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The writer is the one who writes the scripts. They base it off of White Sand, obviously, but it probably won't be an exact copy. The writer also, IIRC, chooses how to do the frames. The artist then does all of that.

First of all, this is awesome. I don't know how much I agree with it, but nevertheless, it's awesome. However, I don't think that the Illumination/Division Surgebinders would have access to all the Surges. AFAIK, Stormlight is all one color. The different apparent colors between gems are due to the coloration of the gems themselves. Any Surgebinder can draw Stormlight from any gem type, and to the best of my knowledge Stormlight when held by Surgebinders all looks the same.

The shape and effects of Blades are a Cognitive thing, so probably they're unbreakable by Physical means. If you did something to the spren, it might break. I wonder what sort of thing could do that. Maybe if Nightblood started feeding on the spren before it got to the person's soul. Perhaps if you Hemalurgically removed someone's spren bond. . . Actually, you'd have to only remove part. If someone managed to do that, think of the possibilities. Since Hemalurgy works on any part of a spren bond, imagine spiking away half of the identities of two people and then switching them. Or, since memories are separate from identity, making someone think they were someone else but remembering being that person. If one of the parties wasn't human you could get even more interesting results. Kind of like Granny Weatherwax.

Buy. We will, probably late in Dragonsteel, actually see the Shattering. And it will be the most epic scene in the entire Cosmere.

Let me repeat myself: Can you give me one good, concrete reason why "being answered" makes them not applicable to this?

I seriously doubt it's that convoluted. The resemblance is minor at best.

Sprenshields aren't Shardplate. Shardplate cracks, but sprenshields don't. Dead Shardblades don't crack, either, so it's probably not a function of being dead.

That's probably a coincidence, since I'm pretty sure Brandon isn't the one who made the animation that the map is based off of.

I've read some of their Dresden stuff and it's pretty good, so I have hope that this will be good as well.

"Yes" was the answer to 75% of all answered Yes/No RAFOs that, on Theoryland, were tagged with or contained one or more of the following keywords: Cosmere Stormlight Mistborn Warbreaker Roshar Scadrial Nalthis Is that still too cherry-picked for you? Because all of those conditions, except "answered", apply to this one. This is what I've been saying all along. I haven't been shaping or molding what I consider my analysis. I've just been explaining it differently, because you keep on not getting it. Do you have any concrete reason, other than common sense/intuition, why 75% is way too high? Because I haven't seen one so far, and a lot of true things aren't intuitive.

Buy. Brandon has said that SA is mostly self-contained. The ultimate defeat of Odium will be a result of Hoid going to Braize and doing stuff in the past.

IIRC, the Rosharan afterlife actually only has two planes. There's Damnation and the Tranquiline Halls. The Halls are where the war is being fought, because the point is to drive the Voidbringers out of them.

I'm glad about this. I never got up the urge to get White Sand, so hopefully now I'll be able to see it.

I will accept the truth even if it contradicts my beliefs. This would be really, really powerful. I can tell if I'm lying to myself just by asking my spren. If enough people did that, the world would be much different. I will argue about stuff on the Internet. Because someone is wrong on the Internet. I will actually commit to courses of action and not procrastinate. Not particularly true right now, but I could use an incentive.

I'm only taking Yes/No RAFOs with answers, and then applying that to Yes/No RAFOs without answers. Sure, Brandon could choose to RAFO different stuff. But we don't have that information, so it has no statistical weight. The mistake you're making is that you're assuming my claims have to be true overall. You're assuming that if there's a 75% chance that this is yes, that 75% of all RAFOs ever must be yes. But they don't have to be. Probability is a function of the observer. You take probability based on the information you have, no matter how much or little. It's why the success rate for switching in the Monty Hall problem is 2/3. See this article for an explanation of the math behind it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_theorem_illustrated_my_way/

I looked at answered RAFOs. 75% of them were answered "yes". I'm generalizing that statistic to other RAFOs, because as far as I can tell there isn't a legitimate reason why unanswered ones would have to be different. I can't include them in my analysis of the probability of the answers to RAFOs, though, because they don't have the answers. Any RAFO we don't know the answer to has a 75% chance of being answered "yes", but it can't affect the statistics because it isn't answered "yes" or "no".

RAFOs that haven't been answered are worthless for the purposes of my analysis. I'm looking at the answers of the ones we have, in order to predict the answers to the ones we don't. You can't assume that the answers to all of the unanswered ones are "no". And since this is, apparently, "the biggest RAFO", the stuff about "people asking questions that get answered in the book they're holding" doesn't apply.

That explains how Alcatraz will escape the altar - Original Hoid will burst in and save him.

Go up on top of a tall building and douse yourself in gasoline. Store brass and set yourself on fire. Then store iron and jump off. Instant Human Torch. Bonus points if you have Allomantic steel to fly better.

Trust me. I did search it. I only did/am doing Cosmere stuff, but 75% of the RAFOd yes/no questions whose answers we know were answered "Yes". At some point I plan to finish the project, getting more questions and comparing it to the normal rates. Nevertheless, 75% was the rate. See the second link in my sig.

The answer to 75% of all RAFOs is yes. Not saying it's proven that he went to Braize, but it's more likely that he did.

I'll do it for you.

When you start talking about journeys and destinations in a paper about morality.

Thanks for the stuff about mistwraiths. So they may or may not have AI. As for the stuff with frame of reference: That only applies if the bubble is anchored to the ship. Since time bubbles, presumably, can be created in midair, one can anchor them to Scadrial without being on Scadrial. Using a series of flashing bubbles, not anchored to the ship, the ship's frame of reference ends up being perfectly fine, since Scadrial is dragged in.

Using multiple bubbles should allow for a ship to work. It would just have to be small. Since hemalurgic spikes can contain enough Investiture that size isn't the limiting factor for ability transfer, technallomancy should be able to put vast amounts of investiture into a small space. Certainly it should be smaller than a bendalloy bubble. Attach a bunch of capsules to each other, each containing a speeder-upper and a person in a cadmium suspended-animation bubble, then send that off into space. Or just send them all off individually. As for the collisions and whatnot, there are probably ways of dealing with that. A steel bubble would help against metallic objects. I wonder what would happen if you used technallomancy to apply Allomantic pewter to a ship? If it reinforced the ship (which seems like the most likely outcome), nCompounded Allomantic pewter could basically make the ship unbreakable, as long as it didn't run into anything too big. And anything that big would probably have metal in it. There would have to be some way to make course corrections, in case the ship runs into anything larger than itself. If they're heading towards a Shardworld, nCompounded Allomantic bronze might help choose the destination. They'll probably have AI, since hemalurgic spikes can store the ability to think, as we've seen with kandra. If they have AI, of course, there's little point in sending people, but this is fiction so of course they're going to send people.