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Before I respond, could you clarify as to why you feel by being a compounder, the result would be different than just regular copper? Are you referring to mass production, or a different manifestation of the power being resultant of the compounding?

You are so devoted to that religion, that you follow every single tenant, and seek to practice it in every aspect of your life. You must be really devoted to your religion if you are willing to go to war with every other nation on the planet so they can worship the religion you love and believe to be true over all else. Not saying it is fact, but personally I am of the opinion that all forms of power on Sel are a mixture of Devotion and Dominion, and the only reason that dakhor appears more dominiony, is that the skaze which are splinters of dominion have been manipulating the culture. Just like seons, splinters of devotion have been hanging out in Arelon and Teod. The cultures can lend to one or the other in appearance, but that does not mean the magic has to function that way. Also devotion and dominion are two very similar sides of the same coin. Just about any example you give involving dominion, I could paint it in a devotion light and same thing vica versa.

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Eh, I dunno. I still think the ability of a coppermind is being exaggerated in this case. Tapping a memory in a coppermind does not impart skill. Only the memory. It would be the equivalency of you watching a how to video on using a jackhammer like a pro. So sure you would feel what it was like for the jack hammer to kick, and how the person who made the copper mind dealt with it, but unless you have the same physical stature, and physique, you are going to need to adjust and that takes practice. Another example are vr simulations. You could sit in a chair shaped like a nascar seat, with a steering wheel, and the vr set, where the wheel and seat vibrate and react as you drive, but that still doesn't count as a license to drive in a real nascar race. You aren't gaining the skill of the person who made the copper mind. You are just experiencing the result of said skill. But given what we know, I do not feel there is a concrete way to determine either way. It comes down to opinions. In our opinions, we disagree on the level of utility of the coppermind. Personally I am not sold.

Windrunner koloss. Figure with the affect of the spikes on its mind, it won't be maintaining that bond with the spren for long. Then I just have to hope that happens to happen while flying really really really high up lol Would you rather have a pet bird that granted you a psychic ability from Sixth of Dusk's world, or a pet lifeless from Warbreaker?

I agree, having lived for a week in black rock desert, Nevada at burning man, but that raises a different problem with her attire/entrance. When you live out in the desert (or in Khriss's case, travel for an extended period of time on foot, or tonk (I would say me riding a bike would be a good analogue)), sand gets everywhere. That's why daysiders wear boots the way they do. So sand doesn't sneak in, and tear up their feet while they walk. Your sweat makes the sand get glued to your face. Your sweat on your clothes, gets the sand glued to your clothes. Basically you have a fine film of sand/dust covering your entire body. If you had been traveling via tonk, or foot in the desert for hours, you are going to get covered in dirt and grime, and especially someone not experienced with such living, is going to be exhausted and exasperated. Walking through sand when you don't know how to, takes double the work of walking normally. She should be stumbling or wobbling her way in, exhausted, and filthy. Most definitely not catwalk material lol

I don't know. I think they would still require training. There is a difference between knowing how to do something, and applying said knowledge. I could know how a jackhammer functions, and how to use it, but that doesn't mean that when I have it in my hands, I am going to be able to handle the kick back like a pro the first time I use it. Then again this is also coming from me, a person who has never held a jackhammer in his life nonetheless employed one lol.

I was more going on the premise that certain cultures based on their history place a level of importance on certain things, that could be unrelated to any actual practical reason, but originate from something that was once important. So light eyes being royalty and warfare being the highest calling, resulting from the radiants having glowing eyes and passing that on to their children, and that Alethkar was where the radiants trained or were centered. Just like 10 became a big thing because of the 10 heralds. If there were 11 heralds, the number 11 would be a big deal. Personally I am of the opinion that each shard does not have a "magic number", and by extension everything with their magic has to do with that number. I believe there is even a WoB which stated it isn't as big a deal as some people are making it, but me and the interview database don't get along so providing such a WoB is difficult for me. You want a quote from a book? I can find that in seconds with my kindle. Interview database? Not so much. Not to digress the topic, or try to disprove, but I am genuinely curious where this fits in with that magic number theory. Why is Cultivation's number five, and not Endowments? There are the five scholars. I would have assumed five would be for Endowment. Unless you were just using five with Cultivation as an example?

Nope, but there are/were 16 metals. There are five scholars on Nalthis. Some people have theorized that the scholars end up being some of the heralds, but I believe there is a WoB that disproves that.

With so little information it could be, or it could have nothing to do with it at all. All I was adding was the number from my recollection. But I could be confusing it with the prose version. I am not sure.

Again, I believe it is because of how recent a shade she is.

I thought it was stated in the book that it was because of how old of a shade her grandmother is. The more recent the shade conversion, the more the shade holds the form it once had. The long the shade is a shade, the more it loses its form.

