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One thing I was wondering, is the mechanism of sand mastery actually involving moving the water in the body onto the sand?

And Kaladin brings up at one point that having no women he can depend on is an issue militarily, because it forces him to rely on other scribes. The actual text is: No mention of it saying that he had to read for the job. Chances are good though that he can anyways.

Can you explain your reasoning for how this would happen?

1) No, it's actually silver, not aluminium. 2) Becoming a shade on Threnody under specific conditions is as a result of ambient investiture from Adonalsium, not a shard's power. 3) No idea, but I doubt it. 4) The investiture for allomancy comes from Preservation, not the allomancer. Metal acts as a key to unlock the flow of power. Metal is the sole dependent on how long you can perform allomancy, investiture is not a factor. 5) I, personally, don't think the water from Taldain is invested, so no. If it were, then yes, you could possible draw the investiture for allomancy from it, except it would require a severe number of workarounds.

For everyone suggesting turning your bonded spren into a ranged weapon, do recall an important fact: Nahel bond requires proximity. In other words, if the bonded spren goes too far from the KR, the KR loses the powers they get from the Nahel Bond. Obviously, it wouldn't always be a problem, but in a combat setting it wouldn't be that wise unless you have a strong set of people defending you, presumably other KRs. Actually, the ranged weapon idea might not work at all since once the spren moves put of range it stops being a Shardblade, as it requires the KR in order to be physical as much as the KR requires the spren to surgebind.

Emerald makes sense since they needed the gems to soulcast food for the army.

EE-LAYN-trian? That does roll of the tongue a bit sideways.

Syl called the amount of stormlight dangerous because the Honorblade was literally feeding on Szeth's stormlight give him surgebinding abilities, similar to how Warbreaker In other words, if Kaladin and Szeth both started with the same amount stormlight internalized, and did the same lashes, and we assumed their consumption of stormlight with regards to surgebinding is the same (probably isn't), and they, in general, performed the same actions, Szeth would always run out of stormlight first because the honorblade would be consuming some of it, while Syl would not be (Or she would consuming it at a lower rate). What she said had nothing to do with a specific amount of stormlight being dangerous. The danger was the fact that you would run out of stormlight more quickly. Other than that, I don't think it has to do with perpendicularities. I doubt stormlight outside of a highstorm can remain long enough for a perpendicularity to form. The other issues is that a perpendicularity isn't a gateway between two locations, it's just a weakening between realms. The voidspren would already have to be on Roshar within the Cognitive Realm to be able to use the perpendicularity, but we already know that spren can manifest to within the physical realm without need for a perpendicularity.

The WoB just says Rosharans' investiture. Nothing to indicate whether it's ambient. Sounds more like innate investiture improving their physical, a very lower level compared to what stormlight does when drawn into the body.

In the Arcanum Unbounded there is a part of the White Sand Volume 1, along with a written form of that, and the written form reads well enough, so I don't think they're going to have a problem with eventually doing an audiobook version. However, they're probably going to wait until the whole book is completely released before they do.

Most feruchemical traits (physical strength, physical speed, mental speed, warmth, breath, alertness, wakefulness, etc) are not investiture. However, when you create a metalmind by storing those elements, the metalmind becomes charged with investiture. All feruchemical abilities result in stored investiture, in the sense of the metalmind, but you not all feruchemical abilities are storing investiture, in the sense of the attributes.

No. None one said it was. To reiterate, the question was basically, if you brought all 16 shards together, would you have something analogous to Adonalsium? Brandon is saying that isn't necessarily the case, and the Dor is an example of that. It was just used as an example of the fact that bringing two shards together doesn't necessarily give something that's more like adonalsium than the individual shards were before.

The example is in response to the question of whether bringing shards together would have a result which approaches Adonalsium, which the example and answer are saying is not what would necessarily. Brandon is saying the Dor is not like Adonalsium.

Very true. While it's true that reusing a specific concept can be boring, I don't think it's necessarily the concept which we should be evaluating, but rather, how it affects the story. I agree on your point, having Helaran return would provoke an interesting interaction with Shallan and the Ghostbloods, as well as bring the Skybreakers in to the greater story.

