a Faceless Immortal

I'm fairly sure that the 4 Dawnshards are as follow: Change, Into, Instant & Noodles. This is how Adonalsium was shattered. Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk.

Kaladin needs F-Copper so that he can store happy memories for when it rains. And since you did specify twin born, give hime A-Brass too so he can help people who are scared and sad. Therapy Kaladin is Best Kaladin.

I was absolutely devastated in that moment. I think I had subconsciously expecting Sig to renew his oaths for the climax of the book (which I guess is what Brandon wanted...), but, I have to admit, this does make more sense character-arc wise. Still, I hate that it had to happened. RIP Aux.

My guesses involve the following: Dalinar dies, either during the contest or before. Before he dies, he has a deep conversation with Kaladin, or something of that manner, that sets Kaladin on the path to say the 5th oath, maybe pick up Honour (maybe even Odium as well? I feel less set on him taking Odium) and becoming the shard of Duty, or Protection I feel better about Dalinar dying than Kaladin. This could just be because I haven't read the books recently and I remember less of Dalinar and his arc, but I feel like a meaningful death would suit him more than Kaladin, since Kaladin has spent so much time dealing with survivor's guilt and Dalinar was more about reconciling himself with his past I also just really don't want anything bad to happen to Kaladin, and if he becomes a Shard he can be semi-immortal for a time Ba-Ado-Mishram and Shallan have a meet-up of some kind, and this is an integral part of ending the Desolation Shallan feels responsible for causing the Desolation (because she killed her mother) (who is definitely Chanarach) I figure Ba-Ado-Mishram can probably overpower Taravang-ium, who is new and inexperienced, taking control of the Singers Shallan probably convinces her to do this somehow. Both are fairly identity/connection focussed characters, so she probably empathises with her somehow I would like to see the Heralds come back somehow (I know they are around but like, being lucid and not insane would be cool). Specifically, I'd like to see Ishar as the Coalition's Champion. This specific scenario is unlikely, I'll admit. However, I do believe Ishar will prove to be very important. Maybe a 5th ideal being sworn near him gives him a few minutes of clarity to expose some important truths? Maybe the Windrunners get a stream of squires to swear the first oath, one after the other, and the resulting oath-train lets him reforge the Oathpact? idk Might be back later to update this.

I think the problem here is that aluminium burns instantaneously, whereas a Shardblade strike happens over a prolonged period of time. This suggests to me that the only viable way an Aluminium Gnat could meaningfully affect a strike would be if they could dismiss the blade or otherwise break the spren's form in a way that cannot be immediately resumed; without being able to do something like this they either A. do nothing to the blade, and have their soul sliced, or B. manage to prevent the blade slicing their soul and instead get slammed with a 7 (Rosharan) foot long hunk of sharp metal. Neither of these outcomes are particularly good for the Gnat... I have no proof that this is actually the case, but I think this aligns with what other people here have said.

He could be referring to an 'increased strength of squires' as in 'a force of fifty strong,' where the strength is in the number of members. I think this could be a reasonable, if somewhat obscure reading, especially since we are talking about 'Kaladin's Squires' as a unit. Alternatively it could be that Windrunner squires simply advance faster; that would make the people around him begin to display abilities faster, and progress through their abilities quicker, hence the average Windrunner squire would be stronger than the average Skybreaker squire for example (They do have squires, right?).

Cadmium ambulances would definitely be a lifesaver. Could also be used transport medical isotopes or organs for transplant across greater distances. Bendalloy would be great for high-priority construction (if you can afford it).

Yeah, I feel like the physical pushing/pulling metals combined with a weight-changing projectile (as far as I know they break conservation of momentum, so accelerate the projectile when it's light, and then drastically increase in weight before hitting the target for huge damage. Might be expensive, idk) could make a pretty solid 'railgun.' Time bubbles are pretty useful for speeding up any chemical process, or making a cool museum if you are super rich. And I love the idea of the Coppermind internet; who needs to have copper cables transmit information via signals when you could just touch the copper itself, and suddenly have access to the sum knowledge of Scadrial beamed in to your brain?! It would be interesting to see the mechanics of what happens if multiple people attempt to access information; presumably only one being could possess each item at a time, so it would probably be more akin to a library than our understanding of the internet, and data security would be a nightmare . However, one plus over our internet is that you would know what you access as a memory rather than having to rely on pesky reading comprehension skills. Seems pretty dang cool. To quote The Matrix, "I know Kung-Fu!" Man, space age Cosmere is going to be exciting.

