Rhythm of War Cosmere Connections: Part 1 

I would like to point out that Kal's fight with Zahel is from KAL'S perspective. So HE didn't hear Zahel give verbal commands, but that doesn't mean he didn't. Zahel is basically hiding this entire time and Kaladin doesn't even know where or which direction he's in. So it's far more likely he gave quiet verbal commands. He's VERY good at Awakening, obviously, so he could easily dart around Awakening different sheets to set traps for Kal, rather than actively attacking him. Like instead of saying "Wrap Kal's arm" he'd be saying "When someone other than me gets close to you grab their arm" or something like that. Things that like would be child's play for Zahel.

On the note of Zahel's speed, Denth is actually described as being supernaturally fast in Oathbringer (one of the thugs he meets with even comments on how he's infamous for it), so I'm guessing it is some sort of Returned thing.

Youre going in depth as much as we need to! Theres no think as overthinking in great stories

10:42 on the warbreaker annotations, brandon mentions that he inteded to actually call the story teller "Dust" and not Hoid. So it makes sense that vasher uses the name dust

Rhythm of WAR, WAR NEVER CHANGES

'Four score and ... Like 1 year ago' made me laugh more then it should have

5:50 I’d be willing to bet that era 2 has jasnahs journals as epigraphs somewhere, since we are eventually getting her flashbacks apparently

I’m loving your “more in depth than you need to”! Please keep this exact depth if possible for all Cosmere connections!

For any new abilities with Breath we aren't used to, we need to remember that awakening is a fairly new art in Warbreaker at least in terms of systematic understanding. They only figured out some pretty vital stuff (such as 1 command lifeless) recently and Vasher is one of the guys who invented half the art. And we know he can use it to do things no one else can in the book. Him finding all the hacks - yes I believe it.

On the 10,000 year old I assumed that was Cultivation and Honor coming over

You just cut in a clip from the episode of Mythbusters where they play music at plants, and expected people to get the joke?

I may need to reread stormlight before 5. Soooo much of what you said I'd totally forgotten! Great video!

1:00 About the epicanthic folds. I've long had a theory that a full Feruchemist (or someone with the appropriate spikes) can shapeshift by storing a piece of their Identity (in this case, Connection to scadrial), using stored Connection to Connect to a place, object, or person (Roshar) and using gold to heal themselves to match this new Connection. Don't know how well it could work, but I'm hopeful.

You say you're going to indeoth. But i gotta say man, its never too much depth. It's hard to keep up on these while reading. Your videos are helpful

Great video and a great refresher! Although your pronunciation of somethings throws me off hahaha 😂I’m a big audio book guy.

Do you think inevitably when someone has to go find the Nergaoul for whatever plot reason, they're going to be called thrill seekers?

5:34 This sounds a whole lot like burning gold or malatium. He saw something he *COULD* have been.

I've been waiting for this video!!!

You are a great guy thanks for doing this!

Wow this is so much! I am such a noob. But when referencing zahel and loosing his mind/memories to time, this is why the heralds go crazy but Hoid kept his memories because he stored them in his breaths right? So zahel could do the same thing

Did you notice that when dalinar said "He felt there should be one more" after slamming open the perpendicularity in Oathbringer, it propably was VENLI. I think venli being a willshaper was the tenth one

personal theory about repelling fabrials (5:00) they might have just not discovered the right blend of steel to use for them 🤔

Just read my way through Rhythm, so this is a good recap.

Well, time to reread RoW again

13:27 "Does the birth of honorspren coincide with the shattering?" Yeah, Syl herself said she was a sliver of God, so I can't imagine spren existing without adonalsium being shattered. HONOR didn't exist before the shattering, so how could honorspren exist? Also, out of curiosity, where did you pull the number 10,000 years from? Is that a WOB?

Cool T-shirt.

Lets gooooo

Oof, don't say beyond beyond. If you say that too many times the ghost of bad RPGs will force you to play through Beyond the Beyond.

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