Top 10 Things You Might Have Missed In Rhythm Of War (Spoilers)
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- Welcome to Top 10 Things You Might Have Missed In Rhythm Of War by Brandon Sanderson!
SPOILERS FOR MANY BRANDON'S SANDERSON BOOKS SUCH AS MISTBORN, WARBREAKER, AND OTHER COSMERE SERIES. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
In this video, I showcase a selection of important details that you might have overlooked in your reading of the latest Stormlight Archive novel. Not only do I discuss these topics but I speculate about their broader implications in the Cosmere and my theories about Book 5 in the series. I draw on information from all the books in the Cosmere so expect some deep lore speculation.
Rhythm of War is the fourth novel in the Stormlight Archive. This series follows the human forces on the planet Roshar, a world of intense storms, bizarre plant life, and massive crustation creatures. Now embroiled in a war with the native Listeners, a people who were once forced into menial labor by the humans, the heroes Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar, and many others strive to find a place in this conflict while upholding the ideals and magical powers of the Knights Radiant. But when fighting a god named Odium, their options are limited.
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We also get a perfect example of the tones when vin interacts with the mist spirit she couldnt identify the pulse from the spirit it was probably the tones of preservation himself
FIrst rate observation right here! I hadn't actually thought of it that way but I bet you are 100% correct. I bet that also means that when Ruin was pretending to be the Mist Spirit he would have sounded different if she had been able to recognize the complex tones.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 you and a LOT of other people seem to miss the part of warbreaker where vasher takes the young girls memory of the kidnapping by doing something to her breath that vivenna can sense. I relisten and re read the books frequently and i keep notes on a lot of small details so we had the confirmation that breath could store and change memory back as far as warbreaker we just see that ability exploited here in row
The metal wasn't called brasium raboniel literally called it raysium, as in rayse, so it is 100% a god metal, but I had forgotten about nicrosils hemalurgic properties so it's still an interesting theory
It makes me smile as a total cosmere nerd to think of how this would sound to someone who has never read a Sanderson book
Fun fact: In Tolkien's Middle Earth, the God Eru created the world through music. He sang the world into existence. This is likely a heavy influence on Brandon making tones an important facet of the magic system of the Cosmere.
And the way dnd Bards work.
Did y'all know that Slowswift in Mistborn 3 was actually planned as a sort of Tolkien cameo
I personally view WoT and Cosmere as a continuation of LotR, so this makes me happy
I mean in Ayurvedic mythos the universe was created from the tone ohm. So thats real world religion inspiration for both Tolkien and Sanderson
Sazed cant possibly be cool with what Kelsier is doing.
Oh absolutely not, but im sure Kelsier can hide from him just like Bleeder.
Sazed isn't cool with a LOT of things, but he's mentioned on SEVERAL occasions that holding both Preservation and Ruin and keeping them in Harmony keeps him from acting directly the vast majority of the time. Thus his use of Agents like Me'Laan, Ten'Soon, and Wax.
He's probably a little scared of hum too
Great catch with the sleepless! I never noticed that, nor have I seen it on the subreddits.
#2 The aluminium alloy weapons were confirmed in the book by Navani in chapter 19, although we don't know their origin, Raboniel and other fused spoke of Aluminium ("Ralkalest" in their language), several times AND mentioned that there was once a physical aluminium barrier in the ground around Urithiru that prevented the Fused that can sink into the ground from entering, this implies that Aluminium has been known about for a long time. Given that singers could bond shardblades, I expect that either the fused or their servants could have used soulcasters, so would have been able to make it in the past as well (we know Soulcasters can make Aluminium despite its properties given that Shallan had a necklace made of soulcast aluminium her father had bought for her).
#4 Kelsier is trapped not due to being a mistborn, but due to being so heavily invested by the Well of Ascension (or potentially due to having held Preservation briefly). As he's a cognitive shadow, he's essentially a spren (but made of Preservation's Investiture, not Honor or Cultivation like Rosharan Spren) shaped like a human soul at this point. Spren are trapped in the system from which they came, so it makes sense that Kelsier would be too.
