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3 hours ago, TruthlessofNalthis said:

Red is anger if I remember correctly and while they never refer to blonde that I know of, they do refer to pale colored hair as a response to fear. 

Yellow-blonde hair is connected to feelings of happiness, while platinum-blonde/grey-white is fear.  

17 hours ago, Wishell said:

Can’t remember exactly how it happened in the book but as you said above, Timbre suppresses Venli’s voidspren so does that mean that Timbre now also occupies Venli’s gemheart or is Timbre still separate from her physically and somehow suppressing the voidspren externally? 

 

Also, hi! I’m new to the forum and just checking out a few of the posts to get a feel for what is discussed on here 

The Nahel bond (which Timbre, among other spren, use) does not require the use of a gemheart.  That gives Timbre a bit of wiggle room in that regard, I suspect.  

21 minutes ago, marles said:

Isn't one of the main Vanishers in Alloy of Law a Koloss metalborn? Or am I misunderstanding you?

Koloss-blooded metalborn.  (Part of the new and improved Koloss life cycle, post-Catacendre)  Human, but with koloss parents.  

The Stick.  There, I said it.  

I liked it better than Vol. 1, in that the sense of disappointment was much vaguer and less palpable this time.  EDIT: Credit where it's due, however, I did like the second artist.  I hope they keep him going forward.  

They didn't have the ability to produce nicrosil in the Final Empire, and even if TLR knew about it (which he probably did, Ascension's convenient like that) there's no way in hell that he would have allowed it to spread into everyday Allomantic use.  Because hello Leecher Inquisitors.  

8 minutes ago, QuaN7umVo1D said:

Wouldn't that make it harder to gain speed?

True, but you wouldn't need to gain speed if there was no time pressure or if all you needed to do at the moment was tread water.  Or you could do the oscillating maneuver I mentioned above - swapping between slick and sticky to get the most out of every stroke.  

On 3/1/2018 at 1:30 AM, hippiedogmom said:

 voidbringers are..... HUMANS!?!? 

Quite the bait-and-switch, isn't it?  

15 minutes ago, Tador said:

@The One Who Connectsto be fair I wasn't particularly clear on the issue of sentience I guess, I meant that the Shard essentially 'creates' a cognitive shadow to act as its vessel, and could you then kill the cognitive shadow and then would the Shard 'create' another one 

and I believe that there's a WoB out there where a sharder claims "we do not concern ourselves with the practical", I'm just throwing hypothetical situations around because the actual mechanics of the Shards and how exactly investiture would become self aware fascinates me 

Here it is:  

Quote

 

Mr. Suit

Can spren - like Syl - be pierced by hemalurgic spike? Will it give some effect?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. A spren can be pierced by Invested metal…

Oversleep

Could it be spiked?

Brandon Sanderson

Could a spike be used to give abilities to spren? That’s not going to work really well.

Oversleep

Could you steal from a spren?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, you could steal the Investiture of a spren. Any Investiture can be used in a spike if you know what you’re doing. It’s actually not that hard to use one on a spren.

Oversleep

Because I thought you said Hemalurgy needs moving blood.

Brandon Sanderson

It needs, uh, yeah… there are places where spren have more physical form, more tangible form.

Questioner

Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson

No, no, no, not Roshar.

Questioner

The Cognitive Realm on Roshar?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, if you go to the Cognitive Realm on Roshar the spren act differently than they do.

Oversleep

So you could spike in the Cognitive Realm?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah I’ll leave a RAFO with you on that. That’s your fifth one. So there are ways to get any Investiture into Hemalurgy if you know what you’re doing. But yeah this is not something that would be a common use for Hemalurgy. Let’s just say that.

Oversleep

We do not concern ourselves with common uses.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, I know you don’t. But yeah Hemalurgy, when you’re spiking into somebody you… you’ll see when we get around to it.

source

 

We don't know, but I suspect not until Khriss has a chance to write it in-story.  

I thought that particular Truthwatcher gem was implying that it was an anomaly, one that the Radiant in question felt they needed to hide (for whatever reason).  

17 hours ago, WhiteLeeopard said:

Thank sweet Adonalsium that Odium said no right there! Because if he had said yes...

But, why exactly did Odum refuse such a golden opportunity? Dalinar would have agreed right there, and the only one possibly cold blooded enough to face the Blackthorn is Szeth, who Dalinar would have never chosen as Honor's champion at that point.

Because Dalinar wasn't in a good place for Odium to capitalize on his newly acquired mole.  (Persuasion wouldn't be a problem, because this is long before Dalinar remembered Rathalas, and if Odium had committed to poaching Dalinar prematurely, he would just have returned all of Dalinar's real memories right then and there) However, they were in an Honor-vision at the time, and Dalinar's body was in Urithiru, miles away from any handy regiment of Fused.  (I seem to recall that Odium wasn't in a position where he could take advantage of an Oathgate at the time, so there's that) In the meantime, Odium would need to micro-manage Dalinar so that he could keep his cover, or have him kill everyone in the tower (also, no Thrill in miles).  

1 hour ago, WhiteLeeopard said:

This is not a curiosity so much as a comment, but since this thread is here I decided it was a good place to put it. First time Odium and Dalinar meet on the visions:

Thank sweet Adonalsium that Odium said no right there! Because if he had said yes...

