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As a person who more or less majored in Image Processing for the last 6 years (and had a specific interest in image enhancement) I must add that any natural image is hugely redundant and can, in theory, be restored from a low amount of pseudo-random samples. Faces, in particular, could be recognized pretty well from about 250 pixels in strategic places, IIRC. Most of such enhancement, though, relies on the external knowledge (common statistical distributions for sharp natural scenes, etc). Brain does that in spades, first compressing image (starting from the retina), then classifying, filling in blanks - that is why my combined eyesight is about 0.6 (in glasses), while each of the eyes is only ~0.4. Regardless, there is probably not enough information retained in memory (there certainly isn't enough in normal memory) for Lightsong to recreate a face to harmonic. So, in order of decreasing probability, my opinions: 1. As above, he added the detail postfactum, based on his imagination, essentially. 2. That was actually Endowment-granted vision rather than simple memory. 3. As a Returned (or heightened?) he can access memory directly in the Cognitive Realm, where it works like the memory of the goblet (how does an inanimate object remember time, anyway?), or even his history in Spiritual, thereby accessing "pure" memory untainted by perception. Somehow. 4. (Very unlikely) His Breaths transform his memory into supercomputer, that by aggregating age, race, health, recalled memory image, etc, calculated the most probable shade of red for the lips.

This one, probably:

Kirk is Sanderson fan, now? I for one hope for Szeth or Tarvangian to be the one.

For clarity's sake, I was asking about questions raised in this thread. Whether Peter answered the same question I implied or not is known only to him but I think so, given the answer.

You are wrong on some metals, Darnam: Pewter has no copper in it (allomantic alloy): Electrum is pure gold+silver: Nicrosil has Silicon in it: it is in the name (Nickel-cromium-silicon):

It still looks like the original sketch, doesn't it? IIRC, Axehounds are of a somewhat different subtype than Cremlings. @Taln: Could you make a picture of it sitting on its tail, like it does on a small sketch in linked picture?

Lerasium is like installing a new card in your pc, hemalurgy us like soldering a modchip on the motherboard Roughly speaking. I think "hardwired" is a more common term, but I may be wrong on that.

Oh, he didn't just drop them, there is WoB on that: I highly doubt the giant cadmium bubble, though - it would mess the weather somewhat fierce, for one thing (imagine ashfall from outside the bubble, for example), and also the question of powering it up would remain (Cadmium reserves?). It is possible that he simply left them the knowledge of mechanical Metallic Arts, much in the way as Sazed did it (books, tablets, direct mind speech) and built a shelter that would last long enough for them to adapt that knowledge into their lives.

For all we know, Voidbringers might have been using possessed Chasmfiends to stem the tide of battle chulls cavalry, and the whole thing looked like Imperial guards against chaos hordes

They have arms. Animated arms made of stone. Either the joints separate pieces of stone and the Spren holds them together, or Spren makes the stone soft and solid at will ( "surface tension" surge? )

They don't... Probably, being solid rock and all. Chasmfiends, and, presumably, lesser shell beasts like chulls, have violet blood. They have no confirmed connection to Thunderclasts.

I more or less gave up trying to figure bubbles out I have already posted about their properties before, but for clarity (and because I am too lazy to search all my posts) I'll try to summarize here. Whatever theories I had couldn't reconcile all of the properties ;( So, problems/properties: 1. The "punching problem", defining what is inside or outside the bubble. If you punch someone outside the bubble, does he get sucked into or you out? What about the floor you are standing on? What happens if the floor is moving? Etc. (there are many variations) (a subset is Allomantic interactions, such as Pulling on object outside the bubble, Soothing, etc) 2. Energy. If you put a solar panel in bendalloy bubble, it would generate energy much longer, increasing outside efficiency. Likewise, putting emitter (light) inside slider's bubble and panel outside would allow one to extract possibly more energy than there were in its batteries. 3. Related to 2, the air interaction. If the air molecules inside the bubble are 10 times as fast, 10 times as much of them escape the bubble than enter it at every given time interval. That should create a pressure gradient pumping the air out of bendalloy bubble. Why doesn't that happen? If the air is not affected, how do sliders/pulsers breathe? What happens if the bubble is underwater? Or half-submerged? What about the dust in the air? 4. How is the object entering the bubble deflected, depending on its mass/ velocity? Why is the bullet deflected, but not falling human (experiencing only a jolt)? 5. A host of relativity questions, such as whether the light propagates with the same speed inside the bubble (when measured from outside), or the properties of spacetime itself (electric permittivity, etc) are altered in a way that changes it?

