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  1. @eissturm This reinforces my original statement. The sand re-Invests during Highstorms, and normally re-Invests over time on Taldain. This implies that the Light coming down on Taldain is constant, if not particularly powerful. I still think their "normal" light spectrum would be skewed.
  2. I was re-reading the bit in RoW about Navani splitting the various Lights with a prism, and how they don't follow natural light patterns (wavelengths of light broadening, rather than changing in intensity). Thinking about Taldain made me question what their understanding of waves and the electromagnetic spectrum would be like. Their Investiture is received directly from the sun, at least the micro-organisms in the sand receive their Investiture directly from the sun. This probably means that if they repeated the prism experiment with their Light, they would see how Autonomy's Light is split, whatever that looks like, rather than how natural light is split. Seems to me that they would have a warped idea of the electromagnetic spectrum, or the relationship between frequency and wavelength. The relationship between wavelength and frequency in the real world might not ever be discovered on Taldain, because they would be starting from a false supposition, that light everywhere actus the way their Light does. And unless anyone thought to repeat the same experiment with a man-made, full spectrum light source they would never have a good basis for optics or a whole bunch of technologies that depend on wave mechanics. How do you all think that no understanding, or incorrect understanding, of this would effect technology on Taldain?
  3. No one is talking about Chiri-Chiri and how she talks at the end of her chapter. After the events of Dawnshard, we know that she's going to end up being massive. I can only presume she will still be able to fly at the end, since she has kept her wings, and she talks. A giant, flying, talking, armored animal that uses magic with it's mouth, and guards a great treasure in any other work of fiction would be a dragon. Since there are actual dragons in the Cosmere they can't be the same creature, but I'm dubbing the lanceryn the next best thing. Chiri-Chiri is the Stormlight Archives first crab-dragon. A cragon, if you will.
  4. @Necessary Eagle What's the basis for Szeth being in prison? It makes sense that he would be, obviously, but as far as I know the last time he was mentioned was at the end of Oathbringer, chilling outside of Dalinar's door.
  5. I don't like to raise dead threads, but this is the first I found regarding the plate in Oathbringer. Given how the sentence is phrased, with Jasnah being "nonplussed", therefore surprised or confused about suddenly tossing around people, I would have to say this is merely the beginning of manifesting Shardplate. Adding credence to her surprise is that Dalinar manifested something extremely similar with Venli, protecting his body from harm while not getting the full Plate. It is also clear from the passage that he didn't even notice what he was doing, so Jasnah flinging people around without consciously summoning Plate seems reasonable. I also really dig that her previous scene with Renarin was her next Ideal. Those scenes are loaded with self discovery and import, and calm, rational Jasnah choosing family and emotion over the logical choice is wonderfully poetic.
  6. I agree wholeheartedly with @Subvisual Haze. I felt that the knowledge that they weren't the original inhabitants of Roshar was a very thin excuse for the Radiants to straight-up murder their spren. If the threat of the Voidbringers had "passed", and then they were doubting their moral imperative for using their powers, and THEN they figured out their powers would eventually cause a cataclysm, it is much more reasonable to assume that the majority of the Radiants would agree to disband.
  7. @ghajan monk yep, just your normal, everyday, madness inducing lap dog. The mindless ones don't seem to be malicious, they just hurt everything around them by existing. Re-Shepir seems to be recalcitrant, but I'm guessing the other, sapient, Unmade are going to be quite nasty indeed.
  8. That's pretty low man, rifling through your creator god's pockets for loose change lol
  9. I always assumed that Leras died when he created Ruin's prison. The mist ghost that remained was just a pale shadow of Leras' personality. Similar to the Stormfather I think. In any case, I don't think it can be termed a Sliver in the same way the Lord Ruler could be.
