Curiosity he/him Posted January 27, 2015 Posted January 27, 2015 Is there a similarity between mistwraiths gaining spikes and becoming kandra and a KR spren gaining his or her memories back?
Cheese United he/him Posted January 28, 2015 Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) What would happen if you threw Nightblood into a shardpool unsheathed? Or if nightblood took the power of a Shard: Would he become a shrard, would nothing happen since he's an Awakened and probabaly can't take up Shardic power, or would he feed off the Shard? Edited January 28, 2015 by Cheese United
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 What would happen if you threw Nightblood into a shardpool unsheathed? Or if nightblood took the power of a Shard: Would he become a shrard, would nothing happen since he's an Awakened and probabaly can't take up Shardic power, or would he feed off the Shard? Let's assume he can hold a Shard and say he did become the Shard, which Shard doesn't really matter. So his Command is his personality, right? Would that mean that with his enhanced mind he would be able to come up with a solid definition of evil and be able to destroy it once and for all? Because I'm pretty sure that the Intent of the Shard has no real affect on the new Holders personality for a couple of years. That gives Nightblood quite a bit of time to accomplish his goal/Command.
Creecher he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 This may not be completely serious, but if there were a Shard of Indifference, how would it work? I would assume all Shards need to be manifestations of their concept, so would a Manifestation of Indifference just show complete Indifference to bothering to manifest? And on the same note, is Devotion the Shard of Bureaucracy? AonDor was, for me at least, sounding less like magic and more like filling out a form. To use magic, please sign your name here, here and here, write down specific intent, I hereby agree to abide by copyright law, signed in triplicate, with the official chasm line seal of approval... On to a serious question now. Has Odium splintered Harmony? 1
Oudeis he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Has Odium splintered Harmony? I feel like we know enough to know he hasn't. We know he's been "bound" to the Roshar system for six thousand Scadrian years, at least. We know Odium fears Harmony, which he likely wouldn't if Harmony were dead. We heard Harmony talk in Alloy of Law (granted we hear the Stormfather plenty, but he didn't sound like a ghost to me). 1
WeiryWriter he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 I feel like we know enough to know he hasn't. We know he's been "bound" to the Roshar system for six thousand Scadrian years, at least. We know Odium fears Harmony, which he likely wouldn't if Harmony were dead. We heard Harmony talk in Alloy of Law (granted we hear the Stormfather plenty, but he didn't sound like a ghost to me). I agree with what you are saying here, but where is the six thousand years figure coming from? 1
Creecher he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 Thank you both for answering the least interesting of my three questions. Granted, though, the other two were meant as a joke.
Oudeis he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 I agree with what you are saying here, but where is the six thousand years figure coming from? 4,500 years on Roshar, the year on Roshar is longer than a year on Earth, and Scadrial is Earth-analogous in many ways, and year-length is specifically mentioned. I will grant you that it's hardly confirmed (that I know of) that Odium has been bound to the Roshar system since Aharietiam, but it's widely and strongly suspected. I can try to find you the relevant quotes, but 4.5K Roshar Years works out to 6K Scadrian Years. Thank you both for answering the least interesting of my three questions. Granted, though, the other two were meant as a joke. If you want your questions answered/discussed, the "Question and Answer" thread is great for that. Typically if people post their questions here, they do so because they only want a response if it's "this question has already been answered." I sorta jumped the gun by responding even as much as I did, because you're right, we don't know for sure that Odium hasn't already splintered Harmony.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 4,500 years on Roshar, the year on Roshar is longer than a year on Earth, and Scadrial is Earth-analogous in many ways, and year-length is specifically mentioned. I will grant you that it's hardly confirmed (that I know of) that Odium has been bound to the Roshar system since Aharietiam, but it's widely and strongly suspected. I can try to find you the relevant quotes, but 4.5K Roshar Years works out to 6K Scadrian Years. We don't have any WoB on the exact length of the Scadrian year, though since it is an Earth-analogue it is most-likely the same as ours. Rosharan years are only 1.1 times the length of ours. Which would work out to 4,500 Rosharan years being 4,950 Earth years. That's a lot less (relatively) than 6,000. 1
Shlee Posted January 29, 2015 Posted January 29, 2015 There's also the letter in WoR Rayse is captive. He cannot leave the system he now inhabits. His destructive potential is, therefore, inhibited. Whether this was Tanavast’s design or not, millennia have passed without Rayse taking the life of another of the sixteen. So assuming that the letters are current (and given the reference to Hoid as Wit, they should be) as of WoR, it's been "millenia" since a shard was shattered. I don't know how that would translate into Scadrian "years", but it seems unlikely to me that he managed to hop over and shatter Harmony while nobody was looking.
