The Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon

[Jondesu he/him]

maybe even counting the shardholders.  Hoid was around when adonalsium was shattered, so he is comparable to them in age

I was thinking there wasn't really anywhere to travel to before the Shards set up shop, but that's actually not true (Roshar at least appears to have been inhabited prior), so that's a good point.  I knew he was similar in age, if not older.

 

jW

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

The smuggling operation that was disrupted; was it a kind of human trafficking thing?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Was worldhopping possible pre shattering?

[Landis963 he/him]

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Was worldhopping possible pre shattering?

 

That depends entirely on whether one could find the requisite perpendicularities.  Shardpools definitely made it much easier.  

[ParadoxicalZen he/him]

Can we get a canonised term for the quality embodying each Shard represents?

[Master_Moridin he/him]

Can we get a canonised term for the quality embodying each Shard represents?

Don't we already have one? Brandon himself uses Intent, even when unprompted

 

BRANDON SANDERSON (paraphrased)

Shards and Shard intents: Holding a Shard is a contest of willpower against the Shard that, over time, is very hard to resist.

Shards affect you over time, but your mind will not leave a permanent effect on the Shard. A holder's personality, however, does get to filter the Shard's intent, so to speak. However, if that holder no longer held that Shard, the Shard will not continue to be filtered by that person.

(source)

[WeiryWriter he/him]

Don't we already have one? Brandon himself uses Intent, even when unprompted

 

 

I do think it is important to point out that that WoB is paraphrased, so we really can't use that as proof of Brandon using Intent unprompted.

[Master_Moridin he/him]

I do think it is important to point out that that WoB is paraphrased, so we really can't use that as proof of Brandon using Intent unprompted.

 

Oh crap it was.  I didn't see that bit.  My apologies.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Would anything interesting happen to someone who was conceived and born in the Cognitive Realm?

[Emerald101 he/him]

Would anything interesting happen to someone who was conceived and born in the Cognitive Realm?

 

You might want to specify what you mean by "person". Leaving wiggle room leads to inconclusive answers.

[Landis963 he/him]

Would anything interesting happen to someone who was conceived and born in the Cognitive Realm?

Seconding Emerald's concerns about wiggle room. I would define "someone" as "any sophont being whose parents were physically in the Cognitive Realm during conception, and/or whose mother (assuming placental birth) was in the Cognitive Realm during labor."

[Iarwainiel I she/her]

I searched the database, the Google doc, and these forums, and can't see where this has been asked before, so ... here goes:

 

True or False: "Mister Suit" does NOT have that nickname because of the style of his clothing.

 

I expect the answer to be "True," because I think "Suit" refers to something mathematical, or something related to a deck of cards, etc. The other names for this group, that we know of, are "Sequence" and "Set." That's what got me thinking that "Suit" might not relate to clothing.

 

I apologize if this question has, indeed, been asked and either answered/RAFO'ed. If that be the case, someone please reply here with a link to the answer.

 

Thanks!

[Master Elodin]

I hope that these haven't been asked:

1. How strong is the gravitational force exerted by a basic Lashing? 0.7 g's? If so, is the effect cumulative?

2. Did the Odium-banishing thing with the Bondsmiths have to do with an Odium godspren?

[Dunkum he/him]

I hope that these haven't been asked:

1. How strong is the gravitational force exerted by a basic Lashing? 0.7 g's? If so, is the effect cumulative?

2. Did the Odium-banishing thing with the Bondsmiths have to do with an Odium godspren?

in the book, when they talk about basic lashings, they tend to be in multiples of Rosharan Gravity (a bit lower than earth gravity if memory serves).  don't have my book to hand rigth now, but to quote the coppermind "a half Lashing upward, for example, would make the Surgebinder effectively weightless, while a quarter Lashing would halve the person's weight." the actual physics are a bit weird, but I read it as a normal basic lashing essentially alters the dirrection of gravity for the target, zeroing out the planet's gravity and pointing it toward the direction of choice instead.  the effect is definitely cumulative (we see both Kaladin and Szeth do it at different points) so a person lashed twice at normal strength would be pulled toward the target point with 2x the strength as normal gravity.

 

edit: mixed up shardworld, corrected.

Edited May 2, 2016 by Dunkum

[Master_Moridin he/him]

Is Investiture and the Powers of Creation the same thing?  If so, have they always been the same thing?

