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Yes Edit: Waah, I cannot stand it anymore. Perhaps I should elaborate. Presumably, the Full Lashing is based on Pressure or Atmospheric Pressure, by pressing the two things together so that the created friction overcomes any attempt to move the objects. Though there is some uncertainty about this - there are bondspren attracted to the connected surfaces, and I am not sure what do they do with Pressure. Or where the said pressure is applied. Regardless, in most models the bonding is secondary to pressure, and pressure isn't applied laterally. Now, Slicking works directly on the ability of two substrates to form bonds (mostly electrostatic), as well as increasing the smoothness (possibly by creating a small layer similar to force field over affected surface). As such, it should be more effective in combating friction than Full Lashing is in creating it, so, with the same amount of spent Stormlight, Slicking from Full Lashing should be possible. There may be several other possibilities, depending on the application of Pressure, such as: * Lift capable of sliding around on surface without separating from it * Lift capable of rotating in place without sliding (if the pressure is applied from all directions, forming a kind of wall) But in general, I would say that , IMO, it should be possible. editedit: Full lashing is not gravity based:

Actually, healing a Returned (Susebron) is the only healing we saw "on-screen", so it heals Returned just fine.

Well, it might be an exception, but Inquisitors can see lines leading to metals in your blood, but cannot pull on them. Brandon stated that this is a skill any Iron/Steel Misting could theoretically learn. So the correlation is not perfect.

Hmm.. I would say there is a lower limit to Misting power, so that they don't get any weaker that that. For example, the mist-snapped skaa were very weak - weak enough that they couldn't snap normally at all - and yet their powers afterwards seemed ok - not weakened too much (though weakened some), and the pre-Rashek Mistings were presumably capable of snapping from simple extreme stress. (at least those that became allomancers between Well fillings certainly Snapped normally): So they would probably be more or less normal Mistings, just very, very rare. Besides, Iron and Steel give Ironsight regardless of whether you can then pull that metal or not - I am sure they would have noticed *that*.

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Alas, Eshonai's POV tells us that they, indeed, sent Szeth. Not to mention Szeth'd POV in the first chapter - unless you think he was thinking lies to himself.

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That would be because you misunderstand the effect of the tin spike. Its effect is closer to Allomantic tin than Feruchemical tin - it enhances all senses. Though the Mistborn RPG says otherwise (and implies that it works differently for Kandra), I am not sure that is not a balance issue, like instant Duralumin. Ok, so I am not sure The quote seems to imply that Hemalurgic spikes are closer to constant low-level Allomancy, though.

I'd still say that a parshmen are much smarter than a Mistwraith normally. After all, I highly doubt you could train a Mistwraith to tend to your children.

And in general: I see what you mean, Darnam. You might even be right, though I don't think I agree with you on Parshendi goals. Then again, I wonder what would happen to a chasmfiend is its spren were corrupted... Now as to the issue of children: I confess that I don't have much experience with them, and in general, can't really understand humans too well, so I base a lot of things on the only source I can more or less trust: myself And I have solved my first quadratics when I was 5 (my abilities have been degrading ever since then) So you can teach that to a child, though possibly with a side effect that it would take place of, say, social skills And well, judging intelligence, sentience, sapience, etc, has been a philosophical problem for a long, long time. Maybe we should leave it at that.

Meh, that is old history (maybe a year old or so, and I've hidden the post anyway), so nevermind I was (mostly) joking. (edit:removed link)

So he gets upvotes for wording, while I get downvotes for illustration of said process? Anyway, since Divine Breath gives you 5th heightening, it would be equivalent to about 2000 Breaths, not 500 Then again, we don't know what happens when it gets used or when a Returned dies. If it just returns to Endowment, she could keep doing it, limiting the number of Returned to an acceptable level of power decrease. As a single Shard, she(?) can probably make a lot of Splinters without much of a problem.

We don't know, but the "blurb" (I think the term is) for WoR implies that it somehow increases the probability of them becoming Voidbringers. (at least that is how I read this: ) Well, in addition to the points expressed above, there are two things that may count against your theory: one is that in the same paragraph, Eshonai says that the plan failed, while the Alethi are still on the plains and killing Greatshells. And the other is that they were trying to prevent the return of said gods, and the greatshells were around for a while, so preventing their return doesn't make sense - they are already there. The Parshmen are not exactly mindless. They are perfectly capable of following instructions, which requires ability to parse language at least (you can train the response for a certain phrase to an animal, but not to a general "bring me object of type", for example). Also, a tangent, purely IMO: Anyway, I think that the problem with Parshmen is that they have "no song". From the interlude it can be seen that many emotions that Parshendi feel are aligned to those songs, or at least "rhythms." Now this is also a debated notion, but I posit that emotions are absolutely necessary for decision making, and that is what parshmen lack most of all - they don't decide anything, including going to eat (IIRC), with a few exceptions, like their dead. So I think that parshmen are capable of normal thought, but don't care enough to engage that ability most of the time. Mistwraiths, on the other hand, have something similar to mental block, and are on the level of severely mentally retarded person, though above many animals: Hemalurgy steals Preservation and adds, it doesn't add Ruin (at least to our knowledge). From the book: Also, creation of Cat Inquisitors is a Brandon-approved process, not just theory (As in, he confirmed that it was possible) I think that is what Brandon calls "Innate Investiture"

