+Ark1002 Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 What would happen in the CR if a nuke, or even bigger explosion such as Skyward spoilers: Spoiler The lifebuster bomb went off in the physical world? Would the explosion do anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Weltall Posted January 19, 2019 Report Share Posted January 19, 2019 Well, the exact appearance would depend on the Cognitive region but using Roshar as an example because we've seen it the most, the flames that represent living things would all vanish and the beads representing inanimate things would change to reflect their new Physical state, though anything outright disintegrated would probably vanish quickly, in the same way that the Wind's Pleasure would have been subsumed into the ocean rather than remaining 'a bunch of water that used to be a ship' Cognitively. As for the terrain, I imagine that would take longer to show any change. People on the Physical side would have to begin thinking of the area as being different before it would alter the corresponding Cognitive area. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Flamesinger he/him Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 Question: Why would you drop a nuke? Would you even be able to drop a nuke??? Assuming that there are still shards on Roshar, could Cultivation be able to block it? I mean, she's a BLOODY SHARD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Invocation Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 9 minutes ago, John Flamesinger said: Question: Why would you drop a nuke? Would you even be able to drop a nuke??? Assuming that there are still shards on Roshar, could Cultivation be able to block it? I mean, she's a BLOODY SHARD! If you were to actually drop a nuke, Cultivation would probably have found out and stopped it before it got to the point of the nuke being dropped. But, if you were to Soulcast a massive chunk of Uranium (as we know is possible from WOB, once the Rosharans get advanced enough) from the Cognitive Realm itself, I don't think Cultivation could do anything to stop the resulting explosion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Karger he/him Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 34 minutes ago, Invocation said: If you were to actually drop a nuke, Cultivation would probably have found out and stopped it before it got to the point of the nuke being dropped. But, if you were to Soulcast a massive chunk of Uranium (as we know is possible from WOB, once the Rosharans get advanced enough) from the Cognitive Realm itself, I don't think Cultivation could do anything to stop the resulting explosion. I am pretty sure she can being a god and all but whatever. Actually I think that watching from the cognitive realm would be interesting as the lights of life would go instantly but the objects and landscape would remain the same until they forgot who they used to be. I wonder if in the future people will use the cognitive realm for archaeology as items with a strong presences in the minds of the individuals would stay themselves for a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Inky Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 A lot of Shards are prevented from acting directly for various reasons, but I think in this scenario Cultivation would step in, yeahs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Invocation Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 34 minutes ago, Karger said: I am pretty sure she can being a god and all but whatever. 27 minutes ago, Inky said: A lot of Shards are prevented from acting directly for various reasons, but I think in this scenario Cultivation would step in, yeahs I don't think this is a matter of Cultivation's power being enough to avert the explosion, I just don't think she'd be able to handle it safely. If it was Scadrial and Harmony was doing stuff, it'd be easy, but Cultivation just doesn't have the same permeation of everything on Roshar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Karger he/him Posted February 24, 2019 Report Share Posted February 24, 2019 Her real problem is actually that stopping a nuke might expose her to an attack by Odium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Flamesinger he/him Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Is it possible she could redirect the shockwave to Odium? I mean, to attack her, he's already exposing himself. Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Inky Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 @John Flamesinger Shards permeate all three realms, so not even a nuke would do substantial damage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Flamesinger he/him Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Is there any evidence that a nuke doesn't affect all 3 realms? Radioactivity is, as far as we know, unknown at this point in the Cosmere. Could a Nuke exploding create a big enough disturbance to create a perpendicularity and therefore, access all 3 realms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Invocation Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 1 hour ago, John Flamesinger said: Is there any evidence that a nuke doesn't affect all 3 realms? Radioactivity is, as far as we know, unknown at this point in the Cosmere. Could a Nuke exploding create a big enough disturbance to create a perpendicularity and therefore, access all 3 realms? A perpendicularity is a concentration of Investiture, not a disturbance. So probably not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John Flamesinger he/him Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 But my point remains: we don't know what nukes might do. Radioactivity might affect more then just the physical realm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Inky Posted February 26, 2019 Report Share Posted February 26, 2019 I doubt it would. Radioactivity is still solely physical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Lightblood Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 I agree with @Inky We know that most of a shards fighting happens in the spiritual realm and radioactivity would have no properties or reason that it could cross into let alone the cognitive realm let alone the spiritual realm, which is, as we know, harder to access. I do think that radioactivity might do some weird stuff in the cognitive realm as the landscape would reflect the radioactivity and aversion to that part of the land or something. I'm thinking, what would Chernobyl look like in CR but I don't know if it would change it substantially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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What would happen in the CR if a nuke, or even bigger explosion such as
Skyward spoilers:
The lifebuster bomb
went off in the physical world? Would the explosion do anything?
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