Aiken Frost

+50 points to Gryffindor! That theory is the perfect way to explain it, in my opinion, and it is what I believe as well.

Why Shallan and Jasnah couldn't be from the same order?

+1 for both of you and let me add more to that: remember in WoK, in Dalinar's last vision? When he talks to Tanavast, the (supposedly) holder of Honor? That particular vision starts in a place with a misty representation of material things and people where speculating (I don't remember in which thread) that it was the Spiritual Realm.

Very good point!

I believe you meant Allomancy, but the change was awesome enough to mention.

Vortaan, I believe you are wrong in this one. Preservation does not imply a gain of power by any interpretation of the word.

Huahuahaha, +1 for Doctor Evil reference!

What definition of "native" that can be applied to a Shard you believe in?

He still have it, by the end of book 1. He promised to Renarin a shardplate, not specifically his shardplate. There is still opportunity to get another one and keep his word to his son.

Well, I believe that could create a perfect politician: he will always win elections but will love and relate to his people enough that he never gets corrupt. We only need to hope that he can't store Identity too.

I don't think that one is a question for Brandon to answer, but for the folks of CraftyGames. CraftyGames forum can be found here: http://www.crafty-games.com/forum/

By that logic, no shard is native to any world we have seem yet. By "native", I believe people are talking that they are shards who helped or was present in that planet when humanity was created there.

I have a single word that can throw a wrench in your reasoning: Batman. No, really. Secretive, manipulative, puzzling... All in there and we could add ruthless, violent, scary, more than a little crazy... All that don't make Batman evil, though. And that is the same opinion I have about Hoid. He is Cosmere's Batman. Kind of.

Exactly! A man in shardplate probably can ignore normal arrows like it was drizzle and I believe it would take a very small number of them to carry a bridge.

What? Dalinar used his plate and blade to dig a latrine! Carry bridges is exactly the type of thing he would do, in my opinion. Or would make the shardplate users do when he become the Highprince of War.

Let me say that this is an awesome idea and something that I was starting to contemplate as well. Those "hemalurgic plugs" might be the last piece I was needing for my spaceship theory. I am still hesitant to use it "officially" in my theory just because it's so out there from everything else we know from the Metallic Arts. But just imagine! A Nicrosil Twinborn acting as the fuel of the whole ship? Or a Copper and Zinc Twinborns (and maybe a Tin as well) working together to drive a ship through space at relativistic speeds? All that while using Kurkistan FTL Travel Theory to give propulsion to your ship? Man, that could be awesome!

This, x1000. Every story with magic that shows a hero that uses sheer resolve and determination to solve his problems get bonus points with me. For what I remember, all Harmony did was talk to Wax and provide his weapons back to him. The rest could be just an adrenaline rush and heroics, as Deus Ex Biotica sugested.

Thank you for the cookie, man! I just brought the information so you physics people could get to the answer. I'm indeed liking your theory a lot.

Do we ever see how the blades work in past times? The "soul severing" method of killing things do look very Odium to me, but I'm not sure if that was the way they worked previously.

We are not sure if ALL orders have Shardplate and Shardblades, though... Do we?

I think people lost it in the RPG thread, so I'm reposting it here: Guys, have you noticed this bit in the Bendalloy section? Could this be what we are looking for when trying to figure the FTL space travel thing?

It was not my intention to offend him, but the fact is that it is a very egoistical point of view on the mater. I wasn't chastising him for it though and I plain out stated that I understand where he's coming from. The fact that he hope that it never happen is not very cool with us that would like a lot to see it.

That is a very... egoistical view of it. I understand your feelings, but I think that if something would be "bad" for you but cool for a lot of people, then staying away from it is better than just desiring its nonexistence. I personally think that the Alloy of Law Era is just perfect for graphic novels. Not necessarily the sequels, but other stories in the setting would be awesome.

Guys, have you noticed this bit in the Bendalloy section? Could this be what we are looking for when trying to figure the FTL space travel thing?

Just think of the things we had in 1960. That was the decade we landed on the moon. We already had weapons that could destroy the whole human race without effort. We had already passed by the two greatest and most destructive wars the world have ever seem. That is "modern" enough to me. Remember also that the society they have to sustain doesn't need the amount of things we needed. They have what? The population of a single american state? And the Elendel Basin was explicitly projected by god to have anything the people in there needed.