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Plus when they invent Kevlar they can just put someone in a SWAT suit and have them curl up into a ball to minimise the target if they want to check how bullets going INTO a bubble would be deflected. ^^

Kelsier x 3 Tonk Fah x 1 Demoux x 1

Could a Spren become a Vessel?

Kaladin x 3 Suit x 1 Sequence x 1

Ah, I should have guessed it had been RAFOed already... Whoopsie! ^^; Hmmm... How did Trell create a Godmetal at all? I'm sure we have a WOB saying that can only occur when a Shard Invests heavily in Scadrial....

What attribute(s) would a Hemalurgic spike made of Lerasium steal?

Zane x 1 Miles Hundredlives x 1 Raoden x 1 Eshonai x 1 Sixth of the Dusk x 1 Tried to think of some fun, awesome ones I liked that nobody else had suggested yet

This is cheating a lil bit since it's a Ferring rather than a Misting, but a Zinc Ferring for intuitive leaps of thought and logic would make a Sherlock Holmes esque private detective ^-^

What would a Highstorm look like in the Cognitive Realm?

So we've seen that Shallan can push Stormlight into Pattern with at least somewhat of an effort, which caused him to be able to interact with her Lightweaving and stick the illusion to him. We don't see any Spren become infused with Stormlight anywhere else however, which makes me wonder what effects it may have had... did it heal some of Pattern's memories the way it would heal Kaladin's broken bones?

This has been in my head for a while, and I keep forgetting to post it, so hopefully it'll not be as rambling as I worry it will be xD Forgive me if this has already been speculated/shot down elsewhere! So, Brandon has been rather close lipped on the origins of Shardplate, if Kaladin is going to get his own, and we've theorised all kinds of things, like the Plate being made of non-sentient Spren locked into Plate forn the same way Spren are locked into non-living Shardblades... My thought/random theory is this. When a Radiant reaches the final Ideal of their Order, or progresses far enough, they create their own Shardplate... but through Stormlight manipulation. "But Rawrbert, you crazy, mad, lovable, handsome fool," I hear you say, "What would make you think that? Shardplate has to be more than just hardened Stormlight!" Well, you flattering reader, let me explain my way of thinking. We've seen Shallan can dim the Stormlight from her skin to blackness, and we've seen that as a Radiant progresses through their Ideals that holding and using Stormlight and Surges becomes easier and more natural to them. And from what I recall from Dalinar's visions, when he was fighting with and saw Radiants in their prime, their Shardplate glowed at the joints with inner light correspondending to their Order. What we DIDN'T see... was their skin glowing. At no point (Unless I'm recalling incorrectly, as I don't have the book in frony of me at the moment.) does Dalinar mention that the Radiants he sees' skin glow with light at all. Now, he doesn't specifically say that they AREN'T glowing, but that seems like the kind of detail everyone's favourite war dad would notice, especially when he instantly remarks on the glowing Plate in his head. This, along with Shardplate being powered by infused spheres, and that it can regrow when fed Stormlight, makes me think that a Surgebinder will be able to convert the Stormlight that would make their skin grow, or escape from their pores, into Shardplate, when they become proficient enough with metabolising/using it. This would also explain why the Radiants in the visions were able to summon and dismiss part of their armour at will, by simply reabsorbing the Stormlight they've hardened around their head to create a helm, or around their fist to make a gauntlet. I suspect the reason Brandon didn't have Dalinar see the dismissal/resummoning of the armour pieces to keep us guessing, since if it formed first from mist or from light we could pretty easily narrow down how it was happening. ^^ Of course it COULD maybe be summoned from the Cognitive Realm, a perfect ideal of armour for each Radiant.... Anyway, thoughts? Praises? Insults? ^-^ Hit meh!

Just a couple of things that have been bugging me about Speedbubbles since Alloy of Law.... Why isn't a Slider marksman/sniper an utter killing machine? We've seen that Wayne, inside a speedbubble, can essentially dodge bullets for a time. Likewise, we've seen Wax can draw his aim in a speedbubble and fire as it drops, and hit his target. Therefore a Slider like Wayne would be utterly unstoppable if he was a sniper or a good marksman. All he'd have to do is slow time for a minute or five to get a good aim, drop his bubble, and quite literally, boom.... headshot. (Cue me making a Slider assassin OC who's a sniper for just this reason :D) And furthermore, this is just a question that's been bugging me, what would happen if I were in a speedbubble and used a spear/pole type of weapon? Not throwing it, as Brandon has answered in WOB, but if I stuck the spear out through the edge of a bubble so half was in and half outside, then spun/swung/swept it, like swinging it like a baseball bat? Would it move relative to me inside the bubble, slow down for the half outside of the bubble and snap, or be sucked through the barrier to not break physics even more than time dialation already does? Also, are Aluminium bullets also deflected by the barrier, despite being Allomantically/Investidedly Intert? I suppose that would be explained by conservation of kinetic energy and not wanting Speedbubbles to be COMPLETELY OP, but considering Aluminium is immune to everything else, including the decidedly broken Atium....

