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Kelsier's would have existed before its Ascension though. It being pure Preservation despite being born from a person who very definitely wasn't seems strange. Would it not have some Ruin in it as well?

Well Cultivation is apparently considered most similar to Ruin among the known shards, IIRC. Can't bring change without a lot of loss involved. Besides, what's wrong with black?

In the end a pole is north because someone took the original lump of lodestone and said that end was north and everything else in magnet history is extrapolated from there.So does it really matter that much? Edit: though actually by that logic, since the original point of reference is the planet, naming the pole to the north "south pole" sounds really silly. Random fact about compasses: ancient Chinese texts actually acknowledge the minor deviation of a compass from geographic north/south.

Wyndle did say he was gonna go for that old grandmother until they convinced him to just take Lift instead . . . something along those lines anyway. Attraction is probably a conscious thing for spren of high intelligence.

The compass's magnetic south pole points to the planet's magnetic north pole, which would be to the north.

The source of regrowth did appear to be a form of fabrial however. And the Shin have seven, so Naln can at most have one blade. The fact that Szeth is assumed to have witnessed an honorblade in use interests me for a completely different reason, though.

The Blackthorn struck me as a pragmatist; he certainly loves a challenge, but he doesn't handicap himself for it; he always goes for what he thinks is the efficient method to solve the problem. He even offers an enemy archer who had just tried to snipe him recruitment into his forces just because he was a remarkable shot. He round up hostages purely to produce a response in the enemy forces, and forbade looting until it was over. He plays his advantages whenever he could, and doesn't seem to have time for general Alethi (or Earth) chull-hole deeds. The Blackthorn wasn't really despicable, just ruthless and thirsty for a good battle to the death. The one guy he shoved a spear into the heart of was technically a mercy kill if anything; he was storming done for anyway. If he was a man of cruelty he would've left him to die in agony. He tries to cut down on the blunt methods in WoK but as poorly as that worked out he instead took them to politics. General wastage of human life, Blackthorn or Bondsmith, never really enters his character. Beyond enemies in battle of course (Kaladin's dad has a point on how stupid the notion of war is), but when presented with good reasons to not kill the guy he actually seeks alternatives. For all of being a hero to standard Alethi everywhere the Blackthorn is surprisingly . . . not too big of a jerk?

When a half decent opening hand means I can have a near full field of monsters and am set up to search counter traps like crazy while still ending with most of my hand size intact, on the first turn, someone isn't gonna have a good time. But in all seriousness that was supposed to be a joke about the Abridged movie. I may have quoted something wrong.

Well, we have Lift's word for it that he's capable of becoming Awesome. Which as I recall is said to not be part of the default Herald powers. Plus, one Herald did apparently return for his blade according to WoB, hence why Szeth and Taravangian referred to "one of the other seven" when T tried to cover up the return of Radiants. There are 3 missing from Shinovar between Taln (the real one, whoever he is), the other Herald, and Szeth.

Nah, Yu-Gi-Oh is kind of a broken, exploitive mess of a game. And Hoid will just exploit the hell out of it to make every lighteyes he provokes into challenging him look bad.

I don't believe we've ever actually seen a swap work. The most irregular case we got was two full sets, which is a very different situation as far as paired spikes go. Why assume it ever changed?

It's metal. If it was black Mist it'd probably try something eventually but what would a pile of metal (that as far as I remember is perfectly susceptible to steelpushes) even do?

Well Ruin definitely wasn't free when the earing in question was charged into a spike, so it's definitely not too difficult to put intent into a stabby stabby moment.

I always wanted the power myself. My parents always seemed to be able to fall asleep on the spot near instantly, when I was growing up, one even wakes up at will. But it always takes me a good while to be out cold. And never wake up on time.

Well, when you're in the business of disguises faking "old person", "female", or both is probably a required skill. But his field of expertise definitely seems to be accents. It's probably the source of most of his variation.

I don't think giving birth while standing inside the Dor is a good idea . . .

Well, technically Kaladin's powers remained at least barely functional enough to take in stormlight until he fell into the chasm (since that saved him), it's forcing them to work at that point that seemed to break it outright. But there's really no way the Recreance can be organized without the spren knowing ahead of time, so they were likely imvolved.

It's just needlessly convoluted to assume two Worldhopper characters named Hoid are different people.

Plus you could probably triple the length of every book in the cosmere saga trying to explain absolutely everything.Nobody does that. It's ridiculous. We want to read fantasy novels with intricate magic here, not a magi-science textbook. Now if he wants to make an actual separate textbook we'll be all for it. But squeezing it into the stories really won't work. Why would anyone just spontaneously start explaining this stuff for a few hours anyway?

Even though God is clearly open to taking overcosted offers from people like an entire soul for an arm without giving you the change? Not that he has any say on what people want to pay when they ask him for stuff directly but he doesn't seem to mind as long as he gets something above or equal to his personal opinion of what the pricetag ought to be. He seems obsessed with people having to pay the price for their actions more than anything, when he is directly involved. When he isn't, the equivalency is there, but that's more a function of creating things being impossible, which is to some extent true in the cosmere as well; gotta fork over that magic-y energy stuff in exchange. Actually . . . exchange. Yeah. FMA God is basically running on Wayne logic.

They're probably the most qualified people present to analyze the situation, but you do kinda have to see it happen for it to go beyond a (very) educated guess.

Kaladin tells Syl that he is a broken man at one point, to which Syl replies that "they all were". The books aren't exactly glossing over it, but let's be honest a full explanation on a magic system's intricacies in the actual narrative would just be pace-ruining exposition if too detailed. And would also make for a bizarre conversation topic due to being completely irrelevant to the matters at hand. Something Japanese anime and light novels tend to screw up.

Yeah, that's the one thing I definitely remember about Iriali. Their hair is literally metallic gold. Presumably shininess and all.

Further adding fuel to the fire for the "Szeth is a stone shaman" theory.

And where does the part about having no padding come from?