Kasimir

And I'm also from Southeast Asia, tiny island just south of Ketek. I'm from Singapore, as Ketek has already expressed frustration about.P.S. Ketek--no more crossing the Causeway for cookies. My PC gave up the ghost just as I was trying out your challenge.

Push and Pull on a stationary nail--with the same amount of force.

See, this is something I've been wondering about for a while because I get that it's hard to do things to objects with lots of Investiture, but I'm wondering if that happens to your own sprenblade since you're bonded to your spren. I don't know if that might change how things work.Off-hand, that might let him do his arrow trick again. Syl can turn into a shield and if she could maintain the Lashing, like Seloun suggested, then Kaladin doesn't have to worry about the arrows--at least until he makes it through the intervening distance and needs a blade again.

When your friend talks about some people being afraid he'd 'spike them' and your first thought is to Hemalurgy. (It wasn't that sort of spike.)

I've recovered, and so I doubt I'll fall sick and miss the game again :/ Guess this is my first sign-up instead! Khas, tenth dahn soldier in Highprince Roion's army, and all he really wants is some paid leave. Storming Highprince underpays his spearmen. (Totally inconsequential posting!)

When you wonder what happens if Wax imbibes enough metals to get really, really drunk.

When, upon falling sick in the middle of your exam period, think wistfully that it would be awesome to be a gold Ferring. You'd totally spend a few weekends sick to store enough health to make sure you're in good health during the exams.

Actually, I find the Ideal that Sanderson mentioned (the Words of the unknown Order) just as effective for a class known as the class of death: "I will stand where others fall."

When you misread Ketek's 'poemspren' as... Not going there. (I seem to have permanently associated Ketek with dark, evil things.)

Use a Lashing to turn the pages of your book rather than do it yourself.

I'm not sure we have enough information to tell, but I'm with Bloodfalcon on this. There's a WoB somewhere that seems somewhat relevant: I'd say off-hand that this doesn't look like the full story--we still have no way of filling in what exactly drew Pattern to Shallan, or what broke Shallan, but I think this gives us enough evidence to suggest that Shallan's creative tendencies (and I think we don't need to deal with the Primary Attributes theory to suggest this) drew Pattern. Granted, there are a lot of other potential creative candidates Pattern could have bonded, but for that, whether there was an element of luck involved or something else, I think we don't have enough information to tell. (This would go into the discussions on why the Kholins seem to be attracting a good number of Nahel spren.) On Shallan's parents, I'm with Delightful on this. --WoR, Chapter 45, emphases mine. I find it telling that Shallan's picture of the ideal life states that her mother loves her. She's never had that reaction with her father--she always indicates her father should be laughing, but it's her mother who ideally loves her. I think that suggests that Shallan's relationship with her mother probably wasn't good, even before her mother tried to kill her.

In fact, as far as I'm concerned, Soulcasting, once properly mobilised, would be pretty awesome. It occurs to me that people fighting during a Desolation still have to be able to feed themselves--the Alethi military has been taking advantage of Soulcasters to deal with these sorts of problems for a while, but they note Soulcasters are expensive and inflexible. The power to keep armies in the field, to not have to wait for harvests or to guard supply lines and to even be able to shelter and call up other Alethi to fight, allowing for a protracted war... Huh, that's pretty impressive to me. (I'm sure they could do things in a straight-up fight, but I frankly find this more valuable in a Desolation.)

You know you're a Sanderfan when you don't need to prove it but think of ways to prove it anyway, just for the fun of it. Because discussing stuff Sanderfans do is always fun

