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I mostly agree. For the passage in Ars Arcanum, I'd write it off as Khriss having no or little access to information about Voidbinding, not to mention not being able to study it. You probably remember my newest theory on Roshar's magic - although it was pre-OB and as such is obsolete, there were good parts in it. I think the Surges are the focus and that Voidbinding would use the same Surges differently (just like Metallic Arts use the same metals differently). Like Renarin does with Illumination. Of course, there's a question why there are only nine kinds of Fused and why - seemingly - they use only one Surge each... But I have a new theory cooking up that may explain it.
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Yeah. After Radiants die, their spren bond is broken and they no longer have any way to still be tethered to this world. They simply have no means of becoming Cognitive Shadows. And Odium would definitely not expend his Investiture on them; he still reuses the same Fused even if they're totally insane. You'd expect he'd create some more Fused from some outstanding deceased singers, right? -
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Man, you are seven posts short of 2000th now But this is a good collection
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We don't even know that much.
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Making the Bands of Mourning is actually pretty simple
Oversleep replied to LiquidBlue's topic in Cosmere Discussion
The Spearhead isn't that different from a normal medallion. Save the fact it was made by somebody with access to all the powers and grants some or all of them. But it's just a medallion, one that comes with very vast storages. -
See this:
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It's quite hard to get a hang of controls. I will keep trying. But in meantime, have you thought about making a tutorial or - if it's too much work - adding a simple textbox reminding of what's what?
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It doesn't fit perfectly but it still is sooo goood
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I am not really experienced with plays so I am not sure if I can help much. That said, if you want my opinion, ask me again on July 16th. These next three weeks I have more work to do than I have time, so...
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I can't offer any advice on the magic system itself, as you haven't really told us anything about it - only how to start using it, not what it can actually do, how it works or what are its limitations. As for the imagery - it is very invocative of drugs. A lot depends on how you write it, though. But even if you describe it in a way that doesn't invoke drug association in the reader right away, on its core it still will be.
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@SzethIsBadAsHell this may be helpful to see when the books happen relative to each other. Most of the worldhoppers we see are already at least few hundred years old.
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[OB] Theory: Obrodai is First of the Sun
Oversleep replied to I think I am here.'s topic in Cosmere Discussion
Autonomy never "visited" First of the Sun and there are no Splinters of Autonomy there. The Investiture on FotS predates the Shattering of Adonalsium. Later Shards (probably including Autonomy) have fiddled with it and now it holds an avatar of Autonomy. Source is here and it is a very complex thing. But as far as we know, avatar is not the same thing as a Splinter. The lump of Investiture on FotS was not a part of the bulk of the Shard, while Splinter is something that got split off the Shard. P.S. Until we learned about avatars, it did not make any sense for Autonomy to be speaking like a hive mind. -
I like it. It makes sense. Good theory.
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You're... alive?
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Question about marriages
Oversleep replied to Oversleep's topic in Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
This one was in Scrivener's Bones, actually. Chapter 12. -
Question about marriages
Oversleep replied to Oversleep's topic in Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Well, then I know what my first non-Cosmere questions will be... -
Preface: I only just started reading book three, Knights of Crystallia. If my questions are answered further down the line, please just say RAFO. If they're not, please say so. We know that if someone marries a Smedry, they got their spouse's Talent. Like for example Shasta got Attica's Talent. But what if two Smedries marry? Do they get each own's Talents in addition to the ones they were born with? And what about polygamy? For example, if there would be two Smedries and a non-Smedry in the marriage, would the non-Smedry get both? One of them? Some combination of them? (I blame Quirk mechanisms from My Hero Academia for instilling these questions in my mind)
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Before I say anything about your theory: please hide Oathbinger spoilers and change the name of the thread to include a warning. As for the theory: I doubt this very much. First of all, Radiant Shards tend to default to swords because that's what the Honorblades are. If anything, this speaks about Tanavast's preference of the sword. Nightblood builts on that: Vasher saw Shardblades (all of them swords) and then Awakened a sword. This says absolutely nothing about inherent properties of Investiture. There is no reason why Awakening an armor would not work. Leras carried a knife before his Ascension. What is so strange about that? As far as we know, the knife has no specific relation to Adonalsium. I don't remember this bit but in general weapons were made of silver. Knifes and swords tend to be quite common choice of the weapon. Counterpoints are of course Scadrian godmetals, which take forms of nuggets, not bladed weapons.
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I don't see it, to be honest.
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Do you have maybe anything to back it up? So far we only have one source about Khriss being Vathi, and it is paraphrased, and it says they're different people: So as you can see your testimony would be a great asset to Arcanum
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Efficiency can't go beyond 100%. You can only get so much in the metalmind as you stored.
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Actually, there's a bond. While Brandon has at times said you do not bond Honorblades (March 4, 2014 and March 13, 2014) he corrected himself a few days later on March 19, 2014. Finally, we have a WoB from 2017 saying outright that there is a bond: It isn't as deep as a spren bond but it is a bond.
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Well... it's also Investiture. What are souls made up of? And charged spikes are Invested.
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I would say no. Classificaiton of "end-variable" refers to magic system (and it's a bit Scadrian-centric classification at that). If you argue that it's end negative because Breath is consumed... well, then Surgebinding is also end-negative because Stormlight is consumed. Or perhaps Returned are end-positive, like Surgebinding, because they get Investiture from external source. That line of thinking is flawed because this classification can only be applied to magic systems.
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