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I started reading Brandon's works in 2015 and have been following the community on and off since then. I finally decided to start contributing here in 2019. I'm new to editing wikis, so I'm mostly going to be using this page for figuring that out and drafting articles.
 
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I started reading [[Brandon Sanderson|Brandon]]'s works in 2015 and have been following the community on and off since then. I finally decided to start contributing here in 2019. I've got some miscellaneous resources and notes on this page, as well as a vague list of [[#Projects]] and my [[#Subpages]].
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I'm also a [[Coppermind:Keepers|Keeper]] and member of the [[Coppermind:Synod|Synod]], which basically means I'm someone you can come to if you want some help getting started on the Coppermind, have any questions about wiki policies or guidelines, want some advice on how to handle something, think there's something that needs to be done that you don't have permissions for, run into an issue with another editor, or otherwise need help with something Coppermind-related. Feel free to contact me via any of the options listed on [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|my talk page]].
'''Completed Projects'''
 
*[[Becca Nightshade]]
 
*[[Tsa]]
 
   
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I often take inspiration for edits from things I see in [[Special:RecentChanges]] so if I edit something you just did, it's probably not because you did anything wrong, I just saw something else on the page that I thought could be improved.
'''Current Projects''' (in rough priority order)
 
*[[Judy Ivans]]: I think this is complete now, but I still need to read it through.
 
*[[Sylphrena]] (History Section): Main June/July Objective. Just started work; it looks like the Attributes & Abilities section has gotten a little tangled with the History section, so I'll actually be doing both.
 
*[[M-Bot]]: If no one takes this objective by the time I'm done with Syl, I'll probably grab this one too.
 
*[[Cognitive Shadow]]: Noticed this on the urgent list and thought I'd put some work into it. Examples section done; will keep working.
 
*[[Identity]]: Also on the urgent list. If I have a chance, I'll see what I can do here too.
 
   
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[[Special:Diff/114568|My thousandth edit]] came in the middle of a spree to fix the book parameter in all the [[Skyward (series)|Skyward]] infoboxes and [[Special:Diff/169139|my ten thousandth edit]] was adding a disambiguation note to between Tindwyl and Tindwyl Ladrian (I note that only so that I can remember in five years exactly which page it was).
'''Workspace (Currently for Syl)'''
 
{{spoilers|book=sa3}}
 
== History ==
 
=== Creation & Early Life ===
 
Sometime before the [[Day of Recreance]], [[Honor]] passed on the responsibility of creating [[honorspren]] to the [[Stormfather]], who only created a handful of spren at first, including Sylphrena. Sylphrena formed a [[Nahel Bond]] with a human who died before the Recreance, saving her from the fate of her brothers and sisters, who were all destroyed and turned into [[deadeye]]s by the [[Knights Radiant]] abandoning their oaths. The loss of her human sent Syl into a deep slumber that lasted thousands of years, during which time the Stormfather only created ten other honorspren, who in turn created the next generation and so on, making Syl one of only eleven living spren created by the Stormfather. Sylphrena was found asleep by the other honorspren, who gave her the moniker "The Ancient Daughter." Some time after awaking, around 1770, she felt drawn to Kaladin because of the protective way he treated children while he was a squad leader in [[Amaram]]'s army and, though the other honorspren told her not to do so, ran away to the [[Physical Realm]]. This escape caused the honorspren to put a sizable bounty on bringing Syl back to their capital, [[Lasting Integrity]].{{book ref|sa3|102}}{{book ref|sa3|108}}
 
   
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== Subpages ==
=== Adjustment to the Physical Realm & Meeting Kaladin ===
 
