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The human body cant actually take very deep at all. The current (public) human dive record is only 1750 ft down, compared to the 20,000 ft of the deeper trenches. Reinforced diving suits become necessary at 100 ft (~4 atm pressure). At as little as 300ft the body starts activating a "Dive Response" that constricts the blood in limbs to prioritized core organs. At 2000ft diving suits stop being tenable and we have to either go solid pressurized canister subs, or unmanned probes. Hell, the greatest recorded dive depth from a tagged blue whale was 1660 ft, and those guys have flexible skeletons that let their lungs get crushed down and pop back up later when the gasses re-expand. EDIT: Found a FAR better comparison: a steamroller I found exerts rated a pressure on the road of 500-700 kPa, which is equivalent to about 100 PSI or 7 atm, which you hit at around 200 ft. So that indicates that anything over 200 feet is going to feel like the end of Roger Rabbit. We're probably derailing the thread at this point though. Next to Gold what would be your top Twinborn choice?

Especially in the argument of Spren-like entities being gods, because to her they are a perfectly ordinary natural occurrence. We see it as mystical and so think it would be just like having a classic earth religion but with tangible proof. But from her perspective these are entirely ordinary traits of nature, not something to be followed or revered. The fact that a weather pattern can speak to her is no more awe-inspiring from her perspective that the fact that a parrot can speak is to worship-worthy to us. And since they hadnt been interacting in the modern age, their interactions were about on par with animals: coexisting but not really revered. The argument could be made that in the radiant era there was enough direct interaction to elevate them, but on the other hand at that stage they were 10 foreign cultures in an alliance, not a pantheon of gods.

From what I recall, and it's been a whiel since I read Era2, but even compounding Gold the restoration still took time and had a visible physical progression to it. If that's true then it's going to be healing against constant, repeated damage, so it's going to have a similar drain. Which one is quantifiable more efficient will be really hard to pine down right now, but I think it will be a variable thing. To be clear im thinking on the most extreme deep trench case, where the momentary damage can be compared to sitting in fire or something like that, which I think could eventually overcome and stall out the F-Gold healing process. I couldnt say where that tipping point would be, but I think it would exist.

The difference is that an explosion is a single event, whereas this would be a constant source of new damage. It wouldnt kill him so long as there were enough chunks in contact with pre-invested Gold to keep the process going, but it might be able to (at extreme depths) reapply damage fast enough that healing is all you'd be able to do, leaving no time, attention, or intact bones long enough to keep exploring. I think for resistance to physical pressure you'd need either form of Peewter Strength enhancement. Cadmium would be best at non-damaging pressures, and gold would get you further but might top out eventually, but Pewter might be the route to a physical immunity/resistance.

Excellent point! Though at some point the ocean would start crushing you faster than you could heal and still make any progress, so even Gold wouldnt keep you moving. I think that's going to be a more complicated problem to overcome.

I suspect Cadmium would be a far more effective, or at least less unpleasant, way to go about that particular goal.

Definitely going to be the best Conman (or politician, in a perfect world) ever

Copper all day long.

I fully believe that exploring this very question is one of the more prominent purposes of writing the Cosmere as a whole. Nearly every book present some version or idea of a divinity, and then explores the implications of that definition. From the Returned and the Court of the Gods who dont always believe in themselves, to the god-king empire of era1 and it's crazy deities, to a place like Roshar where people call the Stormfather a god, he calls the Heralds divinities, the "god" who made The Heralds was himself a former mortal man who ascended before he went crazy and died, and another "god" is currently waging a war of annihilation against his kin while multiple races of people and spren get caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile we have 10 divergent definitions of "Honor" to compare and contrast as their paragons go through various challenges.

Double-tin always seemed like the best actual synergy of powers to me, since they both augment in different ways, and by filling individual senses at the same time as burning normal metal, you can target individual senses and mitigate the biggest downside of A-Tin. Throw a few heightening on there and you can probably start seeing the very fabric of reality of something. Other than that combo, it's really just another way of asking which feruchemical trait you would like an infinite supply of. For that Id go Gold or Fortune (depending on how it actually works) as tier 1, with Copper &, Zinc as tier 2, and the non-tin physicals as more or less equal tier 3 choices.

