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A recent WoB mentioning that Adonalsium had a purpose in the design of Roshar has granted me inspiration to a greater understanding of the history of Roshar. Adonalsium, being a great and powerful being, managed to calculate the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, but needed more computing power to calculate the question for its answer. So the greater Rosharan system was created as a celestial scale super computer, designed to finally find the ultimate question. But then, due to an exodus of rather useless people from Ashyn (which was shortly afterwards sadly destroyed by a telephone-borne disease) to Roshar, killing off most of the peaceful indigenous peoples, the calculations were ruined. Now in the modern day, Odium is attempting to destroy Roshar, to make space for a super-highway between Nalthis and Scadrial. Hoid, being a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is, arrives just in time to save his friend Dalinar from the imminent destruction of Roshar, and thus we reach the end of Oathbringer.

The sharp of the blade is under a millimeter thick, and no shardblade has ever chipped. A 2kg half millimeter aluminum wire is 3.5km of wire. It doesn't have to be ridiculously thin to be ridiculously long. Maybe so... but how would it be counted with a long object? Maybe the radiant remaining in physical contact with one end would be enough.

You just need a second person holding the other end. Without knowing more about the limits we can't really say if it is or is not possible. But a reasonably sized length of wire could still easily be miles long. And since blades seem to be essentially indestructible, I don't think snapping would be an issue. We know that blades can be given to another person and remain regardless of distance, and that applies to living blades as well, as we see when shallan gives kaladin her blade. Finally: of course Brandon won't allow it. But its fun to wildly speculate before he has a chance to crush my hopes and dreams.

I've been on the discord for like, half of eternity and just never had an account. But then someone started talking about shardwire. I gotta get in on that shardwire action. Shardwire is cool.

If mass is the only limitation an atom thick length of shardwire could be many astronomical units long. I did a back of the envelope calculation for 2kg of shardwire (approximated to sodium for a lightweight metal) and got a length of over 900AU. The furthest known object in the solar system is 1/10th that distance from the sun. (Pluto is on average 23 AU from the sun.) An atom thick length of wire would be invisible. With one person holding each end you could cut an entire city in half without anyone ever seeing it coming. You could cut planets in half (not that that would do anything). And people were excited about lightweavers with laser beams.