Turos Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 Can a Knight Radiant summon their shardblade in the form of shard plate or similar?
Master_Moridin he/him Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 (edited) Got myself a chunk of questions: Are Ideals and Connections the building blocks of spiritual aspects, or is there something else? Are Ideals in the Spiritual Realm like elementary particles in that there is the category "Ideal of Fire" but multiple perfect instances of it (the same way there are multiple electrons but they're all identical), or is there only one singular Ideal? Are the qualia (i.e. color, sound/tone, etc) that make up sensory experience Spiritual in nature? (Related to above) Are the sensory experiences of humans (or similar sentient beings) a combination of un/subconsciously perceiving the spiritual aspect of an object in combination with sense-based information input (detecting light with eyes, etc)? Could one describe an object's spiritual aspect as "the nature of the thing" and its physical aspect "the presentation/manifestation of the thing" Edited May 2, 2015 by Master_Moridin 1
Kurkistan he/him Posted May 2, 2015 Posted May 2, 2015 Are Ideals in the Spiritual Realm like elementary particles in that there is the category "Ideal of Fire" but multiple perfect instances of it (the same way there are multiple electrons but they're all identical), or is there only one singular Ideal? Myself I'd always interpreted the "the" in that quote as meaning that the ideal was singular. This along with the fact that Platonism is all about their being singular ideals.
Curiosity he/him Posted May 13, 2015 Posted May 13, 2015 Hey, if you ever make a movie, we know that you get a cameo. But what about Peter? Does he get one too?
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted May 13, 2015 Posted May 13, 2015 Is it possible to physically travel to the Spiritual realm and kill the Spiritual Ideal of fire? If so what would happen to fire?
Zas678 he/him Posted May 13, 2015 Posted May 13, 2015 And if you did kill the spiritual ideal of fire, would it kill all fire? Or just one of them? EDIT- What would happen if Odium took up Cultivation?
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted May 14, 2015 Posted May 14, 2015 What if you got the Spiritual Ideal of water and threw I onto the Ideal of fire. 1
Senor Feesh Posted May 15, 2015 Posted May 15, 2015 I seriously doubt you could destroy the ideals. My own personal headcanon has the ideals constantly reinforcing (and being reinforced by) the objects in the physical and cognitive realms, so the more ubiquitous the thing, the stronger/more well-defined the ideal. Of course, there is an inherent not-quite contradiction, as the more prevalent something is in the physical world, the more variations that can exist, so the spiritual ideal will in fact most likely be quite unlike any individual example, but will rather be some kind of abstract distillation of "fire" or "stone" or "human" or what-have-you.
Curiosity he/him Posted May 15, 2015 Posted May 15, 2015 Has the God King just gained enough breath that he can Return his dead child through a certain Awakening Command, much the same as Shashara could only awaken Nightblood after gaining a certain amount of Breaths? Is that how this "The God King can have a child" stuff works? Is he basically so Invested that he can Return people like Endowment?
natc Posted May 16, 2015 Posted May 16, 2015 Has the God King just gained enough breath that he can Return his dead child through a certain Awakening Command, much the same as Shashara could only awaken Nightblood after gaining a certain amount of Breaths? Is that how this "The God King can have a child" stuff works? Is he basically so Invested that he can Return people like Endowment? My understanding was always that they claim the child was born after a baby Returns somewhere and force the God King to do the My Life to Yours thing, then silence anyone who knows the truth. Of course, royal locks implies that Returned can indeed conceive through some unknown method (Vasher says at much) but I don't think anyone related to the God King knows the method.
Dunkum he/him Posted May 16, 2015 Posted May 16, 2015 My understanding was always that they claim the child was born after a baby Returns somewhere and force the God King to do the My Life to Yours thing, then silence anyone who knows the truth. Of course, royal locks implies that Returned can indeed conceive through some unknown method (Vasher says at much) but I don't think anyone related to the God King knows the method. I think there is a WoB that says the God King could conceive a child, though doesn't go into how. You are right on how the priests deal with it.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted May 16, 2015 Posted May 16, 2015 Nah, he'll play Nazh. Eh, I'd say that Isaac is better suited for that role, being the inspiration for it and all... 1
Curiosity he/him Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 (edited) My understanding was always that they claim the child was born after a baby Returns somewhere and force the God King to do the My Life to Yours thing, then silence anyone who knows the truth. Of course, royal locks implies that Returned can indeed conceive through some unknown method (Vasher says at much) but I don't think anyone related to the God King knows the method. I think there is a WoB that says the God King could conceive a child, though doesn't go into how. You are right on how the priests deal with it. I recommend the Warbreaker annotations for further reading on the subject as well as this: GRAENDALA question that's been on my mind for a while. If Returned can't have children, how are Siri and Vivenna descended from one? BRANDON SANDERSONExcellent question. One I have to RAFO. When I was writing Warbreaker, I was planning on two books. I seeded two questions to be answered in the next book. One was the origin of the royal family. The second was how Vasher was able to survive while hiding his divine Breath. I will answer these questions. Eventually. (It has to do with restoring Breath and life to the child while still in the womb.). We have seen that Taravangian has "echoes" of his brilliance by which he remembers stuff he once knew. Did the Lord Ruler ever have that from his time holding Preservation? Edited May 17, 2015 by Curiosity
Dunkum he/him Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 Can Hemalurgy remove allergies? adding on to this: could you use hemalurgy to steal your own allergy and spike someone else to transfer it to them?
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 adding on to this: could you use hemalurgy to steal your own allergy and spike someone else to transfer it to them? If Hemalurgy can take a trait I see no reason why it can not pass it on. That is what Hemalurgy does.
Dunkum he/him Posted May 17, 2015 Posted May 17, 2015 If Hemalurgy can take a trait I see no reason why it can not pass it on. That is what Hemalurgy does. Well, it could possibly be that you can steal some kind of "healthfulness" trait from someone and transfer that to yourself to remove an allergy, but that you couldn't actually use hemalurgy to steal and transfer an allergy. not saying it is that way, but could be.
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 I just want to know what the limits of Hemalurgy are. If someone could do this does that mean any genetic feature can be taken?
SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him Posted May 19, 2015 Posted May 19, 2015 So with the Spiritual realm being not tied to a location. Does that mean that the Ideal fire is the same throughout the Cosmere? In that instead of being a ( separate ) Ideal for Scadrial and Roshar they both use the same Ideal.
Left he/him Posted May 25, 2015 Posted May 25, 2015 Does Mrs. Sanderson play Magic? Or must you play with other people.
Curiosity he/him Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Hmm... With enough Stormlight, could you Lash something so many times so as to create a black hole?
natc Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Well omnidirectional gravity requires reverse lashing, which we have never seen stacked IIRC. And requires contact, so you'll tear yourself apart?
Arook he/him Posted May 26, 2015 Posted May 26, 2015 Well omnidirectional gravity requires reverse lashing, which we have never seen stacked IIRC. And requires contact, so you'll tear yourself apart? Ya but the amount of storm light needed would kill you first.
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