Shaggai

Big Bad Wolf (Red Riding Hood): Feruchemist

I needed to start making topics somewhere, and all the good theories were taken.

Let me try. Lifeless Midnight Essence There. That works.

Nale may no longer follow his original purpose, but he still follows order, even if he does it in a malevolent way. He finds Szeth's actions beautiful because Szeth sacrificed everything - his sanity, his life, even his soul - in order to follow order and the code of his people.

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True, I suppose.

When you see "fMRI" and, for an instant, think that MRI is a new metal.

I'm only looking for an overall pattern, so I don't need specific information for each question. This is intended to provide a baseline probability, not a differentiated one. If he did signings in an fMRI, we wouldn't need probabilities.

Pewter does have some healing properties, although they're somewhat minor. As for durapewter, see this: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7842-kelsier-vs-dalinar/?p=131089 Kell has no duralumin.

Are we certain this isn't the name of the last Alcatraz book?

It was a rhetorical question. The point is that anyone who believes a specific religion is vastly likely to believe that they're doing the will of their deity/ies. A poll asking people what they thought God wanted and what they wanted showed that the two were almost identical. People don't want to believe that they're going to hell. And one of the central tenets of most religions is that what God wants is right, no matter what you think. Certainly, there are those who are willing to go to hell for their beliefs (I believe Desmond Tutu is one, although mostly hypothetically), but they're rare.

They believe their religion is the only true one. I don't care who says that there's a monster under my bed. I'm not going to be afraid. Presumably, other hells are viewed similarly.

Kaladin's legs did actually break. The Stormlight just healed them.

Yeah, but how many of those people think they're going to go to hell?

Midnight Essence. They can smash through walls. Lifeless are probably more squishy than barn walls.

Someday, somehow, I'll reach the top 50. For now, though, it is a far-off dream.

Szeth was ordered to kill as many people as possible and only leave a few survivors at that dinner. He was, in effect, ordered to kill those women.

No, I wouldn't consider him cowardly. He's willing to literally sacrifice his soul in order to follow the code of his people. How many people would be strong enough to do that?

I was pondering RAFOs, and wondering if and how it might be possible to derive useful information from them. I realized a few things, which are pretty obvious. 1. It's significantly easier to derive information from RAFOd yes/no questions than from RAFOd questions with more than two answers. 2. If the answer to a question has no/very little significance, Brandon is unlikely to RAFO it, no matter what the answer, because it won't affect the plot and is less likely to be revealed in a book. 3. If the answer to a question is extremely significant, Brandon is extremely likely to RAFO it, no matter what the answer, because it will affect the plot and is more likely to be revealed in a book. 4. If a question is confirming/denying only one theory from a large pool of theories, Brandon is less likely to RAFO it. 5. If the answer to such a question is no, Brandon is less likely to RAFO it than if the answer is yes. This is because removing one theory from a pool is less significant than removing all theories from a pool. So, using only this information, on average more questions that are RAFOd will turn out to be true than false. The margin expands when we narrow the parameters to "yes/no questions that refer only to one theory out of a pool". However, it's likely that Brandon knows this, and RAFOs more questions than he might otherwise, in order to make it more difficult to analyze. As such, more information is needed to fully analyze RAFOs. I haven't been around here that long, so I don't know much about which questions were RAFOd. So I need help. If anyone remembers any questions that were originally RAFOd, but were later answered by some means, could you post them? If all goes well, I hope to be able to find a pattern among the data which will help determine the quality of evidence provided by RAFOs.

I thought it was Taravangian and the whole "killing people for their Death Rattles" thing. We know he killed small children, who became able to speak better; why not babies? It would also explain why they considered it "of particular note".

Cutting small projectiles, like coins, out of the air is a fool's game, and Shardblading larger ones does little. The Shardblade does nothing to deflect the objects, it just cuts through them. Dalinar still wins, of course. Shardplate gives similar abilities to Allomantic pewter, except that it also blocks attacks, so pewter won't help Kelsier. Dalinar can just stand there and take the coins, because coins aren't really designed to do damage and don't have the mass to do more than a little to Shardplate. Eventually, Kelsier runs out of coins, and in close combat Dalinar wins every time.

Buy, as much as I don't want to admit it. Szeth will, eventually, end up killing Moash.

It's been confirmed that they're not literally translating the puns, but just getting the point across.

But if the conversion ratio for Breaths to cBreaths is less than one, you're overall losing Breath.