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Ok yeah, it's been a while since I've read the book, so I'd forgotten that, but it is true.

This does mean that any society of awakeners will inevitably gradually increase the ratio of breaths to people, which means all the problems with awakened inefficiencies will probably become less significant as the society has more breaths, which are an infinite resource as far as we know, this probably means that they could keep up with their power needs since as society develops and needs more power they would have more and more breaths to provide it.

that link is terrible, are they aware of a little known guy called... what was it, Sir Isaac Newton? I mean his work isn't all that well known and it is quite recent, but you'd think scientists would keep track of publications like that particularly ones they get taught about in high school.

I'm not sure if we've had it confirmed or if its just an almost universally accepted theory, but we know that a woman is hiring people to destroy depictions of Shallash and we also know that Shallash is in WoK and the most likely place I can think of is in the immediate aftermath of a statue of shallash being destroyed, the implication being that she saved a bit of money by doing it herself.

the bridges are described as exceptionally light weight and polished wood does slide quite easily especially on well weathered and therefore slippery stone, as to differing heights I can only speculate that they deal with it by lifting the bridge once its almost all the way across, it would be difficult but with ropes it would be quite doable and reasonably fast if you had enough man power on the ropes, which was obviously not a problem due to the abundance of slaves.

Thats an interesting thought on the names of the Heralds meg, has anyone else noticed possible relations with the heralds to the possible names of the orders?

Where does it say Shallan's blade is more of a dagger? I thought the consensus was that the 3rd type of blade we'd seen was the Honourblades...

Yeah I think thats something that this thread over looks, it costs a lot of money to run an army, but in the early days they would have been supported by governments, but as time goes on and desolations look less likely and there is less for the Radiants to do they would probably start to lose funding and have to start upping prices for their services to make up for it. That would also explain why it was a gradual increase at an increasing rate, at first 1 government would stop supporting them and it wouldn't be a big deal in financial terms but it would be a huge scandal, and then as the fuss died down other governments would see no consequences to dropping the support and gradually one by one they would stop supporting this would happen quicker and quicker since every government that doesn't support them makes it easier for the ones that do support them to stop, and eventually supporters would be dropping in droves.

One thing I've noticed in this thread that is wrong, people are talking about the lerasium improvement leaving, the lerasium blood is still in the population and making allomancy stronger, its just that as time goes on instead of making the few with that extra preservation mistborn, its making the many many people with the same amount of extra preservation spread amongst them all mistings, the lerasium is making more people mistings instead of some people mistborn and it will stay in society forever, making mistings much much more common than they ever would have been without the injection of lerasium into the population.

I'm sure they could be breakable but not under normal circumstances, and I suspect that if it was broken it would cost a massive amount of investiture and the entire object would be destroyed and unable to be re-summoned.

I thought he said something about most peasant women wearing a glove instead of a full extended sleeve, not sure if that was an interview or what, but thats what I remember seeing. Its in the same comment from a goodreads interview that he talks about the in world artist, Meg linked the interview database, the original interview is here, notably message 22.

the problem with shardplate and surgebingind being incompatible is that they can't be, we see knights radiants doing both, the entire point of the knight radiants was that they have shards and use surgebinding. So Szeth's comment must be in some way wrong. We know that investiture interferes with other investiture but the knights radiants were definitely capable of surgebinding themselves while wearing plate.

Its also worth noting that we've been told despite the incredible combat capabilities of the metallic arts they are some of the lightest magic systems in the cosmere in terms of investiture, they don't have a lot of power, they just use it in a very focused way that is appropriate to killing people, as opposed to the other systems we've seen which use much more power in less focused ways. Even if the focused nature of the power doesn't effect its ability to shield the user from other investiture there probably wouldn't be enough to make a noticeable difference.

