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Likely because collective human belief holds that eyes are the windows to the Soul (Spiritual Realm) - and so, on Roshar, the Eyes change as the Spiritweb is changed. . . Also likely why the eyes burn out from Shardblade death, as the soul is killed

Mistborn Book 1 - Vin uses pewter dust to blind the Inquisitors. TFE Ch 36: Hope that helps

Two separate outages. Cloudfare had an outage on Tuesday. Database had an outage yesterday. From the Discord: Hope that helps

From the Sharder FAQ: Hope that helps

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None of the above? I'm not sure if you read my post, or the post to which I had replied; but all I was doing was trying to answer the OP's questions. I don't use SUs so it doesn't really matter to me - despire being very important to many others. Perhaps your questions would be better directed at the OP(@Argenti)? Hope that helps

We see at the beginning that they believe there is an element of heredity, but we also see that subverted by the end with Baon. Darkside's Starmarks also seem to be, at least in part, fueled by sunlight* - it's just that it's the light from Ridos, and manifests as a weekly pulse rather than 24/7 daylight. Hope that helps

Red Rising may be inspired by Mistborn and Hunger Games. (Moreso the latter, to me) Depends on your personal preferences. The summary and data are in the Recommended Reading List - Sci Fan Section. I enjoyed Book 1, not so much books 2 and 3 when they were first released. Never picked up the sequel trilogy. If you like Sci Fan worldbuilding, and a higher violence content than Sanderson usually writes, it may be an option.

Unlikely. Also, I think a Cadmium or Bendalloy cage would alter the way a Fabrial Clock works, not standardize it enough to be a reliable timepiece. The Navani Sketch also does not show any metallic cages in the watch portion of the vambrace. Unfortunately, the most we have so far is the RoW Ch 15 Epigraph: So, a Smokestone with a LogicSpren pulsing in a reliable rhythm. From a technological perspective, once you have a reliable mechanical method of ticking seconds, the rest of clock creation follows. Hope that helps

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That's fine if it's not your thing. I just thought the way it looks similar to a Sinus rhythm and it's by your heart. . . Good symbolism, good message

You could do the First Ideal written in Women's Script

This is something we can agree on - though I would quibble "generally harmful" since it is more that "Savatism should have a downside - and some of those downsides can be extreme" Ref - HoA Epigraph to Ch 16: Actually, what I was trying to say was that, to me, your first post sounded like you were saying that swearing oaths could cause a Radiant to become a Savant. Mostly because of that point 3. That's what I was referencing - because the Nahel Bond reinforces Spiritwebs with Connection - they are resistant to the warping that causes Savantism. - - - Back to OP - - - Honor did not "design" the Radiant Ideals or even the way that True Spren form Radiant Bonds. MoIs are a result of the complex interaction of the Shard's Intent, the Planet's Identity and the Cognitive Concenssus of the inhabitants. Honor didn't "design" surgebinding (just limited it). WoB (Mistborn Spoilers): Ishar had much more involvement that Honor in manipulating the Rosharan Native Surgebinding that arose during the Desolations into the Radiant Orders (WaT Ch 59, WoR Epigraph): Sorry to be a bother - hope that helps.

Now I am just extra confused. you seem to be arguing two opposiing things at the same time as if they were synonymous. Savantism = Warping of the Spiritweb due to investiture Radiant Nahel Bond = Reinforcing the Spiritweb through investiture released by Oaths and Connection The only thing they have in common is a modification of the Spiritweb (which is true of almost every MoI). To be clear, I am not saying you are drawing improper conclusions - I am saying you are using the wrong terms to describe them (or I am hopelessly lost in what you mean at all). After all (WoB Extract): I think you are taking a partial analogy description too literally. What little we know about Savantism indicates that it cannot be invoked by four short bursts of connection-released investiture - even if a Radiant somehow said Oaths 2-5 all in the same day.

Welcome to the Shard. Please consider an Intro Post to let us know what you have or have-not read (whichever list is shorter). Also, please consider checking out the Sharder FAQ for some useful forum info and tips. I'll use spoiler tags, since we do not yet know what you may or may not have read - Stormlight Archive and Mistborn Spoilers: So, the Fabrial Properties of Lerasium or Atium will not necessarily be tied to their Allomantic Properties. WoBs: Hope that helps

Please see the SHARDER FAQ for tips on quoting and multi-quoting posts and topics. Nope - Ati filtered Ruin into Entropy millenia before Dalinar. WoB: Hope that helps

Unlikely. As you say, the leakage from the Spiritual Realm as an Oath is sworn is short and fast and infrequent. Savantism takes a long time. Kaza was soulcasting weekly her whole adult life, and only started losing parts to smoke fairly recently (a few years). Mistborn Spoilers: Hope that helps

