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Terisen

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  1. Well, I wouldn't call it a "spren". When Kaladin is holding the Honorblade and talking to Syl, she specifically says it's not a spren. Now, granted, Syl doesn't know everything. But she is able to identify other things as spren accurately (like the red spren nobody could initially see). However, I think if you look at the Blades in a larger scheme, you might be on to something. They called Shardblades, after all. They're made from spren, which are splinters. Or, in other terms, "shards" of a shard. Perhaps, as you say, the Honorblades are splinters of Adonalsium. My gut feel, however, is that the Honorblades are specific splinters of Honor and/or Cultivation, different from spren (like how other splinters aren't spren), but still parts of a shard. Hence how the Honorblades are still Shardblades. The whole "all squares are rectangles but all rectangles aren't squares" argument.
  2. It's a matter of how much you want to abstract the combinations. Almost everything can be separated into constituent parts with enough effort. Take something like tap water. To us, it's just water. But you can remove out minerals and electrolytes and leave just pure H2O. But that can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen. And those can be broken down into electrons, protons and neutrons. And so on. So, really, it's a matter of how "mixed" they are, not if they can be seen as two different things. Everything can be seen as made up of multiple parts.
  3. I wonder if it has to do with where Brandon claims the name came from in real life. He says in the annotations that the father of his girlfriend at the time was named Vance and he tweaked it to Vancer and then Vasher (though, the editor notes that Vasher was a name he'd used in another story previous to that experience). I wonder if Denth's statement is Brandon's way of winking at that playing on the name in the actual story.
  4. I'm actually wondering if there's a limit to how much Investiture Nightblood can consume over a given period. That is, what's the rate of consumption and does he ever get "full"? Compare to humans. We eat constantly over the course of a day (well, most of us do!), but we hit a point where we fill up due to our physiology. Any excess energy is stored for later use. We haven't seen too much of Nightblood "eating", unfortunately, but I'm wondering if he can store up Investiture or is it just simply used up like a flame burning gas in the air. We know that Stormlight can be stored by humans, however imperfectly, so I'm curious if something like Nightblood can store in the presence of a lot of Investiture being present.
  5. I guess it depends on what you mean by "pick up". There are sections where the action moves along quite nicely in the middle of the book, but then there are parts that deal with exploring the world and the characters, which many (including myself) find quite enjoyable. That said, the end of the novel, as is typical of Sanderson, ends with a rush in the last 100 or so pages. And I'm not sure what you mean by part 1 and 2. Do you mean which is better between Way of Kings and Words of Radiance?
  6. As much as I love Kirito, it pains me to admit how accurate this statement is.
  7. My life has been consumed with Bravely Default of late. That game, coupled with things in real life (what's that?), has meant that I haven't really been on the boards much lately. Post or play games? Games have been winning!
  8. I had a similar thought about the Epics all being gifters. Calamity seems to be sort of a "prime gifter", as people with powers only appeared after it showed up.
  9. Wow, am I seriously the first person that is going for consoles here? I'm surrounded and outgunned! I used to do the whole PC gaming thing years ago. I actually did console and PC for a good long while. I slid over to the console side not for any gaming reason, but I just don't have the time to dedicate to it that I used to. Consoles offered me a way to just pop in and go without having to worry about hardware. I didn't want to have to keep up with upgrade cycles and rebuilding my machines, though that was fun back in the day.
  10. That's far tamer than other places other internet!
  11. I'm a fan of the "Stormlight as the cause of the size" notion. Stormlight (and Investiture in general) is a highly concentrated source of energy. That energy could certainly be stored as mass and cause massive growth through the different stages of the chasmfiend's lifecycle. We don't really get to see what happens after pupation either as every one of those chasmfiends have been slaughtered by the Alethi and Parshendi. I think the chasmfiends have to use Stormlight anyway, I think, due to their sheer size and the square-cube law. They'd collapse on themselves otherwise.
  12. Admittedly, not a great example. I don't think there's a direct analogue that can be used here. Hemalurgy is different because, as you point out, you're ripping it away from the individual. It's gone. Plus, I don't think the spiritweb ever comes into the physical realm with the spike. The spike is just a mechanism to move something around within the spiritual. A person's spiritweb is still them, so whether or not it's in the physical realm or not, it should still be able to be used by the individual. To be honest, I don't have much to say on this. Glowing has always been associated with a good amount of Stormlight in this series, so he had Stormlight coming from SOMEWHERE, possibly the Parshendi gems, but we don't really know if he was the one pulling it in.
  13. Well, that's disappointing on both points! I would have hoped it would be just as good as Fate/Zero.
  14. Well, yes, but the point still holds, I think. If it takes, say, 50 Breaths to awaken a rope and that rope is cut, does each smaller piece take 25 Breaths? If so, wouldn't that mean that they don't have enough Breath to power the Awakening and would, therefore, stop moving? Or is it 50 Breaths still in two items that sees itself as one? What would happen if you cut the rope into 51 pieces?
  15. Caster made for a good initial villain, though I thought the Matou clan thing with the worms was a little more disturbing. I think the flashbacks were supposed to give Kiritsugu a little more depth, but I didn't find they were entirely necessary. Plus, they took time away from the awesome Servant battles. Have you ever seen Fate/stay night? I haven't looked to hard for it, so I don't know if it's on any of the streaming services yet.
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