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Considering that the religion is partly founded on the fact that they won the Last Desolation (the Heralds blatantly lied), as well as things like the Radiants abandoning them (it's beginning to seem that it was important that they did), Jezrien being associated with the Stormfather (completely different beings), prophecy being of the Voidbringers (Truthwatchers can see into the future, or so it seems. And Honor/the Almighty himself breaks his own ban on prophecy in the visions), the silly eye-color thing that contradicts the Radiant issue completely, since their eyes are often described as light to the point of being almost white. Their god isn't even alive anymore. Vorinism is just a load of chull dung at this point.

Their society seems fairly advanced to me, tbh. The lack of better technology can be blamed on the world ending every few centuries up until the previous desolation, and weapons as destructive as shardblades/plate probably stalled weapons advances for a bit. Fabrial science also diverts scientific attention. But aside from that the Plains seemed pretty decked out for a storming warcamp of all places. Impacts made by the Shards potentially importing parts of Yolen's culture when setting all this up need to be accounted for too. It is possible that the societies of Roshar are far more elaborate than their tech level suggests. Plus, they're actually speaking Alethi, so whatever out-of-place English we get is just an approximate translation. I highly doubt what they are drinking is "normal" wine when it's all blue and orange and other colors, and it seems you can't even physically get drunk on some of them. "Restaurant" may be the most accurate representation of the establishment.

The surges don't really "perform" that list off things, those are names for the surges themselves. All surgebinders command two surges naturally, dependent on the bonded spren/honorblade, and there's really not much else to explain in the "how" department besides "I inhale stormlight, then shape it to do certain things when I put the stormlight into objects". The lashings are just what windrunners of old used to refer to various common uses of there abilities, because I doubt a bunch of people from stone/bronze age tech-level societies know enough about physics to be able to tell you which of their powers uses vacuum pressure and which alters gravity. We do not really know if bondsmiths or skybreakers share this terminology with the abilities they share with windrunners. It's fundamentally not too different from allomancy, really. You take external investiture and bring it into yourself, and then shape it to produce a specific result. In allomancy, however, it's just that you burn a metal to break it down, and depending on the atomic structure of the metal burned you unconsciously send the message "Hey, Preservation, give me power molded in [this] way to do [that]" and Preservation does so automatically. God metals are exceptions and might be closer to surgebinding than normal metals. With surgebinding, you have to procure the power (stormlight) personally by collecting it in a highstorm with gems or some other method, then absorb it into your body and shape it yourself to do something. The spren bonded to your soul determines what forms you are capable of manifesting, while with allomancy what you can produce depends on what you can burn, which is encoded into your spiritual DNA at birth.

For most environments, yes there are probably gaps. But there definitely won't be gaps between meta in a message written in a metal plate, that's for sure. So that one is out. Plus, it defeats the point of steelsight if you can generate blue in places without metal. The primary reason the sense exists is to locate pushing/pulling targets, even if inquisitors use it for something different entirely. You can't have the thing generating false positives for silicon dioxide.

I don't mind the complicatedness either, I was just slightly miffed that he hadn't figured out the question yet It happens to me a lot in real life. Kind of a pet peeve now. I tend to get aggravated when it happens

For people that have gone vegetable and then soulstamped into having a functional mind and personality again, what would happen if you try to spike their identity, or whatever it was that's inside Blessings of Stability, out of them? Would the fake mind lose its identity or other such things? Would the spiking succeed, but the person not immediately impaired because the fake mind isn't a spiritweb and is consequently still intact afterwards? Do vegetables even have a spiritweb to steal from anymore?

A certain someone else has been infusing stormlight without a nahel bond for a decent while now, presumably, so I hope Szeth can come up with something or else Nightblood is just good for throwing

Conflux can power things himself, can't he? And I'm not sure I would call shockwaves that can carve anything into dust a protective ability. Also seems to have superhuman strength.

Eatery doesn't even exist in my vocabulary, so . . . When did "restaurant" become an exclusively French word? Large portions of the English language consists of misdefined and/or mispronounced French.

So much maths for such a simplistic question. I couldn't care less about the actual metalmind content, I didn't even mention what's in there. All I asked was "is the amount missing from storing the charge a constant flat amount based on the initial value, or is it instead fixed to the percentage, with the actual amount fluctuating?" Which you finally answered, albeit in a roundabout way while trying to answer some other question that nobody asked.

Almighty knows war never stops on Roshar, anyway. They'll always find something to fight over, like us hopeless earthlings. The Knights were practically gods of the battlefield, likely a necessity for war by now, the dishonor would be greater than ordinary deserters simply due to how necessary they were. The Heralds themselves left humanity to the Knights Radiant, even. And they just go "storm this, I'm out of here".

That . . . doesn't really answer the question though.Let's say I store 30% weight like wax nonstop. Then I gain weight due to eating too many donuts. Assume I am wakefulness compounding so that I never stop to sleep. My entire life is one massive storing run. So by the end, am I storing 30% of my weight from before, or 30% of my new weight?

Which brings up a good question. If storing abd tapping uses percentages, does the storing rate readjust to match your new level of strength/health/whatever?

Plus, you never know what you might need Radiants for. They're the protectors of humankind. Possibly symbols of hope and salvation. Paragons of virtue only just beneath the Heralds. Imagine if you're someone from a comic book universe, and every superhero in the world declares that they quit. It would probably be terrible.

HoA Spoilers:

HoA Spoilers:

He will finally overcome his angst and have hope in life again . . . just in time to find out the "wicked thing of eminence" that caused the Day of Recreance. I can see it now.

[in response to Kaymyth because ninjas] But then won't some of those shadows end up being gold savants with DID as well? It could end up pretty weird.

Well, in a roundabout way Kaladin and Lirin being unable to save Roshone's son (and like any sensible doctor with another urgent patient to work on, didn't even try) is sort of how the grudge escalated to as high as it did. Which prompted sending Tien to the army in revenge. So it isn't entirely not his fault, if only because he could've just let Roshone die that day. It's still just him being overly self-centered regarding his losses though.

But do they even have ashmounts down there?

Increased light frequency frying you is not the only way a bubble can kill you. Having not enough energy in the system due to reduced light frequency is probably just as bad. The temperature should be dropping as much as the light red shifts, but it doesn't.

Well obviously, being granted immortality by the power of Ruin would be silly. It does last a good while at least, better than nothing. To be honest, immortality sounds really terrible anyway.

The actual glassware referenced is actually windows, I believe. If someone like Ruin who gets so easily distracted and out-planned somehow is composed of investiture mostly easily allomantically directed towards seeing the future (with this ability strangely being harder to produce by burning Preservation's investiture, if I recall correctly, despite the poor chap spouting so many prophecies), I suppose even Honor should be able to see a little.

The thing is, even Wayne's bubble would kill him if it works that way. We don't know why it doesn't work that way, but it doesn't. Strangely.