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Hmm... I'm going to USU. I could be interested in meeting up with a group some time, but I wouldn't count myself as a yes vote. If I didn't have anything else going on I'd probably show up.

The only error that really stopped me in my reading: "'Just stay with the horses. And try not to talk to anyone.' Waxillium shook his head, pushing into the saloon, feeling an odd spring to his step. He was filling his metalmind a smidge, decreasing his weight by about ten percent. Common practice for him these days, ever since he’d run out of stored weight during one of his first bounty hunts a few months back." That spring in his step would no longer be an "odd" feeling if he's been regularly storing for the past several months.

It actually looks like he missed a whole question in that quote. There are five out of the six Q: Is the keyhole to the oathgate a spren? Shallan says it is the same material as a shard blade. A: RAFO. (Sorry.)

I'm pretty sure that Miles mentions (inside his mind) that Tarson is a pewter savant. I feel that he was thinking something a long the lines of "pewterarms heal quickly and since Tarson is a savant he'll heal even more quickly" in reference to the broken arm.

The end of mistborn implied

I don't think wyndle was complaining about being with someone unimportant... From what I recall he was complaining about being with someone who's immature. He was saying that he wanted to pick a certain grandmother. Yes, she would have been important to her family, but that was the only "importance" that could have been implied by his complaining.

Hero of Ages

I don't know.... they're still at the front of the highstorm. I thought it took hours for highstorms to pass, and when Szeth wakes up he doesn't mention anything about being in the middle of a highstorm. ... actually, now I'm just thinking that Nale probably used a transportation fabrial to grab the body and then get out real quick, then immediately using the regrowth fabrial to heal. In the end of my thinking, I agree with the previous post.

I would add a potential option of each planet having a specific "focus", e.g. the magic of whatever Shards are present on Scadrial will always manifest themselves in some relation to metal. Something to do with how the planet's inherent investiture interacts with the shards' investiture. I feel like I've recently read a quote that had something to do with that...

One of our Apostles, President Packer, gave this story as part of a much longer discourse. I starting thinking how similar that is to how the magic users in the cosmere (I'm pretty sure it's more than just the Radiants, but even if it is only them, then it still works) have to be broken. Within those cracks something can come and make them stronger than they were. And if my understanding is correct, it's a spiritual break, rather than cognitive or physical.

OK... so I might just not be remembering very good, but I don't remember the potentiality of reviving a blade being mentioned in the books. I know of the WoBs relating to the matter, but I don't remember "all this foreshadowing" about a blade getting revived. The only potential foreshadowing that I recall is Adolin liking to talk to his Blade and not wanting to name it (which could very, very easily be an idiosyncrasy to set Adolin apart and not actually any type of foreshadowing). There's also the instances of italicized duck, but I just read that as warrior instinct. Is there more that I'm missing?

Two reasons for why I believe Szeth's hand is healed: 1) I just barely read somewhere(I believe in the recent reddit AMA that was linked to in either this thread or one of the many other threads) WoB that future books will be written in such a way that it won't matter what version of WoR we've read, it'll be the same. From that I would think that it's a logical conclusion that Szeth's hand is healed. 2) I don't think that Brandon would have published the book in the first place if the healing of Szeth's soul with that fabrial didn't agree with the rules of the magic system. I'm pretty sure that the only real change is the characterization of Kaladin,

These other posts reminded me of my other important question. I took that statement to mean that someone bonded to a living spren can heal spiritual wounds, but one who's bonded to a dead spren can't, which in turn brought me to the question, Can people who have dead shardblades utilize stormlight somehow to heal non-spiritual wounds? or a different train of thought, Was that statement referring to the idea that all Radiants were broken, which in turn allowed a spren to come in to "heal the soul." Following through, is this saying that only those who are bonded to a "living shardblade" are able to heal soul-wounds caused by shardblades. Following that line of thought brings a couple questions: I always assumed that early in the next book, Hobber (I think) will be shown to use stormlight to heal his legs. Will that no longer happen? (that would be sad. I can imagine Kaladin telling him that it'll work, but it never does... ) Did the old scene of Szeth getting his soul healed show that he had already bonded a spren?

For my two cents on the issue at hand, I read the stab scene as Kaladin reflexively diverting the stab, not as something that he pondered about for a time to try to figure out what fits best with his moral character. He doesn't even know for sure why he diverted the stab. Kaladin is thinking that it might have been pity that diverted the blow. Another potential reason is that it's just harder to kill someone who is no longer a threat. Szeth basically surrendered. We all agree (I think) that one of the things that show us that Sadeas is a worthless sack of rotten potatoes is the fact that he personally killed a bunch of Parshendi that surrendered on the field. I would say that Szeth metaphorically raised the white flag. I don't want to pass judgment on whether or not I think the change is a good change (Although not passing judgment on what I think really doesn't make sense...), but I would like to point out a few of the potential bonuses that may come because of the change. Kaladin will now be able to ponder about what it is about himself that caused him to divert the stab (Another opportunity of character building and it's always good to learn more about one's self). I think whatever else I was going to write has been said plenty enough before...... so I won't write those out (we can pretend that I did have coherent thoughts that I was going to put here.. ) I've actually had problems with this scene from the first time I read it, and this fix doesn't actually fix what I think is a real issue. My question is, and will continue to be, Why in the world did Kaladin use a sword to stab instead of a trusty spear??