#5 The blade is confirmed to be made of Raysium (not braizium), which is Rayse (Odium)'s godmetal. Raboniel confirms this in Chapter 84. Brandon I believe has also confirmed this.
#8 I consider nightblood being anti-investiture somewhat unlikely. The issue is that anti-investiture is also destroyed when reacting with the appropriate investiture, so nightblood should only have the ability to destroy about 1000 breaths worth of investiture. However, Nightblood seems to getting stronger over time, not weaker (In WOB /events/4/#e5170, Brandon confirmed that nightblood is one of the most highly invested non-shard entities in the cosmere).
It's not Brasium, it's Taravangianium (formerly known as Raysium). 100% Odium's metal
The function of the metal makes me think that Odium is actually Jealousy/Envy, rather than emotion. Someone with that aspect would naturally expand the scope of their domain, which would explain why he's always saying he's all emotion. From a "godly aspect" point of view, Emotion doesn't fit with the other aspects to me. Honor/Preservation/Ruin/Autonomy/etc. Jealousy would fit well as it's a common tenet of religion for gods to be jealous as a righteous attribute.
If he's jealousy/envy, his metal being a medium of transference for investiture makes sense to me.
Maybe they absorbed some of the shard energy from the shards they broke/killed but were mostly still opium more than the others
@@colonagray2454 I really enjoy that we can speculate on this type of stuff. It's all upsides, whether we're right or wrong! It's honestly one of my favorite parts of reading a series in progress. We can be anywhere between "holy crap we totally called it 100% correct" and "our idea is so terrible, the author's plan was so much better. we are fools!", and that's amazing.
Brandon confirmed that Kelsier runs the ghostbloods on his Shardcast interview.
Yeah, but it was so obvious... but at the time of recording it hadn't been 100% confirmed and if I start to claim to know what is what I'm going to get called out hard.
Kelsier? As in the survivor of hathsin? When did i miss him coming back alive?
@@soon2bboosted It's strongly hinted that he's still alive (and NOT a Kandra Doppleganger) at the very end of Bands of Mourning.
@@Darkkfated Thx, was about to start my 1st era 2 mistborn reread. Its been a couple years. Ive reread era 1 like 5 times. Been waiting for book 4 to do my reread.
@@soon2bboosted read mistborn secret history for all the details about kelsier
Brandon’s ability to connect and interweave characters, investiture/magic systems, and plots from his cosmere novels is prodigious. And it’s fun to dig beneath the surface plots in the various cosmere novels for clues about the more subtle plots, connections, and timelines. That said, with Kelsier, I hope we’ll eventually learn that his apparent transformation into a villain of sorts (Thaidakar) is just that - apparent - and that there’s more to his machinations as leader of the Ghostbloods than self-interest. Of course, fantasy novels by definition require suspension of disbelief. That doesn’t, however, or at any rate shouldn’t, require inconsistency. In The Final Empire Kelsier, once an arrogant, amoral, self-serving thief who thought of no one but himself, has become, through his suffering in the Pits, a different person. He snaps. He’s *genuinely* changed by the experience, and the novel hammers this point over and over - he comes to understand the nature and value of trust and friendship (as he teaches Vin ad nauseaum), love (of Mare, e.g., which persists for him regardless of whether she betrayed him), and self-sacrifice in the service of values and for a cause that transcends his own, albeit still outsized, ego. For Christ’s sake, no pun intended, in The Final Empire, Brandon the Mormon has Kelsier literally sacrifice his life at the end of the novel (and “reappear” via kandra) to help bring down the Lord Ruler and end the oppression of millions. Now we’re to believe that he’s reverted to the pre-Pits of Hathsin character he’d once been? - indeed, seemingly worse - immoral rather than just amoral. Perhaps - and to my mind, it’d be much more coherent - Kelsier’s/Thaidakar’s agenda is not the self-serving one it currently appears to be.
