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Long range weapons are always going to dominate. Coinshots in a modern city could probably easily beat a shardbearer since they could remain out of reach and shoot coins which could probably slowly damage the shardplate until it locks up. Guns would probably have a similar effectiveness against shardplate. A shardblade sword is fairly useless until you're in melee range and provide hardly any defense against bullets until then.

Not really, because then they could just remove blood toxins or replace blood. Wouldn't actually help with the issue of them bleeding out and you'd be spending a lot of time soulcasting to replenish. A flesh soulcaster who could repair the body would be a far better medic.

Maybe if you used hemalurgy to splice a bit of them into someone and it managed to hold in their children...

Not really. Stormlight is the power that the metals brought. What's filtering and shaping it within the surgebinder is something else. Past that the rest of the analogy is correct, with the mists being a more direct amount of a shard's power fueling them.

I disagree. That line by the Stormfather seems to be referring to the lot he threw in with Dalinar, that he had to bond with him and work with him, with the alternative being that Odium would win and he would be destroyed. Pattern's line seems to very strongly indicate that the Stormfather survived the event which killed many spren, which would've been the sundering of the bonds they held.

Probably because they were talking about an unbonded Sibling retreating from the world.

The gemstone archive seems to imply that it the Sibling had retreated before the Recreance, as the note saying goodbye to it was made by a Radiant. Furthermore, Pattern implies in WoR that the Stormfather was hurt by the Recreance, making it likely that he was the one bonded at the time.

He's generally right in that the power to tap comes from the nicrosil and that the iron part of the medallion is just convenience for a place to store. You make good points though.

There are likely 10 Voidbinding orders though. This makes more sense if we consider the system to just to be the result of Odium and possibly another Shard's investiture invested into Roshar or the Greater Roshar System and the number is an outgrowth of the planet not the Shard. WoBs spoilered for length.

Do you have a link to the WoB? I wasn't able to find it on Arcanum.

Yeah, and that's what the general Alethi society does at least. All small things are cremlings, all alcoholic drinks are wines, all birds are chickens. As far as they're concerned, all sentient investiture entities, including shards, would be spren. However, I'm pretty sure the scholars have better ways of classifying things that we haven't seen.

Rosharans would call him a spren because he's sentient and isn't nor wasn't biologically alive. For the greater Cosmere scholars, he wouldn't qualify as a spren.

Honestly, I wouldn't count Dahkor Monks as shapeshifters. What they're doing is alteration magic to induce specific changes to their bodies. It's extremely limited as far as we've seen and it requires an active process, to the point of possibly multiple monks working together to induce those changes.

Marasi didn't call Wax an expert, just that he had a passion for the Metallic Arts. Either way, we know that when it comes to nicrosil he's not an expert at all since we basically saw the sum of his knowledge presented to him by VenDell. On the other hand, Allik's agreement isn't much of an agreement, it feels more like saying that he's generally right. Allik hasn't really corrected Wax unless it was presented as a direct question, which the issue of years was presented as.

The creation of medallions somehow involve Duralumin Feruchemy. Give that there is no duralumin in the medallions, it is likely in my opinion that however it is using it goes beyond what we know of Duralumin Feruchemy, which frankly is practically nothing anyways. Brandon has mentioned previously that the medallions involve someway of connecting to the magic and tricking it by making it appear that you have certain spiritwebs parts that you don't actually have. Somehow the medallion are connecting to the wearer and inserting some ability to use the Metallic Arts, either nicrosil feruchemy if you think that they're tapping additional powers from the nicrosil, or the other powers if you think it's inserting the other powers directly from the nicrosilmind. Either way, we aware currently unaware of any aspect of the Metallic Arts which would allow someone to do this, but since it involves connection, Duralumin Feruchemy seems like a likely source.

The aluminum works as a sheath because aluminum, by default, resists investiture-based attempts to change it. As Nightblood is destroying objects by converting them to investiture, aluminum would be able to prevent that, thus restricting its power.

The point of spiking in specific places is to create a connection between the hemalurgic spike and the spiritweb, thereby merging the two and granting power. Therefore, it should be possible to artificially create the connection through other means and therefore subvert the specific spike placement that hemalurgy normally requires. Probably would be the same.

I mean, it is odd that it is investiture resistant, and as a result it's then odd that you can do things with it with the Metallic Arts.

You're assuming that lerasium metalminds work that way. As far as I'm aware, nothing has indicated that that is the case.

You're operating under the assumption that Wax knows what he's talking about, when in reality he's just speculating based on the information the kandra gave him before. It wouldn't be irrational for him to assume that the nicrosil has to be tapped because as far as he knows that's the only way to draw powers from metals. Anyhow, if you have issues with Cal's theory, don't drag them into other topics.

There would be a slight amplification is surgebinding ability, but that's it.

Not really. If the spren is healed, then it would have all the choice to bond or unbond someone based on how they're holding to the needed oaths.

He's not. The term was used to describe individual packets of the air. Also, if we look at the Ars Arcanum, it describes Cohesion and Tension as Strong and Soft Axial Interconnections, which is presumably based on axi. If we take axi to be some Rosharan term for atoms/molecules or something similar, then those descriptions make sense. Cohesion manipulates the strong atomic interconnections, the crystal lattices, while tension manipulates the soft atomic interconnections, the weaker intermolecular forces.

In that context your statement was still incorrect because allomancy is fueling itself from the substance of Preservation's being like his idea had silver fueling from the investiture of a shade's being.

It doesn't specify that Kalak will be the one who will soulcast bronze for them. Presumably it will be Battar or Shalash. Alternatively, either of them could lend their honorblade to Kalak so he could soulcast bronze.