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He really doesn't seem the controlling type honestly. They are still mentally human in the end, and free will is his current subject of interest. I'm willing to believe that some of them if not most would just willingly follow. Not like they have much to do these days.
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Nightblood logic is strange. Somehow I feel like he and Pattern would make an adorable pair of confused aliens.
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Besides, even if Nightblood wasn't always broken he can't actually tell if Shashara was evil in the first place.
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I was implying that his hand is probably fine.
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The other guy who heard the scream in the arena went crazy and ran away crying for mommy while probably shitting his pants, but Renarin was literally just putting up with it the whole time, was what I meant. It's probably quite disturbing to have a sword screaming like that for so long, and the other fodder shardbearer only lasted seconds. Renarin has guts just for managing to not freak out or even mention it.
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For a cognitive shadow of Honor Stormfather isn't very honorable honestly (no pun intended). He did try to send a premature highstorm into the Everstorm head-on to nuke the shattered plains and all. Everything turned out at least better than he anticipated (even if it still isn't looking good) so he sort of gave up on protecting the people immediately. On the other hand, it might be less betrayal on a personal level for spren-kind and more of a betrayal of the trust in humanity they displayed when granting them their power. The Listeners think the spren ditched them, so maybe the spren are mad that they gave humanity a shot and offered their lives to grant them power only to run into this inherent complication after all this time?
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Perhaps a combination of the autism and epilepsy and some sort of perceived inferiority complex caused by them due to being worthless to his father as a warrior? He did seem shocked when Dalinar promised him a suit of plate if he could find one, and he currently seems to be trying really hard to live up to expectations as a warrior now that he does own a set. Even to the point of fighting under a continuous death scream from his blade without backing down immediately.
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Speaking of his dead blade, I would find it suspicious that full resurrection of a dead shardblade is specifically mentioned as "difficult" instead of impossible unless someone ends up doing so at some point. Just what would be needed though. I'm curious now. The edgedancer theory has merit I guess.
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Well they obviously can't full lash without adhesion. Basic and reverse are within the realm of possibilities. Full lashing is such a misnamed power.
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The problem I see with it not healing the severed hand is that he makes little mention of the original version (where the entire soul gets severed and heals anyway) being mechanically inconsistent with how he wants magic to work. So what Triasmus said.
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Same thing as the power of ruin coming through as an allomantic charge? Little reason to believe it has much of an effect beyond leading to potential loophole exploitation. You can probably burn even stormlight with some worldhopper-style meddling if you tried. These magic systems are rather flexible in how they can be hacked.
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A thought comes to me that with the mechanics of Mistborn it's nearly impossible to make explosions. Closest Cosmere thing to explosions that comes to mind is the odd Aon fireball going off, and Stormlight/Warbreaker have enough visible investiture effects and destroying of evil (heh) to look flashy, but allomancy is visually rather subdued. At most they can help people follow the fights by animating slightly visible effects for the steel and iron lines. With that said, everyone would want a Sanderson movie done right and suitably epic (no pun intended). I hadn't read the Lord of the Rings before watching the movies but they were beautiful.
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Only reason Szeth refused to die all this time was because Truthless are banned from ever committing suicide, and you know how he is with his punishment. His opponent, however, is clearly a Radiant, so he now realizes that he was never Truthless and just wanted the madness to end. He sort of throws the fight in both versions anyway. I suppose by the brain being intact he could've meant it wasn't completely pulverized into mush or severed from the body. That scene was a strange one.
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I see. I honestly doubt Syl is all that special.
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Well, I remember it not doing much to the furniture, or otherwise missed a command somewhere down the line. But yeah, one hell of a squirrel.
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You don't know that. Heck, we knew Shallan was in trouble back home by the end of WoK but it turned out even more ****ed up than it seemed at first (and she laughs anyway. Beautiful.) Jasnah basically only had one book of development and we have yet to get flashbacks of her.And as Syl says, "They all were [broken]". All allomancers are similarly broken as well, and we have justification to believe investiture cannot pass through your spiritweb otherwise.
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Are greatshell exoskeletons affected? That might be the answer here. Or not, depending on the nature of their forms.
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We've been discussing the identity of our favorite color-swearing life-sensing swordmaster with the rope belt and beard (who used to hear voices in his head and uses the word "Investiture") for months now. Where were you? He even plays a game with colored rocks thrown into circles and tells the bridgemen to not touch his rocks.
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Metals And Mists: Questions On Allomantic Fundamentals
natc replied to Moogle's topic in Cosmere Discussion
That's a lot of systems then. We're lucky god metal mistings don't naturally exist (unless you consider all humans as lerasium mistings) or we'd have hundreds of combinations. -
Theory: Aslydin is a member of the Seventeenth Shard
natc replied to Lightflame's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Then the whole comment on the ethnicity of her name is now bizarre.EDIT: Maybe one of her ancestors weren't native! -
Well if it is possible to "power all three systems" with any shard then direct infusion must actually do something right?
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There really aren't enough formally recognized Radiants to have much impact. We barely have 4. Probably hundreds of surgebinders out there, but they haven't found and recruited them all yet (it's been what, a few weeks at most? Lol) and several probably have some legal pretense for Nale to kill them in. They have to all be in one place to learn the terrible secret anyway.
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If they never even seemed to notice out there after 5-6 years that it isn't actually armor I'd assume it gets cut. But who knows? (Not me that's for sure)
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And we keep discussing legal options. What are we, Skybreakers? I'm sure the Kholins care about that being involved in politics by default but the matter we're discussing is what Syl thinks of it and she might not care. Windrunners and honorspren are definitely the do-gooder group with the chronic hero syndrome mentality but the by-the-books group is that other team over there with Nalan and Szeth. You'd think the honorable choice would be to lock him up for the time being and have him pay for his (legally ambiguous) crimes, like Kaladin wanted Szeth to do before the guy offed himself. "Honor" is rather shortsighted with regards to consequences as Tanavast can attest to (and dvoraen mentions). Law and politics is all about the consequences. Syl is no highspren that's for sure.
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Syl's opinion would not be particularly inclined towards legal methods. I'm just saying, you can just lock him in a room and leave it at that if you tried. Though surely threatening the life of a member of the royal family with the retreat stunt makes for some grounds for punishment . . . we have an army's worth of witnesses for that one. People have historically been executed for less.