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we also only get a handful of viewpoints for most worlds. Roshar we get by far the most, but everywhere else its pretty limited. On Nalthis and Sel, for instance something like 2/3 of the viewpoint characters are royalty, and most of the non-royal ones aren't exactly average people. for that matter, we mostly only see 1 or 2 cultures on each of the shard worlds, with maybe small glimpses into others - Roshar again being the primary exception.

402a. even if you watch them die, there is at least a 30% chance they will be ressurected somehow. 402b. there is also at least a 10% chance that said enemy was merely a lieutenant for something worse that will now step forward.

Majora's mask is one I havent been able to beat. i need to get back to it, but its hard to find the time for console gaming these days.

I'll chip in as another voice in the "later Lightbringer books are better than people are saying" camp. I do think they have their problems, and I tend to think that there was a lot of backstory/revelations that didn't quite work or weren't well enough built up, but overall I still liked them. I mostly liked the ending too, other than

to be perfectly clear: the medallions aren't just unkeyed nicrosil-minds. they are unsealed, which is an additional level of freedom from the normal rules. an unkeyed metlamind still requires that the user already have the ferruchemical ability to access it. think about the goldmind that Wayne gets in BoM - he can use it because he is already a gold ferring, but Wax can't, even though it is unkeyed, because he isnt a gold ferring; the members of the set who use them are hemalurgically spiked to have the additional ability. we know how to create an unkeyed metalmind, as you describe. we know that unsealed metalminds are a thing (i.e. the medallions and the bands) but Brandon hasn't yet divulged how to create one. I've thought about this some, and my personal opinion is that weaker/stronger ferruchemy probably has to do primarily with bandwidth (for lack of a better word ) - i.e. how much investiture you can store or tap at one time. basically, if you use a plumbing metaphor here, someone with a bigger pipe is going to be able to handle more investiture at once. to use weight as an example, since it translates pretty easily to normal units: if I wanted to gain 1000 lbs for 5 minutes, i'd have to tap a certain amount of investiture, and if i wanted to gain 2000 lb for half that time, id have to tap about the same amount total (a little more actually per Sazed's explanation in era 1), but i'd have to be tapping it twice as hard and i migth find that i run up against some limitation. so following from that example, I would say an iron ferring would have a maximum weight that they are able to add (or subtract, but that likely doesn't come up) at a given time, and a stronger ferring's will have a higher limit while a weaker ferring would have a lower limit. so a very weak ferring might only be able to add say 200 lbs to their weight at once, while a very strong ferring would be able to add literal tons. there may also be a secondary aspect relating to that penalty for pulling in a lot of a trait all at once, where it is possible that a stronger ferruchemist may be able to do that more efficiently and with a smaller penalty relative to a weaker ferruchemist.

I don't think the 1 example we have seen is really sufficient to tell us this though, especially since we know it can't possibly be that simple for the physical metals, since we know Atium alloys produce temporal and/or mental effects - so either they do somethign completely different than what youd expect for the physical metals or else they add or alter the normal effects to produce temporal/mental effects. either way we can be pretty certain that pewter+atium won't just flip internal to external and allow you to buff other people. and i'm not even sure what an internal/external swap would even mean for iron and steel. so thats 4 cases where atium alloys can't be simple internal/external flips, and I suspect that will hold true for the enhancement group as well, since those really shouldn't be considered mental or temporal effects.

So I think we have pretty solid evidence that someone who always wnated their flesh and blood arm back would be able to grow that back. Its basically what happens with Lopen. but even there, the way his stormlight healing is described is still fairly biological - the arm stump starts itching, and slowly begins to grow into a full arm. as far as healing a prosthetic, even setting aside the investment issue you mention (which is a good point), I still think that healing is unlikely to be able to replicate the cybernetic components, but I suppose we don't yet have enough evidence to say for sure. The point about "healing" a birth defect is a good one - since it shows that the process is definitely not purely biological, since a purely biological healing would likley try to rebuild the body according to its genetics, which would likley include birth defects and the like.

I imagine this is true right now, but in a hypotehtical future-tech world where the replacement arm is at least as good as, if not better than, the real arm was, this could start to change. to the original question: I have a hard time imagining that someone would be able ot grow a prosthetic arm back if they lost it. even if they consider it a part of themselves after years, I still think most cosmere healing works by more or less supercharging existing biological healing processes, and they probably wouldnt be able to generate something as exotic as a prosthetic. but I also think that someone who is new to their prosthetic (or other cybernetics) who is then exposed to strong healing would probably reject the artifical parts in favor of more natural ones, because they wouldnt have had them long enough to truly change their perception of themselves. but after a few years, while you may not be able to regrow a cybernetic arm, you probably could heal damage around it without your body rejecting the arm and trying to grow you a new biological one.

Szeth survives the equivalent with just the use of a healing fabrial, so Progression at least should be capable of that level of healing. I think the biggest issue a radiant would have is that if the body gets disconnected from the head, they may not be able to access their stormlight to heal with.

Hoid is almost certainly less powerful than a shard, though he very well may be smarter than a few of them. put simply, i doubt that there is anyone other than a shard who could actually beat him, though Hoid also can't hurt people, so he can't exactly beat anyone else either.

maybe if he can leverage one or more of the short stories into a movie deal or something. Old Theradane is basically a Fantasy Heist story, its ripe for adaptation, the biggest issue being that youd probably blow your budget on special effects

A year and a Day in Old Theradane is the only one of those that i've read and it is fantastic. but I imagine novels pay better. wouldnt surprise me if even the worst selling among his novels has made him more money than all those short story contributions

Been a while since I've read elantris, but from what I recall, you can get pretty in depth with the use of the aons. seeking something offworld may be hard - it may run out of power as it tries to seek further and further away from Elantris, but in theory I imagine you could set up the basics to work. but you'd need a lot of study. Imagine trying to program a deep space probe using only assembly, some of which you had to invent, on hardware you had to create. at the end of Elantris thats about where they are, I think.

