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Any resistance against re-using belssing spikes is "mostly just cultural". In normal circumstances (or rather with Normal non-trellium Blessing spikes) it creates a new Kandra and is currently the only way the Kandra know to maintain their numbers since they do not know how to manufacture more Blessing Spikes. If a Kandra is without their Spikes for too long, however, their memories will biologically degrade to the point that if enough time has passed before they are replaced, they will essentially be a new person.

Im not saying forget what his efforts have accomplished, Im saying forget the Suffering itself. He can be told what he did and who he saved, but I think he would appreciate a nice big blank spot over anything and everything that happened on Braize.

Amnesia. He deserves to forget.

Good Point. An aluminum-lined hat would help hide most of the internal metals, but I dont think it would stop two Seekers from detecting each other's efforts. It has no visible effect so you could use it if you were confident there were no Seekers around, but it would be one of the more dangerous metals to your secret.

I suspect they had the very real fear that the Humans would be able to force them into Slaveform as they had their ancestors. As @R J mentioned, they probably didnt realize just how much knowledge the humans had lost.

Indeed, you'd pretty much have to pick just one thing and drop your cloud when you are burning just that metal. Steel as one of the Overt metals would probably make the most sense to be your cover Misting type, since all the rest are theoretically easier to hide. Honestly the easiest way to hide that you are a full Mistborn might simply be to get really into Body Piercing, and just keep everyone guessing which are Invested Spikes.

What's worse is that given the timeline of the Cosmere, we cant evn be sure it's not both a place and a person. The WOB is that Leras "would recognize Vax", and that it was "heavily suggested that it's a place". But we have characters that have created whole planets and lived for millennia, it's not out of the question for Vax to be a place but also have been a person back in the shattering era when Leras would have known them.

It's worth noting that standard Bronze Mistings can feel the difference between the burn of different metals, so you would need to keep a constant Coppercloud going most of the time you are burning metals.

In addition to that, I could see an instance where you burn copper to filter out some sort of perception "noise" and burn the bronze to detect only a specific (or maybe just the most powerful) signals around. I could especially see this having an application as the metallic arts move to a more mechanical/scientific model moving into the space age

I think it would depend heavily on the shards (and vessels) in question. It seems like it would be far more likely on Roshar, for example, than on Scadrial where the vessels are fighting and the intents themselves are almost directly opposed. By contrast on Roshar the two shards are married and their investiture is intermixed all over the place in the spren themselves. While they didnt apparently have mingled Perpendicularities as far as we've seen, I think they could have a lot more easily. Im curious how thing where in the old days on Sel.

Im curious to see how much control they will actually have when it comes to Division. One of only times we've seen it be used was Malata burning a fractal pattern into a table. If they can direct explosions with anything like that kind of detail, there is every possibility they could direct more violent explosions in a vague shape-charge sort of way.

Fair point. Along those lines, I wonder if a skilled (and durable) skybreaker might be able to add some sort of sustained rocket burn behind them for additional/active Thrust.

The implication is that he and any other bondsmiths will not get Plate, consistent with the fact that they have never gotten Blades (I originally thought that was a new restriction this post-Recreance).

Hmm, interesting thought. Which is more useful, Adhesion or Division? Adhesion can manipulate air pressure and so should easily be able to aid flight, and likely in more diverse ways. But a lot of that aid would likely just come down creating vacuum/low-pressure areas to reduce wind resistance, and Im curious if Division can pull the same trick by Dividing the air in front of the flying Skybreaker?

Basically, Awakening grants the object the ability to create physical force and Move without the need for muscles, motors, but it does not change the nature of the material itself, so it does not grant any additional cohesion or flexibility. This awakening stone will requires hinged joints, and it would not grant a liquid or gas any supernatural ability to hold itself together. Jello, on the other hand....

Specifically, they are a second green-colored fluid layer under the water of the Horneater Oceans, which are lakes at the top of the peaks.

Huh, I'd always thought the Dot was the Perpendicularity Pool and got noted in the Aons because it was a perpendicularity. @Halyo_Alex Fantastic Work! EDIT: Follow-up Question, @Halyo_Alex, why the break in the line over Aimia. I thought it might be the island chain, but there's nothing similar over the Reshi Isles

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No, I was saying that the Skybreakers are the Letter of the Law side, very rigidly inflexible and absolutist about Law and Choice, etc, whereas the Windrunners are more on the relativist side of things, where their honor is far more internal, personal, and something that may change based on the particulars of a situation

Personally I see a pattern of antagonism between the Windrunners and the Skybreakers, along the fault line of "Spirit of the Law" style Honor vs "Letter of the Law" style

In theory Yes. He's saturated by Investiture, and his Spiritweb has been "inflated" and stretched because of it, but the original shape of his spiritweb should remain more or less patterned as it was before it got inflated. In the same way Leras still had a physical body to drop when he died, Sazed should still be a feruchemist, and would still be a feruchemist should he ever decide to give up the shards.

I dont have a particularly good single source with all the equations involved, but these are some of the main principles involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_entry#Reentry_heating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier

The heating that happens in orbital reentry isnt going to become a huge issue for Windrunners without really working at it, because they arent being allowed to accelerate in a vacuum where they can exceed the speed of sound as dramatically as space-ships can. The bulk of the heat generated during reentry is from shock layers that form when the capsule (which as it comes in is going roughly 25 times the speed of sound) slams into the atmosphere, along with actual physical contact (convective) friction. Both of those really only become an issue when the flying object in question is going supersonic. They are at their worst when the object is smooth and blunt (approaching spherical), but get better if the object has more shape and contour to it because that give the air molecules more time to move out of the way. At it's most basic the speed of sound is the speed of propagation through the fluid (ie air), it's the max speed at which the molecules will act like dominos and bump into each other, which is also how fast sound wave will propagate through it, and how fast air molecules are able to get out of the way of an object. When something is moving faster than the speed of sound, those molecules can get out of the way fast enough and start getting compressed in strange ways instead, which leads to a lot of the heat generation in reentry. Once the module slows down below that speed, the temp drops and they start using parachutes and more normal control surfaces to slow down further. The trick they have to worry about is to not slow down too fast (strange statement to make...) to keep it under 8-9 g's of deceleration, so they dont hurt the crew. You normally wont fall faster than the speed of sound, because the drag increases sharply as you get closer to it so you usually reach an equilibrium speed, and require some additional active force before you can shove your way into a supersonic state. It is possible to go supersonic briefly by falling within the atmosphere, exploiting the loophole that the speed of sound is altitude dependent, so if you reach terminal velocity up there and then dive you may briefly reach a speed that is higher than the Speed of Sound at the lower altitude. But it would be so brief that they wouldnt have time to build up heat and ignite anything, and the physical wind forces they'd face might be a bigger problem. It's an issue for spacecraft because they get to accelerate entirely free of a terminal velocity, so when they hit the atmosphere they are going over 17,500 mph (mach 25) and cannot decelerate any faster than about 200 mph per second (without squishing their crew) so they have to hang around slamming through the air at supersonic speeds for a long time.

There is a "form" they are born into before they take their first Form as teenagers (or their equivalent youth anyway). Th restored Singers might be that at the moment. I also thought that they mentioned somewhere in WoR that i want to say Dullform was the default form they would take if they failed to attract a spren for one of the other Forms, and was a more common occurrence while they were trying to rediscover new Forms.

I've always assumed it was from the same catholic root, like Maria=Mary or Anjel=Angel, just without as much actual spelling change. But to be honest I have no idea if the common name and religious figure are viewed and/or pronounced the same to spanish natives.