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    I've mentioned several times how I want desperately for modern Elendel to embrace L-trains. Long lengths of metal track running 2 stories above and to all the important places in town? Yeah, that'd be pretty good for a Lurcher.
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    Fascinating corollary.
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    There's a lot I like about this. Perhaps this is what happened to Honor's magic, and this is what splintering looks like. I.e. Odium works his magic (hah), corrupts Honor's shard, the magic system itself weakens and fades and when the shard eventually shatters, odium is left uninvested in the planet, and unmolested by the intent of the target shard. He then starts over with Cultivation (probably after a few thousand years of rest), who is not yet splintered. Of interest, this necessarily means that once Odium is successful and his taint is withdrawn, the magic system resurfaces, as seen on Sel and Roshar. Also, what reference have we seen about evil spirits controlling bodies? That demon word the Fjords name the Elantrians, maybe?
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    The only instance we know of successfully awakened metal doesn't seem reversible (nightblood) but it's as good a guess as any
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    Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwinner!
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    Yes, that's why I suggested petroleum before. It's very far removed from life compared to a bed of straw, but no where near as far from life as a chunk of iron. The BioChromatic interactions of such a substance could be rather interesting. But I'd rather just figure out if anyone can store Breath in a piece of metal. ...and take it to Scadrial.
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    Yeah, this is why I like to follow happyman around the forums and challenge his well-thought-out scientific answers with my first-line-of-wikipedia-article level knowledge. Dunning-Kruger at its finest (assuming I understand what that is from 1 sentence of its Wikipedia article).
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    Synthetics likely don't exist on Nalthis as of Warbreaker, but I suppose that doesn't affect its value as a question for Brandon. Time to ask him how hard a synthetic polyester shirt would be to Awaken.
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    I've been trying to think of some sort of interim object. More removed from life than a dead tree or a drape (made from organic fibers -- I don't think there's polyester or nylon or whatever yet), but less removed than a rock or a tree. It seems like a substance that matches these criteria would yield some interesting information. For example, maybe there would be a sort of heavy resistance to force breath into it - which the Ninth Heightening would give you the ultimate ability to overcome, in much the same way that all breaths increase life sense or resistance to toxins, but top out at certain Heightenings. If so, then that would imply the need for the Ninth Heightening just to force breath into metal to begin with. But maybe there is no resistance, maybe there's a binary state with a very distinct cut-off: if you're on this side of the "remembers life" line, you need the Ninth, else, you're on this side of the life line. While a petrified tree seems like it'd take less breath to awaken than normal stone, I still think it's stone. Something like petroleum? Preferably in a solid state? Tar?
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    Note that TLR's experience wasn't so different from Vin's at the end of book 2, as opposed to her transformation at the end of book 3.
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    Right, I think my main concern is: it requires a certain Heightening to awaken metal, in addition to the breaths used. It, therefore, seems feasible this Heightening (I forget which) is needed just to force breath into objects so far removed from life. If this is true, then the God-King could store breaths in metal without awakening it, but not many other people.
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    A pretty quick question: I understand you have to be a pretty serious heavy hitter to be able to awaken metal and, ostensibly, rock. What about simply storing breath? Much as Vivenna does during her time out in the cold, where her breath is stored in her shawl or scarf or whatever. This isn't an awakening, so no complex commands, no massive amount of breath required to make it do stuff. Just storage, to be recalled later. Could Vivenna, for example, put her Breath in the blade of a thoroughly mundane sword, and recall it later?
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    So you are saying you believe The Old Magic isn't a true magic system at all: it's direct shard intervention. There's a basis for this, but it's from the Mistborn series: So, we have seen that shards can change individual mortals, but it doesn't explain the Curse. I can accept this theory if we can come up with some logic about the Curse. Perhaps even flaws need cultivated, and that's what the Curse is?
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    At your expense, I'm happier to get Mr. Sanderson to answer as many of these broad strokes questions as possible. This was a good series of simple questions that didn't reek too heavily of very specific implications (weighted questions where any given answer could be a linchpin to proving several things he doesn't want to slip), and so we got a lot of straight facts and not a single only one RAFO. Well done. I think it's time for us to resurrect some Hemalurgy threads.
