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Same dexterity and strength, sure, but durability and weight will obviously change. Dakhor are powerful, but bone isn't harder than metal (depending on which metal, of course, but I'm assuming we'll be using something strong).

You don't think they would be desperate? They're facing the Final storming Desolation. Humanity barely survived the past ones, and back then they had the Heralds and far more Radiants. This Desolation is probably going to be worse than any of the previous ones, and they have what, five Radiants, plus an insane dude who may or may not be one of the Heralds. It's hard to get more desperate than that. Of course, they're still unlikely to pardon Szeth. Dalinar might, if he thought it would help unite people, but as it stands, his and Kaladin's honor will prevent them from pardoning Szeth. I expect Szeth to be redeemed by fighting the Voidbringers without help from the Kholins.

When he becomes Truthless, he still believes that Shin society is correct. He accepts his punishment, and believes that he was wrong about the Radiants. Later, when he has evidence that he was right, he's beyond the point of no return. His entire reality is based around his status as Truthless. It's somewhat reminiscent of the practice, among certain organizations which use child soldiers, of making said child soldiers complicit in war crimes as a method of ensuring loyalty. It's absolutely horrific, but the children (and, in this case, Szeth) are victims as well.

I think I must have misremembered about that. There's no quote, but there's quite a bit of evidence here. Besides, things have color even without having pigment. If Awakening simply drained pigment, I find it unlikely that everything would be perfectly white. Grey, maybe, but as I mentioned above, the 10th Heightening allows the use of all of the color. Edit: In the prologue, there's a mention of stone having its color drained. I think that's pretty much proof that Awakening does more than just remove pigment.

Raoden 8 Vin 11 Wax 10 Kaladin 7 Shallan 10 Shai 6 Sarene 10 Vasher 10 Hoid 10 Nightblood 12 Galladon 10 Demoux 6 Ati 5 Leras 10 Rayse 10 Tanavast 9 Cultivation 10 Dominion 9 Devotion 10 Endowment 12 Bavadin 10 I shall fight for equality.

Raoden 8 Vin 11 Wax 10 Kaladin 11 Shallan 10 Shai 8 Sarene 10 Vasher 10 Hoid 10 Nightblood 11 Galladon 10 Demoux 6 Ati 7 Leras 10 Rayse 10 Tanavast 9 Cultivation 10 Dominion 10 Devotion 10 Endowment 11 Bavadin 10

About that first point: It's also possible that it was forcibly unbonded at some point. We know almost nothing about what happens when the Heralds die.

Color is the absorption of all wavelengths of visible light other than the one which is the actual color. Something which is entirely white reflects all wavelengths of visible light. Awakening drains the Spiritual property of color as fuel for the Awakening. As such, it changes the local laws of physics. They are, in the Cosmere at least, inherently Spiritual interactions. 2. First of all, there are no "grey wavelengths." You get grey when something absorbs some of the light in all visible wavelengths, but not all. And when the God King Awakens things, it drains all of the color. Objects in the area become pure white, which means that they reflect most or all of the light that hits them. 3. It's the microwave spectrum that I'm concerned with, not the infrared. This is a bit nitpicky, but it's relevant because some creatures can see infrared and their Cognitive influence might muddle things.

The microwaves are absorbed by the water, which excites the water. Color is the absorption of certain wavelengths of light. So the question is, does that extend to microwaves? If it does, the pizza doesn't heat up. If it doesn't, the pizza heats up. If microwaves don't count as color, then why not? Because people can't see them. Therefore, if the pizza heats up, Spiritual ideals (like color) are influenced by Cognitive properties. If it doesn't, then ideals might be eternal and unchanging. Either possibility is interesting.

If the God King Awakened something in the presence of a slice of pizza, turning the pizza white, and the pizza was then microwaved, would it heat up? (This is an actual important question with Realmatic implications. Trust me.)

Feruchemical duralumin stores Connection, so it's pretty likely that you would feel differently about characters in books. In fact, you could probably store more things than just connection in the sense of caring about someone. Someone with Feruchemical duralumin could probably store a spren bond. I don't know what would happen if they tapped it, though. Perhaps it would repair a broken bond. If someone else tapped it, perhaps it would bond them to the spren. Incidentally, I wonder what the Spiritual Realm looks like. Part of it is probably mapped to the Physical and contains various entities, which are then connected to other entities in all sorts of ways, forming a spiritweb. But it apparently contains ideals, which is fascinating, since ideals seem like they would be (at least partially) Cognitive. Another part of it is probably mapped to the Cognitive realm, as there are plenty of Cognitive entities with Spiritual properties. So the Spiritual Realm is probably at least four-dimensional, containing a certain number of three-dimensional areas. (Of course, if it isn't, that just makes it even more interesting.) The Physical would be one, the Cognitive another, and possibly ideals as a third, which might overlap with Cognitive. If it doesn't overlap, then it is probably still affected by the Cognitive.