I'm reading final empire again rn and I was thinking the same thing, but u gotta remember our main bridge between kelsier then and kelsier now is secret history, where he literally gave up living with mare again to accomplish his goals, but you're right, because of his character arc it's hard to say what his motives are other than finding a way to not be trapped in scadrials cognitive realm
@@ginganinja9935 he gave up "the unknown beyond" not exactly a sure thing he would be with mare again. Also... He gave it up so that he could Survive. He is a survivor, down to his essence. Also remember that cognitive shadows are not truly a person's soul, but a memory of that person, imprinted onto the investiture that the person held when they died. The strongest memory of Kelsier was his will to survive.
I didn't read too heavily into him being a villain. Seems more like his interests just directly oppose the points of views we see for Rhoshar.
The steward with the "raptor bird", his name is Gereh. He's present in a couple of the flashback sequences. Yes, it's been confirmed he's a Feruchemist and his bird has also been confirmed to be an Aviar, which I confirmed at Dragonsteel 2022 by asking Brandon directly, with him stating "it has mind abilities."
Gereh was also murdered by Mraize during Rhythm of War. His rings were removed and holes were found in his body, possibly alluding to hemalurgic spikes used on him.
I will note that the power of investiture is not actually in the metals even on skadrial. The metals simply are a catalyst for the internal investiture they have inside them. Due to this, I theorize that the different metals would possibly interact with more kinds of investiture than just stormlight and allomancy.
I found it interesting learning a little more of how humans came to Roshar using their own type of magic, fleeing some major catastrophe, either nuclear war, or asteroid impact etc. The grandmother of one of the native leaders thought the humans were dark skinned because they were covered in ashes.
It was because of unchained surgebinding.
The imprisonment of ba-ado-mishram might be the cause of the heralds loosing their minds .
This is so awesome! I just love how it's coming together.
Holy cow this highlighted how much I've forgotten from the other cosmere books.... What a complex weave...
I believe Ishar’s experiments with pulling spren into the physical realm foreshadow a method of allowing radiant spren - and thus radiants themselves - to leave the Rosharan system.
It's not Braizium, it's Raysium. Named after Rayse, who was Odium.
That’s what I theorized about nightblood!! Maybe in the attempt to make a shardblade with breath the scholars stumbled on the anti version of endowment: as endowment gives nightblood takes.
It holds water for sure, but Brandon has planned this for so long it might be a completely unique idea from anti investiture, but it shares so many similarities its hard not to draw this conclusion.
Kelsier wants to leave a system that he's bound to by investiture
Ba-ado-Mishram allowed a large number of Fused to leave a system that they were bound to by investiture
That's what the Ghostbloods want with Ba-ado-Mishram
That's a good point, but it really is interesting because that seems to be a unique case. For instance, wouldn't that mean Ba-ado-mishram would also be restricted? But that's a great theory for sure.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 That's true, I hadn't thought about whether Ba-ado-Mishram would be able to leave a system herself. Regardless, I can't wait to find out! There's always another secret ;)
I am probably mistaken but I didn’t think mishram helped the fused leave braise but rather helped the singers gain forms of power without the fused.
It seems likely that they want her for her power to rob beings of their ‘connection’ in theory this power could be harnessed to removed a beings connection to its home system.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 Maybe with the power of hemalurgy they could rob Ba-ado-Mishram of her ability to server connections, which would maybe allow Kelsier to leave Scadrial, which seems to be his end goal anyway.
Your use of "What on Earth" talking about events on a Cosmere planet was quite ironic. Nice video.
Hahaha whoops, that is very much a mistake. Oh well, these things happen and I don't have a team of editors so I'm sure it'll happen again.