  10. Inspired by Kurk's uber-thread, but I didn't think it would fit in either.
  11. Timebubbles have been beaten to death on the forum, but I haven't seen any mathematical discussions on just how much energy is being tossed around. So, since I was bored, I ran some numbers. I can't remember the specific point where this number is given, and I can't find the passage, but at some point in AoL, I think Wayne states he fights people somewhere around 8x speed. Using this as a base, I figured out how much energy a bullet would lose upon exiting an 8x speed bubble. I used a .45 ACP round as a base for my data, because I figured that was acceptably close to a revolver round (and it's also the first thing I found lol). A .45 ACP round weighing 15g and traveling 255 m/s has 483 Joules of energy. Multiplied by the compression ratio of the bubble (8x) this becomes 3.9 kJ. Upon exiting the speed bubble, the bullet returns to its "normal" speed, and the change in energy that represents is 3.42 kJ. This 3.42 kJ of energy isn't described as being dissipated as heat or sound, and so presumably, it skips away to the Spirit realm or wherever. This is a lot of energy to just go nowhere. To give some reference, you could run 2 good sized space heaters for 1 second on that. That is the same energy that 3.5 square meters of earth receives from solar radiation, and that's enough energy to heat 1 kg of water nearly a degree Celsius (ok, that doesn't sound like much, but that IS a lot of water, that's a liter of water). This extra energy scales linearly with the compression ratio of the speed bubble. So an actual equation for energy lost to the magical aether would look something like this: dE=(Compression Ratio - 1)(Kinetic Energy of Object Inside Speed Bubble) While we're on the topic of compression ratios, Wayne has a LOT more range with his compression than I gave him credit for before I started this analysis. I used the scene where Tillaume tries to blow them all up as a basis for his maximum compressing abilities. The amount of time that passes in the speed bubble Wayne creates is approximated by the time it took me to read the passage to myself, minus a few seconds to account for words that aren't expressly dialog. This came out to be 12 seconds. Tillaume is described as "across the room" and the room is fairly large, so I used 6 meters as the distance between Wayne and the bomb. Regarding the bomb, the explosion has already formed by the time the speed bubble goes up and is just barely starting. This simplifies my assumptions a little. The explosion has to travel the full 6 meters between itself and Wayne, and since it's already formed, I can assume its expansion to be at a constant speed. The speed can be approximated by the fact that they don't describe the explosion as having a shock wave. This means the explosion is sub-sonic (if just barely) and so I used 340 m/s for the speed of the explosion. Now for figuring out the compression ratio of the speed bubble. Observed Velocity of Explosion = (Distance between Wayne and bomb)/(time of conversation in speed bubble) = (6m)/(12 sec) = 0.5 m/s Time Compression = (Actual Velocity of Explosion)/(Observed Velocity of Explosion) = (340 m/s)/(0.5 m/s) = 680 times compression Holy shards in the sky, Batman! That is a crap-ton of time compression. Way, way more than what I initially assumed from just reading the book. Anyways, this post isn't about proving anything, it was just curiosity that led me to figure out these relative numbers. They're not meant as hard and fast rules for what is actually going on, as I doubt that Brandon is consulting a table of energy values when writing his books, but I thought it was kind of fun to have it presented like this.
  12. It really is just interpretation at this point, but I think that there might be another way of looking at it. One vanilla, regular-old human being has one soul "unit" (SI soul units? Someone should work on that). Nalthis born humans have an extra 0.5 units bestowed upon then by Endowment on birth, bringing them to 1.5 units. But giving your breath might not be perfectly spontaneous, it might require an input, an "activation energy". So to endow your 0.5 soul unit Breath, you expend 0.3 soul units, leaving you a lesser human being. However, this would result in a net loss of energy, and humans recover fully when their Breath is returned to them, they don't go back to 1.2 soul units when their Breath is returned, they go back to 1.5. This implies that, when Breath is transferred, it IS spontaneous, and that extra 0.3 units of your soul tags along for no explainable reason. Now that I've talked myself around in a huge circle, I want to find myself a signing so I can ask Brandon this specific question.
  13. Ok. So does that make drabs the most human of the lot? Would you or I be distinguishable from a drab?
  14. So I see a bunch of posts talking about Drabs and Breath. But what I want to know is how a drab would differ from a baseline human. WoB says that another person who travels to Nalthis wouldn't be drab, but what makes someone drab is that they gave away their Investiture from Endowment, their Breath. Giving away your Breath should leave you with just your soul, restoring you to baseline human again, in my mind, at least. There's a bunch of lines about drabs being more susceptible to disease and irritable, but maybe that's just how normal people would appear to a native Nalthian with their innate Breath. But, as I write this, I remember that Vasher can use his lifesense on Roshar, where the humans have no innate Investiture. That indicates that lifesense senses LIFE not Investiture. Which would mean that drabs are somehow less "alive" than a normal person, and that makes no sense because all they should have given away was their Breath. I'm sure I'm just missing something, but I hope that someone can clear this up for me.
  15. I doubt it takes over the bird's mind or anything. I suspect they symbiotically live within the host, enabling a the host to invest according to their spiritweb make-up. I imagine it as sort of a metal that never turns off.
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