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My thoughts exactly.

Someone commented on the Skyward that they heard M-Bot as Alan Tudyk and I love it

Further down on the shchrödinger's cat joke, M-Bot says, "the probability has collapsed in our favor" when he confirms Spensa is alive. I wasn't convinced until then, but I screamed at that moment. :3

I liked the hint for Smedry, though I admit a certain Threnodite word tripped me up for hue.

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Thank you for working on it! (Though, as it isn't urgent and is unnecessarily complicated, there's no need to delay more important things) The photo is from the Kaladin Album release party update on The Black Piper's Kickstarter. It seems to be official based on how it was one of the goals they promised and, as the caption reads, That's the only picture I could find, but it seems to be legit.

I've been obsessing over the glyphs page and I want to bring attention to the fact that Isaac Stewart and the Black Piper kind of officially released the Thath glyph, though I'm sure most people are aware. Also, is there doubt to how official it is? The rest of them apparently come from the books, so if clarification is needed, will it still be on the Coppermind page? If so, I'd like to bring attention to it... because I haven't figured out how to extract it from the picture, and the empty spot on the table is bothering me. Thanks!

You interrupted my lurking! I would like it because my cover has a microscopic tear and I must have complete perfection... at least, it probably does somewhere...

8/10: Just enough progress to avoid stagnation, imo... but still more than enough of everything that Sanderson books do best to make it enjoyable. I think my disappointment comes mostly from my ridiculous expectations, though there are, as shown in this thread, legitimate complaints. I think one point of agreement is that Brandon knows what he is doing, and knows how to make fans happy, so I think he's capable of uniting us on a 10 for future books. Don't stop the hype!

Wait, steel is almost automatically an end-positive feruchemical metal! Simply jumping up while storing weight, then coming down while tapping it already uses energy. In fact, steel might be the only one with an end-positive result. Potential energy from gravity seems to be the thing screwing it all up... Is it at all possible that gravity has an underlying system?'' EDIT: I meant iron, yes

What I assumed was that the bullet ended up ricocheting against itself, since part of it is going a different speed from the other. If it was only partially inside the bubble, the front would be going much slower/faster than the other side, and it would push and pull against itself in odd ways. I don't know what that would do with light, but I assume it would be much more free to pass through than solid metal.

How did I not think of that? You are significantly more brilliant than I am! Maybe they ARE still drawing from the shard... That's pretty much the go-to answer regardless of how it works. It makes you wonder how Brandon himself thinks about this.

I guess that explains it! Thanks! But NOW I'm curious what the shards think of their power being drained! It's not infinite...

This is my first topic... (hooray!) So if I'm overlooking something completely obvious, feel free to point it out. I think it would also be fun to add ideas from everyone. Stormlight Archive 1) Shardblade drop Shardblades have been summoned over extremely large distances with little or no effort. You think the command, and the shardblade appears. It presumably comes through shadesmar, based on how other things have been doing that and the fact that it's a (dead) spren. Now, what if you were to go to a VERY high place and summon your shardblade? The energy output would be greater than the input. You could even power a generator by repeatedly dropping a shardblade on it! Could this be draining some sort of energy resevoir from the cognitive realm... or is it draining power from the gemstones? If it needs stormlight, then the gemstones or the radiant could easily feed it that. 2) Antigravity lashing This has the same concept as #1; an object comes back down with more energy than it went up with. Say you were to do a reverse lashing of half an object's weight upwards. You then launched it somehow with a ton of energy. The object would go much higher than it normally would with the same amount of energy. However, when the stormlight ran out, the object would come plummeting back to the ground with more energy than it was sent up with. Yes, this uses stormlight, a type of investiture. However, if stormlight consumption is based on time, you could still have a higher energy output with a large enough force sending it upwards. This implies that there's a complex formula for how fast stormlight is consumed. 3) Spren = mass? Spren supposedly come from a thought. If a thought allows spren to be CREATED, and that said spren bonds with a radiant, and that spren takes a form of something, wouldn't it add mass to the world from a thought? You could generate mass (and therefore energy) by thinking! Granted, the thought takes some level of energy... but you could theoretically have a higher output. However, it's more likely that there's a very complicated process to spren and bonding that we just don't know about yet. Mistborn 1) Compounding You simply come out with more energy than you put in. That's very simple... Store the heat of a fireplace, turn it into the heat of a supernova! I've read another topic talking about how it can draw power from shards, so that's resolved. Warbreaker 1) Awakened breath consumption Awakening an object lets it run for a long time on a single breath. Awakening can convert breaths to kinetic energy. Apparently, awakened objects stop working eventually. Could this be using up the breath or the objects energy? Either way, would a harder task demand more of that energy source? If not, (which is less likely) you could make a monkey rapidly turn a crank for a very, very long time and convert very little breath into A LOT of energy. In that case, awakened objects probably use up breath or their stored energy based on how hard what they're doing is. 2) Color=Energy... Color is either pigment or the wavelength of light. It's almost garunteed to be pigment, as there are a bunch of problems with light. There's bound to be some problem with converting pigment to energy, but I don't know enough formulas to think of something. I want to know what you think! I need someone who knows what they're doing!