Wow, this is a fantastic video!
wonder if burning bronze could detect someone holding stormlight not that detecting that is usually hard but shalan's lightweaving might have a weakness
I'm pretty sure Brandon confirmed this at a qna
Something I realized when you mentioned the allegedly Terris Steward working with Navani, that red bird could also be a reference to the short story from Arcanum Unbounded called Sixth of Dusk, which would be a really interesting worldhopper
This has actually been confirmed by Brandon so good thinking!
First thing I thought, since Shallan specifically mentions that the bird seems smart.
Kelsier wants BAM to try and influence the Shards and become Adonalsium :)
Omg just found this, love it ❤️
What if Bahn ado mishram (idk if I wrote that right) wasn't a bondsmith, she became a bondSPREN. Like the nightwatcher the tower and the storm father. And also, what if jah anat (again idk if that's spelled right. Audiobooks) is another one? Bahn being odium and cultivation or just odium, and jah being odium and honor.
I predict a war between Rosharan's and Scadrians in the future, so your last theory doesn't sit well with me. However, it is plausible, and Harmony reaching out to humans on Roshar fits his character and Intent.
See but I think that the war is going to be motivated by fear of each other. Scadrians learning about surgbinding and rosharans seeking to secure their safety. I'm just guessing that the rosharans will be practically all Singers.
The Roshar exodus idea is really interesting, though I'm pretty sure Brandon has talked about surge binding being too connected to Roshar to be able to just leave. Or maybe it was just radiants who have bonded a Rosharan spren. Anyway, if this theory does happen it will be cool to see how Brandon does it.
Yeah, I think the spren wouldn't be able to leave so surgebinding as we know it is locked to Roshar. But humans used surgebinding on Ashen leading to its destruction so surgbinding itself is probably not locked down. I'd guess the honor blades are also able to leave the system.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 Ashyn is still the same planetary system, In Cosmere scale is practicly the same place. Maybe Honorblades arent locked on Roshar (but I doubght) but Stormlight alone cant leave planet. So you cant use Surgebinding unless you figure this out or you need power Surgebinding with other system, and this is equaly hard.
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in the sequel to Sixth of the Dusk, we see Radiants out in space on other worlds. They even have "Shard-guns". This is confirmation that Radiants can operate outside of Roshar in the future.
Abilities are often tied to land. I personally think he’s setting up for Uretheu to be a sort of spaceship. With it being land itself carrying the necessary connection, surge binding can probably happen near it.
Surgebinding is something humans brought with them. Before there were bonds, but magic seemed to rotate around music. Odium brought it but honor improved upon it.
Great video! I thought your theory at the end is very intriguing. And I totally missed the importance of the steward even on my second read 😅
I think I only noticed it because I was looking for anything that sounded more at home on another world like someone talking about coins. Rings just stand out on Roshar. I'm happy that I was right about that one in particular.
I’m pretty sure they specifically said aluminum in the books? No?
Your final theory is brilliant. That would be the perfect ending to the first part of the series!
I'm glad you think so! I kind of hope I'm right, but Brandon always surprises me so I'm not feeling too confident.
Pretty sure era 2 occurs within the time jump after the fifth SA book. At least that's how it's planned.
that seems weird, because The Lost Metal will release before Stormlight 5, so Brandon would really have to tone down Cosmere-wide stuff in order to not spoil Stormlight 5.
@@carlsmith4568 I think that the main concept he will use in The Lost Metal is with K and his group. That’s why he needed to release RoW first
In your 10 things you could have missed video, I think you identified 75 things I missed :)
Where is vin in the comers right now, I read a theory of her being Iyatil
There is no way that Nightblood is anti-Investiture, if they were, they'd blow up on contact with regular investiture. It is a fun theory though.
Perhaps, Brandon has said that Nightblood does disrupt the cycle of investiture, implying that he does annihilate it. Perhaps there is a kind of investiture "explosion" but it's on the cognitive or spiritual realms? I'm sure we will continue to learn more, making this video more and more obsolete.
