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I am not disputing that the blade he had could be his honorblade. What I am however saying is the amount of hoops he would have to go through to conceal himself flying across the nation. Not just around the shattered plains which is very sparsly populated like Kaladin, but across fully populated cities would be too much to make sense. Just because we saw that the one means of transportation was huge does not mean every means of transportation has to be huge. With Lift he had the little creature that sucks away stormlight. With Szeth he had a fabrial that does regrowth. Who knows else he has in his bag of tricks? Flying around does not help him locate Szeth any better than transportation. Kal was flying and he lost Szeth despite seeing the direction he was falling. The general populace doesn't have to know what they are looking for. All you need is one of the thousands of people in the cities across the country. In fact, I will reply further in a moment, I am going to track Nin's trail on a map and see what he would fly over, if he used the surge as you posit while pursuing surgebinders.

The oathgate was a means for a whole population to reach the radiants hence the size. That alone does not preclude the possibility of a more compact form. Actually by Occam's Razor if we know he has access to a fabrial that replicates a surge that can bring people almost back to life, then a logical leap would be have access to other fabrials with other abiltiies. Yes he could use his honorblade to fly around, which would be the same time the assassin in white is flying around and being spotted. So no one would notice another glowing individual flying across the continent? Not saying its impossible, just in my opinion less likely, since he may have to also cart around his skybreakers who may not be radiants yet. Though that is up to debate

Not arguing either way, but in that example it was not from Miles's POV, so we cannot know whether he felt pain or not.

well if he had an ancient fabrial that accomplishes regrowth, I do not think it is far fetched that he could have a fabrial that accomplishes transportation.

Is it me, or does it feel that as the book Spook wrote is quoted, it seems less a journal, and more a book he was writing to someone?

Great, thank you both!

So if I understand you and iBambam correctly, affecting the physical realm for spren is more of a spectrum rather than an on off switch?

"Here Comes Vi" The lyrics practically scream Vin. "She's such a misfit. Always ready to brawl It's like her business, roughing up your friends is the law There is no difference if you believe you're strong She's a bulldozer making sure you're flat on the ground She's like a boomerang, who never gives up She flies in circles till she hits you and you're biting the dust So just remember this, when she's chasing you down Face first, you'll be thrown onto the Proving Grounds. She'll knock you out."

Granted, you fall off a building when you are healthy and not ill I wish that i can also store calories with feruchemy to off set my weight lol

Bullets are affected both ways, going into and out of time bubbles. The only time this has come up otherwise was:

But in WoR, page 515 in my kindle edition, Shallan notices windspren pranking a merchant. Here is the quote "They passed a merchant cursing as a windspren darted through his enclosure, making objects stick together."

Lol ironically enough what you describe sounds a lot like what is happening between Wax and Steris. That there isn't an immediate passion or appearance of common interests, but over time they grow close and find common ground.

It talks to you in a gentlemanly manner while it eats you in your sleep I wish to have gravity powers of the windrunners, but have the capability to metabolize stormlight like lift.

Not trying to prove or disprove anything, this is a genuine question which if anyone could answer for me I would appreciate. If spren cannot affect the physical without a bond, then how do wind spren play pranks on people by making things stick? Is that not considered acting on the physical? If so why? So I can understand the realms better.

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So then this is the first time that the safe hand has been pointed out? and secondly, i find it incredibly ironic and funny that you commented on this post just when your rep names you as a voidbringer lol

I necroed this topic because I noticed something about the voidbringing chart that is probably minor but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else and wonder if it is of any note. The woman depicted in the chart has her safe hand covered. Not sure if that implies anything but was wondering if anyone else noticed that.

Fortunately my kindle does, thank you for the reference, found it. He had a dagger on him. He then stabbed Jastes with it. He then after attacking a koloss, took its sword and said it ate his horse in order to get its bag to find out what is in it. So Elend did not have his own sword in that scene. for reference it is on page 556 in my edition

He had a sword he always kept with him at his side for it to become associated with him? Metal? Could you provide the qoute? I know he would pull swords from other koloss and use them against them, but I do not recall him having a personal sword to be seen as the sword of Elend. Not trying to be obtuse, just I do not recall what you are referring to.

This post is not nearly as exhaustive or well researched as a lot of these posts, but figure it could be another way to look at things. First, yeah the description in Kal's head for Shallan, and Shallan's head for Kal elicits a sense of sexual attraction from one attractive individual to another, but I feel what actually interests them in each other is more familial. Kal is drawn to Shallan for the way she pushes away the darkness like Tien did. His brother. The banter Shallan and Kal have back and forth harkens back to that with her brothers, who were also passionate and hard. I could see them drawn to each other for the reminders of family and home and become like brother and sister to each other. Second, and this is a genuine question for all involved in this thread, I know tsundere is in anime, manga, and movies and other books, but in real life has it ever actually worked out for anyone? Seriously. Has anyone here started out and out hating someone and it ends up being love? Because in my own experience, and from people I know all it is is a waste of time and pain. My relationship with my fiance very much resembles the relationship with Adolin and Shallan. We have some differences, but we can joke and be ourselves around each other. I was shocked that a relationship could work so easily after so many past failed ones where I kept trying to force the relationship to work. Yeah in animes, manga, movies and other books the trope is used, but that doesn't mean that is how it is going to play out with Sanderson. He is already subverting the trope in my opinion with the Wax and Wayne series with Wax's relationship with Steris. I don't feel it is a stretch for him to try and take a real look on how relationships develop with this work as well. That's just my two clearchips.

