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Those controllers are tiny. with what looks like an awkward layout. Other than that, looks interesting as an idea.

Yeah, true. I forgot that the current inhabitants of Arelon aren't even native either, so that disproves the point further.

Maybe. Not sure myself. But I know for certain that a fair number of parts weren't in the original Hobbit book, like that goblin who chased them. I'm also fairly certain that the reason why they added more was to add drama, and extend a tiny book to 3 movies so that they could make more money. Overall, my point stands that it isn't an apt comparison, since most book-to-movie adaptations wouldn't have that much extra added to it.

Hoid can heal his soul, which is why he isn't worried about shardblades. He has a spiritual aspect like everyone else. Spiritual is what gives you things like sapience, magic and a host of other things, so not having it means you're dead, which is what happens when cut someone's spine with a shardblade. [Source]

Right angle triangles have a right angle.

The blade the man called Taln was holding at the end of WoK was not the blade that arrived with him in WoR. Re-check the descriptions of the blades, they're different. Read down here for WoBs on the matter.

Hobbit isn't a very good example at all when considering movie length when adapting from a book since they added an extra 75% to the story just so they could have 3 films and make lots of money. If they had stayed true it would've been easily one movie.

Nice WoB. I like that he even thinks that there's a fair possibility that Mistborn will get the greenlight first since I would definitely prefer to see that as a movie initially.

Your concerns mainly mirror mine. SA is way too ambition to start with, in my opinion. In addition, as you say, it isn't finished as a story. On the other hand, Mistborn would be a far superior choice. First of all, it's actually finished as a story. Secondly, it would be a lot easier to manage as a story, since it falls in a lot smaller of a scope, and would make for a good point to introduce people to the Cosmere stories, unlike a massive story like SA. Finally, I'm fairly certain that Brandon has said that he wrote Mistborn with a movie in mind, mainly regarding the action sequence. That is something I agree on when I read the fighting sequences. Also, for a fantasy/action/adventure genre movie, Mistborn fits a general audience more. The thing about Way of Kings, while it does have its fighting scenes, the conflict with the main characters is largely Character vs. Self, which while is interesting, would cut down on the audience a large bit, for people who want to see an action movie. tl;dr Mistborn would be a better start than SA. Finished story, less complex, and better suited as a movie.

Wow. Kaladin looks so evil on reverse contrast. Love it.

The only problem I see with the "Szeth will be Odium's Champion" idea is that it doesn't fit Szeth at all. As Nale even said, Szeth is basically honorable to the point of self-destruction. He didn't take orders and bring about death and destruction because he wanted it to occur. On the contrary, he did it because it was, to him, the only honorable thing he had left. He had basically been told by his peers and elders that his beliefs were incorrect and that the only way he could redeem himself would be to accept the oaths of a Truthless, which he did. Now that he has been released from those oaths, he can do what he thinks is honorable. From his thoughts, we can infer that he was forced to take the oaths of a Truthless because he tried to warn people that a Desolation was coming. As such, I think he does believe that preventing the mass destruction of a Desolation is the right way. While it is possible that his madness resulting from being caught between with oaths and the truth might've changed him, making him want to take vengeance on the Stone Shamans, I don't think this is the case. Under Nale's guidance, I think he will stay on the path of Honor, since that is what caused Nale to recruit him initially.

Don't think Dr. Strange is out where I am for another week.

I'm not a patient person.

Most likely, since Rashek became a sliver after he ascended.

Nale did say to Szeth that he would go and reclaim the other Honorblades from the Shin.

It's possible for someone to ascend using a shard's power while the actual shardholder is still alive. That's what happened to Rashek after all. As best as I can tell, drawing on the power of the Well of Ascension is the same as burning enough lerasium to ascend; equivalent amounts of Preservation's power. However, at that level, the power does dissipate back to Preservation, so you don't stay ascended for long. The main body of the power is still attached to the vessel, so I don't think there would be an actual contest over it, unless the ascended got a significant portion of it. But I honestly doubt that possibility. It's not like Rashek actually had a chance of pulling away the rest of Preservation's power and Preservation didn't even have the mind to resist it.

V4 E1 spoiler and impressions.

While it's true that we haven't seen much use of nicrosil feruchemy, all that we have seen is its usage in storing innate investiture related to the usage of manifestations of investiture. While this doesn't exclude the storage of kinetic investiture, like Stormlight as well, since it is described as the storage of investiture, feruchemy usually doesn't have that broad a definition of the attribute a branch stores. As such, I'm inclined towards it only storing innate investiture. From that, I'm inclined to believe that it can only store innate investiture related to using manifestations of investiture, since a more broad storing would, in essence, start coinciding with other branches of feruchemy, as I'm fairly certain that connection and identity are related to innate investiture as well. Also, Lift would need an unsealed unkeyed nicrosilmind in order to tap the ability to use nicrosil feruchemy so that she can store investiture. An unkeyed mind would be useless since she doesn't posseses the ability to tap nicrosil.

Do you mean Stormlight, not regular light?

Oh true, I forgot about that part. Scratch that then.

In theory, yes, providing you have metalminds which are lighter than a coin, in which case I'm not sure whether you could keep it up for long. Though, we really have no standard for how much feruchemical charge can be stored per volume of metal so there's no way of telling. Also, clothing would be an issue as well, as that would add to the counterweight. A similar idea though, a simpler variant on a line launcher, whereby you just remove the mechanism for winding it, just keeping the launching mechanism, and instead use iron feruchemy to pull yourself to the hook, or the hook back to the device. Once the hook gets close enough, a spring would just pull the last length in. Not sure how viable that would be though.

What do you mean by this? Using the nicrosil to gain chromium feruchemy to fill the chromiummind with calories? Or do you mean, literally filling the nicrosilmind with food? If the former, then yes, that would be possible. If the latter, no, because food isn't investiture. Gaining stormlight from calories is a one-way process which consumes the calories irreversibly. Also, it's debatable whether stormlight can be stored in a nicrosilmind, and I'm leaning towards it cannot be, based on what we've seen of nicrosil feruchemy.

I would love to. I hit the 50K word goal when I tried it 3 years ago, but I definitely don't have time now. A shame though, it was pretty interesting.

True, we don't know for certain. However, both Raoden and Galadon's opinion on the matter seem to be that you needed to be of Aonic descent in order to be visited by the Shaod. While their opinions obviously aren't that well informed, I think they would know enough. Passage:

WoB is only that it hasn't happened before and that commonly-held belief is that it isn't possible. Anything more direct on whether it is possible has been RAFOed.