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Yes.
Is it ten, is it ten, is it ten, is it ten, is it ten?
Is it ten? No, it's not ten.
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Yes, she is.
Why does she take so long to come back?
Because Elsecalling is not precise even if you know what you are doing, which she doesn't.
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There are more of them. There is not an exact one-to-one correlation?
I assume there will be ten opposite orders to the Knights Radiant?
RAFO. That's a big ol' RAFO.
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He's already appeared in the books. Very very cameo-ish tangential thing, you have to be really looking to spot him.
Books, plural?
He wasn't in The Way of Kings, no. Not on screen, I don't think.
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It is plausible that he could shattered in a different way.
So it could've been different Shards?
Yes, that's plausible.
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Because a lot of the healing in the cosmere works on principles of expectation and how you envision yourself.
So Kaladin has accepted the scars.
And Lopen never accepted the one arm. It's one of these ties when I built the magic systems that I wanted certain threads to run through them, so when I eventually have them being used in the same books, there will be consistency among them, so they won't feel like everything's just thrown together. So, the intention and expectation, for instance, in Warbreaker. What you want to have happen, the expectation, the way you are thinking about things, all that influences what actually happens. Very important for most of the cosmere magics.
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They are bigger than BB size.
Okay, and everything melts into beads. But when people touch them, do they form into the thing they are supposed to be, or just one bead represents the stick, and...
One bead represents the item that is seen and views itself as a cohesive item.
Is there a picture inside it, or...?
We will get more into this as time progresses.
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Hoid has indeed gotten between worlds before through Shadesmar.
And would you be willing to give us a hint as to how he does that?
There are hints in the books. There is a hint in the very first cosmere book I released [Elantris]. Which I thought was a huge hint, but so far I haven't seen anyone talking about it.
Really?
Mmhmm. I thought that once people started figuring the cosmere, they would see the massive in-your-face hint I put in that book, but so far, as far as I know, no one has. [Some chat about Brandon's tendency to drop sneaky hints and how he likes doing that] Now, the one [hint] about the map, that one I don't think is obvious. I know people have been trying to figure it out. It's something fun once you figure it out, but it's not something huge and obvious. The Elantris once was, like, enormously "HIIINT!"
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Theoretically, not really. There are some things that can limit bound that.. I can imagine people have many. In the original draft of The Way of Kings Prime, Amaram had two. And so, it's definitely possible to have multiples, and I had not thought about someone trying to bond every Shardblade.
So that means you can be bonded to more than one spren?
Well, those Shardblades are...
Dead ones.
Yes. So, can you be bonded to more than one spren? The answer to that question is also yes. Potentially. But there is a much harder limit on that.
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[Brandon misunderstood the question a little in the beginning - he thought the question was "can every Shard's magic detect other Investitures?"] Most of the magics have built into them that ability, but I wouldn't say that everyone does. I am trying to remember if all of them have... I lot of them have a power that would allow you to do that, but I don't know if every one of them does.
[Clarification]
If you were really good at burning bronze, you could distinguish between different types of Investiture from different planets even. And that sort of skill does exist in other magic systems.
Is it like a wavelength kind of thing?
Yea, that's exactly what it is.
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Hoid is not a Shard.Question
Or other Shards that are related to Hoid, since they are in the same time period. Would they also be Horneater gods?
I think that the Horneaters might interpret things very differently from their reality, as they are viewing things...
So would they originally be from Roshar, or would they have traveled from somewhere else?
That's a RAFO, it depends on the person. Hoid is not originally from Roshar.
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The spren themselves.
So it doesn't have anything to do with the Orders of the Knights Radiant?
Um, you have to attract the spren, the same way you attract emotionspren, you have to attract the right spren for the Order.
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It is an emotional event for the spren, but not a damaging one. As long as their oaths are unbroken.
Kind of like if a close friend dies?
Maybe a little more personal than that.
I guess Helaran was not bonded to a spren then?
Why do you say that
I saw that his Blade had a gemstone at the bottom, so that was a clue.
That is a very good clue.
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You could create Allomantically viable metals, yes.
But is it automatic?
I would say that the pure metals are, but the alloys are not.
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You could consider it that way, but there is not a one-to-one analogue.
Because it looked like the powers of the voidforms are kind of like anti-Surges...
Yes, yes, there is definitely something there, but again I say, it's not a one-to-one correlation. They are not going to be exactly opposite.
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Yes.
So each Order does a different eye color?
Each Order does indeed get a different eye color.
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There is something supernatural about those. Each Order... Well, how about this. If you look at scholars' interpretations, there are some scholars who think that these things are not supernatural, and some who think that they are. But, if you look, many Lightweavers had powerful mnemonic abilities.
So it's definitely tied to the Orders?
It's tied to the Orders. Now, I am not going to say that you've got them all 100% correct, but each Order, there are things that come with Order, things that do not add up from simple the "you get this power plus this power," there is something else going on. And I would say that for Windrunners, watch the number of squires and the power of the squires... these are abnormal for the Windrunners.
And each Order's squires are somehow different from the other Orders'?
Yeeeaaaa... some Orders do not have them.
But some have more?
Yea.
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Yes.
So the Fourth Land, the Seventh Land, those...
They are in the cosmere. This is where you give me a lot of wiggling room, because yes, it is related to the cosmere.
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Mmhmm.
What does "Above the Silence" refer to?
Above a silent land.
And the second ketek, in Words of Radiance, similarly refers to the highstorm and the Everstorm... Is there more to it?
No, it's by Navani about the two.