It seems to me like shardplate is some form of condensed stormlight. As the radiant progresses in the ideals, their stormlight use becomes more efficient. Close to when they reach the point that they can hold stormlight perfectly, they're able to use a certain amount of their held stormlight to create the armor. The stormlight that does leak out (from the skin or from normal talking) just goes to power the plate in the same way that Shallan's leaks power her weavings. That could be why Dalinar doesn't notice any of the radiants that he talks to in his visions having "frosty" breath (I'm pretty sure he doesn't notice that, at least). nvm, I'm going to put one foot in the boat that believes a(or multiple) lesser cousin spren is used. A cousin spren is used as the base. stormlight is used to give increased mass and simulate the bond. I think this thought line answers why stormlight needs to be used to fix plate. Problems: The OP question.: - Maybe there's nothing in Dalinar's/a Bondsmith's subconscious or spiritweb or some such that understands how a spren turns into a Blade (since the stormfather is unwilling to do so) and because of that they are unable to learn how to convince a lesser spren to turn into Plate? This would make one think that if making the Plate in that way is a possibility, then a radiant would be able to make bunches of plates (for squires?): - The current crop of Plate might only be around because the Radiants renounced their oaths while the bond was being simulated? - Maybe only one bond can be simulated at a time? screaming/syl's fine with the Plate: - Maybe it's like wearing something made from an animal. It can be sad for the animal to die, but the thing we make from it is useful?

I just barely read a WoB in a different thread that said that Rashek didn't use lerasium. He made himself an immensely powerful allomancer while he was doing all of the other changes to the world. Besides that, I don't think burning lerasium would have really helped Vin out with the hemalurgic thing. Of course, it would come down to how it is that hemalurgy changes the sDNA. One way to look at it would be if the spike does a one time thing right when it enters and then it's basically just sitting in your body like a lump of metal. (If that is how it is, there'd have to be some good reason for why the hemalurgic decay isn't happening. Also, in this way burning lerasium would work according to your theory, until Vin decided to remove the earing for some reason, then another one time instant thing happens and the removal of the metal causes another sDNA change. Normally that change would revert Vin to normal, but because she burned the lerasium she was already normal before the removal so her sDNA would then get changed opposite to the original change.) Hopefully that paragraph was understood. Let's see if I can relate it to numbers. Vin normal = 0. Vin spiked = 3. So when spike goes in, Vin gets +3. When spike comes out, Vin gets -3. Vin is spiked, so she = 3. Burns lerasium, now she = 0. She removes spike for some reason, now she = -3. ........ I'm just going to quit that thought process while i'm ahead.... or at least, while I'm not as far behind as I could become... Another way to look at how hemalurgy could work: While the spike is in, it is constantly exerting "pressure" on the sDNA. Your sDNA knows what normal is and wants to be normal, but it's being held to un-normal by the spike. (This way could explain hemalurgic decay: The spike is constantly exerting some type of pressure or force. When it's in a body, that force is being used to "attack" the sDNA. While it's out of a body, the only thing around for that force to "attack" is the investiture in the spike itself, and from there hemalurgic decay happens.) If spikes worked in this way, the only way I could see the OP working is if the spike was burned out or shorted or whatever at the time of the burning of the lerasium, but I don't think that it's very likely that burning lerasium would do that. There is the possibility, though. I personally prefer my second idea of how hemalurgy works, but choosing that makes it less likely for the OP theory to be right, in my opinion.

Would any color anywhere even have a cognitive aspect? I'd imagine that an object might have part of it's identity an idea that it is a specific color (like stick having the idea that it's brown) but I don't see the colors themselves having a cognitive aspect.

Will that kinda throws out that idea then... oh well... ...

