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  1. Landis963
    We know that each Radiant has access to two surges and a catch-all healing ability. We know that each Radiant has access to one specific type of spren, at the cost of maintaining the behaviors that attracted the spren in the first place. We know that without the bond created by the spren, the Radiant can't use Stormlight to power their healing or their Surges. What if the nahel bond causes Stormlight to act in a distinct way for each Radiant Pair? I had a whole run through of each Radiant order, but it got deleted by a misclick, so here are my connections in a more condensed fashion: The Windrunners and Skybreakers are both powered by Stormlight-emulated magnetism, only the Windrunners are pulled while the Skybreakers are pushed. Dustbringers and Edgedancers are powered by Stormlight-induced motion, manifested in vastly different ways (my notes compared a Dustbringer's powers, especially the scorch marks they were supposed to leave behind them, to a microwave blast). Lightweavers and Elsecallers are the persuasive orders, but Lightweavers persuade and manipulate while Elsecallers simply command. And we don't know enough about the last 4 to really speculate anything.
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    It's funny that you mention Scadrial, because the means of unlocking Allomantic power (and feruchemic, and hemalurgic for that matter) is essentially the same as it is with the Dor (just with metal structure instead of Aonic glyph). However, that means that instead of Aon Rao (which is the basis for Elantris) you'd need to make a city in the same shape as an atom of whichever metal you'd want to emulate. And even then it might not work.
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    I like your ideas for Miles and Ranette, but Wayne needs someone who can do a lot of accents and is known to be versatile. Therefore, I humbly submit Enver Gjokaj for that role. (Also, he hasn't had a good-guy role since Dollhouse, IIRC)
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    It's probably a better return on investment if She just chooses a new person to bring back.
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    What can you tell us about how people are Initiated on Vax?
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    Do the circles on Aon Rao correspond to any physical feature on Sel, and if so, what are they? Would it be possible to make a rudimentary map of Sel just with glyphs that, in the proper location, would normally access the Dor?
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    If both of Sel's Shards are dead, who was speaking through the Shardpool?
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    Adien was Kiin's kid. And for the most part, if they weren't burnt to ash before the transformation was completed, they came back fully healed of everything. If it was healed to the Spiritual or Cognitive Ideal, like the Returned of Nalthis, then PTSD would be cured, as would most mental maladies.
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    I wonder if he decided to tap some luck after seeing the broadsheets and found out "oh [insert Yolish curseword here] there's Cosmere stuff going down." He did show up unexpectedly just in time for Wax to put his earring back in, after all.
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    Sarene in 25. Susebron stumped him, but during the course of that particular run he guessed Lightsong (in about 50 or so questions), so points for closeness?
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    But can they speak into the minds of anyone with a damaged soul? Zane was spiked, so that doesn't count, but Vin's mother wasn't.
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    Maybe a lerasium spike doesn't "steal" anything. Maybe it imprints whichever power or trait it's supposed to steal, but leaves it behind in the victim as well. Of course, there would need to be drawbacks involved, and this is all highly speculative until some Scadrian serial killer or assassin or whatever decides to use lerasium of all things for Hemalurgy. (Although if it does copy and not steal traits, we can integrate that into the Metallic-Art-powered universal healthcare thing that... someone... cooked up)
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    As far as I can tell, she can metabolize food into Investiture directly, and use that to power her Edgedancer abilities. No "made in Roshar" tag necessary. Also, a Wayne/Shai worldhopping duo would be fantastic.
  14. Landis963
    I suspect just on Threnody - Vin didn't see silver's Allomantic inertia as odd, just annoyingly useless. Likewise, Lord Yomen was perplexed by Vin's silver earring until he noticed it was bronze.
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    *snorts*
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    And that is exactly why I brought it up; it's perhaps the most blatant example of Shardic interference on geography, with the Roshar fractal-shaped supercontinent a distant second. Actually if I were to rate the shardworlds (the ones that got their own full-length novels, that is) by map-deduced Shardic interference, it would be Era 2 Scadrial, Roshar, Sel (When's the last time you saw such clean lines on a coastline, or a mountain chain?), and Nalthis (It's like a game of ecologist's "What's wrong with this picture?")
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    I had completely forgotten that particular tidbit. Actually, that's very suggestive for how our hypothetical Idrian Returned would behave - They were brought back for a reason, and while they may not be able to tell you what that reason is, their instincts would retain the broad strokes of the solution to the problem they Returned to solve.
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    I thought aluminum was in fact a nullifier for most forms of Investiture - or at the very least Allomancy and Forgery (under the name of "ralkalest").
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    He'll lay out Nightblood's powers in Oathbringer just as he did in Warbreaker. Also, I think the Tranquiline Halls, if they're a physical place (and if Damnation is a physical place, there's no reason to assume the Halls aren't a physical place as well), are in the Roshar star system. It could be Braize before it, well, fell under new management as it were, it could be Ashyn, it could be any other solid body with the requisite gravity, but I'm fairly certain it's within Greater Roshar. I'm also fairly certain that Nalthis is not, if only because Endowment didn't seem all that fussed about the embodiment of a God's hatred taking up residence in the neighborhood.
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    I suspect Yolen is supposed to be the most senior of the worlds in the dwarf galaxy we know as the Cosmere. (I also suspect that it is no more, but we won't find that out until Dragonsteel at the earliest) Roshar is definitely an artificial world, though: its landmass bears a suspicious resemblance to a mathematical function (a function whose shape would exist regardless of number system, no less), and its 3 moons orbit the planet far too regularly, for it to be anything remotely related to fault lines or any natural system, such as we see on Earth. The other shardworlds display this sort of irregularity as well - The mountain range encircling the Elendel Basin on Scadrial is clearly unnatural, as is the geography of Hallandren on Nalthis in general (Seriously, take a good look at the geography surrounding Hallandren and its backstory. There's odd stuff all over)
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    We had a whole discussion just up-thread on the difficulties of casting a Stormlight Archive adaptation - eye shape alone requires casting every single Asian actor currently in Hollywood, especially for crowd scenes. Extensive makeup might be simpler, especially for oddballs like Shallan, and is already necessary to make eye color conform to Roshar's peculiar brand of bigotry. I will admit that Liam Neeson would play Dalinar's character very well.
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    Actually, I think the Dor (in most or all of its forms) is end-positive. Even Dakhor, because in this case human lives are being treated as an Allomancer treats their metal reserves. Of course, I could just be unwilling to transfer the distinction of "only end-negative magic system" away from Hemalurgy, but there you are.
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    I assume this had been answered already, but if not I'll mirror it over on the question file thread - In Warbreaker, why exactly is Mab of all people spreading the unholy altars rumor? She was there, during her formative years, there should have been no evidence anywhere of Iridescent Tone priests doing human sacrifice.
  24. Landis963
    Ooh, I like it! He doesn't get to play the creepy role nearly so often (although his role in the Jessica Jones miniseries might change that). Emilia Clarke'd be good as someone. Vivenna, maybe? She's not nearly as sultry as a Blushweaver, and I don't think she's got the natural shrinking tendencies of a Vin. Not to mention, of course, that the clue-by-four she receives to the back of the head will serve as catharsis for the legion of GoT fans who are annoyed with Danaerys Targaryen.
  25. Landis963
    "Getting more Breaths" would be violating the integrity of another person's soul, and you saw how Vivenna reacted to receiving Lemex's hoard, which means that stopping whatever it is before their week is up is the entire impetus for accepting the opportunity in the first place. An impetus, it bears repeating, that they can't remember once they Return.
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