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Perhaps something beyond the instinctive control Radiants have is necessary to operate a honorblade to its full potential, as suggested. They're hailed as powerful relics yet consume too much stormlight to be of use, and can't heal as effectively. There must be something in there nobody has figured out or the Heralds would be pretty useless.

You can now access the Aon of teleportation at will. Hope you have good aim and drawing skills. I wish the next person to wish for something will fail to notice his bane for all eternity, thus being unable to ask to fix it.

Just realized something. The Stormfather and a small number of other spren were considered survivors of the Recreance, and since it was a rather organized event all of the Nahel spren likely knew the reason the Radiants did so, if not outright consented to it. Is the Stormfather so sure his kind will be betrayed because of distrust, or because there really isn't another option that he can think of but to kill them again? Everything is really pointing to some devastating cause now.

You can't laugh. At all. I'm out of wishes for now, so anyone?

You mean the blades (Honor fragments presumably) may have caused some subconscious nudging in their behavior so far like Nahel spren, and their absence has caused them to regress with perhaps some withdrawal going on? I mean, if you've got this thing on you that spent thousands of years making you act honorably or something like that as you die repeatedly, once that's gone it'd be the last thing you want to do.

In terms of deviation from neighboring types Type IV seems like quite the outlier, because most of the differences so far have to do with retaining breath and obeying commands (or lack of those in Returned really). The vaporizing and soul drain came out of the left field. If Nightblood grants an ability on Roshar like Seons it might be something equally bizarre that even some other theoretical Endowment splinter might not produce. Because really I look at the guy and I don't see much endowment going on. At all. In short, the original intended point is that Nightblood is weird enough that I fully expect him to surprise us further on his endless quest to destroy evil. Whatever evil actually is.

Well, you can list out some predicted "behavior" for a substance in a given scenario due to some inherent property. Salt stimulates the sensation of "saltiness" in human taste receptors, dissolves readily in water that isn't already saturated, and probably breaks appart rather spectacularly when launched in a particle accelerator into a wall (not that anyone does this). Alkali metals are generally soft, easily cut with a knife, and react strongly in water and usually resulting in spontaneous combustion or explosions. Electrons repel other negative charges, can release energy as photons when excited, and exists in a three dimensional space predictable by a wave function. Biochromatic entities, awakened object, lifeless or rReturned, are created by infusing Breath into the object via some command. They are (re)animated, and generally attempt carry out that command until the breath is removed. Not that we know what it is that Returned are meant to do, since they're all amnesiac. If the object used to be an intact corpse they retain some degree of intelligence relative to what they are a corpse of, and can be awakened in such a way as to interpret commands made post-awakening by using a set but changeable command phrase. Nightblood. He's sentient, which is weird, but depending on what command was used specifically (the general result is "destroy evil" but maybe it was engineered to be a tad more specific?) and whether 1000 breaths normally do weird things like this that might be normal. It tries to follow it's command, though with debatable success as the command itself baffles it's ignorant mind. It seems capable of telepaphy through some kind of bond. Strange. It also sickens any "good" person in the vicinity, drives any other person towards mass homicide before committing suicide directly when partially exposed out of its sheath, and consumes both souls and any investiture it touches indiscriminately while vaporizing matter on contact. This last part is just bizarre.

Well thanks for the link. We can ignore that now.

If the Listeners cared about honor at all then I doubt they're far enough gone to be fighting Radiants in the first place. . .

Speaking of Perfect Invocation, I'm looking at the chart right now and trying to check something. Is the white produced from the super-efficient awakening and the rainbow distortions that appear from white objects around people at 10th heightening supposed to produce an infinite loop, or is it not compatible?

They are temporal clones pulled from various points in the timeline. One of your future selves has lingering regret about something you will do in the future and desires to kill you to erase himself from existence. He's persuaded most of the others by now. Hmm. I wish to be Firefight.

Come now, I doubt he had Kholin in his name! He's so old he probably predates the concept of surnames on Roshar! He invented the name Kholin for his descendants! They even got their own city.

I don't think soulcasting is known to need much beyond a good gemstone, the surge or fabrial to facilitate it, and being persuasive enough to be able to get the stick to shut up and become fire.

We're not expecting an actual Nahel Bond though. He just needs powers. Powers that have never existed on Roshar before would actually be perfect. Nightblood barely behaves like a biochromatic entity as is. And I haven't seen the part about awakening not working. Anybody have a quote of that? It sounds weird because between Z and Hoid the heightenings themselves function fine. The Divine Breath maintains potency as well.

The convenient detail about Epics with a power set that alters reality based on probability. You just have to know what you want, and it doesn't need to be terribly accurate. Unlike Aons. Firefight needs to figure out how to continuously sustain a reality shift where she is specified as "standing in enemy's blind spot". That will be fun.

Accelerator is worse than Newton on crack. He reflects anything from bullets to explosions to teleportation. He can do damnation near anything within his powers within the bounds of physical phenomena. Tanks God's Purge without a scratch. And yet he's far from OP in that series Mikoto is awesome though. Though her Sisters account for 99% of the harem.

Dat 3 year necro.

If Seon bonds supposedly should be able to grant some sort of power when relocated to Roshar when they basically did nothing prior, I'm sure the Nightblood bond will do something other than just vaporizing everything it cuts.

Well she certainly doesn't care for the moral and social implications of dating her own brother-in-law after her husband died.

How does one define "mobile" here though? They can change form, so if you want the statue to walk they'll just have to walk in stop motion real storming fast. It's a weird topic to bring up.

Kalad's Phantoms, a Shardstatue would be horrifying.

The weirdest thing, is how dead shardblades still affect eye color, but Kaladin can sustain a bond for years without anything happening, then when he finally swears to the third windrunner ideal only gets a temporary but drastic change in color. And even that seems to have been triggered by the massive amount of surgebinding only.

Never touched the downvote button in my life. Either someone else was using this computer or it wasn't me at all.

Do note that Honor's future sight appears to be grossly inaccurate. Probably less inaccurate than Ruin, but not all that great. The way HoA is paced Ruin can't seem to even go beyond a few minutes if not seconds.

Back we come to the Knights Kholin. This is getting out of hand. So much bonding.