But, why exactly did Odum refuse such a golden opportunity? Dalinar would have agreed right there, and the only one possibly cold blooded enough to face the Blackthorn is Szeth, who Dalinar would have never chosen as Honor's champion at that point.

Because Dalinar wasn't in a position to be efficacious if turned.  They were in an Honor-vision at the time, if memory serves, and Dalinar's body was still in Urithiru, miles away from any Fused battalion he could have used as shock troops.  (Whether it would have actually worked is a question for Brandon at another time, the point is that Odium considered it not worth the trouble) 

Ooh, tricky.  Assuming they have identical Investiture reserves (One vial of their respective metals calibrated to provide an equal amount of burn time, plus one relevant full metalmind apiece), and that this is an arena situation, I would give the edge to the Electrum/Zinc Twinborn, if only because they can predict and react to more of the Tin/Chromium's potential actions.  

Next scenario: One regiment of Kandra, vs. one chasmfiend, on the Shattered Plains.  

2 hours ago, Storms! said:

Any speculation on other metals? I'm curious what something like Bendalloy would do. 

Have it mess with his perception of time.  Something similar could be done with Cadmium, but in the opposite direction.  

5 minutes ago, Skybreaker156 said:

But if I am correct some common windspren could be used to 'build shardplate' and does anyone know which ideal needs to be spoken to gain plate?

 

Generally, it's the 4th.  Known exceptions include the Skybreakers (need to complete a quest first) and the Lightweavers (Truths rather than Ideals make things squirrelly).  

On 2/17/2018 at 11:54 AM, Fatikis said:

FeruHema:
We can assume this would work in a similar way to AlloHema.  Which means it probably would not do anything at all.
If it does do something.  Theoretically it may be possible to temporarily alter the sDNA with this method.  If you could tap the hemalurgic metal mind and use the identity it would be interesting.  I'm not certain if this is possible, but it could have major implications.

One can assume that, but I seem to recall a WoB that Inquisitors could store Feruchemic aspects in their spikes.  

8 hours ago, Kaladins said:

(I don't know the policy on swearing here but Moash definitely deserves some stronger words...) 

Anything more strenuous than "crap" gets auto-corrected to cosmere words, e.g.: storm, rust, damnation, WTF.  

EDIT: I thought there was a replacement for "WTF", my bad.  

On 2/9/2018 at 11:15 AM, Dunkum said:

but we know specific body parts can be included or excluded when increasing or decreasing friction.  I am not 100% sure about the mechanics of swimming, but it seems like the torso and head could be slicked while the arms and legs remain untouched and you would provide some benefit.

Actually, with the butterfly stroke you could have your arms oscillating back and forth between sticky (pushing water behind you) and normal (returning to starting position) and everything else slick.  This setup also appears to work for any stroke where the arms leave the water, if of course the Radiant in question could keep the rhythm going.  And keep from thinking about it. 

1 hour ago, Yata said:

The problem is using Abrasion to lower the friction while you are swimming will mostly stop you from moving and mostly will drive you down.
Sure you could reach the bottom and walk underwater but I believe it's not what the OP meant

Of course, you could go the opposite way - increase the friction so that you have more traction in the water.  

On 2/6/2018 at 8:24 PM, Elanmorin said:

Normally we see awakening turning the object they drew color from into grey, but when Susebron does it the objects turn white. 

Is that just because of the ridiculous heightening he is at?

 

 

 

...or is it a Tide ad?

 

As others have mentioned, it's a function of his Heightening.  (I see what you did there, BTW)

The cover, the dust jacket, and the pages.  

(Serious answer to be edited in later)

That is a spoiler for a different series entirely.  

On 1/11/2018 at 1:05 AM, Yata said:

@Stark now I am doing the devil's advocate but:

- what stop TLR from compound oxygen to keep himself alive in the coffin? Of course this assuming he doesn't prefer to use the Cadmius to directly "skip time"

- how they manage to imprison him into an Alluminium coffin? It's quite hard and risky to grab Rashek both for a Lifeless (expecially for Chromium) and an Awakened object (Chromium or the Identity trick) and keep in Place someone who could alter his body-size (Pewter Feruchemy), mass (F-iron), is agile as hell and could letherally torn apart whatever binding Force sent to him.

- There is also a way (unknown yet) to worldhop using the Metallic Arts, as TLR has all' the possible Powers...he would be able to performe It. So binding isn't really a problem when he could slip into Shadesmar.

By the way as I saw Susebron be' able to prepare whatever he want for the fight.

I assume for sake of equality, TLR could be' at least armed too. 1-2 meele weapons (a Metallic slash weapon and a torch-like took) and a sack of Coins/similar-objects.

Assuming this, TLR could really easily destroy whatever Awaken Cloth Duse could use before the object is able to be' harmful.

By the way, I really want to try to figure how much Sus could awake with his Treasure. His stock of Breath is impressive but also Awakening consumes a lot of Breath.

If TLR is Rashek, then he probably wouldn't have access to the Era 2 metals (if only because he'd have known that any metals he brought to such a battle royale would be picked up by the Inquisitors).  If "TLR" is shorthand for "a Fullborn," then yeah, they'd have access to anything and would be basically invincible.  

On 1/15/2018 at 5:32 AM, NamelessThirteenth said:

No way in Damnation....

No, no, no, no, no, no!!! I've been reading it long all along!

Brandon is on-record as not caring how people pronounce his names.  I tend to call Vin and Kelsier "Vann" and "Kellseeay" (maintaining my native American accent).