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    Dalinar could be wobbling back and forth, he could be in some sort of grey area, or it's an absolute thing and he doesn't have his spren yet. Was the section at The Tower with him feeling the Thrill immediately preceded by him thinking on his hatred of Sadeas I wonder?
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    Sooo the,Thrill is a planet-wide Rioting effect which can be cancelled out by a spren bond? I seem to remember a Sadeas / Dalinar conversation where it becomes evident big D hasn't felt the thrill in a long time. Does he feel it after this point in tWoK?
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    I want Nightblood more than anything, but I'm weird like that. But I think elantris 2 will be the most exciting for the site as a whole. I.expect we'll get a unifying law that ties all Sel magic systems together, and probably something fascinating about cognitive activity on Sel.
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    Damnit, Shardlet. I realized that while laying in bed. At work, it's erroneously referred to as a catalyst, because they use it in the social sense (a cause of change) as opposed to the chemistry sense which I only have a clue about from 4th grade science class. Though it's a magic system and not chemistry, that clarification somehow makes the "entirely new outcome" seem less likely to me.
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    This is almost exactly my opinion. Characters on the cover make it hard for me to take the book seriously. But muted colors and landscapes or scenes zoomed out to ridiculous degrees lack the attention-grabbing tools the publishers seem to think these books need. Action movie covers aren't too far ahead. However, if you're going to put a character on the cover, Dalinar is how you do it. He is far enough away, and the stormwall so imposing, that I think The Way of Kings cover just plain works. This one... Feels way too WoT. I guess I like Whelan art more on my desktop wallpaper than in the doctor's office lobby.
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    As a quick aside, I always assumed duralumin just had a static burn rate in the same way I assumed a few atoms of copper isn't enough to create a coppercloud. You would need a certain threshold before an allomancer could enact an effect with it, and I'm guessing D/N and bendalloy have a pretty high threshold. But I'm mostly just thinking out loud. Your talk of catalyst brings up an interesting point: in chemical reactions, too much catalyst can screw up your reaction. Example from the plastics world: benzoylperoxide makes polystyrene resin harden into plastic. Add too much, and apparently it gets gummy and soft. Maybe adding too much catalyst to an allomantic reaction would throw the whole effect off because... Why not? Not something I really believe, but an alternate hypothesis of what would happen.
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    Duralumin certainly doesn't instantly burn itself up completely. This is actually commented on directly during the fight at the Assembly in WoA. It burns up the other metals burning, but Duralumin itself remains. Though no mention is made of there being a proportion. I just figure it's "1 charge of duralumin to boost all other currently burning metals." I don't see the correlation between that and a bursted burst adding nothing, but that comes back to our differences in beliefs. I'm hoping you are wrong, simply because I don't like the idea that the strength of the Nicrosil misting is completely immaterial. I hate referencing this, but MAG has this to say for Nicrosil mechanics: It's not wholly canon, but it means we can't discount the possibility that I'm right.
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    Kurk, You are under the impression there is no amount of strength to a burst (be it D or N, I'm calling it a burst). You believe the strength comes from the size of your metal reserve and nothing else. The D / N just enables a behavior, with no addition of power. I believe the burning of the reserve to be more of a side effect, or something that must occur for D or N to enact its change. That in mind, compounding works because you take a bit of energy with directions on how it will manifest and you put a motor on it. Bursting, under my belief, would have a similar effect. So bursting a burst would be like adding a second motor. I hope this clears up confusion of where we're missing each other.
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    Tor has a spoiler free review which still manages some things people may consider spoilers. I'd paste a chunk into a spoiler tag, but I'm lazy and mobile. So I'll discuss it in a roundabout way. The Evil and the shades could be our first real look at Adonalsium's opposing force. Though that's still running on my flimsy assumption of there being no shard on this planet. As my thought process goes something like: shard force lays claim to a planet, pressure of their investiture keeps The Evil out. Or The Evil is some sort of roaming cognitive aspect.
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    Awaken a turd. ...I think I can leave it at that.
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    I just always refer to Alloy et al as "The Wax and Wayne series" so I've never thought about it as a trilogy or anything in my mind. I believe the idea is that he'll write about Wax's adventures until he doesn't feel like writing about Wax's adventures anymore. Very serialized. And you can't spell serialize without seri...e... yeah it's a series in my mind, ok? I still think his "write as I think of more" approach would make it a great graphic novel.
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