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1. Just as a fun fact, "The Lord Ruler once gave up and tried to end the Final Empire." I now that doesn't answer your question, but it makes it less far-fetched. 3. I would bet that kandra can burn Lerasium, given that they can gain Allomancy through Hemalurgy and Lerasium is the metal that "anyone can burn".

More confirmation to pile on. I'd eat my hat if it wasn't Shallash at this point: Source:

Sweet. Thank you.

Sure, sure he can be a High Epic. I was just disputing the need to have a "prime invincibility" to really count as one—despite David saying it was a requirement, actually. Railguns are always threatening, I would say. EDIT: Ah, I misread you. I didn't see that you were making a special distinction when you said "personal powers". Yes, I can imagine Conflux doing some electricity-fu, especially given that we know he can electrocute people even by accident.

Which assumption was correct, so there's that. Also, David and essentially everyone else who bothered to keep track were pretty comfortable concluding that he was physically vulnerable, all while still calling him a High Epic. I think the dowser actually registered him as absurdly powerful, too.

To note, I believe Conflux was counted as a High Epic, despite his vulnerability.

We have a RAFO on whether it was a "death rattle". http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=948#4

Here's his latest update: Source:

Cognitive is not the same thing as mental. Realmatics and all. It gets complicated... I'd always assumed it was just him talking to himself, but I can't recall a question on Saze's fight. As to El: almost certainly. We'll almost certainly get the death rattles RAFO'd (actually, I think it already has been. Can't recall for sure, though).

I can buy that interpretation, Darnam/Happy.

Do Surgebinders have gemhearts? [in the sense of having them exist within their bodies naturally, rather than asking if they happen to carry around the gemheart from another creature's body.] How, exactly, does Hemalurgic decay work for Feruchemy? Do Inquisitors have a cap on how much they can store at a time, or do they "waste Health when they store (so they'd be lying around at 80% health but only storing 10%, for instance), or do they draw it out less efficiently than real Feruchemists? Why does Feruchemical Gold sometimes leave scars and sometimes not?

Sell. They won't even have (conjoiner-) phones by the end of it, I'll bet. The symbols that are the heads of Cryptics are "impossible objects" (not my idea, originally).

We've have some discussion in the past as to the degree to which magical Healing in the cosmere will heal you—and what it may "leave behind". While we know that, in general, Cognitive aspects govern healing and get you back to your "normal" self, this is not always the case. In particular, I want to compare the "automatic" healing of Stormlight with Feruchemical gold. This is because, as Szeth exposits in the prologue, Stormlight cannot heal a limb that has been "severed" by a Shardblade. Feruchemical Gold, however, can heal such a limb—by healing the damage to the soul. So what is the difference? Is Feruchemical gold simply very powerful, or is Stormlight weak? Would Regrowth or Resealing or AonDor be able to heal "severing"? My Theory: Myself, I'm inclined to think that Stormlight is somehow unique in its weakness. Either because it's meant to be a battlefield system to keep you on your feet—and so the energy-cost to heal a "severed" limb would be prohibitive and saved for Regrowth later—or, more intriguingly, because of the way that Stormlight is infused in a Surgebinder (or at least a Windrunner, assuming that's the norm). Stormlight is always described as "surging through veins" or the like: what if this is more than merely metaphor? What if Stormlight is actually "pumped" exclusively over a user's spiritweb, rather than being in their body proper? In this case, the conduits needed to get Stormlight to the affected region will have been severed by the Shardblade, and so the light simply cannot ever get there to do its job properly. This second explanation is not wholly satisfactory, since it begs the question of why the Stormlight can't just "build from the bridgehead", as it were, and re-create the conduits as it goes. I would also like to note that it is my impression (wholly intuitive, no facts or anything) from WoK that Stormlight would not be sufficient to regrow even normally-severed limbs or other such "no take-backs" injuries. This could either mesh with the second option above or contradict it or be an incorrect impression on my part. Thoughts?

Indeed, Natans. This is a PAFO-situation if there ever was one.

I would guess that some spren existed before Honor's death, and/or that Cultivation/Honor's combinatorics might just be amenable to producing spren. Also, since Cultivation is still alive (and thus, obviously, outlived Honor), she might have deliberately released extra Splinters to "tie down" some of Honor's power in new spren, in accordance with the theory (I don't think we have WoB on it, though I'm not sure) that spren were far less abundant before Honor's death.

Not quite. Not just courage (overcoming fear), but the absence of fear in any form.

We have an indirect citation that it's a cousin system, rather than part of Forging, and Brandon didn't raise a fuss when Miyabi asserted that it was as a given. I can't find said citation for the life of me, though.

I thought the tensors made their user an Epic to some degree, allowing David to access some tangential power-set for illusions in the elevator shaft. Didn't peg Megan 'till the end. My Sanderson-senses are dulling, it would seem.

So how would the weak epic during the Fortuity hit (can't recall his name: infinite handgun-bullets guy) have benefited from possessing this X factor? More infinite bullets? It seems that some powers are simply on-off, and don't benefit from skill/nuance in any real way.

I think I'm on board with Darnam's interpretation. In general, arrogance doesn't erase fear, it just outweighs it. Deathpoint could have been shot and killed by even one of the security guards: just because he could kill them first doesn't mean that he had no reason to fear them. Steelheart was obviously an Epic, so the possibility of harm is in the cards.

It was nice to see the true scariness of an insubstantial power-set put to good use. I'm always like "just go incorporeal!" to the Martian Manhunter, and he never listens.

Ah, my mistake.

Usually we just post new topics in the Stalking forum (as you did ) and, if feeling particularly generous, post relevant answers in relevant discussion threads to resolve their questions.

Very very nice. Have a Rep. We do have the Jasnah prologue, I believe. New things I noticed: The Hoid questions were new info. Shallan drawing Cryptics as special is new, disproving the idea that she could, for instance, draw Syl. Confirmation of the Heralds communicating directly with Tanavast, and new info on their feelings towards him and the circumstances of the Oath Pact. The color stuff is new and interesting. Nightblood answer is odd, since he can essentially read anyone's mind. So I guess he "bonds" with anyone who touches him? Foci stuff is new. Shardic time travel is new, though "anything is possible" is quite a broad range that could include "not really, no." Technically you could travel back in time, if you found a wormhole and a way to tow it at relativistic speeds. Seon/Spren connection is new (confirming that Nahel bonds are Spiritual, btw, since Seon bonds are known to be), and tells us directly that Surgebinders get Nahel bonds. Sliver stuff is new, or at least expanded, I think. "Similarly but identically" is a tad confusing for the sDNA question. -I assume you meant "but not identical"? Good question on Atium. Nice one with the Shardplate. That one's been an open question for awhile now. You also got that there were definitely non-combat Orders. Sleep answer is interesting. Maybe it will help you to think of memory-integration as a psychological process/need, rather than physiological. Like how Miles can't Heal away the need to sleep.

Could we get a source on that, please? Considering that "You can steal quite a lot with Hemalurgy. Anything encoded on a person's soul, really," I doubt there's only one theft-point.