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Yes, it's multiplications, which is not only hard to calculate, but makes little sense as End-Neutral. Consider. You store half your speed so you're at 50%. However, when you tap that, you're doubled, so at 200%. You've lost 50% to gain 100%. Can someone explain that?

Really? I thought it didn't. If you double your speed for one hour or quadruple for half an hour, you're still gaining the same net multiplication. Also, regarding relative age with time bubbles. It would be easier to test it with cadmium so I wouldn't be surprised if someone had at some point."

And how is that a problem? From your perspective they'd be standing still and from theirs you would a bunch of blurs, providing you were all moving a bit. I mean, yes, with the bendalloy bubble you would still be faster so all you would be doing is saving cadmium, which is cheap anyways.

I believe it was when he was talking to Wax in the carriage. For the first time that book.

SoS talked about his abilities to speak to minds.

True. Hard to say really. In any case, why do you say that tapping a lot of speed at once destroys some time?

But if you leave the cadmium bubble up, they'll be in slower time, so you'll have a lot of time to figure out how much danger you'll be in. In any case, you'll always be in danger of getting shot.

The question is whether the temporal powers actually affect your relative age or whether the magic auto-compensates to keep you relatively the same age. It's just that I feel like Wayne uses bendalloy a fair bit, but no one comments on him looking older than he should.

It's more a WoB that he can regenerate really well, which does effectively translate to a fairly hard non-age immortality. That doesn't translate to him having an age-related immortality, though we do have the other WoB as you say.

That's what I'm saying. The spren caused the leakage, not the surgebinding. Szeth wasn't bonded to anything, he just held an honorblade. But if we had seen him leak into Shadesmare, then we would know it was more the surgebinding and less the spren.

Manipulation the transformation surge seems to closely involve Shadesmar as well. Manipulation of any surge by a surgebinding probably approaches them to the Cognitive realm because of the spren they are bonded to. We never saw any mention of Szeth leaking into Shadesmar, though we may not have had enough of his parts to see.

Interesting thought. However, since Clod is Arsteel, who was one of the Five Scholars with Denth and Vasher, it implies that Jewel has known Denth for a very long time. As such, I don't think she would be prone to betraying him. Regarding the security phrase, Jewel probably just completely underestimated Vivenna. We know that she had a fairly shallow opinion of her, so I'm not surprised she was a bit careless. Also, since Vivenna was from Idris, Jewel might've thought she didn't know anything about lifeless and wouldn't have recognized the command. Finally, I think that Jewel was whispering (IIRC), so she didn't expect it to be overheard.

Hero of Ages

That's probably right. Also, yet another WoB (because I love them) that Skaze and Seons are somewhat aware of what they are. I feel like if they were intentional splinters, then Dominion and Devotion would've left them with a bit more information. Also, another WoB which talks about the skaze and seons being sort of like release valves for the Dor. Makes me think that they are basically unintentional leakages or pressure bursts from the Dor into the physical realm.

I see. Fair points. Thank you for your correction regarding Spiritual DNA. I had forgotten the details mentioned in Emperor's Soul. Also, thanks for the detail regarding the location of the Dor. The thing is, my thoughts are that while the lerasium does grant him the power to manipulate his spiritweb as he desires, I don't think he knows about the nuances required to be in the spiritweb to be an Elantrian. My opinion on needing to return to Sel is based in the fact that he needs to go there to correctly identify what changes to his spiritweb he needs to make. It is possible that he did correctly determine what changes needed to be made 1000ish years ago, but just didn't know the correct method of applying them at that time. My logic on returning to Sel had nothing to do with actually using the power. I just don't think becoming an Elantrian is as simple as swapping some connections in your spiritweb which are labelled "Elantrian == False". I think he needs to actually study the Dor, which, as you say, is location-based because it is in the cognitive realm, and also possibly study an Elantrian to determine the configuration of their spiritweb. I do admit though that I didn't think about making the changes to make it able to access the Dor away from Elantris. Regarding my spoiler comment. I wasn't actually sarcasm, though I don't think you'll believe me when I say it. I did mean it to be criticism regarding how you are posting theories since you clearly have a lot of great ideas you want to spread to other people. You are correct though that I am a critical person, and a part of that is applying fairly hard limits between more serious discussions and humorous ones. The thing though, is that for something to make sense, you have to post your reasoning to how you reached your conclusion. Otherwise, people just see an idea with few logical points of reaching it. Take your hemalurgy and Roshar threads for example. I honestly had little idea of how your theories made sense, because there was little explaining the logical progressions you made to get there. That's where the evidence comes in as well. The spoilers were because the comments weren't relevant to the topic, and because I didn't want you to read something you perceived as an insult. I didn't right those to be insulting, though the first one was edged, I admit, because I hadn't yet explained why I didn't really consider your theories to be theories, though I didn't vaguely state it earlier. I'm sorry for any emotional damages I may have caused. I won't do anything of the sort again to you.

