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Well, I think it is mostly instinctive: see something coming at you via steel lines, and just push at it. no thinking about it or anything, just sense to reaction. I would generally cite the surgebinders as being more OP, since they automatically heal from any wounds while holding stormlight. Szeth is a walking murder factory and he isn't even as efficient at it as Kaladin.

I htink you have it about right. Kaladin in WoR is probably around the same level as a full Jadi Knight (Obi-Wan in episodes 2 and 3), but probably not at the level of a Jedi Master (Qui-gonn, or Obi-Wan from the original Trilogy) my question would basically come down to this: can a shardblade stop a lightsaber? I think that they maybe could but it is rather difficult to tell, since neither weapon really operates on normal physics... though Kaladellexe makes a good point, jedi precognition is a mighty thing. Brandon has basically said that a mistborn burning Atium is extremely hard to beat, and that is basically what jedi reflexes are...more or less, anyway

I doubt the inquisitor spike would have been in someone for all of the 300 years. Maybe the Kandra keep them in their bodies like an extra blessing when they arent in the possession of a human, but I wouldn't bet on it. I doubt it needs much of a hemalurgic charge anyway, though. I assume the purpose would be to make it easier for sazed to find/communicate with his followers, so even a miniscule charge should be enough for that. @tavash, It could be that he made a change like that, i don't know of anything that would necessarily preclude him from doing it, but given his stated opinion on hemalurgy, i don't know that I think he would bother

My assumption would be that each of those levels is related to a form (or two to a form like surgebinding with the radiants), which is related to a voidspren (much like the radiants are each related to a specific kind of spren)

That would be my guess, I think

worked for Sazed when Marsh pushed them into his chest, though it could very well be close enough to hemalurgy to give ruin some influence over you

true, Vin could draw the mists better without the earring, but at the time Ruin and Preservation were actively acting against each other. With them both subsumed into Harmony, it seems like that would not necessarily be the case anymore. That also raises another point that was discussed in this thread some time ago: without an equal and opposite force counteracting his actions, it would seem like sazed/harmony could probably do pretty much whatever he wants, up to and including: just straight-up giving people allomantic powers without hemalurgy (remember spook was a mistborn after HoA) or giving Wax a second wind when he needed it. also, I would guess that the hemalurgical charge on the earring, while there, has worn down to a tiny fraction of what it was originally.

Presumably there were hundreds of forms because there are thousands of different kinds of spren, and bonding with the spren is what gives them their different forms (though maybe not all spren will work for whatever reason [too much Honor not enough Cultivation?]). The writer of the WoR Ars Arcanum speculates that there would be 10 forms of voidbinding, I think, one of which is presumably related to Stormform. Decay, Night, and Smoke forms seem likely to be related as well. The Coppermind seems to indicate that there are certain types of "voidspren" that the parshendi can bond with to access the "forms of power" like stormform

And I was reasonably certain that Dalinar didn't marry his wife until after Navani had married Gavilar (though that might not be quite right), putting that wedding something like 25 years in the past

you could also use something like the the catapult they use to launch planes on aircraft carriers. Put the metal there, and it wouldn't have to weigh the craft down any. setting this all up on a hill, to add a vertical component to the final velocity, might help too.

Well I think the Spren themselves are a mixture of Honor and Cultivation, but the Ars Arcanum from Words of Radiance hints that there should be 3 magic systems, and I think general consensus is that surgebinding is of Honor, voidbinding of ODdium, and the mysterious third system would be of Cultivation. so the honorblades being a physical manifestation of Honor would fit with that. I'll see if I can find any confirmation of this in the WoBs, though. Edit to add: to the OP, I would also specifically point out that the bead of Lerasium that transformed Elend into a Mistborn was part of the physical manifestation of Preservation, so there is precedent for the body of the shard granting magic abilities to people.

They're used to her being timid and shy, but do recall that she came up with the soucaster theft plan on her own, and killed their father in front of them. They've had months to reconcile those acts with the timid and shy girl she was, so I think they may not be as surprised by her changes as you would expect. that said, I agree that this seems like something that will start happy and sour over time.

For an extremely lightweight object, I suspect they could, but if you are trying to launch things, a Crasher would work much better

I haven't seen an answer to these anywhere so here goes: 1. Would it be harder to use a soulstamp (or would it be less likely to take) on an aluminum feruchemist who was actively tapping his metalmind? Would it be easier on one who was actively storing? How about a duralumin feruchemist? a drab? A mistwraith? A Kandra with the Blessing of Presence? 2. could a zinc feruchemist (especially a compounder) surpass Taravangian from his best day, in terms of mental prowess? 3. Could someone with a mixed background on Sel gain access to the Dor thorugh multiple paths (e.g. someone with Jindoese and Aonic parents using both AonDor and ChayShan)? Would this make them stronger or just more versatile?

This is more or less where I stand on this. My guess is they wouldn't see the color per se, but would understand that this one was green as opposed to red.