I thought the people of Scadrial learned of aluminum blocking alomancy form the Lord Ruler. Wasn't it on one of his sheets that Vin and El found?
How does the "real war" connect with your last hypothesis ? :)
What about Shallan's stab of nausea as she was about to tell Ishna she wasn't taking the group of suspected traitors on the expedition? I remain unconvinced there isn't a traitor in the court. Especially since the Ghostbloods would very likely have access to allomancy. Allomantic tin could even explain the failed misdirection on the ship, where she spread the idea of a corrupted spren about.
Possible for sure but from what I was reading I'm not sure I saw any evidence for that. But im sure there are plenty of things that I missed so I'll keep an eye out on my next read.
I thought she was pregnant LooL
You know, there might be more to that idea than you realize... I hadn't considered that but it makes for some thinking.
@@zierra239 oh interesting! I hadn't thought of that, but it has been about a year since she got married!
Adolin is the golden retriever of the Stormlight Archive series. If you like him now, you might whined up getting a Adolin Heart tattoo by the end of Rhythm of War.
In The Way of Kings, i thought of Adolin as a little bratty, a little brash, and a little quick on the trigger (I think you’re suppose to).
But my gosh, the more you see of him, the more you come to realize that he’s the one character that…. ?isn’t a d**k? (For lack of a better word)
There’s a few good men in this series (Kaladin, dalinar). However, there is only ONE nice guy on all of Roshar : The Big AK
Dalinar will lose the duel
He will become TaravOdium´s soldier and will become The BlackThorn again
If you thought burning down the Rift and his Wife was bad... just you wait when he does that to a fucking PLANET
Dalinar´s arc will end as one of the most tragic in the entire universe
He´ll probably become Honor by the end but through GREAT Suffering
Also I´m a fan of the theory that says TaravOdium will pick Gavinor as his champion making Dalinar surrender on the spot
Noooooo not my boy Dalinar!! Don’t do him like that. Would be wild to see him unleashed like that though. If he had the power of odium he would be a forced to be reckoned with
@@OneShotOkie it would be scary as fuck
@@ChBrahm Perhaps even as a servant of Todium he could have a will of his own, just like the Fused. They do get influenced but none are mindless puppets I believe. So we might see an interesting dynamic with Dalinar being the King of War (KoW). ;)
@@Picrasso Yes I never said he would be mindless. And thats going to be what makes this so tragic. He´ll be "choosing" (by honoring his deal with Odium) to do all the awful things he´ll command him to
First point about the worms and the sleepless blew right past me. What? Im so confused. Might have to go reread that.
Raboniel tells navani that the fused weapons are made of aluminum, and the knives, she says, are made of Raysium (the solid investiture of odium). This Raysium appears to be capable of conducting investiture, though I don't think we know what the second metal used is (the one that makes it conduct in a certain direction)
The part about perfect pitch is a really good one, perfect pitch is probably exactly what one needs to easily convert investiture!
A feruchemist also gave the first voidspren to venli ;) and both of those birds are aviar. So it should be pretty interesting to see Lift with one of those..
On point two you mention that the timeline of MB era 2 is roughly coinciding with SA. I thought MB era 2 was happening somewhere between SA book 5 and book 6, during the time jump.
Exactly, but that time jump is only about a decade so Scadrial is in a very similar state. In fact Wax is probably on his adventure as a frontier sheriff during the events of Rythem of War.
Elite dangerous is the intro hell yeah
Such a great game, and it makes a wonderful galactic setting.
Didnt sando say wax/wayne is directly after stormlight 1-5
T'Odium is going to find basically....a loophole.
About point 2: yeah in waxwayne book 4 it is confimd that other planets have aluminium
How would stormlight be possible on scadriel?
This has actually started to be a RAFO but ill answer after some Gao lines.
