Dracnor

Isn't the question you are coming to "relativly to what is mesured the movment of a spanreed" ? Remember, there is no such think as absolute movement. right now, relativly to the ground I'm not moving, but relativly to the sun I'm going at thousands of km/h. If the movment of a spanreed is measured relativly to the ground, then you can't use it in a vehicule - even in a ship (or else the other spanreed would have the same movement as the ship compared to the ground). I don't remember, doesn't jasnah uses a spanreed in her ship before her assassination ? If it's relativly to the sheet of paper, then they are no problems whatsoever to use it in a vehicule. Another funky one, inspired by navani's archers tower (cf book 1) and spanreeds. Take a cart, use fabrials to link its movment to another gem (upon activation, like a spanreed). Go in the cart with the gem. Activate the fabrial and move the gem in a straight line (eg by walking in the cart with the gem). What happens ?

This. It all comes to that, the song does not refer to Shards. It could be the Heralds, but iirc in oathrbinger Kaladin is described as a god by the singers (when Moash asks why some singers are doing slave labours, he's answered that they let an ennemy god in), so I'm inclined to believe that the gods are Radiants. Skybreakers or Dustbringers/Releasers are obvious culprits, if a whole bunch of them uses Division in the center of then-Natanatan (for example during the Recreance), the Shattered plains could be created.

My razor tells me that's its much easier to hypothesize this "we" as a royal/divine "we" : in panic, Odium stops playing the role of a loving grandfather and the deeper personnality speaks, the want-to-be god of cosmere. But yeah, if I'm right then that was a very good 17sharders-trap.

Yes and no. He wants to heal lifes no matter which life it is, and that seems indeed very edgedancerish. But on the other hand, he refuses to emphasize with his patients and remains detached, so that he won't be overwhelmed and can stay focused and efficient, and that's isn't very edgedancerish.

Iirc, Lift creates stromlight - Investiture - from food (or transforms it, anyway), and uses it tu fuel her surgebinding. But in allomancy, the row Investiture comes from Preservation himself, and the metal is just a "key" used to access this power (and specify which form it has to take ? I'm not sure what that key metaphor is supposed to explain, but that's what I remember). So I'm really not sure if stormlight could fuel allomancy, or if Lift could do it :/

Nah, i'd said that roshone will have changed for the best (he won't be a good guy, but will try to be decent) : that way, when he eventually dies, it will have more impact (just like Elhokar, or almost every jerk with a sad death in stories).

It's mentionned that using his power to infuse gemstones is exhausting though. And since Nightblood consumes Investiture faster and faster when being drown, I'm not sure that it's a viable as it looks (he might be absolutly exhausted before the end of a fight, and losing him would be a serious drawback). But yeah, a blade like Nightblood or Vivenna's blade (less dangerous for the user I think ?) is what Dalinar need to fight in the frontlines. That, or a Honorblade.

The ship won't move over ennemy territory without a windrunner escort... and windrunners are kind of a backup to exit people in emergency.

And Adolin is a trained fighter who can protect Shallan with conventionnal weapons, while Shallan doesn't really know how to fight. They really complement well for this task.

Moash... isn't emotionnally abusive or anthing like that. He sided with Odium, and tried to assassinated the king : that's all. He hasn't been cruel or anything. For Amaram, I'd say that we don't know enough. How was he with his subordinates ? With his friends of the Sons of Honor ? With Gavilar ? Etc. He did one awfull thing, but it seems that he geniully thought it was for the greater good, and 10ish lives for a greater good can seem not much. As he said to Dalinar, the plateau runs of every highprince were on a total different scale of horror (more death for a lesser cause). Honestly, I'm sure that in another context, dirtying your hands with10 lives for a greater good would be seen as a (dark) hero act. Gavilar is a threatening jerk with his wife. I want to punch him. But honestly... that's nothing compared to Sadeas who tried to let die thousands of soldiers after having promissed them his help, just to take power for himself (and he did all this while he was quite efficient at manipulating the king for his own needs). TLDR : I hate Gavilar the most, but the worst person is Sadeas