I always sort of interpreted it in a rationality vs emotionality sort of way, assuming that on his most brilliant days, he was highly rational, able to recognize patterns and make logical inferences that would elude a lesser mind, but with pretty much no access to emotions. Note that on one of his good days he claimed to want to do something like forced steriliization (I think that was it) across the whole city, under the assumption that everyone would agree with him once they heard his arguments. that is not the idea of someone who is in touch with emotions, either his own or someone else's. Basically I assumed that his curse was more likley the way the intelligence comes and goes on a day to day basis. As a side note, I never understood why people always assume the thing with his wife is Dalinar's curse. Asking the Nightwatcher to let him forget her is exactly the sort of stupid thing I could imagine a grieving Dalinar doing, in which case it migth very well be the boon.

I've been playing for years, quit for a while in High School, but then in college, half the people in my hall in the dorm played, so I picked it back up. Recently my friends seem to mostly only want to do drafts, which is a little annoying for me. Never did get into the online game. I had a version of Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, but it was so limited that I never really liked it. Well that and a couple of instances where it didn't know the rules well enough and resulted in problems for me.

I suspect that Soulcasting the air around someone is a lot more difficult than people are making it out to be, I mean it does not seem likely there is a single shadesmar cognitive aspect those few specific cubic meters, which means that it would be more effort (and presumably more time) to do. Also, I'm reasonably certain that Soulcasting someone holding stormlight would be more difficult than doing it to some random thug on the street. That would still leave Jasnah with a few reasonable options, like soulcasting his clothes to fire, but with stormlight in him, Szeth will heal from all but the most severe wounds. The point being, in the time it would take Jasnah to kill or incapacitate Szeth, he could probably kill her.

English speaker with some Spanish. I took through AP spanish in High School, and could more or less make myself understood on the few occasionas I traveled to Latin American countries, but that AP credit meant I didn't take any in college and my practice of it lapsed, so whatever level of fluency I used to have is well diminished. I'd like to pick it back up, and have managed to acquire Spanish copies of 100 Years of Solitude and Don Quixote that I intend to try to get through, but my brief attempt at the latter proved discouraging.

The amount you would have to change gravity to even be able to notice the time dilation on a human scale is immense, though perhaps slightly less in a situation where someone is already manipulating time. A windrunner in a highstorm (and thus theoretically not running out of stormlight any time soon) might be able to manage it, but at that point, the direct effects of the gravity manipulation would have made a lot more difference. If I am thinking this throught correctly, a person in a higher gravity field would experience time running more slowly for them than it would outside (i.e. 10 yrs near the event horizon of a black hole might be thousands of years for someone on earth), so it replicates the effect of a cadmium bubble. Pretty sure if you wanted to try to cancel a bendalloy bubble by increasing gravity (that is: simulating a cadmium bubble) you would be able to, not because of time dilation, but because the increased gravity had crushed the allomancer generating the bubble in the first place.

Have to go with Words of Radiance I think. Between that and Alloy of Law (I have a soft spot for westerns, even if this book only does a little of that)

That's basically the impression I got from reading the first 2 or 3 books (publishing order, not chronological order).

2 series come to mind for me: the first is Redwall. I had occasionally heard good things about the Redwall series, so when I found a bunch of them at a used book sale for 50 cents each, I picked them up and started reading them...and I think they are pretty terrible. Partly this is probably because I'm really about 15-20 years too old for them, but I just think everything about them is so simplistic. number 2 is The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. I had picked up Tigana by him at the library a couple years back and it was amazing. So when I found a series of his at a used book sale (the same one as the redwall books, though maybe a different day. I like used book sales) I gladly bought them. They were good too, just nowhere near as good as I felt that Tigana was. plus they had a couple of things going on in them that I had mixed feelings about (narnia-esque people from our world brought ot another world to be its saviors; wierd interactions with our own mythology, etc.) which detracted from the overall experience. Edited to add: I also get some of the hate for Wheel of Time. Eye of the World is terrible, and the series as a whole has its share of problems. If circumstances hadnt caused me to start at book 3 (the best in the series IMO) I might not have gotten into it On Song of Ice and Fire, it always amazes me the hate I see for Feast for Crows. That is the most interesting book in the series, and I just don't get why people don't like it

Heh, lot of repeats in this thread. To be expected, I guess, and I am certainly going to follow suit. I think every one of mine has been mentioned. In no particular order: -Cosmere (if I had to narrow this down, Stormlight archive so far would be top 5, and mistborn would be top 10, and the rest dont qulify as series to me) -Lord of the rings/middle Earth (the Silmarillion has its fair share of annoying and/or boring parts, but i really like the fact that it exists) -Kingkiller Chronicle -Earthsea -Song of Ice and Fire Wheel of time probably cracks the top 10, and depending on my mood, Discworld probably replaces one of the top 5 from time to time. I'll have to look into some of the other series mentioned here

I'm working my way through the Dangerous Women anthology. I have already read the 2 stories that I wanted it for ("Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" and "The Princess and the Queen") and am currently trying to finish up the rest so I can move onto the Warriors anthology.