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Nice question. Darnam's friend needs to drop by for upvotes. If you want, Paper, you could post the file on Soundcloud or the like and get help *cough* WeiryWriter The Incredible *cough cough* transcribing it.

Also from Claincy's roleplaying groups is to use a pair of Seeker/Misting walking around the streets near suspected hideouts: if the Seeker can't detect his Thug buddy anymore, then congratulations, you just "Seeked" out a coppercloud.

Curses, that was fast. Everyone on the forums is usually like "oh, I've read all Brandon's books besides Alcatraz, and...", so I thought i might stump some people.

Unpunctual older gentleman.

Some info: The size of the gem has little to do with how long the stormlight is held, though I'd imagine that bigger gems hold more. The other types of surgebinding aren't gem-restricted. Source:

Shai.

Fair enough . Were all of my questions that level of incomprehensible, though? The question on Aonic healing is straightforward enough, I think, and I'm actually rather curious on it, as it has implications for how "Cognitive-compliant" AonDor is.

A quote that might be of interest: Why hello Realmatics, how are you doing today? And this from the Geranid Interlude: And some nice knowledge of the nature of the Cognitive.

No, I don't think so... That's kind of the idea: if we can nail it down either way, that gives us a clue to how both magics work, especially going forward. It's always good to get WoB that allows for comparisons between magics in different worlds.

I used to be forgetful like you, then I took to writing questions in a .txt. Ahem. Feel free to pick and choose, just laying out some options that might interest you: "Can AonDor heal chronic conditions like poor eyesight?" -"If so, does it strictly require specialized Aon-drawing to work, or will enough Aon Ien's do the job eventually?" --[Yes, I asked this just above your post in this thread, I just wanted to make sure you saw it ] "Is it possible for an Augor to Compound a goldmind if it's proper owner messed around with his Identity in the right way?" "What is the Realmatic composition of Investiture? Is is primarily Spiritual, an even mix of Spiritual and Cognitive, or something else?" "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?" http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/4258-questions-for-seattle-signing-1014/page-2#entry67127 -- So, as background, we have from Brandon that Inquisitors are capable of burning their own eyespikes, but at the expense of excruciating pain and/or weird soul-splicing. Either way, this tells us that Hemalurgic spikes (and potentially any piercing) are available as Allomantic reserves. Question: If that is the case, then why didn't Vin lose her earring? It was Bronze, as it turns out, and she burned Duralumin and Bronze at the same time at least once, so shouldn't she have burned the earring away too? -I think that she might have had the earring in when she burned Aluminum in the first book, but I can't recall if the Inquisitors might have taken it. So I'll just go with the Duralumin instance. --We also have Marsh the Steel Inquisitor burning Steel and Duralumin and not dying. On that note, why don't spikes seem to show up as reserves, given that they are accessible? Also, do normal piercings follow the same burn rules as spikes, whatever they may be? -- "How do the surfaces of time bubbles behave when you poke them with sticks? When someone touches one and is immediately 'affected by it'? Does the bubble "distend" or something?" --- Do Feruchemists store their attributes in the physical metal itself, or in that metal's Spiritual Aspect? If Dalinar were a Feruchemist, would he be able to tap a metalmind (in either world) while experiencing one of his visions? How is a Feruchemist storing, say, 10% weight for ten hours different from him storing 100% weight for one hour? So what's up with frame of reference for time bubbles? Would an embedded Brass metalmind melt at high temperatures? What about one that's completely buried in the skin?

Not to shut you down, Mailliw, but I think Brandon's said what he means to say on the table. At the point where he suddenly fills in the majority of it, then stops, he's probably drawn a line. Also, the name is Twinawesome. This is known.

Here's the WoB on it, just for reference (a bit hard to hunt down, actually): Source: So it's less obvious than Asmodean's killer. And they were arguing about it for a decade. Oh joy.

It's not a problem, seeing as you came up with it independently. I guess "Cultivation is related to highstorms" is a theory whose time has come.

On that note, it's always a bit more than polite to link back to the inspiration of your theories, Swimmingly. That is, assuming that you were in some way inspired by Mailliw's thread, rather than this being a coincidence.

