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  1. orangesrhyme
    Part of me wants to think Axindweth is Telsin Ladrian. High ranking member of the Set, good odds they're working with Worldhoppers. I'm not certain her timeline matches up, but didn't Wax fall out of contact with her for quite some time?
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    Oh, I forgot to update! I got an "A(-)," which is to say that Card thought it was a really good conversational essay, but missed a few points on it being a coherent construction of an argument. He said the minus wouldn't show up on my report card or anything. That's fair, I'm no Elsecaller.
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    Oh, for sure. Those were intended as such going in, to be fair, but yeah. i actually can’t think of any! The Aviar on their face aren’t flashy-cool, but they’re a neat concept. also, paper (probably isn’t in good order, so I am sorry about that, but there are page numbers):
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    I can totally see where you’re coming from - His Mithermages trilogy is pretty absent of it, up until the third book where it gets a lot less subtle. Still a good read, though. And thanks! I’ll keep y’all posted.
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    Essentially, we discussed the work of several LDS fantasy authors, and discussed how Mormon doctrines were or may have been an influence. I didn’t include much of that in my paper because that’s part of the final exam, but that might change in the next hour or two.
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    Haha, the paper should be done later today. Please don’t get your hopes up, though! It’s not spectacular by any means; I originally wanted it to be a treatise on the base layers of how Investiture works but I didn’t want it to be boring. It’s actually for a class on LDS authors of speculative fiction that I’m taking from Orson Scott Card! Super fun course. Very rewarding. It won’t get me into med school, I mean, but it has a lot of personal value. Card’s a good guy.
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    Ah, that Arcanum link was just what I needed! Should have thought to check there. Thank you so much!
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    For sure for sure, but I was wondering where he said it originally, haha... I couldn’t find it on the Sanderson website and the Coppermind doesn’t have a citation for it.
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    So, I'm writing a paper on the harmonization between the framework of Investiture and Sanderson's Laws of Magic, and I was wondering what the source for the statement on the Coppermind about the Zeroth Law is. I couldn't find it anywhere, personally - is it in one of his lectures on YouTube or one of his writing podcasts, or elsewhere?
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    After a manner: Devils on horseback. They really do taste like cotton candy made outta baby.
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    Aw, I somehow forgot he was buddies with Hoid as well. Now I'm extra sad
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    I think that for cremling shells in Chouta, you could do small, shell-on shrimp, deep fried. The shells of shellfish are perfectly edible, they only need some chewing. I envision it as a barley and cornmeal flatbread, with brown rice and pearled barley, chunks of beef, pork, or shellfish, and falafel-esque meatballs all in a dark shellfish gravy. I've been meaning to make it, but fictional meals are lower on priority lists for broke college students.
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    Don't forget that bodies of water manifest as dry ground in Shadesmar/the Cognitive Realm. If he were in the Cognitive!Purelake, he wouldn't be wading, and if he were in a Shadesmar body of water, it would be beads and also probably not warm.
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    Here’s an interesting thing to consider: When Marsh reads Goradel’s note, the book mentions that he flares tin, so that he can see the page better. Obviously, this isn’t going to boost his night vision (railroad spikes through the face tend to be bad for that), but it seems like it enhances his steelsight. Now, that is probably just an argument more in favor of the Spiritual aspect of Steelsight, since a-Tin does more than just enhance the senses. But still, that level of interaction is interesting to consider, in the context of this thread...
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    I feel like this one is almost cut-and-dry, but it would be nice to get a full WoB (which may already exist). We know f-Tin isn't limited to the traditional five senses - I believe we've gotten word that if there was a Windwhisper platypus, it could store electroreception. However, it seems likely that Investiture-granted senses wouldn't work quite the same in that regard. That said, a double-tin Twinborn, compounding the lifesense granted by Breath... Would be terrifying. Well, strategically, but you get my point.