Specifically, powerfull Truths about yourself : "I stole candies" isn't enough. From Shallan's story, it looks like it's about coming in terms with you who really are, opposed to who you thought to be (or wished to be) and who the others think you are - and that's not easy at all, that's a part of therapy. But yeah, given her supposed toxic childhood environment she could very well have been subject to such Truths (maybe "Mother hates Father" could be one ? or that she's not loved by one of her parents ?). Childs are absolutely not as sane and balanced as we think they are.

I'm not so sure (I'll call Taravangian T for obvious laziness reasons) : 1) He's not uniting. He weakens to reign. I'd compare him to Gavilar : Gavilar "united" by military conquest, T "united" by political slaugther (and manipulation) - but none of those two lead to a true unity. Give time to the political class of Jah Keved to rebuild itself, and then he'll have to build a true unity (like Dalinar had and still has to do with the Alethi warlords/highprinces). Moreover, and the wider scale... he's not uniting men, he's abandonning the vast majority of them (by being a spy for the ennemy) so that a few can survive. Doesn't strike me as a Bondsmith thing. 2) We have a WoB that Cultivation is the one that made him this way. Furthermore, I'm not sure that being granted a wish by the Nightwatcher Connects yourself to her - or did I miss something ? 3) Odium said that he did this without Fortune, so we can assume that the "standard" way to foretell is Fortune. T seems to have done it with pure intelect (as I understand it, the world is deterministic, and T on his overgeniuses day used all of the info he had to compute the future states of the world). 4) Not sure about this one. Odium came to see T, but did it on a day where T was stupid and stated that he would not come when T is smarter. I'm not sure that was a negociation, even with the words of the diagram. But I'll grant you that he's in contact with Odium, and that could be usefull. 100% on you regarding the end of your message. Keeping non-radiant characters is important, especially in the Kholin family. I had seen a theory of Rlain becoming the third Bondsmith and creating a third faction (the Parsh and sprens that are not with Odium but resent humanity for all they did), and that stroke me as a very good potential plot (and character) development.

The issues with excluded middle (or proof by contradiction, they're logically equivalent) are that : 1) They are often used to show that an object exists without ever describing it (just saying that it exists because it cannot not exist). This is an issue when you want to use the object. It can be especially annoying for (fundamental) computer sciencist. I won't go into details, but you can show that programming and proving are the same thing. Thus, using the contradiction to prove something is like telling that "there is a program that solves your problem, because it cannot not exists. But I haven't the faintest clue about what it looks like". 2) Many, many proofs using contradiction can be rewritten without it. Sometimes it's painfull, somestimes it's not. But using contradiction makes us not even consider the possibility that we could do it, and as I've said in 1) a proof not using the contradiction is often a much more usefull (and informative) proof. Well, one could argue that math were made to describe the universe, so it's only logical that the universe can be expressed in math terms. On the other hand, if you consided maths to be the propostions that logically derives from a set of axioms, then maths is very little knowledge : you "know" that those axioms leads to those properties, but that's no knowledge at all regarding our reality. It's just formal logics. (But that's a debate regarding what is truth, not so much about maths ^^) Well... we are peer-reviewing maths articles, and that's for a reason . The issue with formal proof is that it allows only for very small "steps" in a proof (if masochist curious, you can google first order logic). In almost every proof you've written in your life, you skipped or merged many of those steps. And that's the right thing to do (if you want to write every small steps, you use a proof assistant like Coq, so that the machine can check you proof - because almost no human will like such a proof) ! But it can also lead to some proofs we thougt were right being discovered wrong many years later - that's what happened to the four colors theorem for exemple : in 1859, Kempe thougt he had a correct proof, it was considered as such during ten years, and then proven wrong by someone else. (Yeah, I'm kind of a math addict ^^)

