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Broken link, Robot. Here's the real one.

UPDATE: Just (okay, a bit ago. Turns out no one else is as kind and generous as me) in from Miyabi: Yes. Source:

No, she would not be drab. She just wouldn't be able to use the "Breath" part of her soul for Awakening. EDIT: Full disclosure: that is slightly less 100% solid than my post implies. There have been arguments on which I firmly fall on the "non-Nalthians are not drabs" side, but we do not have complete explicit confirmation to the effect that they would look "normal" to an Awakener. We do know that Breaths come from the bit of Endowment in Nalthians in the same way that Allomancy comes from Preservation in Scadrians, though.

Yes, it did take some time. No luck that I can tell, though I skimmed a few sections. "Ears" nor "strange" either.

Never that!

Unless my physics-fu is farther off than usual, describing gravity as a "force" in this way is not entirely accurate. Gravity is a function of the curvature of space-time which manifests as a force, by my understanding, but is not a force as we normally describe it. So the "force" of pushing (or steelpushing) on a block is of a fundamentally different kind than that exerted by gravity. Objects do experience "more" gravity when in speed bubbles and less when in slow bubbles, when you think about it. A falling ball will fall faster or slower, depending, and thus gain more or less energy relative to other objects outside the bubble. Or maybe I'm just wrong. Physics tends to dislike me whenever I try to apply it.

@Pech I thought I did too, but not so far as I can tell yet. "Modest" and "foreign" don't get you anywhere. @Feather There isn't. No earrings and all the "jewels" I can find are Jewels, with no "jewelry" in sight. *continues the word-search hunt*

Easy. I would guess she's one of the plethora of oddly dressed women that Vivienne marvels at. *Starts searching through book.*

No. This particular misconception is of continual irritation to me, so you'll have to forgive me if I single you out for it. Note the last paragraph of the annotation I quoted: So it is not a matter of "Preserving yourself", but instead of going through extreme emotions.

I don't think cosmere-wide "snapping" is a very fruituful path to go down. Snapping on Scadrial is very specific to Allomancy: HoA Chapter 70 Annotation:

Sorry about the derailing. Problem is, this was all-the-sudden being discussed on 3 threads at the same time, so we had to pick somewhere. I thought that there wasn't much more discussion to be had on the matter, so did not anticipate the need to engage in debate over interpretation. It turns out that it was just a misunderstanding on both sides, though.

@Shardlet Okay, looks like we're in agreement. @Kads Yeah, the "seeds". I guess Brandon just misspoke that one time.

See my response to this response on the signing thread.

See my response to this response on the signing thread.

@Robot Punctuation would be appreciated in the future. -- Not to throw a fly in the ointment, but are we sure that it's always metal? What if you need to use a gemstone on Roshar, or the like?

Totally. The compression gets you crazy instants of crazy power, the uses of which we've barely explored. I just want to emphasize that the Duralumin doesn't contribute to that power. The awesome affects are instead a function of how high the bandwidth is for that instant--like when a Feruchemists "Hulks out"--rather than an increase in the final amount of power getting through.

Buy. The sun will rise in the East tomorrow, too.

@Shardlet What Robot said. There's infinite and then there's infinite. Vin would have destroyed the world with a Steelpush if Duralumin truly yielded infinite power.

An honest mistake. Thank you for correcting yourself. UPDATE: New info from Shardlet: So no, the Duralumin doesn't add any power on top.

Thank you. UPDATE: New info from Shardlet: So no, the Duralumin doesn't add any power on top. -This isn't intended as a dig at Shardlet—not least because he obviously had this discussion in mind when he asked that question—but merely as a resource to anyone who takes a look at this thread down the road, to show that a dispute has been resolved.

Have fun with it. Remember that Kaladin is immune to the Thrill (now, at least) and that there's been some discussion in the past that you can draw upon.

Nicely done, Shardlet. Commentary: -Thrill info is interesting. -Definitive answer that Duralumin doesn't add any power to the burn (*pats self on back*). Nice to have. -Answer to the compounder question was surprising to me. Maybe even incorrect? He seemed more than a tad hesitant, and the insta-burn of even Invested Aluminum suggests the necessity of some Allomantic burn rather strongly. -Info on Hemalurgy is very interesting. Nails down that you don't need any special metals or magic or people to get the job done. Intention, though, gives us the reason why Miles can get away with letting himself by shot and stabbed and blown up all the time without ever getting unlucky: no one is trying to create spikes, so they never get created.

Unless the powers have some weird conflict when they're burned by the same person, that would work. Bubbles do cancel like a Venn diagram. It would essentially result in the mistborn being in a bubble of regular time surrounded by a bubble of slow time surrounded by real-time.

Thank you for the kind words, Argent, but you ain't seen nothing yet. I, for one, do not like it when my delicately crafted webs of theory are revealed to be empty due to a (understandable, but still not good) misunderstanding. Then again, I've never Invested much of myself into talk of Surges/Orders, so I'm fairly neutral on this particular point.

Okay, we shall await your input with baited Breath. (I apologize, but I really can't stop myself from making that particular pun).