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given that holding stormlight tends to cause it to automatically heal your body, i'd agree. even if you aren't conciously using it, it is still acting.

probably the best use is as an impolite disconnect from the person at the other end. basically hanging up the phone on them and slapping them in the face (probably literally) at the same time. practically using it to really harm or kill would be a bit implausible in most scenarios.

it does...and then it gets worse again. I don't mind it so much, personally, but a lot of people will tell you that the pace slows down to a crawl somewhere around book 7 and deosnt pick back up until Brandon takes over. book 10 is pretty much universally considered the worst one, in that nothing much of significance happens during the entire thing(though I personally find books 1 and 2 to be the worst). so take all that however you will. my personal advice, if you get through book 3 and stll dont want to continue, then it is definitely not for you.

on the off chance that anyone hasn't read WoK I'll spoiler tag this, but there is nothing in the below from Oathbringer:

Thanks. I knew it was out there, I just wasn't in the mood to hunt it down

don't want to look for the WoB right now, but we know there are spren that predate the shattering, so they would presumably be some sort of mix of up to all 16 shards.

mine hasn't arrived yet. which is fine for today, because I probably wasn't going to start it (well, ok, i probably wasn't going to get more than a couple chapters in anyway), but I'm going to be mad at Amazon if it doesn't get here within the next day or 2

I don't think we know for sure if you could add more power to a spike. you could probably use 5 spikes to get stacking enhancements to pewter, but it isn't clear if you could do multiple ones on 1 spike.

I liked it better than the one before it, though I would have trouble saying precisely why.

finished The Blood Mirror. taking a bit of a break for now - if I do too much of one thing for too long, I tend to burn myself out on it for a while, and I don't want to do that before Oathbringer is out.

agree. I haven't tried to look up WOB about it beyond what is in the wiki, so maybe there is something more out there on whether or nto nutrition can be stored.

My understanding of Bendalloy ferruchemy is that it allows one to store nutrition, so things like vitamins, for example. but a lot of vitamins become toxic in large quantities, iron for example. so I am assuming that a bendalloy ferruchemist would be able to ingest iron beyond the point where it would normally be toxic, provided they then stored it in a metalmind. so my question given that they can store nutritious chemicals this way, would they be able to do the same thing with normally toxic ones? could bendalloy ferruchemy be used to sap poisons out of one's system?

you're thinking of the Adem, but their resemblance to the Aiel is superficial at best; the Aiel would never consent to mercenary work, for one thing and the Aiel always struck me as being a Native American analog while the Adem are more like Eastern Asian monastic types. In general, I don't think the two series are really very comparable. sure there may be certain concepts that they share, but even those most likely predate either one. put another way, to the extent that the Adem are like the Aiel, it isn't because the one is inspired by/ripping off the other, but because they are both coming from the same earlier inspiration. and for the most part they are very different in most ways. they have different narrative focuses, different forms of magic, and different paths for their magic users to take, in fact just about every concept I can think of offhand is substantially different between the two. for an example where I do think one work is blatantly ripping off another, compare Lord of the Rings to the later The Sword of Shannara, and see how almost every concept in the former has an obvious parallel in the latter.

huh?? you're going to have to explain your logic a bit there, because I don't see it.

no worries on that. I can see where you're coming from and my original position is definitely less solid than I assumed, but i'm still doubtful.

admittedly more complicated than I had understood it be, but even there, it sounds like the spren would probably need to be in a more physical form, so it isn't as simple as runnign a windspren through with a hemalurgic spike.

working my way through lightbringer 3 (i've already forgotten the name of the book itself) and I am finding it hard to concentrate, I'll get through a chapter or 2 then set it down and take up something else for a bit. I like it well enough, btu just cant find the focus for it. not sure if that's because I've burned myself out temporarily (finished my reread of SA, plus the Ryria books, plus the first 2 in this series in the last few weeks, so maybe need a break from reading) or if maybe my attention span is just getting worse. might be because i'm reading it as an ebook on my computer, so the temptation to tab over to the internet is higher than if it were a physical book, or a separate device. or maybe it's the book itself. maybe it actually is as disjoint as I am perceiving it, and that lack of flow is doing this. I honestly don't know which factor is the biggest part here.

seems unlikely, since hemalurgy requires blood to work, and, in general, planets don't bleed.

this is a good point actually. technologically, a spanreed is roughly equivalent to a telephone, at least an early telephone, where you had an actual switch operator involved. and some of the fabrials we have seen are similar to space heaters and pumps; that's technology, just magic technology. Elantris, pre-reod anyway, is similar . Also highstorms have got to wreak havoc on infrastructure. I doubt anywhere on in mid to eastern Roshar could support things like telephone poles or electric wires (can't bury wires if there is no soil). I'm honestly not sure they could handle paved roads or raliroads either.

I always preferred pariah's shield and stuffy doll, but it would work reasonably well with either of those too.

they both apply and you end up with a quadrupled amount of tokens. Haven't had a chance to play any Ixalan yet, but i like the look of it. tentatively plannign a draft with some friends in the next few weeks, btu everyone is busy, so its hard to get schedules all worked out.

Also, I forget where I read it, but Scadrial was a bit more advanced prior to TLR taking over, he halted the progress of a lot of things. for Roshar, they were basically a Bronze age civilization at the end of the last desolation (the Heralds mention teaching them to cast bronze). bronze age to medieval in the space of 4000 years is honestly pretty accurate to our own timeline, maybe even faster. compared to Scadrial's medieval to industrial in about 300 years, with some nudging from Harmony, that is still not too far off from reality a bit faster, but we didn't have that same advantage..

There are WOBs to the effect that Stormlight Archive and Mistborn era 2 (alloy of law et al) tak place within a few years of each other. so yes, HoA is about 300 years before WoK

finished the Black Prism, wanted to finish off Ryria (at least the first trilogy, there are 2, as I recall) before I move on.

Turns out the Library actually pays some attention to the suggestion box, at least for the e-book service they use. they had the first 2 ryria books, but not the third, so I suggested it there, then moved on to start Lightbringer. before I had managed to finish the first book of that, they had apparently added the book to their subscription, so now pausing from lightbringer to finish Ryria. I don't generally like doing it that way, but it worked out ok.