Edit : Dunkum already told everything I'm telling in this reply, but I had somehow skipped over his answer. Thanks Quantus ! The article on the terminal velocity helped a lot =) . It's interesting to notice that in the terminal velocity, there is a sqrt(g) factor. So using multiple lashings to go faster is indeed credible (e.g. going from a simple lashing to a double lashing multplies your top speed by 1.4, and more generally using n lashings instead of one multplies the top speed by sqrt(n) - I probably should plot the graph of how much speed you gain going from n to n+1 lashings, it would be pretty and informative). (By the way, it's funny to notice that Roshar weaker gravity field (compared to earth) implies that one lashing on roshar grants you less speed than a fall on earth.) A physicist also pointed out to me that the friction could be entirely counterbalanced by the thermic losses due to the wind : he'll try to compute that.

Okay, thank you very much sir ! Just for the sake of my curiosity, do you have any reference formally explaning the physics (and equations) besides it ?

Elsecaller (67%) Truthwatcher (55%) Willshaper (54%) The willshaper is a surprise, the rest not su much (I'm just a bit surprised I didn't get more of Elsecaller).

I've done additionnal research since a friend pointed to me that parachuting first involves a free fall phase. They don't need heat shields or equivalent. However, the free-fall of a parachutist is much shorter than what Kaladin can achieve (the world record of free fall is around 5 minutes, and they had a special suit - but I don't know if that was for friction or cold or oxygen or something else), and it is a fall done at only 1G. 5 Lashings in a direction give you 5 to 6G of acceleration... that's not the same buisness. Also, in that world record of freefall, the sound barrier was actually broken so... does Kaladin breaks it too ? Oh, nicely seen. Also,it's funny that in the case of air, two surges can manipulate friction : Adhesion (pressure, which is exactly what is friction : a lot of collisions with air molecules), and Friction (obviously, though I don't know how it works at molecular levels - probably just magic). In fact, that's true forevery fluid (if you assume that Adhesion can manipulate any fluid pression, which is a big assumption indeed).

Hello, I've looked up for this question in the forum, but failed to find a subject that adressed it. If there is one, or a WoB, I'd be glad to How can a Winrunner use the First lashing for a long time without burning because of friction ? For example, Kaladin flew the entire way from the warcamps to the center of the shattered plains, using multiple lashing. But "flying" isn't the right verb : it's "falling". And falling in air causes friction, a lot of it... especially if you fall at four or five time the normal acceleration (because of multiple lashings). So... how are they not burning ? You could argue that they are continually healing themselves with stormlight but... what about their clothes then ?

Hello, A friend of mine wrote a LARP inspired from the universe of Mistborn. One of the characters is a Soother with this strange ability to read emotions of peoples in addition to soothing them. Of course, this isn't possible for a normal soother in Mistborn; Breeze or his narration says a couple time that soothing isn't mind-reading and that a good Soother is someone with a good enough knowledge of human behaviour to guess the emotions of their targets. I started to wonder : would it be possible to create this emotion-reading ability in Mistborn ? Hemallurgy seems like the perfect tool, but how to use it ? Which trait must be stolen, and to whom ? Or is it definitely impossible ? Any ideas ?

I see it as the consequence of resurection: you think yourself as a god, so as immortal, and with proofs that you are (eh, you came back from the dead!) so your Spiritual isn't inclined to make you age. But it seems far to easy, and you could answer that if it was the explenation, then why didn't it worked on TLR? Hum...

Granted. You now are a Bendalloy Misting. As your bane, you developp a severe allergy against Bendalloy, a fatal one to be clear. I wish for an canon lovestry between Hoid and Kelsier!

Since he's a soldier, moreover the Blackthorn himself, the surprise would be him not being ambidextrous...

And get killed by the first pewterarm/coinshot you meet

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Eh, he has cleaned it. You're being unfair!