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As is usually the case with spren, transitioning from [[Shadesmar]] to the Physical Realm made Sylphrena lose most of her cognitive ability. As a result, she lost almost all of her memories, including the knowledge that she is a honorspren, and acted much like a [[windspren]], which are considered a sort of cousin to honorspren.{{wob ref|4071}} After transitioning, Syl follows Kaladin around during his time in Amaram's army and plays tricks on him by making things stick together, which may have been uses of the Surge of [[Adhesion]].{{book ref|sa1|47}} Proximity to Kaladin slowly returned her memory and intelligence and, just before [[Tvlakv]]'s slave caravan arrives at the [[Shattered Plains]], she regains the ability to talk, though Kaladin was initially hesitant to respond, as he feared she was a sign that he was going insane. During those initial conversations, Syl struggled to understand Kaladin's depression and why humans act certain ways{{book red|sa1|2}}{{book ref|sa1|4}}
 
   
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When Kaladin was exhausted after his first bridge run, she called his name and urged him to get up and move.{{book ref|sa1|6}} After a few weeks in Bridge Four, Kaladin's depression grows progressively worse, and Syl misses the old Kaladin who stood up for others. Despite the risk of breaking their nascent bond, she sets out on a journey to try to help Kaladin, though she does not explain her purpose to him and he is terrified of loosing her too.{{book ref|sa1|9}} When she returns, she finds Kaladin at the [[Honor Chasm]], prepared to kill himself by stepping over the edge. Before he can do so, she calls his name and gives him a leaf of blackbane, a deadly poison, because Kaladin had been holding on to such a leaf during his time in the slave caravan and, from her perspective, he has gotten worse since he lost that leaf. The sheer irony of her giving him a deadly poison to make him happy makes Kaladin laugh, and Syl convinces him to help others "one last time" by trying to protect Bridge Four.{{book ref|sa1|11}}
 
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After Kaladin becomes bridgeleader, she is afraid that [[Gaz]] will try to harm Kaladin in retaliation for how Kaladin treats the bridge sergeant.{{book ref|sa1|14}}{{book ref|sa1|17}} She also begins to develop a sense of right and wrong. For example, she is glad when Kaladin pays Gaz as he had previously promised.{{book ref|sa1|17}} As her bond with Kaladin continues to strengthen, she begins to understand concepts like age and death and her cognition advances enough that she views humans as discordant because, unlike spren, they all act differently.{{book ref|sa1|17}} Still, she struggles to understand things that are totally counter to her nature as a honorspren, like why people lie.{{book ref|sa1|21}} When Bridge Four goes out to gether stones for the camp, she leads [[Lunamor]]to knobweed, the sap of which can be used as an antiseptic.
 
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| style="vertical-align:top" |'''''Mistborn'''''
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'''''Elantris'''''
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'''''Warbreaker'''''
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| style="vertical-align:top" |'''''Shadows for Silence'''''
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'''''Skyward'''''
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'''''The Rithmatist'''''
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When Kaladin began to break his oaths during Words of Radiance, Syl started losing sentience, reverting back to a mindless windspren. She became more childlike, easily distracted, and lost her bond with Kaladin to the point where he could no longer draw upon Stormlight to Surgebind. When Kaladin fell into the chasm, he was able to draw one breath of Stormlight to save himself, though he heard Syl scream in his head. She did not reappear after that, and during the next highstorm, Kaladin received a vision from the Stormfather, saying that he had killed her. He was no longer able to use any Surgebinding powers, and Syl vanished. When Kaladin tried to save Elhokar from the assassination attempt, he thought the words of the First Ideal, and began to hear shouting. It resolved into Syl arguing with the Stormfather and being forbidden to return to Kaladin. Syl then told Kaladin to speak the words, and he spoke the Third Ideal of the Windrunners. Syl then reappeared and spun around Kaladin, telling him to hold out his hand. He did so, blocking Moash's Shardblade as Syl formed into a Shardblade in his hand. His Surgebinding abilities came back, and Syl was able to speak in his mind and tell him that she ''was only as dead as his oaths''.
 
   
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== Projects ==
== Abilities and Attributes ==
 
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Like other larger spren, Syl could change her form, although since bonding with Kaladin, she was usually in the shape of a small, glowing woman. She had the ability to cause things to stick together which she generally used to play pranks on people. She could float or fly through the air, as well as walk sideways, and was particularly good at finding things such as when she helped search for the knobweeds and loot from the chasms for [[Bridge Four]]. She had the ability to bond with people and gain higher sentience in exchange for granting that person Surgebinding abilities, although whether this is voluntarily caused by her is unknown.
 