Oudeis he/him Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 We don't have any WoB on the exact length of the Scadrian year, though since it is an Earth-analogue it is most-likely the same as ours. Rosharan years are only 1.1 times the length of ours. Which would work out to 4,500 Rosharan years being 4,950 Earth years. That's a lot less (relatively) than 6,000. Sorry... head hurts. I did all this math a while ago, and now I can't find it. Your number that one Rosharan year is 1.1 Earth Years sounds right, and that does work the math out to just shy of five millenia, but I feel sure that I had calculated something out to six thousand years once... I'm gonna continue searching (nothing's turned up in my quick search just now) but for now I'm going to assume that you're right and I'm misremembering the math did however long ago. Longer on Roshar. In short, I'm crazy, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Creecher he/him Posted January 30, 2015 Posted January 30, 2015 I got my lent out copy of Alloy of Law back and finished it - Harmony is unsplintered. Sorry for the wrong question
Oudeis he/him Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Bit of a silly question: Which magic system would have an easier time creating "mechs"; Awakening or Fabrials?
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 So Stormlight and the Mists are very similar. Does that mean that Stormlight also has a liquid and solid state? What would happen if a Mistborn burned the solid Stormlight?
Ynax he/him Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 Is Dragonsteel going to be your "Silmarillion" or are you going to make a kind of Silmarillion work other than that?
Moogle Posted February 1, 2015 Posted February 1, 2015 So Stormlight and the Mists are very similar. Does that mean that Stormlight also has a liquid and solid state? What would happen if a Mistborn burned the solid Stormlight? There's no guarantee that Stormlight would be metal in its solid state. Quite likely, the solid state of Stormlight is gemstones. WoB: ViperOk. The gemhearts/stormgems/whatever that are grown inside the beasts in Way of Kings ... is that the same as the way Atium is grown inside geodes in the Pits of Hathsin? Brandon Sanderson It's similar. The pits are an area where there's like a leak from the spiritual realm into the physical. That's what happens there. (source) 1
Cheese United he/him Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Does Soulcasting adhere to the law of conservation of mass? ( I need to know this for reasons.)
Kurkistan he/him Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 Does Soulcasting adhere to the law of conservation of mass? ( I need to know this for reasons.) In most circumstances, yes. 1
Lord Pifferdoo he/him Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 So what blood type would Soulcast Blood be? I'm guessing either O neg or AB+, but it could also be the blood type of the caster. Related to that, could a Soulcaster change somebody's blood type if they needed a transfusion?
ccstat he/him Posted February 2, 2015 Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) No WoB as yet. Previous discussion has suggested that a soulcaster can choose which type of blood to create, though Rosharans may not have the same set of blood types that we are familiar with. (It is not confirmed that "blood type" as quoted in the book means "blood type" as we think of it for transfusions, rather than human vs. parsh vs. aimian blood.) From a health perspective, it would be a whole lot easier to change the blood that was going to be transfused than to modify the person's acquired immunity to blood antigens. Whether that addresses the question you want to ask, I'm not sure. Edited February 2, 2015 by ccstat
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted February 3, 2015 Posted February 3, 2015 Is it possible to take vials of liquid out of Shardpools? Assuming it is possible, what would happen if someone took a vial out of several different Shardpools, combned them and drank it? 1
LiquidBlue Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 What does Nightblood look like from Shadesmar? 1
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted February 7, 2015 Posted February 7, 2015 So what would the affects be of eating a Hemalurgic Lerasium Spike and Burning it? Doesn't really matter what was stored in the Spike, unless thats what happened. You had whatever was Stored permanently bound to the Spiritweb.
Darkness he/him Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 (edited) <p>Since shardblades are solid enough that Adolin can stand on the flat of his blade while wearing Shardplate, and Syl/Pattern (living spren) are touchable in blade-form (iirc even non-blade Pattern can be poked with a pencil and Kaladin can feel Syl lightly when she sits on him) why does Wyndle think it's so odd that Lift is able to touch him/climb on him?</p> <p>Edit: This plot thickens since Adolin's blade was originally an Edgedancer's blade, which should mean it was the same type of spren that Wyndle is, shouldn't it?</p> Edited February 8, 2015 by Darkness
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