I can't view the pictures, but Elend never had a sword. He used dueling canes against other allomancers. The only time Elend had a sword in hand, was when he tore it from the hands of a koloss. But there was not a specific sword he was known to use.

I am having trouble using the quotes on this site with this work computer so I will space out my responses for reference. It is still a mute point as you still need to arrange where the weapon is in order to line it up with your target and push it away from you. Whether that starts from a coin in your hand, or a nail in the wall, or someone’s pocket change, it causes a trajectory. Since there is a range on steel pushes and iron pulls, and the force of the implement hitting the target can be measured, you can determine a sphere of influence to work within. There was an instance where a little girl died mysteriously in someone’s backyard. Upon investigation they discovered she got hit by a falling bullet. They were able to determine from the caliber, and the arch in with the bullet hit the child’s body the range and curve through the air to work it back to the backyard miles away of some random individual who decided to shoot off their gun in the air, despite the weapon and ammo being unregistered and the bullet itself having no DNA nor fingerprints on it. As this replies to multiple quotes, I will jump to the next. The nature of an anchor is that it is a fixed point to brace yourself against when you do a push or a pull. How could you remove the anchor, and again without being seen? Are you going to drive a stake in the ground, use it as an anchor, kill the person, and then take the time to go back and yank the anchor out of the ground, during which you are somehow not seen by anyone? Damaging the wall is saying in big words that there is a person in this room with you that is a coin shot and just ripped it up. How is this assassin supposed to judge through a wall where his target is, to pick the right nail that when shot out of, will hit the target? He cannot see through the wall, and if you are going on oversleep’s premise that the individual is carrying metal, it is mentioned repeatedly in word that people do not wear metal on them for fear of it being used as a weapon. And even if the target did wear metal, you have to also separate it from anyone else wearing metal. And are you telling me in a room of 50 people, no one, not a single one of the 49 saw something? That is statistically impossible. One person doesn’t have to remember everything, but testimony from 49 people can put together a decent picture of what happened. This is reaching a point I will bring up at the end of this post. That example is faulty and does not apply to the example of an assassin standing pulling on a nail. By pulling a nail out from above you are using your entire body weight to pull down. The equivalency would be an allomancer using a pull to pull down a nail from overhead. Then you may feel yourself lightly tugged upwards as the nail pops loose. Standing straight up, not leaning whatsoever, extending one arm holding pliers and pulling ur arm straight back from a 2 inch nail driven into a solid block of wood 1 and a half inches deep. That you could not do without leverage, or if you were an allomancer, without an anchor. You disagree which will be confronted at the end of this post In a crowded city, for 10 miles, you feel only one person is going to notice a piece of metal being periodically yanked through the air, of which magically hits no one along the way. That of all these people in a public place, for 10 miles are not going to note that as odd. I disagree due to the sheer numbers but again, refer to the end of my post. Time and again when Wax does so, he increases his weight to heavier than his original weight (not just heavier than his lightened weight). If a crasher has to increase his weight beyond his normal weight, then why would a lurcher or a coinshot be able to with their natural weight? And when did 100 men come into this? My point that I stated three times now was that DNA is not alone a smoking gun and an automatic win for the prosecution. That it needs additional evidence which is evidence I have been referencing this entire post. You wanted to know how to bring someone into court and prove them guilty of a crime. If a defense attorney can call into question the validity of DNA based on the people running on the tests, and if you read what I wrote the issues with relatives and familial DNA, then the DNA evidence can be seen as faulty. You stated at the beginning of this whole thing and I quote “So how would you catch a Lurcher or Coinshot assassin?”. I have replied in how I thought a lurcher or coinshot could be caught. We have reached an impasse where some fundamental foundations of our arguments we simply do not agree to. For example you state you can remove a nail without leverage, I disagree (this is not meant to be an oversimplification of your argument but merely a shortening for time sake). Baring we putting a nail in a wall and trying to remove it, which would be functionally impossible as we live no where remotely near each other, this will never be resolved. I have reached the point where I feel it is better to agree to disagree. Other posters want to look at this from another angle and with me persisting in my posts, it has taken away from that. So although I still feel the way I do and feel it is valid, and you feel the way you do and feel it is valid, I am going to step away. I am not trying to get the last word, feel free to reply, after all this is the thread you started, just I will not reply.

How do I break up quotes so I may reply to each of your responses as you have done?

Considering the requests he is referencing such as personal limericks, quotes a paragraph long, and etc I think the cost makes sense. It curtails the more extravagant requests that take advantage of his good nature when he wasn't as popular, that are now a real hindrance on time. And he says it is a risk you take, and then offers the chance to use that question on the website instead, so no risk of increased cost, and you get your answer anyway.

Could the spren just be bonded to the worldhoppers themselves? The question didn't state at what point in time are the spren there. So it could be during the wax and wayne series after the first 5 stormlight books, or it could even be in the future series.