Id argue that there better be, otherwise the only thing to deserve being worshiped is to be Worshiped is to be Worshiped... The OP suggests that a God is just a powerful being, so if you can prove it exists you should call it a god (and by implication somebody should worship it). Some might add that they should actually intervene and/or answer prayers (in the form of burned glyphs in the Vorin case). Others might set the bar at Creator of the Universe, so maybe only Adonalsium qualifies, unless you also add Preservation and Ruin as those Shard who have actually done it. And if the only Bar is that somebody worships it, it creates a cult of sheep that worship whatever the next guy worships with no other qualification than gaining your first follower. In the first case, anybody from a Returned to the Lord Ruler to Dalinar would qualify already. In the second case, Pretty much any sapient spren might qualify, though they may or may not be benevolent. in the last you might only call it Adonalsuin (assuming a lot of things), but to draw a line between a held Shard and a spontaneously conscious ball of Investiture will become a scientific endeavor, which some might argue invalidates Divinity all on it's own, because it has to be Unknowable. In the last, Kaladin was the God of Bridge 4 for a long time (they've loosened up now), as are every one of the Heralds or Returned, Marsh, Syl if you listen to her, The Blackthorn at times, those Greatshell Islands, etc etc etc Yup. But to the Vorin Church Atheist=heretic. Also she had the audacity to "use" a Soulcaster without being an Ardent.

True, but taking that view of gods reeeeallly focuses everything else on the only requirement being that they were Worshiped by somebody; being magical even becomes secondary. In all other ways they are allowed to be normal people, they dont have to be Honorable, Durable, Capable, or anything other than just Impressive. So, alien cult worship. But getting back to Jasnah in particular, I think she views the average believer in the same general light and grouping that the average Alethi would put the Spren Cult from OB. People that have decided to worship natural phenomena because it makes them feel better, but to her actually Worshiping a spren is like worshiping a cloud or albino deer or something. EDIT: Anyone here ever read the Dresden Files? Im reminded of the Agnostic Knight of the Cross: This guy is a literal Chosen champion of the Christian God, one of three in the world. He wields a sword with a Crucifixion nail in it, has personally had discussions with angels, and spent years before possessed by a Fallen Angel. But he professes to be an atheist, or at least agnostic. Ask him and he says the beings he's met could easily be powerful aliens, and while that would make them unworthy of worship it would not make the work he does for them meaningless (ie saving people from monsters). He's also not entirely sure he's not hallucinating his whole life from a mental ward, but he chooses to keep moving forward on the Hope that his efforts do make a difference to People, regardless of any theology implications.

No that true, the tan vs dark brown is still an issue. I just meant that there is an in-story reason for eyes to change color from green to brown since blades are confirmed to both lighten and change the color to the blade's former order, at least for a Darkeyes.

It was further down: EDIT: Oh, that could have been easy: His blade was a Stoneward blade, and we know that when a Darkeyes gets a blade it will both lighten and change their eye color to that of their corresponding order.

We know of at two confirmed Resonance effects on lightweavers, so I think multiple might be possible in all cases (within some reasonable limit). Lightweaver's solid illusions and photographic memory are both Resonance effects. WE also have confirmation that some of their emotional/spiritual effect they have on others is indeed magical:

The problem is that Im not sure we have any great examples of current Alethi design. Most of the capital is inherited from the radiant era and they arent even sure how it was built, while the modern post-unification era has been almost entirely dominated by the seat of power moving to the warcamps, which have a sharply utilitarian bent and a lot of prince-to-prince variation. The best example might be the affluent area's of the capital, if we got good looks at those. They're more likely to be contemporary construction, and to try to aim for the cultural ideals more than pure utilitarian Highstorm protection and simplistic soulcaster limits.

Ill be honest, I was having a little bit of trouble having both Liril and Laral in the same scene.

Also in the case of spanreeds their getting all that motion through them but are themselves pretty fragile things. One good bump on one end good easily snap the reed on the other

They use an aluminum box on one end to temporarily suppress the link, as opposed whatever the normal spanreed switching mechanism was. And switching is really only needed for the horizontal motion, which is a separate system from the lift set, so they can come to a breif halt while the chulls are being reset on the other end.

You have it backwards on the list: Eshonai's is the Flame-like blade, and Heleran's Blade is the one that sounds like the Willshaper one from the picture.

Here's the complete list of Blades we know about, but details are few: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Shardblade#Known_Shardbearers Id guess Eshonai's "Flame-like" blade is a dustbringer. The only other one I think we can make a guess on is the one Kaladin "won" back in Amaram's Army. For that one Im guessing it's a Willshaper, simply because it sounds almost exactly like Willshaper blade in the new official artwork: "Thick, curved, one edge in shape of flames or ripples, a gem stone set at the pommel. Etchings all along its surface."

Sweet! Thanks, Im going to have to stare at this one for a while. Im still trying to work out what the realmic significance of Color actually is, and supposedly the eye color thing and color's role in Awakening are connected.

Not usually, the sDNA imparted with hemalurgy does not breed into the next generation. A notable exception to this was the Koloss in Era2, Harmony made a specific/conscious change that allowed the Koloss to breed as a species.

Nope, it's hereditary. In the cosmere people have both normal physical DNA and spiritual DNA, so it's hereditary without literally being an amino acid sequence issue. There are ways to transfer it, the most obvious being Hemalurgy which literally rips out that sDNA from the victim and grafts it to the recipient.

BEHOLD! Siblings.