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The Art of Proselytizing With Womanly Wiles - Blushweaver the Beautiful From Ironstance to Windstance: A Duelist's Guide to Beating Shardbearers - Dictated by Adolin Kholin, written by Shallan Davar/Navani Kholin/Some Vorin female How to Understand Human Lies - Pattern The Horticulturalist's Manual of Shadesmar Plants - Wyndle How to Catch Things Attempting to Kill You (Or Your Loved Ones) With Your Hands - Dictated by Dalinar Kholin, written by Navani Kholin

It's just so... swimmingly.

Have to admit his handle and profile picture are nothing short of awesome...

I'm sorry, but you seem to be forgetting something. Dalinar Kholin is the storming Blackthorn. He's not exactly a fair fighter as well, by all indications. All that honor jibber-jabber came after his brother's assassination; I find it hard to think he wouldn't fight unless it was honorable to. Kaladin was more than willing to sneak attack Eshonai as well, so it's clear the oaths don't exactly bind them to only honorable combat. As for the emotional overload, it might work, but I think Dalinar would still be capable of fighting. You forget that during TWoK, he's still being influenced by the Thrill - I don't think that's something emotional Allomancy would override.

Shardplate can be dented and broken, but we've always seen it happen after applications of extreme force, like say a Shardhammer or a prolonged battle. Kelsier's coins won't have that much kinetic force behind them, and since it's thrown rather than shot, the scatter would prevent more than a single hit at the same spot, excluding blind luck. Sure, Kelsier's good at steel and iron, but even he doesn't have control that precise. And it's not that hard to keep your eyes protected - he could just swing one-handed and keep one hand close to the visor as a shield of sorts. Fast enough to dodge them. Not all, but some. The point is, Kelsier can't harm him fast enough to kill him without getting close - so Dalinar has no need to attack him. All he needs to do is wait until Kelsier runs out of metals, or tries attacking from a closer range. And like I said, the coins wouldn't have proper aim behind them. Steelpushing isn't super-precise - Kelsier's 'windmill' feat was done with bigger metallic objects. With coins, it's very straightforward. Throw and shoot. Shardplate easily deflects that.

I think it's been said that Dalinar can't Surgebind here. Only Shards.

Nah, Dalinar would be fast enough to avoid some of the coins, and Shardplate is vastly far more durable than simple metal. Have you ever seen a Mistborn try to shoot a coin through armor, even with duralumin? Also, Dalinar would be smart enough to not go running around like a novice - I'm pretty sure he's survived countless attempts to defeat a Shardbearer. I think we have a WoB saying only someone Invested with the Well's power can push on a Shardblade or Shardplate. To be fair though Dalinar wouldn't have the Stormlight healing factor (if you exclude all his Radiant powers). Unless you're just bringing up the TWoK iteration, in which I suppose he would have the healing factor, at least.

He has Navani now soooo...

When you just want to upvote Swimmingly all day. Wait, what?

It is delightful that you did not

Metals run out, though. And Kelsier's coins are hardly going to put a dent in Shardplate.

However, he is around occasionally on Reddit (every few months or so) and posts under the handle mistborn.

Okay, I think for the sake of fairness, we should remove the atium factor. Mistborn are essentially invincible with it. For the sake of argument, I'll go and say Dalinar would win it. Why? For starters, even if Kelsier stood off and pelted him with coins, Shardplate is very durable - and I'd bet that it improves agility as well, so it'd essentially be like having pewter. Even if Kelsier got in close, glass daggers can't do much against Shardplate. You could stab him in the eye I suppose, but we know Dalinar is no mere novice, and that would be extremely hard to pull off on him. His Shardblade would cut through anything Kelsier could throw against him as well. The only way I could see Kelsier winning without atium would be if he got in close, burned duralumin and pewter and then hit Dalinar's chestplate as hard as he could. If it breaks instantly, he wins. If not... Kelsier dies. TL;DR Kelsier is more versatile but Dalinar's Shards have such a edge that even those wouldn't matter, bar atium. Still, though. What about an Inquisitor, or a Feruchemist?

Not in the short-term; Ruin was superb at that, and atium is a combat metal. You know what's going to come in the next few moments. As for why it can see in the long term when you burn duralumin, I presume that's due to Preservation.

Tanavium, Odinium, Aonium, Skanium. I do wonder what they'd do...

Not if he/she is clingy

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell is a decent short story, but it's not as good as The Emperor's Soul. What I do find extremely notable about it is the sense of despair that permeates the world - it's a world on its last legs just trying to live through another day, which is unlike most of Brandon's stories, where there's always a sense good wins over in the end.

The Way of Kings, followed by The Final Empire. There's a thread for that somewhere.

The letter in Words of Radiance indicates that Odium is very much a divine aspect, just separated from the other attributes that gave it context: Hatred is not an evil thing. One can hate unjust things like sexism and racism. Hate can be a very strong motivator to change things - sometimes for the better. It is likely Rayse who's filtering Odium's intent in such a way that he's turned evil.

"You must be a Bondsmith, because nothing could ever separate us."

"Girl, you must be pewter, because you keep me standing even after the worst life has to throw at me." "You must be using a Full Lashing on me, because I can't seem to walk away from you." "Are you Rioting me, or am I just happy to see you?"

I bonded with one, and it caused me to say nasty things on the Syl thread.

Hello. Would you like to build an Inquisitor today? (See what I did, make a reference to Warbreaker, Words of Radiance, Mistborn and Frozen in two sentences )

Straight 21 year old male who has class in 20 minutes or so, so nope

I did not know who this was but wow, I am officially stunned. Also my FB profile picture has Shallan Davar on it (who is also a redhead, coincidentally). The weakness is strong indeed.