Bit late but I'd like to weigh in. I think the Ars Arcanum, and other mentions of nicrosil feruchemy, is misleading. It seems to me, based on what we've seen so far, that nicrosil is not about storing investiture (which, technically, you're doing with every metalmind. You're investing into it when you're storing), but rather, it stores the ability to use manifestations of investiture.

Why would you drop the cadmium bubble? It would just increase the chances the bullet misses you since it would deflect 10 feet away, then deflect another 5 feet away assuming it manages to hit the bendalloy bubble.

It might be hard to parlay though. The slow time would probably screw with sound movement and the distortions at the edges might interfere with signs, especially when they're half a room length away. Unless you have really big font of course. That would still result in slow parlaying. Honestly, I would just do this and laugh when the enemies charge and get stuck in the slow time. Of course it would be tricky getting away again, but would be funny.

Yes, I understand. I'm aware of what you're talking about. I not saying that the worlds are requiring metals/symbols/spren/whatever for the magics, I'm saying that those aspects of the magics are influenced by their respective world in a similar way that shards influence the magics their investiture cause. I'm not talking about how the magic is used, I'm talking about base concepts which are a part of its formation. If you're dying I'm wrong though, then are you saying that the magics of Scadrial being related to metals and the magics of Sel being related to symbols is just a coincidence?

WoB that there is a limit on storing speed. The thing about Sazed perceiving things, is that he didn't just see others being a lot faster when storing. He also perceived that his body was moving a lot more slowly than how his mind was expecting it to move. This indicates to me that there is a disconnect between the time change of his body and his mind.

Well perhaps focus was the wrong term The One Who Connects used. I'm talking more about a general concept of Manifestations of Investiture. Like, Roshar makes it so that any magic involves a spren bonding to something, usually non-physically, but sometimes physically as well. Similarity, all magics on Sel use a symbology in them as a result of Sel, and magics on Scadrial use metals.

You wouldn't actually need a nicrosil metalmind in particular. Any metalmind would do, heir charge is investiture which Nightblood could feed on. Nicrosil, I've been feeling recently, is more about storing the ability to use investiture and invest.

Awakener's thought: You will be a bow which fires on its own. Stick: I am stick.

Theory. It has been stated that Nightblood annihilates an entity on all realms of realmatic theory. I theorizes that if you took Nightblood to Threnody, you could make a fortune removing shades, providing you have enough investiture to power it. Or just find naive saps to wield Nightblood for you.

My issue with the time-modulation theory is that how Sazed perceives his movements is different from how someone in a time bubble perceives their movements compared to the inside and outside of the time bubble. Sazed describes how he feels like he is moving more slowly. This indicates that his mental processing power is still operating at the same pace, more or less, or at least, faster than his physical movements relatively when compared to when he's not storing speed. On the other hand, when Wax is in a time bubble, he feels like he is moving and thinking as normal, but outside the bubble, everything is really slow or really fast. While you could argue that there is the different because Wax is in the bubble with an environment to compare to, but I don't think that would change things. In any case, I think the time theory could only make sense is if the time is being altered to a lesser degree on his mind than on his body. Actually... that makes sense. Just had a breakthrough when I was writing this. Time bubbles change time for someone's spiritual, cognitive and physical. On the other hand, Zinc only modulates time around your cognitive while steel modulates time around your physical. And changing time does make sense for Zinc. If you're thinking a lot more quickly than normal, you have the time to make the connections and leaps you wouldn't normally have had time to make. I like this theory. (y)