Upvote for the title as well I think the theory that you have to stay in contact with your Sprenblade for them to transform seems to be pretty promising. There are two things: 1. As you've noted, Adolin can throw his Shardblade at a target and will it to stay put. The Blade doesn't have to stay in contact with its wielder, and this is obviously a limited case of what Sprenblades can do, but let's clarify what this implies in any case. Shardblades/Sprenblades don't have to stay in contact with their wielder in order to stay manifested. (Further evidence: the chasmfiend fight where Shallan lends Pattern to Kaladin. While Kaladin loses hold of Pattern at certain points, Pattern stays manifested and doesn't vanish.) The wielder can insist they stay manifested. What this does not work as evidence for: the wielder can transform the Blade from a distance, or direct it to manifest elsewhere. In fact, of note (I think) is the bit where, as previously mentioned by kaellok in this thread, Syl insisted Kaladin had to stretch out his hand. Add to that the fact that all seen Shardbearers as far as I recall always summon their Shardblades to their hand, and I think it seems pretty good reason to think willing your Shardblade to be summoned some distance away from you can't be done. 2. When Syl responds to his thoughts and transforms, it seems to be purely a shape shift in anticipation of what Kaladin needs/is presumably thinking of. In the same way, when Shallan gouges out steps in the chasm walls for them to make a shelter, Pattern obligingly shrinks to the size she needs. It's true that it might be that Pattern didn't change for Kaladin because Shallan hadn't consciously remembered she could do that, but I think it safe to suggest that in all cases so far where Sprenblades shift shape, they've done so when in physical contact with the wielder. This is what kaellok suggests, and I think it likely the case. Of course, these still leave two questions: why can't Kaladin just imagine Syl piercing Szeth? I'm not much of a Cosmere theorist, but I'll indicate I like Tempus' response. With regard to the other question: I suspect it might be possible for Kaladin, but he'd have to Lash Syl. Skills in transforming a Sprenblade so far don't seem to include anything remotely telekinetic. Whether he could Lash his own Sprenblade is another question--I'm not sure if there'd be resistance there.

For some reason, this makes me think of what Syl says about Jezrien's Honorblade: I wonder what the checks she refers to are. We know that at least Nahel-bonded Surgebinders are kept in check by the oaths, and one possible read is that this limits the kind of actions they are permitted to take. But I'm also minded to think--given the context, that the Nahel bond with a spren does in fact provide some sort of protection agaisnt drawing on 'dangerous levels' of Stormlight. What those levels do though, is unclear. But maybe a closer look at Szeth will give us some idea. Also, here is the quote that P4thf1n3r and Levian have referred to: --This is in Chapter 35 of my copy. ETA: I've done a quick scan through WoR but I can't locate anything specifically that refers to Soulcasters (the people) needing to retire at a certain point or die. Maybe someone else can?

I suggest that we have some evidence for worldhoppers from Roshar being present on Earth. As Earth is not part of the Cosmere, this would probably mean that these have come quite a long way. This looks to be to me a use of the Adhesion Surge (so, typical Windrunner), although the question of how they're powering their Surgebinding without access to Stormlight is an open question.

I'm trying to source these because I've heard somewhere but I can't seem to track down the specific quotes, which frustrates me to no end. Nevertheless, in the hopes someone else can: I think I heard a few years ago that it was going to involve a Misting S.W.A.T. team going after a Mistborn serial killer. Lead's meant to be a Nicrosil Misting. Sourcing, however... :/

When you think of your supervisor as Nalan. All will be done according to the law...and mountains of paperwork. No one is beyond his reach. No one.

But the Parshendi's body size shouldn't change too much when shifting between forms. I will grant there are marked differences between nimbleform and warform, for instance, but that doesn't seem comparable to completely different body structures like chasmfiends or whitespines.For what it's worth though, your comment has made me wonder: was there Plate for Ryshadium? There's no mention of it, but it seems that if Ryshadium bore KRs into battle, then they perhaps needed their own protection as well...

I watched a bit of Shingeki no Kyojin, but concluded the manga is better. Ghosthunt was pretty good too, but I think it's stopped for now. Also, Bleach--but I'm convinced Bleach has gone downhill ever since a particular arc. Most Bleach fans will probably know what I'm talking about. If we're talking older anime: Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo.

I'd second (third?) Codex Alera and Tales of the Otori. Tigana too--I think Kay's written some which straddle the line between high fantasy and historical fantasy because of the low magic, but his writing is incredibly beautiful. For me, Guy Gavriel Kay and Sanderson are on two opposite ends of a fantasy spectrum--Kay prefers the lyrical, Sanderson the meticulous, but I find myself greatly enjoying both. With regard to 'guilty favourites'--things that probably won't be on most people's list but are guilty pleasures nonetheless: the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, and Alexey Pehov's Chronicles of Siala. I enjoy these primarily because of the richness of their worldbuilding--I'll never get tired of how the Elves in the Obsidian Trilogy can go on about tea, of all things

When you wonder how effective a Shardblade would be against zombies.

The Stick has spoken! The Stick has spoken! ^When you finally respond to all global sceptics with the words of wisdom from the Stick. Forget cogito ergo sum, the Stick is our only certainty!

I've never done this yet, and so was hesitant, but if it's not too late, I'd like to join. Asim, courier.

...We need another rule, Rule 34b: All threads eventually return to the Syl thread.