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also moving the planet wasn't simply a matter of strength you'd need to have enough control and knowledge of physics to alter the orbital velocity of the planet so that you were in a stable orbit again 

 

the lord ruler was a pack man not a scholar 

I think this knowledge would have had to have been granted by the shard

the orbit only lasted 1,000 ish years which isn't very long. For all we know in 5,000 years the planet could have spiraled into the sun. the simplest argument for the Lord Ruler knowing all 16 is that the Bands of Morning contian all 16. He lived 1,000 years maybe he got it from the well or maybe he killed 1,000 mistborns burning various things.

The reason a Kandra can't duplicate carapace just like they can't duplicate bones

I think Brandon even said "I named him Kaladin because it sounds like paladin" so... yeah. If i'm remembering right, he's pretty LG (he'll get a removable battery in the next book).

I'm not arguing he isn't LG he Is just less lawful than Dalinar.

There's not much blood flow in an earlobe

If TLR learned all 16 he didn't get it from the well of ascension. Vin's ascension came with no Allomantic knowledge and she was heavily invested in the study of allomancy.

Anyone with enough allomantic steel can push or pull the planet.

I don't think he knew of all 16 metals. The Well of Ascension doesn't give you intelligence you don't have and if he knew of all 16 metals why wouldn't he have better armed his beloved pets the Steel Inquisitors? 

they're pretty big (10 feet high 20 feet longish) and definitely would be an eyesore if you spotted one. At night no one is around to see them but where do they go in the day? do they burrow? I haven't read the first Mistborn in a while. 

"The dark mound—perhaps ten feet tall and twice as long—lurched forward in a strange, shuffling gait, and Vin leaned forward, trying to get a better look." - Mistborn: The Final Empire

Without any blessings or intelligence an average mistwraith reached 10 feet in height eating nothing but what the barren final empire has to offer. Now imagine you have an intelligent Kandra being fed some soulcast food and you think it'd be impossible for him to do 5 times better? 

When Tensoon becomes a dog he is amazed by the increased senses he gets from the bones. the DNA in a Chasm fiend might even give the Kandra the ability to use a gemheart the same way Tensoon can smell better as a dog.

It's easy for the Kandra. Easy Breezy.

Yeah, let's find a mostly submerged isla-yeah, no. If you can see its limbs shift as it moves, most of it is going to be up top in the non-submerged region.

The things are islands, this is beyond the range of whales.

The reshi sea is really clear (and only 60 feet deep so why wouldn't it be I guess) so seeing the legs isn't because they're sticking out of the water. a Kandra could easily become a Ta-nai

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-horror-blood-sucking-eels-rain-from-the-sky-in-alaska_062015

As often is the case, Reality is stranger than fiction. 

Vin is the epitome of Preservation. Kelsier is much more chaotic. Kelsier will save the world or even the universe, if only because he wants it to happen. If he wants something to happen, there is literally nothing he won't do, from killing noblemen to effectively committing suicide by immortal tyrant.

On second thought, would Kaladin be better for Lawful Good, what with the Ideals and protection?

I wouldn't argue kaladin as being more lawful than dalinar though

Would that crack the carapace?

They break carapace with chisels (when shard isn't available) which are literally a metal spikes

TaI-Na would be even easier since they're in water

But the body they make isn't ( or at least dOesn't have to be ) an exact replica of the animal. Likely a Kandra Fiend would be even stronger than A Chasm Fiend

Because they aren't Kandra. a kandra isn't natural selection it's intelligent design. Why do you think tensoon can turn into an animal stronger than any horse?

Yeah but once you're full of muscles you're strong enough to lift the shell, plus gravity is weaker on Roshar

The feminine arts require 1 hand typically but you can't play many instruments one handed.

Well actually lifting themselves up would still present a problem.

That's why they grow muscles.

My biggest concern with this would be the fact that greatshells seem to make use of spren bonds in order to sustain sizes that should be physically impossible. I am uncertain that a kandra can bond to a spren in the same way or that it could make mimic a functioning chasmfiend without that bond.

I don't think this would be a problem. Kandra don't breath even though they animate bodies that require breath to sustain them. so whatever function a gemheart performs I think a kandra could do without. 

Well...the endoskeleton is the one part of an organism that a kandra DOESN'T eat...or reporduce...but I know what you're going for.

 

Thus far...I don't think we've been given anything specific to suggest that a kandra couldn't eat and reproduce a chasmfiend's guts, then crawl inside like some kind of weird hermit crab.

 

The only thing that gives me pause...is in BoM, we learn that if a kandra trys to take a form that is too SMALL, it has some issues with having enough mass to still be intelligent.

so not only would it be super huge and strong but huge so it'd be super strong. even cooler!!!! 

Personally, I would not call TLR Lawful Evil, he was trying his best to save the world from Ruin. He simply used less than questionable means to do it. Even Elend admitted that TLR's methods, while cruel were necessary to his task. I'd put him Lawful Neutral, he means the best but slips into evil. And he creates and obeys laws. That's where I'd put him on a spectrum

Maybe "Rashek" could be Lawful Neutral but TLR (who he became 1,000 years later) pretty evil.

Except he's not burning the world he's just ignoring it, so he's more being neutral for the sake of good.

all evil needs to succeed is for Neutral Neutral men to sit by and do nothing... I think thats how the quote goes.

I'm actually in the process of making an alignment chart based on Cosmere characters right now.

Lawful Evil: TLR

Lawful Neutral: Szeth

Lawful Good: Vin

Neutral Good: Harmony

True Neutral: Stick

Neutral Evil: Ruin? If so, I could only find the atium symbol.

Chaotic Good: Kelsier/Kaladin (can't decide)

Chaotic Neutral: Nightblood

Chaotic Evil: Zane/Odium

Also, does anyone know where I can find a good D&D Alignment Chart maker?

I really like Szeth Lawful neutral that was a good one. rofl Neutral Neutral stick 

But if his aims are ultimately for the good of the cosmere that would be chaotic good, he's willing to let one world burn to save the others.

by that definition Amaran is good evil for the sake of what you call good is neutral.

It might have to eat more whatever's too grow more goo but is there any reason a Kandra couldnt use an exoskeleton the way it eats an Endoskeleton?