Ah yes. Let's see if I can add anything. 1. Splinters of the Shard can be created voluntarily or by force. The amount of splinters that can be created is rather large. 2. There are other ways for the power of Shard to manifest. The Atium mine, for example, was a chunk of Ruin's power, cut off from the main shard, which was *not* a Splinter, since it didn't have self-awareness (not sentience, mind you). 3. The only other world we know with splintered Shards is Sel. There, only a relatively small fraction of the power went into creation of Splinters (Seons' and Skaze cores). Most of the power became loose (and presumably formed Dor, but that is speculation). This loose power does not do "nothing" - it made Shadesmar on Sel very dangerous, and still fuels the magic system. 4. Likewise, on Roshar, the bonding spren existed before shattering, and possibly some other nature spren as well (at least some were corrupted to make Thunderclasts, though those might have been of bonding variety as well, so probably there were some nature spren to begin with) 5. After splintering, the amount of spren increased, but if the splintering followed the same pattern as on Sel, most of the Honor's body became raw energy that was then "vented" (or cycled, I am not sure) by existing and new spren that acted as release valve, negating some of the side effects. 6. It is possible that Cultivation gave some bit of herself to balance some of new spren - we don't know. Since most of the honor's power became loose, however, she only had to balance a small portion, if any. That might have weakened her. But that is just conjecture without much evidence. 7. Loose power does *something* - it might increase the storm severity, make Shadesmar more dangerous, feed spren so they become more visible in Physical realm, etc. Also, while spren presumably became more common after splintering, there are two things to consider: it was a while ago, so they might have written it into their mythology and ignore it now, and two, it might have been a gradual process. Splintering a shard is hard, and the spren might have been increasing in population, say, over a hundred years, which is much less noticeable.

Did you mean Malatium? Duralumin is a common enough metal. Well, Brandon did say (repeatedly), that magic system depends on planet, Shard and sDNA, so presumably it *might* be possible to create a new system (also metal-based for Scadrial) that would work for something that is not human at all... But, for given species on given planet, I think the rules do indeed stay more or less the same.

I would argue that something that gives you powers is closer to symbiont than parasite... Unless the side effects vastly outweigh benefits.

The first sentence was addressed to king of nowhere, gloom The origin of water, I mean, though I may not agree that all the water is available at the start of the storm- I think part of it gets replenished on the way. And I just list possibilities: "have merit" means "I cannot discard a possibility", not that I agree with the idea...

Um, isn't that about the same as what I said? And Gloom, it mean that the continent doesn't have volcanoes, nothing about sea floor, as to my understanding.

Hmm. Well, Odium is currently on Braize, but he has influenced magic system on Roshar, and presumably still has connections to his power there. Maybe these worlds exist in the same star systems as other Shardworlds, close enough for primary shards to influence them, but not their "main residences", as it were?

Well, he could do that without letting her down, and then letting her hang there, right? I am, however, almost willing to bet that she'll be released - if not at first, then later And you are right about the setup.

Except there exists an enzyme whose sole function is to pad the buffer (since the sequence is known, it just attaches it repeatedly), but it doesn't express much in humans (excepting the immune system and bloodmaking). If it overexpresses, you get cancer If it underexpresses, well, same thing. And many cells stop dividing around age 23-25, so they stop using up the buffer. Bah. Aging is complicated.

What Darnam said. And Feruchemical gold doesn't really work like normal healing - humans don't normally regrow brain parts without losing memories - or, well, don't regrow brain at all, for that matter (and I am relatively certain shotgun blast to the face would result in brain damage). @mdmilosz: The difference between being programmed in DNA and causing from changes in DNA is that in the former case the clock is encoded in your cells outside of DNA, like in the protein sequence and concentration, while the DNA is always the same. As Darnam noted, there are almost no cases when all of your DNA is damaged at once, anyway - that is beyond unlikely, and would probably indicate that you've got incinerated Though, apparently, there is a set of changes to DNA that can be used to determine age, but those are not errors, and play role in cellular differentiation... So they are probably not fixed.