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    Also, you could walk to one edge, push a piece. Walk to the other side. Wait a moment and let it move a few cm, then push on it from your new trajectory. Basically, even though you lack a broad perspective, you have the time to fine-tune. Plus, who doesn't like a curveball coinshot?
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    Read the tags.
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    Nothing to add. Just wanted ffnord to know i downvoted when trying to upvote... Again. Those icons are far too close on mobile, and I've found no undo.
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    There's still a pretty large difference in mindshare, if nothing else. In my example, you have several metal bits just outside the bubble. You begin positioning yourself in the bubble opposite bad guys, pushing on metal bits briefly, and repositioning slightly. Sure, they don't suddenly zip away from you, because they're in slow-time. But you have the time to set the trajectory. Additionally, as I pointed out before, you should be able to continue applying a steady Push to accelerate the object even more. The really strange part: what impact does this have on you? If you're pushing as hard as you can on a simple coin, but it's barely moving because of a time differential, do you get thrown back as if it weighed much more than it does?
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    Was it ever discovered who Hoid was in Well of Ascension? I know Brandon says "a viewpoint character notices something strange about someone." And that he was nearby when the truth of the Well was discussed. But I've never actually heard if fans have figured out who he was talking about.
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    We still need a good inter-series timeline. IIRC, we don't know the timelines of stormlight archive or elantris relative to the rest of the Cosmere. However, I think we know alloy takes place at roughly the same time as another book. Either way of kings or warbreaker. Can never remember which. Maybe both. If it's warbreaker, then the manywar happened at roughly the same time as the final ascension, and that gives you a pretty good correlation. Was the first Returned 1300 years before the book? If way of kings, same deal. That planet has a world-changing event every Tuesday at 8. I'm sure you'll find some sort of jihad or collapse to line up with cosmere events
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    Objects inside of a bendalloy bubble go awry when exiting. What happens if the object is already outside of the bubble when you affect it? Normally, this isn't an issue. But it is with other allomancy. Example 1: TurboRiot Put a Rioter inside a bendalloy bubble. Can he affect the emotions of people on the outside? Example 2: Hyperdrive Wayne is standing next to Wax. Wax throws out a double handful of coins, shell casings, etc towards some bad guys. Wayne drops a bendalloy bubble as soon as the metal debris is far enough away to not get caught. The metal bits are now suspended in air just outside the bubble. Wax probably can't reach out and touch the metal, and it wouldn't gain him any advantage. But what happens if he burns Steel? Do blue lines point to the metal bits, as opposed to being in a "read-only" universe, relative to him? If the answer to Example 1 was Yes, then this answer is also likely yes. If he Pushes on a metal bit, does it go flying straight away from him? Afterall, it's not passing through the bubble. Does it distort and fly somewhere random anyway, because the enacting force (his blue line) itself has to distort through the bubble? Then you've found a way to violate (in an unpredictable and nigh-useless manner) one of the most basic principles of Steel and Iron: the immutable vector based off of your center of gravity. If you can push it in a straight line away from you, I think you could continue to add velocity to the metal bits through continued Pushing (like thrusters on space craft), turning the debris quite devestating. Thoughts?
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    To be fair, you do post something like 20,000 word posts.
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    Hey, at work so this is quick but I think I'm onto something. Read the section of way of kings where kaladin meets Hoid. Note how he feels drawn in by the tune. I think Hoid uses music to draw people in, like a siren. A flute for kaladin, whistling for Vin. Perhaps she was protected by copper, or sensed it with bronze (it's a Will: disbelieve effect).
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    I don't believe color bleeds closer to white with each breath all the way to the tenth heightening. I'm without reference, but I think the book mentions there being an exact shade of gray resultant from all (normal) awakenings. Doc, I think you just want the tenth heightening to have some uber benefit. It may end up being a pretty small gain, compared to others. I wonder if there's a neat interaction between the prism effect and lightweaving...