I've got myself dentist appointment for root canal Your presents are better

What? Where did you get that info? Well, as Phantom has pointed out, Brandon's stance seemed to vary on what exactly would happen when a spike is burned. Maybe the effect from other person's spike is weak and temporary.

@WeiryWriter Thank you! @Little wilson The juicy bits! You let him walk away with the juicy bits, and now we'll never see them again I am sure they were the Christmas equivalent of a reading @Windrunner: Riight...

That is very true. For me, the ending seemed to invalidate the whole point of the series. And cleaning loose ends by falling rocks... meh.

1. Upper bound estimate. I also assumed that there were places besides Roughs and Elendel (Roughs contain somewhat less people than Elendel, IIRC, but there *are* other cities on the map, though, presumably, smaller. ) 2. How so? Assuming 300 years, 25 years per generation? (Granted, not exact estimates). If you mean the fact that Wax was 16-th... see the point about upper bound (on the number of children). It is actually normal to have children before 25th year, so actual number would be higher, yes. About 2.6 surviving children without counting parents, then. On the average (people tended to have more children before. How many did Spook have?) Mortality is not included (they would need to have that many *surviving* children). Bachelorhood is covered by average. I have no idea about survival rates, but the original field (don't remember the name) was specifically modified for better survivability.

to eviscerate Amaram.

Hmm... Assuming, for simplicity, 300 years and 25 years per generation (till childbirth), we get 12 generations. Given that Wax said something about there being more people (or nearly as much) in Elendel as in the whole of Roughs, let's assume 20mil people in total. That gives, on the average... 1.5 child per parent *not* counting parents. If the parents are counted, and assuming 3 generations surviving (till 75), about 1.33 children per parent, so 2-3 children per family. Like bunnies, indeed.

For what it is worth, here is the quote: Assuming that most of them survived, about 150000 people in all on the north side would be a good estimate. (Edit: I said most, not all, and I am not sure that eunuchs count as Originators)

Mine is a cat's eye pierced by two Hemalurgic spikes. I have created it as a symbol of Caton of Inquisition. Feles Regirent!

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I have a small issue with that: Assume you burn n grams of Steel for n points of power (Investiture, Push, whatever), and store that in a metalmind of n grams. Then you burn metalmind.. and get n units of power that you store? It should at least double from the additional Preservation power - otherwise you get a significant loss. Then to infinite loops: As Brandon and Sazed have stated, a charged metalmind is, essentially, a new metal (until discharged, but that is just an opinion): Thus, after charging gold you get a new metal Feruchemical gold, with "burn for health, n units/sec" (ntotal=10*stored) Allomantic effect. It already has some power stored inside it, and Preservation adds to that. By your model, the "burn for health" can be stored. Let us assume that it doesn't compress, and therefore takes as much "space" in metalmind as the corresponding amount of health (so you would need 10x the metalmind size, as for normal Compounding). You get yet another Allomantic metal, ffGold, with a strange property of "burn for double the burn stored inside", which, if my math is correct, is weaker than normal compounding, but works faster. In theory, one should be able to do this infinitely, resulting in convoluted metals of increasingly bizarre Allomantic properties, though possibly without power gain per se. If it is possible to "compress" charges (that is, the burn takes less "space" than corresponding attribute gain), then you'll end up with metal saturated with Investiture (filtered) to the point where it can block Shardblade Edit: I guess one can say that Investiture coming from burned Goldmind is identical to Health, in which case the above scheme would not work. I personally doubt that it is perfectly identical, since IMO/IIRC you can forgo the tapping of that attribute, adding a layer of abstraction. But I am not sure. Allomancy would still apply in either case. Edit2: ... (considers several dozen interaction possibilities) Just color me confused

@entropicscholar: Read this thread: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/3082-allomantically-burning-a-hemalurgic-spike/ Sorry I cannot provide proper links from the phone. Edit: start from second post for quotes.

Hm, I am not sure. Feruchemy might deal with your Innate Investiture (aka soul), just as Hemalurgy steals the same. Atium.. the only idea I have is that Atium isn't invested metal, it is metal made of Investiture, so instead of interfering with other Investiture it mimics the properties of normal metal in Investiture interactions. (to present an analogy, imagine velcro hooks as a metal, Investiture as... epoxy resin spilled on velcro - it would no longer function. But if you make a set of hooks made from epoxy in the same shape as velcro, it would work, after a fashion)