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  1. A random thing that came to me last night while reading Oathbringer is on the topic of Stormlight healing (or any investiture healing really, but lets stick with the place where it's so common that it literally falls from the sky). On an unrelated note, STAY AWAY FROM THE WIKI, I just accidentally spoilered myself while checking the name of something for this post We know from WoB that Stormlight essentially heals your physical self to match your cognitive self, hence why some 'injuries' don't heal like the Bridge 4 tattoos and Kaladin's brands because the person's self image essentially says "Those are part of Me". Lets start looking at that and jumping to some logical extensions. Age: Does this mean that if you often draw on Stormlight, you're essentially going to stop aging for as long as your self image says "I'm a person of X age", Stormlight will just keep you at that age? We do know that holding a lot of Breath seems to slow the aging process. Conversely, if someone's self image is that of an older person than they physically are (say a teenager who has had to look after his baby siblings all his life and therefore 'sees' himself as an adult), would Stormlight healing actually *age* them when they used it? Very minor spoiler here for early Oathbringer. I am unsure if this was in Words of Radiance or not. Lasting Injury: Would someone who sees a particular injury as truly part of themselves simply *not* heal that thing? eg, if Renarin truly sees himself as someone with Epilepsy who requires glasses (as opposed to a healthy person with those inflicted upon him) then would this prevent his eyes or brain from healing? Transgender people: And now lets take things a bit further. If Stormlight heals your body to match your self image, then what about transgender people? Does this mean that they could essentially change their body to match how they are inside by taking in enough Stormlight? Deliberately warping self image: And now we're going off the reservation and to places unknown. What if you found a Parshendi baby and raised them Alethi, using Lightweaving (or possibly even cosmetics) on them their entire life so that they always see themselves as Alethi, with no clue that they're actually an entirely different species, and then once their self image has stabilised, pour Stormlight into them. Would their very species change to match their self image of being Alethi? What about other similar things? Could you raise someone as 'knowing' that they used to have horns and a tail, but these were cut off when they were a baby in a grievous act of violence, so that their image of themselves includes "I should have horns and a tail but I was maimed" and then have Stormlight 'heal' those imagined injuries? Could you imagine a Truthwatcher Dominatrix, someone who specialises in warping people's self image with psychology and lightweaving and then using Progression to heal them to match their new self? Anyways, that's my thoughts/theory, I'd be curious to hear what people think the limits of Stormlight are
  2. Killing a regenerator is a pretty standard topic. In the case of a Gold Compounder, with insane amounts of gold that's been implanted internally to prevent removal? Bury them alive in concrete. They'll either die (eventually) or wish they could die. The important things is basically just "Give him a constant source of damage and no way of escaping it". Chains and such aren't as helpful, since when the bit of him that's chained up burns through he'll just walk free of the chains. Just trick him into entering a large metal box (shipping container), lock the door, fill it with concrete and then bury it all.
  3. I wish that I could change my body at will to match my gender identity...
  4. Random crazy theory: Dalinar's request to the Nightwatcher was something along the lines of "The ability to best serve my brother and his Kingdom" or something of the like. What happened is a piece of the mind/soul of one of the Heralds was stapled into his brain. It lay mostly dormant for years until the reading of the Way of Kings triggered it, leading to him stringently following the Codes, and getting visions from the Shard who set 'him' (the Heralds) their eternal duty. This is also one of the reasons he's such a powerful warrior, he has a piece of a centuries skilled being attached to him, and he can subconsciously utilise Stormlight in the right circumstances (hence Adolin's comments about how Dalinar "seemed to glow" during the fight with the Greatshell in book one). Unfortunately this piece 'stapled over' the memories of his Wife.
  5. Gotta admit, right up until the end I thought Steelheart's weakness was going to be either: 1) Can only be harmed by someone who believes he's a hero (hence why he sends out all those messages about slaughtering people who never existed, even while he makes a stable empire with power and water and generally better lives than most. People have to believe that he's a villain otherwise he becomes powerless and can't help anyone, so he does as much good as he can within that model without anyone questioning it). 2) Can only be harmed by someone not attempting to harm him (hence whey the accidental graze hurt him).
  6. I'm imagining a Mistborn fighting against a non-flight capable radiant just Flying a while up in the air and popping a Cadmium bubble and just staying there until the Radiant either gets annoyed and leaves, or drains their stormlight reserves
  7. I should possible clarify my OP I'm looking for superstitions from fictional works, rather than just making up random superstitions.
  8. So! I need a bunch of superstitions and/or things involving the number 13 from fictional works (don't care if it's games, books, tv, movies, etc). Anyone able to help me out? Random superstitions and such from media you happen to have seen recently? *Edit* To clarify, I'm looking for superstitions from fictional works, rather than randomly made up superstitions.
  9. Clearly there is only one logical explanation. That blade is actually a giant Hemalurgic spike, which has taken the Investiture of an honourblade and its Herald at some point in the past. Taln is an imposter (possibly a Kandra) from Scadrial who worldhopped, killed the original Herald and stole his power (just to see if it was possible), and then went "Aw crap, there's more Heralds.. I'd better play along for a while so they don't kill me..." After a bunch of cycles he became kinda indoctrinated (or maybe saw that it was so important and knew he'd better keep it up) and just kept doing it. And that's why Taln kept up his cycle for so much longer than the other Heralds, who abandoned their posts. He was an imposter and so had been doing it a LOT less time than the others had.
  10. I just read that as carving crystal is hard because, well, it's a hard material and I don't really see Sel as having a lot of diamond-bit carving implements around.
  11. I was going to mention the same thing. Loooot of people who could potentially fit the requirements of Dominion & Devotion in the kink community. Hell, the Lord Ruler was partway there himself. "I must subjugate you in order to protect you" isn't that uncommon a thing.
  12. Eh, they put a crossbow bolt through his head and ruined his brain, I'd say it was a pretty good attempt. They may not know about the local healing abilities and even if they do, they could think "Great! Either we kill him outright or they heal his head and they're left with a vegetable that they eventually need to kill themselves after he's found out, *and* the Heritage faction get discredited for covering it up and ruling for themselves." No way they could have known that it'd be possible for Shai to Forge a soul
  13. So.... I feel a little embarassed... I *completely* missed the TLR/Kelsier thing with the Southerners until I read it here. Maybe it would have twigged to me if I'd read the OT more recently than the month they came out? And what, did Harmony just resurrect him afterwards? Are we sure that this isn't just a Kandra running around with Kel's old bones? Totally called Telsin being a mole, like, that one was obvious as obvious to me, though not that she was higher ranked. Also.. holy hell a Mistborn/Feruchemist would end up nuttily powerful across the Cosmere if you can Compound the Investiture to make yourself stronger with that ability than you were before...
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