Oooh, that works too... the Brightlady who takes over overseeing the bridge crews after Gaz deserts would totally be Diamond Tiara's mother ^^

Hmmm..... Would the Elements of Harmony not be better as the Orders of Knights Radiant themselves? Windrunners definitely embody the element of Loyalty! Wit might be a better fit with Discord than Pinkie, since Wit has more knowledge of the 4th wall than Pinkie from what we've seen.... I agree with Tirek being Odium, though if the Larkin become more evil at any point they'll be a better match xD Dashie as Adolin works for me ^^ Jasnah could be Miss Harshwhinny!

If I recall correctly from the vision, the Radiant says to Dalinar, "Your stances are unfamiliar to me. But they have the air of a practiced warrior." Which would imply that the stances used by the Shardbearers now are different or evolved from those of the original Heralds/Radiants. Whiiiiiich kinda destroys my wondering if Vasher had a hand in shaping the original ones xD As for Vasher not being able to Awaken with Stormlight, I'm sure he'll figure it out before the end of the series. This IS the guy who saw Shardblades and figured out how to make one from a completely different form of Investiture, and made one many times more powerful and dangerous than the weapons which are worth kingdoms. And he's already hacked the magic system enough to survive on Stormlight after all, that's a big first step, I'd imagine.

That's an interesting thought. We know different types of Investiture can interfere/interact with one another. Shardplate interferes with Lashings, Leechers can drain what's ostensibly a Shade-gun. What would happen if you stored Breath in a Dun sphere? Would it glow as though infused with Stormlight? Would it stop Stormlight being infused into it in the next Highstorm?

Do we have any theories on how strong Vasher is on Roshar? We know that he's still suppressing his Divine Breath, and that he's at least hacked the magic systems enough to survive on Stormlight/raw Investiture rather than Breaths. My thoughts are as follows; What effect would the red lightning (Voidlight? o3o) have on him with regards to living? How does his body differentiate between using up his Stormlight stockpile and his Breath stockpile? I assume he still has a stockpile of Breath for the Weeping, or some stored in clothes etc like emergency rations. When he absorbs Stormlight, does he glow like Kaladin would, or can he suppress it like Shallan does with her Lightweaving? Since we have WOB that he's been on Roshar before the events of WOK, has he met any of the Heralds? He certainly knows the stances of swordsmanship well... did he have a hand in creating them? And finally... how strong is Vasher? We know it's possible to fuel a Returned with Stormlight, so it stands to reason it can fuel Awakening too... but would the Stormlight run out of the Awakened object at the natural rate of disappation of a Lashing or being infused in a sphere? What about a Stormlight fuelled Lifeless? Would it be able to function for more than a few minutes? I'm just wondering if during a Highstorm, after seeing a Thunderclast and figuring out the visualisation, Vasher could make one of his own with Stormlight-fueled Awakening. Or an army of Stormlight Lifeless that would be able to fight on for the duration of the storm. Of course the Thunderclast would require the Heightening that allows for bringing rock and metal to life... but we don't yet know the rate of conversion for Breath and Stormlight. Does one Broam equal one Nathalian Breath? Does one Highstorm equal enough Breath to reach the Fourth Heightening? We don't see in the narrative anyone notice pockets of bright colour or changes in it around Zahel, so he doesn't have much Breath on him when he meets Kaladin, enough to notice at least. Though Kaladin would have other things on his mind, and unless the effect was striking enough to make a Darkeyes' eyes seem bright while being close to Zahel I doubt the Alethi would notice anyway. I wonder if Stormlight Heightenings would have the same kind of effect as Biochroma with the hack? Anyways, what do you all think? Thoughts? ^-^ Condemnations for stuff that's already been discussed/answered in another thread?

If I recall correctly, they built a ship that was basically a tank, waited for the Weeping and then set off... I don't recall which way they sailed, but I'd imagine East, to head the shortest route. But like you said, there's probably a good chance they ended up accidentally world hopping mid-storm like the Southern Scadrian in Bands of Mourning's broadsheet.

That's a very interesting concept that I just might play with, though I'm not entirely sure off the top of my head how a character not doing as the narrator in a book says, unless I have a narrator voice rather than a viewpoint... Hmmm....

And would the Reader be culpable themselves, either through the bystander effect, or by not intervening to stop the action, by putting the book down and not reading futher? And the importance of the Reader themselves, as without them to read it the story doesn't exist, alá a tree falling in a forest. Oooooooh, that does give me an idea for a conflict... The viewpoint character is put on trial by a corrupt, or zealous member of the religion, on some trumped up charge/conspiracy, and brought before a council/jury. The argument the antagonist would be that there were witnesses to the so called crime, the Readers of our protagonist's life. If the protagonist protests that they don't count, he could be called a heretic and non-beliver, a blasphemer and hypocrite and punished/banished etc for not believing in the tenant that the Readers are real/matter to the story.