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    Yeah, it definitely seems odd. With purity being a big thing for the metal arts, and them being the only place he had age stored, dilution doesn't make much sense. But I agree that, on rereading the quote, it either says those bracers were mostly other-stuff, or that's one of the most obtuse sentences I've ever read. Or Hoid already swept in and took the bracers when Vin flung them out the window, leaving a duplicate pair in their place with only a thin veneer of atium...
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    Some good points have been brought up, here. What's our earliest (in-universe) use of the word Investiture? Brandon has been saying it for years but I don't think we ever read it in-universe before warbreaker and alloy. Does this term appear in Elantris? Or even TES (though I don't think we know where that falls on the cosmere timeline)? I like the idea of his research being the foundation upon which the ars arcanum author has based their analyses of all other magic systems.
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    I always thought that was saying something like "atium bracers are just a drop in the bucket compared to the needs of a kingdom."
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    The first thing I did was convert my files out of .doc. No promises. I like your proposed alternate method.
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    Guys, what the heck? downvoting, on this forum? Really? It's not a crime to have a different opinion, and I'm seeing posts with downvotes where phantom is just making simple statements. It honestly looks petty. I don't want to presume I'm entitled to any sort of moderator-like duty, but I think you guys (including you, phantom) need to step away from this.
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    I wondered about that after I posted and my lunch break ended. Either way, that just makes the OP's theory even more plausible.
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    A bit niche, though. Awkward to have a subforum dedicated to the one book Brandon couldn't even bring himself to finish. Maybe a forum for all of his short-and-free works, like the dragon thing and maybe the 2 short stories (even though they've since been published).
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    The concept seems similar to stuff that's been discussed about compounding feruchemic investiture to syphon all of Preservation into yourself. Better example: Brandon says eating enough lerasium would make you a sliver. Now find a way to do this with the magic of 16 different shards. Presumably, this would permanently remove a chunk of their power (think The Trust), which would make even Harmony reluctant to deal with him.
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    I like this, but I wonder if he could ever find a way to tap what's already stored there (not like he can steal the identity of TLR through any means we know, what with his dead-ness).
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    To my understanding, Aether of Night was a cosmere book, even though it won't be rewritten. That means it, in particular, has some cosmere details.
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    Ok, sorry for being dense (and you have been great, btw). I thought the idea of the Alcubierre concept was to avoid special relativity. But, since I seem to be latching onto only small parts of relativity theories without understanding the whole, I'd like to get back to Sanderson. Assuming he doesn't just copy Triplanetary (I can't imagine he will)... Say you Store planetary identity, have ship tap. Bendalloy bubble anchors to it and rides off into a distant sunset. Is this better or worse than affecting your mass, as far as verisimilitude and special relativity are concerned?
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    I was reading the Derethil thread when I finally realized how much "Derethil" looks like "Dereth" and decided to connect some impossible dots. Urithiru is in the West some people think Urithiru is in Shadesmar Roshar suffers a lot of physical effects from shard interference. So what if there's a physical way to enter Shadesmar west of the Roshar supercontinent? What if this is where Derethil sailed, and somehow found himself on Sel, sitting right on the X in Aon Mea (thoughtfulness, no less). Two physical entry points to Shadesmar. Two planets with dead gods. Sel becomes all the more realmatically aware because of his talks with a little guy named Keshu. Naturally, Hoid would've been their milkman or something. Shoot, he could've been Korath. Regardless, he'd know the tale. Can anyone pick anything useful out of this wild conjecture?
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    Navani's courage as a scribe will need to be tested. Naked. Shallan will have to learn to use her powers by going through an in-depth ritual. Naked. Elhokar will have to go through the same ritual. No, don't worry, he can keep his clothes. Jasnah will be hog-tied naked and left in the middle of a city of bad dudes for days. Somehow, this happens without serious, lasting, emotional trauma.
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    You could still have weird artifacts by traveling ahead of your own light cone and looking back, observing your past self and such, but I don't see why it would result in time travel (aside from the single- direction time travel all humans experience). Sorry for bringing it off topic. I've just been in conversations like this where someone just says "either burns the known universe in energy to obtain or creates time travel. The end." And stifles all further discussion on the matter. I didn't want this discussion to go the same way.
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    I violently oppose that literal interpretation.
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