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there is no reason to believe that the stormlight is being converted into breaths. it is more likely that the returned need investiture to survive, and the only source available to them on Nalthis is Breath. once they are off planet, they have access to other types as well, and are perfectly capable of using those to survive as long as they know how to pull them in.

huh, was not aware of that

Why would storing connection cause aging to be slowed?

seconding this. In western society public schools are extremely recent, and older schools were generally for educating priests and/or the wealthy. only Era 2 Scadrial is really far enough advanced to align with when we had public schools in our world (at lest in America. can't speak for other societies)

There was a definitely a whole bunch of "Well this would be a much simpler problem if you hadn't decided to split firestorm up at teh beginning of the mission"

To borrow from both above posts: Warbreaker is availble for free on Brandon's website, though not in audiobook format, I believe, so you could save money by reading it that way and spending your credit on Elantris. But if you prefer the audiobook route, I personally liked Warbreaker better.

to your second question, the answer is definitely yes. we see Shallan do something like it early on, and it is implied to be possible to those with the surge of Transportation at a minimum. to your first question, even inanimate objects have a cognitive part. all the glass beads in shadesmar are the cognitive represntation of various things in the physical realm. not sure what an animal in the physical realm looks liek form the cognitive realm though.

ignoring minor continuity errors is about the only way any of these shows work, but out of curiosity, do you have any specific ones you are referring to for Legends?

I've heard good things about the last two seasons, and i've heard good things about the Flash and Supergirl this season as well, but I have to ration my time.

I honestly haven't been. I've had a lot less free time this past year, so of all the various arrowverse shows, I've only been watching Legends of Tomorrow, which I think is easily the most fun one.

I mean, based on that WoB it may be possible with enough. After all, we know that sufficient breaths can grant sentience; nightblood is proof enough of that.

They might not have a resonance at that point. We know from WoB that the resonance effcet disappears when you have a bunch of systems workign together, instead of just one or two. As I recall, his example was that a fullborn, like The Lord Ruler, wouldn't actually have access to any of the individual resonances that the twinborn have. It stands to reason that pooling all of the different surges into one person might similarly eliminate the resonances that each of the orders of knights have.

disagree on Wolves. In my experience they are 50/50 between good and bad. snakes and spiders though are bad news about 99% of the time

putting this in spoiler tags just in case, though I don't think it probably needs it.

Agree that it is not quite what was asked, but I felt it was closely enough related to warrant bringing up. Spren likely cannot change themselves, but that isn't necessarily to say that spren cannot be changed.

But what if the human concepts they are based on change? Suppose for instance that the Azish somehow took over the world, within a few generations, the concept of "Honor" might be slowly modified to align more closely with "Lawfulness" in the minds of the people of the world. in that case, do you think that the spren themselves would change? Maybe that particular example is a bit extreme, but it seems like we should be able to find spren types that are close enough together that they might begin to blend if the concepts they are based on change across the world. For that matter, would a better understanding of chemistry and physics cause some of the various spren representing the physical world change or merge?

Fair enough, I honestly forgot that resonance has that specific meaning in this context, I meant more to say that he still can access the basic synergies of mixing abilities together. For example the sorts of things Wax does, as a crasher, that let him steelpush harder by increasing his weight, or push off from things harder because he can decrease it rashek would still be able to do, just not the specific resonance effect that Wax gets.

This is a very important caveat. Basically the strongest usage we have probably seen (outside of a shard) is The Lord Ruler in Mistborn, who has the full complement of both allomancy and ferruchemy (at pretty much maximum strength for allomancy at least), and all the resonances and compunding that entails. but it requires combining 2 systems, albeit 2 systems from the same world, and doing so in ways that simply don't occur naturally. so having said all that, in terms of pure energy/investiture output, and not including TlR, the strongest we have seen is still probably Compounding on Scadrial. This is a rare, but naturally occurring, case, but again, is really 2 magic systems workign together, not one single one. also they are extremely limited in what they can do. basically they have practically limitless power, but only for one single thing. counting both power and uses, I have to agree with previous posters that AonDor probably wins. within Elantris itself the Aondor is extremely powerful, and i think it is fair to say that it has the widest variety of uses out of all the powers we have seen: one Elantrian is capable of emulating most, if not all, of the surges of the Knights Radiant with the right Aons, and with substantial power too.

Definitely fair. I have a friend who had the same issues. Not sure if he ever actually got around to picking it up, but I know he was turned off by the steampunk look of the cover Its a bit tough to get an exact analog since there really is only the one major city. Elendel strikes me as being very much like NYC or Chicago, but it is also the center of power, so there is a bit of a DC vibe there. I agree that the Western elements are strong in the Roughs, and do make their way into the Elendel scenes. In fact, thinking on it further, I think the Western elements fade a bit in the later books, and that might be influencing me here. I think the series as a whole edges more towards a detective story, ala Sherlock Holmes, than a Western, and it is hard for me to separate out any individual book from that impression, so Alloy may be more like a Western than I am remembering

to be fair, it isn't quite either of those things. there are western elements, but mostly in flashbacks. the present day stuff happens in what is roughly an analog of New York City; though admittedly wax and wyanes characters are influenced by western elements. and there isn't really an excess of steam powered gadgets and the like that would normally characterize steampunk. its just a fantasy book in a setting roughly equivalent to turn of the century new york city or maybe chicago.

Really in any prophecy situation, assume that there is nothing you can do to prevent it from coming true. At best you can delay it.

(specific to video game universes I suppose) keep all your valuables on you around town, there is no telling when teh so-called heroes are going to break into your house and rifle through all your stuff.

Dealt with doesn't have to mean killed though. I think there are satisfactory ways for SA to end that involve driving Odium out of the system entirely, for instance, in which case he could presumably go menace the rest of the cosmere.

I am a sucker for certain types of scenes, especially noble sarifice type things. so yea, Lightsong's scenes in warbreaker, where we see him in his old life before he returns, and then we see him give up his life again...it's almost enough to make me tear up just writing that. It's just a one-two punch of exactly the sort of thing that hits me. i also go in for some of those sappy "you have to have hope" sort of scenes, though I don't have a specific example that I can think of off the top of my head.

I understand the basic concept, but I'm saying that it is not clear that it applies to bouyancy specifically. the bouyancy equations I have seen only conseder 3 factors: the density of the fluid involved, the accelleration due to gravity, and the volume of fluid displaced. they don't take into account things like shape or surface area or roughness. this suggests that changes to reduce drag from the water would not affect bouyancy. I'll also note that my brief stint looking into this suggests that bouyancy is caused by pressure differentials. so the claim that bouyancy wouldn't affect someone coated to become frictionless suggests that fluid pressure in general wouldn't affect them, but that would mean that, for example, lift's ears should pop if she made her whole body frictionless, because she'd be experiencing no air pressure; or that she could safely sink to the bottom of the ocean, because teh pressure would have no effect. so yes, she can reduce drag and move through air or water more quickly, but it doesn't seem like that should extend to her automatically sinking.