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Hoid might not know WHY he wanted TLR dead if that is it. Depending on his method of knowing where he needs to be etc, he might just know that he needs to get TLR to die

Being a Mistborn - accidentally burning your trace minerals, cumulating in a trace metal deficiency and eventual illness if you survive a few decades without Vin killing you

No! It's not something everyone would expect to know - it's hardly of day to day use to know

Anathem is also written by Neal Stephenson, who I think is an excellent author but his style emulates Hugo in that it is dense, prone to tangents and lectures and puzzles and can be effort to read. I love it but some people might be put off by his style

If Vin/Marsh super-pulled the Honorblade to them, then slowed it with a push to catch it, would they bond to it? I guess we don't know for a lot of reasons. I assume not, as it would rely on too much... As people have said, how levelled up is everyone? How well equipped? I've still not read Warbreaker or Elantris but I have an idea of the combatants abilities. Those who aren't natural fighters are out of it - Sazed and Lift could be lethal but (at this point for Lift at least) they just aren't combat ready. Marsh has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, being a killing machine and having a mix of metal powers. Szeth and Vasher are killing machines. Vin's special power is working out a way to beat opponents she has no right to and is also a killing machine. Elantrians are very powerful. Can't really call it on logic without reading the last 2 series and having more info, but I'd put Vin and Vasher up there. Both survivors and combat pragmatists. But given that Marsh at HoA level nearly kills Vin at HoA pre-Mist level, Marsh is probably my overall winner in a straight fight

This is a diversion, I know, but isn't there a third Rosharian planet too? EDIT: yeah, Ashyn. If they evacuate, they could evacuate to Ashyn My other theory is that Odium is freed fully, but sticks around Roshar to find and destroy Cultivation, which gives our heroes a last shot at stopping him

It may be a common answer, but I really like Hamlet, as well as most of the tragedies. Never seen or read most of the histories, and should do. Less of a fan of the comedies, but A Midsummer Night's Dream has grown on me and I do like Twelfth Night. Am back in London proper next year so will make some more effort to see some Shakespeare at the Globe or in the Park

I think that they'll try to banish Odium in Stormlight 5, Hoid will stop them (indirectly?) to keep Odium trapped in the system, whilst apologising. Odium will get off Braize and be stuck in Roshar and very very bad things will happen

I think Emotional Allomancy works on the little understood cognitive/neural aspects of emotion, limbic pathways, etc, rather than any extrinsic hormones in order for it to be consistent (all emotions that we are conscious of are assessed and tweaked by the brain in order for us to be conscious of them and it seems most likely that this is the common point of Allomantic action). Not meaning to be a pedant, but just so people don't have false information, your adrenal glands are just next to your kidneys, not in your neck. You may be thinking of the thyroid. Sorry!

Once you have started the compounding process, you could store so much luck that you'd pretty much never have to eat Chromium, just need a big enough Metalmind

Interesting. It wasn't a mediocre film, or a good one or a bad one. It was a mishmash of truly awful and very good. The beginning, clumsy. The pacing, non-existent. The plot, overcrammed. The narrative flow, jumpy with no natural movement between scenes especially at the beginning. I thought this was one of the worst DIRECTED films I have ever seen in technical terms. Also, the ending, waste of a future plot though I get why it was chosen in terms of mood and homage. Not sure we needed yet either though I'm mixed on that. But the acting was good, the mood consistent and I like the darker, TDKR Batman. I liked the philosophical overtones, the implications of what is to come , Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Lex's magnificent manipulation, the action, the references, the homages to key graphic novels Weird film. Overall, the technical issues overshadow the better points for me, but I can see how it has split critics and audience EDIT: I was saying to my friend - what this film most reminds me of, for flaws and good points and for being a mixed movie, is Revenge of the Sith Also However, I do concur that it was very clumsily done

So say that the Alethi army is 20% of their military might (doubtful for me, but ok). 500,000 troops is a lot. Elendel has, we have estimated, 160,000 Allomancers of some sort and could put out a sizeable conscripted army to back it up. Let's just keep the back up to a minimum needed to help travel difficulties. Say we field 80,000 Allomancers, and the same again in armed back up. Outnumbered 3 to 1 but in tech and firepower, historically (even without magic) the smaller force is going to win

Hoid is one of many many people that has arrived on Roshar! And Allomancer or Kandra scouts aren't going to easily be executed. Yeah, mountains are cold but survivable by normal humans with layers! It may be too cold to have a civilisation up there without hotsprings but that's not the same as "army arrives. It's so cold they all die". They are very different scenarios! The Horneaters managed to get to the Mountain Peaks and people do travel them. It's demonstrably survivable!

Ah, I think Reaper Man is much better than Soul Music personally! The humanisation of Death is perfect!