True, but I wouldn't have counedt Szeth on the same level as Jasnah or Helaran coming back to life since he was dead for barely any time at all. I guess his perceived death by Kaladin will be still have impact.

Who are the other two? Jasnah I know.

Yes. You need more force to accelerate yourself the same amount, and momentum shifts are harder as well. Feruchemy just changes your body enough to support the increased mass, but it doesn't strengthen you so that you can move at the same rate. Eventually you would reach a point where you wouldn't be strong enough to move yourself.

"Do you mean to say, that our civilization has now reached the point where we're hurling hostile universes at each other?" - Aristide, Implied Spaces A very good book, very interesting sci-fi. Has a nation of Fred referenced. All the Jacen Solo jokes at the start of each of Invincible's chapters were pretty fun, but also very bad jokes. Personally, my favorite is: "Which side of an ewok is the furriest? The outside." Overall, I have to say, Jacen Solo's arc was very interesting. I started with Legacy, then read Dark Nest, but finally getting to New Jedi Order just to see the YZ things that happened to him was fulfilling. Is the quote though referring to something specific that happened between them, or do you just mean it's a sad quote because of how they were and how things ended?

That would have to be one crazy hallucination considering how insane the plot of Cursed Child is. Note, I haven't read it, just the synopsis of Wikipedia, and that was enough for me to give it up. I approve of this idea.

Ah, okay. You said something about having an aligned theory when Yata posted his so I thought it was similar. I did see your topic though. One thing I have been wondering definitely is that. When Jasnah and Shallan both slip into the CR, like when Jasnah did the night of the feast, or Shallan did her times, what would an observer have seen? Would they have just seen her standing there, or would she have actually disappearing? I suppose the closest clue we have is Jasnah's observations of her shadow slipping around. Maybe that and other signs of the CR manifest as they cross between the realms.

Maybe it would tie into your "highstorms contain a perpendicularity" theory, whereby the shear amount of investiture in a highstorm weakens the boundaries between realms enough that soulcasting without gems is possible in the physical realm, because you can easily enough of yourself into the cognitive realm to make it happen without requiring a more complete transition where you actually see the cognitive realm. Edgedancer things.

Yes, but no Shard's power was responsible for the Shades on Threnody, intentionally, or unintentionally as a result of uncontrolled power left behind. They result from investiture from Adonalsium directly, left behind at some point pre-Shard. This has been confirmed by a WoB. Also, I disagree with the idea that simply being in an area will cause a shard to become invested in it. Investiture isn't that unstable when under a guiding mind. I believe that a shard chooses whether to invest or not, and can take back the power when they want as well, though that will usually have unfortunate consequences for whatever was existing on the investiture before. I do agree though that the reason why shards cannot easily leave an invested world is because doing so would leave an amount of their power behind. Your example about the mists is incorrect. The mists killing people was not the result of Leras loosing control of the mists, but rather Ati deliberately strengthening their snapping effect so that people would be afraid of them. People afraid of the mists would mean less mistings, which is what he wanted.

It's not necessarily about saying the first oath, but just emulating what it means. Chances are they had progressed the bonds to the first oath, giving them power over surges, but didn't have much control at that point, as they were just using unconsciously.

The short answer is probably because he's a hypocrite. The long answer is that he wasn't really worried about KRs generally, but more the unregulated bonding. He probably believed that he could regulate his skybreakers, thereby preventing whatever greater bond phase he referenced which would bring about the True Desolation. Also, they definitely didn't have Honorblades granting power over the Surge of Gravitation since both are accounted for: Jezerien's honorblade held by Kaladin and Nale's honorblade held by Nale.

It's possible that soulcasting in the physical realm is only possible when the stormlight is used from gems, and that the ability to soulcast whatever you want irrespective of gems requires you to venture into the cognitive realm, as we have seen. The main thought for this is that it just seems weird to me that you would be able to soulcast with stormlight both externally and internally, so I figure that it might be restriction on physical realm soulcasting in general, requiring the gems as the WoB seems to be implying.