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36 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

I think it's pretty confirmed now that Compounding copper lets you multiply memories. The proof is the coin from the end of BoM. Unless Sovereign just randomly gets rid of his memories by storing them in coins...

We don't know how special that coin was. It could very well have been one of a kind. I don't think it was, but I think it's too early to say it's confirmed.

3 hours ago, Exalted Dungeon Master said:

i think there was something about being able to retain memories in your head and copy them to a coppermind at the same time.

Probably not this, since compounding amplifies the tapping effect (in this case retrieving of memories), rather than the storing one. But yeah, there have been theories about copper compounding being used to copy memories in some way.

My theory on this is that a "Lashing" isn't necessarily a built-in unit within the magic system, but rather a very natural unit for both the Surgebinder and Reader to think in. I'm not sure if that holds up completely, because as Yata mentioned, what you're doing is changing your Connection to the planet. I still like that way of thinking though, so I dunno.

I've played a lot of Rogue Legacy in the last few days. It's fun, but I'm also very bad at it... I can barely get the first bonus boss (where you are set to level 0 and all that) down to like 2/3 health...

I also started a playthrough of Final Fantasy X where I'm taking all the characters through the wrong paths (Yuna is going through Tidus' path and vice versa, etc). Surprisingly, I'm slightly underpowered. Who knew?

5 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said:

The God kings were all infant returneds brought to the court in secret in order to make the people believe that the current God King had a child. Susebron's mother is probably the previous God King's wife or someone selected by the priests to raise him.

Not all of them. Some were actually the real children of the previous God King - that is why the priests were so intent on Siri getting pregnant quickly. I think that's in the Warbreaker annotations. Susebron's mother was probably his biological mother, and the previous God King and his wife lived out their lives on a secluded island (iirc). I'll see if I can find the right annotations.

Edit: Here:

http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-warbreaker-chapter-forty-four/

http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-warbreaker-chapter-fifty-five/

6 hours ago, youperguy2 said:

Oops. I meant  Truthwatcher. Sorry my mind slipped. Thanks for all of the responses. Do you all think we will see more of Stump?

I think so. I'm not sure if she wants to go join the Radiants at Urithiru, but her spren might convince her once she realizes a Desolation is coming. Even more likely to happen now that Nale won't hunt Surgebinders anymore.

How does Soulcasting into fire work, since fire is a chemical process rather than an actual thing? Is the object changed into fuel and oxygen that react immediately? Is the object just the same, except set on fire?

On that note, can you decide the temperature of something you Soulcast?

The new year has arrived here. Spoiler alert: it's like 2016, but louder.

@Belzedar, careful with the spoilers. This is the Stormlight subforum, so all spoilers for other book series have to be hidden with spoiler tags.

1 minute ago, MadhavDeval said:

Didnt one of the 'voidbringers' illustrations look like a chasmfiend to adolin as well?

Yeah, but that could have just been the illustrator painting the scarriest thing they knew of. But maybe not.

We've already seen Thunderclasts (voidspren animating rock, in some way), and whatever those things Dalinar fought in his vision. They could possibly also fall under the Voidbringer category.

4 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said:

For instance, strawberries and chickens are actual animals in Shinovar

haaaang on a minute!

4 hours ago, William Holz said:

I don't find that very convincing.  Brandon has demonstrated that he's fully capable of creating animals that are clearly NOT Earth-related.  It looks more like he's deliberately planting seeds to me, especially with how specific some of the references are.

In Shinovar's case, I think they are deliberate, yes, but as a way of showing us that Shinovar is different, because it has all these species we think of as "normal". It may also be a clue to some connection to other planets (like Yolen) within the Cosmere. But not Earth.

2 minutes ago, GeneralStu said:

Are there limits to how fast a feruchemist can store an attribute?  If not a full feruchemist could tap steel for speed and store mass with iron to approach the speed of light through conservation of momentum.  My relativity physics isnt great so Im not sure if actual speed of light is attainable, but they could go pretty darn fast.

Yes, there is a lower bound to how much you can store, which limits how fast the Feruchemical charge is accumulated. Like, you can't have zero mass (actually the limit seems to be a tiny bit above zero, but we don't know where exactly), and if you store too much health you die. Speed is supposedly especially tricky to store, but we're not sure exactly why.

Mass changing like Feruchemists do isn't something our universe supports, so trying to figure out what would happen in a situation like this is... weird. But no, you would not be able to reach the speed of light, since you'd have to get rid of ALL of your rest mass for that to work. As I stated above, that isn't possible. And in fact, in our universe, anything with zero mass always moves at the speed of light (in vacuum (actually, out of vacuum too, kind of, but it wobbles other charges around it so it looks like it travels slower. physics is weird)), meaning that if a Feruchemist had zero mass, that would make all the particles that made up the person just fly off in random directions at the speed of light. That would not only kill the Feruchemist, but also leave a massive crater.

