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That was what I meant - if the water evaporates, then the crem - that precipitates out of storm water within days, IIRC, and forms a solid enough stone - should do the same. I guess that the volcanoes mixing in ash may have merit, but another thing to consider is the amount of the stuff - there is enough of crem to be in the water all over the continent - just how huge the volcano would have to be? Actually, I've thought of a strange theory : we know that there exists water underground, and that water goes somewhere after the storm, and apparently not all of it goes into the rivers. So what if the underground layers of Roshar are somewhat sponge-like, possibly due to crem sediment? The storm never made sense to me as the weather pattern - it looked more like an explosion, aka detonation, which is (wiki): IIRC, the storm structure is as follows:"low pressure" zone (water goes underground in Purelake), stormwall (moves in a single direction - outwards), sphere recharge zone(seemingly a lull), turbulent zone (wind and water going from any direction). So what if the storm is like a detonation shockwave, but instead of the exothermic reaction, there is a zone where energy leaks from Spiritual realm, driving pressure front, that, in places, sucks the water out from the ground and drives it outwards? The water would be rich in minerals, being forcefully drawn from underground, and would create the observed zones (and would look like a wave in the sea, covering the fact that it is replenished from underground). Well, I admit I don't know much about weather patterns, though, so I am probably wrong.

Hmm... Well, the obvious question would be: what happens to the salt? AFAIK, the Roshar seas have saltwater, and Highstorms carry potable water (as long as you get the crem out). If it is fed from the sea, then the water should desalinate at some point. As for undeground: we know that the water goes underground in Purelake just before Highstorm, so there is probably a lot of it underground, as you said (and probably part of it gets sucked out on the way by the Highstorm wave)

Sixth has a very nice worldbuilding, as usual The sentient or semi-sentient beings, including Aviar, are interesting. One thing I would like to see, but probably would not : Sixth keeping to his original idea and letting the girl hang in the vines. The stories with such twists are rather rare in the literature I read, and would fit the setting rather nicely, but alas, I fear it is not to be. Still, looking forward to the whole story When is it due, again?

Thank you, Chaos. The error started right after outage, so they were probably related.

Same here, gives the same error on mobile, though.

I have just reread Rithmatist, and had a crazy idea: if one can control the chalkling's movements while in contact with it (that was never outright stated, but it might be possible, given that one dismisses the line my touching it with chalk and willing it away), and the chalkling can push and pull stuff (and is strong enough to wind a spring that propels a whole train) - one may be able to draw a chalking that would then crawl onto Rithmatist and serve as a power suit, in a way. Then, while your opponent still doesn't have any lines of forbiddance up, you jump over his circle (it admits humans going over it) and hit your opponent in the face. Also, maybe learn how to become a regenerating chalkling yourself, for lots of awesomeness (not directly relating to a duel). Granted, this possibilities are not very good against Forgotten. As for more normal defenses, I am not sure. Lines of Forbiddance are good if you are just stalling for time, or can't draw a straight circle (due to, say, being nervous upon seeing a horde of bloodthirsty chalklings going your way) I am also wondering, if your chalkling is pushing your chalk, does it count as you drawing?

Google help you, child Iredomi Now, who is that nifty cat?

It repairs soul, to an extent: It doesn't seem to do anything to Hemalurgic changes on the receiving end, and probably doesn't regrow chinks ripped out (otherwise any twinborn with Feruchemical gold could be used as endless source of Allomantic ability). Cause of senescence, however, is still unknown. Some say that it is damage to DNA, others say that it is programmed into the DNA, but AFAIK nobody is sure. Feruchemical gold doesn't heal that, but presumably, it heals cancer (which is caused by DNA damage,direct or not,) and given how much Miles smoked I'd say Feruchemical gold have to fix that, at least. I still stay my my statement that Gold compounders live longer, but the costs start mounting when their body becomes easier to damage and natural healing less effective.

Happy holiday! Is that you, Eeron Gal? Has been a while... I'll stay with my avatar, too. It is how I identify people on the forum, so when they change it gets quite confusing...