Unfortunately, that is data Brandon is holding back for the eventual Dragonsteel Trilogy. So we can guess, but evidence is barely more than speculation. WoBs: Hope that helps

Stormlight Archive WoK Ch 26: WoBs: Hope that helps

Kelsier does this (briefly) in TFE when he pushes and pulls on opposite ends of the metal cage bars to make spinning shields to block the arrows being fired at the escaped prisoners (right before the Inquisitor fight). It's not pushing and pulling from other-than-center-mass; but it is the same skill Wax showed when he pushed on different parts of the bullet. This likely depends on how you are defining Hardness in the magic. We are getting more rules, not less - just a better understanding of those rules that open up new options not previously considered. By the definitions I am aware of (Mohs scale - hard fantasy section, Magic A is Magic A) I would say Era 3 is Harder magic than Era 1 was. Broader understanding increases COA options, but the magic isn't "Softer" (less defined) at all, to me. Intent is not likely to allow BioChromatic Breath to Steelpush, or Stormlight to Soothe - but Intent did allow a Reverse Lashing to have effects similar to an Ironpull (within the bounds of how Reverse Lashings already function). Could you please define what you consider the separation from Hard and Soft to be? Maybe we are talking about different axes of consideration, but trying to use the same terms (and therefore talking past each other)? Is this what you are using for the delineation between Hard and Soft? Quantity and type of Limitations - rather than number and understanding of rules?

Unlikely, for the same reason Shai could not simply Forge only a few blocks in the Forgers Cell prison. Soulcasting the poison out of blood works because both before and after it is still blood and therefore recognized by the target's body as part of the spiritual ideal if their Identity. There is no known biological being with a natural metallic skeleton - and especially not Aluminum (even Dragons only have Dragonsteel parts, not a full Dragonsteel Skeleton, based on current known data); so the body would fight such a change just as it fights a Forgery (even one specifically tailered to the target). A Kandra would likely get away with an Aluminum True-body - but they hardly need Soulcasting to get there (thought it may make things easier).

The thing is, Intent and Command have always been a part of all of the MoIs - it's just that Brandon specifially made it so that Connection (Focus), Intent (Command), Identity, Fortune, etc. all have a part to play, but do not have an equal part to play. Command, In allomancy comes from the metal itself (very small part) and in Awakening is spoken and plays a very large role; while Surgebinding is Variable - because the Oath seems to be a Command - invoking the Intent of the Oath. Intent can be understanding - knowing and understanding what you are trying to accomplish (compounding) or Command-like (an Elantrian uses Intent to draw an Aon) or more specific, like Kaladin finally understanding how Intent interacts with Reverse Lashings. All of the Spiriual Components should be present in each system - but sometimes it's barely 10% of the MoI and sometimes it is 75+% of the MoI. I think of it more like Elements - Pre-Era 1 their understanding of Magic and Investiture was like Classical Greek Elements (water, fire, etc.) - and moving into Era three they are realizing it is more like the Periodic Table. It's not that the rules are less restrictive than before - its that understanding them opens up option they never realized were always there because their pre-conceptions and misunderstanding limited what they thought was possible. Hope that helps

Concur - it is definitely a spectum (just like Hard and Soft Science Fiction). Cosmere is on the Hard side, but I do not think there is a "6" equivalent for Hard Magic. Thank you for the clarification - the initial post seemed, to me, that you did not like Cosmere. I am sorry for misinterpreting. I'm sorry for the sarcasm about Grisham, but I am honestly still unsure about what you mean by using "legalism" in that context. Are you using it as a euphamism for teh rules that govern the Hard Magic?

Prevents decay. WoBs: Hope that helps

Have you read Sanderson's laws (Link is the third law essay, which has links to one and two)? Excerpt from Sanderson's First Law: It's okay that you prefer Soft Magic. Sanderson certainly knows and understands the divide - and he does write Soft Magic for his YA titles (Reckoners, Cytoverse); but Cosmere is Hard Magic. Cosmere follows the Three Laws (which, if you have not read them, should explain a lot about why he writes the Cosmere as he does). Moreover, the Cosmere would likely fail if it was written as a Soft Magic 'Verse. I don't really know what you mean by "legalism" and all that (despite being outside of the Cosmere Discussion section , you can still provide correctly marked and tagged Spoilers) - SA is not a Grisham novel. But I do know that Cosmere only works because it is a Hard Magic environment, and it's okay if you don't enjoy that since there is so much soft magic that you should have no problem finding something else to enjoy. Hope that helps