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WoP, actually.

Why thank you kindly, Richard.

You are right, KEA, in that light is generally not affected by time bubbles. At its root, this is a result of the fact that Cadmium is, in fact, actually an alloy of Handwavum. Realmatically, I agree that some level of perception of what it "makes sense" for bubbles to affect likely comes into play. EDIT: I'm not the only person with FTL theories, btw. Just the most vocal.

A more hopeful note, I'm poised to activate my trial for Crunchyroll for the SAO special on the 31st.

Well that must have been quite distressing. Do you recall any interesting (non-spoilery) tidbits from before you fled?

Thank you, third entry.

How long did it take for you to come up with other reasons why she wouldn't be freezing time?

Or *puts on crazy-person hat* Syl/other Windrunner-aspected honorspren latch onto the same basic "Wind" Form that normal windspren do.

Nice! Would you mind posting a new topic in the "Events" section so that people can know about that?

Links, Swimmingly, links! One can never have enough of them! The new WoB you're referencing. Chaos' thread on the matter, which has some more evidence.

I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to repost both transcripts in full-text right now so that they'll be easier to search/index in the future.

I can't find the quote at the moment (still looking), but Brandon has said that Roshar doesn't really have "season" in the sense of being hot/cold, but that the different seasons refer to the frequency/severity of highstorms, and that the names are holdovers in the language. EDIT: Although the books, on reflection, seem to offer evidence for the seasons affecting temperature. I really need to find that quote. EDIT 2: Found it. It was a summary: So we could reconcile the two by positing that highstorms can affect temperature (at least locally/temporarily), rather than the other way around.

Just finished it after reading on and off for a few months. It was good, nice to see a "gritty realistic grrrr" super-power story done so well and so in-depth.

Thanks for the transcription, Weiry. Some things of interest: The question/answer on shardblade wounds was... confusing. The stuff about Kelsier/SSFH was quite interesting: My favorite sentence so far: "Hemalurgy does not automatically make you bald." Simply beautiful when taken out of context.

Some quotes: Source: Source: As a note here, the powers granted by all of the metals—even the two divine ones—are not themselves of either Shard. They are simply tools. And so, it's possible that one COULD have found a way to reproduce an ability like atium's while using Preservation's power, but it wouldn't be as natural or as easy as using Preservation to fuel Allomancy. The means of getting powers—Ruin stealing, Preservation gifting—are related to the Shards, but not the powers themselves.

@Darnam I might be biased here, but I just tend to link to everything . The way I see it, "I feel" responses are part of the risk of posting a theory in the first place, so linking to it is just an extension of that risk. And I don't mind "I feel" responses, that much, since they can often be indicators of deeper intuitions/thoughts. I feel that your Fedik theory has potential, btw. Well we do know that normal Feruchemical gold can heal at least some kinds of Spiritual damage, so... @Serendipity I've expressed my thoughts on the "hybridness" of Feruchemical gold before.

Here are some quotes for fun and profit: Source: Source:

