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Supposedly, but I was pretty sure he had died. I guess not.

No, it seems that previously when a Fused died during a Desolation. it was sent to Braize. Then the Heralds returned to Braize at the end of the Desolation to keep them there. There was also no Everstorm, it seems, in previous Desolations.

Like which assumptions? Either way, we're making these assumptions based on the information we have at hand. While we may be wrong, there's nothing wrong with coming up with ideas based on the information presented so far. Just continually waiting for information before speculating means that we'll probably never make any speculations since at what point will we have enough to come up with an idea?

The massive amounts of investiture that Vin took up was, as I've stated previously, incomparable to the amount obtained from compounding. You would probably need someone compounding for centuries or even millennia to even obtain that amount of investiture. Either way, as Calderis said, that power would then dissipate like a normal feruchemical charge leaving behind changes on the body as it wouldn't have been designed to do what the Well of Ascension did to Vin and Rashek. Additionally, in their case, that power still wasn't permanently trapped in them, but dissipated rapidly, returning to Preservation, leaving slight traces. Overall, neither allomancy nor feruchemy, in their base states, are designed to cause permanent changes to a person. While such changes can be achieved, such as in Spook's case with savantism, it took a long time and it seems likely that the actual changes were caused by a little amount of investiture remaining in the body. To permanently bind investiture obtained through either art into a person would require some sort of hacks to one of both system, and either way, as Calderis pointed out, would probably damage or destroy the body. The only way that we know of to permanently keep investiture from allomancy or feruchemy is in a metalmind.

Maybe. But I don't think it would ever be possible for allomancy to ever take enough investiture from Preservation to cause a significant enough loss of power that another shard could take advantage of. This would be a plan which wouldn't require tens, if not hundreds, of generations, to accomplish. Even if you had a unlimited amount of time, I think the amount of metal which that would be required would become a constraint. Metal to burn to continue drawing power, and metal to store in, which would eventually start taking up room, another constraint, would make this unfeasible. The costs of this would beggar the Set, no matter how much money they have. Creating another fullborn, or multiple, wouldn't help this succeed. While a stronger allomancer would draw investiture more quickly, that's still a small increase on an insignificant amount, even if you had them burning all 16 metals at once, and then money would still be an issue. I think the reason why the part of Ruin's investiture which formed atium didn't return to him when burnt is because it was still separated from him, and it returned to separated portion that Preservation had made, and was forming the atium in the first place. He needed the atium to re-integrate that investiture back into his greater part.

Yeah, I was agreeing with you. I don't think Leyrann was saying the names were absolute, just the intents were, hence him not bringing up names in his post. I think he just misinterpreted what you said by "shape the shard's intent," thinking that you thought that the shard's intent could be changed.

The names given to the shards currently appear to be largely based upon the interpretations of the vessels. At their core, each shard embodies an unmutable concept, but as Leyrann said, that concept can be interpreted and applied different by different vessels, giving rise to the different names we see. For instance, Harmony is just based on how Sazed is currently interpreting the shards of Ruin and Preservation together, but it could've had another name if his interpretation of their base concepts (probably Discord.)

It's possible, but it seems like heredity of hemalurgically-granted traits is somewhat rarer than heredity of other traits. Personally I doubt it would be possible to burn enough metal to actually cause a non-negligible change on Preservation's power. This would be analogue to people being born with breath on Nalthis impacting Endowment's power and I don't think that that's possible. Generally speaking, I think the amount of power that magic systems use is magnitudes upon magnitudes less than the total power of a shard, akin to trying to drain the oceans one cup at a time.

The Sleepless in the Kaza interlude didn't need to cover herself to pass as human. It seems the one in Edgedancer isn't a strong rule on the matter.

That is a somewhat good point, however the Unmade don't actually make for a good example, since they are not necessarily bound to follow the same intent as Odium. Therefore, they could be acting according to their own intent, which could be more related to other emotions, not just hatred, while Odium is just bound to hatred.

More accurately he probably is able to use a different light system which has similar functionality to Roshar's lightweaving. Either way, I wasn't just saying something into a void. There are two paraphrased WoBs on the matter and I think the second one is more accurate because it seems less like what people would get confused. So I guess you can deactivate your smug face.

It was a really good superhero movie. Definitely very well directed and the ending scene of the climax was beautiful. I have a couple of issues with the story though: At the start of the movie, the news broadcast playing said that it had been a week since the bombing in Civil War. Also, considering he's using the old suit in the entirety of Civil War, and the reference to Bucky in the middle, it's pretty much certain that it's after, also considering the speed at which the events of Civil War happened.

