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    I have to agree with @dragonshadowbob. Forging on Sel was a re-writing of an object's (or in this case a person's) history. So for instance: her Essence Marks changed her history so that she trained with the super ninjas or grew up on the street. Why does her stamp change the Emperor's mind? She re-wrote his history to be almost exactly the same as it was, but then ignored the arrow wound? What does it matter if his history is the same if the arrow wound still cleared his mind? How does re-writing the history help this?
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    Wit

    william.sexton3 replied to SamM's question in Cosmere Q&A

    Hoid is a Cosmere character. He would not appear in the Reckoners, because they are on Earth.
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    I believe that this is the forum you are talking about.
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    That is exactly what I was talking about. The basic lashing is not really effecting just gravity... I always thought of this as combination of the two surges. (I'm not saying that all Orders of the KR have three abilities, but a basic lashing can't just be an effect of gravity, I think.)
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    Kaladin only has one spren, and he already has both surges (like @Sand Master said, Adhesion and gravitation) he can bind things together (adhesion) draw things to an item he is touching (adhesion and gravitation) and change the direction gravity effects him (gravitation). So a second spren would give him more surges, I think, but he already has two surges with just one spren.
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    The "hit" that you guys are talking about is when Kaladin pierced his skin, but not deep enough to sever the soul, and so it did not affect the arm at all, and thus did not require healing
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    It is because Kaladin was bonded to Syl. Szeth does not have a bond (He uses an honorblade, and does not have a bond with a spren). You should read through this conversation:
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    So I think that the bigger an item is, the more likely it is to pop the bubble. Like, a bullet will not pop a speed bubble, but a tree (in the case that they were on a train and the speed bubble, moving with the train, hits the tree) would. I doubt that a spear would actually be large enough to. Sanderson specifically put the limit on this power, to stop it from being too powerful (since physics limits the other powers), but that gun thing is way too much a part of Wayne's character. I doubt that he will ever develop out of this particular character trait.
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    It took me about a week and a half per book. (I finished The Emperor's Soul in about 2 days, since it is about a tenth of the other two). I don't know that I have a lot of reading time. It's more like, I couldn't put the books down to go to sleep, so I gave up a lot of sleep time in order to finish them. I was just so intrigued!!! Those books are awesome, except... you know... that there are 8 more that are unwritten (well 7.27 unwritten, as Sanderson's website says that he has finished 73% of the third book). I can't wait until the next books come out!!!
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    And it would make even more sense, because the men couldn't read! I also just kind of assume that Alethi = English, else Sanderson could never use puns. "What did the one-armed Hardasian do to the man that stuck him to the wall? Nothing, because he was 'armless.'" This pun would not make sense in any other language because the words for "harm" and "arm" only sound the same in English. I just assumed that the languages that we read are the same as the ones spoken. However, with the men not being able to read it, they might assume that it was a very similar word.
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    Just to update: I have now read both The Emperor's Soul and both stormlight archive books! They are all amazing! At first I was very confused by my status as a "Spearman" (as I had only read the Mistborn and Elatris). However, after reading the Stormlight Archive (or at least what has been released of it), I was elated that I have been "promoted" to Bridgeman!!!! I feel so honored... but also terrified... I just hope I get put in Bridge 4!
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    @Thunder_93 I think that the shardplate interferes here. Szeth does this at the end of his battle Gavilar, but has to remove the plate first. He takes the plate off of the dying Galivar and uses the Gemstone then. restoring his reserves.
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    I think that this is Brandon's way on introducing a new "power" to the world. I think that the reason that we don't see that anywhere else, because none of the others have discovered that they have that ability and they haven't needed to. I think that @goody153 is right that they don't "heal" but they do gain a higher form of sentience. (I thought it was neat that Pattern started with an ability to understand complex things and needed to "remember" how to interact with simpler things and Syl needed to learn complex things like death and lying).
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    But Elantris didn't work because it was the wrong Aon (the Aon without the chasm line).
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    But then Szeth is appeased and returns to kill Dalinar when Taravangian tells him that one of the honorblades have been taken. Why would that matter if the honorblades don't give the power? and I'm pretty sure that Szeth flees when he sees Kaladin use a lashing, not heal.
