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  1. Kurkistan
    An interesting theory. Some things to note: You really oughtn't to have snipped out that part of the Ars Arcanum. The full passage reads: "...level of connection to it as well. The illusion is based not simply upon what the Lightweaver imagines, but upon what they desire to create." (emphasis in original) The "desire to create" seems rather important moving forward, nay? ---- Also, we are by no means sure that Forging works as you say it does. I certainly say it does, but I'm crazy. Also, I (the crazy person) assign the connections as governors of the changes done by stamps more so than as the direct agents of change.
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    Brandon's said that Dalinar has been bonded to the Stormfather for awhile, so I imagine all the vision-recipients were the same. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6984-lexington-ky-signing/
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    I disagree with a "cognitive structures" approach, given that gravity appears to be Spiritually based in the cosmere.
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    Thank you Luke. Nice to finally clear up the Honorblade confusion. Though now there's more confusion, as Szeth intentionally drops his Blade in his second-to-last interlude in WoK and it mistifies. I suppose he willed it to vanish, then?
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    Actually, on that note, Allomantic gold can be pretty valuable merely as a tool for Compounding. Consider that this would easily allow any Bloodmaker to become a Compounder, as well as letting literally anyone benefit from "shared Compounding": everyone could have Allomantic gold spikes, including a few full Feruchemists with access to both Feruchemical gold and Feruchemical aluminum. Why hello there, world of perfect health. This would even allow similar "power copying" for just about everyone and every power, actually, since everyone would have access to Compounded Feruchemical gold... EDIT: Actually, you'd never even need to bring anyone but the original Gold/Gold twinborn into the picture to get infinite power. He can just Compound his original Feruchemical gold metalminds whenever we spike out his Feruchemical gold and tap them whenever we spike out his Allomantic gold. Infinite Allomantic gold and Feruchemical gold for all!!!!!!!! EDIT 2: Although metalminds might be keyed to the spikes at that point rather than their recipients. Which would stop Compounding and explain why Inquisitors never Compounded... EDIT 4: Ah, nope, nevermind: Marsh is compounding Atium, so he can obviously use spiked powers for compounding. Either that or he has Feruchemical aluminum, but I rather doubt that and Occam has to step in eventually for these types of things.
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    Someone probably took offense at "Breath farming". I offset the vote.
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    I've always just assumed it was a pretty rock, myself.
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    Also, we have an answer that Nightblood can be fueled by Stormlight. It's the canonical example of cross-magic fueling, actually.
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    Yes. The answers are confusing.
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    EDIT: Forgot what thread I was in for a moment, changed response. One thing to note: Even Brandon will come out and say that Szeth had an Honorblade. Source:
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    Brandon was pretty unambiguous when he said that Szeth isn't bonded to a spren.
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    *Necro* Thanks for posting this, Hero. I'd like to note that several of my posts (including my corn-filled pre-battle speech) were somewhat intentionally melodramatic, especially at the beginning.
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    I believe the good Doctor took this into account: he was talking about spiking out the Allomancy, not the Feruchemy. So any pre-made reserves would still be accessible.
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    I'd be cool meeting for coffee (well, hot chocolate in my case. Never much been one for coffee ) beforehand. Dinner might be a bit awkward to arrange, whereas with coffee we could just name a place and approximate time and call it a day.
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    ... I've been reading your name as "Senor Fresh" for nigh-on two years...
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    The consumption of some object or thing is not at all necessary for a system to be end-positive. AonDor allows for constant, non-stuff-consuming, and clearly energetic magical effects. See: Aons carved onto surfaces that produce constant light. Recall also that Forgeries of non-living entities can last into perpetuity so long as they're not transported out of Forgery's "area of effect."
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    What makes you say end-neutral? Something rather active and impressive is going on with stamps, I would say, and it seems that Forged objects need a constant infusion of energy from the Dor in order to stay in effect.
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    There are both male and female windspren around Kaladin during his final fight with Szeth.
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    I have serious doubts that the object needs to "want" the change for it to work in Forging. Maybe it helps, but it's certainly not a requirement. What horse "wants" to be a nag, or door rotten?
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    I've heard it said that Mirai Nikki is terrible at living up to its original premise, but enjoyable if you roll with it from there.
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    You raise a good question. Before we resort to the Handwavium, perhaps a solution? Through all of Kaladin's use of the Basic Lashing, it comes across as very much more intuitive than when Szeth does it. Szeth's POV's are very mechanical, very "Lashing one quarter of his weight upward" and so on. But Kaladin, for the most part, just kind of does it. During the final fight with Szeth he even comes to this realization/decision consciously, not thinking about the specifics of the Lashings anymore. Could the effects you describe be achieved with big differences in the magnitude of these Lashings that weren't explicitly expositied? So the "back" was actually 4 Lashings or the like? Forgive me if this is all very stupid-sounding: physics has constantly been my foe on these forums.
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    I can tell you that #5 has been answered: Warbreaker is kind of a "prequel" for Vasher, so that means that it came first. There isn't even any weird midquel stuff going on because Nightblood (the book) is between Warbreaker and WoK.
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    Ooh, may I ask what the list is?
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    Don't worry, Feather said in one of the first episodes that she'd be cutting out dead-air: any time when she read for some stretch without commenting is cut out.
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    Yup, I totally misread you. My apologies. Yeah, it does seem that we need to streamline it a bit. I should take another look at Aonar's thread...
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