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We've been treating that as a grave insult to the Nightwatcher's time, so give the user a bane. The boon could be letting the person live..... So @Magestar, your bane is to be the Jar Jar Binks (most hated/reviled) type character in one of Brandon's stories. Better hope for a one off novelette!! So, healing any person... Granted! But when healing someone else, you have to transfer your life energy to them. You can also siphon off life energy from someone else if they volunteer to allow it to heal yourself. Healing yourself is always less efficient than healing others. Your bane is whatever was healed will glow bright, neon red for an hour or so.... I wish for weekends were three days instead of two!!!

We do not know if being brought back to life actually changed anything anything or if Szeth was just manipulated by Nale into thinking that. The kind of conditioning Szeth has undergone would make that kind of manipulation child's play. Except he's starting to get past that by the end of WoR. Go back and re-read the final attempt on Dalinar, where he adds Adolin (IIRC) to the list.

Finally, Sebarial!! Slight edge to the B&W Adolin/Jakomav. Good stuff as always!!

With all the doubts going on, he could have seen himself as evil long enough for Nightblood to act. I still think it's iffy, but it's plausible. I like it! Something else to consider is if Nightblood sees something his owner considers evil -- such as the Death Rattle facility Mr. T shows Szeth -- and Szeth refuses to do anything about it how could that play out? Turning a blind eye to murder sounds kind of evil and we know Szeth perceives it that way in that scene.

For that truly evil (and upvote worthy) bane... Granted! You are prime hemalorgic spike material, and spend your short Mistborn existence in tortuous pain as you are brutally killed for your powers. I wish for a girlfriend like Shallan that is deeply in love with me.

What if you could awaken the dead spren too?

Granted. It turns out it was just a memory, so you have this cool holographic like knife. Maybe you could do something with it if you could Elsecall to the Earth's CR. Your bane is looking at the blade has a random chance of giving you a "paper cut" like slash that hurts like Blaize for an hour. I put myself at your mercy by wishing for a girlfriend like Shallan!!

Granted. The Nightwatcher thanks you for making her life easy -- the cost of fuel, a hangar, and time and money to become a pilot are banes enough!! She hands you a guide on filing for bankruptcy. I wish for Yolish Lightweaving, and a bane that does not prevent me from using it.

If Brandon sticks to his "each setting mostly stands on it's own", then if the TH are Yolen, they won't play a moderate to big role. If the TH is significant then I think we should be looking for Greater Roshar solar system explanations. That's probably why Yolen doesn't feel right to many people.

Granted. The local pizza joint dumps all their leftover, throwaway pizza in your room. Enjoy! I wish I was a Lightweaver!

Plus, the ability to make someone a powerful magic user -- that counts as affecting the magic system to me. Maybe not directly, but how would the Era1 Mistborn books played out without Elend as a powerful Mistborn?? And if they did create the magic system and it's working as intended, then no need to interfere too much. And on Sel the shards have been splintered by the time we see it and, Honor has been splintered on Roshar. Heck, even in Mistborn, by the time we see it Preservation is in the process of dying and Ruin is imprisoned and partially splintered. And the hemallurgic spikes could be used to control someone, which we saw used to great effect, which goes back to maybe it was working as intended. How many shards have we seen not heavily invested and/or not splintered/dead/dying? I'm not even sure Harmony counts because presumably Ruin and Preservation were still heavily invested in Scadrial. Maybe the Returned are Endownment's way of curbing abuses of Awakening. That would still count as interference to me if that was the case, just not direct. I imagine tweaking a magic system after the fact could come with it's own set of problems, including tainting all past knowledge of said system. If you want advanced use of the system you can't keep tweaking it because eventually it will just be used for the basic, still reliable stuff. @Oversleep, your problem is assuming they did not create the magic systems and then using that assumption as proof they cannot interfere when if they did create the magic systems they would have much less reason to interfere. Ditto if the magic systems sprung into existence based on the Intent and/or their personality -- i.e. it would be something they would like.

Can we be sure of that? We talk about Hoid using Yolish Lightweaving on Roshar, not Rosharan Lightweaving, so why would Nightblood's bonding process change on Roshar?

Endowment seems to have more influence. And Ruin and Preservation created Scadrial. We don't even know where Feruchemy came from. And Leras created Lerasium, which turns someone into an Allomancer. It does seem like the more invested they are, the less control they have, but I don't think it's as clear cut as you make it out to be.

Not sure how this impacts the wavelength idea, but black is the color of mixed investiture. Hmm, speaking of that, black was ruins color as well, and wouldn't black be the absence of light, so no wavelength? Wavelengths seem like an okay metaphor, but not sure if it really fits.

Nitpick: we don't know if that's the case. There are those that think Nale is insane like many of the Heralds appear to be, and thus is not really a Skybreaker anymore. We also do not know if Szeth bonded with Nightblood, and if he did, if that would make him a KR (e.g. what surges does it offer, etc. -- not likely to conform to one of the KR orders).

Sorry, I left a "not" out. I agree that he used it at least part of it. The "protect it like my own skin" sounds a lot like an embedded metalmind. We know the bead made Elend more powerful than Vin (in terms of raw power -- Vin had the experience and brilliant instincts that offset that) so it seems plausible that burning half of the bead would still make him an Allomancer, just not as powerful. With that said, could a feruchemist tap the bead for allomancy?

There is a WoB that Khriss knows the most about the Cosmere, even more than Hoid, out of all the worldhoppers. Likely because she's the scholar and thus focused on learning/understanding.

Yeah, shardblades cut the CR (and IIRC Nightblood cuts all three).

After discovering Brandon because of the Wheel of Time, Warbreaker was the fist non-WoT novel of his I read because it was available online for free, though I bought the Kindle version before I finished it for the better reading experience. Lightson is my favorite, probably because of the sacrifice he makes at the end, and then Vasher. Now I own a copy of everything Brandon has published as an eBook (so glad Alcatraz was re-released).

Hoid is so punny, or so I Jesk!

It's been a very long time since I read Warbreaker -- is it possible for one person to bond with Nightblood and then loan it to another to use? In other words, could Nale have bonded Nightbloood and that's why Szeth doesn't feel anything?

There's a WoB on it. I was just looking at it the other day trying to track down if he ever said if they were native to Roshar. The other form looks very different, possibly not even humanoid.

Yeah, but Brandon also doesn't like the deas ex machina feel that can generate. Hoid is one thing, but it looks like Nightblood is going to be more crucial to the story, and assumign that's true, I expect there to be more information given to readers. Another possibility is to rebrand Warbreaker as a companion novel to SA.

There's the speculation that he burned half the bead to get the allomancy (and has the other half for feruchemy) so I do Edit: not think we can assume he achieved allomancy without it. Edit: Sigzil helped Kal out a lot. If Hoid knew/had hints he was a proto-radiant maybe Sigzil was in BridgeFour on purpose? Though that's a risky place to be.

Ah! That makes sense!! Thanks!!