting something and it was discussed before? Or is this new information?
I read all of Stormlight up to and including Dawnshard. I read all of Mistborn, including secret history. I read Elantris and Warbreaker.
But I’m still so lost in all the Cosmere-wide lore.
Take an example: Dawnshards. I have no idea what they are. I understand that they’re supposed to be mysterious and we’re not really supposed to understand what they are, but even the basics concepts surrounding Dawnshards (like Commands and Adonalsium that everyone on Reddit seems to understand) I have no idea about.
Like whenever I read reddit discussions I’m often left wondering if I’m reading the same books everyone else is cuz I don’t know where all this info is coming from.
I love the Cosmere and this is not a slight on the books, I guess I just feel lost and frustrated that I’m not picking up on clues that everyone seems to understand. Sometimes I feel like trying to piece together the cosmere lore is more difficult than my AP Science classes were in university lol.
Tldr; I have two SDEs in my team who come barely come in (fall far below the flagging criteria discussed online) and yet never get flagged.
I am new to amazon (two months in), and I’m left very confused as to how amazon tracks hours spent in the office. I’ve seen lots of posts on reddit that talk about median four hours every day across 8 trailing weeks.
This makes sense, however, there are two SDEs in my team that barely come into the office (who both say they’ve never been flagged) and stand as a contrast to this. It seems to me that if it this 4 hour median metric was used, they would have surely been flagged by now.
They come in 2-3 days a week, and during the days they do come in, they stay only half the day (either coming in at lunch or leaving at lunch). Their usual hours look like this:
Monday - 0 hours Tuesday - 3-4 hours Wednesday - 3-4 hours Thursday - 0 - 3 hours Friday - 0 hours
And there are no exceptions to this; no week where they come in more to make up for previous week. This is just how it is for them every single week.
That’s roughly 2h average a day, and a median of 0 - 3. So by the metrics dicussed here, they shouldve been flagged. But they have told me numerous times that they haven’t (like it isn’t a case of them being flagged and our manager not caring; they just simply haven’t been flagged). They also tell me they dont have any special circumstances or exemptions.
So that leads me to the question: how is this possible, and is there actually a different metric that is used to flag in office hours?
I live in Canada, and no online storefront (like amazon) ships Kirkland liquid to Canada. I also can’t find any online.
Ive been trying Rogaine 5% foam twice a day for almost half a year now and haven’t seen any progress, so I wanted to try switching to liquid.
Anyone from Canada know any good liquid brands?
Vague title to avoid spoilers.
I just started part 3 of Oathbringer and Dalinar mentions that the parshmen have already captured almost all of Athlekar in the span of a few weeks.
I understand that the transformation of the parshmen caught everyone by surprise, and that lots of the army was residing in the Shattered Plains or Urithiru, but it still seems terribly unrealistic.
There’s shown in other parts of the book (such as Kaladin’s prologues) that there still is a significant military presence in Athlekar (ie each major city still has a present military unit of a few thousand at the very least). And yet, what I find most strange is that there is not even a single mention of resistance in Athlekar so far. Every single talk is about how the parshmen just walked into villages and captured everyone with little to no fight.
It took Dalinar years to conquer Althekar, and rn the book is honestly making me view his victories as kind of timid tbh compared to how simple the parshmen victory seems to be.