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Navani has shown us the most tangible way toward that. Now that we have Invested Harmonics we can take investiture in one form at its set frequency (breath, stormlight, allomancy...) and chang it into a new form that is more appropriate.
If the people migrate to another world we would also likly see them adapt to whatever they find there.
for 5 i am 99% sure it raysuim as int the god metal of rayse the pervious holder of odium
That's true, but names can be confusing so I included to idea that Braisium could be a God metal because I cannot 100% reject the possibility. But im almost positive that Braisium is just Nicrosil.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918um... I don't think it's braizum it's raysuim
I didn't think you did, but any named metals that don't share names with something in the real world can either be a God metal, or a unique name for the culture. Both approaches need to to considered.
If this is Odium's Godmetal, how for Rust Ghostbloods gets one dagger?
@@Bzhydack maraize was working with rabonial it wouldn't shock me to know that it wasn't the first interaction between the ghost bloods and fused or they stole it cus they are basically the cosmere thieves guild
1. Lopen... I missed Lopen.
Yeah thats a good point, we never saw much of him this time around did we...
Aluminum properties were probably discovered on Scadrial independently. They know about it's anti-Allomantic properties in FI time, so is not very hard to test few alloys.
More interesting is that Fused call this metal "Ralkalest". And this isn't Roshar native name. It's Selish ;-)
Ah thats an interesting tid bit, Sel always makes things complicated...
We saw tones in SH when Kelsier was in the well and talking to Leras, I can get quotes if you want but I'm not in a good spot to do so right now.
Edit: see my reply for sources
Ooooh now that you mention it you have a good point there. Wasn't it when he would interact with the barrier that trapped Ruin in the well?
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 Kelsier heard rhythms when he was arriving at the Well (AU, hardcover pg 213-214)
Ruin's power was also distributed via pulses/rhythms (AU pg 226)
The big one with relevance to RoW and reveals that all Shards have an associated tone or rhythm was this:
"Fuzz (Preservation) was the infinity of a note held perfectly, never wavering." (AU pg 229)
It doesn't say that he heard a note or tone per-se, but it does imply that he did.
My personal theory regarding this is that:
This, combined with what we know about Pure Tones/Rhythms of the Cosmere, shows us that every shard has these properties. People theorize that Hoid's end-goal is rebuilding or recreating Adonalsium. The actual method there might have something to do with combining all these tones into some sort of magical symphony played near Investitures from all 16 of the shards. Again, that's only a theory of mine.
The knife is Raysium referring to Rayse Odium. Odium Godmetal.
Yes, you are right, but I wondered if it was perhaps miss named. Probably not but it seemed odd that they wouldn't have used a God metal for other things.
But even if Dalinar loose, humanity can keep their still controlled kingdom and stay in Roshar, with no hostility by Odium... why would be a big Exodus?
I think the Rosharian leaving the system will be more likely the Odium troops under Evil Dalinar's command after he loose the duel. And maybe some protagonist gruop of good guys, to try to interfere with Odiums plans for Dalinar.
could zael be vaser?
How would harmony allow rosharians on his planet. Isn't there an issue with being bound to your system? This is why Kelsier can't leave Scadriel
Anyone who isn't invested (so 99% of rosharian humans, possibly even dull parshendi) can easily leave the system. We also see that many people can and do leave their systems who are invested. Beyond the obvious world hoppers we have seen. Only the heavily invested like cognitive shadows, possibly slivers, and maybe the most powerful like Mistborn or radiants would be truly locked down. But again, people like Hoid and Vasher make it clear that travel beyond system even when invested is possible.
major spoilers below
Brandon read a chapter out of the sequel to Sixth of the Dusk. In it, we see Radiants in space suits of shardplate with weird looking shardguns in outer space and on different worlds. The Radiant is also speaking to a spren in the scene. This is confirmation that Radiants can operate on other worlds and out space sometime in the future. How exactly this works, we do not know.
The issue exists however there must be ways around it. At least for minor invested beings since we see vashar travel the Cosmere and he was invested to a similar level as the heralds.
