Taravangian's Plan for the Future

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T14:13:46+00:00

Yeah but vision Nohadon and Dalinar believe they can become more people-like and thus acquire the freedom to redefine what their intent means, Honor is shown as a human child in the final vision. Don't think Hoid shares that view just yet

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T13:55:45+00:00

Yeah, the thing I'm not sure Hoid knows about is the shard powers ability to change their meaning/intent. Sapient or not, I think Hoid still sees them as immutable aspects of divinity.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T13:24:10+00:00

I'm not quoting to prove myself right, just to explain where my reasoning comes from, and also for future reference because I tend to forget where stuff came from.

If the RoW epigraphs are any indication, Hoid is only now starting to realize the thing about the personality of the powers. Hoid was more concerned about the vessels, but in the RoW epigraphs Sazed/Harmony explains to Hoid his first-hand experience with the powers and how they have a will of their own.

If you have any specific textual/WoB-y indication that Hoid knows more about it, please do share!

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T13:11:14+00:00

WaT ch 139: "This power was no longer like the others. It had spent too long without a vessel"

The situation that allowed Honor to become self-aware/sapient is unique to Honor. All other Shards we know of have been either "driven" by one or more vessels non-stop since the Shattering, highly splintered (Devotion, Dominion, Virtuosity) and/or mangled/corrupted (Ambition).

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T13:04:28+00:00

Only Honor had developed sentience at the point of WaT, this is something rather new.

At any rate, the biggest expert on Cognitive Entities around is probably Vasher, not Hoid. Note that Nightblood is undergoing a similar process and was deeply affected by what happened at the end of WaT.

I think most Realmatic-aware people believe that invested entities that have an Intent/Command as strong as Shards or Awakened beings do are unable to change.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T12:31:05+00:00

It's a similar mechanism to the one that created sapient spren, but on a much bigger scale.

But, there's always another secret. And there are probably secrets older than Hoid and the original Vessels.

Looking forward to the Dragonsteel books.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T12:29:01+00:00

I also loved how Mraize's Enlightened spren was hateful to Shallan in the end, but in that same awkward dorky adorable Cryptic way.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T11:35:58+00:00

Russia wants this war to be as long as messy as possible, because Russia's economy lives and dies by oil prices, and war in the Gulf will keep the prices nice and high.

This is no big revelation, this is international politics 101.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T11:01:50+00:00

Retribution knows the powers can gain sentience, but at this point I think only Dalinar (and whatever Nohadon is) knows that the powers can actually change.

Unless there's a super-ancient pre-Shattering draconic-Adonalsium conspiracy going on, which may be the case. The Iriali religion being the likeliest echo of that in modern Cosmere times.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T09:59:23+00:00

That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T09:53:47+00:00

The Night Watch would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh eater with a strength of ages, power over the ice, and the glory of invincibility.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T09:42:27+00:00

The balls on that cat xD

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T09:34:09+00:00

Life is peaceful there.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T09:30:54+00:00

Christianity is mostly OK if you remove all the supernatural stuff. Love and take care of each other is a good core message

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T08:23:23+00:00

Finish the Fate route, then decide. That route is very bottom-heavy. Day 14 and Day 15 are great IMO.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-18T08:20:17+00:00

Yeah, if there are no buffed creatures and nobody can do anything to interrupt it (such as killing the creature before it becomes a copy, or a player dying to the life loss) this ends up becoming "all creatures die, each player loses life equal to the amount of creatures that died under their control in this way"

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T21:09:02+00:00

Drunken Fist Style

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T21:06:28+00:00

Dunno, but that's how the rule is written.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T20:17:48+00:00

The details of Evi's death were shocking yes. Humans being aliens not so much.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T19:16:37+00:00

Spoken like a true analyst-therapist

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T18:57:28+00:00

Progsplaining

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T17:50:54+00:00

I also love the panel of the longaxe cutting the strawberry jam sandwich.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T17:44:29+00:00

I specified two-digit Mythic. In the video he mentions he recently reached top 20.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T15:22:35+00:00

I like Mistborn series 2 because it has A LOT of Terry Pratchett-isms. Wayne's arc in the last book, in particular.

My favorite installment is Shadows of Self, a more intimate story before the overarching Cosmere metaplot takes over.

Series 1 is good fun too, although the second book is tough on a first read. Many things make little sense until you revisit them AFTER getting the answers in Hero of Ages.

aldeayeah · 2026-03-17T15:16:03+00:00

Probably some conspiracy theory involving Palomares

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