natc
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Well that's interesting.
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If Nightblood, created to destroy evil, cannot for the life of him figure out what evil is, I doubt a bunch of mindless investiture flowing through a drawn symbol can determine what is "bad" (man what a vague word) very well without a frame of reference.
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If you treat people as a statistic then two people and one organization is absolutely worth sacrificing for preserving a whole civilization's stability though.
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We've only seen one of them, and it was alloyed to something that had time abilities to begin with.
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We need more Nalthian ones. The stuff we see spouted about color from Z is pretty amusing.
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I can assure you the smartest cartographer to ever sail the oceans probably did not actually go around being paranoid about ambushes while looking through telescopes. I don't suppose you start worrying about getting mugged, randomly caught in some sort of mafia gunfight, or becoming subject to serial murder while looking through telescopes at overseas tourist spots or whatnot either. Up until a few days ago he was a scholar teaching religion, burying dead people, and pondering mist death. Threats to his life should be the last thing on his mind, especially when those frankly have never really happened before. That, and frankly I'd think the internet is the one place where you have to admit common sense seems awfully uncommon at times.
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It's stated in the AAs somewhere, I swear, that it recreates the spiritual gravitational bond of the planet. Anything on the ground or is too heavy is already too strongly attracted to the planet for the reverse lashing to do anything to. As the arrows draw nearer to the point of the lashing, since it's gravitational acceleration the pull would logically increase as you approach it, so if it's strong enough you can probably even make an arrow curve upward in spite of natural gravity. It requires contact as well, so it's somewhat reasonable that it only lashes for as much distance as you allow stormlight to saturate and centers there. If gravity was outright absent nobody would be able to walk.
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We've never seen long ranged lashing achieved, so he basically has to grab the gun. At which point he's probably won the fight anyhow.
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But will it work if they don't feel guilt from it?
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To be honest it seems less like normal magic healing and more that they simply pull remaining biomass back together to reconstruct functional organs.
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Basic lashings revoke the normal state of gravity, IIRC, and point it in a different direction. Well, the first one anyway. Then you just start stacking more lashings on and it somehow multiplies. Seems like there's two different things going on. Reverse lashings somehow replicate the planet's gravity in that object at a smaller scale (the real planet will overpower it, so it really only attracts projectiles). Full lashing has nothing to do with gravity at all. Those sentences you quoted don't really contradict themselves honestly.
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But why would you even try to enhance your hearing while using substitute binoculars powers?
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For SCIENCE!
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Maybe they have really fancy mating songs?
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It's apparently a weaker copy of the planet's gravity, so . . . hmm. Wait, does gravity even pull you towards things or is that just the things' gravity pulling you? I always thought it was the latter. If it is the latter, then since the mass is constant the pull towards other objects would not increase and the reverse lashed object isn't going anywhere.
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That doesn't look like the American cover to ne *shrugs*
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Most of the people hiring kandra would be noblemen because they are paid in atium, probably to impersonate servants or other (minor) noblemen, so I suppose it is possible that they just don't have to change accents very often. Assuming each dominance has its own differences, the nobility seem to spend enough time around each other at balls or whatnot that they won't have as much variation as every random dude in every street, city, and slum. Wayne often copies those as well, and would be familiar with them.
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But nobody has ever basic lashed towards an object and not a direction, which is the issue here.
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There's also no reason for the phrase "a thousand breaths", however vaguely it was meant, to be used if the amount of power is five times that much.
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So this wording using "portion of the gold invested with his investiture" implies to me 1. Feruchemical charge is not evenly diffused into the object when storing, and is localized in one spot expanding outward. Like soaking water into a rag. 2. To cause a compounding burn the portion of the metal that is charged specifically must be what is burning. Therefore, for an entire piece of gold to give nothing but health (no shadows) one must fill it to capacity.
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Most kandra beyond the First Generation are likely born from mistwraith parents and not originally Terris, so even after gaining sentience they would probably be the equivalent of babies. They probably use older generation kandra to train and educate them on shapeshifting and the Contract, and with MeLaan it was apparently TenSoon. So it's some bizarre mix of affection towards a parent and mentor-student idolization. And maybe a bit of a senpai-kouhai thing, and yes I don't know how to phrase that without resorting to Japanese
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Was it not explicitly said at some point that we already know of (the true identity of) Trell?
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Which is weird because the Mists themselves strictly only create/snap mistings, and mistborn don't naturally arise without lerasium, which is metallic Preservation and not gaseous.
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Hence why I put hemalurgy in that sentence