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    SURGICAL CHAINSWORD! Edit: and Shallan Fallout Style pickpocketing Jasnah. This just gets better. EDIT2: Tien as a nuclear enginner? Me like.
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    The humming of the Cryptics may also be connected to the Rhythms, if I am right and their existence is independent of the listeners. @natc:Do we really know if gold compounding won't save you from decaptation? Other than that, I agree with what you trying to say, that we don't know enough to draw definitive conclusions. If you have any other hypothesis for how spren are captured or why humming helps with Soulcasting, feel free to mention them.
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    Fixed.
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    You assume the Stormfather would be willing to do it, something that in my view goes deeply against his character and may not be even within his power.
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    But Sanderson's 3th law calls for depth before width when it comes to magic systems. We should theorize on connrctions and correlations, not dismiss these things as coincidences. Plus, feruchemical gold and stormlight induced regeneration work under very similar mechanisms.
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    Kaladin didn't master his surges. Compare Kaladin's simple use of lashings to the Szeth interludes in WoK. Although I do think the Lightweavers have less intuitive surges than the Windrunners.
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    Yet they worked out how to trap spren after humans said it was possible, and how many completely unrelated methods can there be?
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    But lerasium can't break the pattern that that storing brings you close to the shard because the pattern has only one exemple, of its fundamentaly opposite shardmetal. It isn't a pattern at all.
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    No, it isn't. They adapt their shape to fit them. Sounds more like ancient fabrials for me. Plus, they break easily when not in use, while aluminium is more likely to bend.
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    Random Stuff V/IV-part 1/2 spoilers: The potato dies.

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    That is assuming opposing shards work in the same way. It could swing in either direction here, since we have no direct comparison.
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    Although that works under the assumption his worldview changed enough during his life his different selves would disagree with one another.
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    Even then, I never said the cut and type of gem are irrelevant, so there can be room for more factors. Especially if the process is a carefully guarded secret. And I have to reread the WoR interludes, but I am sure that even if attuning to the Rhythms is unnecessary, it is optimal.
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    Kaladin?
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    Happened to my phone before. Took some time before it started working again, and the screen brightness fell a lot, but it was usable.
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    Why do I read evil!Lirin with an obviously fake german acent?
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    Truth to be told, it made little sense to assume Szeth survived, considering he fell throught the Storm with no surgebinding. That is one of the most forced changes on the edit.
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    Actualy, what I posted is only half of the problem. I need some pratice setting the right mood with the prose, that is part of why I started this side project.
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    The horror story I started writing yesterday... it is turning into a weird romance where both characters may or may not be planning to kill the other, and I am not sure who of them is supposed to be the monster anymore. I think that is part of the reason I didn't try to write horror before: I like when the many sides of a conflict are simetrical.
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    Thinking you can hide shards that steal writing speed inside beards is not excused by lack of knowledge about the cosmere.
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    On the blood magic exemple, producing more blood may make the creature more fragile(since they are walking bloodbags), weaker and less efficient from a biomass standpoint. So if their magic can't protect them perfectly and provide all their needs they can theoretically be out competed. Sometimes simplier is better, from a survival-focused standpoint.
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    He also said it holds true for most settings.
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    And on acess to magic being achievable by evolution alone, not divine will/investiture. And if it is based on sapience, well why should it be treated differently from technology for evolutionary purposes? Your rule is very interesting and should be something fantasy writers should always remember, but saying it can be applied to most settings arguably(sp?) untrue.
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    I meant either sapience or the existence of higher beings like gods. Plus, you assume magic is all advantages no cost and that non-magical beings can't survive with alternative strategies.Althought settings were magic is commonplace and acess to it is easily achievable by simple biological characteristics, your rule is a very precise way of seeing things. EDIT: And on evolved humans, I lost you completely. Why would natural selection move humans towards filling more ecological roles? Being on the top of the food chain and able to reshape it, either by magic or traditional means, is a good enough position to survive in. We can adapt the enviorment, no need to be selected by it.
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    Do they? I thought in most of then magic was tied to the presence of highter beings or to sapience, that is so far in the complexity ladder evolution can't guide many things towards unless they are close enough.I mean, your list treats magic as something achievable by evolution alone, independent of any external forces, that is linked to the celular level instead of especific tissues, organs and other more complex structures.
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