Well if we look at the magic systems: Sel: Unless we count the energy to draw the pictures or the forms or whatever, out of the 4 systems we know, only dakhor uses non-investiture as an energy source. Roshar: Stormlight is energy source AND investiture Scadrial: Allomancy uses metal, hemalurgy kills people, feruchemy is end-neutral Yolen: dust is used in the process of lightweaving, but I don't believe that it's consumed Nalthis: up in the air according to this theory I haven't read the non-published books, but I believe I heard of one that has something to do with people get more potent abilities equal to the intensity of an illness. From what I remember it sounded as if that system didn't necessarily use a specific fuel to power the abilities. I don't know if that's all canonized yet though. out of the 9 given systems, my count is 6 of them don't have a specific non-investiture fuel. I included feruchemy in that count because what is stored can be tapped = no loss/no drain. I don't really know how to count hemalurgy, since you normally have to kill people to get the spikes. If we don't count people as a fuel then I don't see what other fuel there is. Allomancy burns metal. Dakhor eats people. On Roshar stormlight is used as the fuel, but I don't think I would necessarily count it, since stormlight IS the magic. That would be the same as using Breath as the fuel, which doesn't happen (besides for Returned...). By my count, even if we didn't count Roshar, there would still be more than half of the other known magic systems that DON'T use a specific fuel the energize the magic. Of the ones that do, I believe that we don't really know how Dakhor works, I already wrote all I have to say about hemalurgy, and in Allomancy the metal really just gives the investiture a pattern to flow through, and so is really only maybe half used as a fuel in the normal sense of the word. (I'm also remembering a WoB that basically said the metal wasn't actually burned in the process....... except now I'm remembering that that had to do with when Aluminum gets burned. It cuts off the spiritual connection to the metal that has already been ingested, but doesn't actually burn that metal). If it is pigments of a color that are used in the process of Awakening, I imagine there would have to be a detailed reason of why the pigments are used (in the same vein of how the metal is used in allomancy), and I have no idea at all how that could be explained. Right now I'm trying to wonder if it could be explained in kind of the same way as the metals, but I can't reason that out. It couldn't have to do with the "pattern" of a specific color, otherwise I believe we would have been told something about how certain types of Awakenings are better with specific colors, but there's nothing of the sort given to us.

Has anyone every wondered if there has been a time or three when Peter is browsing through this sight, sees a theory that makes complete sense or fleshes out some aspect of the cosmere, then he goes and talks to BS then they tweak a thing or two but basically end up canonizing that theory? I believe that it's possible that that's happened once or twice. I tried looking if this has already been brought up, but I didn't see anything.

"...and a patch of color bled from the black stone beside him. Black was a color. He’d never considered that before he’d become an Awakener." Warbreaker, pg. 205, Vasher Awakening. That line sent up warning flags for me this last time I read through Warbreaker. Black is the absence of color. If we use the same logic that Vasher used in deciding that black is a color, then we would decide that white isn't a color because there's nothing to "drain" when Awakening. But we know that white has all visible colors in the light spectrum. We can also see as we read Warbreaker that that part of physics hasn't been demolished, due to seeing the color distortion surrounding the God King. I propose the idea that Awakening actually "Endows" a given object with more color (or the ability to reflect more color). That falls in line with Endowment's intent. Why would Endowment take? -Endowment gives, so lets just keep on giving. Q: Bright colors are better for Awakening? It seems like there's more to drain there. A: I could say that there's more room to give. If there's only one bright color, there's the whole rest of the spectrum to give. A muddled color like brown has less room to expand through the spectrum than a single, pure hue. Q: It seems like there might be a slight issue with color draining to gray for normal awakening, but I can't think of a good phrase to express that sliver of thought. A: Ideal Awakening (10th heightening) bring the color of a used object to white, instead of just gray. Q: Where will Awakening get the energy to do stuff? it feeds off of the color. A: I can't imagine color being that viable of an energy source.... I'd say that the energy comes solely from the Breath. The Awakener making a way for a physical object to be endowed with color makes room for the endowments in the spiritual and cognitive realms to come to pass (the same way fire needs to feed off fuel AND oxygen, the endowment needs to happen in all three realms to be viable). Q: That thought would make one think that the object getting endowed with the spiritual and cognitive (life/breath and memory/being able to follow commands) would also be the one to be endowed in the physical, which is not so. And there are other places in this forum where people are talking about the change in color being a change in the spiritual aspect for that object. What about that? A: Those are good points that I don't have a very good answer to. Other issue(s) that I can think of: Black. This theory would say that pure black is actually the best "color" to use for Awakening. If it was, then it would probably be mentioned more for being used for Awakening than this one quote. I would say that for it to be the best, it would have to be pure, and it seems like it would be very hard to get pure black, with no hints of other color.

Hmm.... That's awkward.... Is emotional alomancy able to control a Returned that has been spiked?

Ooo. Thanks!! *chew* ... Wait... Is there something wrong with this cookie.... .... *chew* 'cause it's pretty good. You should have a piece... ...

Hello! I am back, and I come with a different name, clean slate, other things.... etc.... . There was a slight problem with the Returning, though. I still have many of the memories that I acquired in my past life, which makes of thing abundantly clear. I KNOW WHO I WAS. I figure that I might as well let y'all in on the secret. In my past life I was known as Lantern13. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/user/1584-lantern13/ (trying to insert that as a link from Lantern13 wasn't working...) (I guess on the technical side of the equation, this site half-deleted the account some time during the two years of it not being used. The profile is still there by searching for it in the search, but when trying to recover a forgotten password I get told that that member account doesn't exist. Which means I died but the memory remained. Which means to come back I have to be Returned ). I believe that I've read all the books that came out since I left, and the books were all wonderful. Of all those books, I came out from reading The Emperors Soul with the most awe. I thought it was masterful the way I was kept riveted to the book with the scene hardly changing throughout the whole. Edit: I've been fixed, Now I'm still my new person, but I'm also who I was.

Thanks. I'm actually leaving in just a few minutes. I plan on returning with the ability to use the gravity and pressure surges .