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  1. natc
    Well, Rysn is a recurring interlude now (along with her pot of stupid grass) so she's probably going to be slightly relevant at least. Did the island greatshell have any of those arrow spren again? Still decently likely that they are some form of gravityspren right?.
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    Wait. . . insanity . . . Surgebinding and other methods of channeling investiture through the spiritweb (e.g. Allomancy) a crack in the spiritweb for the power to go into is necessary. Honorblades can grant surgebinder abilities, but more importantly the ability to take in stormlight into your body. Won't it have to (to borrow Mistborn terms) snap you artificially to do that? Could Jezrien's blade be partially responsible for Szeth's instability?
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    The legends speak of retaking the halls, which would be quite redundant if they own the place.
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    Really makes one wonder what happened to them when the currently catalogued shardblades barely reach 10% of that. Though note that there would only be close to three bondsmiths and they might lack blades like Dalinar, if they really are bonded to the Stormfather.
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    I second Urithiru not being considered "outside". It's naturally isolated while connected to every major region with the oathgates, and the Shin themselves clearly respect something about surgebinders to a degree if they've been keeping honorblades. Perhaps moreso the Heralds than the Radiants but the holy-ish connection is there.
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    Not entirely sure why there has to be the "main" surge. I feel Elsecallers having soulcasting is if nothing else a byproduct of the surge requiring Shadesmar access and them being able to Elsecall (transportation) into that realm in the first place. Lightweavers are so lie-centric as well that it'd be weird if they couldn't convince something (besides sticks apparently) to be something they aren't. Yet the surge-based ability named after them is Lightweaving of Illumination. There's really no obvious pattern besides their names and ideals being thematically appropriate to their combination of powers, AFAIK.
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    Plenty of ways to defeat an invincible guy. Even atium can be brought down with the right setup. Not so much plot armor incarnate. With constant infinite luck just setting up against him can backfire.
  8. natc
    I see blue and gold. I'm weird. Essence Mark someone with an exact copy of their soul with all the usual self-stamping instincts. Explain forgery to them (poorly) and make them doubt whether their soul is real.
  9. natc
    The Nightwatcher isn't THAT powerful. She'll turn you into a vegetable for life for your troubles though. I wish for shapeshifting powers as well as the control needed to actually utilize the powers to replicate parts of people.
  10. natc
    Just do it to the wing mechanisms instead of the barfbags. Lightweave elevator interior one floor lower than it's actual location, then hack the door to open anyway somehow? For Roshar-applicable things do the pocket sand trick with coal dust lashed to float. Put on gloves, apply abrasion to gloves for increased friction (you can increase the friction as well as go slick right?). Proceed to Roy Mustang them.
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    I'm not even sure if Nightblood actually needs a power source. Just showing up makes "good" people ill, and shardblades don't need constant power either. He just happens to like eating investiture. The investiture used also seemed to already be the minimum they needed to make Nightblood move, so it's honestly weird that it has all these side effects in the first place if any less would've done nothing. We also have not seen a single honorblade do something impressive. They should be this powerful logically speaking, but they've yet to prove themselves.
  12. natc
    Come to think of it, if you strap Nightblood to a moving object pointy end sticking forward, unsheath him, then let go will he still vaporize things? If it doesn't, we can start a business of tunnel digging using human souls.
  13. natc
    I'm not blaming you. Just summarizing the results. Plot Armor, the Ability. The universe continuously engineers ridiculously contrived situations to turn everything to your favor. You'll be great at poker, literally have a monopoly in Monopoly, win lotteries. Floors will break underneath assassins, or bird poop hits them in the face as you escape. Bullets always miss you, you'll dodge all land mines. It'll just be too stupid to write into a story
  14. natc
    Compounding chromium could essentially just gives you extremely contrived plot armor, yeah.
  15. natc
    I'm the weirdo that gets blue and brownish-gold. Oddly enough my dad sees white and gold and my mom sees blue and black. Heh.
  16. natc
    I think it would be less a "compatibility" problem if that is even a thing, and more whether the Return mechanism set up on Nalthis even recognizes you as human, never mind the other requirements.
  17. natc
    Real question here is how probability (which would be implied to exist as Luck can alter it) plays into future sight.
  18. natc
    If stormlight is tinted it'll make for really terrible general lighting.
  19. natc
    Maybe Elohkar accidentally used his surgebinding? It can potentially consume his stormlight faster than just inhaling it and holding your breath for enhanced strength and healing. Was anything suspicious in that scene besides the falling?
  20. natc
    Hmm. . . If we can find something other than you-know-what that can draw and contain Mist, can we create a Preservation-Nightblood? Ruin-Nightblood from the black Mist? A Ruinblade, the horror . . . I want to see one! Just what broke Nightblood anyway? He's made of enough Endowment to become sentient, but instead of doing something related to giving people power he outright steals your soul, along with other investiture. Weird fellow.
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    Also would add another layer to Stormfather's seeming "distrust" of humans. He survived the Recreance, so he probably knows the reason for it, and Pattern also seems convinced that he is screwed, so likely the few survivors have explained it to the others as well. If the secret is really that big and devastating, Stormfather and the spren might not actually be distrustful of humans. Maybe the spren know they will die because there is no other choice.
  22. natc
    No, the issue is that Honor should not have been able to force a burden onto someone else while getting off scott free, as that doesn't sound honorable. Even Preservation was more selfless than that due to his intent. If he did set up the Oathpact it would probably date back to Tanavast's very early days as Honor, before the intent of his power completely consumed him. Which is weird, because then Aona and Skai would not have lived very long, yet their world seems heavily intent-influenced. So Cultivation may have helped construct the system. She'd probably be fine doing that. Otherwise it seems weird.
  23. natc
    Remember that they're technically not Earth-human too, so their minds may not be constructed exactly the same way. Do we even know if people from different shardworlds can interbreed? I presume the shards just based their creations off of the Yolen species, and genetics seem to function strangely for some of them and not/differently for others, so the shards were probably taking liberties with that.
  24. natc
    Well, honorblades are presumably supposed to be more powerful as large-ish splinters of Honor, or the Heralds would be useless, yet they are always in charge. We just don't know how they are more useful than spren. But yeah color me confused.
  25. natc
    He is off Yolen, the very first world and origin of Adonalsium. Used to buy drinks with Honor and was good friends with a few other shards (and very much not good friends with the rest, but what can you do?) He could Lightweave eons before lightweaving was cool. With that said he can't Return like that if what we know of Returning is accurate. We don't even know if that is necessary for breath suppression do we? Ol' Warbreaker was Returned but he's also quite the expert on the matter of Breath, and either is sufficient reason for him to know how.
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