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As Rothfuss has been taken, my next step is to suggest Gaiman (Anansi Boys is a good lead in) or Zelazny

Isn't that basically a Terminator space marine?

Harmony, very similar to the symbol of the Dragon in WoT, would surely be something like the real life Ying-Yang symbol, maybe on a background of top half blue and bottom half green to symbolise the way he fixed the World

If the group waiting for their Last Stand win without outside help, or have a CHANCE of doing so, can it still count as a Last Stand?

I'd say Ruin is pretty chaotic, also I'd avoid putting Shards in there - they have Orange and Blue Morality and are hard to classify as truly good or evil Yeah, the Windrunners' approach can be too subjective, the Skybreakers' too objective. Which gets you into "Alloy of Law" Territory

Difference between deliberately formed Splinters as a form of Investiture and actually being Splintered though?

At the moment very hypothetical, folks (though that could change as Scadrial becomes more Cosmere aware and Roshar becomes an area of Cosmeric interest). Under the old rules, before Sazed changed how Snapping worked, an Allomancer pretty much had to go through some form of deep physical or psychological trauma to Snap (unless they had Lerasium beads, and even then our one example to study has definitely been through enough physical and psychological trauma to count anyway - Scadrial is just that kind of world in the original trilogy), de facto leaving cracks in their soul. These cracks are also a prerequisite for Spren to pick you out for Radianthood. Say an Allomancer heads to Roshar (there is at least one Atium Misting there already): Could a Spren select them, assuming they had the characteristics that would make one attractive to a Spren? Could they form a Nahel bond? Are those cracks now too plastered up for this too happen, and if so would trauma subsequent to their Snapping (Vin for example has had plenty to pick from) have formed new cracks to bond onto? How about further trauma on Roshar itself? Or would the sDNA fix them to their home planet and mean more hacking were needed to connect to Roshar? What if they had a strong connection to the concept of Honor or Cultivation?

I meant don't let the Fullborn get a soulcaster - basically would give them infinite access to metal and thus infinite Allomancy to go with their infinite Feruchemy And let's be honest: They WOULD get a Soulcaster, very quickly. And then frankly it's over EDIT: My bad. I forgot Nightblood was on Roshar. In which case, TLR (Mk 2) vs Nightblood is interesting...

Best not let them get a Soulcaster then!

I suspect it comes down to whether the Shard perceives that it is acting against its own Intent, like

We know that people can world hop from Scadrial, Demoux at least has done so As for soldiers, send one person with the Bands or another method of being Fullborn and that may be enough by itself

Logically, Vin and Elend should do very well in that crowd - Mat and Tuon (mostly Mat) & the Goodkind duo look hard to beat Wait, Gimli and Legolas beat Vin and Elend? The only way you can realistically write that is to utterly depower both. Even then, Vin's specialty is thinking of a way to beat opponents she has no right to (see Atium fights)

Seems like a bloody good reason to continue attacking to me

With the mist, this is exactly how Vin ascended

That was him using stormlight though, there are hints he uses it to kill his first shardbearer There's also no way he would be able to fight properly with a spear with his leg basically mangled!

Depends on the calibre, I think, but enough bullets would get through

I personally don't think Syl makes Kal a better fighter - the inherent nature of Kal that draws Syl to him and allows him to be a Windrunner makes him a better fighter (I think Syl implies this with her cryptic comment about how she was both with Kal and not with him when he was learning the spear and he had a natural affinity from the first time he used a quarter-staff). It's hard to know without knowing how long ago Shallan had her perfect drawing recall, in my opinion. But, yeah, I can buy that Dalinar might be able to tell when someone is lying to him in the same way that Shallan can draw

But the Rosharians don't know how Fabrials work on a magical level yet either (aside from Heralds, probably), so would it not just be reverse engineering tech in that case? Though I do suppose they need to get the gemstones to actually manage it\\ EDIT: on the closer than I think, I just can't get the knowledge of what a handful of men with guns did to the Aztec, Inca and Zulu Empires out of my head, invading their lands with little resource or support or knowledge of the area. Would still struggle against the magic users, admittedly, but guns have been such a gamebreaker in real life that they are one of the main reasons history turned out the way it did

We know that Radiants need to be broken so that Investiture has cracks to fill in, so the Radiants all fit your pattern

If Odium managed to control Nightblood, I am relatively sure that it would be bad for pretty much everyone else ever There is a narrative reason that Nightblood ended up on Roshar, possibly deliberately caused by characters or not, but we know Warbreaker had to be written to introduce Vasher/Nightblood for SA, right? Am I making that up? If not, one logical reason is that Nightblood is one of the few things we have seen that could possibly hurt a Shard that isn't another Shard

I still back Scadrial, even if you don't let them have Vin/Elend or TLR. Just send the Mistborn to kill off all the Roshar leaders, for one thing. I'm pretty sure there's a WoB that you can use connection to hack a world's magic system?

So basically, if we specifically set the situation so that Roshar can win, then Roshar can win, if we actually take the full mights of both planets at their current book stages (and this would go on forever - it's not like whilst magic and tech catches up in Roshar, there won't be progress in Scadrial - we know that the next series in Scadrial involve "modern" era and then sci-fi!) it's very very probably Scadrial (they have an unfair advantage, but any attempt to remove that advantage is ignoring the actual difference between the two planets at any point in time). So how close a fight it is depends on just how far we are willing to skew things towards Roshar?

I think that having excess Identity might also prevent body-jacking via a god/spike etc. Say someone tries to use the red metal spike on you, if you realise in time you tap Identity, become too sure of yourself to be taken over for long enough to take the spike out. Kind of Granny Weatherwax-esque

I think you can go to zero connection and going to zero connection or identity would make your future undetectable to Atium (the former stops any connections to you being made on the spiritual or cognitive planes and thus no way of the Atium connecting to you to predict your future, the latter means Atium can connect but has no idea who you are to predict with). The trouble is, if you go to zero with identity, can you come back? Would you have the identity needed to tap identity? EDIT: do you think you could fill Aluminium to go (WoT Spoilers - / assassin that has too little identity to notice or remember after the event

Would it be that hard for the Scadrians to get hold of and reverse-engineer span-reeds though? And with medallions, some of us think they can hack into Roshar magic :/