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Could you use Forgery to turn a regular metal spike into a hemalurgically invested spike? Is this a system hack that would allow use of hemalurgy without killing?

Just taking this a step further. Thou and you are actually the same word and were originally pronounced the same way. We no longer use the "thorn" character þ (which looks a lot more like a y in some typefaces), but it is the English/Latin character for the th sound. When you see "Ye Olde Shoppe" its actually a remnant of the thorn character, not a Y, at the beginning and thus the proper pronunciation is "The Old Shop," not, as is commonly said, "Yee Old Shop."

I feel like your wording of the theory was somewhat clearer than mine...I think mine had more of a stream of consciousness feel to it. I have to admit, @Calderis point about it being a moot conspiracy is probably true...in fact, the only way I can see for it NOT to be that way is if the actual rebellious high prince survived unscathed and somehow continues plotting even now...which would mean the theory that Sadeas was behind it is wrong...AND it would seem to have been a resounding defeat of that unknown high lord's plot anyway.

This is inaccurate. There were at most 3 Bondsmiths...and there were usually 3. One of the pre-chapter excerpts from Words of Radiance talks about how the Bondsmiths numbered "only three," and to encourage them to expand beyond that was considered blasphemous or seditious or something like that.

In one of Dalinar's early flashbacks (the one when he recruits Taleb), Sadeas says they need to get him some shardplate, not to protect Dalinar since he's "not sure a rock slide could kill [Dalinar]" but because it's embarrassing the others how much havoc he can cause without shards. Years later, Dalinar and Sadeas are sent to subdue Rathelas after Gavilar has failed to do so politically. Evie prevails upon Dalinar to try negotiating one last time so he can avoid slaughtering all those "innocents." During the talks, Tanelon reveals that a high prince supposedly loyal to Gavilar has been helping him but won't name him because he won't be believed without Dalinar discovering it for himself...and shortly afterward evidence is presented that Sadeas is the culprit. Dalinar goes off to meet that threat, Tanelon betrays him, Sadeas arrives at the Rift, and the situation with Evie is set in motion. Dalinar comes to the conclusion that Tanelon was framing Sadeas to sow discord in the king's supporters...but what if it wasn't a frame job? It's fairly obvious that Sadeas has been crafty for years and he's married to Ialai, another crafty, tricky, sneaky person. They are ambitious and power hungry. Sadeas may have been happy to have Gavilar as king and be the power behind the throne, but as long as Dalinar was around he wasn't the only power behind the throne. He was the political power, but Dalinar was the brute, military power, and Gavilar would turn to Dalinar instead of Sadeas at least part of the time. Dalinar on the other hand is very straight-forward and not likely to see through a convoluted plot. Sadeas could very well have been encouraging revolt at the rift, essentially playing both sides. He didn't want Tanelon to actually succeed, but he did want him to eliminate Dalinar. It would be far easier for Sadeas to make it look like he was supporting Tanelon (if this thought process is true), than for Tanelon to set up the framing himself. The appearance of evidence at just the right time would lure Dalinar away from the rift and there could only be two outcomes. Dalinar survives and returns to find Sadeas ready to attack Rathelas, confirming for Dalinar that Sadeas had been framed (even though he wasn't), or Dalinar dies, eliminating a threat to Sadeas, and Sadeas uses that as an excuse to destroy Rathelas anyway (double-crossing Tanelon who he never actually wanted to succeed), further cementing his influence with Gavilar. Sure I've strung this together on less than a shoestring, but the trap for Dalinar used the very thing Sadeas mentioned as one of the only possibilities for killing him - a landslide. What do you think? Did Sadeas betray Dalinar MANY years before Gavilar's death, or was it their rivalry and different approaches to warfare on the Shattered Plains that finally pushed him into betrayal for the first time?

How exactly would 3D chalklings be worse than 2D chalklings with the glyph of rending? The 2D ones can interact with the 3D world, but are also able to slip through impossibly thin cracks. Just about the only advantage I can think of for the 3D chalkling would be an ability to step over a stream of acid that the 2D ones couldn't get past.

That’s true, but I was talking more of possibilities rather than guarantees. Anybody figure out how the she’od actually works yet so we can hack that too?

Just theorizing here, but couldn't a non-Arelene (I'm sure I spelled that wrong) feruchemist tap some connection while visiting Arelon and go through the change to become an Elantrian that way?

In OB Sebarial is referred to several times in Dalinar's flashbacks, demonstrating that he has been aging on Roshar as a normal Rosharan (he's called Dalinar's "young friend" or something like that in one of them, though Dalinar denies the friendship)...so he almost certainly isn't Ahan.

Did Vasher worldhop prior to becoming a Returned? Or was it just very early after his Return that he worldhopped for the first time?

Thank you. That really does resolve my problem with the whole thing because I can think of plenty of references to how the slaughter had been unsatisfying because it was too easy.