[kenod]

If a shard goes, to Roshar, would they get a godspren, like how a shard that goes to Scandrial gets a godmetal?

[Master Elodin]

in the book, when they talk about basic lashings, they tend to be in multiples of Scadrian Gravity (a bit lower than earth gravity if memory serves).  don't have my book to hand rigth now, but to quote the coppermind "a half Lashing upward, for example, would make the Surgebinder effectively weightless, while a quarter Lashing would halve the person's weight." the actual physics are a bit weird, but I read it as a normal basic lashing essentially alters the dirrection of gravity for the target, zeroing out the planet's gravity and pointing it toward the direction of choice instead.  the effect is definitely cumulative (we see both Kaladin and Szeth do it at different points) so a person lashed twice at normal strength would be pulled toward the target point with 2x the strength as normal gravity.

So one half lashing would exert a force of one Rg. (Roshars gravity)

[Master_Moridin he/him]

in the book, when they talk about basic lashings, they tend to be in multiples of Scadrian Gravity (a bit lower than earth gravity if memory serves).  don't have my book to hand rigth now, but to quote the coppermind "a half Lashing upward, for example, would make the Surgebinder effectively weightless, while a quarter Lashing would halve the person's weight." the actual physics are a bit weird, but I read it as a normal basic lashing essentially alters the dirrection of gravity for the target, zeroing out the planet's gravity and pointing it toward the direction of choice instead.  the effect is definitely cumulative (we see both Kaladin and Szeth do it at different points) so a person lashed twice at normal strength would be pulled toward the target point with 2x the strength as normal gravity.

I thought Lashings were based on Rosharan gravity (0.7g) given that it's a Rosharan ability?

[Jondesu he/him]

I thought Lashings were based on Rosharan gravity (0.7g) given that it's a Rosharan ability?

I would expect it's more just altering their connection to gravity in some way, so it would probably match up with any planet it's used on. Hard to say without examples of course.

jW

[Master_Moridin he/him]

I would expect it's more just altering their connection to gravity in some way, so it would probably match up with any planet it's used on. Hard to say without examples of course.

jW

Well after doing some digging on Roshar a half lashing upwards leaves you suspended in mid-air, so while on Roshar at the least it's in magnitudes of Roshar's gravity

[Dunkum he/him]

I thought Lashings were based on Rosharan gravity (0.7g) given that it's a Rosharan ability?

err...yes.  mixed up my shardworlds there.  should have been roshar, not scadrial.  my bad.  will edit that post for clarity

[Landis963 he/him]

New question, inspired by the discussion of Cusicesh in the JordanCon thread: Have we seen any of Cusicesh's faces anywhere besides on Cusicesh?

[Emerald101 he/him]

If a shard goes, to Roshar, would they get a godspren, like how a shard that goes to Scandrial gets a godmetal?

 

Godmetals and spren aren't very good analogs. by WoB, spren are splinters whereas godmetals aren't. I would expect the creation mechanism for the two to be substantially different.

[Ward]

Surprised I haven't found this anywhere:

How do normal, boring dreams interact with the Cognitive Realm?

[Oversleep]

Is gravity a Physical aspect of the Spiritual bond connecting objects to the planet? Since Lashings are said to be manipulating Spiritual bond...

Could Connector store that bond and alter the gravity?

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EDIT:
Adolin's Plate started blacking out lightnings on his visor only after he was directly hit with one. If he wouldn't had been hit, would it also started to black them out?
Also, did every Plate start to black out lightnings? Or only some? Or only Adolin's?

 

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EDIT2:
Could Allomantic aluminum/Feruchemical nicrosil Twinborn tap a lot of nicrosil to increase his Allomantic strength and then burn aluminum? What would happen due to aluminum burn of such power? Could he cleanse himself of the Investiture making up his own soul, resulting in a very strange suicide?

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EDIT 3:

Is there a way to make a medallion which would grant you Soulbearer abilities?

 

Because even without the whole "anyone tapping nicrosil" trick it seems like a Catch 22: normally you would store for example Steel Feruchemy using NIcrosil Feruchemy so that the person who taps nicrosil would become a Steelrunner. But to make a medallion with Soulbearer ability you would need to store Nicrosil Feruchemy by using that Nicrosil Feruchemy.

Edited May 11, 2016 by Oversleep