Has anyone ever tried to read the Origin of Storms by sailing west from Shinovar where the storms are weaker? If so, were they successful?

You might be right.... maybe it goes over an ocean of Investiture? Like say..... a Shardpool? *Nudge nudge* Eh? Eh? And as for the Stromfather creating a new storm, he at least creates it off the coast of the Shattered Plains, so if he DID create it at the Origin, then the Origin of the Everstorm must have been equadistant from the battlefield as the Highstorm Origin.... For that matter, where would the Origin of the Everstorm be? It doesn't seem to run out of red lightning the way the Highstorms do, unless it gives it to the Parshment to transform them the way the Highstorm does to Spheres with Stormlight... What would happen when the Everstorm hits the Origin of the Highstorms?

Yeah, it's an idea that kind of messes with your head when you think of it like that, especially if you're the one writing it.... but that's why I like it. ^-^ And yeah, I do a lot of roleplaying, generally DMing and just playing the whole world for whoever I'm playing with, so that tends to be second person writing more than third, which might be why I think I could maybe make it work in this case, and part of my influence on it... The idea of the character pleading to the person reading of his death/despair/torture, and the reader being (hopefully) so hooked they just continue reading, and therefore making more happen, is one that sticks in my mind though.

Don't forget, we DO get the interlude with the merchant in training and her Babsk (I forget her name at the moment), where she talks about being in Shinovar and how storms hit it.... there's no mention of light, but that the mountains are an excellent stormbreak, and make them relatively harmless. The Shin worship stones, not Stormlight, unless there's a WOB or piece of evidence I'm not aware of. We have no evidence of the kind of light display that you mention (Though I REALLY hope that that does come to pass, that kind of aurora would be amazing to see, and I'd damnation well worship it myself.), though none to say it DOESN'T happen either... Though Kaladin does muse during one of his dreams/visions that a Highstorm crosses the land and spends pieces of its energy to recharge spheres as it passes, if I remember correctly. If the highstorm is wide enough to cover the entire continent in one sweep, I imagine it's Stormlight would run out by the time it gets to the Shin mountains with all the light it would be expending. As for Honour's Shardpool, you may be right, though there are a few things that make me wonder... We have WOBs that Perpendicularities that can enable worldhopping can happen naturally, like in Sixth of the Dusk. We also have WOBs that the Shin reverence for rocks is cultural rather than Mystical, at least until we get more backstory on the origin for that. So Szeth contemplating how holy Urithiru is, and how it's stones are not blasphemous to walk on may be complete Chull dung as far as the truth goes, and the Horneater Peak pools may be natural manifestations of Investiture.... though Hoid coming out of one is pretty suspect, since I can't imagine him taking an UNimportant pool to travel by unless he was trying to avoid someone at an actual Shardpool. The Stormfather can also send storms, so he must be able to add Investuture/Stormlight to the air to create a Highstorm, which means that there must be a point he has to send it from, or an area he can do it in, otherwise he would have done it right on top of the Alethi army... unless the Storm needs time to gather strength to combat the Everstorm. Until we find out where/how the Stormfather creates the storms, we won't know for certain if he could start one in the middle of Alethkar rather than off the edge of the Shattered Plains.

Hi all! So I was curious if anyone could give me any feedback or ideas/critisim on an idea that's been rattling around in my head for a while; Bascially the concept is that a people, or more likely a religion encompassing many peoples, in a book would believe that they're in a book. Not that they know that they're in a book, but that they believe that every man's existence is being written by a god, the Author of Fates, and that they exist as both the protagonist of their own lives, and of books being read of their lives as they happen. Being an author would be either very holy, or a profae calling, I can't decide whether they would find the concept of being a god to whatever world someone writes about an honour or a sin... I think this could make for an interesting viewpoint character, as the narrative would have him musing on how he hoped that the reader was enjoying the story of his life, and thanking the author and reader for anything good that happened, as without the author writing it it couldn't happen, and without the reader, nothing could progress. And the inspiration for this idea was the idea of a character, possibly a priest of this religion, in some kind of disaster, a building collapsing on him or someone about to kill him. He would either be pleading aloud or in his mind, screaming to the heavens for the reader to stop turning the page, to stop reading so the world would pause, for the author to not write such a tragic end to him.... and then his story would end. (That last bit was inspired by the cobbler interlude in the Stormlight Archive, where "Experience... ended." ^_^) What do you think? I'm curious about a third person narritive that could slightly interact with the reader in the way a first or second person one could, and about the effect a chapter like the disaster one would have, if the reader would feel guilty for reading onwards and ending the character's life, since if they didn't turn the page and advance the story by reading it he couldn't die, at least in their minds.