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We never saw the Everstorm hit the warcamps, actually. It originated in full-force somewhere in the Shattered Plains, then headed East.

Which topic is being derailed? This one's entire purpose is to discuss the readings.

I don't know, Swimmingly, seems a bit too contrived/unnecessary. It's one of those situations where the reader's just watching the clock and tapping his foot waiting for it to be over and things to get back to normal. Also, I don't see Kalading having any problem opening twelve different cans of butt-kicking using Syl as a staff or something, or even just using a non-Shardic weapon. And even without stormlight he'll still be 12 times more competent than anyone who's likely to be kicking around Hearthstone.

Ooooh, bets! Let's hear some good ones! *gets notepad ready to record* I'll bet heavily (to the tune of "I'll admit I was wrong") that you're pretty much entirely wrong. I do not predict any real reluctance on Kaladin's part (maybe a moment or two of internal "man, I wish this didn't make me glowy-eyed," but nothing that affects his actions) and find the idea of Kaladin "never again will I be locked up" Stormblessed submitting to incarceration laughable.

Good idea, Arget. HERE BE STONES UNHALLOWED SPOILERS. ALL YEE WHO GO BEYOND THIS POINT BE WARNED. Eh. Obviously there's a parallel here, but I'd hesitate to say "not different". There's so very much that's different between the two of them. For one, for some reason I doubt that Szeth's eyes "lasted" for hours after he dismissed his Blade.

Thanks for the link, Weiry.

Clarification: It was a dictionary, not a wiki. And turns out I misread the OP and the dictionary agrees that just saying "colossus" for the plural isn't right.

This all takes me back to when Swimmingly was still "gnimhey" and made the fatal mistake of asking me about TIME BUBBLES!!!! as his second post.

For me it's a dead heat between a multi-thousand-word behemoth that attempts to summarize years of thought and study and... commenting on a funny line Hoid said. To be fair, both are unnaturally high: the first because Chaos linked to it in a News article and the second because it was during the post-WoR Rep-splosion.

I think there are two big things pointing towards this, besides the aforementioned point that we've only ever heard about Scadrians. First, obviously magical technology that utilizes/interacts with Investiture. We know that the Scadrians are going to have this, while some other culture, say, Sel, might just rely more on personal use of magic to get the job done. Specifically the "investiture detector" machine rather screams of Allomantic bronze. This isn't ironclad, though because I swear there's a WoB on all magic systems having some branch that can "detect" ala Allomantic bronze, but I can't find it at the moment. EDIT: Found it! Turns out it isn't universal, but still. Source: --- Second, if you look at the first draft Dusk intuits that the emissary who "died" wasn't actually dead, guessing correctly that the Ones Above reclaimed his "body." Now that narrows it down a tad more, because we've yet to see much that can convincingly make a living person look like he's dying, then leave him seeming dead for some unknown period of time until the body was collected. Beyond looking dead, he'd have to keep himself alive despite possibly being stored in some uninhabitable environment in the interim. This suggests a kandra or feruchemist, as Moogle posited. -- I do agree that they likely don't have a monopoly, though, especially given the implication in-text that there were "Others Above" who didn't follow the Prime Directive.

Either. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Colossus EDIT: Oops, didn't notice the third option for some reason. It's "either" colossuses or colossi, but never just colossus.

First of all, welcome to the forums! Second, you're wrong (I think)! () I made a point of going back and looking at the relevant section in WoK, and the blade is definitely described in the same way there as it is in WoR.

Well this is quite a lot. This tangential discussion might interest you, in regards to how to imagine the spiritweb and how sDNA might fit in. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/3033-nature-of-forms-forgery/#entry50183 Also, "Metal" is not Investiture on Scadrial (see: AoL AA), and we're by no means sure about color on Nalthis.

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@Joe I don't know. Such questions have been discussed before, though, if you'd like to see some thoughts on it. Also, as a rule, if a question is hard enough that you feel the need to put it directly to Brandon, I probably can't answer it. @Physics people @Happyman Soooo... one question... Looking at how I model bubbles and relative motion in the OP, is this anything at all like how the effects of a moving field of gravitational time dilation as (I think...) you've been discussing would work?

I agree, though this isn't a new concept... If I recall correctly, this model was my head-canon since back before I joined the forums.

@Outis I suppose I really just don't see any compelling reason to look to this kind of "extrapolate from the present" as the mechanism for how Sak's power works. I think it far more simple and far more likely, given what we know and applying some principle of parsimony, to look at Sak's power as simply a more focused version of Allomantic electrum. From that, it seems that seeing a skeleton requires that you look farther into the future than normal, which is going to take more power.

@Outis Actually, I withdraw my "that sounds plausible too" comment. The various bodies Dusk sees are in different conditions, ranging from bloated to skeletal. There aren't very many ways in the near-future to bloatify or skeletalize a body, suggesting that Sak is reaching at least a bit farther into the future than usual. @Moogle I agree, I just thought I might have missed something. Looking over the original ending, actually, we see that the Ones Above claimed the body, and Dusk concludes that he wasn't really dead. So a fair enough option. To go with what others said, I'd think that a kandra or Feruchemist (stop breathing, stop eating/drinking, store all your heat and maybe even "slow down" enough to make your heartbeat nearly undetectable?) could carry it off.

@Moogle How do we know the dead emissary isn't dead? The Ones could just be cold/ruthless: kill a pawn to win the game. @Outis Ah, that makes sense too. Sorry for misinterpreting you. So far as future sight goes, I don't think we need be too worried and resort to calling Sak's talent other than it, by all appearances, is in this case: future sight. Though the story itself is rather sparse on examples, I seem to recall Brandon saying in the initial brainstorming that bonding with the birds gives _you_ the ability as well: so Sixth is in fact seeing his own future directly, rather than Sak seeing his future and then passing it along. This allows us to apply the "electrum exemption" and conclude that seeing your own future isn't particularly "of the gods". Even if it's the case that the power is all fully vested in the birds, the nature of the bond could also allow such wiggling away from the need to have the power directly allow you to see the future of others on general.

A plausible explanation, I think. Perhaps, though, Sak's talent wasn't so much haywire as super far-reaching? So "here's all the ways you could die for the next month" or the like.EDIT: And I agree with Tempus that the pool is likely a "splinter-pool" or the like. Has directly magical effects (blocking mind-sense)? Bestows magical effects onto surroundings? Changes the temperature of the water that flows from it? Sounds pretty magical there. I guess that the surrounding environment/ocean gets magicified by fruit/worms being swept down the river, then. EDIT 2: The personification of the islands (and the super-Australian way everything is trying to kill you, and is in fact very good at trying to kill you) could very well also be attributed to investiture. Perhaps the Shard that the presumably-Splinter-based magic is derived from had an appropriate Intent--or the Splinter itself had its own more focused intent. Wild guess: it's a Splinter of Chaos' "Survival Shard". So Father is not just "tough, but fair". In this case, he's just craven and is perhaps ruthlessly shaping the surrounding population to better protect him.

I doubt that conclusion, Moogle. Forgery gives every sign of being more thoroughly described by the stamp than illusions are in AonDor. So Frava's Forger being able to decode the stamp is (theoretically) quite possible: this belief on her part, as well as Gaotona's ability to read the basics of stamps, indicates that Forgry uses more complex symbology than AonDor.

Thank you for your thoughts, happyman. Can't say I understand most of the words you used, but thank you... ( )

"Cans" are those massive headphones that totally engulf your ears, rather than sitting on top of them. For instance, the MDR's I liked to are "cans".