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In Syl's case I feel she might find killing Sadeas an overly drastic solution. You protect even those you hate unless you have good reason to do otherwiise, and stripping him of his position/putting him in jail/etc. would've worked. He wasn't doing anything at the moment of the murder that really needed death to stop, unlike on the battlefield where it becomes kill or be killed and you have no real option. From the dustbringer perspective of Nightblood-esque DESTROY EVIL!!! though it was totally necessary.
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Theory: Aslydin is a member of the Seventeenth Shard
natc replied to Lightflame's topic in Cosmere Discussion
The quote from the AMA literally says the ethnicity of her name was one of the things meant to give it away, so definitely not Terris. -
I, Ruin, shall intentionally stab you with this sword through this Pewterarm before you to grant you the power of Pewter, but as I lack limbs I shall simply hijack this conveniently present swordsman to do so in my stead.Sound better?
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It really kind of is just a title. A title that shares the same qualifications as a fully-powered surgebinder due to the enforced system, but a title bestowed by an organization nonetheless. A true Radiant will be a full-powered surgebinder, but the reverse is a different matter, in my opinion. Like every Catholic Saint being a follower of Christianity 100% of the time by definition but even some of the most devout of people may not be Saints simply because nobody has really gone and put them on the list. Of course in our case the list got set on fire, fed through a shredder, then scattered out in the ocean, and the people who made the list are 6 miles under, so they're just using a new sheet of paper and writing themselves onto it without quite knowing what they're doing.
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Well, yeah, I guess only two of the known shards actually cancel each other out, so the complete Adonalsium chunk would actually be skewed towards certain things. But seriously, what does pure ice cream taste like?
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We need to have someone burn a type IV biochromatic entity and see what happens. Could be more interesting than a spike. And less potentially horrific. Assuming it burns up before their soul is gone of course. Though we don't know whether all type IVs end up like ol' Nightie.
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Especially in the more religious worlds that are slightly aware of their shards, the defining traits of their god (the Shard) would likely be incorporated as virtues, which might enhance that somewhat. The fact that the magic systems also tend to correlate to the shard somewhat doesn't help matters either. Imagine if Scadrial only had hemalurgy and guess where the culture would end up.
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Any allomancer that can already burn the metal the metalmind is made of can technically sense the feruchemical reserve, IIRC. Vin has swallowed one of Sazed's metalminds before out of curiosity, and she can definitely feel the extra reserve. However, the power was unusable, and Sazed confirms his suspicions as feruchemists are similarly Identity-restricted. So, theoretically if the feruchemist's identity was somehow eliminated you can feed his metalminds to a Misting and they can draw the power. As they can't store it though compounding cannot be achieved. Or if a compounder has his feruchemy spiked out he can still burn what he has left, but (obviously) can't tap it or store more.
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Leras' DNA ought to have no influence on the power of Preservation at all. Even after switching owners and being glued to its polar opposite Preservation still functions enough to screw with its holder's mind. You can use Preservation to power hemalurgy too if you tried hard enough, remember. And atium is burnable.
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Adonalsium is . . . pure ice cream then? What does pure ice cream actually taste like anyway? Nobody sells it.
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You bring up a good point that the shard intent often exerts a cultural influence as well. Everyone would be lazy. With that said imagine Lust.
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Well there's the one paragraph somewhere in the two books I've lost track of where someone sees scorch marks on the battlefield and just assumes that there were dustbringers here in the earlier battle, so with their division-abrasion combo we can start spouting wild theories of how they can burn things with just those powers and infer Division from there. The Soulcasting orders seem consistent with their soulcasting power, and surgebinding fabrials exist, so the powers should be reasonably similar between orders. Theoretically. Just the name already implies they can fly and break things anyway. We've seen Adhesion, Gravitation, Abrasion, Transportation (kinda), Transformation, and Illumination. Giving Transportation half a point for occurring once without explanation in the epilogue that's 5.5 out of 10. It's on the minimum level of majority I guess.
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As far as we know the original nobles from the birth of the Final Empire are the first recorded lerasium Mistborn in Scadrial. Mistings long predate that, possibly by thousands of years depending on how many times the Well of Ascension has been used up and refilled, as the primary way to pinpoint the well other than asking the Terris is by bronzepulses. Alendi, in particular, was most certainly a Misting during an era when the existence of allomancy wasn't even known. I doubt that to be possible if the population had a prior lerasium influx.