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    I feel like Nightblood's sheath is at very least partially the same metal as Shardblade guards. Vasher knew about them, they seem to be at least a common enough thing to have spares on the sparring grounds. I could easily see him nicking one or two when he initially did research on Shardblades.
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    I believe Nale used a fabrial to heal Szeth - we see him tucking something into his pocket as Szeth is coming to, and I feel like the 2nd edition makes it clearer.
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    Are Mraize's "thick hairpins" kandra spikes, specifically? They seem to be similar to Marasi's description. ...okay, they're smaller than an Inquisitor spike. It could be Koloss or just a generic boon-granting spike.
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    Yeah, I remember io9 (when I still read it) did an article about proposed geodesic superstructures at near-vacuum, providing enough lift for essentially a sky city. The most interesting or amusing implication in the Cosmere is that the bigger you are as an iron ferring, the "lighter" you can get (as far as displacement and stuff). It's a tiny difference – you'd have to be a gigantic freak to be able to lift your clothes and metalminds – but still, kind of interesting that that's how it works. Of course, on the other side of the boxing, being more heavy would presumably fill metalminds at a greater rate...
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    Ah, I should have clarified – the direction I was going was that the buoyancy provided by essentially, to the air, becoming a vacuum (a volume with a mass of zero) by filling to weightlessness should be able to lift clothes and stuff. However, I did some research! The concept of using a vacuum to provide lift in lieu of ultralight gases is nothing new: Wiki on vacuum airships We see in that link that 1 L of displaced air lifts about 1.3 grams, depending on air temp and altitude, as well as other factors. Since a human has roughly the same density as water, we can estimate the volume of a person by taking their weight in kilograms, which is probably within a few percentage points of their volume in liters. So, given a 200 lb (90kg) iron ferring, tapping to full wieghtlessness, you can expect 90L of displacement, or 117 grams. Which, unfortunately, is less than clothes, and far less than a decently sized Ironmind. Perhaps if one wove ultrathin (and marginally lighter than 117g) clothes out of iron...
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    So, if you can fill an Ironmind to the point of being weightless, shouldn't you still float like a balloon? You'd have buoyancy in the regular atmosphere, no?
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    So, we have the Noble Houses of many of the main characters in the series. Vin was a Tekiel, Breeze was a Ladrian, Elend, well... But what of Kell and Marsh? We know they were born to a high nobleman and his resourceful mistress, and that after being discovered, they'd probably ditch their father's name... But still, do we know what their names would be? Or is that being kept as a juicy secret for the end of Era 2?
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    That's a pretty valid point, one that I'm also not quite authoritative enough to fully speculate on... But I'd wager that the "brokenness" that we see in Nale and the other mad Heralds isn't exactly easy (after all, we know from Szeth's POVs that there's quite a bit of inner turmoil, and he had the Honorblade for a couple of decades at most - granted, his madness was definitely more from other things than the Honorblade, but I digress, it was still likely a factor), and may even prevent ones like them from being able to attract the appropriate spren for a Nahel bond.
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    So, as I recall, Savantism comes from Investiture flowing through the cracks present in an Initiated individual's soul, and by nature of the power flowing through them, widens those cracks. I don't think Feruchemists can really become savants, because the power isn't really flowing through and out like Allomancy, but simply being relocated in the net-zero system. Allomancers are drawing from Preservation itself and externally using that power, eroding their Spiritweb when flared - allowing for a greater draw of power through those channels, but also creating more drastic (and less "tuneable") effects paired with withdrawals when that power is removed. This also makes sense as to why KR can't really be Savants either, and why Honorblades and Soulcasting fabrials are dangerous. Instead of storing Investiture and then releasing it, somebody using one of these devices is really just acting like a conduit for that Investiture, eventually wearing unnatural tracks into their soul (as they've never been Initiated, this likely causes worse effects than somebody like Spook or Wax). Hopefully that was clear as far as my understanding and theorizing.
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