Heh, this discussion reminds me of my university days We studied this stuff. IIRC, essentially, there are roughly three types of radiation poisoning: 1. Acute radiation poisoning (leading usually to "death under the ray") - radiation affecting your whole body more or less at once, and your body more or less melting (well, sustaining enough damage that you'd die). Such results, our teachers claimed, were observed on some interns that went to check on reactor during Chernobyl accident (yeah, our Uni was devoted to nuclear power, so some professors were around for cleanup, apparently). The possibly scariest thing here is that your brain dies last. But Feruchemical gold can fix that easily enough - that is just a lot of physical damage. 2. Radiation burn - as mentioned above, alpha and beta do not penetrate far, so they usually just burn skin off - which is potentially survivable. Unless, as name_here said, you inhaled/ ingested some - then the area burned would be your lungs or digestive tract, and you'd probably die, since you'd stop being able to actually absorb oxygen/ lose protection provided by stomach lining. The Feruchemical gold can heal that, but I doubt it would purge the matter from your lungs completely - you'd probably need to tap it for a while, until the radiation is weak enough. About radioactive isotopes - most of them have low enough half-life, the chain reaction uses special fissile materials, like u-238, so the ones in the body would decay to stability quickly enough - within a few weeks, probably. The main problem is having a chunk of relatively stable isotope, like cesium or plutonium inside your body. So in the end, a bloodmaker would have to wash his lungs, or better yet, wear a mask, after all. 3. Chronic radiation poisoning : essentially, accumulated damage from previous two. When DNA is damaged, the cell can either apoptose (die) or attempt to fix it - sometimes introducing errors, especially in the cells that were dividing at the time - like blood producing ones. Errors may result in cancer. Theoretically, Feruchemical gold would fix the DNA properly, so that is not really a concern is this case. So to summarize -Bloodmaker should be ok, as long as he wears a protective mask and submits to proper decontamination after. Ah yes, and enough radiation tends to make materials brittle after a while, due to above mentioned "small holes" effect

Upvote for the transcription style (especially "blah, blah") And the Adonalsium question is quite new, as far as I can tell. And that is why, on each signing, there should be a member from 17thShard giving out "official 17thshard question cards" flyers for people without their own Completely mandatory optional, of course I am rambling, am I not? (goes away) P.S. Where are the Seons pictures?

To be more specific: So he got wounded, somehow, and then died, slowly. I think somewhere later in the book it was mentioned that he was actually in Nebrask, but the exact circumstances of his death are still a mystery.

Ah, I think I'll add some questions from myself, then. Of course, I have the same problem as Argent But I'll try: Scadrial: 1. Do Inquisitors have to constantly burn Iron/Steel to see? 2. Is it possible, by repeatedly granting cats sentience with spikes and then breeding them, to create a race of naturally sentient (Mistborn) cats? Sel: Nothing much here... Any new info on Dakhor? Nalthis: Umm... Do living beings regenerate color if it is drained from them? Roshar: Does sphere charge only at a single moment during Highstorm? Well, just those, I guess. You know, if we only could convince each and every attendee to ask but one Cosmere question...

Actually, Argent, I refer to the following WoB: I am not sure how to interpret it, but there it is.

Another thing is, we know that the living beings can be drained of color. Nightblood dies that habitually, and IIRC, there is a quote indicating that the color of the person is used when Breath is transferred ( phone, so I can't source it) - though in second case, it doesn't seem permanent. I don't see the problem with draining one's cut hair, royal or not ( though do the royal locks retain color on cut? ) Draining attached color, though, It may be like advanced ironsight - something that can be trained. Though whether the royal locks provide advantage it that case, or whether they stay gray once drained is another question.

Ahem. From wiki: As far as I can tell, that would mean that tattoos are a form of colored scars. Also note that the process includes initial rejection, formation of granulation tissue, etc. If your skin simply healed (and I assume it would heal faster in the deeper dermis layer, where more living cells are) the ink would simply be pushed through the still-existing holes, without any scar tissue forming. Now to address the issue of Allomantic pewter: It is true that Allomantic pewter speed up healing, but it can be noticed that an effect is relatively minor. At most, as far as i can tell, it produces maybe 5x increase in natural healing. That should be slow enough for scar tissue to start forming, even if you'd heal in a day (of constant burning) instead of a week. It takes several days for even a simple scratch to completely heal, so Feruchemical gold healing accelerates the process (if that is how it works) many thousands times. As far as I can tell, Stormlight is somewhere in between these. It accelerates healing much greater than Allomantic pewter, but provides less toughening (as far as I can tell), so you are easier to damage. Also you can draw in more of it. As for the mechanism, I am not sure, but I think (as was mentioned before) that Shardblade damages the delivery mechanism for Stormlight, so it cannot reach the wound site (in Spiritual), and so cannot fix it. But we don't know enough of Shardblade wounds (most people encountering shardblade ended up dead) to speculate. Edit: Well, scarring is more of the stopgap measure of the body, IIRC, so if you heal faster you get less of it.. errr, that is not quite right, but anyway, wiki says:

