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When I was in my teens, I used to make an entire magic system with 360+ unique spells, ordered in magic schools and categories, and it boggles my mind that I basically reinvented DnD mechanics, even down to metamagic.
I wanted to make a wiki about it but I don't have time for it.
The point was to try to encompass every "superpower" I could think of into a magic system.
I even got lore related to it all, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna simply reuse it all for OC worldbuilding. Ngl the fun part was naming all the spells, symbols and coming up with the logic of it all.
[Sadeus] I’m going to take this from him. I’ll gaslight and gatekeep my way to the top and girlboss that throne right from under Dalinar.
[Adolin] Do you know what day it is?
[Sadeus] wha-
[Adolin, whispering] the ides of March
[Sadeus] *whimpers*
Happy stab-a-politician day to Adolin
Friend said there should be a remix of moash saying "I am mostly unchained" with Good Luck Babe so I made it
And remember folks, The Cosmere isn't about who is good or right. It's about seeing shit go down and while having the coolest shit ever if you don't think about the implications of the souls or ship of Theseus investiture Identity type shit
“They watch me, always, waiting. I see their faces in mirrors. Symbols. Twisted. Inhuman.”
- Elokhar, WoK
He’s a lightweaver guys he’s not crazy just listen to himmmmmm
Never noticed how often the word Retribution is used in stormlight, all the way back to WoK.
Makes me wonder about the use of Discord in another series…
he's a horse girl. he's knows everything there is to know about swords and will talk about and to them for hours on end. he has saved the world with the power of friendship on more than one occasion. he once went to jail in solidarity with a friend. he helped create therapy and has no idea. he fought off a kind of immortal guy with a candelabra. he regularly talks to multiple talking swords. he's one of the best, if not actually the best, duelist of his age. he's an amazing tactician and no one talks about that. he's got daddy issues. he thinks about his friends all the time. he makes a conscious effort to learn everyone's name. he respects trans rights. he's a slut trollop at best (worst?). he once investigated a murder he committed. he's an amputee and has a prosthetic foot made out of talking armor. he turned down being a king and is now an advisor(?) of another nation. he has a complicated relationship with the idea of fighting. he fought off 20 men with only his talking sword and horse for help and won. he is so incredibly determined. he loves his wife and her alters very very much. his love for his friends has had a huge effect on the world. I didn't say his name but you hopefully know who i'm talking about.
I'm really proud of the horse here
there are a lot of characters who kill their abusive father and not enough who kill their abusive mother. thankfully shallan davar covers all bases
Schrodinger's Cat is dead, but I'll see what I can do
Ch 4 Death Rattle in WoK
« I’m dying aren’t I? Healer why do you take my blood? Who is that beside you with his head of lines? I can see a distant sun, dark and cold, shining in a black sky. »
Y’all they just killed a lightweaver. I’m picking up on so much more in the reread I swear the book is better the second time
I never noticed in Shallan’s original drawing of Taravangian (in WoK) there were TWO cryptics!
Sanderson’s foreshadows stretch so far back it’s ridiculous sometimes.
Adolin does not need the thrill he has the indomitable human spirit 🗣️
combatting the antacids i just took by shoveling straight acetic acid into my mouth
You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right
have we considered that maybe Hoid is just a guy who got isekai’ed into the Cosmere and decided to 100% getting every kind of Investiture ability.
Spin this wheel of stormlight characters three times. They are your new roommates.
Do you think stew has the same connotations on Roshar as tea has on earth?
Like do people ask for 'the stew' and get gossip? Do you think this is Bridge 4's fault? Do you think that Rosharans see the stew circle as gossip?
I do
Jonathan Sims realized that he couldn't be accused of the "bury your gays" trope if all his characters were gay and then never looked back.
Guess who wrote their first Stormlight fic 🕺
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62007322?show_comments=true#comments
That's right, it's rlainarin time losers >:]
Kaladin, to Lirin: so I asked about the - yes, I'm alive, stop screaming - so I asked about the whole wisdom of the heralds thing and get this, Palah says there are these tiny invisible creatures - no they're not rotspren, they're way smaller than rotspren, but they are what attracts rotspren. I know right? Mindblowing
Quick Stormlight theory from a conversation with a friend
(WaT chapter 29)
This scene finally confirmed that Shallan actually went to Shadesmar physically in WoK, during the scene where she asks to be Jasnah's ward for real. At the time, Shallan explains this as her two spren pulling her into shadesmar, but later, after talking to her mother, Shallan thinks
(Wat chapter 118)
The heralds were all Surgebinders on Ashyn. We don't know how Ashyn surgebinding works, but we know that it tended to run in families (see: Shalash and Jezrien, Makibak and Nale). Lots of invested powers in the cosmere are inherited (see: allomancy, ferucmhemy, the royal locks of nalthis, whatever the fuck is happening on Threnody), so it's reasonable to guess that Ashyn surgebinding might've been inherited too. What if Shallan inherited the surge of Transportation from her mother, in the same way that a mistborn might have a misting child? The descriptions of her looking and falling into shadesmar are very similar to descriptions of Venli using Transportation.
If that's the case, then she'd likely have a resonance between Transportation and Lightweaving. That resonance would be something radiants can't normally do, because there is no radiant order with both of those surges. We know from her conversation with Kelek that Shallan's ability to see the Spiritual is not commonly found among radiants
(WaT chapter 7) I think that Shallan's ability to see the Spiritual might be a resonance between Lightweaving and Transportation. Lightweaving has a spiritual component (best seen in how Truthwatchers use it), and Transportation is used to see into Shadesmar as well as visit it. The ability to see into (and perhaps even visit) the Spiritual realm seems like a possible resonance for those two abilities, and it would fully explain all the weird unexplained shit we've seen Shallan do if that's the case. It also makes sense that, when Honor was picking the surges to grant his heralds, he'd avoid this particular combination -- Tanavast fears the Spiritual Realm (see the vorin prohibition on future sight, and Stormfather's objection to Dalinar's journey during the final 10 days), so when organizing the Oathpact, he would not have wanted heralds having this resonance.
Master Thaidakar is very disappointed in your results, Iyatil.
(All credit to u/pokedragonboy on reddit for making this!)