Wherever the other Shardpool is, everything we know leads us to believe there is another one somewhere. One way or another, people have made their way from other world's to Roshar (quite a lot of people, including one of Scadrian heritage and at least one Scadrian), so it certainly can be done and people from Scadrial certainly can Worldhop in some way (though potentially with help from outside). If they did end up at the Peaks, given that the and they have invented electricity, they'd be able to survive and could coordinate the arrival of their troops. Let's say against all evidence that it IS too cold, despite the main evidence of that being Rock, who let's face it chats a lot of Chulldung, saying so in a boastful context. There are still definitely people who can survive - if nobody else, Kandra, Pewterarms, possibly Brutes, Brass Ferrings, possibly Bloodmakers. Given time they could set up for the arrival of the others and ease their arrival. Actually, the biggest (and maybe only) advantage Roshar have that nobody has mentioned yet is the knowledge they might have from the secret societies on their planet, at least some of whom contain Worldhoppers. Although to be fair, it's a guess to assume they'd help Roshar at all Given the number of people arriving from other worlds on Roshar, there is demonstrably a non-lethal manner of arriving

I suspect they would probably pick the other one, to be honest, especially if it were the Purelake as some suspect

So we are saying that ROSHAR would try and use that approach, completely ignoring that Scadrial have Kandra? Really? Kandra and a variety of other methods of assassination... Vs people who can Worldhop but for all we know, nowhere nearly as easily as you are implying You know there is by definition another Shardpool in Roshar somewhere, right? EDIT: KANDRA!

Won battles. Not wars, Kevino.

I thought the OP had already cited slavery as the reason, which seems a compelling one, frankly?

The Highfather who has basically told Dalinar that he's autonomous and whose last acts were to try to kill all the ROSHARIANS, try to stop Kaladin becoming a Radiant even though it meant killing Syl despite saying it was to stop him killing Syl and just generally being an active hindrance to the Alethi? Yeah I'm certain he'll help them out, despite thus far doing the opposite. You don't just send in a bunch of Mistings unprotected, they'll have support too. Support with guns and as we've said stronger than Rosharians. And I've seen little to convince me that the Shardbearer is going to actually hit the Pewterarm. Whom he has no idea has special powers be use he looks like a normal soldier. And his instinct is to say "where's my sword gone" and trying to summon it back. No way

Ah yeah. Personally I think Plate > 1 Pewterarm, and maybe in terms of strength > even 4-5 but when you add in the advantage of numbers, I think they win if they get inside sword range, unless the Bearer can one shot them all with a strike each and even then they might have time to get him down and then he is screwed. The biggest question there for me is whether he could kill them before they get inside his reach, which I think is actually very hard against Pewter but will admit that is subjective. Also, the Shardbearer would have normal guards so the Thugs would need support to stop them from being attacked by those

Just as an aside, Vin is special though, in terms of how quickly she learns and naturally uses all Allomantic skills. Actually I think her greatest gift (apart from maybe selflessness or devotion) is intuition - not only with her skills but at brilliantly making leaps to calculate Indy Ploys and defeat unbeatable opponents. Sometimes her intuition is wrong, but the number of times she works out how something works from first principles is incredible

Just 2 corrections to make to that excellent post, Pathfinder: 1) your allegory for the dead weight vs momentum bit is misleading. If Vin had been hit straight backward against her momentum, that would take more force than hitting her from a dead start (assuming the momentum > inertia which given Vin's mass and Scadrial's gravity is definite). But hitting her at a Vector of 90 degrees would take slightly less force (due to no inertia secondary to contact with the floor) and hitting her at a vector that continued partly towards her original momentum (very possible) would be less force again. However, the feat is still impressive with arm strength only (he wasn't swinging at the waist as far as we can tell, so it's ridiculously impressive). 2) Logically, as they don't have any clear use of Iron Feruchemy, Kandra cannot change their weight. Mass is constant. They can change their shape and we KNOW they alter their density, but their mass should be constant and approximately that of a man (given they were all originally Terris people, right? Or at least based on the originals who were). Thus actually that wolfhound weighed as much as a man and is HEAVIER than everyone is assuming EDIT: I really don't think we are stuck, good arguments have been made for the Rosharians in small areas but I'd say the balance of evidence in hugely in favour of a Scadrial victory unless we give the Rosharians more Radiants than we can. If we skew the rules for Roshar, they can win, but actually matching up any definitive timelines we have looks very one sided

Now all we have to do is find one Steel Compounder or Steelrunning Thug or Steelrunning Leecher

Why waste speed or risk yourself fighting the Shardbearer? Let them come to you, leading the attacks as always. The Shardbearer has no idea you are a Steelrunner. Wait till they are 6-10 metres away, tap x10 speed and kill them before they can even perceive what is going on It's crazy to fight them head on when it's just not necessary. Each Shardbearer, 10 seconds MAX of tapped speed needed. At X10 that's 100 seconds. At a 90% loss for compounding, that's 1000 seconds or 15 minutes. Not hard to store