Timewaster's Guide Archive

I haven't really looked into Google Wave all that much. It seems worth investigating.

Oh, and if I get permission from their original creator, I'll put up the links for the dice roller and roll viewer my group uses.

Are we trying to imply that Elvis is Hoid?  I can totally see him breaking god with pelvic thrusts.

Adonalsium got "all shook up." Hur, hur, hur.

Hunter Of Innumerable Ducks.
Healthcare On International Debate.
Hold On, I'm Doping.
Hrrgh, Oh, I'm Dying.

...Yeah, I got nothing. I'll go on another Hoid-hunt in WoA later tonight, to catch anything we might have missed.

EDIT: Those acronyms all make an odd sort of chronological sense, if you put them together.

I can't read any more Hoid scenes without imagining him as the Noid now. Randomly cracking up in the library thanks to you guys. -_-

http://www.cgtextures.com/

Ah, I was looking for something like that. My thanks.

Throwing in my two cents:

At first, I thought the "two lands [that] meet" were simply Fjorden and Arelon, because I was dead-set on the Elantrians being the "gods [that] have died." After seeing the concept art for WoK, I'm not so sure. Roshar and Shadesmar and undeniably two lands that meet, and we know for a fact that the Shards can die. Perhaps, then, one or more perishes in the plot of HoK, or at least Stormlight Archive in general?

Gah. Discussion about the Shard Cosmology always gets me excited.

EDIT:

planar theory

WHOA.
WHOA.
WHOA.

Prediction time. There are multiple Shards of Adonalsium, something originally much greater and unified, yes? And under planar theory, there are multiple planes of existence?

Each Shardworld could possibly be an extraplanar version of the same planet. If Adonalsium was connected to a single world as the Shards are now, then it's conceivable that the world would shatter in a similar manner - many copies of itself with similar properties, but none of them a perfect recreation.

This also makes Hoid's planet-hopping antics a bit more easily imaginable. Rather than actually flying through time and space to different planets, he's simply shifting which plane he's in.

Ooh. Plenty for me to pick apart, here.

huge, magical (yes, they are supernatrial) storms

when you go back out the gem will actually glow

These are apparently important

I guess we know where the title Stormlight Archive came from, now.

30 magic systems

Going along with the theory that there's a magic system on a given world for every Shard present there, and a system that draws from the interaction of any two Shards, this means that the total number of Shards here is between 7 and 8...

Well, this means that theory needs revising. Maybe there are systems that draw power from more than two?

the writing is symetrical

That has to do with the mirrored nature of Roshar and Shadesmar, I think. It's also worth noting that the writings all end in points -- some, in fact, look very much like swords. The giant swords are summoned with a writing-based magic system, perhaps? God, there's too much here for me to analyze without going into total speculative fanboy mode.

I would actually love to see this. Film it.