IndigoAjah

I agree that a Mistborn would need a fair amount of Atium plus other metals and/or tricks and stealth and luck to beat a tank. A skilled enough Mistborn could fire a coin through a visor, but they'd have to be near level: Waxillium of aiming to manage it

Well the score was by Zimmer and he does "borrow" from his previous scores, so it was probably musically nearly identical to the piece from PoC, just like much of PoC is identical to Gladiator

It's all about Gen 2. Day/night. Dark and Steel. Refighting trainers as they improve. Items. Espeon. Seeing how Kanto changed. Not TOO many Pokemon. Lance turning up mid-story. Mt Silver. It was AWESOME Though, the other generations all have their strengths, I just think 2 made the most improvements without one feeling repetitive or gimmicky to me Though the starters in GSC are a bit less cool than Gen 1 or 3 for me. If you could start with Charmander, Silver would have been perfect

Overall good: There's a nice image and it makes interested to know what the Diaemus project actually is. Then the links are a mix of inherently useful and interesting theories I'm aware that my own is somewhat simplistic

Khriss uses some lovely word play in one of the Ars Arcanum I think too. Around "prosaically"

Either: A Lightweaver Surge-Binder (love the combo) or a Twinborn with A Bendalloy and F Zinc, which would be very handy for making key decisions Though actually, I like a lot of Twinborn combos :/

Yeah but even an invading force wouldn't get the Voidbringers onside! They are the forces of Odium designed to destroy the Rosharian peoples and having lost their own free will, not some petty political rivals, at best there would be a 3 way battle

We still have no idea of how Feruchemical Chromium works, though. I don't think we can make many assumptions about it (though my personal assumption is that it is at least similar to and influenced by WoT's Mat)

Aren't the Voidbringers kind of against Roshar's side by their very definition? If the Voidbringers are involved surely the likely outcome is a Scadrian/Rosharian alliance against them?

One of the only things we know about the Radiants is that for whatever reason, no matter how good (and I suspect it is good), over 90% of all Radiants and Heralds specifically did give up and forsook their oaths

That period still gives Scadrial Vin and Elend plus potentially other Mistborn, plus the ability to control Koloss, and presumably give them Marsh, and possibly the army of Seers (plus a potential huge supply of Atium) plus lots of Kandra, would still be a very tough ask for Roshar unless we are talking pre-Recreance numbers of Radiants. In which case, once again you are massively skewing the contest just to give Roshar a win. Roshar can ONLY win if you skew the contest a lot.

As Devil's advocate, the spikes are also protected by being inside a person as well

"Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God."

I think You are describing Pewter...

It's American Gods by Neil Gaiman, can't remember who says it though.

I think with the knowledge of EXACTLY when and where the blows were coming, it would be laughably easy to do. As Voidus says, why stay out of range? They can dodge as the blows come, and attack as they dodge. It would be ludicrously easy, and the Shardbearer can't react unless they know exactly what is going on and then have Vin-esque presence of mind and some luck. With just Stormlight and skill, Kaladin dodged 2 Shardbearers who were intent solely on killing him for what is implied to be a significant amount of time (enough for Adolin to defeat a Shardbearer and then get to them without any power). It would be so so so easy if you added the knowledge of exactly what you are going to do

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, just after a ridiculous chull pull by the author "But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions."

They wouldn't need to survive a minute: they'd need to survive long enough to dodge one swipe of a slower than normal sword that they can see coming and stab once into a gap that they know the position of in the near future. 3 seconds. Max. That's with added extra speed, strength and reflexes. It's so one sided it's a joke. Roshar being his baby doesn't mean that the Rosharians are more latently powerful- there is no logic in that statement. Even if it did, and I accept they might be (Stormlight is impressive, look at how easily Szeth and Kaladin make multiple Shardbearers look like absolute mugs- like, mook level in Szeth's case and I imagine Kaladin with his new powers and no need to hold back would be equally one sided), that doesn't make the non-latent, non-Surgebinding Shardbearers any more capable. They demonstrably suck against enhanced fighters! (Making your favourite more powerful may be human nature, but it's hardly good writing, and Sanderson is a good writer. It's basically part 1 of Sueism) In essence- I think bullets beat Shardplate, but it's interesting to discuss. I am 100% sure than any half competent Atium user, especially if they had other metals too, who can get within 10m of a Shardbearer and has 3 seconds of Atium would kill him with utter contemptuous ease. As it happens, so would any half-competent Radiant who wanted to. The only people that people with Atium have to worry about surviving against for a whole minute realistically are people with really powerful magic that can't be dodged or people with Atium themselves

So, Kaladin managed to knife a Shardbearer in the face with a spearhead and subconscious minimal use of Stormlight. A Mistborn who can see the Shardbearer's every move and thus dodge every blow with ease, Atium being something only tricks from Vin, arguably the intuitive and inventive killer in the Cosmere, have ever beaten, then step inside and stab exactly where you know his face will be, with the ability to use super speed and reflexes from Pewter, and someone thinks they won't dominate a Shardbearer when using Atium? The Shardbearer is also obvious, with obvious armour and an obvious weak point and a wacking great obvious sword that obviously you shouldn't be hit by. The Mistborn looks like a person until they start magicking and even if the Shardbearer thinks they might be special, they can't tell the Mistborn has Atium until they're dead. In about 3 seconds, I'd guess. We've seen how this kill would occur! The outcome is pretty obvious to me. Shardbearers are so overrated, and Atium is very OP. Also, we should probably get back to the actual topic

As most things are not monogenic but polygenic, and there is significant splicing involved in meiosis and fertilisation, with plenty of epigenetics and dormant genes, actually if the genes for hair colour etc happened to be formed in a certain manner aligned with race etc, Mendelian inheritance COULD work like it does on Roshar. They just have to be genetically different enough from our humans, which I think they probably are. There are several diseases in real life in which people have hair of mostly one colour but a forelock of another (e.g Waardenburg syndrome) and heterochromia iridium is not that rare either. It wouldn't take that much in terms of genetic difference on a planet in which the genetics are likely meddled with by the Shards (as we have also seen on Scadrial) to produce the multicoloured hair The humans are not a visiting species, I think, as someone suggested above, but a native species formed in tribute to original humans by the Shards, but not the same, necessarily, as original humans or even Scadrians (who we know were created) and certainly no need to be the same as actual RL humans. And when in doubt, sDNA can account for all kinds of oddities in the hereditary process

Looks awesome. JUst waiting for my Obi-Wan spin off film (with McGregor) now

If Scadrial - Roshar is made tricky by differing times, predicting where Elantris come on this is impossible! Also doesn't Nightblood count as a "high invested individual"? He is sentient after all.

Use Stick. 1HKO

PLease also never work for a company called SkyNet!

Possibly that Unmade was around in the vision. Also Dalinar still exists and is aware of his own self as well as the person he is "bodyhopping" in his visions - thus if the real Dalinar is subject to the Thrill this could carry across into the Vision, I think