It's also entirely likely that the bead in shadesmar does not contain the full investiture of the planet. Nightblood destroying the planet's bead in shadesmar is a different thing than him devouring all of the planet's natural investiture. just because the one may be possible, does not mean the other is.

the nicrosil-minds that we have seen up to now have tended to grant specific abilities, like the power to use iron ferruchemy, for instance. so presumably the drab would get the same effect that anyone else would - they would gain the ability stored in teh nicrosil-mind for as long as the charge lasted

his point is that Valar and Maiar are both subsets of the Ainur. so Gandalf, Saruman, and Sauron are all also Ainur, but not Valar, while Manwe is an Ainur and a Valar, but not a Maiar

might not be an insult....just accurate

I don't think we have a specific answer to that yet, but for what its worth, Hoid would have access to several sources fo investiture from other worlds, possibly including alternate ways to ingest stormlight, and any of those could be the culprit. bear in mind that the cognitive realm has different rules than the physical too, so eyes glowing in the CR may have a completely different source than a similar effect in teh physical realm would.

I feel like siri and lightsong are almost pure growth (plus lightsong starts out fun and lighthearted and never completely loses that), and vasher is pretty much unchanged from start to end. but vivenna has to hit rock bottom in order to grow, and the process of getting her there can be hard to read at times.

definitely lightsong for me, especially his chapters near the end of the book, which are a 1-2 punhc with one of my favorite tropes, but even before that too, he would probably win. second would likely be Siri, for just the story of how she handles her situation, then Vasher then Vivenna.

Should also note that Atium is a god metal, so there is plenty of reason to believe that it is just better at its job than electrum is, which would mean that the sort of transcendant future sight experience Elend got might simply not be possible using electrum.. Also, for what its worth, we havent really seen many depictions of seeing the future from non-shards, even Elends example we don't actually get a description of. its entirely possible that the experience is so esoteric that it would be difficult to gain specific insight into something as minute or mundane as stock prices, particularly for someone whose mind hasn't been expanded to be able to handle the information they are seeing. its also possible that in the flood of information one would see doing this sort of thing that it is really only possible to retain big-picture things. Imagine speed-reading an entire multi-volume set on the history of say the 1940s and then trying to remember the results of specific horse races, or what company was doing well in the stock market on a specific day. and of course you may also not have enough context from the future sight to be useful. if you knew in 1925 that a depression and a major war were going to happen soon, but didn't know the specific years, then that might not help you too much. you could end up selling stocks years too early for the crash and ruining yourself. and there's no guarantee that your future sight would include such mundane things as glimpses at calendars or the dates of events.

Syrup by default, but I wouldn't say no to fresh fruit or some kind of fruit compote (well depending on the fruit anyway). probably wouldnt do jam or jelly though, just not a huge fan of it.

you're right that someone who is holding stormlight is going to be more resistant to it, but its definitely not clear how strong that effect is going to be. as far as szeth ignoring his emotions and carrying out his orders, that is true, but I'm not sure how well that experience would carry over to a massive burst of soothing. certainly he'd be able to regain his momentum, but I still think it would give him pause for a moment or two, and like I said, that may be all the pause Vin would need. still, I think overall, stormlight healing means szeth probably has an advantage in this fight - with either the honorblade or nightblood, he just needs 1 pretty good hit to kill or severely incapacitate, while Vin would need either 1 perfect hit, or several very damaging hits, meanwhile both skybreaker and honorblade szeth are going to be more maneuverable than she is even accounting for iron and steel. i'm just saying that if I were making odds, Vin's emotional allomancy would be enough to push her odds up a little bit.

I think it may actually be a good point. we don't often see the effects of a massive spike of soothing. Breeze certainly would never do it, it isn't his way. and the main character in the first era mistborn books is, well, a mistborn, so she's often burning copper anyway to prevent such a thing. if a soother (or rioter, but I think soothing is going to be the more useful of the 2 in this case) hit someone with just a massive burst of emotional allomancy, what would that do to them? especially for a person who isnt specifically used to fighting against such a thing? At the absolute minimum, I suspect it would cause Szeth to falter the first time he felt it, which might be enough. stormlight can heal a lot, but i doubt it could heal a pewter-flared hit to the face, or a flurry of coins to the head. And Vin is probably good enough to get an attack like that in with just a moment or two of distraction

larger objects will move slower since the force of the steelpush is based on the masses. still might do more damage since it has more mass, and energy is proportional to speed squared, but I don't think we are approaching speeds that can damage shardplate without F-iron to massively increase the weight of the inquisitor. f-pewter and f-steel together would definitely give them a shot at damaging shardplate, but they'd have to tap a ton of them, or at least a ton of the pewter, all at once. any inquisitor that knows how to compound should be able to manage that, but not all of them did know how. given that though, I think I'd change my answer: if at least 1 of the inquisitors in question knows how to compound their metals, then they could compound pewter and steel to land absolutely shattering hits that could definitely break through shardplate, and they could move fast enough to avoid a shardblade and basically get a hit n wherever they want - so they could almost certainly beat Dalinar. without compounding, I think the ferruchemical charge to manage it migth be too high. 3 inquisitors working together could maybe manage it, but I think Dlainar beats any non-comounding inquisitors.