Movement vector, maybe, but not on the same position as before... (as an aside, is it just me, or do the quotes no longer separate when one hits enter repeatedly?) Let's consider a simpler case, a (somehow) moving bubble in the room with a chair. As the bubble envelops chair, chair (but not floor) is accelerated, since it was moved relative to bubble. From the outside view, the bubble moves at speed v, so the chair starts moving in the opposite direction at speed v*tcf as it enters -which means it is no longer stationary relative to the floor, since it cannot be compensated by bubble speed (v, relative to floor) - and we have a chair being dragged by force unknown (of the moving bubble), damaging the floor. Or do I misunderstand your system? I might, frame relativity always gave me some difficulty. Well, sure - but we don't know if c inside the bubble is the same as outside, or did they raise the speed limit Nor am I sure as to what would happen if c suddenly doubles in our universe.

Ok, count me confused Moving bubbles creating wakes of ruin and destruction... I'll try to think on it later. I guess the question is - doe anything happen when the object bubble is attached to is swallowed by the bubble? If you make it large enough to cover the planet? As for your question - well, it is impossible to say whether you are inside the bubble or not without looking outside That was AoL plot point, after all. Hence, the laws of physics in both cases are equivalent, but some constants between them are tweaked (it is, in theory, possible to tweak c by changing the nature of the vacuum state)

Bah. Close enough Ok... Let me see if I get this straight: We have a bubble, with a thing it is attached to in the center, and other, unrelated things (observers) that are stationary relative to the observer outside the bubble. The in-bubble observers see the allomancer go by at 0.9c. Let's say the bubble is large enough that inside observers stay inside, and outside observers outside. So... You say that outside observer would see central Allomancer going past at 0.9c, and the inside observer would see the center go past at 0.9c, with them being in areas where time runs differently. Which... might be possible... I guess? But would imply that the inside observer moved relatively outside observer, implying something like frame dragging effect... Err.. could you describe that in more detail? And did you notice FTL objects? Well, the point is, everything that happens to objects happens on the interface. Inside, the physics is normal. Outside, it is normal. The whole notion of relativity relies on the fact that we have to *observe* another system, and to observe, the light has to pass through the interface. It is like a black hole in that regard It is the opposite

Well, there are several things in sciency bits that may be problematic. I just don't feel like addressing them without offering an alternative right now. Except you can't really decouple time from movement, you know To some extent, time *is* movement. Unless you define global movement as opposed to local heat movement, and the you'd have to define global and local scopes... You know, here is an interesting thought experiment (I don't remember if you addressed it)- imagine a bubble tied to its allomancer (or any object inside bubble). Now imagine that allomancer running at 0.9c in the bubble time For the outside observer, how fast would the bubble move? That is the most important question Bubbles without borders are rather trivial It is only the interface that gives so much trouble. Here, and in one other place:

Waah! (crying) No, Kurkistan, I give up. I have no idea how bubbles can work, and, truth to be told, am not sure what your theory is. So just a few things, only tangentially related. 1. Simply increasing velocity of all system components does not increase system time rate. If you speed up all molecules in a human, you'll get expanding red cloud, not faster human... 2. Could you make a thought experiment about air near the bubble border within your theory, Kurk? 3. "Effect", not "affect", Kurk

Ok, I admitit. In my senility, I no longer remember all of your posts on this topic, and you probably hid it well anyway But enough about bets (which I invariably lose)! Let's talk about you Kurk. How did you come to be a talking devil terminator cat with interest in collecting extra human limbs anyway? In detail, please.

Why not? You have hidden your wrongdoing, have you? I only found one other instance: The time-bubble thing I don't remember too well right now.

What I meant is, if one uses definitions from Ars Arcanum (end-positive/neutral/negative), one couldn't rely on no energy gain/production and part of classification, since Feruchemy is end-neutral by that very definition. Myself, I think it has more to do with energy interactions in Shard/Not-shard system.

I found some too: Kurk will eat his hat if Awakening is end-negative or of Baxil's boss isn't Shallash, but I find those unlikely. I can't remember what he was wrong about, but Since he had confirmed it himself, he should now proceed to eat his hat... Wait, I know Kurk is a devil cat, but is he also a devil Cat in the Hat?