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I'd say as far as the oathpact is concerned Honor got the much better deal than what the Heralds were stuck with. It's not all that honorable at all. The honorable ones here are the Heralds for doing it anyway for the greater good.

Considering that Tanavast apparently bought drinks for him that's probably exactly where they met. I believe Hoid is supposedly acquainted with all 16 people who first Ascended.

"soulcast a man into fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life" is future tense, pulse. The non-cosmere version of the joke literally involves burning them to death, so it definitely happens after.

I'm not sure that last one is a thing. I've never noticed. In fact google is telling me it's just a normal word. The second half has nothing to do with the first half as well. I also believe most of the shardworld names had already existed before the whole shebang started? The names are all Yolish.

H won't have a "rest of his life" after being cast to fire though. Except that short bit where he's being turned from flesh into fire. I don't think instantaneous really makes any scientific sense, to be honest. Judging from the air-to-stone moment Adolin saw the matter sometimes does need to move to account for state-changes. Instantaneous kind of defies relativity. The fact that the air can be observed to move into place at all suggests it's just fast.

Then you can probably just let them suck it out of the soulcaster gems to be honest . . .

So back to the car. You have this car, it's the system we are using as the frame of reference. Obviously not a closed one, as you're putting gas in it from outside. So you put the gas in it, and you've got potential energy to work with now. More than before. You start driving and that's converted to motion. It's still more energy than just an empty car, and it'll never go below the original empty baseline unless you go annihilate the parts into energy (just why?) or scrap some pieces. Eventually you run out of gas, strand yourself on the interstate like an idiot, and are back to . . . however much energy is used to form the matter of the car at all. The fuel escaped as exhaust all the while and disappated. You have an allomancer. You start with however much investiture constitutes his spiritweb and the matter forming his cells. That's the system we're defining as a reference. You burn, pouring Preservation (or metabolized atium) into the allomancer, investing him. His powers use that investiture to do their magics, like how the car goes forward. All this time, from the first time the allomancer uses his powers to the day he kicks the bucket, he is more invested than the baseline human. You run out if metal, the flow stops, and you're back to normal with no magic, looking like a fool. The investiture probably escapes into the environment, incorpirated into newborn baby souls, shards, atium, what have you. You can't just take the entire cosmere into account, because investiture cannot be created or destroyed as far as we know. Only end neutral will exist, and it's the same for energy in the real world. Science doesn't work like that. The thermometer you stuck in the test tube to track a reaction in a chemistry lab is used to track change of heat of that reaction alone, not the whole universe (which will be 0 anyway). Science is relative, you need to define the frame of reference first.

But why would you even nuke it?

Well he'd still be warm for the rest of his life at least. That time frame is just much shorter than it normally would be.

Wait, is that lightning forming inside the volcanic plume? I didn't know they can do that.

Well, for one thing the investiture does not come from the metal to begin with (god metals aside), and for another the metal was not kinetically (is that even a word?) invested, so the starting investiture was basically the baseline set by your spiritweb's existence, and the inflow of power increases that, which is positive change.

It's probably easier in a highstorm though. It's literally a mass of investiture in there, the stormlight would essentially fully saturate the area. The stormlight has nowhere else to go except the edges of the storm, radiants, and gems. That's like trying to breathe from an oxygen tank just opened vaguely near your mouth trying to suck it in, while in space, as opposed to being in a room full of air. The concentration is probably far more substantial in a highstorm.

Yeah, considering that panic moment I thought it was pretty clear that the Regrowth thing was him talking out of his rear end.

Storing wakefulness will knock you out cold. If that can't be stored while sleeping it'd be a pretty useless ability.

Also, spren gone seems to equal your powers going with it. You can't quite have a nahel bond with a Shard, I'm sure. Third note, the vast majority of spren are apparently Honor-Cultivation hybrids, last I checked. There's a lot of power you'd need back to fix Honor to 100% at this stage. Pretty much all of him is now self-aware pieces. Fourth point, dead men are going to summon jack squat. Preservation didn't really spend more than moments without a living holder. And as Yata says, was more or less still in one piece. Even if you somehow put a few million or so spren into one body, it's gonna need a good chunk of power to bind it all back together. The creation of Harmony took two shards' worth to force the reaction. Spontaneous nuclear fusion already ain't cheap, and we're outright fusing the power of creation here.

No, he's just being Wayne.

The existence of epics wasn't apparently known for a year, so it's really just this weird glowing thing in the sky floating ominously. When the epics came in droves the world then went to hell real fast.

Pretty sure firing nukes into the upper atmosphere will just spread radiation globally.

I am thoroughly confused.

Don't those . . . probably generate lines anyway? I mean, they definitely have metal circuits for power . . .

Um . . . windrunners almost definitely existed before Honor died. Not almost. Definitely.

Ignoring that it shouldn't work, why would you even want to use up stormlight to make more stormlight?

Yeah, I'd imagine the savantism only occurs due to the gap in their soul being flooded by the metal flare and stretched to near bursting for too long. Investiture can fill the gap in the soul, but it can also widen the fissure. Unless the compounder was charging up nonstop for ages and was flaring the whole time they should be fine. There's little reason to even do that to yourself.

"My idea of taking breaks is to work" and "I write books as a warmup for writing books", basically.

Can't really blame him. This is Shallan. She's the type that goes around being all WoR spoilers