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  1. Kurkistan
    No problem. Might as well put all these quotes I've read to good use.
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    Source:
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    I'd just cheat and go full Twinawesome. Hello, infinite food/drink/health on top of all the other benefits!
  4. Kurkistan
    @Arc An organization. There name is intended to indicate that they have their own "Intent," though.
  5. Kurkistan
    Another option is that the strong regionality of Sel's magics just means that everyone already has a "magic slot" embedded in their souls from birth without the need for any additional tweaking to make them compatible with magic.
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    Have we all forgotten that Feruchemical gold doesn't stop aging? All this discussion of self-image and the like has been part of our understanding of cosmere-healing for quite some time, and Brandon uses nearly the exact same language now to discuss how Stormlight heals. Source: So it seems that Stormlight acts nearly (if not completely) identically to Feruchemical gold and normal AonDor and the like in its healing. The same things that stop Miles from being immortal should work for surgebinders too, I think. EDIT: Also, the Heightenings for BioChroma are a function of growing "closer" to Endowment, not simply of holding Investiture. Similarly with the healing done by Divine Breath: It functions on entirely different principles from other, "perception-based", healing in the cosmere.
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    He's "Thinker" in the Purelake interlude in WoK. This is both from his appearance and nuberous WoB's on the matter. We do not. It could be that worldhopping itself has some effects, or perhaps involves time-skipping. Source: Source: Well Demoux, at the very least, is a member of the Seventeenth Shard, so they might have found him, conceivably.
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    Soulcasting is weird in that it does indeed require specific gemstones. Source:
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    We do have WoB that a non-oath-breaking death isn't harmful to the spren: Source:
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    Turns out it was almost certainly emotional allomancy. Source:
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    We have no such WoB, to my knowledge.
  12. Kurkistan
    Okay, thanks. Yeah, canonicity for the MAG is always a bit iffy.
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    I haven't put down the money for the supplement yet. Where exactly is Feruchemy supposed to have come from/is that explanation canon?
  14. Kurkistan
    Syl as tsundere was an... interesting choice.
  15. Kurkistan
    Well if you're that afraid you can just copy it all back in. Also, I find pasting plain text to be best. Most browsers have a "paste as plaintext" option if you right-click, or you could copy it all into notepad first and that will strip the formatting without messing up line breaks.
  16. Kurkistan
    What's the problem with the Philly stuff? I'm fairly sure EHyde and Co. transcribes the whole thing verbatim already.
  17. Kurkistan
    I am a Cryptic at 1050, just so you know.
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    2) An Eshonai interlude indicates that they don't, and instead use the gemhearts to accelerate plant growth. We have WoB that stormlight makes plants grow faster, also.
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    I can clear this up a bit. *Pulls out recording of Q&A* Q: In all of your books—except for Warbreaker—there's always a very big symbology to the types of magic systems: like with AonDor with the Aons or Allomancy. Is that intentional, is it something you had in your head before you get started, or afterwards? Brandon's understanding of the Q: Is the symbolism, the symbology, the actual symbols in the books, important? The magic systems, a lot of these have these- Is this something that I did intentionally? A: Yes it is. When I built the cosmere, I built the underlying rules of magic that I would use in all the books to sort of give a cohesion and- not every one of these books it's going to be very obvious—there will be different takes on them—but for a lot of them they're sharing these attributes, and you can notice similarities between them. Because when I eventually do cosmere-centric books, I want, you know, Allomancy and AonDor to share things in common so it doesn't feel like everything in the kitchen sink is thrown into a book: that there are underlying reasons and rules and things like that. ----- So it looks like symbols may be magically important. *Cough forms cough*
  20. Kurkistan
    The transcript from Philly is basically done, I think. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7051-philadelphia-wor-signing-reports/page-4#entry117576
  21. Kurkistan
    Thank you, updated the copy. I might hold off for a while if more corrections start trickling in: it wouldn't do for my inaccurate rendition to be floating around at the same time as the better one is being polished up.
  22. Kurkistan
    I EDITED in a link a few minutes after posting, sorry for not getting it in more quickly. The Full Lashing is the "stuff sticks to stuff" Lashing, and both Ars Arcanums (as well as Brandon) are quite clear that it's using Adhesion/Pressure.
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    Szeth uses the Full Lashing several times in WoK. That one's definitely based on Adhesion. And just so you know, we've since had that whole "humans can't bond Honorblades" thing cleared up: they totally can. Brandon's also obliquely confirmed Szeth having an Honorblade several times.
  24. Kurkistan
    This is just a list of all the Q/A from the transcript, so it's on the site rather than subject to Google's terrible whims. EDIT: Swapped in my own transcription of my questions because the crazy hand-gestures are somewhat important. EDIT 2: Updated Leiyan's second set of questions.
  25. Kurkistan
    No problem, thanks for correcting it.
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