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Matter is really a lot simpler than that once you go past the subatomic levels and start breaking down particles as far as they go. It apparently looks the same at that point. I'm not a physicist. Forces are the same. Energy itself falls under that matter business for some reason, because matter-energy transformation is strangely possible. Everything might as well be one thing, to an extent. Yet it behaves completely differently at the macroscopic level. Like investiture. It probably is less an actual difference inn composition and more some kind of arrangement on the cognitive or spiritual level that causes what ought to be the same properties to manifest in different ways. Which apparently can be jury-rigged to work regardless. You can smash an atom to pieces and piece something completely different together, but that's both storming difficult not quite as complex at the same time . . . So an analogy with matter makes more sense than you'd think.
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Metals And Mists: Questions On Allomantic Fundamentals
natc replied to Moogle's topic in Cosmere Discussion
The thing about perfect analogies is that there is nothing about perfect analogies when it comes to things like natural law explanations. No verbal model is that good, an abstract mathematical one is probably the only accurate description once you get down to fine details. And since magic doesn't quite work that way we have a problem. If it serves as a decent way to visualize things I'll take it, so long as people acknowledge the inaccurate points. -
On the subject of stormlight burning (bigger) troughs in your spiritweb, I've honestly been thinking about something lately, since you need a gap in your spiritweb from some kind of trauma for the power to flow through in the first place, won't a honorblade just granting surges to its owners necessitate manually blowing a hole in your soul first? Possibly by brute force overflow of investiture? These are splinters we're talking about and all. The only other known effects of investiture overload come from Vin, so one might actually ascend with enough stormlight . . . unless it is so uncontrollable compared to Mist that it tears your soul apart. Stormlight always gets described like a raging storm in their veins, while Vin mostly reported raw heat without much else, IIRC.
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Knights Radiant Returning In A Specific Order?
natc replied to gruntle's topic in Stormlight Archive
What does he say, specifically, and at what chapter? Most things Kal does just scream "I'm a windrunner!" But I'd like to know this scene in question so I can ascertain what Taravangian knows at that point. Do note Kaladin is not the first new radiant. -
What if it's shardplate material? They're bladeproof and can conform around human shapes, and we don't know for sure if they even contain spren. Which really just shifts the question to "what is shardplate?" but eh.
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And when you think about it, Lightweavers and Elsecallers share soulcasting between them. If the Heralds only had one surge then it be pretty stupid for one of these orders' associated Herald to lack their eponymous ability to lightweave or elsecall.
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So. . . artificially induced Parshendi Warform basically?
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It's been a while since I last read that bit, memory is vague. Wasn't really the main point anyway. She has lightweaved before. Drawing stormlight seems simple to pick up once you're broken and bonded.
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By Kelsier's vague estimates he seems to think the geodes will eventually regenerate (right about time actually. How convenient). I mean, the geodes have to have broken before, or nobody would know about what allomancy does to them. They should know whether the broken ones ever regrow.The shardpool is likely underneath the pit anyway. Unless Sazed goes and takes that back it probably won't go anywhere. The Well is kaput and the humans are still disproportionate, so that's a very stupid course of action. EDIT: In hindsight Ruin could've already taken it in his free time. It's a mystery really. Probably not though. If Vin could kill him with a weakened shard Ruin was probably about equal at that point.
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The only pattern with god metals is that they are all named after the shard's consciousnesses themselves and not the intent of the shard. If a third naturally occurring element (god metals all likely exist on the periodic table as something else physically speaking, IIRC) was used as the basis the resulting metal would likely be the one named sazedium or something similar. If it even creates a pure element at all, as Harmony despite it all still possesses two intents and might spit out an alloy for all we know. Hell, are the other god metals even pure elements? I don't even know.
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Pattern has also been pretty quiet all this time he spent dead. They don't really all make that much sound I guess. Kaladin has been drawing stormlight unintentionally for a while now if I have been interpreting that flashback of him saving his new recruit properly. Not sure if his bond existed before the Tien incident but I'd wager around then was when he began drawing by accident. Seems traumatizing enough to leave a big hole in his spiritweb. Shallan could already summon a blade as a young girl, so her abilities were probably rather developed if never really used. I believe Pattern thinks she picks it up quickly because she's actually done all of this before? If a bond wasn't strong enough to even materialize the spren yet I'm not sure if much will happen. It seems implied that the stronger the bond the more painful it is. And it seems to be agonizing for everyone. On Szeth, he's been going crazy killing everyone because he thought the law required him to do it. He even caught Nale's attention with that. With such an attitude Highspren is probably more likely, so becoming a legally sanctioned mass murderer likely has little effect.
