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There for you often, but vanishes when you actually need them around for something. Your soul is like your eye color.
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We're talking about AI here. To the "might as well be a person" level. It could count. I mean, I believe even with the cosmere it's possible to develop a spiritweb in a machine with good enough AI, as far as Sanderson's stance on "people" is concerned.
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Or Nightblood is too efficient despite being "full" and just spills out on the floor.
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I mean, Steris is literally on the cover of Bands isn't she?
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Theory/ Possible SPOILER: Hoid's Apprentice Liar of Partinel Related
natc replied to mycoltbug's topic in Cosmere Discussion
And this broke the previous record you broke just earlier. 5 years, 3 months, 9 days. Now you're destroying people's graves. It's definitely the same Hoid aa far as we can tell. -
Five years, one month, and seven days. That's a new record for necroing.
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Well the Lord Ruler puts it in the market, so he probably coined it with his Ascension knowhow.
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So it's currently hemalurgically feasible to be a living "Returned" of sorts? Interesting . . .
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It's feasible in Szeth's case that the blade is simply chugging it though. Nightblood would do the same. Other than that, he's actually using up larger quantities of stormlight, so logically there is less light leaking out of him because it's being used up.
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Dismantled into separate pieces, and you can seemingly will each component to detach in sequence. Or in the case of Radiants in the visions, dismiss and summon only the helmet. Yeah, it's probably more than one entity.
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Well Elend tries. And he always continues trying until he gets it right. Sure that usually takes way too many screwups in the mean time, but if there's any similarity between him and Vin it's sheer stubbornness. He's also a pretty decent guy for a Luthadel noble.
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Well him and all the other people from Yolen . . .
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Someone brings you poison while you contemplate suicide and actually successfully persuaded you against it. Kal and Syl logic.
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Well it seems it outright shapeshifts to match the blade, so . . . oathgate-keyhole-stuff?
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As long as you remember the orientation of the first line the rest of that pattern in the image can actually be quickly extrapolated. It's highly regular.
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Well mistings and ferrings . . . odd case. Depends on how initiation is defined. The two appear to be hardcoded into the spiritwebs of the entire population, or at least the parts necessary to use the ability. But nobody with misting blood is naturally invested enough by Preservation for the ability to actually function, and then you need to blow a hole in your soul to use as the path of entry for investiture. Being a feruchemist is less troublesome, but it still seems to require a power threshold, since you can have feruchemical blood without actually manifesting abilities. So where do we draw the line here? The moment the Scadrial spiritweb template was decided upon?
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I don't believe there's a known cap on mistborn powers actually. I mean they can die from burning random metal that isn't even allomantic. I like to think their connection to Preservation is just so strong that something just breaks when they snap (well, more than normal) and the hard limit of 1 normally in place fails completely.
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That stormlight efficiency thing is making me think back to my old biochemistry lectures. Prolonged living in high altitude conditions actually causes your body to try to stabilize your hemoglobin in the form with lower oxygen affinity (as opposed to the norm where the affinity essentially increases as oxygen is bound) so as to accelerate the rate of oxygen release into tissues that need it. Normally a terrible idea, but since there's barely enough oxygen to take in anyway with the thin air the positives still outweigh the negatives. I would find it odd that the person's stormlight affinity will affect a spiritual property of the light itself. It probably has more to do with quantity than that.
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You bring up a good point. It could be Nalthis itself creating breaths due to Endowment's presence rather than anything she started manually. Most magic systems arise from realmatic interactions by themselves.
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But lifesense seems to pick up Rosharan humans and spren (who would not have vital signs, so the ability is probably not biological) perfectly fine . . . but not drabs. That's always bothered me.
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Though Pattern can hold stormlight somehow so . . . hmm. Also, fabrials require spren to function. They definitely have some form of power by themselves.
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As I recall being remarked upon in the books by someone, it's uncanny that all the masculine professions tend towards getting a spear run through one's own chest, while women just do desk jobs and artistic works. Truly odd. It's even stranger how Vorinism even adopted this when the Heralds themselves were superhuman warriors, with half of them being female.
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How much of the breath came from Endowment though? I've been under the impression that a Drab is less invested than a non-Nalthian.
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Well Azir is all about paperwork, it'd be silly if they can't
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Well Sazed's copperminds are supposed to house the entirety of the fruits of Keeper research, right? Even if he never reads most of it. Sincd it's obviously not all religion. So it's probably got a lot of stuff in there he can't feasibly collect in one lifetime.