I quite enjoyed it. Not quite as good as Tress; definitely had all the twists and was a bit strangely paced in that regard, but the premise was cool, the plot satisfying, and the hate-able characters EXTRA hate-able (storming Ryan and storming Jen. No wonder John had self-esteem issues.) Also, anyone else here read Anathem by Neal Stephenson? Does the dimensional travel seem familiar to you, or is it just me ...

I mean, that is definitely a possibility! I am inclined to believe otherwise however, for two main reasons: Odium to me feels like he's going to be a major Cosmere villain, and so having him merge into the shard of War being held by Dalinar would make Dalinar said major Cosmere villain, which I really do not want to see Dalinar's character arc seems to me to be mostly about his reconciliation with the atrocities of war, and uniting people rather than creating fractures, ie wars. Both these points may be invalid because they are just my opinion, but I thought I'd throw them into the ring to see what others think of them

Avoid. (alder24) Don't show up to a fight with him. (alder24) Be on a different planet. (alder24) Achieve agelessness and outlive him. (alder24) Be the Chosen One, draw from the Mists while pulling his metalminds out of his body. (alder24) Be in Cognitive Realm while he's in Physical Realm (be aware, he can open perpendicularity on his own) (alder24) 6.1. Be a Soulcaster and Soulcast his metalminds into smoke. Ascend and use Shard's power to smite him. Be a Windrunner with lots of Stormlight and drop a huge asteroid on the planet he resides on. (alder24) Nuke him, preferably with Tsar Bomb hidden in a truck. (alder24) 9.1. Use big Anti-investiture bomb on him. Be an Elscaller, boosted by a Bondsmith and use the Surge of Transportation to teleport him in the middle of the vacuum of space, far away from any star system. (alder24) Be a Bondsmith with medallion granting F-steel, with a lot of stored speed, use that speed to touch him first and take away his Connections and powers. (alder24) Have access to F-steel again, with a lot of speed, and aluminum spike, spike him with aluminum spike in the correct binding point, which would remove all his powers (alder24) Stab him with Nightblood, if possible from Cognitive Realm. (alder24) Have access to some invested art and be a Dawnshard. (alder24) Drop a primar cube where he stands, charged with powerful Allomantic aluminum, and shoot him in the head. Or use a powerful enough suppressor fabrial. (alder24) That's hard. He's god. God cannot be killed. God cannot be overthrown. Your rebellion—you think he hasn't seen its like before? (alder24) 16.1. While he's monologuing, tap lots of speed, put a shotgun with aluminum pellets to his head, shoot and pray to gods it works, before he kills you in return. Surprise drop a nuclear warhead on them. (Trusk'our) Have an Elsecaller Shardblade them in the back through the Cognitive Realm. Hopefully that actually works, as we haven't yet seen it canonically. (Trusk'our) Use a hyper-charged Allomantic grenade that utilizes Allomantic chromium to drain the Fullborn's metal storages. Then have a squad of two-hundred machinegun-wielding soldiers pelt him with bullets. (Trusk'our) Have an extremely talented sniper headshot the Fullborn with a fragmenting aluminum bullet. OR have the sniper use Hemalurgic aluminum to strip them of all their Invested powers. (Trusk'our) If the Fullborn is considered "evil" unsheathe Nightblood and drop it in front of him. Make sure to use a lot of Feruchemical steel to escape before they destroy you afterwards (Trusk'our) Befriend a Sleepless and have their Larkin-Hoardling hybrids drain the Fullborn of Investiture. Sleepless can then kill the Fullborn through conventional means. (Trusk'our) Create a Bands of Mourning style Unsealed Metalmind and fight the Fullborn of equal terms. OR use Hemalurgy to accomplish this effect (though that would leave you vulnerable to being controlled by the Fullborn). (Trusk'our) Capture an army of Shades and unleash them on the Fullborn. If they are unfamiliar with the nature of Shades, they may not know how to effectively kill them and will be overwhelmed by them. (Trusk'our) Soulcast the Fullborn into a non flesh material so they can't heal from being turned to stone or non metal material, we haven't seen what soulcasting metalminds does or if it's even possible, but I assume that it's new Identity would prevent any shenanigans. (Lesser spren) Be Elantrain, use prep-time to prepare either suppressive effect, or Speed effect. Then, create Aon Dor symbol to leech from Distance, and kill them at leisure (therunner) Be Elantrian, use prep-time to replicate effects of Fullborn powers, and fight them (you have advantage since you are Elantrin on top of Fullborn powers). (therunner) Drop fullborn in lake of molten aluminum. (Xaladin) Throw a powerful Cadmium grenade at them to slow them down whilst you find a sufficiently large rock to drop on them, popping the bubble and hopefully crushing them beyond their ability to heal before they can escape (Me) Simply exist on Post-Catacendre Scadrial. They are all dead already. (Also Me) Hit them with a taser. After that you can just stab them to death with an aluminum weapon. (Frustration) Get 7 5th ideal wind runners to pin them down, and stab them repeatedly with aluminum knives. they'll run out of healing eventually (PinkPlasma) Plop them in the forests in threnody. cut his finger, and elsecall the crap out of there (PinkPlasma) Compound speed, stuff them in an aluminum box filled with water and weld all of the seams on the box shut, then drop it in center of the oceans on roshar during a highstorm. run away. (PinkPlasma) Become a fused/herald. fight them until they eventually die, no matter how many times they kill you. (PinkPlasma) Get kaladin to fight them (PinkPlasma) 36.1. He is the storm. The storm cannot be killed. (TheSurvivorofDeath) Have Hoid insult them (Xiahida) Become Andolism and hope and pray to yourself you can kill him (Xiahida) Soulcast the air around him into aluminum. (Xiahida) Use a Raysium dagger to leech away his power. (The Stick) Assemble ALL of Lopens cousins because that should be enough people to kill any god, honestly speeking. (Nasax) Ooh I get lucky number 42 lol Convince Stick to fight them for you. Stick may not want to be Fire, but maybe Fight-er? Now don't y'all dare start from one again!

