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Hoid seems to have personal beef with Rayse, so while to garner such a reputation to two people probably meant he wasn't the greatest of men (plus he likes being pure Odium without other influences), we should probably take everything Hoid says about his badness with a pinch of salt
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So he's not allowed to say "SoS is an awesome book!" either?
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Related, is it possible to control how far back the shadow goes in your life before it starts extrapolating the other possibility it shows?
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Gold compounding cannot stop aging, actually. I believe Miles Hundredlives himself says it. It does make you nearly unkillable though, and atium compounding can handle the continuous age regression.
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Tin doesn't help you ignore anything that we know of. It explicitly bombards you with heightened senses, and is inherently rather useless until you can learn to ignore things by yourself. The context of that line from Spook is Vin asking him for tips as a tineye, like she has from the others due to their expertise in their single powers. He was almost definitely referring to a matter of skill in using tin, not anything regarding tin itself.
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How's the book though?
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Well, Pattern is the shardblade so of course she was bonded
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Well, how does Shallan perfectly memorize images just by blinking with only illumination and transformation? The epigraphs imply that it is a Lightweaver thing in general, not a unique case. Surges are evidently not the only thing nahel bonds grant.
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Why are "they" present at Gavilar's assassination?
natc replied to Herald's topic in Stormlight Archive
. . . what are you talking about? Statues don't just attack people unless an awakener comes along. -
But that happens to almost everybody I'd think the similarity lies more in the fact that you didn't deny the fact that you screwed up.
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Finally, someone else brings up entropy. Car analogies are always nice. They work with anything.
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I think all we had was "It should actually work, but there are 'complications'."
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They're not though. It's a completely different species. IIRC that actually contributed to why the human-attribute spikes made them more human instead of less.
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Technically none of the magic systems on Scadrial were originally designed by anyone to begin with.
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It. . . ends pretty much the same way though. The journey changed more than the destination did, that's for sure.
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Check your body for holes, Coppercloud, I think someone stole your ability to spell. . . joking, joking. Wouldn't a machine that can burn bronze technically be closer to mechanical allomancy than hemalurgy? Hemalurgy can only make things (the irony), while allomancy is what the thing actually does.
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You can literally have magic systems manifested from two shards that are dead, like AonDor, that ends up being so complicated that even the people able to use it barely understood it, and is basically a programmer's wet dream. I'd think aligning to intent automatically is far from the strangest bit of realmatics out there. I also don't see how your interpretation involves any less deliberate design, tbh. If anything, like Harmony himself, storing feruchemical charges basically stops you from doing much of anything effectively. Preservation is a very active drive to maintain order in a universe of ever-increasing entropy, the opposite of Ruin trying to accelerate it. Large amounts of external power being applied to something to keep it intact is totally in line with Preservation, possibly the one intent among the 16 that basically seeks to overcome nature's providence with all its might.
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A kingdom that, evidently, doesn't exactly exist in its original form anymore. I'd find it odd that you have a relatively defensible spot surrounded by mountains with a radius wide enough to be seen on a world map to some extent, and you build a city smack in the middle surrounded by absolutely nothing for miles upon miles. So much space that you can't even cross without a highstorm striking long before you get to the other end. That sounds bad for infrastructure.
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Rock isn't Makabaki. Not even close. As for the Unkalaki, I thought it was established by WoB that they and Herdazians are Listener-human hybrids?
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the most useless uses for useful powers
natc replied to king of nowhere's topic in Cosmere Discussion
Throw Nightblood into the sun. Whichever disappears first, it would be a total waste. -
Then again, Natanatan (I think?) is buried underneath this entire area and probably wasn't flat.
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TenSoon was at least smart enough to quit before people started getting suspicious. So, is Flog the steelrunner? He does apparently like to avoid the mist, which is slightly suspicious if he's connected to a group that might be connected to hemalurgy.
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I could've sworn it's past the cloud layer, but not sure. Might also have something to do with the middle of the Purelake thing. With everyone basically going "You want to see the middle of the Purelake? Why would you do something so storming daft? There's nothing there, we tell you!" so conspicuously. When there used to be an entire fortress in that spot.
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Yeah, the whole "give everyone infinite goldminds" thing has come up here before. Next to the dark alley.
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I believe WoB is that at least one of the people who helped create Nightblood was doing so with the knowledge and concept of shardblades in mind. So one of the Five Scholars knew more than they were letting on. The Heralds have not left Greater Roshar, however. So either it was someone else who provided the information, or one of the scholars worldhopped then came back.