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  1. Landis963
    I was at work when I thought of Elsric jumping into the Shardpool, and my very next thought was "wait, wasn't it empty?" Maybe the merger of Kredik Shaw's basement caverns and the Pits of Hathsin brought enough Investiture together to facilitate a jump to the Cognitive? Would that even work in the first place? Meh, I don't really know what happened, I'm just speculating. And I suspect I'm quite off-base here. (I don't even know the circumstances under which Elsric left in the first place, let alone what happened to him during that first jump)
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    Haven't watched the video yet, but couple of things in your transcript: Vin is the "Ascendant" Warrior, not the "Ascended" Warrior, and "Hemalergic" Spikes are spelled with a u, as "Hemalurgic". Those quibbles aside, I'm looking forward to Elsric's thoughts on Splinters. Also, I called that he was native to Scadrial! I wonder what exactly happened to him though. Did he perhaps jump into the Well in a desperate attempt to escape the Catacendre? And was therefore saved by Harmony as he attempted to swim the Cognitive Realm?
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    Mmm, I suspect he would be wasted in that role (as it would be but a sociopathic, stupid shadow of Tywin Lannister). Ashweather Cett, on the other hand, he'd bring some charisma to.
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    Re: the heart question: I'm fairly certain there's a WoB that says that each of the Metallic Arts (i.e. each separate Allomantic and Feruchemic power) has a different, pinprick-sized bind point that is located on the heart (or at least the Scadrian heart - don't recall him specifying what would happen if, say, a Taldaini was spiked through the heart). However, it's just more efficient to use a large spike to bind the power because if you miss the bind point, the victim dies and you get no power.
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    I suspect that the person with the Royal Locks would essentially lose control over their hair, depending on the strength of the emotional Allomancy. Beyond that would depend on what emotion is being Rioted/Soothed.
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    Indeed, I read the situation as Harmony offering to use up Wax's remaining time in the Cognitive Realm instantly (in lieu of taking the Bands of Mourning express back to the Physical), given that their conversation was done and all of Wax's relevant issues were assuaged. (And there's no way I can snarkily refer to those issues (well, "issue") without a massive spoiler that is quite off-topic, so that's the end of that post)
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    One of the nurses tending to Dedelin's spy in T'telir, actually.
  8. Landis963
    Preservation is good at predicting the future, Ruin is abysmal. It depends on how it balances out. In addition, if certain theories are correct: SLA spoilers: Regardless, Harmony's cluelessness about the cosmere at large means he's basically entirely in the dark about who this interloper even is and what he's doing (so for all his raw power, he doesn't know when and where to exercise it, with any mistake having disastrous repercussions). He can see consequences, sure, but the fracturing nature of timelines means that all he can glean is "You don't want this guy touching your planet with a 10-lightyear pole." Hence the barrier he shows Wax.
  9. Landis963
    I thought firstRainbowRose said that her counterpart was Nalthian before moving to Scadrial to be with Joshin.
  10. Landis963
    Nalthian immigrants, plural? I only know of one confirmed as such (Lady Michelle Yomen-Ostlin)
  11. Landis963
    I don't recall the exact wording, but he definitely goes through the Second Ideal and all parts of the First before hearing Syl and the Stormfather.
  12. Landis963
    Just pick something unanswered from the Ultimate List of Questions. Good luck!
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    You might be underestimating the size of a sub-continent. The map in the beginning of Elantris has the city's icon as a very small set of five circles in the upper right-hand corner, arranged into a plus-sign formation. The rest of Arelon stretches all the way across the map, with space for (I imagine) several hundred such icons. Even with the roughness of that estimate (we don't know what exactly falls under "artistic license") there's no way that, physically, Arelon ran out of space for Elantrises after the first one. There are other reasons why not to build another Elantris, though, including "we don't know how the first one works" and "it probably won't amplify Elantrians any more than they already are."
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    The only conscious memories Lightsong displays of "life before Returning" (as opposed to the instinct pathways he rediscovered) are those of the storm where he died - trivial for a Shard that is already paying attention to him to reconstruct. It's just those instinct pathways that are mucking up the issue.
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    Yeah, the Gollancz version. I did come to the conclusion that it might be a scene from Secret History, but again it's not terribly accurate.
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    Or he never got into a situation where he would need to already be pushing something away. (Blimey, the grammar on that sentence). The reason Wax does his "Steel bubble" is to carom away incoming bullets, a technology that TLR undoubtedly suppressed ASAP. Therefore, no guns, no reason for a steel bubble, no reason for Kel to display one.
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    Except for wonky things like Divine Breath, which are enough Investiture to rocket someone all the way to the 5th Heightening. Also, I believe Khriss mentions that there's a little leeway with Heightening thresholds due to the relative strength of the Breaths that an Awakener has on them. (The original Breath of an old man will be much less potent than that of a child, for example, and therefore more of the former than the latter would be required to achieve a given Heightening)
  18. Landis963
    Short answer: No. Long answer: Stick is a plot device meant to show that Shallan sucks at Soulcasting. Not a villain in the slightest.
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    I assume third person, swapping between the two for joke purposes.
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    I'm assuming that Cadmium/Bendalloy savants gain more control over how slow/fast their bubble moves relative to normal time (Note how Wax's savantism gave him a large amount of finite control over what exactly he pushes away from himself). Compounding would give them (IIRC) infinite calories/oxygen (remember that the Feruchemical store is the one boosted, not the Allomantic power).
  21. Landis963
    Not quite certain how that cover relates to, well, anything to do with the title.
  22. Landis963

    Worldhopper

    Landis963 commented on esamitch's gallery image in Stormlight Archive Art

    Worldhopper
    A lot of specific shardworlds are Earthlike, and therefore would be indistinguishable at the distance shown. The only known exceptions (Roshar, Taldain) would need more to them than just the planet to be recognizable. In the case of those two, it would require the 3 moons and a representation of Taldain's stars, respectively. Plus Taldain would need some rendering on the planet itself to really sell the idea that half of it is always in darkness. Anything besides that would require ludicrous levels of precision (to mark out the continents and such correctly).
  23. Landis963
    You do have a point here. At the very least, it's all really, really murky, especially with things related to death and the Beyond.
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    RE: Beyond vs. Spiritual Realm: To describe my thought process behind that particular dichotomy, I have to go into BoM spoilers: (Seriously, DO NOT READ if you have not already read Bands of Mourning) Suffice it to say that I believe the Beyond and the Spiritual Realm to be two distinct places in the Cosmere's metaphysics, and upon death the mind detaches from the body, and then supplants the soul in the Spiritual Realm, while the soul moves on to the Beyond. And if I'm reading your point correctly (that the Returning process might create a kandra-esque block between the Returned and the memories of his former life), I see no difference between that point and my theory. Save perhaps that I'm hypothesizing a much more pervasive block or gap between the Returned and his memories than your post seems to imply. EDIT: Am I being too dismissive here? But even when Lightsong was very motivated to learn about his past, it continued to elude him. Even after Llarimar told Lightsong what his death and Return were like, the actual memories didn't return until the moment before he was due to heal Susebron anyway. I suspect that if the Divine Breath copies anything from its host's Cognitive self, it is the relevant memories only (just before death and Endowment's vision), assuming of course that my model is correct.
  25. Landis963
    Hrm. That certainly throws a monkey wrench into the theory - although I note that Identity is an aspect of the soul, and Brandon specifies a spiritual connection. Perhaps the Spiritual self is sent back to merge with the body, and the Cognitive is sent on to the Spiritual Realm? I'm having difficulty puzzling out the mechanism behind the memory lock.
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