Patrick Star

Yeah, sounds about right. Don't forget that the desolations are health check simulations created by mice in order to check the operational integrity of Roshar, which is simply a giant computer that is meant to come up with a better answer than "42".

Stormlight is a light emitting gaseous substance. Inefficiency should be called "Diffusion" in order to reflect this. It's how much stormlight moves from the gem/surgebinder (or still gem, if surgebinders have gemhearts) into the atmosphere.

- Does shardplate make the wearer stronger? Basically, think Thor vs Iron Man. Thor is stronger with Mjolnir, but the Iron Man suit doesn't make Tony Stark stronger. Just to get an idea of how it works. - Szeth's voices: Is there an external force or entity causing them? - Gavilar's Sphere: Is there a sentient being in there? - Does Vasher know that Nightblood is on Roshar? Is he interested in getting Nightblood back? - Plain or peperoni? - Did Renarin wear plain glasses, or bifocals? - Which Rosharian beer is the tastiest? Do they have IPA's? - In the chasms scene during the highstorms, Kaladin saw 2 beings in the storm. Were those unmade? - Does Roshar have icecream? - Roshar has a large amount of crustaceans. Do they also have Old Bay spice? Because they really should. - Could you have a shardbow that uses regular arrows? Or maybe a crossbow? Can spren objects have any moving parts? - How do cohesion and tension work in regards to the stonewards? How does that interaction affect what they can do? - Are willshapers basically earthbenders from Avatar: The Last Airbender? - Could a Windrunner go into space (and survive) using his surges? - What language did Taravangian use for the Diagram? If this is RAFO'd, maybe ask if it's one that's currently in use by Rosharian society (I'm speculating that it was written in the language of the dawnsingers) And I think that's everything. Obviously, some of these are more serious than others. I'm particularly curious about the language that the diagram was written in. The Nightblood question may also be good to ask.

Well, it's possible that Derethil's purpose for traveling there is actually what Szeth's research was. Szeth could have been looking at the origins of the voidbringers, and possibly come very close to finding them before becoming truthless.

I hope that they were assassins. Because otherwise, Jasnah just dealt out the death penalty for a mugging. A bit of an overreaction, I'd say.

It's about Szeth murdering everyone because he thought he was Truthless. And also helps to reinforce the hunch that Nalan is in the wrong (contrast what he said to Szeth with Wandersail).

Science is awesome, and math is the science of numbers. It's given us computers, cars, televisions, flight, space travel, better food (and more importantly, better beer), better houses, better brains (yes, really. The mean IQ has steadily increased over the last 100 years), helped us overcome diseases, and is working on neural implants, replacing lost limbs, even cleaner energy, space elevators, diamond nanothreads (mathematically the strongest material in the universe), and artificial muscles (including bones, tendons, and ligaments) that are hundreds of times stronger than what we have now. Tanavest has an infinite amount of excellent reasons to love math.

Nah, it's an actual easter egg. It has an emerald sphere in it. We're still looking for it.

I'd actually consider it to be all of the Radiants. I mean, Kaladin is technically Renarin's boss right now, and I don't see Renarin as being someone who would let Amaram get away with what he did to Kal.

Yes, Shallan likes Kaladin. Yes, Kaladin likes Shallan. However, Shallan does not like Kaladin as much as she likes Adolin, and Kaladin would never steal Adolin's girl. Or hook up with a lighteyes

It's not like we've seen them in action yet. And we definitely have no idea how they'll interact.

Well, you'd need the wafer, a carbon dioxide laser, a vacuum chamber and cleanroom, a huge power source to power the carbon dioxide laser, 6 molybdenum-silicon bilayer mirrors with a protective rubidium coating, a mechanism to control the tin droplets, a magnetic field generator to collect debris emissions, photoresist, and a defect-free photomask with the right pattern on it to get that microchip. And those are just the basic ingredients for the die. After that, you need to package it. And I'm not even including what you'd need to calibrate the tools in the first place. It's exponentially more difficult than having a stoneward handle it. I'm not saying that this is going to happen, I'm just saying that it could.