@Shardlet Unrelated question: Did Brandon actually say "TLR" in that one answer? If so, I find that amusing.

@Shardlet Just making sure. EDIT: It's fairly sure that Hesina wasn't actually talking about the visible spren we normally talk about. Rosharans conflate sous/Cognitive aspects with spren as we normally discuss them.

Interesting theory. I would note, though, that these spren "emerging" could also be a matter of perceptual convention: fear "sweeps over you" and all. All these spren coming from the ground is highly suggestive, though. Note Shardlet's point that it seems to just be "the ground," though, not actually "the stone" that just so happens to normally be the ground. @Shardlet Oh, I think people describe things quite well; perfectly, in fact...

Welcome to the forums! Watch out for horrifying delicious spikes cookies! I'm not familiar with many theories on what happened to Gaz, but I'd guess Asmodean.

I do not appreciate your tone, Gloom. That said, I find myself somewhat at a loss. You're attributing radical stances to me that I have never even implied, so far as I can see. The exceptions to the rule of returning to Cognitive aspects, exceptions which I rather freely point out and am quite willing to go into more depth on, aren't something I'm trying to sneak under the door. Also, those exceptions are still quite firmly on the "not like Allomantic pewter" side of any division you care to make, so my main point is rather untouched. I am sorry that I seem to have communicated my thoughts so very poorly to you, and would be happy to try and explain them further, if only you would care to highlight the sections of my posts that lead you so far astray; I suppose I'll leave it at this, though, as you've already said you're "done with this topic." P.S. Also, you're reinterpretation of the WoB is rather squirrely, I must say. More on that if you elect to return to the discussion.

So far as all the magics being the same: if you squint and in certain cases, yes, I think they will be. Here's Brandon on the subject:

I thought I might be able to attend, but no dice. If anyone is on the lookout for questions, the healing discussion has brought one to the forefront: Can AonDor heal chronic conditions like poor eyesight? -If so, does it strictly require the drawing of specialized Aons, or will enough Aon Iens get the job done eventually?

I read Shogun quite awhile back. It was good.

I apologize if I conveyed my thoughts poorly. I find my framework quite non-circular, myself. Where, exactly, have I waffled on what healing is? I specified two broad categories for the sake of this discussion: those that are just normal healing on steroids and those that strive towards some "target" form. The second doesn't mention the Cognitive primarily because Divine Breath is weird To answer your question more directly: No, as marianmi pointed out, the healing rules as I understand them would not normally allow Renarin's blood weakness of Kaladin's scars to heal. Divine Breath could do it, maybe AonDor could do it, Forgery could do it for limited period of time. But (probably) Regrowth, permanent Resealing, and Feruchemical gold most certainly could not. --- I shot down your argument for Intents affecting the way healing works because it was wrong, Gloom, not because it muddied my "pat little system." Sorry if you find that ridiculous, but Brandon has been quite clear on this subject: So far as the perfect societies point goes... Whether or not everyone benefits from "super healing", the idea behind the fear applies to a broader point that I think it fair to say Brandon was getting at. A society where it's even moderately easy to go about fixing any and all chronic ills has a fundamentally different way of functioning than a normal one. Just like any space travel story with ark ships inevitably becomes about the ark, so too (I think it fair to say) any fantasy story with perfect healing—one that takes its world and its magic seriously, at least—must almost inevitably be about how that healing affects society. The full context that everyone's linking to is helpful in this regard. Thanks for the backup. I agree that AonDor is a bit tricky. I have some thoughts on it, actually. But that's all rather besides the main thrust of the argument, so I'll just leave it at that. So far as Resealing goes, though, I think you're off the mark. Resealing that doesn't abide by Cognitive aspects only works temporarily, for <=26 hours per stamping. Proper Resealing, though, of non-chronic conditions, is permanent. I would say then that the temporary kind only forces a temporary change on Cognitive aspects—if even that—and that the second kind, the permanent kind, likely doesn't change the Cognitive at all. I've discussed this. Discussed it a lot. @Ethrien

Because the Cognitive Realm shrinks down when there's nothing there, we think. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/3007-baltimore-signing/ EDIT: NINJAAA!