Sorry for mondo-wall-posting all these quotes. The only way I can wrap my head around this much discussion and/or my substantive thoughts on it is to write down my replies as I go. If I skipped anyone it was because I didn't have a comment to make on their post, and if I repeated myself it was because I'm too lazy to go around consolidating general arguments from multiple posts. Feruchemical aluminum likely stores some Spiritual sense of identity, I think, something that may well be spikeable. I agree with you (and myself), though, that Feruchemical gold is based on Cognitive shenanigans, so shouldn't be directly harmed by hemalurgy. Although I myself have historically toyed with the idea that hemalurgy could rip off parts of your Cognitive aspect, I'm leaning against it at the moment, so that would leave Feruchemical gold's healing process relatively safe from hemalurgy. a) No, I don't think so. We know that Feruchemical gold is based on Cognitive stuff while Feruchemical aluminum is a "spiritual" metal in realmatically broken-down feruchemy. Brandon's talk of "chronic" suggests that he's more about "having had for awhile" rather than "really really devastating" (think Miles growing back a face/body), though I read you as being on board with that. As for Feruchemical aluminum: I doubt it, see my response to Serendipity. As to your fist option, I don't quite think so. The metaphor doesn't work out under reflection: it's like saying that if you cut someone's hand off really carefully, then stitch up the stump nice and neat, they won't feel like they should really not be missing a hand. If, under an alternate reading of your point, you meant quite literally that the spike actively re-writes stuff as it goes, I think that's giving hemalurgy too much credit/nuance in its thefting. FORMS!!! *froths* I don't think that's the right tack, as most of my formic theorizing has them being a fair bit more passive than that, not going around saying "ha! You got spiked!" and then immediately applying some massive and novel set of restrictions on people. ... Actually, maybe. Small maybe. Hmm. I'm still inclined to think no, but this might require reflection. Consider me summoned. While I appreciate being kowtowed to as a God King of Realmatics, I would like to emphasize the fact that much of this is just my opinion and intuitions, as this is a rather unclear area as of now. Please feel more than free to call me out if I start getting to "asserty" without the evidence to back me up, as that is a pitfall I am very eager to avoid going forward. I've already stated my opinion on this particular model, but I suppose I'll expand a bit: I think that if you got Miles down on a table and cut off his hand, then did something (non-Cognitive affecting) to make it so that the stump healed over like he'd never had a hand, he'd still be able to grow his hand back. This particular opinion of mine is not one of my stronger ones, however. It's an open question whether or not Cognitively-based healing like Feruchemical gold can revert "proper" healing, partially because the issue is muddied by us not knowing how long/easy it is for a body to adapt to a new, less-whole Cognitive aspect. It helps to link to such theories when you reference them, as some (including me) may not have read them. ---- On the general topic of "neat" hemalurgy: I'm inclined to think that you could conceivably be a bit more subtle in what you take from people's souls. It's still gonna be nasty, but I see no problem with a more "refined" hemalurgy causing less overall spiritual damage. ---- As to the question as a whole: Myself, I've been carrying around the suspicion that shardblade wounds may be of a different kind from those inflicted by hemaluryg, the "cut" versus the "tear out and set on fire". A difference between cutting someone's hand for the shardblade and cutting it off for hemalurgy, then. More fully, I think it possible that shardblades don't actually do substantial damage to the body of the soul when they "kill" a limb, but rather sever some part of the soul's connection to the sufferer's bodypart. So the "arm" part of the soul is still there and intact to a large extent, but has been cut off from its proper interactions with the rest of the person. Healing it, then, is simply a matter of bridging the gap rather than growing whole new parts of the soul out of nothing. In this view, hemalurgy goes around ripping pieces off wholesale, and so is a different kind of injury to recover from. Under this model, Feruchemical gold healing to the soul is "limited" in the same way that normal healing to the body is: some things you can recover from, some things you can't. That's just me (and Sats), though.

You might be interested in the discussion we had in this thread.

I wasn't going to name (book) names, but Snuff was actually what I was thinking of when I said that. That book pained me to read.

I quite like that series as well. I feel that it has suffered in recent years, though.

Seen any good tweets lately? https://twitter.com/brandsanderson/status/413409214652903424

Thought: I'm sure someone's mentioned this before, but it occurs to me that Jasnah's issues with the translation might be the use of "honor" as a noun. We know it's referring to the Shard, most likely, but for Jasnah it would just seem like a weird translation. Here's the full epigraph, by the way. It's been garbled a bit by the discussion: So it's not exactly 100% that Jasnah is questioning the translation, actually. Still, I think it reasonable for Jasnah to be confused over what "Honor" is.

Thanks. *There's no "moderately embarrassed but appreciative" smiley* Though those two in particular were rather easy. Just the Lift interlude and a quick Theoryland search for "Syl", respectively.

Doubt enough that it shouldn't be bandied about as confidently as "seems to be", at the very least. The easiest reading of how the Ring is discussed is that it's an organization of spren. It's also clear that they do not directly represent or communicate with Cultivation: Lift Interlude: It's also rather clear from the reading (combined with what we know of how Syl works) that Wyndle was sent to bond with her, rather than bonded with her, then sent. Either way, it's not a case of Cultivation controlling bonding, not even in a second-hand manner. The most charitable interpretation of what we know results in Cultivation having set up a group of spren to control bonding, which is once again undermined by how Syl worked. There's also "the precautions [Wyndle's] people took” to consider: he retained a lot of stuff in the transition, while Syl was reduced to a wisp of a thing without memory or much of her personality. If all spren were sent out by the Ring, then she should have been far better off. Once again: I did not say that it's impossible that Cultivation has a hand in how bonding works, but that I "seriously doubt" it. I will stand by that. There's also this quote: Source: This rather strongly suggests that Syl and others have been non-sentient for some time, as opposed to chilling about in the Cognitive getting bonding-orders from the Ring.