Bryce Carmony

My theory on why Nightblood is so simple is they were trying to awaken an object no one ever had before. they made the sword be the most quintessential "sword" possible striped down to the basic fundamental of what a sword is. a Sharp blade held on a hilt.

This might be difficult since typically people who are invested are broken (ergo snapping and the like) but i really loved the idea on warbreaker of everyone being capable of becoming an awakener. The idea came when I was reading a lot on gun control which of course is a hot issue and the argument of "If everyone owned a gun the world would be safer" which I don't necessarily agree with or disagree with categorically but it would be an interesting setting for a cosmere world. Where every single person was as powerful as a mistborn or a surgebinder. What would society be like? could you have royalty when the bottom classes are just as powerful. Could you have cities when any crazed individual could cause major destruction that you cannot prevent or restrict? would people just live in highly spread out in small hamlets? of course it would depend on what the investiture enabled them to do but I just think would be fun.

It's made of carbon nanotubes. so one layer of it would be clothlike. you could make a think swordy chunk of it and maybe it'd be hard.

The reason I would be curious is that if chulls and rockhounds had small gem hearts in them i would assume all native roshar life has gemhearts down to cremlings having tiny microscopic amounts of gem dust. Brandon has said there is a major ecological disaster on the horizon from the hunting of chasm fiends so it might be all life has gemhearts in some capacity.

I actually wrote a cross cosmere currency page on the coppermind comparing all of the currencies and was actually a little let down. Scadrian coins are of course metal which was easy and gemstone spheres are of course amazingly integrated. But Warbreaker had a pretty bland currency just golden coins. I think it would have been cool if the money in warbreaker could have been some sort of colorful paper money or coin since the system there was driven by money. It was cool that investiture was traded as a commodity there though.

I like Nightblade's look in the fact that it is just a straight long sword. I don't really like the sound of most shard blades how they are so ornate and curvy and wavy and showy they give off a certain Anime vibe for me.

I like this theory, When Adolin's Ryshadium died in Radiance though we didn't see any spren, of course this was in the heat of battle and he was overcome by rage so he might not have seen them. But Ryshadium definitely have something special going on.

Like many Sanderson readers I both work and play a lot at my computer stationary. So i might think "Storing speed is easy" but filling a mind while mostly stationary will not add much because you aren't moving. So if I'm moving 0 mph and store 25% of it I have added 25% of 0 mph which is 0 mph. In order to fill my mind I need to be moving

That's how I imagine it at least when I read it. I just imagine that it it absorbs 100% of light

After doing a search through Kings and Radiance for "Gemheart" and "Greatshell" and concluded the texts supports all Great shells having gem hearts but does not state a chull as a greatshell. Any WoB stating that chulls have gemhearts?

I did a search through kings and radiance for every instance of "Gemheart" and nothing suggests that chulls have gemhearts.

There's no evidence of anyone on Roshar living on anything but crem deposits. I can't just make up stuff. Crem and Tai-Na exist. Mythical eternal islands don't.

PeterAhlstrom, on 27 Feb 2014 - 11:37 PM, said: They are very small. Think Phobos and you'll be in the ballpark. http://www.17thshard...books/?p=102426

How big the moon is? It's pretty common knowledge.

Thank you for the compliment. Having my writing compared to Sanderson is very humbling but I would argue undeserved, thank you anyways.

There aren't tides on Roshar it had three tiny gem moons.Phobos is 14 miles across and is roughly the size of the artificial moons of Roshar, to compare our moon is 1,079 miles across.

And they could be meaningless after all Brandon rarely puts much thought into his books right? Just three chemical moons colors chosen at random.

I agree insulting someone calling them an "antagonist" is completely inappropriate. I forgive the offending party and harbor no ill will.

Why don't you just not read the thread? If Disagreement is more than you can handle maybe go watch the five on Fox News or something. I don't have a problem with people stating I don't read the book closely so if I return that critique it's ok.

So what caused the islands. Currently Occams razor compels us to agree with me. But if you want to state something that Requires a more robust set of assumption for the hundreds of tiny islands on the Reshi Sea you can it's just against the razor.

The moons are like the Ashmounts, Sanderson had has them their for a meaningful reason, just like juxtaposed mist the gem moons play a major role I Roshar as they cause the high storms.

The reason great shells are humongous is because they are super strong from using storm light. Why do you think they have gem hearts?chulls pupate without gem hearts because you can pupate without using storm light. You don't read very closely, chasm fiends eat everything they can because they're always starving but they're still alive because of storm light.

Exactly, it's a continent of Crem with islands on top of dead great shells.

The closest thing to a chasm fiend earth has is the spinosaurus which lived in a wOrld with substantially more plant life and substantially bigger prey to eat and it's still smaller than a chasm fiend. If you want to pretend a chasm fIend gets enough atp from eating rock hounds feel free.

Given there are no volcanoes on Roshar I don't see how'd theyd form