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Well the planets likely do not join completely at the hip. They look completely different and all; Shadesmar has glass beads, what we presume to be Nalthis' Cognitive realm is a mass of color, Scadrial in the Cognitive is apparently made out of mist. This does not good transitions make, unless they're joined at the oceans, which are apparently always obsidian. But what if the planet had no oceans? There's probably relatively smaller strips of stuff where space would be, and then bleeds into other planets at the edges. The Shadesmar comment confuses me though . . .

When you try to classify all characters and powers in all anime you watch as magic, shards, cognitive shadows . . .

But logically, wouldn't facing weaknesses be based on Calamity's judgement and not your own?

You could've waited more than one minute to test our reactions. But yeah it sounds familiar.

I recall one of the spren saying that some spren find it hard to become visible to normal people, while others have the opposite problem. Kaladin can always see Syl though, as can Rock (for different reasons). Pattern appears to be stuck, while Syl did shift into visible state once in a chasm to show herself off.

We know splinter bonds on Roshar do something, and Nightblood uses those for speech, but we don't know what it will do. Especially when surgebinding apparently works off-world. Which leaves us wondering what ability the bonds themselves grant.

Syl implies Kaladin was always able to shift gravity (I mean he could reverse lash well enough) so we've never really seen someone gain abilities from oaths before. Only thing that ever seems to change is how long their stormlight lasts/how glowy they are. Besides, you could just put more stormlight into it and get a stronger effect. This isn't stat-bounded RPG magic, it needs more juice to run on the more it is exerted.

So . . . how did Obliteration of all people save anyone?

So yeah, they should work while melted. Even if he started storing heat to use himself as a heatsink there would've been some initial melting.

Well, alloying the metal does make it go poof to someplace else. But if the metal is still viable I don't see why the charge would leave. Even metalminds ought to function while still molten or TLR would be surprisingly easy to kill.

Only real problem would be tracking down the spearhead again if stolen. Until they realize what it is the metalminds won't function. Also, blunt spearhead that isn't aluminum. In the middle of nowhere. If anyone finds the temple at all they'd be here for the Bands. Perfect cover! Unfortunately Wayne was basically klepto. In rereading I think the twist was actually alluded to. The mural photos showed a man wearing bracers and "in awe of what he held" . . . but the man was reaching for a glowing spear.

I was under the impression that he paid the guys to do something about the wedding and didn't expect them to try something so overkill. Though why even bother? That was kinda lame anyway, man. Points off. Wayne might be a terrible person but he's still hilarious to watc- um, read.

If it's apparently possible to open a door while overtapping speed in SoS without the doorknob mechanism being torn apart I think the book will be fine.

You'd have to change the composition a lot by alloying it or causing chemical reactions to do it. Charged Pathian earrings were all reforged from Inquisitor spikes and, while too weak to grant real power, still function perfectly after 300+ years.

The thing is though, we can sort of figure out what Breath looks like, in relation to stormlight or mists, from breath transfer scenes. And I'm rather sure breath is never black, so something happens inside Nightblood.

Oh right, one more thing. So in the end it more or less really was the power of love. . . . don't let Megan hear that

That was part of it. But then Edmund wasn't exactly deathly afraid of dogs until the dog torture either.

On the other hand, with so many minor epics it was bound to happen that one doesn't have a tragic life story. His gifting is at least somewhat random considering that not everyone with PTSD is an Epic. Too many of those.

If you store allomancy you weaken or lose your allomantic power. Tapping it let's you increase your power (or gain them, in the case of unkeyed investiture like the Bands). You wouldn't need to burn anything until you're actually using the powers in the first place. The act of tapping stored abilities from nicrosil increases your strength in those abilities. You still have to find a way to actually use them. The important component of the Bands was only the nicrosilmind part of the spearhead. The rest of the metals are redundancies for convenience and charged to the brim so you can at least use 16 of your powers on the spot (and to make it look like aluminum at first glance to coinshots), but are not vital to its functions. Burnable metal supply naturally cannot be built into a worn or held object and thus had to be procured externally. Notice how Marasi swipes a vial of metal from a random Set member before having any allomancy to use.

I'd say being able to bullet time for someone working a desk job or something and has time to store would at least make it harder to be late to things somewhat. Heat is good for those regions with high temperature variance between seasons. Wakefulness and gold speak for themselves. Nutrition to never get fat.

Aluminum-sealed metal vials in convenience stores please. Should totally be a thing in the future. At least for the cheaper metals that aren't stupidly weird like the temporal ones are.

I was skeptical about Prof's weakness since it'd make no sense for Tavi to trigger them if he was weak to his own powers, even if their powers matched. It would have to not be his powers themselves, but something he saw in them that also triggered him when Tavi fought him. He probably mistook them for his own at first, and I also suspect it is possible that maybe he had a real daughter die because of his Rending and he felt responsible? Tia does seem to recognize her. Really though. Limelight is even more overpowered than I anticipated. It feels kind of awkward that the whole reason this mess happened was because Calamity was an easily irritable, pathetic, and cowardly loser who wouldn't admit he was wrong. Really bro? Grow up. Obliteration does lose a bit of depth, but I suppose it was an important point to make I reckon. So, um, where did Mizzy's informed-attribute powers we never get to see come from then?

And Spook could turn his tin off if he felt like it. He just wouldn't really be able to see very well, so he honestly can't. Dependency isn't the only factor there with Spook, and much of the dependency had already developed beforehand and was why he became a savant in the first place.

Well, he does have spoken lines in HoA that are definitely not Ruin, so anybody paying enough attention would have suspected him of still being around by then.

People that are broken are actually just easier to talk to by those kinds of entities in general, apparently. Except Preservation, since his power automatically tries to fix them if he gets close for obvious reasons. That be Secret History content though, but not exactly plot-important.