It's not nicrosil hemalurgy, it's Raysium the god metal of Odium.
I hadn't picked up on #3, but it leads credence to a theory of mine. We know that aluminum has universal anti-investiture properties, but what about duralumin? Does duralumin have universal investiture enhancement properties? Because if it does...HOO boy! Nevani's gonna have a field day when she discovers it! We could very well start the next phase of Stormlight with Roshar's space age with what that woman could do.
Big Spoilers. Now this video is a year old at this point, but we do know now from The Lost Metal that Kelsior is INDEED the leader of the Ghost Bloods. We also know now that each individual member is free to pursue whatever goal they wish, but that the main purpose of the organization is to protect Skaadriel. As for whether or not Kelsior is going to end up as a villain or hero...well, that's gonna depend on who's side of the inevitable intergalactic war you're on. We also know that Harmony...might not be as "harmonious" as we thought. The Big Three in the Cosmere are gonna be Odium, Autonomy, and Harmony, assuming he doesn't devolve back into full Ruin. With the way things are looking, I honestly don't see a "good" option.
Also between Vasher and Hoid, we know you can have multiple forms of magic and power them with different forms of investiture. THAT is gonna be interesting, especially if Mraise completes his objective of figuring out how to get Stormlight off of Roshar.
noice!
I have contemplated the events of Odium's death by Nightblood. We know Nightblood devours Investiture quickly and without discrimination. Could it be that Nightblood significantly disabled the power of Odium/Todium without Taravangian knowing. Specifically because Taravangian does not have a benchmark for Odiums power. Cleary the shard will be powerful but it may give Roshar a hope in braize
Someone asked Brando this (or something similar) in a Q&A. He said that Nightblood got full before it consumed anything more than a negligible amount of the shard's power. It consumed Rayse, but not the Shard.
@@davidwilson6577 That was my assumption, every other time a vessel has died we see the body drop, that would have been tard for szeth not to have noticed in the moment.
@@QCreyton the body was unrecognisable IIRC. I think I remember a line about it being close enough to not be suspicious because they're both white haired old men.
When I said it consumed Rayse, I meant his spirit.
AFAIK Vasher is using stormlight to sustain himself rather than breaths.
Braizium def isn't Odium's god metal. I feel like Brandon would've just called it Rayseium if it were the case.
It is Raysium. That's what it's called throughout the book.
The word "Braizium" is never used at any point.
Since when are guns and bullets made from aluminum?
It's a major plot point in the Alloy of Law Mistborn books. Aluminum alloys that are strong enough to be weapons but retain their investiture resistance.
I didnt even about the kelsier or Hoid stuff until i started watching online vidoes. Why was it so obvious?
Really like you last theory. A long stretch but it kinda fits.
Thank you, it probably won't happen but still pretty interesting to contemplate.
Kelsier just wants to go to other worlds so that he can collect all the flowers there are to put on Mare´s tomb
Im pretty sure that steward is dead though.
Perhaps, but even if that is so, someone who isn't a Ghostblood is in the tower and that's interesting.
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 Oh for sure there are others. I have a hunch that red "chicken" will lead Lyft to other worlders in the next book. The prospect of cultures mixing and colliding really excites me!
@@lettersfromthecosmere1918 The steward was killed by Mraize during the occupation of the tower. He had the red Aviar that Lift ended up bonding
U need to watch more 17th shard lil kiddo.
17th Shard is unwatchable/unlistenable. I find their voices unbearably annoying, and they are too hyper. I prefer Letters from the Cosmere, Lost in Discovery, and The Legendarium.
Meh, I find I quite enjoy making Comsere content without needed to spend all my time immersed in it. Those guys are quite happy doing so and I'll never try to be what they are. I'm just a fan who likes making videos occasionally. But feel free to send my video their way, perhaps they will get a kick out of roasting my thoughts.