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The point of hemalurgy is that it's suppose to be massively complex. Also, I think that different bindpoints for one attribute have to change how it's applied somewhat, for what we've described to be possible.

I think it's that the spike location influence how the power is applied. So in Zane's case, a steel spike through the sternum granting him steel allomancy was influenced towards granting greater control over his pushing strength, while the steel spike through an inquisitor eye was influenced towards decreasing the lower limit of what they could push on, so they could see those trace metals.

The greatest weakness of surgebinding is that they run out of stormlight. Lack of fuel for the powers is not a weakness that just belongs to TLR. Additionally, I would say that the need for metals for allomancy is a far lesser weakness than the need for stormlight for surgebinding, because even when unused, stormlight will leak away, while metals can sit near indefinitely. Do you have a quote for abrasion creating gale force winds? It's not ringing any bells for me. It wasn't implied that strongly that KRs made the Shattered Plane. It's been considered that they did, as part of what pushed them to the Recreance because of that devastation coupled with Honor speaking of powers destroying Ashyn. Dropping aluminum spikes wouldn't really do anything, he can just step out of the way, or steelrun if need be. Also, that's operating under the assumption that Szeth would just randomly have a bunch of aluminum spikes, something which there would be no logical reason for him to have or think to use. Dropping Nightblood would be more effective here.

Terminal velocity would still occur as air resistance includes the force of having to physically push the particles out of the way. While abrasion could be used to remove friction, drag force due to pushing the particles out of the way would still occur, eventually thresholding your speed. It would have the benefit though that you wouldn't need to expend stormlight on healing yourself from the air friction.

Definitely not about the non-existent moon.

I disagree with your interpretation of that WoB. It's just saying that if someone spiked Spook during HoA, they couldn't take the changes that tin savantism caused and apply it to someone else. It doesn't say that, for instance, Spook couldn't have become a savant in the pewter allomancy power he had granted to him through hemalurgy.

I think there's more than enough to make a determination. I'm pretty sure surgebinding and voidbinding should be distinctly different in the effects they produce, as distinct as the differences between allomancy, feruchemy, and hemalurgy. While there are a few places where you could confuse someone using feruchemy with allomancy, it was fairly obvious in most parts with even a slight showing of the abilities which magic was the same. What the Fused are doing, which is so close to what we've seen of surgebinding, is more than likely surgebinding, as I find it highly doubtful that another magic system could create effects that overlap even slightly across multiple spheres. The only odd thing was that they seemed to accelerate at a different rate than Kaladin, but despite that everyone agreed that they performing basic lashings to fly. Likewise Szeth recognized that what they were doing was identical to what he had learned to do with surgebinding Abrasion, and the illusion performing how Shallan could. Nitpick on terminology. All surges are the same. voidbinding and surgebinding are just different means of manipulating the surges. Cal already covered the spren part.

The difference between good and bad are founded upon morality and perspective. I assume that when you're saying good/bad, you're actually meaning antagonistic and protagonistic with regards to the narrative and the main characters. Either way, to define voidbinding as an "evil" or twisted form of surgebinding is an inaccuracy I think. It wasn't designed by anything, but just formed from the power of one or more shards investing into the world. Either way, as it should be a completely different system, this means that it should have significantly different effects from surgebinding. However, as we have largely only seen the Fused act in ways which could be done with surgebinding, with the only significant difference being that they use voidlight instead of stormlight, the more likelier explanation is that they're surgebinding. This is then supported by us likely seeing Renarin voidbinding and manipulating the Surge of Illumination following the natural pairing of surges, in contrast to when we saw a Fused cloak itself in an illusion, in an identical way to how Shallan surgebinds the Illumination.

Probably a number. But remember the reasoning why he didn't want to do it, even though a lot of Bridge 4 was telling him to? He doesn't trust lighteyes, and with his history, that's not completely unjustified. Personally, while frustrating to watch, I find it makes sense for him to act that way, so it's not a flaw with the narrative pushing him in a certain direction just to create conflict. So overall, it's not annoying.

I mean, yes, it still happens. But generally speaking over the entire human species, selection for certain appearance traits has stopped occurring because appearance is no longer a dominating selector for reproduction.

I considered that, but the issue is that humans on Roshar haven't been around long enough for distinct morphologies to appear. Additionally, that kind of evolutionary trait doesn't seem like it would really be relevant in sapient species, as at that point they would usually stop selecting using just physical appearance.

Probably isn't one. Seems more like the product of magic screwing with someone's genetics, or the result of a hybrid with another humanoid species deep in the Thaylen ancestry. Maybe someone asked their god for snazzy eyebrows.