Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere Thread!

On a scale of 1 to Tori in terms of how much she is Aon she's like a solid 6 right now. Maybe a 7. We can get there. She's just gotta attack a nurse or something.

 

sazed don't do this to me i am going to cry

 

;.;

 

No but really this is like part of my entire fucking deal and I don't have nearly enough time or energy or resources to possibly learn every last language, culture, and religion. But I really, really, really want to. This is everything that I am. Fuck it's even what my actual personal religion is. So many things have been lost or are being lost, and so much of it has been through genocide. So fucking much of it.

 

so apparently The Emperor's Soul takes place on the same planet as Elantris
that's a thing

 

im 2 chapters into warbreaker and i am having a lot of fun

only thing is i keep thinking of the ios feature whenever they mention Siri

 

...There is a joke I very badly want to make and can't because spoilers.

 

:O

(i'll poke you when i finish! i like puns)

(speaking of puns

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tfw nightblood says it's best to "stick to what you're good at" after stabbing two people and i dont know if that was intentional or not but i hope it was)

also the religion and magic system are really cool

 

Spoiler: just finished ch 20

yells a lot

I LIKE THIS TWIST I LIKE WHERE IT'S GOING (the god king is a puppet)

also speculation: they said in order to awaken you have to say the words clearly, in your native language. the last bit makes me think that like, people (like, people who don't-think-in-words, not just cant-talk) would be able to awaken without having to speak, because their native language would be nonverbal....?

SEPARATELY: "native tongue" was verbatim what the book said. and the god kind cant awaken because he doesnt have a physical tongue. is brandon sanderson that much of a clever bastard or was that just a lucky coincidence?

 

I am pleased with how this Allomancy bullshit works. I am somewhat ARESGEGE TFHDTJHN about the constant lingo associated with it and I feel like before the end I'll either stop reading the word flare entirely or I will gain a new found and intense burning fucking hatred for it. There are no in-betweens. Something that sounds akin Daoist alchemy and qi practices that involves PHYSICS is my shit though.

go vin

launch yourself into the air abusing how physics works

 

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My guess is they couldn't without an insane number of Breaths (which can grant that anyway, with enough practice), because the need is to communicate to the object what it's supposed to do, and it's hard to be specific enough nonverbally. I bet ASL would work, though.

 

ALSO COAT. COAT WITH DANGLY FLOPPY BITS THAT IS BIG. COAT COAT COAT.

 

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IM CALLING IT RIGHT NOW JEWEl GAVE HER ONE BREATH FOR CLOD

evidence:

• jewel has no breath
• previous bit w vasher vent into detail about one breath, one lifeless (squirrel)
  • chekhov's gun
• i both hate and admire brandon sanderson

ngl im gonna be disappointed if it just turns out to be "jewel bought a random dead body lol"

 

Wait until you get to Vivenna's big plot twist.

 

nothing you two say reassures aon that he will be a pain free boy who is happy

 

@LadyNighteyes ok so there are a non-insignifigant amount of words that have rand om spaces in the middle of them, is this some sort of code or is it just typos?

what has brandon sanderson done to me

 

I think it's probably formatting weirdness. As far as I know the only straight-up codes are in a couple of the chapter epigraphs in the second Stormlight book. :::PPP

 

Spoiler: more thinking

hmm.

vasher in the prolouge referenced biochromatic research

not breath. he mentioned breath too but he also said reaserch. which could imply science. which implies that maybe not all of the biochromatic magic system is naturally occurring.

hmm.

 

Spoiler: Warbreaker spoilers

One of my favorite things about Warbreaker is that the super-mysterious sinister magic hobo with the Artifact of Doom murderpuppy talking sword turns out to be a grouchy wizard scientist trying to solve a massive sociopolitical conflict with his 7 Charisma and complete lack of any relevant skills at all.

 

Spoiler

THE EARRING FUCKED ME UP FOR THE LONGEST TIME
I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS UP WITH IT FOR AGES bc the friend who recced the books to me did so with the pitch that things were super well thought out and i already knew plot twists galore would be a thing and Vin was still wearing the earring, why was she still wearing it, how would it be relevant, when is it happening--- and then it just hit me a few pages before it happened for real and i fucking screamed. had to put the book down and go yell at the friend for a bit. then it ended up being not quite as horrible as i'd suspected, but, FUCKING AGES, MAN, UGH. if i'd had more time i would've gone back and reread to figure what's different when she is and isn't wearing it but i was in sort of a rush to actually get to the end lmao
(said friend ended up being vaguely frustrated w me bc apparently i have in fact gotten genre savvy enough to figure out, or at least get close to figuring out, Most Things B) woo confidence boost)

also yes agreed Vin is wonderful i love her