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So the question then is how big does a spike need to be to have enough power to carry a blessing? Is it a function of size at all or only of composition and placement?

I'd say that reducing your weight would likely reduce your push strength, or at least require an anchor. Thus reducing your weight to less than that of the ring would cause you to fly back from the ring.

Age always struck me as a bit weird as well, but then again God metals are supposed to break the rules to a degree. Besides, Feruchemical atium doesn't break the normal rules anywhere near as much as Feruchemical nicrosil does (or at least appears to from the small amount of info we have on it currently).

True enough. And it's shown that Aon Tia takes enough power that it only works in the immediate vicinity of Elantris.

Well we know from Alloy that pieces of spikes are still spikes in their own right, so as long as a piece of the spike remained within the Kandra I don't think the Blessing would be destroyed.

Even better. I'm used to most teleportation systems having built in protections to stop that from happening, but Aon Tia notably doesn't.

Granted, but you must suffer each one before you can bestow it. I wish for the final say on whether any and all television/web series get cancelled or renewed.

I don't know. Feruchemical brass for heat doesn't really have a positive and negative end. It talks about storing heat to cool down in hot conditions.

It's true. We've all been spoiled by finding actually good authors. I go back to read other books now and find that I already know the whole plot 3 chapters in. Sigh... Worth it though.

Even better if you have 5-10 different ones for different distances. A really tough fighting style to master but once mastered you'd be pretty amazing. You could also have other ones set to activate on contact so you could teleport your enemies away...say 5000 feet straight up.

Well, it's a bit more and less than that. Remember that Nightblood really wants to and tries to understand what Evil is so he can fight it. He's wrong half the time but he's getting there. He also gained a set of weird powers relating to making "evil" people desire him enough to draw him and then kill everyone around them in choking black smoke. I'd be more interested to try and guess where the hell something like that came from and how the extra powers would manifest in a shield with "Defend Evil". Would it just pump lots of extra power into them and essentially make them invulnerable? Would it float around blocking all attacks at lightning speed?

That could work for essentially combat teleportation. Dangerous as hell though. Way too easy to end up inside something (or someone).

Very true. I think that we often are looking for too direct an influence when looking for the workings of Shards.

Also, he wouldn't necessarily needed to have "left behind his power" to have affected things. If he made a slight modification to something, it seems more consistent to me that without investing more of himself it would simply make that thing easy to undo for another Shardholder.

We just need to start a collection charity among us to buy Sanderson more Bendalloy... And by the way, estimating that a 1000 page book will be out in a year and a half when you haven't even started writing it yet is absolutely insanely fast in the world of publication. Any other author I'd scoff and say double that and you'll maybe be close to accurate. Sanderson I could actually believe it.

Granted. PM Sent with your bane. You have not received a downside on this page. I wish for the boon of power. I want to be able to wield every form of every power of investiture in the Cosmere.

Well, the process of aging is a physiological one. It's a factor of cells being replaced within the body and the redundant tails of information on each cell shortening with each division. If all of the body's natural processes are halted, then there is nothing left to cause aging.EDIT: As for being an Elantrian actually stopping aging, this seems not to fit with the text. Even AonDor stopping aging doesn't really fit. Galladon notes when talking about his father's death... "They lived much longer than regular people, but they could still die, especially if they wanted to. My father knew the signs of heart death. He could have gone in to be healed but he chose to stay in his study and disappear..." The key point here is the reference that he could have gone in to be healed. It isn't that it was a conscious choice to die. It was a conscious choice to not get healed and let the natural process of death happen. It seems like their extended lives and superiour health may simply have been due to easy access to Aon Ien at the first sign of any infirmity.

That would fit with the theory that he causes the Alethi Battle Thrill on Roshar. Similar effects. And rage isn't really entirely in the domain of Ruin.

Then let's expand this further (perhaps to a ridiculous degree). They are based on the Arelish landscape. Let's say someone underwent a massive terraforming project and created an exact duplicate of the Arelish landscape elsewhere on the planet, including the Elantris metropolitan giant Aon Rao. Would AonDor suddenly start working there? Essentially, is it the actual geographic location, is it the landscape features, or is it the man-made constructs on the land?

It would work for most Aons where you only want a single repeatable effect. Tia is just particularly tricky and wrong for this technique.

Granted, but you lose the ability to read. I ask for the boon of insight to know the secret contents of all of Brandon Sanderson's unpublished notes on the Cosmere.

So there is a classic forum game that I've usually seen called "yes, but". Usually used in reference to wishes. Basically, the first person posts a wish, then the poster after them grants that wish but tacks on a rider to make it awful, then posts their own wish. And so on and so on. The Boons and Banes from the Nightwatcher seem ideal for this. Since the bane doesn't necessarily have to be directly connected to the boon granted, this opens up a bit more leeway, but I think it could still be at least mildly amusing to see what we lurkers of the forums come up with. So how about it? Who wants to play the Nightwatcher? I'll start off with a wish that should be simple enough to screw over. "I ask the Nightwatcher for the boon of immortality. Let me live through the ages forever, seeing the march of history progress."

That probably wouldn't work too well as each tattoo would have to have the specific direction and distance noted. Drawing unfinished ones on some discardable surface would work better. The uses of Aon Tia to transport around the city worked fine because each could have a destination set, or even several on a plaque, each one taking you to another Aon Tia station like an instantaneous Underground system.

It's also not guaranteed that there is a single method to worldhop. It seems far more likely that each magic system has its own way to accomplish the same feat. Using modifiers on Aon Tia (possibly combined with Aon Rao as a power amplifier and/or doorway to the Spiritual or Cognitive realm) makes the most sense for AonDor. Other magic systems will almost certainly have very different methods and they will need to be far more roundabout since other than Elsecalling, no other magic system we've seen yet has any true teleportation or even really travel power.

Sorry. I missed a page. I'll continue on from here now. Buy. I like the idea of a worldhopping pretzel vendor. Kelsier's Shadow will learn to worldhop and spawn a whole set of new religions all over the Cosmere. Shu-Kelsier on Sel, The Metallic Tones on Nalthis, and SurviVorinism on Roshar.