Juanaton

I was just listening to this part again in the audiobook and it hit me that Rock had met Hoid as he was arriving on Roshar, finishing a worldhop if you will. So Rock's claim that the water-of-life in the horneater peaks isn't water is pretty spot on. Sigzil's claim that they are just hotsprings was probably actually misinformation he got from Hoid and he started realizing some (more) things about Hoid because of Rock's story...at least that's what I think now.

Well....your Gaul doesn't look anything like the Aiel are described...and Tallanvor is too old. He's not supposed to actually be age-appropriate for Morgayse, after all, she has slowed (if only a little bit). And Ramsey Snow as Perrin....just no. No no no.

Actually, I think the "computer" running the computation to determine what the question was became contaminated by a crashed spaceship bearing all of the "useless" people from some other planet, who then caused the extinction of the original inhabitants...so the correct question was never able to be determined. The question they find is the result of that corruption...if I remember correctly from when I read that book 16 years ago...

That's the answer, but he asked for the question...

This isn't a clear, no way anyone can argue with this, example, but when Kaladin and Shallan fell into the chasm it was a pretty long fall. Chances are very good that there were some compound fractures involved, maybe (though probably not) an impalement or two. (I say probably not since I suspect they would have noticed the bloody stick laying adjacent to them when they woke up with no apparent reason for it to be bloody.) So I lean towards stormlight being able to reset bones at least.

Aaaand necromancy on this thread...assume you want to retain memories, skill, personality, etc. in a lifeless as well as gain the durability benefits of metal construction and the alomantic resistance of aluminum. A radiant breathes in a large amount of stormlight and ALLOWS (since otherwise the stormlight would heal them) themselves to be soulcast by some other radiant into STEEL (or your personal favorite metal known for its strength...) then an awakener gives the lifeless command to this statue. This requires FAR less breath than awakening nightblood since the metal statue was quite recently alive as opposed to never having been alive. Now that you have the first two features we were going for, cover the metal awakened radiant with aluminum leaf...or if you find that too thin, aluminum plating. I'd be curious whether this creature would have access to surgebinding, and also what holes people can poke in my idea for the Rosharan Achilles.

Granted. Since writing with pencils is dependent on their destruction, you now have a box of indestructable pencil shaped sticks. I wish to become one of Brandon's pre-release readers. (I don't know what the offical term for these people is, they are the people who read an author's works before they come out and give constructive feedback...kind of like editors, but with less power I think.)

This is what I suspected. I got to wondering because of whether it could be externalized. And yes, I thought that might end up reducing the usefulness of the regrowth and thus not be the way it would go.

It is well established that stormlight heals radiants, returning them to how they see themselves, and can even heal limbs severed by a shardblade. It is also well established that a radiant can infuse others with stormlight - Kaladin sticks Lopin to the chasm wall by infusing him, Shallan infuses Pattern so that he can carry and maintain her illusions. If instead of giving the stormlight a task when they infuse the other person, they simply stuffed a bunch of stormlight into them, could the infused person use that light to heal?

yeah, i commented on that exact thing in my last previous post in this thread.

Ok, so I reread a bit and noticed the title of the chapter where Kaladin finds out that the reason Rashon came to Hearthstone was because Elhokar exiled him there is "The One Who Killed Promises"...I now firmly stand behind the theory that that particular death rattle refers to Kaladin protecting Elhokar from Moash.

I know that is the commonly accepted view on that deathrattle. And it does fit. I just was proposing a potential alternate explanation...and I'm wondering if you think it fits too.

What if this one: "All is withdrawn from me. I stand against the one who saved my life. I protect the one who killed my promises. I raise my hand. The storm responds. -Tanatanev 1173, 18 seconds pre-death. A darkeye mother of four in her sixty-second year." is refering to Eshonai in stormform. Kaladin/Dalinar/Adolin could all be viewed as having "saved her life" at some point and she is standing against them. She protects a)Venli who killed her promises by getting her bonded to a voidspren just before she was able to negotiate peace which she had promised to do or the voidspren that is now bonded to her. And she freaking summons a storm...including a little one just above her raised hand at one point....

They could be sitting in the LaGrange points while the planet turns beneath them...just saying they don't have to "orbit" at all to always appear full and provide a timekeeping device...at least, I think that could work.

So..."not much" means Shallan creating illusions to distract the chasmfiend and handing Kaladin a shardblade to kill the thing with...not sure I agree with that definition of not much.

So let's say you get a elliptical line of warding moving in order to sweep/push chalklings around...pretty sure I read a WoB or something that said the LoV runs out of power pretty quickly....but does the LoW have inertia? Or does it have to have a LoV actively pushing it for it to move? If it has inertia, what slows it down since they obviously do stop after a little while....

So here's something I think it could look like. It's both triangular and composed of 3 overlapping diamond shapes....

Actually, the altitude midpoints don't matter at all. The important points are: 1) Side midpoints, 2) Altitude bases, and 3) the midpoints of the line segment from each vertex to the point where the altitudes intersect. In a right isosceles triangle the point where the altitudes intersect is the vertex of the right angle. So the side midpoints for the non-hypotenuse sides are also two of the type 3 points. The third type three point is halfway between the vertex of the right angle and itself...in other words, it is also the vertex of the right angle. So there was never supposed to be a point in the center of the circle. Of course there is a 5 point circle (I think it's mentioned in this thread, but if not...). You get it by plotting those same nine points for a scalene right triangle. The 5th point shows up because now the altitude base from the right angle is not at the midpoint of the hypotenuse like it was in the right isosceles.

LOL. Nah. The reason Lift has to eat to use her Edgedancer abilities is to get "Awesomeness" i.e. investiture. No one else can get it that way, but the Nightwatcher gave her a really weird boon (curse?). I suspect she could also get investiture by breathing in stormlight, but she doesn't know about that.

I kind of hope the 8 point defense doesn't show up in universe since it makes it incredibly simple to get a defense with nearly as many bindpoints as a 9 point defense. A regular octogon is a valid configuration for the bindpoints. For that matter, any grouping of 6 points symmetric with respect to the first two (which are endpoints of a diameter) is a valid 8 point configuration. It's an incredibly powerful, adaptable, and simple defense to create.

Have you considered how to draw a Mark's Cross? That is something that really bugs me since it seems to me that it should be impossible to draw two LoF that cross, as is described. For that matter, the same problem seems to apply to the Taylor defense. I considered that it could be drawn using two right angles meeting at the center of the circle, but that seems...odd.