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They have 7 left, actually. One of the Heralds already reclaimed one, according to a WoB somewhere. And when Taravangian claims a blade has been taken to calm Szeth down Szeth refers to "the other seven" honorblades, IIRC. Seems just getting them out of the country isn't that difficult.

Upvote for that. It's bthe best part of the Cosmere. Also, the verb number disagreement in the thread title is starting to annoy me

You . . . can't just have 0.6 of an era pass. It's either 0 or 1 and higher. Eras are too vague of a concept to be that accurate.

Why do I get the feeling now that the feruchemical gold spikes were actually Ruin's idea and not Rashek's . . . ?

The highstorm cycle is also 1000 days, one year 500 days, one week 10 days, one day 20 hours . . . Roshar does 10. That's all there is to it really, as far as we can tell. We've seen two shards grant 16 powers each, and even then there are dozens more when factoring god metals and god metal alloys. If you invest a new shard there the number goes higher still. Hemalurgy doesn't even have "powers" in the first place. And can do way more than 16 things.

Um, we already tried that one no?

Then it seems they should go work for Captain America, since they managed to die and actually walk it off . . *sarcasm* They looked perfectly fine at Feverstone Keep, which is generally presumed to be the Day of Recreance vision. They just stabbed their blades into the ground, disengaged their plate, and stormed off. Their powers were perfectly intact prior because their blades and plate still glowed, and about a hundred of the windrunners dropped in from the sky instead of walking.

Bringing this back because I saw something about Rhythms in the AMA: So definitely not entirely a Listener thing.

Hatred even in its most general sense is compatible with every emotion or intent you can possibly conceive, there's no point bringing that up. Doesn't change the fact that he's presently trying to become the most powerful thing ever by killing everyone else. He was even already a jerk as a human, it seems. I'm pretty sure he is described explicitly as blind divine hatred without other intents to guide him, actually. And he prefers it that way, leaving the other shards in pieces instead of taking them himself and distorting his intent.

. . . the Recreance happened, clearly. Whatever they all did to break their oaths simultaneously across 9 orders it works.

Makes me wonder just how thermodynamically inefficient stormlight is. That stuff glows like crazy.

Well, the first time Kaladin just jumps into a chasm he breaks his legs and reknit them immediately. I'm sure you're supposed to die without a proper landing He also breaks his legs shattering shardplate in the duel by lashing himself.

They'd at least be able to control the muscles I guess. Being able to see quickly seems like something that should fall in mental speed though. The power would suck that way, but duralumin mistings are even more useless so . . . Besides, feruchemical powers were not meant to exist in isolation, it was the allomantic genes that gave rise to ferrings. For a full feruchemist they always had mental speed to go with their physical.

It is said in the AMA recently, I believe, that if you spike someone to be inordinately powerful with atium that nobody can match naturally, they will reach a breaking point in the power and can see into the cognitive realm directly. Even shards can't see the future with absolute accuracy (some are worse than others too), and changing the future with atium already implies that there isn't predestination going on. The above paragraph implies that the shadows utilize the cognitive realm somehow, so I guess it's likely that they're just really accurate forecasts on steroids based on analyzing cognitive aspects? The shadows shouldn't even have a physical manifestation anyway. These are internal metals, so like bronzepulses they should basically all be in your head. Are senses physical or cognitive?

The very first page of my copy of HoA has Marsh saying he could see the metal in his companions' blood, so it must not need too much. They might be really "dim" compared to metal objects though (quotation marks since they don't have a sense of vision anyway), so they can still push/pull properly that way if that's how mass-distance correlation and thickness/brightness works. They're definitely blind though. It might make more sense to them to look at if their brains no longer process iron/steel allomancy visually.

So, how about Inquisitor ironsight? They seem to perceive enough lines from trace metal to see, but probably can't push them. Are they simply more sensitive to the lines normally too dim to see by normal allomancers?

Ruin sure as Damnation can't read minds.

The same reason atium blocks atium. If you know the future, you can change it. Which the atium burner reacts to, changing the future on his end, and then your shadow changes, and so on. It doesn't matter whose future you see as long as they're involved in the fight. If atium let's you see how they will kill you in the next 2 seconds, electrum will tell you how you will die. Vin pulls off a similar trick without electrum. By looking at Zane who was burning atium to see how he counters her random move made without thinking, she figures out what she was about to do and changes her movements to avoid failure.

Wouldn't a radiant with that much stormlight resist soulcasting naturally?

Why does everyone assume compounders are stronger somehow? It's not a matter of power. Any ferring can reach compounder levels with enough attribute stored up to expend. It's just not practical because you can't feasibly store that much using only your own body. Mental speed is a separate attribute, steel only makes you move faster. And does not protect from air resistance, so good luck going that fast :/

Yeah, since when did gems encased in glass count as metal? Also, on Elantris and Nightblood, what else would you make permanent fixtures and swords put of, pottery? Metal is pretty rusting useful.

Internal metals aren't supposed to affect other people. How would letting other people see your own future counter atium anyway? It'd just make things worse. Electrum let's you see your own future like gold does with your past.

Metal is the focal point of magic on Scadrial, IIRC, which is why it glows. Presumably something else would glow blindingly on a different shardworld.

I think you're thinking of the wrong thing, because all 16 of the holders predate modern spren by several millennia if not longer.

. . . I think he knows.