In my head, this would be more precise than Soulcasting, but require a lot more Stormlight and experience to do. And likely be limited to changing solids to other solids, as the atoms exert more force on each other. A soulcaster may be able to turn a rock into a sheet of metal, but the hypothetical Stoneward could give it a silicon-germanium substrate with metal and oxide overlays to create a microchip. That sort of thing.

Probably not. But I'm willing to bet that there may be some worldhoppers on Roshar who do. Like Hoid. I'd be surprised if he didn't.

I'm thinking that the interaction between the two could allow trained stonewards much finer control than with the two seperately. Cohesion is strong axial connections bonds, and tension is soft ones. So, I'm thinking that stonewards may get control of all the connections, basically. With both combined, you could theoretically rearrange matter at the subatomic level, with enough practice.

Sorry if this is short and not fully developed. I am on my phone, and will update when I get to an actual keyboard. I was thinking about stoneward powers in another thread, and realized that combining tension and cohesion could allow for material transmutation, like lead into gold. When harnessed properly, this could allow a stoneward to become a technomancer. Instead of just wearing shardplate, stonewards could create veronica-style powered armor to bust through thunderclasts and the like. They could give every radiant a minigun and loads of amunition to mow through voidbringers. And instead of fighting voidbringers on roshar, they could build a rocket ship to bring nightblood to Braize so that he can eat odium. Edit: Alright, so I'm at my computer now, so I'll elaborate a bit. So, we know that atoms exert forces on each other. That's what keeps a block of ice a block of ice. We also know that subatomic particles exert forces on each other. That's what keeps an atom an atom. Basically, I'm thinking that an experienced Stoneward could manipulate these forces to rearrange atoms and atomic particles in order to alter its properties. For example, one could take 2 moles of Lithium atoms and combine them into a mole of Carbon atoms (atomic # 3 to atomic # 6). Or, he could create a highly precise alloy, such as a piece of steel with a coating to prevent rust and oxidation. Or maybe create solid rocket fuel (which is awesome). Or, this could allow Roshar to have unlimited nuclear power, as they could just convert the nuclear waste back into nuclear fuel after each highstorm. Without a truly massive amount of stormlight, this would likely be limited to solids (and a few liquids), as other states of matter do not have the same forces holding them together. Either way, so many possibilities!

Stoneward. If the combination of tension and cohesion works like I think it may, I could transmute materials and become the cosmere's first technomancer.

A Sylphone could likely fit about 10 times as many transistors as current phones and drive them at about 1000x the frequency. It could probably deliver similar improvements to memory capacity and bandwith.

This is the understatement of the year. Without Kaladin, Lopen would have had a 100% chance of death. One armed bridgeman with a big mouth? Yeah, that's not going to fly. He'd go to the front on the final approach.

Personally, I see him more as Lex Luthor from the new Batman vs Superman movie. You know, highly ecentric, poor fashion tastes, and somebody that nobody in their right mind would like.

Bort, can you please just make sure that you include the gouged eye? Even if you just have some "bloody" gauze wrapped around it. That would be awesome!

Huh. Must have missed that. Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of this shift. Mainly because Stormlight 3 was set up to be the PERFECT Szeth book. You know, with Nalan and Nightblood and the trek to Shinovar. Oh well. It'll still be a very good read, but I think that having it focus on Szeth would have been much better. Especially after my post-WoR anticipation for it.

Are these the flashbacks for Stones Unhallowed? If so, I hope he doesn't do too much to divulge stuff from Highprince of War

Presumably, the radiant would power it. The gemstones are a substitute for an invested radiant.

Well, it possesses an odd mix of amorphous and crystalline properties. As was discussed in an earlier thread that I started named "Falling in Shardplate", it has to be a lot more than a powered exoskeleton, as it seems to cause the person inside to be stronger/more resilient. It's probably some sort of ancient fabrial.