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* Implementing [[/Subpage list]]?
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* Spoiler redirect template?
   
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* Articles in need of help: See [[:Category:Articles in need of attention]], [[:Category:Articles in need of citations]], [[:Category:Articles in need of clarification]], [[:Category:Articles missing information]], [[:Category:Articles with disputed content]].
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| I'm behind what is happening to you. I'm doing it. It's both of us. But without me, nothing would be changing in you. I'm . . . taking something from you. And giving something in return. It's the way it used to work, though I can't remember how or when. I just know that it was. I'm willing to stop it, if you want. But I would go back to being as I was before. That scares me. Floating on the wind, never remembering anything for longer than a few minutes. It's because of this tie between us that I can think again, that I can remember what and who I am. If we end it, I lose that.
 
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| Syl to [[Kaladin]] on where his [[Surgebinding]] abilities are from{{book ref|twok|57}}
 
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* [[:Category:Sidequote with lazy parameters]]
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** Is it worth trying to change the sidequote template to eliminate this? I'm not sure how helpful it is.
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* Disambiguation page links. All of the ones not in the User namespace are gone, but recheck every so often. See [[:Category:Disambiguation pages]] and [[Special:DisambiguationPageLinks]].
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* Redirects for new common searches on [[Special:SearchStats]].
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* [https://coppermind.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=-hastemplate:stub+-hastemplate:partial+-hastemplate:complete+-incategory:meta+-incategory:subpages+-incategory:%22spoiler+redirects%22+-incategory:%22Cover+Galleries%22+-incategory:%22interior+art%22+-incategory:%22Gallery+Subpages%22&&&ns0=1 Missing completion tags]
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* [https://coppermind.net/wiki/Special:Search?search=-hastemplate:infobox+-incategory:series+-incategory:meta+-incategory:subpages+-incategory:%22spoiler+redirects%22+-incategory:%22Cover+Galleries%22+-incategory:%22interior+art%22+-incategory:%22Gallery+Subpages%22&&&ns0=1 Missing infoboxes]
   
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As a true spren, Syl is capable of crossing into the Physical Realm to forge a Nahel bond with another sapient being. This starts the bonded creature on the path to being a Knight Radiant and grants him or her Surgebinding and the ability to breath in Stormlight, and also helps Syl regain some of the sapience and memories she lost by transitioning from the Cognitive Realm to the Physical. If the bond advances to a certain point, Syl becomes close enough to the Physical Realm that she can be summoned as a Shardblade. While in the Physical Realm, Syl can change her appearance and make herself invisible to others.
 
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* [[Coppermind:Elantris#Stubs]] (0 stubs)
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* [[Coppermind:Emperor's Soul#Stubs]] (0 stubs)
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* <span style="background:#FFFF00">[[Coppermind:Mistborn Era 1#Stubs]] (1 stub)</span>
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* <span style="background:#FFFF00">[[Coppermind:Mistborn Era 2#Stubs]] (10 stubs)</span>
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* [[Coppermind:Stormlight Archive#Stubs]] (27 stubs)
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* <span style="background:#FFFF00">[[Coppermind:White Sand#Stubs]] (1 stub)</span>
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Since Syl is a honorspren, those who bond with her become Windrunners, with access to the Surges of Adhesion and Gravitation.
 
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** [[Cognitive Shadow]]
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** [[Elendel#Government]]
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** [[Sigzil]]
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** [[Sibling]]
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** Try to figure out what the Higgens Effect is. See [[Rame Maldor]] and ''Shadows of Self'' chapter 9.
   
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The Nahel bond can be broken in three main ways. One, if the Radiant dies, the bond ends; this is painful for the spren, but not deadly. Second, if the Radiant breaks his or her oaths, the spren is killed and becomes a deadeye unless the Radiant returns to the oaths. Third, Notum mentions unspecified "other ways" that work as long as the Fifth Ideal has not been sworn.
 