On 2016-12-24 at 8:53 AM, Yata said:

Mist snapped people for thousands of years, not only in the last days of the Ash World. Leras putted in place the whole system when He was still in full mind.

I suppose that's true. I still think the existence of Atium Mistings is a property of Ruin investing in the same world as Preservation, rather than something Leras did.

1 minute ago, Caevita said:

Thanks!  Also, oooh, they've got the spike there!  Seems I'm not the only one who doesn't know what it means though.

Yep. Could just be a reference to Hemalurgy, perhaps.

12 minutes ago, Caevita said:

Where'd you guys find that it was malatium?

Here: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Malatium or here: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Steel_alphabet

2 minutes ago, WeiryWriter said:

Part One: Malatium

Heh, just found that too, by accidentally noticing that The Eleventh Metal used the same symbol. Not sure how I missed that before...

3 minutes ago, The One Who Connects said:

Part 2: Kredik Shaw (on the Luthadel Map)

Wow, I never noticed you could view that as a Steel alphabet symbol If I ever noticed it before, I must have just seen it as the literal shape of the fortress.

The symbol for part five is Aon Ire in a Steel alphabet style.

Edit: Oh. and you didn't mention part six, but that one is Ettmetal/Harmonium.

1 minute ago, bleeder said:

I am thoroughly enjoying Moon. With the customization and depth, it's amazing.

But I have one question for you guys: is it "a-LOW-luh" or "a-LOH-lah"? 

Well, it's based on "Aloha", so... Like that. Whichever that one is.

Though I guess you could also follow whichever pronunciation they use in the anime. Whichever that one is.

9 hours ago, skaa said:

May I ask why you think so? The white hair and mischievous nature both point to Hoid. What made you think of Axies?

I guess there are interesting spren inside greatshells?

But everything points to Hoid, especially since he made comments about art.

11 minutes ago, robardin said:

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but doesn't Syl say a few things that suggest she has bonded a human in the past, and is starting to "remember" how things work in a "oh yeah, I've done it before and it's coming back to me now" kind of way, rather than Pattern or Wyndle talking like they're trying to remember what they were taught "on the other side" before bonding?

I think what she says is something like "I've helped men kill before", which does imply she is older than the Recreance, and has bonded people before, yes.

39 minutes ago, Yata said:

You may have right, but I think Sazed fixed the Snapping manipulation, so no more Seers once the old one died. About the Atium's use for Hemalurgy...it may be usefull but no very much. You have to want to store the specific attribute to performe Hemalurgy, therefore an Atium's spike isn't really very good. It was an huge help in the era1 when some of the 16 metals weren't avaliable, now you may craft spikes of every compatible metal

I think atium Mistings were created even without Preservation's intervention. At least we know that they were created long before the mists started snapping people. Seers are probably a direct side effect of Ruin being Invested in the planet together with Preservation.

I'd say it's likely atium Mistings are being born, but never find out which power they have - just like chromium Mistings among others, back in the ash era.

1 minute ago, BlackYeti said:

Which was why I made sure to point out that I was the person who asked: I saw his body language, facial expression, heard his tone of voice. There's a lot that simple text can't convey properly. It was over two years ago that I asked this now, but I still remember it very well. When I mentioned the name Kalad he was grinning.

I would agree that this isn't conclusive, but it was definitely the impression that he left me with.

Fair enough A lot gets lost in transcriptions, after all.

I guess the next question, if both really do come from Kalak, would be why Vasher used the name "Kalad" at all...

34 minutes ago, BlackYeti said:

That would be an in-world linguistic connection I think.

From the context of his answer (but not your question), it sounds more like he's talking about Vasher's connection to Roshar in general, rather than the name in particular...

On 12/18/2016 at 1:32 PM, AnanasSpren said:

@Zathoth For my fellow Cthulhu cultist, ofc

EDIT: Nvm on the mudkip front! though I still need a trading partner, everyling is asking for 'daries just for basic or slightly harder evolutions -.-

It's much easier to deposit your own Pokémon and wait, unfortunately. Version exclusives and rare Pokémon like Mareanie tend to go fast, and are easy to breed once you get a single one. Because of how ridiculous most GTS requests are, most fair trades tend to get accepted fairly quickly. Sometimes not though.

(On a completely unrelated note, does anyone want a Regenerator Mareanie with Haze? I have over two boxes.)

12 hours ago, A Budgie said:

If it isn't either of them, that raises the question of who/what else it could be.
No other characters have ever been depicted as 'Mist Spirits.' 

There is a deleted (and no longer canon) scene where mist spirits of other shards make an appearance.

Even if that scene is no longer canon, that could still be something shards from other planets are capable of.

Didn't the mist spirit stab someone? Preservation couldn't do that without help, from what we've seen.