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Is also pronounced completely differently, as I recall.

It's definitely not her. A nahel bond can't do anything of the sort.

You're assuming that it's a 100% napoleonic uniform from the getgo. I think that's a problem.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure being in need of psychiatric help is part of the job requirements. I can't really fault a man with severe depression issues being unable to entirely overcome his problems by himself after the end of the world kicking in overnight and everything he knew and loved that hasn’t already died by now quite likely dead as we speak. Honestly a guy without depression could easily be huddled in a corner in total shock at this point. Kaladin is surprisingly stable considering.

Plenty of stuff on the Vita now . . . if you like JRPGs. The western selection is nonexistent

Turning matter with thoughts attached into nearly pure thought and back sounds really dangerous to be honest.

As far as I remember actually shifting gravity didn't take too much practicing (though it took a few tries), it's tripping over himself while doing it at full sprint all the time that convinced him to just settle for jumping off and on a wall a few hundred times to get used to the sensation. And that's really all that comes to mind that Kaladin practiced extensively. That and sticking bridgemen to random surfaces in combat. After seeing a guy run on walls and ceilings in a fight that couldn't have been more than a few minutes long. If there's any better testament to the lack of skill intensiveness im it all it's when Kaladin actually does better in aerial combat when he stops thinking about it outright.

I liked Gravity Rush. Shame I can't actually play the seemingly fun sequel because lolplatformshift. So much potential lost, the Vita. It's good hardware.

You can't really contain the guinea pig very effectively if you have to literally walk out into an open highstorm to transform now can you? One does not simply wait a few days to try. If a storm starts it starts. They were weeks from the Weeping, they had one shot at this.

It's not like they have no warriors at all, they're not completely ignorant to fighting or culturally isolated. But the chances of them having any shardbearers with that particular taboo in effect are very slim. You can at least train in unarmed combat discreetly and pull the self defense excuse. Szeth's exile didn't even involve weapons at all. Just blasphemy. I'm sure the shamannate knows more about surgebinding than they publicly let on if they've had custody of 8-9 honorblades for upwards to a couple thousand years. Clearly the Ars Arcanum author found these millenia old terms without too much trouble. Kaladin figures out how to activate half of his powers by complete accident, so clearly performing surgebinding itself isn't difficult. Skill is a different matter, but Szeth had way longer to practice. Windrunner powers inherently don't seem to need much fine control at all compared to lightweaving; you can get satisfactory results with basic lashings just feeling the general directions, and the others are just "touch the thing and think about it". The skill burden is mostly on choosing the moment of application for best effect, not actually controlling the powers.

Ah, but were many of them not based on grappling/unarmed combat? I mainly recall his references to fighting styles he has learned being brought up as assisting him in actually getting a full lashing on someone, not to do with his blade. He won't be kicked out until he touches an actual weapon or maybe kills someone, I reckon, and most of his deadliness was from his lashings. In fact he relies heavily on his lashings in combat while spear technique is one of Kaladin's heavily advertised good points.

Whether Elhokar has two aside, you can definitely bond two. You just can't summon them all at once. You need another ten heartbeats to bring out the second, IIRC.

While they were perfect actors, they were meant to act as humans. Wolfhound TenSoon was seemingly a rather unprecedented case in all of a thousand years.

Dying from old age itself rarely happens on Scadrial I reckon, since I doubt medical science is anywhere near the point of being able to solve all health deficiencies that stem from aging. That's usually what kills you, not the genetic breakdown, and that Feruchemical gold can fix. So gold compounders can't be killed but can still die, basically.

Wayne never fails to entertain.

That Libera Me From Hell though. Stormlight is made of spiral energy?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you need something to get the electrons moving in the first place. Coinshots can't move electrons in metal.

Well I haven't dismissed any connections yet. I'm just trying to not dismiss the possibility of one not existing either. I'm under the impression that neither gold nor stormlight can save you from your head being cleanly severed all the way through (reforming cut parts while the cutting is ongoing aside), since your brain isn't connected to your body and the investiture it was drawing anymore. Hoid has apparently survived that sort of thing, and even grew a new head instead of a new body, so something seems different about that. Then we have Aon healing which due to the programming nature of Selish magic is near surgically precise instead of the body just being told "become normal again" at the top of your lungs.

Well, how many completely unrelated body structures for animals are there that result in flight capability? How many completely unrelated ways in the cosmere are there to heal a gunshot to the gut? It's hard to say.

Well there's no guarantee the Listeners use the same method, I suppose, since it seems they worked it out on their own.

Presumably because it is satisfying to discuss.

I'm not sure how the soulstone would make a difference. It literally does nothing beyond being easy to carve with.

Edguard Ladrian is just that conspicuous of a name, really. It sounds so noble.

Backpedaling afterwards is never quite effective. Lies are like cake.

Everything has a soul, as pointed out already. As for machines, well look at Roshar.