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I really just don't want him to be back so easily. Tien dying is really what started all of this. Heck, it might've been what broke Kaladin. He was always good with a spear so the bond was probably there, but it wasn't until he set out to protect people after Tien's death that the hazy glowing and the whole Stormblessed thing began. His oath was also to protect those who can't protect themselves, not just try to protect everyone. As with Shallan and the map he seems content being sidelined if nobody actually needs him for anything. (To be honest he just made things worse with his efforts until the chasmfiend conveniently caught up to them). I'm sure they'd work out fine as surrogate siblings; Shallan is a pretty dangerous person even without his help and she'd likely outwit her way out of most problems her shardblade can't solve.
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There's also the fact that I don't recall bonding plate like Cheese is saying being possible. "Normal" plate is permanently physical and despite the gems they connect to them lack the properties even dead shardblades possess. The fact the visions showed Dalinar Radiants that can just dismiss their helm is outright supposed to be strange to him, as the things are huge, weigh a ton, and need a whole team of people to manually put on. They don't even scream. Regardless of the stormlight source there is no such "bond" that makes them drain any more slowly. They might not even be alive.
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Really, a surgebinder is a surgebinder. The Knights Radiant are an organization, a man-made construct intended to keep the surgebinders disciplined and prepared for the desolations. Even if you refound them a surgebinder is only a Radiant if they decide to be, IMO. It's not like they asked for powers and to have the fate of the world thrust into their care.
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I always just assumed just normally accessing Shadesmar with your mind for soulcasting purposes is a lot different than simply teleporting your whole living body into it outright. Because Jasnah was definitely not on Roshar for months. People would notice that.
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Considering how he appears in scenes centuries apart and how shardworlds usually have history dating back a few thousand years (and yet still only happen post-Shattering) I question your definition of "several"
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If had a bond once then he'd be living proof to the Stone Shamans that surgebinders have returned along with the Desolation. There would be no way to make him Truthless. Syl stopped screaming rather quickly.
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If it was that easy then everything would be made of god metal, as Harmony exists. You'd have better luck condensing Mist.
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You can put breath in anything AFAIK. It just won't awaken. It correlates to whether it used to be alive, so I'd guess the more "living" it was the easier to [re]animate. I believe I've seen a quote somewhere that you can easily make use a statue as Lifeless if the statue was a soulcast human, so the material is actually irrelevant. Gotta find the quote now. . .
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You know, what with the associations between scorch marks and Dustbringers I'm thinking their primary creative use for their power to destroy and increase friction might legitimately be the aforementioned Roy Mustang style dust explosions. It's a fun ability to contemplate at least. Stonewards can likely reduce cohesion to turn an area into quicksand/mud, let their opponent sink, then apply tension to bury them in solid rock forever.
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She was practicing soulcasting on a stick maybe?
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Gah, my weakness! NOOOO. Must fix it . . . *You're
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Behold, the fabled (literal) Iron Man!
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Szeth is slightly messed up, as are Heralds, and honorblades are one thing they have in common. As said the Stone Shamans have been a tad weird as well. Kalak says they're getting worse, so I imagine while not quite to the extent of Ash's condition right now they weren't exactly fine before if he brings it up like that. Maybe something about the blades was keeping them "stable" before and that's now gone? Assuming the blades are actually busted due to the Oathpact being slightly screwed up this random passing thought actually makes some sense . . . just a bit. Someone ought to ask Brandon about honorblade surges with relation to the "broken spirit" requirement for self-investing that has been generally prevalent (not counting Breath and the like).
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The person you are quoting is suggesting that the gate has a failsafe that eliminates the Aon Tia's infamous problem of teleporting you halfway into a wall or another person due to 100% accuracy. With the whole palace and likely other structures built around the gates they won't operate at all. Assuming the failsafe exists, which I'll have to check now.