Landis963

What is your language, out of curiosity?

Call the sword "Obtuse."

Have you read the Webcomic "Gunnerkrigg Court"? There's a character there whose explicit superpower is "to create order where there was none." (Demonstrated in his first appearance by flinging a deck of normal playing cards over his shoulder and having them all land in a neat stack, ordered by suit and value) Perhaps Angle's powerset could work similarly.

K&N. They'd be more likely to answer my questions, especially if I could offer some conclusions based on my unique, audience perspective. Would you rather have a single infused sphere that never goes dun, or a handkerchief with a single Breath that never fades?

Findings? (I suspect Intent: Curiosity, Focus: Bone, End-Positive myself)

Duladel is the name of the country, and Kaloo is basically the funniest idea Raoden comes up with over the course of the entire book. Also, he had more personality as a Dula, than he ever did as an Elantrian, IMO.

Except that when his bond with Syl is diminished in WoR, he is notably suckier with the spear. Part of that can be attributed to his injury, part to his conflicted state of mind, but he himself notes how much less instinctive the spear katas are.

That, good sir, is none other than Hoid. You might notice similarities between his wedding disguise and the one he wore on Sel just before the Dakhor invasion.

Did you notice the shabby-looking fellow passing on his congratulations at the gate?

No one. Rashek made sure to fix that when he set up the Final Empire, though.

To answer the question, the entity we call "Preservation" is a combination of a metric "rust"-ton of power, the intent that the power is geared toward (namely, preserving things), and a sapient mind and soul directing the power, or as Khriss notes in Secret History, "just riding it, by this point." Like being in control of a giant mech with 1/16th of an OS. The pilot died, his mind went to the Spiritual Realm, his soul to the Beyond, and his now-lifeless body was dumped into the Physical Realm, after talking with Elend outside of Fadrex. The power, meanwhile, was all set to implode and Splinter all over the Cognitive landscape of Scadrial had not Kelsier picked it up. By the time it was handed off to Vin, Leras (the original pilot) was long gone.

Honor would have said something if the Recreance was a future vision of his (I don't recall what lines he had during that vision). He did mention that he left the precognition stuff to Cultivation.

All this assumes that the builders of the Restaurant would have anything to do with the Physical Realm during construction. Much simpler to stake out some plot in deep space that is otherwise unaffiliated with any Shardworld (Taln's Scar, being clearly visible from two different Shardworlds, seems a good choice, but even any unmarked patch of Cognitive ground would work) and import materials and labor from whichever Cognitive Realm's most convenient.

True, with a few caveats. 1, I suspect that the First of the Sun perpendicularity is less accessible than you claim, if only because humans so rarely go anywhere near that river to consider it anything, and in 6otD, Dusk and Vathi cross it enough times and jump in and out of it enough times that it doesn't have the feel of a barrier like, say, Scadrial's canals would to the skaa (Then again, the Purelake has inhabitants, and it is clearly a solid island in Shadesmar). 2. The simple fact that so many perpendicularities are so difficult to access on both sides makes it probable that Investiture would be required to travel regardless of Shardworld. 3. "Changing the area near the Restaurant's Perpendicularity" seems like it would require an enormous amount of power, like the Well of Ascension at the lower end.

Are you saying that Hoid, who is clearly applying Investiture to his impromptu barge and oar when meeting with Kelsier, is not an experienced worldhopper? Most perpendicularities we know of are high in the mountains of the Physical Realm (Devotion's in the Atad mountain range, the Well of Ascension, formerly in the Terris Mountains, the unnamed Shardpool in the mountains surrounding the Elendel Basin where the tabloid columnist meets a SoScadrian, the pool on Roshar where Rock met Hoid, the pool in the Pantheon Islands where Aviar gain talents) and the ones we know of that aren't are landlocked (The Pits of Hathsin, for example, and the current position of the Well). I am saying that, until such a Worldhopper arrives on the solid ground of the Cognitive Realm (what would be the oceans of the Physical Realm), they will need Investiture to traverse the oceans of the Cognitive Realm (what would be the solid ground of the Physical Realm). We might be talking past each other here.

Those supplies need to contain Investiture in some reasonably accessible fashion, or else they'll sink into the Cognitive Ocean of whatever planet they're native to. Shallan almost died on her first trip into Shadesmar because all she had was a single, nearly dun sphere, for example. Hoid was doing something similar to Spanky and his oar when he met Kelsier at the Well, presumably for the same reason.

Assuming they started from a planet somewhere, they would need Investiture to travel from the perpendicularity to wherever the Restaurant is, if only for the length of time it takes them to get to wherever the ocean is on their home world.

Regarding that, these people need access to a lot of Investiture just to traverse the Cognitive Realm in the first place. So any aggressors will be dealt with in as flashy a fashion as they see fit.

Nice! Upvote for you! What do you think your plan will be once further magics come out? (Because there are several Shards still unaccounted for)

Perhaps. Kaladin did display his uncanny mastery of the spear long before he swore the First Ideal (Assuming of course that "awesome with weapon of choice" is the Windrunner perk, and not something different). However, the infused spheres didn't start going dun abnormally quickly until after he swore it, IIRC, so that's my rationale.

The inability to bottom out is a safety feature designed such that a feruchemist or ferring doesn't store all their health, sustenance, breath, etc. Into a metalmind, causing death by illness or starvation or suffocation or what have you. I suspect that using nicrominds to bypass this safety feature is not going to be a thing that happens, if only because it would be the most stupid death ever.

Heal Marasi, Kill Szeth 1. Kelsier 6 HP 2. Kaladin 5 HP 3. Vin 6 HP 4. Elend 6 HP 5. Shallan 5 HP 6. Dalinar 6 HP 7. Vivenna 4 HP 8. Siri 5 HP 9. Adolin 5 HP 10. Spook 4 HP 11. Sazed 6 HP 12. Raoden 5 HP 13. Wax 5 HP 14. Marasi 4 HP 15. Wayne 7 HP 16. Sylphrena 9 HP 17. Lightsong 6 HP 19. Hrathen 4 HP 20. Marsh 6 HP 22. Szeth 0 HP 23. Renarin 5 HP 24. Hoid 9 HP 25. Jasnah 6 HP

Maybe she's been doing this for a while now, long enough for it to be familiar to her coworkers, but hasn't been in a position to swear the 2nd Ideal yet?

If the memories in the Copperminds in question involve using a jackhammer like a pro, then the new hire would get a 1st-person example of how to hold it, how to deal with the kick, etc. It wouldn't obviate training entirely, no, but it would definitely cut out a large chunk of time from the training process.

The implication is that it is supposed to be Trell. Harmony would know what it was if it was merely "the evil of the world." Remember, He chose to render it as a red cloud for Wax. EDIT: also, your tags and title need work. "Harmony" and "strange cloud" would be just fine. No need to mention Wax, or try and stretch one apology over multiple tags.