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Are Soulcasters fabrials, really?

A... pugtervention, one might say?

But Ars Arcanum is right on that: a single Basic Lashing up would make you accelerate at one g upward; if it only added another pull, then a single Basic Lashing up would make things weighless and two would be required to actually go up.

Nalan and Szeth say that Shin worship spirits of stones, spren of rocks. Szeth adds a line about "sun and stars". In the meantime he sees that non-Shins cannot be blasphemous for walking on stone as they don't have soil anywhere. I believe it's just a result of Shinovar having soil; by the way, on Roshar Shard's Investiture manifests primarily as spren and I doubt that every rock on Roshar is Invested (and just by one Shard, at that).

Basic Lashing had me confused for quite a time. I mean, it makes sense that if you Lash yourself with quarter Lashing, you become two times lighter and if you use half of Basic Lashing, you become weightless. But then I read that Basic Lashing works by cancelling the gravity's pull. And that's where the problem is. With partial Lashings you don't cancel planet's gravity, cause that would just result in being pulled up at partial acceleration. If you Lash yourself with two Lashings, one upward and one downward, that results in being weightless. My proposed model is that planet automatically files in with its gravitational pull if the object is Lashed less than one Basic Lashing. That way the norm for the object is to always have at least one Basic Lashing: 100% planet's gravity (normal situation) part planet's gravity, part Lashing (parts sum up to 1, partial Lashing) 100% (or more) Lashing (one or more Basic Lashings)

This craziness started here. So, here's the theory: Dalinar's wife is Vivenna who is currently Nightwatcher. What I'm proposing here is: Vivenna took over the entity known as Nightwatcher, merging with it. In exchange for boon, she takes Breath of the person who asked for it... the thing is, Rosharans don't have easily detachable part of the soul, so it causes complications. Neurotypical complications, known currently as 'curses'. Prior to taking over Nightwatcher, she was Dalinar's wife. She worldhopped to Roshar with Vasher and that's why Zahel likes Dalinar's kids. Because they are Vivenna's kids. That also explains their hair. Dalinar thinks he went to Nightwatcher, because he did. With Vivenna. Then she merged with Nightwatcher and took his Breath (or rather equivalent of it), what caused his memory loss. And what made him broken which opened possibility of the bond to the Stormfather. Vivenna gathers all these 'Breaths' in attempt to check whether there is Eleventh Heightening. What she plans to do with it, I don't know. Maybe a stronger Type IV BioChromatic Entity?

Or it is only a coincidence. It's not a unusual metaphor, flame as souls.

While I strongly disagree with you, I upvoted that cause somebody downvoted that for no reason. On the topic: I have to say that Shallan's past is quite mysterious and I didn't realize that before reading that thread - after WoR I thought that we're done with the truths of the past and we will move on to the truths of "who I am?". Less confessions, more self-awareness. But now I think there is something more in her past - how did she became broken? What were the lies that attracted Pattern? Were these only fantasies of a child or something else? I always thought that her mother (being part of organization which hunted down Radiants - there are some) saw Shallan play with Illumination Surge, freaked out, reported to organization and came back to kill her. But Pattern implies she already told a Truth back then. I wonder what could it be?

Yeah. Every time you type fmetal or ametal, it gets autocorrected to "Feruchemical metal" or "Allomantic metal". ("metal" is the variable: it has to be one of the Scadrial's magic metals). Easier to type that way.

I always thought that Warbreaker would be a great graphic novel or animated series - imagine all the visual effects! The color draining, Breath aura...

I believe Riemann integral is the limit of such funtion. With number of rectangles reaching infinity.

I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed with that revelation - it means that Sand Mastery is even more planet-locked than Sel's systems I mean, even AonDor theoretically could be used on another planets, but Sand Masters would have to not only make a hack which allows them to draw on another Investiture source, but also spread the lichen in other worlds.