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Depends on whether shardblade properties extend to squires I guess, as well as whether or not he thinks it ought to work. Your subconscious can troll yourself out of stormlight healing after all.
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On the "stabbing with a sword" thing, he does have to hit Szeth's spine to kill him. The wider the blade the better I guess? Nightblood is more likely to consume the rest of your soul than heal it. Maybe both at most. Also gulps down breath like mad, so whatever powers he might start granting on Roshar I imagine the stormlight efficiency is rather crap
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I actually wasn't trying to contradict you. I just end up contradicting people on the most obvious things in real life so much that I became kind of bad at phrasing things otherwise. Sorry about that.
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Sanderson merely has to come up with his stories; they will become the ideal form of "novel" in the spiritual and cognitive realms just by doing so, becoming an Essence. The printing presses used to print his books are actually soulcasters.
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People who have come to Roshar getting nahel bonds aside, apparently splinters of other shards bonded in their own native ways can potentially cause abilities to manifest as well despite normally doing absolutely nothing. So clearly surgebinding itself is normally useless on other planets without the usual jury-rigging worldhoppers tend to do. Makes being a surgebinder pointless with regards to the effort he spent on sketches in all the other cosmere books he's sketched in.
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Well, it's not exactly anti-skybreaker of course. Skybreakers aren't evil or something, and will gladly prevent evil if the law demands it. The fact that they would also likely help said evil along if they were operating entirely under legal pretenses is probably their main flaw, obviously.
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The person's identity also kind of blurs as the shard begins to mind-jack them to be honest. One could say Ruin is no longer the man Ati once was, and has been turned into the mind of the incarnation of destruction that is the Shard of Ruin. Ati was reportedly a really nice guy. Can't even imagine that anymore.
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Wor Ars Arcanum [Fourth Roshar Magic System]
natc replied to laxrulz777's topic in Cosmere Discussion
If gravitation surges do function by manipulating the spiritual gravitational bond between objects then it successfully dodges physical too. Hmm. The magic systems being a result of the planets themselves and the shards only fueling them and fudging the occasional detail, that's interesting. Perhaps the position of the planet relative to the rest of the cosmere in the three realms causes an effect on the ease of investiture manifestation/flow occurring in certain ways . . . this is sounding increasingly Asian-inspired somehow, but I can't place my finger on what makes me feel that. -
Beginning to wonder if this was intended. Oh storms, the Desolation is coming to Earth.
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The window was originally there, they just never fixed it after it got busted up. And she just moved the floor damage. The fireplace is a tough one but I guess with a room this old you can get quite a lot done. There would be no way in hell that a piece of canvas on my desk used to be, say, the Mona Lisa for example, so the only solution would be to forge it into having been made into, well, a forgery of the Mona Lisa (so much redundancy) by a painter, and you'd have to describe how to paint it. Fixing a window by saying it could've been fixed earlier sounds like a simpler job. For all we know the window next door could've been fixed at some point after all. Or two floors above, or something. I guess I should've phrased it as each of the changes seem to require very exact description, and depending on what it is you're doing and what steps may be necessary you might be keeping a ridiculous changelog on that stamp design. If she can forge cell walls she might know enough about construction work for a working fireplace, now that I think about it.
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Forgery inherently functions as alteration of history and not current state, and the more plausible the stamp is the better it holds. It stands to reason the more you go into detail of the manufacturing process the better it works. It might take for a while without the knowledge base, but I imagine for your average replica you'd want it to fool people for as long as possible.
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Well, thieves tend to get arrested and there's always more of them. Making counterfeit replicas is a profitable business. Illegal replicas even more so. Forging is just the type of system that requires a lot of expertise to get right, like AonDor, and Elantrians have all the time in the world to practice their powers (or not) with the free resources they churn out. Especially when you have to actually know how the object was made in the first place and be able to reproduce the object yourself to actually forge it with a stamp. As the book goes with Shai's paintings she could totally just buy paint downtown and paint them herself without magic and it'd look just as good. Shai actually thinks the stamp is so obvious that it's usually a bad idea to use them if you don't have to as people will notice. Forgery is a difficult skill to perfect and perfecting it actually renders the need for the skill nonexistent outside of huge emergencies when you really need to make something with no equipment. Not an appealing field to dedicate lifetime study and risk potential persecution in other cultures for.