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He gets more experienced/gains more gems to store light most likely. I don't really know how he does it, but he casually destroys multiple full shardbearers in WoR when he was fighting evenly with one in the WoK prologue, so i think we can assume he gets stronger/better/more experienced

Szeth did not display much enhanced speed at that point. I think most people agree that he got a lot stronger between the prologue and the main timeline, since by WoK he is easily dismantling 3 shardbearers and a small army, while in the prologue he had a lot of trouble with one shardbearer. Besides, Kaladin vastly outpaces several shardbearers during the arena fight, and even then he was limiting himself so no one could see his stormlight. Pewter burners could probably do so too, since pewter seems to grant similar boosts of strength and speed

1. We kind of do know that thugs are faster than shardbearers. Thugs consistently blitz normal humans. Shardplate users have zero speed showings. Shardplate makes one stronger, but it doesn't enhance reflexes the way pewter does. 2. But we don't have evidence of them doing it without getting slaughtered themselves. In the batle of Luthadel, the humans held the wall and had months of preparation, but they still managed to kill only about a third of the numbers they themselves lost. Against Cett's army, horribly outnumbered and outflanked koloss killed four times their number. 3. Pewter users are fast enough to dodge normal human blows, so they can probably avoid one or two swings before they die. Kaladin does it even before he gets stormlight. With stormlight he outpaces them with ease. 4. Parshendi have no reach compared to koloss and koloss fight a lot more spread out than parshendi because of their reach and size. The shardbearers wouldn't be able to kill them as quickly because koloss fight relatively spread apart. Koloss are also much faster than Parshendi and multiple orders of magnitude stronger. Remember that Adolin and Dalinar had taken massive damage to their plate after the Tower battle. If they had been fighting koloss, the half that number of blows would have destroyed their plate almost completely.

Even in this scenario numbers and allomancy might give scadrial the win

Remember when Dalinar punched Elkohar in the chest 3 times to break his armor? I think Koloss will break shardplate just fine. Each knight radiant is worth MAYBE 50 koloss. Even with the hundred-odd shardbearers, they won't be able to put a dent in the Koloss army

The Tower would be a nice map imo.

I was just listing several potential combos. Obviously cant use all of them but just the 1st+3rd seems hopelessly overpowered

Windrunning+iron compounding? Soulcasting metals in your stomach to become whatever one you need? Sucking in stormlight in a highstorm and storing the resulting speed and strength with feruchemy? Roshar+Scadrial any day

Cut his spine with a shardblade. I'm actually not sure that would kill him given what happened to Szeth at the end of WoR, but unless F-Gold is a lot more broken than we've seen, I don't think it will heal him from shardblade autokills.

Brandon hasn't killed anyone of importance in the current Stormlight timeline except Sadeas. My only issue with Words of Radiance was how Brandon pretended to kill Jasnah and deus-ex-machina'd his way out of Szeth's death. He'll probably make up for it by having a suitable number of beloved main characters (I guarantee Kaladangst will be dead by stormlight 5) die off in heartbreaking ways.

Not sure i should be talking since i was the thread creator, but my favorite is Raidriar from Infinity Blade: Redemption since Brandon seemed to be building up to it for the whole book and it was so packed with emotion.

One of my favorite things about Brandon is how well he does his character deaths. He always leads up to them so well! I was even kind of mad that Kelsier survived cause I felt like Brandon does death sequences and aftermaths so well and other authors like to make their characters survive everything. Anyway, after reading the two cheat-death instances in Words of Radiance I was kind of pissed and decided to make this thread. What is your favorite Sanderson-written death, and why?

you could lash a huge rock into the sky and lash it back down over and over again

Denth was such a badass i have to go with him

If the Final Empire has a population of eighty million, that's 800,000 coinshots, 800,000 thugs, and 1,600,000 emotional allomancers. Even if an eighth or less decide to fight, they outnumber the radiants fifty to one or better.

Could the sphere allow someone to pick up Honor, like the sphere from Secret History did for Preservation?

btw I personally think shadowdays Roshar is not much better than current Roshar for handling the Final Empire. They have inferior battle tech and WAAAYYY less people since Desolations would slaughter them every few centuries. The only advantage they have is the Radiants, and even they will die horribly when swarmed by soldiers with longer reach that them and weapons heavy enough to shatter their plate relatively quickly(koloss).

the non-flying radiants will lose to koloss badly, and the scadrian numbers and battle tech are far greatrr than shadowdays roshar

Oh I just found it. You have to remember though that there were barely any bondsmiths and several other orders were probably small as well

How was it 2 orders? I don't remember reading that. Could you give me a quote so i can look it up in my ebook?

And House Venture has ~100 mistings by itself. With 10 great houses in Luthadel, that's 700+ mistings along with probably thousands more from the rest of the Empire. Venture also has at least 2 mistborn, probably more ("it wasn't one of ours"). The hundred-odd mistborn along with thousands upon thousands of mistings are going to overwhelm the Radiants in this one imo

2 of 10? I thought it was either 9 of 10 or 10 of 10, depending on what the skybreakers did

You would be able to push yourself at an extremely shallow angle because you would feel like you were falling slowly. I assume normal coinshots push themselves at about a 45 degree angle. Well with steelrunning you could push yourself at a 10 degree angle at higher speeds because you have the reflexes to deal with higher speeds and a slimmer margin of error