There's a minimum charge that spikes can reach. After that, they don't lose anything more.

Generally, lying to people for good reasons is a bad idea. The thing is, in this case the lies are the same as the truths, so there's no problem. It doesn't affect the confidence of the artists, because they don't know anything about it.

That doesn't mean he wouldn't do it. It just means that he's never going to switch entirely to, say, writing screenplays. He isn't opposed to the use of other media to retell his stories. Mistborn is (eventually, in theory, maybe) going to be made into a movie. There's also a Mistborn video game scheduled for late 2015, although I wouldn't count on it coming out then.

Really, though, if nobody can tell the difference, is there anything wrong with what Shai does? The emotional content of the art is the same, and she derives private satisfaction from it. It doesn't harm anyone, and it gives Shai pleasure. Overall, the average quality of life actually goes up, in fact.

Okay, I think we've pretty definitively proven that larkin are not chasmfiend larvae. Thank you to all who posted evidence either way.

Jasnah Kholin is a worldhopper? I know she's an Elsecaller, but a worldhopper?

1. I agree that Rosharan creatures are probably much more intelligent than they're given credit for, probably as a result of natural spren bonds. I also agree that kings would pay massive amounts for that protection. 2. You're forgetting the main part of the theory - that they turn into chasmfiends. That alone would make them extremely valuable. 3. Size, not really. Investiture could explain that. As for temperament, we don't know how a larkin would act in the wild. The known history and the geography do point to them being different, of course. I'm also not sure what you mean about lifestyle, and I've explained the valuation. 4. Investiture on Roshar often causes eye color changes. Bonding a Shardblade, summoning an Honorblade, and absorbing Stormlight as a third-level Radiant all change eye color.

You would need Feruchemical gold spikes as well, but it could be possible. Allomantic gold or Feruchemical gold alone wouldn't do it, but with both, nobody would have to die of things like cancer.

Oh, yeah, sorry, I keep forgetting this. If I win this again and don't post immediately, someone else can go.

That was one part of the argument. It's generally a bad idea to discount everything someone says just because they, as a minor point, say something that may or may not be relevant. "x sounds like y" is, as far as I know, merely a bad argument, not a major flag that a person doesn't know what they're talking about.

There might be another form in between the larkin and chasmfiends, which would be the one that travels from the Reshi Isles and/or Aimia to the Plains. The Shattered Plains are pretty special. Perhaps there is some sort of interaction with the Shattered Plains that results in the birth of chasmfiends, which doesn't happen elsewhere.

Larkin are small, winged cremling-like creatures. They have the ability to absorb Stormlight, and in fact to draw it out of something/one holding it. Chasmfiends are gigantic crustaceans which roam the Shattered Plains. At first, they seem completely different. But are they? What if they're more connected than we think? What if, in fact, they're the same creature, just at different stages in their development? The word "larkin" does sound somewhat like larva. The main objection, of course, is the size discrepancy. Chasmfiends are so much larger than larkin that it seems impossible that they could be the same thing. But remember, larkin eat Stormlight. We haven't seen much, so we don't know the effects that eating Stormlight has on them. What if it makes them bigger? Imagine a larkin, out on the Shattered Plains in the middle of a highstorm. Vast amounts of Stormlight are surging (pun intended) through the world around it, enough that Kaladin and Szeth managed to have an entire aerial battle during one. The larkin would consume this Stormlight, and could grow to immense sizes. Upon reaching such large sizes, the wings would become useless and probably be shed. Incidentally, this means that Rysn will probably end up with a pet chasmfiend.

That room in the headquarters of the Inqusitors. The one with all the spikes on the walls.

I interpreted that as an entire procession of stormstriders, not just two. If they were chasmfiends, I would think that he would say something like "creature" or "being", instead of "figure". The use of "figure" seems to imply semihumanoid form. That was one of the reasons I interpreted it as the Unmade. A procession of giant, no-longer-entirely-physical Parshendi would fit the description quite well.