So I didn't catch this on my first time through, or even second, but for whatever reason, I just noticed something I find problematic and thought I'd come here to see if anybody can help reconcile this for me. During the destruction at the Rift, as Dalinar is headed for the secret chamber with his barrels of oil, he specifically complains about all the fighting and killing with nothing to feed the Thrill. Everything about the Thrill seems to me to indicate that it demands a struggle, danger, a serious threat, in order to be "satisfied" and make Dalinar feel "alive". Moments later he cuts the door from its hinges and, rather than seeking for a fight by searching the rooms inside, he rolls the burning barrels of oil in and just sits watching. If the results of this weren't so fundamental to the plot it wouldn't be a big problem, but they are. To set up the conflict Dalinar has had to deal with through the whole series, and will continue to deal with I expect, he had to diverge from the natural tendencies he has shown, has to fail to engage hand-to-hand, or even to seek to engage that way, and commit an atrocity because he didn't find out information that would have been obvious if he had followed through on the established aspects of his character. I don't want this to be what I think of this scene. I want it to be what it was to me the first few times, so someone, please, give me a good (meaning founded in the character he has been revealed to be leading up to this event) reason that Dalinar wouldn't have gone into that room and tried to kill whoever was in there with Oathbringer or his bare hands.

Unfortunately for me, that came from a simple google search and was in the "pull quote" from google. Your message made me go search more carefully. According to a 9mm Ballistics chart at http://www.ballistics101.com, while there are MANY 9mm bullets with supersonic muzzle velocity, there are many with subsonic as well (and as you pointed out, only 1 type hit 2000fps). Most .45 rounds are subsonic, most .357 rounds are supersonic, and there are a TON more calibers that I didn't read. That led me to wonder where the initial average google reported came from, so I checked the info on rifle rounds. Those tend to have muzzle velocities in the 2800+ fps, so I now postulate that what google did was look at both handgun and rifle rounds to come up with the average they stated.

This is not accurate. The average 9mm bullet travels at about 2500 fps, sound at 1125 fps. Granted, as the distance from the gun increases the bullet slows down as a result of air friction, but sound is less than half as fast as the bullet started out, so its going to take quite a while for the bullet to start traveling at subsonic speeds.

Oops, I had forgotten that mention. I guess the status of my IIRC is that I did not.

Obviously Marsh is Death/Ironeyes based off of the quotes above. I don't think that's what OP was actually talking about though. What OP is asking is whether at times Kelsier is possessing Marsh in the same way that Ruin used to do. I'm pretty confident the answer to that is ALSO no, but I wanted to make sure his question was understood.

Haven't heard of any Smedry marrying another Smedry though either...

Exactly. Which is why cutting off the hand holding the blade doesn't sever the bond/put an end to the abilities it grants. It's not Thanos' gauntlet. For the abilities to be lost they have to break the bond to the blade.

This doesn't fuse well with what we have seen with Szeth. He was BONDED to his Honorblade (as presumably were the Heralds) enabling him to summon and dismiss it like a Shardblade. There was, IIRC, no mention of heartbeats when he summoned it however, so it was at least somewhat of a different process. So separating the hand holding the blade from the rest of the person shouldn't sever the bond and disable healing. Similarly, Szeth demonstrates the ability to use lashings even while his blade is mist, ie not in his hand. He gets the ability from the blade, but physical contact is NOT required...if it's not required for Szeth it shouldn't be required for a Herald either.

Nope. Can't answer his questions definitively...though based on the way the Talents seem to work, if Smedry's from two branches married each other (for example, if Alcatraz and Australia were to marry) they would probably start each having both Talents...or some weird combination of the two if they work the same way as Investiture based magics.

We do actually know the thing you specifically say we don't. I don't remember where it is discussed exactly so I'll put it under a spoiler for OP.

I'm not sure where this should actually go, or what tags to put on it, so if a mod wants to move/edit it, please do. I was thinking about how Shallan's lightweaving works, and how she manages to manipulate both light and sound in her illusions. So it seems that in some way the surge of Illumination deals with manipulating/producing waveforms, both electromagnetic waves (light) and pressure waves (sound). That ability, combined with the surge of Transformation, would seem to indicate she can alter the vibrations of objects/people, not just wrap them in illusions. Which makes me think about Quake/Daisy from Marvel Comics...so does anybody else think Shallan is on the edge of becoming an extremely powerful battlefield force, not just in producing distractions, but directly decimating divisions of soldiers as well?

I got Elsecaller. I like Jasnah, but hadn't actually identified with her. Of course, we haven't had her book yet, so that reduces the amount of data I have to test the match...and the fact I am thinking about that probably means it's a fairly good match.

I have to comment on the "Radiants must be honorable to access stormlight" claim. This is definitely false in the general sense. KALADIN (and other windrunners) has to be honorable because Sil (or any future windrunners spren) is an HONOR spren. Shallan and Pattern however aren't of Honor, but Cultivation. Lightweavers mix truth and lies (not honorable) to cultivate the responses they want in others. Also, I'm firmly behind Autonomy being the new shard influencing Scadrial in SoS because that is what Lessie so desperately wants for herself. She takes autonomy away from a limited number of others (by creating the new hemalurgic constructs) in an attempt to bring autonomy (as she sees it) to a great many more.