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The Terrisman tried to struggle. It seems Inquisitors had experience with tying people. Before Marsh started hammering, he put the spike in the correct spot. Arguments can be made both ways.

The thing is, there are several bindpoints in the heart. It's not like "just stab through the heart". It's still "stab it through this specific point in the heart". It's almost impossible to do in fight with normal person (unless you're Steelrunner or something). To accomplish this in fight againts such overpowered characters? Impossible. On the hard end of impossible. Now, let's try a different approach. There are different bindpoints which you can stab through to steal. So let's just spam with lots and lots of spikes. I'm thinking about fragmentation grenades or something. Throw one with intent of making hemalurgic spikes and pray some of them hit in the correct bindpoints. If you succeeded, we're halfway there. Because we have to remove the spike. And we don't know which one is the correct one. So we have to remove all of them. Ironpulling won't work. Let's use supermagnets. Maybe there's an Aon for magnetism? Or a fabrial which can act as supermagnet?

Native Polish here. And I'm fluent in it. Now, it would seem it's not big deal to be fluent in your own language, right? Nope. There's a ton of mistakes people do every day. Since I'm a little bit grammar nazi I sometimes correct my family during conversation. Usually I'm right, often we end up discussing which form is correct (maybe both?), sometimes a dictionary is needed... Polish is hard. Don't get me started on writing - there are some sounds you can write in two different ways. There are rules which describe when and which way is correct, but many people often do mistakes. (I suppose it's like people who write "should of" instead of "should've"). I am also fluent in English - I can read books in English and understand them, but to get all the words I still would need a dictionary. I have no idea what my speaking skills are - I can talk quite well, but probably my accent is messed up. I watch some TV series without subtitles, at first I watched 40 minute episode for like an hour to understand what they said, but now it's better. Usually. I was learning German for...six years in school, but never learned. Now I will have a one semester of language and I can pick whatever I want. After playing Assasin's Creed in original I started to love Italian, but I think I will pick Japanese. I heard grammar is not that complicated.

After Recreance, people picked up the Shards. But the discovery that adding gem to the Blade allowed for it to bond and be (de)summoned was made later. My question is: how did people manage the Blades? They cannot be sheathed. Were they just dragging them around or what?

Not meaning to be rude, but it's like two weeks already...? For the record, I'm not building another forum or something, I need some polish Sharders to help me bring the cosmere knowledge to those uneducated.

Purelake is far too big for Shardpool; also, being in a Shardpool would do some things to the people (Elantrians basically dissolve in Devotion's Shardpool, Well Of Ascension is another example; worldhoppers use them as gateaway to Shadesmar). The thing is, Shardblade on its own is very heavily Invested (I believe even more than atium - Shardblade would be very hard to Push on and Vin did Pull atium to swallow it) and it does not take in any Stormlight. So it is definitely not just solid manifestation of Investiture as everything else.

Half-Shards are nowhere near the Shardplate. They can take one hit from the Blade and then are gone; Shardplate regenerates, imbues user with some enhancements; as for the "without direct Investiture", I have to remind you that destroyed part of Shardplate explodes in molten metal and gaseous Stormlight - it's likely that, similarly to the Blades, Shardplate is made of solid Investiture. Edit: (as Tasty Flash noted) It seems that Radiants can summon and desummon their Plate, as Dalinar noticed in his vision. I think that dead Plate and dead Blade are just Physical objects, unable to be desummoned and summoned. However, discovery of adding a gem to the Blade allowed the dead spren to resuscitate a little by synching up to the heartbeat. While Shardplate also has addition of gems as fuel cells, it seems it's insufficient to revive the Plate to the point of it being bound to the user.

During the chasmfiend hunt, Sadeas Plate is described as glowing red. I'm pretty sure that modern Shardplates don't glow.

There is Warbreaker thread about producing nuclear bombs with Breath, so... LET COSMERE ARMS RACE BEGIN?

Yeah, eating the corpse is helpful in recreating it, but it is no longer this body as kandra has consumed it. I meant that the original body disappears, kandras replicate it to some extent, but I'm not sure about their organs. They don't seem to have a brain, so why would they have kidneys? Livers? Reproductive organs? They can shape their body however they want, but probably can't replicate the organs to be functional. Or don't need to, or nobody tried.

It's interesting that Aluminum is both Alllomantically inert (resists Allomancy) but is one of the Investiture (Allomantic/Feruchemical/Hemalurgic) Metals. I was under impression that silver was also Allomantically inert, but that doesn't make sense given high demand (and high taxes) for aluminum. Silver would also be used that way.

I don't think the distance in Shadesmar is connected to how it is perceived. I think it's like with gravity bending space-time continuum - minds bend Cognitive Realm, so places with a lot of life (like Shardwolds) have a lot of space, while outer space, void of life, is almost non-existant.

Emerald is green. Heliodor is yellow (which isn't surprising, given the root "helio-" which I'm pretty sure means "sun" in Greek. After all, Helios was god of Sun).

