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  1. in all fairness to the objections based on that he'd be 1000 or so years old Felt and Demoux are both about 300, and god only knows how old Baon is given white sand is IIRC chronologically the first book in the cosmere (also Khriss is just as old) I mean he is dead, so probs not, I'm just saying that all the world hoppers are really old when you think about (I believe Brandon likes to invoke time dilation into explaining this somehow)
  2. I'm not saying that it can't be done, I'm saying that either you pull of a one hit KO, before a SPEED STORER notices or you pull off something like that, which as just noted takes a lot of stormlight. So yes a steelrunner is not invulnerable, just generally the top of the food chain (except fullborn - fullborn are scary)
  3. If you are a steelrunner with an aluminium spike and you see someone before they kill you, then you win that is not exaggerated, it's just true bleeder in shadows of self does something basically equivalent of the quicksilver scene in the x-men films, except possibly a bit faster (can't remember how big the room in SoS is described as being), if you can't kill a steelrunner before they see the attack coming they win
  4. I still maintain that anyone who has access to feruchemical steel (speed) and an aluminium spikey thing just wins because you run up to them faster than they can deal with, and leave a chunk of unhealable metal through their eye also just to note for the 'mistborn with atium wouldn't know what a shardblade does' literally every time we see somebody use atium they DODGE stuff not block it, because that's kind of the point of atium another point it is implied that Jasnah has difficulties getting back from the cognitive realm at the end of WoR, we don't really know the limits of transportation, and the only reason Jasnah can do what she does at the end of Oathbringer is the huge amount of stormlight around (I know she does similar things earlier, but never to somebody properly invested) (also note that I do however believe that combat soalcasting is almost as much as an 'I win' button as steelrunning)
  5. dude listen to RShara, stormlight and breaths are "easy" to use to power other magic, not the other way around. To use allomancy to fuel surgebinding you'd have to: a ) be a surgebinder b ) be/have access to an allomancer c ) co-opt the investiture from harmony when the allomancer tries to allomance This is difficult Also surgebinding is difficult to use off of Roshar, you have to be able to get the spren off world and then co-opt some-one elses investiture It is easier to be an allomancer and find/buy some metal dust
  6. Stormlight is just raw investiture, you could in theory use it to power whatever you want. It's probably the easiest thing to use as a substitute, not using allomancy, which is easily the most practical magic to use cosmere wide without bringing a bunch of invested stuff around with you, you are also assuming that the surgebinder is at least the 3rd/4th oath, otherwise they don't get the shardblade/plate
  7. um I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, at all. Wax isn't a surgebinder, and allomancy probably could be fueled by stormlight, it would just take a lot of working out, and in the end would just be easier to carry around a few small vials of metal
  8. just to give my two cents, I don't know why people always have to throw fullborn's at these problems. A ) all you need for the speed is just steel feruchemy, in shadows of self that's all bleeder has and she starts a fight by firing 4 or 5 shots from different places practically simultaneously, the compounding just means you don't run out, but by the point a well prepared steelrunner has run out of speed if you haven't won the fight you won't anyway B ) Wax could probably beat a shardbearer, hell all you need to be able to do is shoot an aluminium bullet through the eyepiece (yes I am aware that this is difficult at best, but scadrians have the technology, and at that point you don't even need any investiture, just aluminium alloy bullets), and Wax has all the aiming skills and the ability to play keep away until he lands a shot
  9. It seems likely to me that the whole 'reverting to the crown' thing is just because the guy died with no heir. After that the highest authority in the area then chooses a new family/lighteyes to be promoted. This kind of thing happened in England, where if a noble died with no heir then the land would typically end up going to the church or the king in the will, and what with people probably not wanting to end up with another Hierocracy the land probably isn't going to the church. Although this still doesn't fix where the crownlands comes from, or why there isn't a Highprince equivalent ruling there.
  10. @Yata As far as I am aware the main difference between a human and an AI is that they don't necessarily share any of the same kind of values as we do, like almost everyone views taking human/sentient life as a BAD THING, but an AI wouldn't necessarily. Also a side note we, and most of the characters in the cosmere, are natives of the physical realm, and we've seen natives of the cognitive realm (spren) who see life fairly differently than we do. If a shard (or other investiture, a shard seems the best candidate for it though as they are the only thing we know that is mostly in the spiritual realm) manifested its own consciousness it could be a native of the spiritual realm, which would be interesting to see
  11. I would argue that instead of being forced to create life the laws of the universe would force Adonalsium to increase entropy, but the best/most efficient way to increase entropy is to create living beings. Or that to increase entropy Adonalsium made some planets which spawned life of there own.
  12. @Landis963 Yep thats the one, Thanks
  13. @The One Who Connectsto be fair I wasn't particularly clear on the issue of sentience I guess, I meant that the Shard essentially 'creates' a cognitive shadow to act as its vessel, and could you then kill the cognitive shadow and then would the Shard 'create' another one and I believe that there's a WoB out there where a sharder claims "we do not concern ourselves with the practical", I'm just throwing hypothetical situations around because the actual mechanics of the Shards and how exactly investiture would become self aware fascinates me
  14. So we know that any investiture left lying around for "a while" will gain sentience eventually, my question is if somebody killed a shard holder but didn't splinter the shard would the sentience the shard gained: a) then act as a separate entity (i.e. could you then kill just the sentience and restart the cycle) and b) would the sentience be an amalgamation of the cosmere wide ideal of the 'core intent' of the shard (like if the general cosmere idea of say ruin was a terrible force wanting to destroy everything and inflict suffering then would you end up with something worse than Ati's version of Ruin) and for fun c) if the answer to both of these is yes, could you kill the sentience and if the cosmere wide idea of that concept has changed end up with a totally different sentience after the shard 'remakes' its mind
  15. From how I read things the Shards that Sazed picked up would arguably be called Balance on their own, but because Sazed sees the opposites and sees how they could work together, hence Harmony, whereas someone who would see opposites and say that they can't work together would end up with Discord
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