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Whatever it stole, it managed to steal enough to cause Koloss-level physical mutations with a single spike. Metallic art spikes don't do that, so probably a "human" attribute.
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I'd like to correct there that lerasium is largely unnecessary for introducing allomancy into the population. The mists would've done the job during the routine snapping anyway, as the genes already existed; the connection to Preservation was just too weak. And allomancy is, indeed, powered by Preservation directly as far as we know, outside of burning god metal at least.
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Well aside from the big lie, Beldre is honest with people that's for sure. Allriane is just as much of a manipulator as Breeze is. On that note, did we know Breeze's first name before, or is it only here that shows he's decided to go by "Edgard Ladrian"? Perhaps he finally decided to drop that skaa thief act.
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A slight indulgence probably in light of his having to keep his kleptomania in check ends up developing into such a high degree of skill in identity theft that even a kandra is impressed. Gotta say, that must've taken a lot of practice.
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Always figured it was just "since Kelsier" fullstop. That guy literally wisecracks after his entire army being massacred. The life of the party, though he never got to attend any parties.
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@Argent Atium manipulates how close you are to being dead feruchemically, while allomantically it just turns you into a high-efficiency killing machine, because 2 seconds isn't really good for much else beyond spontaneous reaction. Seems to fit.
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Edwarn says House Ladrian descended from the Counselor of Gods himself, IIRC, so yes that would be him. The guy only gives advice at most. He never actually does things, it works out.
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Speaking of that temple. "A picture of Old Ladrian himself hung over the altar, a man with a ripe paunch and a cup thrust forward, as if to demand attention." Seems more like he was demanding alcohol to me, but either way it's a accurate depiction I suppose.
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No, I'm pretty sure anyone would recognize their crush's features on someone if the only difference is a Y chromosome.
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I don't recall ever seeing a kandra actually heal. They do, in fact, lose body mass from damage, like being bathed in acid, and only consumption seems to fix that (which would work for all life just as well anyway). The main reason they shrug off wounds is because they're just a blob of muscles anyway, so after being cut open they will just pull themselves back together. A gold ferring, on the other hand, can with sufficient health storage recover from being blown apart by dynamite or regrow limbs, effectively creating matter from "nothing".
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Who Are The Most Powerful People/Beings In The Cosmere?
natc replied to Patar's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Even an Inquisitor with enough spikes to be allomantically and feruchemically as strong as Rashek would by default still be weaker, yeah. Since they can't obtain spikes of potential new god metals and god metal alloys without taking from a Mistborn. Rashek is truly the only man able to burn, store, tap, and compound with all magically reactive metals that have ever existed and can ever exist. -
They wouldn't really "shards" of anything if they were never one piece, now would they?
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It's a Misting quiz. If you got a Ferring result from a Misting quiz something is wrong.
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Broadsheet plus last chapter = ? (Comeric SPOILERS)
natc replied to AndrewStirlingMacDonald's topic in Mistborn
Yeah, for like half a sentence. The rest is about broadsheets. -
Pretty sure that's the case. In the same breath he says how Odium was basically always a jerk, while Ruin is the nicest guy around.Stands to reason there are non-good or clearly malicious people forced by their shards to take it down a notch. Rayse avoids incorporating other shards for that reason, IIRC; he prefers being pure Odium. Is that not a clear bias towards action over inaction? All shards have that inclination, but in directly opposite pairs merged together they contradict and thus end up stopping themselves constantly. Adonalsium can move, so something, however slight, should logically be there and left at least partially unchecked.
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He did say the Northwestern bit is of questionable accuracy anyway, right?
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The push applies force directly away from you to the object, while the pull does the opposite. At the horizontal starting point I presume we are working with, there is no vertical component to counteract gravity, so it starts falling. As it falls, the vertical component forces of the push and pull, by my reckoning, should actually cancel assuming equally strong burn, so there is nothing holding the object up, and it just drops. The horizontal component cancels from beginning to end, so honestly nothing should actually happen. If you only pull though, and angle the object correctly and send it circling around you somehow, I can see it being possible to cause a sustainable orbit for a while. Until air resistance stops it. Two perfectly controlled pushes slightly upward should be able to maintain a stationary hover until the wind again moves the object out of place. More pushes from more directions should help. Or just one vertical push/pull.
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It's less what Cultivation's direct opposite might be and more how many opposites Preservation can have. He's written in as being on the protagonist side to some extent, but that's only because Ruin was a common enemy to anything that breathes. Preservation seeks stasis; his opposite is change, which is far too broad to be a focused intent, and indeed we know of two shards that deal with it already. There can be more. Preservation opposes everything except status quo; decay, progress, even creation. Ruin opposes him rather well, probably better than Cultivation would, but he isn't an exact opposite either, as he also can't create things, or cause change for the better. Most he has achieved by himself is tear things apart to put together something stronger with lots of staples and tape.
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But if ALL shards come in pairs, then won't the complete Adonalsium basically be mostly inert like Harmony? Dominion can also be interpreted in entirely different ways. Cultivation and Ruin both oppose Preservation by their very natures. The setup doesn't seem to be fully binary.
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Broadsheet plus last chapter = ? (Comeric SPOILERS)
natc replied to AndrewStirlingMacDonald's topic in Mistborn
Um, I think we know that. Not sure why you mentioned it, especially since nobody is actually talking about the AA that I can tell -
Thanks for . . . further proving my point? The last big historical thing on Roshar is literally that old. Honor vs Odium has been going on for a while before that, and Odium only showed up recently, relatively speaking, because he spent time splintering people elsewhere. Meaning Sel in its current seon-populated state predates even that, and civilization on Sel as a whole even more so. Ruin makes "since time immemorial" comments regularly as if he doesn't even remember how long he's been at this whole anti-Preservation gig. The Shattering can easily be pretty storming ancient.
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Coppermind says that the Way of Kings epilogue occurs about 4500 years after Aharietiam. I would think Scadrial's life can't be younger than all of Roshar's recorded history.
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Looking at first blog entry there: "It is awesome" More than enough reason to read it in my opinion. Stormlight-infused books are usually good.
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People call each other barbarians all the time on Earth though. Plus Sel is literally a Shardworld that functions, more or less, through being racist.
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Broadsheet plus last chapter = ? (Comeric SPOILERS)
natc replied to AndrewStirlingMacDonald's topic in Mistborn
Well, according to Cosmere Theories, we now have the knowledge that Bavadin (the guy Hoid hates that isn't Rayse) is the shard of Autonomy. Of course, the real answer will probably shock us all.