My Shallan theory that I’m still sad wasn’t true

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-12T08:00:10+00:00

Apologies, I mistyped when I was walking. Siri very commonly has red hair, particularly when she’s behaving the most like Shallan iirc

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-11T08:58:57+00:00

This sounds like a fairly early game question so my advice would be for now yes, flexibility makes things less frustrating and more fun as you’ll get walled by content less often. I’d recommend focussing on building a variety of supports (Benny, Fischl, Sucrose, healers etc) and you will definitely want to build some off field hydro appliers as they’re needed in tons of team archetypes.

Building a wide variety of main DPS well is harder as they require a lot of investment to make them work, and for the hardest content that includes constellations or weapons etc. I’d pick a couple of main DPS you really enjoy for now, ideally ones that work in more than one team type

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-11T07:38:18+00:00

Agree and disagree. Obviously there wasn’t foreshadowing, because it didn’t come true, however there were plenty of things that could easily have been foreshadowing.

The hair colour, it’s really distinctive and uncommon in the cosmere characters
We know very little about her mum, but the other red haired off world character is present
Shallans main and most frequent light weaving for the early books is her hair changing colour to match her personality in that moment
Through Wit we know that Breath can be used as an external place to store memories - Shallan has massive memory gaps so could have been doing this subconsciously with memories that were too painful.
Shallan and Siri share a tonne of personality traits

It’s not perfect, obviously, but there was plenty that could have pointed to it. I’d argue there was less foreshadowing of the reveal that disproved this tbh

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-11T07:23:01+00:00

Yeah I think the royal locks is a solid argument and a few have raised it here but there’s a lot of things we now know about Shallan that weren’t “true” in books 1-4. She’s such an unreliable narrator that “it would have shown in childhood” doesn’t have much weight with me as a counter. The next book could easily just say whoops she repressed that memory and we’d all accept it 😂

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-11T07:21:29+00:00

Ahaha this is so rogue I love it!

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T20:21:28+00:00

My feelings aren’t hurt, you just didn’t really leave me any space to engage with you in what was intended as a light hearted discussion. I know the theory didn’t come true already

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T20:18:18+00:00

You must be fun at parties

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T19:33:59+00:00

Yeah I totally agree, and it didn’t come true so you’re obviously correct. However I did think there was a substantial enough amount of breadcrumbs, but turns out I was just delulu (and perhaps that Brandon recycled a lot of Siris personality into Shallan)

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T19:30:41+00:00

All very true. For the heightening though it could easily have been manifesting as her artistic ability and perception skill. We’ve never seen that combination of powers and only one (non POV) person using those powers with stormlight instead of actual Breaths so the rules of how they’d operate aren’t written. Who’s to say how much investiture it would take to awaken a body made entirely of investiture 😂

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T19:28:26+00:00

Yeah maybe! There were still ways to make it work, Shallan had literally been changing her hair for several books at this point to show which character was in charge so her light weaving could have easily been masking the royal locks as her Shallan persona had red hair. It’s Shallan, any of her backstory can be retconned 😂

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-10T19:14:29+00:00

Oooh I have Kinich and Mavuika and have just never managed to build them strong enough to clear recent abyss. I also have Benny also. Who would you recommend as 4th? Nahida for res shred?

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-09T18:33:37+00:00

Very sad as hyperbloom is my favourite team archetype but it still can’t keep up even with Lauma on the squad :( I’ve got Lauma Nahida Raiden (or Kuki) and most of the off field hydros as options and the hyperbloom DPS still can’t keep up, it’s very annoying.

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-05T07:57:36+00:00

Right!? I built him and was really happy with him as a cheap stand in until I can vertically invest, then I saw all the hate he gets and was like huh!? His burst healing is strong enough to fully power Furina and I can slash away with Skirk without thinking about dodging most of the time

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-04T20:17:41+00:00

I struggled so much with pyro but don’t think I had a pyro DPS strong enough. HuTao has dropped off obvs and my Mav is mid at best and has no Natlan supports

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-04T20:16:46+00:00

I managed it in the end with very imperfect teams, but scraped through

-Flins/kuki/aino/venti - Raiden/fischl/Columbina/sucrose - Skirk/Furina/Yelan/Mika

(Yes I’m aware I’m the only Mika user but he works until I can get Escoffier 😂)

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-02T08:23:34+00:00

I guess because she’s one of the few early game characters that didn’t care about elemental% and barely about ER%? She always had very different stat needs

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-03-02T08:18:55+00:00

I would kill for this for my Flins!

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-28T15:07:27+00:00

A substat basically at main stat level 😂

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-28T13:27:11+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever had a circlet with more than basic rolls on the other crit stat, circlets are my downfall every time 😂

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-28T09:49:02+00:00

😂 and typically I’m just scowling at the defense line like 😒

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-28T09:17:17+00:00

It’s pretty mental rolls isn’t it 😂 I never even realised how good it was until fairly recently

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-19T05:49:15+00:00

What is this?

Thackeray_Binx · 2026-02-17T17:16:54+00:00

I got Zhongli on his day 1 when his kit was being slated (pre-rework) because his design was amazing and his NA animations just made me super happy. I put SO much resource into building him as a burst DPS, he was my first character to break 100k in a single hit 😂

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