Very clever, very clever. But I think that the more mass you have, the more stormlight you'd need to maintain constant acceleration. So it would be linear increase in force for linear (albeit 2 times faster) increase in Investiture. I'm saying that bigger objects require more Stormlight, so logically if you increase your mass you need more Stormlight for one Basic Lashing.

There is this successful escape attempt pulled off by (basically) Bavarian Fire Drill. Check out this man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Piechowski

Well, if he did have backup metalminds then he would be truly indefeatable. So from storytelling perspective, TLR couldn't have been so genre savvy and paranoic.

There is a WoB that there is a country which Awakens siege weapons (or maybe it's in annotations); I'm not sure whether they Awaken turbines, but another WoB says that over time Breaths would start to degenerate - but I think it would still be cost-effective.

This isn't a thread to post the best combinations of powers, but which powers fit what powers the most. I know Compounding steel is awesome; but what significantly improves Steelpushing is Feruchemical iron, not Feruchemical steel. I will update this post with other good combinations. It's mostly about taking a power and thinking "what does that thing lack? How can we make it better?" or "which power are similar so you get all the powers associated with that"? (Please restrain from mentioning Compoundings - let's assume that whenever someone points out Feruchemical power, it also could mean Compounding it, as it's upgrade of that power; but unless both powers of the metal are relevant, don't mention it) (The same goes with powers like Allomantic atium or Feruchemical gold or Feruchemical zinc or Feruchemical nicrosil- those that are universally awesome so unless you have a good reason why that power matches the rest, don't mention it) Allomantic iron/Allomantic steel and Feruchemical iron Crasher combo is the most obvious one. Bloodsealing and Awakening We don't know much about Bloodsealing, but from what we have seen of it, it can animate skeletons. I think Awakening would go along with it really well. Forger, Allomantic gold, Lightweaver The whole idea of that thread started with Allomantic gold and Soul Forgery. I mean, it could be a lot easier to create Essence Mark if you can burn gold and see your alternate selves; perhaps you could deduce what are important points in your history and that could be a great aid in creating your Essence Mark; I suspect that burning gold while being stamped would allow you to simultaneously be your Forged Self and remember your original self as gold shadow. (A WoB says the gold shadows would change when Stamped) Now, as Lightweavers deal with creating false versions of themselves and uncovering truths about themselves, both Soul Forgery and Augur go along with it pretty well. It could also allow to cut Stormlight cost for Lightweaving your appearance. I don't know how Forgery and Soulcasting would fit each other, as Soulcasting seems much easier to transform things and it's much more pernament. On the other hand, I doubt Soulcasting could Forge a wall into painting like Shai did in her cell. So there is that; also Lightweavers are about art and creation (and perhaps a little of scholar type, if Shallan is any indication) so it would go along with Forgery. I'd throw also Feruchemical Identity in the mix, but we don't really know how that works (yeah, even after BoM). Maybe Feruchemical Connection, too? Sensory Upgrade Pack aka Allomantic tin, Feruchemical tin, Heightenings Full sensory pack. Sand Mastery, Feruchemical bendalloy and Feruchemical iron Since Sand Mastery requires hydrenation (similarly how Awakening requires color), Feruchemical bendalloy is the perfect complementing power. Feruchemical iron since it's easier to lift oneself without weighting anything. Hemalurgy and Shardblade I mean, Hemalurgy is about ripping parts of Spiritweb and Sharblade is something which can cut the soul. If only there were some Shardscalpels... Instead of ripping out and shoving in parts of souls, you could cut out and implant. More ideas! Your turn! EDIT 1 (2016-07-18): Gravitation Surge and Feruchemical iron (by Yata) Storing or tapping weight while flying can lead to useful effects; we don't know whether more massive or bigger objects need more Stormlight, but we cover both situations: Volume Scaling: Exponential force by tapping weight linearly and Lashing linearly (F=ma) Mass Scaling: Reversing the trick - by storing a lot of weigh it's possible to exploit an extremely cheap Lashing to travel for a very long time (the Stormlight usage will be really, really low) Kandra and healing (Feruchemical gold or Stormlight) (by Drake Marshall) Kandra are very hard to kill, as they laugh off any damage (pain is only unpleasant to them) and can do with their bodies whatever they want. Combine that with the ability to heal those kinds of wounds which would be damaging to them (acid, Shardblades, probably fire or radiation) and they become truly immortal. Unless brain (or kandra's equivalent of such thing) is detroyed, of course. Lifesense, Allomantic bronze, Feruchemical duraluminium (inspired by the post of Drake Marshall) Investiture sensory pack. In case Lifesense works on Connection, there is Feruchemical duraluminium to strenghten it. (Nope - you can Lifesense things you're not Connected to. WoB from Krakow) Stormlight, Allomantic