Surely we can all stop starting from 1. each time we post, so we can have a running total and see if we can actually make it to 104? If I have time later I'll edit this post to have a list of all the unique ideas so we can actually start making progress lol

30. Throw a powerful Cadmium grenade at them to slow them down whilst you find a sufficiently large rock to drop on them, popping the bubble and hopefully crushing them beyond their ability to heal before they can escape 31. Simply exist on Post-Catacendre Scadrial. They are all dead already.

You are correct, however, I believe the Feruchemist's biggest disadvantage is that they don't exist anymore. Still, I believe that once a way to deal with the pressure difference is found, the about of gold used would be minor. You are correct that no conduction or convection occurs within a vacuum, but I believe blackbody radiation accounts for something like 60% of the human body's heat loss, and without a layer of air or other material surrounding the body to be heated up by said radiation, all that heat is simply being dispersed into space, rather than forming the 'blanket' of warm air that usually accompanies the human body and maintains the optimal 28-ish degrees celsius (82 Fahrenheit for you Americans) surface temperature. Additionally, sunlight heats things up substantially without an atmosphere worth of gasses to absorb it. The outer layer of Earth's atmosphere is something like 120 degrees celsius (248 Fahrenheit) when in direct sunlight, which is significantly more than a human body would enjoy. Hence, any part of the body in direct sunlight would warm up noticeably quick, and any in shadow cool down. All of this to say that temperature is definitely a factor when working in space. I mean, why would NASA insulate their spacesuits if it wasn't? DISCLAIMER: Numbers used are from memory, I'll edit in some references later when I'm not using a phone.

Valid point, it's been a while since I last read SA and I had forgotten about the symbiotic spren (and also the fact that Roshar also just has weaker gravity if I recall).