Win for being Australian. I also am Australian (surprise, you never would have guessed that... from the first line of this post), but I am from the much superior part of Australia, Sydney known for all of things you know about Australia apart from the outback. Although I also lived in the outback in a mining town called Broken Hill for a few years at the end of primary school/start of high school, and now study in Tasmania the state everyone in Australia loves to hate, I strongly maintain that going to uni in Tassie does not make me a Tasmanian. I am still a respectable New South Welshman, and anyone who tries to argue otherwise is wrong. All that aside, Tassie is a pretty great place to live if you have a car and enjoy spending time outdoors bushwalking and the like, sadly only one of those is true and I'm stuck dreaming about all the places I'd like to go in Tassie. It also as a state follows that... game (sorry AFL fans its all in fun) AFL... but that's a bit of an Australian in joke, so we'll just leave it at the fact that I marginally prefer AFL to American Football and consider Rugby (either form) vastly superior to both (put together) and (somewhat uncharacteristically for an NSW/Qlder) still nowhere near as good as real Football (which some might know as Soccer). State rivalry for the win.

But we do know he was at the well just before Vin was there, that he took something from the well and now has 'some metal he isn't supposed to have' These pieces of information seem to point so clearly towards him having lerasium that he either must have some, or Brandon for some reason wants us to think he does, despite the fact that he doesn't, now I personally find the idea of him having Lerasium far more likely to me.

Blunt is a character in one of the interludes of the Stormlight Archives, we have been told that he is a character from off Roshar, and is a character from another Cosmere book, but one that hasn't been written/released yet.

the spiritual realm is where the blades are stored while not in use.

The entire planet is now survivable, the extremely fertile area around the city, they have already expanded out of, I'm pretty sure the roughs are outside the fertile area Sazed made around where Elendel is now built.

I'm pretty sure the gems are immune to soulcasting, although my source for that is a vaguely remembered post somewhere on the forum that may or may not have given a source, so take it with a grain of salt.

I think the only consistent way to kill a full ruin inquisitor is steel compounder with a big sword, run in and chop its head off before it knows you're coming, and you only get 1 shot.

Yeah, thats what I assumed, except if the extra energy comes from the metal as it does in all of Allomancy multiplicative doesn't make sense, the power of the pewter would be finite, getting more power out by burning better makes sense, but multiplying would eventually run out of extra power to give. Possible counterpoint, it potentially takes a linear amount of power to just temporarily rewrite their spiritual identity to super powerful in a multiplicative fashion...

Well for something definitely not possible in any of the era's of scadrial we've seen thus far, the aluminium 50 calibre sniper rifle from 1km away firing aluminium rounds... we know beheading kills them, does making their head explode count? Seriously though, if I was a good enough shot that would be how I would choose to start a fight with an inquisitor, from a long way away with a headshot from a semi automatic sniper rifle, and I would follow it up with the rest of the magazine into its body, I figure 10 bullets into it before it hits the ground if it isn't dead at least I'll have plenty of time for a getaway. For more realistic in-world options I'm still looking at the Chromium steel option, the aluminium armour I think could work with appropriate planning, but another one is steel compounder, charge in, jump, fly forwards and grab its eye spikes and push yourself away.

you leave gaps, but have overlap, its doable, alternately chain mail would probably have better coverage and still do the job of hiding you. and yeah potentially you would be noticeable as a blank patch, particularly after the inquisitor new where you were, hence my proposal that you make it quick. Also pick where you attack from, behind in a location with low concentrations of metal so its less obvious.

How will they pelt you with coins if they can't see you? Also I would advise with this strategy going for the head with the first stroke, because they can run away with their steel and iron powers, or get in a lucky blow, but essentially if you're invisible the first onslaught is unstoppable if you use it right you can win with impunity.

An alternate idea I came up with to beat an inquisitor, full aluminium alloy plate mail, complete skin coverage and a mesh over the eye slit, an aluminum broad sword for a weapon and no metallic arts required, invisibility is here. As is immunity to most of the inquisitors powers, if you add in either form of pewter you can actually counter all an inquisitors powers other than rapid healing, and being invisible is a significant advantage in a fight.