pewter, Feruchemical cadmium, probably Feruchemical gold (inspired by the post of Drake Marshall) Holding Stormlight requires not breathing... and that's a very easy thing to do if you have Feruchemical cadmium. Anyway, holding stormlight is very similar to Allomantic pewter, although Allomantic pewter is weaker at healing. So why not throw Feruchemical gold in the mix? That way it becomes very hard to kill such person and their physical abilities are very strong. Note: we can also throw in various Feruchemical abilities like steel, pewter and so on, but I don't see a point in overloading one entry. Elantrian, Stormlight, Heightenings, Feruchemical gold (inspired by the post of Drake Marshall) Agelessness + maximum healthiness pack. Extreme glowing aura XD Lightweaver, Allomantic copper, Feruchemical copper Lightweavers have two memories of an event: a normal memory and a Memory (if they made one). With Copper Compounding they could have more Memories of the same event to use more than once. Also, Allomantic copper would hide their Lightweaving from Investiture sensors, making them ultimate ninjas. Or they could just Lightweave themselves and not worry about any sensor detecting the illusion. + probably Sensory Upgrade Pack to augment the quality of memories EDIT 2 (2016-07-22): Surge of Abrasion, Feruchemical steel Moving very fast and controlling friction? That's, like, seriously overpowered. I mean, if you can turn off friction of your whole body, you will continue to move as long as you have enough Stormlight - all that matters is initial speed and with Feruchemical speed that can be very, very high. EDIT 3 (2016-08-25): Lightweaver, Allomantic zinc/Allomantic brass (by Drake Marshall) Lighweavers' actions seems to be centered around interaction with people, be it inspiring them, deceiving them or hiding from them. For all of these manipulation of emotions goes along well. Surge of Gravity and Allomantic steel/Allomantic iron (by Drake Marshall) While Lashing allows for more freedom (as you don't need anchors), Steelpushing/Ironpulling allows for far more maneuvrability and quick at that. I also suspect that the Lurcher technique of Pulling projectiles to their protected chest would be well augmented by creating a Reverse Lashing on that plate. Elantrian, Feruchemical zinc, Feruchemical copper, Feruchemical steel (inspired by Ari) Feruchemical zinc would allow for a far quicker evaluation of the situation and would help of inventing the proper sequence of Aons; Feruchemical copper would allow for a really extensive list of not only Aons and modifiers, but also many pre-prepared complex sequences; Feruchemical steel obviously allows for drawing very quickly what counteracts one of the major flaws of AonDor in combat. Truthwatcher, Sak (death predicting bird), Allomantic electrum, Allomantic atium, Allomantic duraluminium (inspired by hoidhunter) Seeing future pack. (Allomantic duraluminum for duralumin-burn of atium and electrum) EDIT 4 (2017-08-29) Stoneward Awakener We don't know what Tension and Cohesion do exactly. We know that: Awakeners use mostly cloth and fabric in Awakening. Combined with ability to alter its flexibility/stiffness and (probably) malleability... You'd no longer be limited by the fact that you're using fabric in Awakening - you could alter it how you want at will. One moment your Awakened sleeves "grip what you must", the next moment you can parry swords with it. If you have long tassels, you could Command them to spring at enemies and then make them stiff and rigid and pierce their bodies. The idea started when I thought of Vasher using his clothing to enhance his limbs; I thought of designing clothes which you could Awaken to form an exoskeleton around your body. Stonewarden can make armor out of it (or use them offensively like in example above). As of right now we have an Awakener wrapped in Awakened exoskeleton which can also be used offensively (tassels. Tassels everywhere), who can inhale Stormlight (boost in physical abilities + powerful regeneration) and alter the physical properties of things he Awakens. As a Radiant, he'll also have Shardplate, which he can wrap over with the Awakened exoskeleton. For total overkill we could get two suits - one wrapped over the body, working like exoskeleton, then Shardplate over that and then the second Awakened exoskeleton with tassels for offensive. Upgrade Awakener Pack: Feruchemical zinc, Feruchemical copper and Feruchemical steel (inspired by The One Who Connects) Increased mental speed to come up with creative awakening targets/commands to get out of a tough situation, copperminds for storing all manner of useful information pertaining to Awakening (if you can store the mental image of something you looked at, you should be able to store the mental pictures from visualizations for Awakening or memorize Commands), Feruchemical steel is just in case you needed to quickly "make something" so it is more human-like or so it can be more useful in the situation. Returned and Feruchemical steel, Feruchemical pewter, Feruchemical gold. Since Divine Breath allows you to shapeshift, you can make yourself absurdly muscular and keep your muscle mass on the normal level by storing pewter. You can also make yourself faster (Denth was inhumanly fast) which you can also store in metalmind without any drawbacks. Now, storing gold is another thing as people of Fifth Heightening cannot get sick. We've been RAFO'd on people with Fifth Heightening storing atium.

