InstantWalrus

Granted but theyre all kittens who inexplicably die while i listen to my wish lawyer I wish kittens couldnt die until my wish lawyer was done with his job

Granted, however your ability is also triggered subconciously so anytime youre frightened, bored, uncomfortable or even just need to pee uou find yourself teleporting to satisfy said need making for many an awkward situation. I wish for a wish lawyer who will help me formulate my next wish in a way that wont back fire and will do so pro bono edit: formating problem

granted but for some inexplicable reason you have a mobile phone grafted inside your head? I wish for a cow with which i can get the best milk for up here on the sandwitch moon

granted you recieve a nice little tin badge and everything and everybody in the world is flocking to join. However you are stuck as the groups treasurer for ever and forced to do all the accounting by yourself and your work load is ever increasing with the constant influx of members. I wish for a glass of milk, there isnt much to drink on the sandwitch moon

granted but youonly have access to random surges on random days and cant predict or know which you can currently use I wish for a sandwitch, very little food on the moon

Dress regular but with a white wig/dyed hair and deny any allegations you may be hoid while acting suspiciously like hoid and dropping blatant clues. But then im super lazy so that might have influenced my suggestion

Granted however you may never use any other form of transportation without feeling crippling anxiety and paranoia. I wish to never experience crippling anxiety and paranoia

Thats very true Im still not buying that the halfshard fabrials simply enhance durability/hardness of the materials theyre made out of. There are only 5 things i know of that can stop a shardblade: shardplate, halfshards, shardblades, honourblades and the safety sheaths (snigger). I wonder if the safety sheaths for shardblades are made from a special material or are a simmilar fabrial to the half shards. The lack of a gem makes me thing its the material (i like the alluminium theory, also it makes me laugh. tin foil hats for the win.) Are any of the ancient fabrials that we know of gemless? So far it seems its magic (investiture) that stops the shardblade as opposed to anything else. However people leaking stormlight who are full of investiture do not. I wonder if a spren can be directly cut with a shardblade (or rather a deadblade as i doubt a living sprenblade would be willing to cut another innocent spren). I have to say since in the books we've found out what shardblades really are, they've become far less interesting. I like me some fabrials.

well with someone swinging a shardblade at you i doubt your first instinct is to try to parry with your spanreed.

oh thats where i was getting confused... i remember now. The shardblades simply pass strait through living material rather than cutting it like they did rock, hence the need to kill the chasmfiend/break its shell before they could be carved up with the shardblade to harvest the gemheart. My bad its been a while since i read the book. That reread might be warranted sooner than expected. So what about shardplate. Can it be cut once it runs out of stormlight or does it retain its armour qualities just not the enhanced strength? I hope we see more halfshards and shardbows in the books. I like the idea of non spren artifabrial weapons. They always seemed like throwaway mentions in the books.

Oh yeah i forgot it was only the old fabrials that replicated surgebindings. Shame it seems you could do some awesome stuff with surgebinding that some fabrials do. For example span reeds, if they were based on a surge that linked two objects together so they moved at the same time, that would be a useful surge power to use. Link two swords together so they attack in tandem. So my understanding of shardblades is rudimentary. I get confused by the rules of what they can and cannot cut. So Dalinar can just slice through rock with the blade or other inanimate materials and it functions like a lightsaber. But with living materials like people it cuts through the soul but does it pass through the flesh or does it have to cut the flesh like a normal sword. I ask because i remember a lot of the chasmfiends fights they have to smash through the shell with hammers and then kill the chasm fiend before it can be lightsabered with the shardblade. However in shardbearer fights it seems to me like the shardblades are described as simply passing through the bodies of people severing the souls and burning out the eyes. I always imagined a corpse left behind after being killed by a shardblade would have no visible wounds other than the eyes. But im guessing they are actually cut as if by a regular sword. So half shards, maybe they work by imbueing the shield/armour with a fake spren soul. So the trapped spren acts as a soul for the half shard making the material "alive" and because of this the shardblade cant lightsaber through it and instead tries to cut it. I wonder if the same technology could be used to build shardbearer prisons. In the books they say they dont imprison shardbearers, its let them off or kill them. Because they could never be contained in a conventional prison (i have my doubts, im sure you could be creative and tie up a shardbearer so that even if he summons his sword hes not in a position to cut himself loose... can a shardblade cut its own wielder? I mean a dead sprenblade, a live shardblade can probably choose not too)

So i was reading the coppermind on halfshards and its very unclear to me what they actually are. (being an audiobook listener its not easy to go to the source, and im not due for another reread for at least a couple of months ) I always imagined them as shields that could stop a shardblade. But the coppermind makes it sound like they could be armour, just huge bulky not strength enhancing armour. Im also wandering what sort of fabrial they are. Afaik fabrials tend to use simillar powers to the surgebindings to produce a similar effect. But i cant think of a surgebinding that could stop a shardblade, and if there is one directly that has some serious implications for the combat effectiveness of the KR using such a surge. Granted i doubt KR ever really fought other people with shardblades, so the ability to use your innate power to block one isnt super useful unless of course the voidbringers had their own shardblade equivalents (i mean back in the day, we know the parshendi use/d shards more recently). I cant remember any mention of voidbringers with shardblades, but if theyre spren fueled i dont see why they couldnt have dark shards or something. Captured evil twisted spren forced into sword form then killed/preserved/trapped in it (would be kinda cool imo). so yeah half shardsw, what are they? Shields? Armour? And a KR with the ability to block a shardblade without parrying would be one bad chull -> take a hit on the chest shrug it off and riposte while your enemy is shocked and off balance.

its been a while since i read the book but if i remember correctly wasnt Raodens Seon on an errand during his final showdown?

i wonder if you had a seon with you and were using (erm dunno proper spelling) Seondor (?) would you still be region locked, maybe thats part of their purpose like floating talking cell network relay stations

ok ok so if metal is your mind nozzle that shapes the investiture you channel from preservation. what about haemalurgy. If you steal allomancy with a spike are you still drawing from preservation with the correct mind nozzle you stole. Or is it Ruins investiture this time. Cos harmony could have put a stop to a lot of ruins chullocks if he stopped giving investiture to the spikeyboys(although i guess that would be against the rules of their weird gentlemens agreement). Also So in theory a misting could use stormlight to replicate any of the allomantic powers rather than being limited to 1 if they learned how to draw it in and form a new mind nozzle? Seeing as they have the sDNA to use investiture but are just stuck with 1 mind nozzle? And apparantly raw investiture can be used with any mind nozzle and isnt limited to the metal? Sorry this post is crazy (i do enjoy using the phrase mind nozzle though)