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I can get behind that. While in practical terms deadblade shardbearers are practically heavy artillery in a world of footsoldiers, they are just cannon fodder before the potential WMDs that Radiants can become. From a narrative perspective Radiants are central to the plot, so shardbearers are stuck relegated to supporting cast and extras, so the number of sprenblades we see will definitely be disproportionate.
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Now you can have literal iron in your diet. I'm sure some will prefer the swig of spiked whiskey though.
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IIRC David, as someone not formally trained in Epic science-y stuff, has been noted to cannibalize terms from multiple classification systems that I presume he learned from hearsay in his stack of notes. Along with words like prime invincibility that he appears to have made up, judging from Tia's response to the notes. It seems to me David's definition of an Epic with prime invincibility is coincidentally the formal definition of High Epic, a term he used to use to just describe anyone unreasonably overpowered and dangerous.
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I can see what you're saying, but that's not appearance. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. Even you admit they look different now, too.
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I just want to know if Raoden draws the chasm line through a spot that makes more sense relative to the actual chasm now. It was in a weird spot before.
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What do Dustbringers get? A pyrotechnics degree? They do mention fire and dustbringers a lot, so I imagine whatever they use their surges for would get pretty flashy.
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A large part of it is due to what the powers actually are too . . . A mediocre invincible epic, for example, is going to be beating a Calamity-buffed hydrokinetic if you give him enough time unless his weakness is unknown. He can't lose. Prof's powers besides super strength were inherently a rather powerful combination. He'd still be a powerful threat even with weaker versions of the same powers, just not nearly as broken as the infinite regen, disintegrating, and nigh-indestructible crushing forcefield generating god he is now.
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How do you know he is giving powers away? Gifting doesn't seem to last forever. He could literally be creating power.And the human population looks to be getting wiped out regardless. Not that quickly, but Obliteration doesn't seem to show signs of slowing down quite yet.
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Well, by virtue of all bind points being in places that draw blood, using a huge spike for the sake of efficiency usually would get pretty gory. You are impaling people with a metal stake. Sure, you can use a needle or an earing but the bigger the spike the less decay matters. It's just easier to die from spike wounds than not. I don't think the system protects from dying from spikes on donation, only from receiving a spike. If you know what you're doing or the victim has a full goldmind he can probably make it out alive. Otherwise they likely have a gaping hole in their torso going through their heart and lungs.
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You don't have to mess with someone's hard drive to change data when you can just intercept the signal from the keyboard and change it, is what I'm getting from Moogle.
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Hey, he may be a psychopath, but he is a psychopathic lawman who only murders on legal pretenses. He just has a knack for finding legal pretenses.
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You mean that other Hoid scene? Not really I guess.
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I guess there would be. Magic generally seems to leave room for opinion a lot in the cosmere anyway. His opinion seems pretty standard and non-sociopathic for the most part at least, good riddance. This is one of those ambiguous edge cases the system doesn't catch I guess.
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What do we know about gold and red though?
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Because he's sworn to protect people who can't protect themselves, even if he hates them. Arguably the honorblade is the only other thing worth saving put there, and while that's probably the higher priority for the cosmere-aware it's not like there's any way in Damnation he would know that. Szeth was screwed and he didn't go after him, though it seems he considered it. Here he was just done calling him a coward for wanting to die before answering for his crimes.
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I like it more as well. Sure, it's still his fault, but at least he stopped to think about it for a bit. Then everything took a very unexpected turn for him when the blade unbound and in the rush to grab something he defaulted to his usual morally questionable behavior (supported by Syl's advice). He's still an uncaring jerk, but it's a bit of progress.
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For plot ones, the fact that Dalinar's visions have a tendency to just go on and on at a pace that makes you feel like the speaker is monologing? WoK spoilers
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Well the Mists were also producing atium mistings instead of the expected cadmium/bendalloy mistings. (Gotta wonder if it made any malatium, duralumin, aluminum, chromium, and nicrosil mistings. . . like you could even test for those anyway). There's reason to assume Preservation sabotaged his own system all those years ago just for that final Elend gambit and left a bunch of holes in the mist-powered allomancy system in the process. Because burning should be instinctive, supposedly, Vin doesn't need to know about an allomantically viable metal to be able to detect the reserve and burn it, she'll at most just not know what would happen if she does. She'll probably do it anyway, knowing her. Though on the misting thing, with what lerasium does to your soul just as a side effect of burning it (we still don't actually know what it does . . .)it's possible that if you somehow burn mist regardless of your powers or lack thereof you'd end up a mistborn after a while until the ascension threshold is reached.
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Metals And Mists: Questions On Allomantic Fundamentals
natc replied to Moogle's topic in Cosmere Discussion
What do you mean by "single" Misting, exactly? And fractured Ferrings and twinborn never existed because as far as we know TLR has been preventing crossbreeding of allomantic and feruchemical bloodlines for the duration of the Final Empire with the Terris breeding programs. It's less that it was or wasn't possible before and more that it doesn't matter when there are no Terris allomancers or non-Terris feruchemists to cause the Ferring and Twinborn states in the first place. -
EDIT:Should we be spoiler tagging according to book of origin so people can just read the ones from books they've read? WoR spoilers
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He kind of already does that, in a way.
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I'm iffy on the external electrum thing. . . on one hand it definitely is applying the electrum effect to everything except yourself, but on the other hand it technically grants you the ability to see other objects' future. Like tin, which is internal, and allows you to sense the world better, but atium instead senses the world's future. So wouldn't atium be less "external" electrum and more just a different internal effect along the same lines as electrum? I believe even the Ministry was stumped by that. The actual external temporal metals turn out to cause actual time distortion, which makes sense compared to the internal pair allowing perception of time other than the present. They judge push/pull in this chart in part with bronzepulses, so I'd imagine atium and electrum would actually be classified identically as temporal-internal-pushing.
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Whoever said atium was its own element
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The thing is though, the shards are still fighting over influence of his mind, and Preservation is permanently weaker unless he decides to massacre humanity (which he can't). If he needs to maintain harmony as it is there needs to be an outlet still.
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Or just mechanical copperclouds in general. (Off on a tangent, but I always did wonder if life sense can pierce copperclouds). They'll have invent something that constantly gives off allomantic pulses and hide them everywhere so that they can find clouds where the pulses cut off.