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  1. Serack
    The words used are enslavement, and it's ambiguous if it's decades before or after. After reflection, I see it as between 2 main possibilities, with one main intermediate possibility. BAM was captured and the connection with the Singers severed and enslaved several decades before the Recreance, making the enemies described in the Feverstone Keep dream something other than the singers. BAM was captured decades after the Recreance by someone holding the Bondsmith Honorblade. The intermediate possibility is that they were much closer together, and the enslavement took decades, or Brandon misspoke or was otherwise missleading. Edit: @LewsTherinTelescope, the header "Either the enslavement of the singers weren't enslaved for decades, or the Recreance somehow was decades after BAM's capture" is worded problematically.
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    Rest assured, LTT’s already familiar with it. Dude has WoB chops.
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    I was just considering writing up a reference of all the material that can be used to build a timeline for the BAM imprisonment/Recreance, Tanavast death and found this. You craft a great reference post LTT. Things to add (I hope you are up updating your OP and editing these in) You didn't specifically address Tanavast's death in the sequence but I think it's relevant, and here is one of the best WoB on the subject
  4. Serack
    You've put a lot of effort into this and make a lot of great points. My major concern about the Kaladin thread is more Doyalist, in that it cuts too close to the chosen one trope, and Brandon has put so much effort into subverting such overworn tropes in SA. If you were spot on, I would think that there would also have to be a proportionate twist that cancels out the vast tropishness of Kaladin being the only begotten son of the planet's 2 pre Odium gods.
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    This is the coolest theory I’ve seen on where the unmade came from
  6. Serack
    I've theorized that Roshar was deliberate engineered pre-shattering, with a post-shattering purpose.
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    My take is that between how badly Ati's identity had been warped by the power of Ruin, and how disorienting it was to fall from that power to a CS, he wasn't very coherent compared to say The Lord Ruler. I would try to compare this and Leras's frayed state to Rayse just before he was killed to try to determine if it is likely Rayse's CS was in a weakend state causing it to not hold out, or if Rayse had a strong sense of self that would have endured after getting killed, but I think @Bejardin1250 nailed it. So I'm pretty sure Nightblood "ate" Rayse's CS making the exercise moot.
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    Here’s the passage, (earlier her father wipes blood off her face)
  9. Serack
    I had forgotten there were other injuries/corpses involved so without rereading, I think my voiced concern is addressed
  10. Serack
    Ok, it's been a while, and I'll probably hold off another reread until Brandon is working on #5 (unless I manage to get my wife to read them)
  11. Serack
    @Jofwu, I pursued this theory from the link you made in your signature. This comment you made reminded me of another theory I've come across So I dug around and found that it was posted a couple weeks after your theory was posted. Here's the theory:
  12. Serack
    @teknopathetic something missing from the discussion for #3 above: Shallan's the red stained carpet dominating her memories of her mother's death are incongruous with her being killed by a shardblade. I recommend you append that discussion summary to your OP.
  13. Serack
    Jeeze, he said that nearly 3 years before Secret History released. Did anyone figure out he took up the shard in the interim? I'm looking at WoB now and found this one too: I wish I had a timeline of theories for what happened to the power between Leras dying and Vin ascending
  14. Serack
    I think the stuff the OP brings up goes a long way to support the idea that Odium was particularly well equipped to shove such an immense amount of investiture into the cognitive realm as if it were an investiture pressure vessel.
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    Here's a link to the original post trying to come up with a way to do this, although the comments, and my interpolation go a different direction than his original concept. Speaking from the perspective of an Army Vet, and current engineer, I think it would take about as much or less sophistication as is in an M-16 to have a fabrial version of an assault rifle just extrapolating from the glove that simulated windrunner flying. Rather than having the conjoined fabrial move the entire glove and it's bearer, have it move a small sled on a sort rail. The "trigger" activates it on one end, propelling the sled to the other end where a mechanism deactivates it as the projectile is launched off the sled. Done correctly, you could store/redirect some of the forward momentum to automatically return the empty sled to the original position where a spring fed magazine places a new projectile on the sled just as the whole process restarts, as long as the "trigger" is still activated. One thing that helps with the process is the principal of varying the distance one conjoined gem travels compared to the other by having different sizes for the gems. You could also scale this up to make artillery/ballista. Here's a larger, present day example of a sled/rail launcher:
  16. Serack
    There is an excellent post from last December that has an interesting derivative theory in it speculating on stormbringer math.
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    Back to the OP's call for examples of uses of investiture. It's not extreme, but I think the fabrial advances demonstrated in RoW can be engineered to shoot projectiles as discussed in this topic.
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    @therunner My take is the OP misappropriated the term laser, and appears to have approached nuclear applications in unrealistic ways that you do a decent job of addressing. I would like to point out that although your points about hydrogen in the environments we exist in are correct, there is reason to believe that in incredibly extreme pressures not found on our planet, hydrogen phase changes into liquid metal.
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    Thanks, particularly since this is now linked to in theory posts outside the "unpublished works" section.
  20. Serack
    My understanding of @mathiau's crossbow idea seems to be the best version of this concept. Basically, the conjoined gems would serve as a crosbow's string (kinetic energy imparter) and crossbow arms (kinetic energy source). Divorcing the conjoined gems from the projectile (just as a crossbow string isn't part of the projectile) just solves so many potential problems. Off the top of my head: Less concern about the fragility of the gems if they aren't what's impacting the target. Projectiles are more expendable without invested gems in them. Easier to control/engineer a short, repetitive path like a projectile sled, than an unknown projectile trajectory. Edit: I skimmed some of the above comments and just went back to read @Szmit's comment. By the time I got to #3 in my post, my reference to a "sled" was trying to morph my analogy from a crossbow, to something more like @Szmit's rail gun concept. Although I think it's easier for people to conceptualize the fabrial serving as a crossbow's string and arms, as most people are familiar with that concept, a rail/sled mechanism would probably be the way to go about this.
  21. Serack
    Wow. That's actually profound
  22. Serack
    Steris knowing and Wax being ignorant: Perhaps "Cosmere" has become a Survivorism term that was injected in by Kessler's interactions with Spook after the Cataclysm, and Wax as a Pathian is unfamiliar with it.
  23. Serack
    You've got a LOT here, and I haven't gotten far yet but I want to bring attention to something that may be relevant to one of your early points. There is a Theory posted on Reddit (that Brandon actually responded to with praise and a RAFO) in response to the translation of some of the in book sketches of the daggers, that the housing that Raboniel claimed wasn't relevant to the function is actually Nicrosil, and thus is relevant to the leeching process you describe above. (link to the thread, and the translations is built into the below WoB quote)
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    @PewterAGoldF, in a topic discussing some of these ideas, @mathiau just shared several WoB that are highly relevant to our earlier discussion in this topic.
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    I'm starting to think that this fits well enough that I'm almost disappointed that I learned it here instead of in text. I spent so much time on WOTmania that much of the last 3 books of that series were spoiled for me.
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