There are gem stones cut a certain way to capture a spren, that are then used in a fabrial to make it function a certain way, but there still needs to be gemstones with stormlight to run it. Gemstones holding stormlight are a different matter. The better the cut of stone, the better the stone holds the stormlight. That is what Eki was saying. That since the shardplate is not made of sentient spren, it would not scream when held by a radiant, but could still feed off stormlight like a spren. Kaladin, if the theory holds true, will eventually when he gets further into his oaths, his own shardplate grown from windspren. Also consider that Shallan's mother would have tried to kill him too. So yeah I totally agree Lin Davar was never a radiant.

But Kaladin and Shallan did break their oaths at a low level, and what resulted was the spren losing sapience in the physical world.

I do not have the graphic novel on me, but if I recall correctly he said 100 fools, not 10.

Yeah my impression was that she wasn't changing mentally, but the rest of her still ages. That was the twist from the nightwatcher. She expected her physical as well as the rest to never change, but its just her mind. Which is why she still acts immature. Now don't get me wrong, a 13 year old certainly isn't the paragon of maturity, but everyone seems to be confused by her age level of maturity vs her physical maturity.

I respect your view as well. I hope the fact that I persist does not come off as beating you over the head with it. If that is the case, I will say this last response, and then drop the topic because I do not want to come off pushy. A sandling can slash a claw into a human, covering it with blood and making the claw melt so the sandling can still survive. A tail could crush a human splat, spraying blood across the carapace, hurting the sandling but not killing it. In the end, this looks like another topic (there have been two others completely unrelated to this and unrelated to you) I will agree to disagree on and RAFO.

Yeah pretty much all we can do is RAFO and hope there is something more to it. Normally I would be right on board with you regarding how Brandon always has a reason for everything, but with Dynamite's handling of this graphic novel, I am not sure even if there is a reason, whether or not it will even be explained well.

Sorry but I still disagree with you. The shear fact that there is a function where sandlings can learn to stay away from the vines, should cause them to learn to stay away from humans. The fact that they do stay away from the vines, but not the humans despite this, says something more is going on to me. You agree with me that by biting the vines could be lethal to sandlings as their whole mouth melts, so why would it be any different taking a bite out of a human?

Actually he says their mouths melt. That seems more lethal to me. Your mouth melts off in the wild, you aren't getting sustenance. Death may take longer, but it is still assured.

So I had to go through again most of the prose version before I was able to locate it, but there is a spot where Kenton tries to reason out why he can now use more ribbons. I looked it up because I could have sworn one of his theories is he got it from his father, only for him to later disprove this theory and come to the conclusion it was sand mastery. I have recalled incorrectly. So either Brandon did change the strengthening mechanic for the graphic novel (which if he got it from his father, I feel kind of meh about it which I will go into further down the post), or it is an in world assumption that will be disproved in the later graphic novels. Either way as I said excellent catch. I missed that on my first read through of the graphic novel, and shows I need to read it again lol. As to why I am not thrilled if the reason Kenton increases his power is due to it being bequeathed at death by Praxton is my own opinion and is thus: It comes off as almost voluntary hemalurgy or as you said breaths. True it could be a closely guarded secret, like overmastery was in the prose, but then why do we not get a god king situation. Where each head mastrel gets a child, and sets it up that his child does very well and joins the Diem. Then as the head mastrel gets old and his time is near an end, he transfers his power to his child. Then each subsequent generation becomes stronger and stronger, and it sets up a dynasty for the Diem which is counter to what was shown. Also it removes Kenton's agency. It isn't because of his ingenuity, or hard work that he became stronger, but it is because his father gave him it. He spent his whole life defying his father, and showing how he can succeed on his own, autonomously from Praxton's help, only for his rise in power to rely on Praxton's last gift? It cheapens it. Now my mini rant is nothing against you. Based on what we see in the graphic novel, what you wrote makes sense.I just hope it isn't the case, because a graphic novel that already leaves a sour taste in my mouth will become all the more bitter

Everything stated is either theory/conjecture, or brought up in WoB. None of this has been mentioned in the prose version. So it is all fair game to discuss.

Renarin had glasses from what I recall, his entire life, but stormlight healed that. They way I see it, Susebron knows he should have a tongue, and knows it was cut out and was damaged from what it was originally, so his cognitive identity, even though it was always cut, would still say he should have it and would heal it. Just like Renarin always had glasses, but knows he his vision is damaged vision when compared to others because of his necessity to use it, so stormlight healed it. Kal feels deep down he deserves those scars. That the scars are how his body should be. Which is why they never heal, yet it heals the tattoo ink. That is just my own interpretation. I know there is a whole host of terms, and rules that could utterly negate everything I said. Just a thought. Let me know if I am utterly and completely off lol.

Expanding on WeiryWriter, during the combat between the sand masters and the kershtians, we never see any black sand. There are an army of sand masters, mastering sand, and then dying, yet there is not a drop of black sand laying on the ground that they mastered. That was during the combat. After we do not see any black sand either, though it could be argued by the time Kenton climbs out the sand could have been recharged, but that would mean he was buried under the sand for more than 4 hours.