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    That is the theory I was talking about. I think that it holds more weight, as well. It answers why shardplate sticks around after the KR either abandon's his oath or dies. I don't remember, though, does Kaladin hear screaming in his head when he holds the helmet-glove? If not, why not? If one touches the shardsword of a dead spren (while attuned to a spren) they hear screaming. So why don't they hear screaming of the plate?
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    I like this theory! One question that is not answered then, is why does the shardplate stick around after the KR is gone? It makes sense that it would be hardened Stormlight (as stormlight seems to "heal" the shardplate), but I think the minor-spren theory holds more weight. We have seen that Spren can and do hold Stormlight (Pattern holds stormlight that feeds Shallan's illusions) so it would make sense that it would stick around after the KR discards his oath (this act would kill his Major Spren (Shardsword) and his minor spren (shardplate)). What do you think about this?
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    Which would make complete sense, because the same is true of physical attributes, too.
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    So what about this from the prologue: I don't think that this is the foreshadow, but why would this be included since this is utterly false, or maybe only the KR could actually do it? Kaladin, who clearly does not have the power of regrowth (as a Windrunner he has abrasion and gravitation), obviously did it, so why does Szeth fear this? Is he just wrong?
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    Here is the quote from the prologue of WoK: (emphasis added) So what does this say about the theories? If it isn't the shardplate or necessarily the investiture that messes with the lashings, but the gemstones.
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    I agree with Oversleep on this on. The problem with Szeth, and what made him such an effective tool of destruction was his Windrunner status without the Honorspren to hold him to his oaths. Since he was not bonded with a spren, his sword's spren was dead, so it didn't glow like that of the real KR. In Dalinar's visions both the plate and the sword glowed. I imagine this points towards Oversleeps theory. I don't think that the Shard-helmet-made-glove during Kaladin's duel glowed, and so it stole Kaladin's stormlight, but I'm not sure that this means that the KR's shardplate doesn't use Stormlight. The dead shardswords don't use stormlight, and the dead shardplate does, so I think that the live shardswords don't use stormlight, but the living stormplate will. But Syl told Kaladin that since he was actually a KR, he used stormlight much more effectively than Szeth, so maybe living plate will need less stormlight than the dead plate, and so it interfere less than dead plate
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    Couldn't she just put a protective layer of skin around any object she wants? Complete bodily manipulation would allow for such a placement, I think. Our skin stays on the outside, but it is just an organ, like a muscle or an eye. Kondras would be able to place a layer of skin where ever they would like, right?
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    So, for the sake of an example: If Marsh had another Atium spike and he drove it through Raoden's heart, would anyone pierced with that spike be able to use AonDor (assuming he knew the right place to place the spike and that there was a "right place" to place the spike)? Is that what we are asking here? Because adding the body of Ruin to a person from Sel would enable Hemalergy to work?
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    If you put an Atium spike someone and then put a spike through their heart, what good would that do? Aren't you stealing Preservation's investiture with Hemalurgy, not Ruin's? The quote from Sanderson, like Jondesu pointed out says that the one who has the spike driven through their heart must have "right spiritual and genetic code" but the one receiving the spike has no such limitation. Therefore is a Hemalurgic spike (one that had already stolen the investiture from the proper person) were taken to a different planet, that "Investiture" would be able to be "added" to that person's soul and they would posses the powers stolen by that spike. Why would spiking a foreign human with an Atium spike be different than spiking the foreigner without a spike?
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    Marsh was just a Bronze misting before his hemalergic transformation, and he was clearly able to compound Age (through Atium). Brandon Sanderson has confirmed that Marsh's immortality is the same compounding trick as TLR. Here is Brandon's answer to what happened after the first Mistborn trilogy "Marsh is alive. I changed this from when I talked to Ookla. I realized some things about his use of Allomancy that would allow him to survive. Actually, he is immortal. He can pull off the same Allomancy/Feruchemy trick that the Lord Ruler did. (And he knows it too, since he was there when Sazed explained how it was done in Book One.) He's actually the only living person who actually knows this trick for certain. (Though there's a chance that Spook, Ham and Breeze heard about it from Vin and the others.) So yes, if there were another series, Marsh would make an appearance. "
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