... wait, what? First, as natc said, atmospheric pressure remains the same. Do you know what buoyant force is? The difference between atmosferic pressure holding you down and atmosferic pressure pushing you up. Since the lower the greater the pressure is, the atmosferic pressure pushing you up is greater than the one pushing you down. That difference is known as buoyant force. I think you should read this.

You'd need like, 20 000 of these extra Breaths to Awaken metal

This thread is both amusing and disturbing. While kandra do eat corpses, they digest them to get more body mass, not to somehow become them. For sexual reproduction to occur, a lot of different things are needed. Egg is just the start, there are needed proper hormone levels, the whole thing with womb, creating placenta... and the list goes on. Koloss are just mutated humans, but kandra are different species altogether. Not even a humanoid one. Not even mammals.

I got around investing inventing(my first Sandersonian slip!) names for lead characters by letting them assume a nickname they are known to the world. Like superhero name/given title. Frost (or Hoarfroster, not sure how to translate it into English). Fang. Plague. Alchemist (gotta change that, though). The main protagonist name came from a typo or accidential keyboard mash. "Hsr". It kinda linked with English word for "caesar" and that's how Haesar got his first name. His last name is partially derived from German verb past tense "gesagen". I liked how "esag" is pronounced. I don't remember how it morphed into "Esagvere" (it used to be Esagvére to change the pronounciation, but it's hard to constantly type those special letters ). Now I think about it, it could be derived from german "vier". There was also some origin backstory explaining why he has invented his name and last name instead of just going by his nickname "Blue Flame", but I threw that out since it involved some discontinued elves or something. Now I say that names came before somebody called him "Blue Flame". He dislikes the nickname, since being called by two-word phrase sounds weird (like some Indian name like Running Wolf or maybe some Asian name like Flying Snow or Long Sky), people calling "Flame!" are gonna make everybody think there's fire, and being called "Blue" is not necessarily polite. Like somebody calling you out by "hey you, the one in the black shirt!". He normally goes by "Hes", but when he wants to sound super official he introducts himself "I am Haesar Esagvere, known as Blue Flame". He mostly manages to pull it off due to his fame/minor legend status (which he feels uneasy with).

I meant it as an insight in how the Rosharans Vorin-culture-people perceive them. It's rooted in culture, religion, society; Kaladin thought that way whole life. Zahel points out that there is nothing divine in swords and he thinks it's stupid, but he comes from another planet. It implies that Rosharans Vorin-culture-people think of swords as the best/divine weapon, as only the higher caste is allowed to use them, magical artifacts are superswords, their God gave his Heralds divine swords... The list goes on. Now there is a clash between Kaladin's belief in that whole swords thing and his perceiving the spear as the weapon he's meant to use (being darkeyes and stuff). EDIT: replaced Rosharans with Vorin-culture people. Thanks to the Meg for pointing it out.

Since she used many spikes, what happened to them? Those she used to grant herself Steelrunning and Allomantic steel and those she used to create chimaeras? Also, since she changed her spikes, it seems she knew that coating them in blood stops Hemalurgic decay. That's interesting, as Inquisitors didn't know this. Edit: because they wouldn't be so concerned about it to tie the donor directly on the recipient, as we see in the HoA. Driving spike through somebody would surely cover it in blood, so no need to be concerned with Hemalurgic decay. It would be much easier to do these two actions separately, as lining two people precise enough that the spike hammered through specific point in one would come out and enter the other one in another specific point is kinda hard. Very hard, actually. Much easier to first spike the donor, then position the spike freely to drive it into recipient. Another thing is that it's quite a lot of trellium (or bavadinum, probably). Or did she only had one trellium spike in herself and a-Steel and f-Steel spikes were made from base metals? (you're right, Argent) Chimaeras were created with trellium spikes, IIRC.

Why exactly soulcasted food has no flavor? Is it only tasteless or odorless too? I remember that the jam Jasnah tried to Soulcast tasted terrible - but it HAD taste. It was not tasteless. What is going on here?

Truthwatchers: Canon >"esoteric in nature", secretive, seeing future... 17th Shard >Let's make them gardeners! I wonder what is more effective: Soulcasting food or Growing plants. Use of Growth would not render food tasteless, mind you. But Illumination would be very high cost - we would be so better off just using infused heliodors as lamps.

Actually it would mean 18*16 metals. 16 base metals + 16 pure god metals + 16 * 16 god metal alloys. It gets worse when you allow for god metal alloys of god metal alloys (like lerasium alloy of malatium, for example). You may want to check this. I believe paragraphs 1, 5 and 6 are relevant.

What happened to malatium? I vaguely remember WoB that Kelsier let Sazed experiment with it, but with little effect. Do we know what happened to the malatium bar after TLR was killed?

Anyway, even if weight can't be stored 100%, I'm sure a Skimmer could totally go Ikar. Maybe with help of some balloons, maybe not.