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Coppermind is usually useful for searching those kinds of things : here There are no Shards on the First of The Sun.

Hello from Europe, too Where are you? Europe has many countries...

I think animation would work great. It solves all the problems with the Roshar itself, Parshendi, Shards, highstorms... basically, everything visual.

They were hidden cause they have always been. But now the situation got so bad it could develop into nuclear war so they said it ain't happening. Of course this leads to questions: Why didn't they stay in the shadows and just turn their governments into puppets? There has to be a situation where they have to physically show up. I always imagined that they drop from the sky just as two armies were to open fire at each other and from that point in time onwards the rest would make themselves known to the world. Why aren't they directly taking control? First off, there is no reason to destabilize perfectly good working machine that beaurocratic system is. It's better to just steer governments, that way they don't have to care about "how", only "what". And of course they still have their own business to worry about, killling monsters or something along these lines. Perhaps they would make use of the fact they're in control now and would establish a system to discover more potential mages. The thing is, the story I wanted would be about a mage who's in school or university and how is the rest of the people gonna react to that. Not only to the fact that "he's superhuman, he's dangerous" X-men ostracism thing, but also the fact that "he's a mage and people pulling strings in the government are also mages". So there would be that aura of somebody who has shadow authority. The simple things: how are teachers gonna act? What if he's failing a subject? What about making friends? What about friends that didn't know? Parents? Family? ... church, how are gonna religions react to actual magic (especially if there are various religious factions within the magic society itself)?

@marianmi, I doubt Bondsmiths are "jacks-of-all-trade". Specifically because their requirements for attraction of spren are the same (exhibit Order's traits) and because their Surges are determined to be Adhesion and Tension. The Surges are tied to the spren, so it cannot be random.

Actually when Raoden is studying the Dor he mentions reading about Aons' wavelength or frequency (he doesn't understand but for us it's a clear sign that Elantrians were pretty Realmatically advanced).

Steven Universe: The second episode of fourth season ("Know your fusion") broke the fourth wall so often I was half-expecting Deadpool to show up

But the Ars Arcanum can be written later or earlier than the book it's in - for example, in Arcanum Unbound there will be Khriss' introduction to First of the Sun but I recall Brandon saying it won't include things we already know.

A question (not mine): TLR genetically engineered people to survive in world full of ash and plants which were not as nutritional as they should. What did Hoid do to adapt to Scadrial? Since he was there long periods of time when he led Terris refugees. Did he just heal constantly? What did other worldhoppers do?

I just made the connection of the weird road system forming a complex glyph which does magic. Kansas's glyph keeps an Elder God slumbering, Elantris's strengthens the Dor (and probably some other things as there are more Aons in the streets). BTW, is that Kansas's/Elantris's right? It seems weird. The word ends in s and then the 's? How do you even pronounce that?

I thought Elantris was not based on a real city...?

The T-shirt I should have: (spoilered for size) I think that's self-explanatory

Here you go. It's scientific gyrocopic witchcraft! (As opposed to unscientific gyroscopic witchcraft which is totally different thing! Know your witchcrafts!)

Nothing in the baseball's rulebook says you cannot become someone's friend when you already are.

Blue and orange is way better And yeah, balancing your worldviews can be tricky. On one hand, I think one thing, on the other, the system of beliefs I follow says another thing and then of course human interaction dictates yet another thing. Good luck with all that.

I finished third season of Steven Universe. Soon I'll be all catched up... and then what do I do? 11 minutes every week instead of 77 every day? :|

A popular choice is tanavastium, but we know that Nahel bond spren are of both Honor and Cultivation... I say sprenium.

Right, isn't heresy going against the teachings? I mean, a Christian could call heretic a Christian who went against some dogma, but a person who follows another religion would be a dissenter, right? Then pagan beliefs... I think Twiparents would choose the word "infidel" or "heathen". (And now please tell me whether any of the words I used is offensive as dictionaries usually don't include that kind of information ) Offtopic: anytime I hear the word "infidel" I immediately start hearing this in my head:

Actually the moment Dalinar started receiving the visions was the moment the bond started.

Nope. Not at all. @Rawrbert, where are you drawing the conclusion that Trellium is not a godmetal from?

When people force a situation where it's unpolite to tell them off, ignore hints that they are not wanted and then take offense when you do. Like, it's 2 am, my sister just got back from a night's out and she barges in my room because "it's weird to eat alone". No, it isn't, PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME. YOU DO IT ALL THE TIME! Not to mention I don't want anybody over my shoulder when I'm using the computer as anything I do would be commented on! And it's like 2 am, it's the middle of the night! What the hell?! (And don't eat on my bed, using the plate or not, it's my bed I would have to clean, not yours) And of course she'll probably act offended tomorrow when it should be my right to let people in my room or not.

Well, he used it in the WoB you speak of, he used it in annotations for Warbreaker: and he instantly understands what we mean by focus and doesn't correct us, as seen in those RAFO'd questions. But I agree, I thought it's much more used term. Maybe it's just hard to find, as 'focus' is also a normal, common word and it's hard to search for it properly.

Do we have any subforum dedicated to Theoryland?

Um... Not every term is uppercased Would you mind providing a source for this? I don't remember anything about copperminds degrading from books and coppermind states they do not degrade and my search on theoryland provides no information on this EDIT: The source for this is in 15 chapter of WoA where Sazed explicitly states that memories do not degrade in copperminds, only when out of them. I meant it's not that a large pool of liquid Investiture allows worldhopping. It's more like Shard's Perpendicularity causes a point of transition and it also causes Investiture to gather there. Shardpool -> worldhopping Shardpool -> large amounts of liquid Investiture and not: large amounts of liquid Investiture -> worlhopping I hope it's understadable what I just wrote and not a mess of gibberish. I meant that the defining trait for being a Sliver is the power thing. Mind changes are kind of side effect here.

You got it a little wrong. There is no such thing as "drawback" of savantism. It's not "you get this power and this disadvantage". There are just consequences. Savants have greater power of their metal and become used to it. So tin savant just has extremely heightened senses and it's so used to it that when not burning tin his senses are dull. Pewter savants usually killed themselves because they ignored wounds they should not have and died because of that. Also, it's important to keep in mind that becoming a savant is a long process. Spook flared tin all the time for weeks, months even (not really sure). But tin burns the slowest of all the metals, it would require much greater quantities for other metals. For example, it took years for Wax to become a savant; IIRC Kelsier was a steel and iron savant. Many Seekers (and probably Smokers) regularly became savants. Bronze savants could also pierce copperclouds but it depends on relative allomantics strengths. For example a Lerasiumborn like Elend could have pierced copperclouds of lesser Allomancers if he became as bronze savant.