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  1. the floating cities mention for Ashyn had me thinking that was it, but just read further and now prepared to say I was wrong
  2. Holy cow, lot of Hoid stuff to unpack with this one. Given the nationalities named, I'm wondering if we are talking about Ashyn (Yumi) and Braize (Painter) in the Rosharan system, possibly set in time prior to (or at the same time as) human settlement on Roshar. Also interesting how Painter traps the cognitive shadows in a similar way to how Rosharan scholars trapped flame spren by documenting attributes about them. Hion lines seem similar to those the Eyrie had sustaining their cognitive stronghold on the outskirts of Scadrial's cognitive realm, which may mean that we are talking exclusively about Ashyn (with Yumi in the physical realm and Painter in the cognitive realm).
  3. I believe (been a minute, correct me if wrong) that he gave his name as Hoid to Kaladin as well, around the campfire, and was generally known as Hoid on Nalthis.
  4. I'd be too afraid to if I wasn't fully caught up on Cosmere as I wouldn't want to happen upon Cosmere spoilers or references I don't understand yet, but I'm caught up so that's a huge YAY for me! Waiting until 2023 to finish the read won't be fun, but need new daydream material.
  5. Glorious day. I see the Fry meme has been tended to already so I'll just mosey on over to yon Kickstartery and get to it.
  6. Hadn't really considered that given he has so much going on, but a very fair point; he certainly makes more sense than Rlain at the very least. I had honed in on the others (excluding Rlain, more of a gut feeling there) because of their direct experiences with Odium's and Honor's investiture (or combo thereof), but there are few characters in the Cosmere who display anywhere near as much passion OR honor as Kaladin displays.
  7. Dalinar, or less obviously Renarin or Venli (possibly even Rlain), are walking paths that could put them as the God of War by taking up Odium and Honor together, as Sazed was poised to assume the mantle of Harmony. Of course, that feels pretty obvious so it won't be so simple as that, but it's a tasty enough herring to enjoy while waiting what will certainly seem like eons for the next installment.
  8. I figured that was a stretch; wasn’t sure that even made sense with the production timeline.
  9. Finally hit the finish line; had to finish an epic re-read before I dove in. Holy. Crap. For me, this book was an amazing culmination of all things prior. Things that stood out: The inclusion of tidbits from all exposed corners of the Cosmere. Cosmere Science ("Stience"). Applications for gems, alumninum & Raysium with other Investitures 2 God-metals on Roshar still unaccounted for too Tones/Rhythms as part of a potential key to reassembling Adonalsium? Dual-fuel for multi-bonded? White Sand as an Investiture converter? Thaidakar. Oh yea. Nightblood. You already knew it what Nightblood was all about, but oh yea. Deadeyes have more to do? Socially progressive: I think that the huge nod to the significance/importance of mental health, the bucking of gender norms, and even how racism (and/or species-ism?) is addressed is all fantastically handled. I'm pretty sure I caught a coronavirus nod in something Lirin said at some point. I may have been looking into things there, but the thought made me chuckle. There is so much more...
  10. Has anyone caught any Spren around Mraize when the Aviary is near, I wonder? If it is the common variety that shield minds from being detected then that might prevent Spren from reacting to his emotions... Makes me wonder what the effects one of that variety of Aviary would be for those in the cognitive realm too...
  11. I had missed the bit about the baton, but I read more carefully and am glad to see you have covered the topic of transference of power through contact points on tool and gloves, because if you are going through all this trouble then you probably OUGHT to make it as cool as possible, lol. Cursory search of PZT warned that they likely were not super flexible within individual units; wouldn't be surprised if you could get others geared to catch what first line is throwing and step up even more, but also would not be surprised if that broke the bank. I've had no luck altering chips in the past, but have been party to (not driving) boot-loading of chips and it didn't seem overly onerous as compared to my expectations. Especially given real-estate is precious (and odd) in your use case, DIY may kill a few birds with one stone anyway.
  12. @Quantus First off, this is way cool! Now for the inquisition: Are you shooting for fingertip to fingertip arcing only, or do you think you could get more range out of it? Can you serialize PZT Transformers to get the power shaped to your target (seems like they would be fairly particular about their input range and so may not chain well unless you get the right one in the right place) or is it a throughput issue that parallel transformers might address? Not suggestions, I'm too ignorant to suggest anything here and usually rely on off the shelf parts and microcontrollers for my fun, just questions to sate my own curiosity and you are clearly educated in this arena
  13. This could take a lot of forms. Herding families could amass spikes with various animal traits and create an ever increasing super-charged heard of work/defense animals. Or straight go into the custom monster building business.
  14. This has crossed my mind multiple times and it made me wonder if long lineages with one hereditarily-prevalent power could amass an enormous amount of potential ability with that power within a single spike; has it been discussed whether one can use the same spike to spike out the same trait from multiple sources and stack/increase the ability that can be passed on via the spike by doing so?
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