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**<span style="background:#FF00FF">Adonalsium</span>
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**<span style="background:#00FF00">Odium's Quest</span>
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I started reading Brandon's works in 2015 and have been following the community on and off since then. I finally decided to start contributing here in 2019. I've got some miscellaneous resources and notes on this page, as well as a vague list of #Projects and my #Subpages.

I'm also a Keeper and member of the Synod, which basically means I'm someone you can come to if you want some help getting started on the Coppermind, have any questions about wiki policies or guidelines, want some advice on how to handle something, think there's something that needs to be done that you don't have permissions for, run into an issue with another editor, or otherwise need help with something Coppermind-related. Feel free to contact me via any of the options listed on my talk page.

I often take inspiration for edits from things I see in Special:RecentChanges so if I edit something you just did, it's probably not because you did anything wrong, I just saw something else on the page that I thought could be improved.

My thousandth edit came in the middle of a spree to fix the book parameter in all the Skyward infoboxes and my ten thousandth edit was adding a disambiguation note to between Tindwyl and Tindwyl Ladrian (I note that only so that I can remember in five years exactly which page it was).

Subpages[edit]

List of Commonly Linked to Disambigs[edit]

Exemplary Article Tracking[edit]

Exemplary Articles by Series[edit]

This section separates out exemplary articles by what series they are from, to assist in providing variety for the featured article. As a check for each series has to be added manually, some exemplary articles may be missed. For reference, there are currently 16 exemplary articles.

The Stormlight Archive Mistborn

Elantris

Warbreaker

Shadows for Silence

Skyward

The Rithmatist

Candidates for Promotion[edit]

This section aims to identify complete articles that may be candidates for promotion to exemplary based on article length. Current exemplary articles are included in the list of complete articles and a separate list of current exemplary articles by page length is provided for ease of referencing where the complete articles stand relative to current exemplary ones.

Current Exemplary Articles
  1. Rosharan subastral
  2. Miles Dagouter
  3. Kharbranth
  4. Lasting Integrity
  5. Kalak
  6. Hudiya
  7. Feruchemy
  8. Elantris (city)
  9. Rithmatics
  10. Purelake
  11. Ialai Sadeas
  12. Shade
  13. Jezrien
  14. Ba-Ado-Mishram
  15. Manywar
  16. Hierocracy
Complete Articles by Size

Projects[edit]

Primary[edit]

  • Fabrial parameter on {{metal}} infobox?
  • Implementing /Subpage list?
  • Standards for Uncanonical titles vs Unnamed characters categories?
  • Spoiler redirect template?

General quality[edit]

Keep an eye on[edit]

De-stubbing the cosmere[edit]

Last checked: 00:31, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Other[edit]

  • Re-check the type of infobox on whatever we end up calling the article for the delver training maze after Skyward 3 comes out.
  • Make sure species names and variations of "cytonic" are lowercase. Biggest offenders are probably Category:Defending Elysium
  • Other articles to maybe work on some day

Cosmere Update Tracking[edit]

Code: Not Started, In Progress, Review, Done, Not Needed, Not Sure

  • Intro
  • Properties and Forces
    • Realms
      • Physical Realm
      • Cognitive Realm
      • Spiritual Realm
    • Investiture
      • Anti-Investiture
    • Perpendicularities
    • Adonalsium
      • Shards of Adonalsium
    • Aethers
  • Planets
    • Primary Worlds
    • Other Notable Worlds
  • History
    • Before the Shattering
    • The Shattering of Adonalsium
    • Odium's Quest
    • The Ascension of Harmony
    • Splintering of Honor and the True Desolation
    • Trell and Scadrial
  • Worldhoppers
    • Hoid
    • Worldhopping Groups
      • The Seventeenth Shard
      • Silverlight
      • The Ire
      • The Ghostbloods
      • The Night Brigade
    • Other Worldhoppers
  • Development
  • Bibliography of the Cosmere
    • Forthcoming
    • Chronological Order
  • Further Reading