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  1. Patrick Star
    I think he saw Pattern, or at least pattern's investiture. We know that Hoid worldhops in weird ways. It's possible that he thought that he had more time to prepare, saw Shallan, then thought "Oh crap. There's a protoradiant here. I can't believe it's ALREADY time for the last desolation. I really should have set my alarm clock to five minutes early!"
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    A super cooled solid is not a crystal. A crystal is a normal solid, a super cooled solid is amorphous, which is what glass is. You cannot have a super cooled crystal, it is an oxyoron in terms of the chemistry.
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    I still think that Shardplate is a glass-like material. Here's a site that pretty much explains what's going on wtih glass: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glass/glass.html If this was the case, it would explain shardplate melting, cracking (as opposed to denting), and being able to shift to conform to the wearer.
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    Oh, so they're like the X-Men! Except not the X-men, since the X-men are named after Xavier. Since Calamity made the epics, we should call all epics... C-Men... Yeah, I think we're going to stick with calling them epics.
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    Yeah, I'm also in the "David has epic powers" camp. As I've said before, we don't know if an epic that overcame its fear still has a weakness. If they do, that explains quite a bit. Obliteration was teleporting around a bunch, which would explain why the healing factor was being erratic.
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    Lightning exists to make Iroh even more awesome. RIP, Dragon of the West :'(
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    Word of Brandon. That's why Vasher is on Roshar. He can live off the highstorms rather than by stealing breaths from other people.
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    1) Not really. He just hits harder, and packs a large punch. Avoiding Nightblood or having enough shielding is the way to beat non-honorblade Szeth. And that's assuming that Szeth can unsheath him. Szeth has no way of fueling nightblood, so he'd actually be at a bit of a handicap. 2) Just because we think he's going to doesn't mean that he does. That argument is invalid. Szeth does not have skybreaker powers. At the moment, we know what Szeth can do with the honorblade. We also know what Nightblood we can do. Szeth's powers at this point are very well established, and the only area with any wiggle room is how those powers interact with others' powers in these hypothetical situations.
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    I'm explaining about how we know that Stormlight is a (light emitting) gas, and very likely an ideal one. Or it at least acts like an ideal gas, which most gasses do, so that point is moot. So basically showing how stormlight is a light emitting gas. No electricity involved Sorry if I'm just throwing information out there. I took AP Chemistry last year, and have a smorgasbord of the info stuck in my head. Basically, stormlight is a gas that can be consumed by Knights Radiant to fuel the surges, similar to how Mistborn consume metals and Returned consume breaths (and stormlight).
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    I already established that i was discussing stormlight sitting in a sphere. It also works for an honorblade holder, except that the rate of diffusion is much higher because of the lack of a "membrane". Same with a Radiant, except that they (may) have a gemheart, which would serve as a membrane and limit (or eliminate, possibly) any diffusion. Using Stormlight does not defuse it. Stormlight doubles as fuel, which makes utilizing surges entirely different from standard diffusion.
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    As I explained in another thread (link below), Stormlight is a light emitting gas. Nightblood gives off a gas (made of breaths) that does not emit light, as it is merely dark. Gavilar's sphere gives off a dark light. However, we do not know what it contains. Here's the thread: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/21283-measuring-stormlight/ Also, this outlines what's going on with stormlight leakage: http://www.austincc.edu/emeyerth/diffuse2.htm Stormlight is a gas, and it is diffusing out of the sphere. The sphere acts as a membrane that has very low permeability for exiting stormlight but very high permeability for entering stormlight, except for when it is being surgebound, which more easily draws the stormlight out of the sphere. The spheres leak stormlight at a constant, but very slow rate. However, it will simply APPEAR to leak faster as the amount of stormlight leaking increases. Let's say that I have a sphere that gives off 100 candelas of light, and it leaks enough stormlight every hour to lose 10 candelas. After 1 hour, it's lost 10% of its light. From the first hour to the second hour, it loses another 10 lumens, but the brightness decreases by over 11% (90 to 80 versus 100 to 90). From hour 2 to 3, it loses 12.5% of its light. Skipping ahead, from hour 5 to 6, it loses 20% of its light. Then 25%. Then 33%. Then 50%. By hour 10, it's all gone. The percentage is increasing at an increasing rate. So it appears to be dimming more quickly, but the rate of diffusion has not changed.
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    That smoke IS the stormlight. Just like Nightblood's black smoke is the breaths of the people he kills. The sphere's light is almost certainly different.
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    Not exactly. Nightblood leaks dark smoke. The sphere is giving off dark light. That's a huge disparity. It's a case of similar but different at this point.
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    Oh! We need a hero who can suck (or mop) up all of the stormlight for the Knights Radiant and constrict the Voidbringers' source. I know exactly who to call. Just get her some lemon pledge, windex, and a vacuum cleaner. She'll win us this war!
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    They go next book, actually. When they get there, they meet a talking mushroom and learn that Odium is on another Shardworld.
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    Soylent Green.
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    For Knights Radiant to Fus Ro Dah each other off the top. It is the only logical reason.
  18. Patrick Star
    Not Manos! That movie even broke the actor in Mystery Science Theater 3000. With a child who had never been exposed to it, it would have immediately driven them insane!
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    Hey, it could be worse. Seriously, it has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Do you realize how hard that is to do? Edit: Oh my, this is frightening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_with_a_0%25_rating_on_Rotten_Tomatoes Well, looks like we have some new torture equipment for our epic overlords.
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    Since rendings are supposed to be horrible events that nobody could go through and survive, I propose that we call it...
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    But definitely not the Tasmanian Devil.
  22. Patrick Star
    From the Way of Kings prologue - "Smoke curled from the occasional patches of growth or heaps of burning corpses. Even some sections of rock smoldered." So yeah, they can set stuff on fire, even rocks.
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    In the future, please refrain from quadruple posting. Use the edit button instead. And until we see an edgedancer or skybreaker going, I'm not making any assumptions about how their surges work. And if edgedancers could light rocks on fire, I think that Nalan would have mentioned that to Lift. They may be able to start a campfire with, you know, wood, but not anything close to what the dustbringers could do.
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    The burning is from the Dustbringers' other surge, abrasion, and how it interacts with division. Otherwise, Skybreakers and Edgedancers would be able to set stuff on fire, which they almost certainly could not do.
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    Nightblood does not grant surges. He is a splinter of endowment. The surges are of honor. Nightblood's effect is not the surge of division, and he can't grant surges.
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