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  1. So... so this icon to the left of the search bar... it's not just decoration...? *clicks* I FEEL UNIVERSE OPENING TO ME
  2. I mentioned it in the original post, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say I'm pretty sure that when the Twinborn got their names nobody knew about those perks and almost 350 years after Katacendre Khriss is only speculating on whether they actually exist, although she is pretty sure (luckily we have Brandon who is nice enough to feed us info, so it's definitely a thing). But that's what the whole question is about: both Brandon and Khriss say that effects come from mixing different types of Investiture. However, on Roshar these are the same types of Investiture (namely, Surgebinding). The fact that they always come in pairs is actually an argument against effects occuring, because effects occur as resultat of interactions of Investiture. If Surgebinding interacts with Surgebinding, why Allomancy doesn't interact with Allomancy? And if only different magic systems produce such effects (like Allomancy and Feruchemy) why are Surges interacting with themselves? I want to focus on additional, supernatural perks. Not how unique combinations of powers lend to each other and things like that, but those specific, distinctive, additional effects created by powers mixing, like Memories of Lightweavers (probably) and that abnormal power and number of squires of WIndrunners (or whatever Brandon meant). Khriss in Ars Arcanum is clearly referring to that, as a paragraph earlier she wrote something like "after mixing those powers often something like a chemical reaction occurs. Instead of getting a sum of components, something new is created." (I'm reverse-translating it from Polish, so forgive me) Chemical reactions are known for creating new things out of its components instead of just getting a mixture of them.
  3. So I thought to approach this not from the "what damage should element do" angle, but from looking up various types of wounds. Sadly, there are not many of them - there are thermal (accounted for by fire and ice), electrocution (lightning), chemical wounds (probably acid and/or poison element), and many different physical wounds. So it's gonna be hard to think something up. You could start messing around with psychic powers, but I guess that's not what you're looking for. How about inflicting neuro damage? Like 'rewiring' nerves so that the control of the body is lost? That's gonna be also electricity, or maybe a healing element. I stole it from Naruto.
  4. Compounding is not one of those effects - we do not know what is the effect of gold/gold, for example. Compounding is its own, separate thing. Could you specify what passage in BoM you're refferring to? I can't recall it
  5. I was researching Compounding and Twinborn and Feruchemy. Obviously I came across the information about Twinborn effects and that it's similar to what happened on Roshar with mixing the Surges (it's in Ars Arcanum for SoS and BoM). But it got me thinking: I get that mixing powers from different systems (one Allomantic and one Feruchemical) produces an effect because of interactions of Investiture... but how does it work on Roshar? After all, they have two powers, but those powers come from the same system! How can they be less subtle than effects of mixing different magics? And... since two Surges together produce and effect... How come people with ten (I know it's sixteen but they didn't use sixteen) powers from the same system (Mistborn and Full Feruchemists) had not such effects occur? I mean, Khriss goes on how mixing Allomantic and Feruchemical powers does create an effect, but not a single word about it happening earlier. She also says that it made her ver interested and she would not be if it was happening earlier. EDIT: I think this topic is pretty much exploited, so I voted answers up and down and marked a best one. Don't be upset by your answer being on -1; I voted them down because they're not contributing directly to the question - I'd also vote down some of my posts here if I could.
  6. It was RAFO'd less than a year ago... Hm.
  7. I bow down to your superior nerd-fu.
  8. That's Hoid.
  9. After I found out about Roshar names and the "J" being pronounced "Y" my headcanon is that everything is pronounced how it would be in Polish I mean, I open a book and there's this character whose name is almost a word in my language. For those curious, it's Jasnah - "jasna" means "bright". When people go around and call each other by "brightness" or "brightlord" and the like, it's like it was screaming at me to pronounce things in my language
  10. I think he just lets information out after some time - no fun in giving everything away immediately and he doesn't want to RAFO things forever. Perhaps the upcoming release of White Sand made him change his mind.
  11. And me! I'd tell the joke about babies and trees, but I get that the Shard doesn't like dark humour. Well, except for CAH. @Delightful, perhaps your grandmother intended to give it to your brother and just gave it to you by mistake. It happens. Sadly, the older humans get, the worse their memory becomes. And that's really, really sad. Tearjerking sad. Gonna stop talking about that. Right now.
  12. WoR, towards the end of chapter 17. Shallan theorizes about the Nahel bond, coming to conclusion it's a symbiotic relationship.
  13. Would you mind linking a source? It's a totally news to me. BTW, we're all talking about how Adolin has no PoVs in the Part One... but what if the Part One is not really long (days-wise)? I mean, there may be going on so much that the part One would be a day or two without much going on in Adolin's arc. Then it would kick off with part Two.
  14. I'm not sure about that idea.
  15. So you're saying that
  16. It's not brilliance to know what necroing a thread is and it's definitely not brilliance to know that telling people that they should not be on the site just because they can't read a book fast enough is rude. So nope, it's definitely not difficult as I am not particularly brilliant and it seems that I'm just about the Shard's average. I hope it won't be difficult for you, to suffer our average wits and simple thoughts.
  17. Could a Feruchemist hide from Awakener's Lifesense by storing? What or how much attributes would he have to store? All the Spiritual ones or maybe just nicrosil or maybe duraluminium?
  18. 1) You do realize the post you're quoting is over six months old? 2) You do realize that the thread you're posting on is almost six months old? 3) You do realize that my post was refering to the fact that at the time it was just a few days since the spoiler-ban in Cosmere Theories ceased to exist? Few people keep tabs on when the spoiler policy would allows things to be posted outside of their respective subforums and I was a pretty fresh member back then. So I did not know that. 4) You do realize that not all people here are lucky enough to live in USA or English speaking countries and have the books released immediately? There are some that just won't pay three times more just so they could read it in English (and probably ebook, at that). If you do not know that, you should probably not be on this website in the first place. Or, even better, you could think before you post something.
  19. Don't forget the Tarcsel. Soon enough she might have a company and she may name it after her great benefactor... Down in the line I expect a CEO of the Wayne company whose name is Bruce For the rest of the gang, much depends on how things will go in the Lost Metal.
  20. I fail to find that trope at tvtropes, but I think it's along the lines of "a dolphin helps man reach the shore" and the like. Not everything is magical. ... Probably.
  21. Odium arrived later.
  22. Right now, for all we know, he can't. If Szeth was a Surgebinder, he could feed Nightblood Stormlight, but he is not. At least right now. And that's what we know.
  23. Remember the Donna Troy Origins picture I posted? The artist did some work on Harley Quinn:
  24. You definitely should wear a checkered shirt Smart casual (as I see it) is a cross between the elegant and the normal outwear. So trade T-Shirt for a shirt and perhaps wear finer shoes, but that's it. Dark jeans trousers. Not sure about adidas, but the rest is fine
  25. The wrong thing here is not reacting to being spoilered but the serious overreaction to that. One thing is to say "Could you not talk about it till we read it?" and another is grounding their child for 42 years to come. One is a normal reaction, the second is not.
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