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There's also the possibility that "friction" simply isn't the correct word for the Pushing force that stops the coin from falling. Friction comes from two surfaces rubbing together. This clearly isn't happening with the coin. Brandon said that Allomantic forces exert friction; it seems to me that this was a misuse of the word friction. Perhaps Brandon meant to say that there is a Allomantic force analoguous to the physical force we call frictoin that holds the coin up

That makes total sense then! Thanks a bunch guys. WoB's save the day once again

I don't think the coin between two fingers fits with what we know about Allomancy. A coin between two fingers is held up because the fingers exert a friction force on the coin. The air around a coin can't exert friction, because the air isn't being pushed against the coin, the coin itself is being pushed. By Suspension of Disbelief do you just mean that the magic and physics don't fit together well in this instance?

There seems to be an incncistency in the way I understand Allomantic Pushes and Pulls. Maybe someone can clear it up for me. In Mistborn: The Final Empire when Kelsier is teaching Vin about Allomancy, he says that "the force of your Push or Pull is directly away from or toward you". So for example, an Allomancer couldn't lift a coin up off a table unless s/he was directly above or below the table. This seems at odds with a scene we see later in training, on page 153. Vin and Kelsier have a coin between them and are each pushing on it, trying to force it at the other person. "The coin quivered in the air, trapped between the amplified strength of two Allomancers." How can this be so? If the coin is directly between the two's centers of mass , the coin should be falling down due to gravity. Each Allomancer is pushing the coin in a horizontal direction. Their two Pushes are cancelling each other, which is why the coin isn't moving toward either person. But their pushes have no effect on the coins movement in a vertical plane. With no upward force acting on the coin, it should fall to the ground. If the coin is above the two of them, the vertical components of their Pushes should send the coin flying into the sky. If the coin is below the two's centers of mass, their Pushes would send the coin into the ground. The only way the coin should be motionless in the air is if the coin was slightly above the two's centers of mass, so that the slight upward vertical components of their pushes held the coin up. There would only be one point in space where this case would happen, and any flaring of metals would send the coin into the air. I think similar situations to this occur throughout the MB books. Brandon is usually really good about meshing his magic systems with physics, so I'm wondering if there's not something I'm missing here. I'd appreciate anyone's insight on this.

One piece of evidence that I feel points towards humans coming from somewhere else: Axehounds. As Wit pointed out, where did the 'hound' come from? If humans originated on a different shardworld (one that has dogs), it would be natural for them to name the caninesque crustaceans they found on Roshar axehounds.

It seems to me that the wait was completely deliberate. "Obviously they are fools The Desolation needs no usher It can and will sit where it wishes and the signs are obvious that the spren anticipate it doing so soon The Ancient of Stones must finally begin to crack It is a wonder that upon his will rested the prosperity and peace of a world for over four millennia" Book of the 2nd Ceiling Rotation Pattern 1

I don't think Dalinar has an Honorblade, because it screams when he drops it, as Arook said. Also, he threatened Amaram with his Blade, and neither Kaladin nor Amaram acted as if the blade was anything special. With Amaram's obsession with the Heralds, you'd think he would recognize an Honorblade. But that's not to say that he didn't recognize it and just cover up his surprise really well. Also, do we know who Nalan was talking to in the prologue? My guess is that he was talking to some servant of Jezrien, because he says Szeth has "my lord's own Blade." Szeth is a Windrunner and Jezrien was said to be head of the Windrunners. Another question I think is important is: How did Szeth get his Blade? Did he steal it, and that's why he's Truthless? Was he given it after becoming Truthless? If so, is every Truthless given an Honorblade? Why? there's so much more still to find out

Hey, not really sure where to post this but does anyone know why in Shallan's drawing of Chasm life, (827) the text isn't in her handwriting?

Okay, I'm going to sound pretty obtuse but HOW did everyone know right away that Zahel was Vasher? Are there obvious clues that I missed? Haha clearly I'm lightyears behind everyone else in the cosmere

Hands down the most powerful moment of the book for me was Shalan's "The sorrow... of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for... of wishing they'd hurt you... of screaming and scrambling and hating as those you love are ruined..." Then she smiled. Other parts: Really all of the scenes with Shallan's father, he was such a twisted, scary character. And finding out about the sacrifices he made in the end was just amazing. Wit talking to animals was great. I laughed the hardest at Kaladin's "Heralds save us if we don't have sculpting competitions!"

I feel like there must be differemt classifications of spren, since there is so much variety as do what spren seem to do. Some seem to be attracted to things (fire, wind, fear, music) some seem to live simbioticly with things (skyeels, chasmfiends). Cuisech, in Iri, seems to take without giving. Could there be spre that give without taking? I don't think there are spren in Shinovar. Axies says alspren only appear in Iri, there must be a pattern to the geographical habitats of spren

I'm in the middle of rereading WoK, and I noticed a repeating side character. In the first chapter, Cenn sees a soldier, "a lanky, red-haired Veden, with darker tan skin than the Alethi. Why was he fighting in an Alethi army?" Then in chapter nine, Kaladin is moping around and sees "Another bridgeman- a youthful Veden with reddish-blond hair- lay nearby, staring up into the spitting sky. Rainwater pooled in the corners of his brown eyes, then ran down his face. He didn't blink." Could be a coincidence, but seems odd. Any ideas?

Why do you say that?

One person that i am fairly sure is a worldhopper is a beggar that appears in the prologue to WoK: /quote Szeth left the feasting chamber behind. Just outside, he passed the doorway into the Beggar's Feast... A man with a long grey and black beard slumped in the doorway, smmiling foolishly-though whether from wine or a weak mind, Szeth could not tell. "Have you seen me?" the man asked with slurred speech. He laughed then becan to speak in gibberish reaching for a wineskin. So it was drink after all. Szeth brushed by. /endquote The "Have you seen me" line seems like a fairly obvious giveaway. I don't know what book he'd be from though. Any ideas?

I thought it might be good to have a list of characters who could possibly be worldhoppers. I was intrigued by this interview with Brandon indicating that there are a lot of, as of now, unidentified worldhoppers in WoK. Here's a place to speculate on worldhoppers; who they are, why they are hopping, and what other books they are from