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I'd imagine metalminds of the level of charge needed to slip a thousand years of age against spiritual pressure would probably be very resistant to ironpulls. His reflexes also just might not be that good as well. He's basically immortal and godlike with very few weaknesses (0 publicly known), essentially an unstoppable demigod with unmatched power, and while he likely had to be in combat on occasion in his initial conquest days he probably either just survives with gold and retaliates, and can steelrun as necessary to compensate. Even speed up his mind. Even Elend mostly derived his battlefield effectiveness from brute allomantic force and his passable swordplay, with nowhere near as much finesse as Vin. It's not out of the question for such a powerful man like Rashek to simply be . . . a terrible fighter used to having victory handed to him who doesn't react well to upsets. He may have stopped from shock.

The Originators consisted of a handful of nobles, skaa, and Terris, all in very small numbers (for continent-level standards anyway). Interbreeding is probably unavoidable. BoM chapter preview minor spoiler

Burning anywhere in your body supposedly works. It's just easier to go with the down-the-hatch approach than say, try to stab yourself or something. Now I wonder if ionized metal can be burned if not chemically bonded to anything.

. . . I wonder if Kredik Shaw has hemalurgic charge . . .

I await the Era e (natural logarithm) series.

Returned are, however, at Fifth Heightening by default, which halts aging. Either this causes the breath stock to degrade faster as time goes on (I do vaguely recall that breath can steadily weaken though I'm unsure) in order to distort physical age against the "demands" of the spiritual aspect, or this means their spiritual aspect stops advancing it's . . . "age counter", for lack of a better phrase. We ought to throw this at Brandon to see if it gets us a RAFO. With that said, Vivenna doesn't have a huge color aura to the degree of Lightsong so the mechanism of her theoretical age manipulation is probably different from the stack of Heightening side effects, I feel.

Well obviously one breath would be weaker than a surgebinder spren, or I'd be able to sever souls from people with an army of stick/plank-wielding awakened straw bundle puppets.

We're . . . still talking about Talenel'Elin, Stonesinew, the Herald of War here right? You know, the immortal guy that by Kalak's testimony died in desolations frequently? Fairly sure Taln is just Taln at this point. Just not whether "the man who calls himself Taln" is Taln. Unless someone is manipulating the memories of the Heralds they seem to recall dying a lot pretty well.

Well, Eshonai quite literally had a voidspren in her soul, for one. Probably does funny things with Unmade influence. Actually can we even say for sure that was what it was? It could just be the stormform itself. It seems to be physically superior to warform and causes very violent tendencies. I also don't recall prior descriptions of parshendi experiencing the Thrill. And surgebinders in general don't seem to experience it, as with Dalinar. Which raises questions here with Adolin and throws more fuel in the blade revival fire I suppose, but the point is lack of Thrill is not unprecedented.

Adopted family pet.

He's not saying that. Once you get used to some things you stop noticing them, it happens often . . . . . . but not with pain to any significant degree I'm rusting sure.

When the two cases of transportation happen are Jasnah herself and the Oathgate, I think miniaturizing that sort of thing may be tougher than it sounds . . .

I think a sword literally made out of a splinter would reject the breaths too strongly.

Frankly, with Wax refusing to put the earing in it's probably actually wise to keep communications with Harmony open instead of relying on MeLaan. If nothing else maybe Saze can spare some time to do telephone duty for our spikees.

It's likely Prof himself is the only gifter Prof knew personally, so while he perhaps noticed such a trend the sample size of one person failing to gift to his few former friends who were coincidentally all epics isn't that impressive. Besides, it also didn't work on Megan, who with known (falsified) non-epic condition could also reinforce the coincidental nature for Prof as well, rather than raising suspicion. Depends on how you read the data really. But then a second gifter (Conflux) attested to the same shortcoming in their ability and suddenly it's too uncanny to be a coincidence.

Well for one thing that point is irrelevant because Earth physics is still in play, as is carbon-based cellular biology and apparently the basics of organ systems like hearts and stomachs. So if a chemical that makes your skin go zombie is definitely harmful for one species then one that does the same thing to another probably isn't much healthier. I mean, skin shouldn't do that right?

I'm just saying it's not exactly crazy for him to have the system create 256 perks if he's had other systems where an ink stamp can do anything from making paintings appear on the wall or fixing leaks to false memories and what basically amounts to programming a human-imitating AI from scratch. Then we have hemalurgy, where with enough knowledge of the art and things to murder you can basically genetically engineer nearly anything into existence. The guy doesn't seem to mind magic systems being too complex for one's sanity. He might not end up explaining the limits of it to every small possibility, but he sets up many things to be capable of way too much quite frequently . . .

256 is still lower than what variations hemalurgy or AonDor are capable of by themselves.

I am somewhat sure it is supposedly difficult, but not impossible, to bond multiple spren. And most of the difficulty would probably come from reconciling two sets of oaths if anything. Plus, that earlier remark on the effects of Kaladin binding Jezrien's blade being of rather little consequence.

So presumably they were keeping tabs on Taravangian, but then suddenly noticed Shallan had drawn them in the sketch, and immediately realized that they had a surgebinder in their presence aligned with Shadesmar. After following her a bit they realized that, against all odds they had happened across Pattern (whatever his real numerical name is) in a spren-death state and tried to do something? Seems plausible.

Best way to get someone to help with house finances is to turn it into a detective-ing contest. I guess. Stormlight spoilers:

It is. It's supposed to sound Asian to be honest. Because ninja.

Depends on whether that species of human is even capable of having that disorder in the first place.

I've always wondered whether anyone brothered to check the fake Elantrians for a pulse. If no pulse then I'd say its magic, because bodies don't work that way.

Technically it's not that messed up.