Anyway, please let's keep this thread clean of the old discussion of how TLR was defeated. We can throw a new thread for that, I can even dig up my post explaning how that fight went from TLR's perspective (I found it very helpful).

Having backup metalminds goes into territory of paranoid. You see, there was noone who could affect metals piercing the body besides himself. And additionaly, his metalminds were probably so Invested they couldn't have been Pulled on even if they were outside of the body. So to do remove his metalminds (assuming everyone perfectly knew that there he was a Feruchemists and all knowledge it implies) you'd either need a seriously dedicated Feruchemist with a lot of steel stored (who TLR probably beats as Compounder) or Lurcher/Soulbearer (no nobles/Terris interbreeding and no nicrosil - pass along) or somebody burning the mists. I don't see how could he know that a) mists can be burned b ) that someone can do this c) that Preservation chose somebody giving that person access to mists d) that that person wouldn't be him... and e) Vin, even with all that impossible knowledge and abilities, could only defeat him because he ripped out her spike.

Since Warbreaker is not long before Way Of Kings (cannot be longer than about 300 Scadrian years) and given the timelines (Coppermind says that Vasher went to Roshar 300 years before events of Warbreaker) and Dalinar states that Day of Recreance was a event so long ago it as well could happen in shadowdays, I think we can safely say that Vasher saw a dead Shardblade.

hm... an audio-play where you incorporate/personate a Tin Misting. I mean, there is an (quite) experimental theatre in my city. One of the plays I've been on is portrayed purely by sound. You get a pair of big headphones and a blindfold. The sound is surround/spatial. When someone walks, you can make out by ear only where is he walking in relation to you; it's all very convinving. Being blindfolded boosts the hearing sense very much and that way you could imitiate the effect of tin. Hm, the Tineye would have to be blind too, right? For the full immersion. Imagine the sound of coins flying through the mists and then clanging on the cobblestone.

There is an interesting short story by Jacek Dukaj, "Przyjaciel Prawdy. Dialog idei" (translation: "Friend of truth. Dialogue of ideas"). I think you may find it interesting (You may find it in anthology "Xavras Wyżryn i inne fikcje narodowe")

It was in spam. Why do you think so?

^Everyone up - that's how I failed almost all of my courses this semester. I have to take a dean's leave, essentially retaking the whole year. Well, maybe this time around I can learn those things properly as I already know a little?