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  1. cometaryorbit
    Oh okay - the unknown 5th pair being Surgebinding Fabrials (all considered one type) and Voidbinding Fabrials (all considered one type)? Yeah that could totally work.
  2. cometaryorbit
    Yeah, they definitely existed. Syl has vague memories of being bonded before the Recreance, and the Stormfather was around then too. The source for fewer intelligent spren at the time of the Recreance is Pattern's comment that "Spren with minds were less plentiful then, and the majorities of several spren peoples were all bonded. There were very few survivors."
  3. cometaryorbit
    Honor remembers the Recreance in the visions... he apparently died later. I think the cause/effect may well go the other way ... the Recreance trapped a lot of Honor's Investiture (Splinters) as mostly inert dead Shardblades, weakening him against Odium.
  4. cometaryorbit
    Well, not necessarily (Mistborn trilogy spoilers)
  5. cometaryorbit
    Others have pointed out that Allik's language is apparently Scandinavian, and ettmetal should thus mean something like one/first metal. So I think it's either Harmonium or Lithium. Sure, but even though the higher alkali metals have a more violent reaction, it's less actual energy. And we don't know exactly how the ettmetal bombs work - they could be basically fuel air bombs using the hydrogen generated.
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    Well, the original problem was that Preservation had marginally less Investiture than Ruin. So he couldn't win a direct Investiture vs Investiture contest. He had to try something else, and somehow he used his mind/Cognitive Aspect rather than his power/Investiture. As to how a Cognitive Aspect becomes a prison, we can only speculate. But we know Perpendicularities connect the Cognitive to the Physical, and Ruin's prison involved the Well of Ascension. In Secret History we see Ruin trapped 'under' or 'beyond' the Well. I'm thinking Leras "reinforced" the Well with most of his Cognitive Aspect -- this somehow messed with Ruin's existence across Realms, so that a piece of his power was separated off and manifested as atium in the Physical Realm.
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    Well, I know I've seen the theory that (general Cosmere spoilers) On the original topic... I'm now thinking the confusion over the Parshendi gods is because the Unmade are actual Splinters of Odium, while there are other spren that predate Odium's arrival and were associated with the Parshendi back then, but were later controlled by Odium or the Unmade. And the Parshendi probably aren't clear on the distinction between the two groups. I agree that the Unmade or Odium take over spren, but I think the red lightning spren that bond with Parshendi are 'controlled' spren not true Odium spren. I think there's a WOB about Parshendi bonding spren having a 'flaw' for control...
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    Yeah, I agree that probably means Tears of Edgli are Endowment's "body"/physically manifested Investiture. As for the 'very interesting cup of tea', I'm thinking that ingesting them wouldn't likely do anything - they're special only when used in Awakening, just as (HOA spoilers) That makes sense. But if the Shardblades are just that way because of copying Honorblades, what would the 'natural' solid form of Shardic Investiture on Roshar be? Maybe gemhearts are 'Cultivation's body'? Yeah, it seems live spren can become other things, but a dead Shardblade seems to be metallic in nature - there's a WOB about Steelpushing/Ironpulling on them that says they'd be hard to push on because they're Invested, but they're 'metal enough' for that.
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    Thanks! I'm not sure I understand what you mean about the surge/void pairs. If you're suggesting one Surge plus one Voidbinding power, like how Twinborn have Allomancy and Feruchemy, I'm not sure that would be considered a separate system - Twinborn aren't considered a fourth Metallic Art on Scadrial. That's true. However, that Calamity signing WoB says that the three systems are Surgebinding, Voidbinding, and fabrials (and the Old Magic is off on its own). I'm thinking this is one of those early in the books misunderstandings like (Mistborn/Warbreaker spoilers) I don't think the AA author realizes what is really going on with Fabrials. (Nor do we... and I have a feeling this theory is only scratching the surface. Those ancient Surge-using Fabrials - Soulcasters, the Regrowth fabrials, and maybe Oathgates - have got to fit in somewhere. They might be Fabrial/Surgebinding system hacks like Scadrial's Compounding using Allomancy to fuel Feruchemy... or each fabrial type might have a Greater and Lesser version. Maybe Oathgates are super-Conjoiners or something?)
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    Fabrials are the third magic system on Roshar There should be 10 types of fabrial Brandon's also said that Roshar could be considered to have 30 magic systems. We know there are 10 Surges, and the Ars Arcanum mentions “the ten levels of Voidbinding”. So that leaves 10 forms of the third system, Fabrials. The known types The Ars Arcanum mentions five fabrial types: Augmenter, Diminisher, Conjoiner, Reverser, Alerter. The Augmenter/Diminisher and Conjoiner/Reverser are paired; the Alerter doesn't seem to have a counterpart. Navani unveils a sixth type near the end of WOR, the Attractor. New types Just as how Surges come in pairs, I'd suggest that fabrial types are inherently paired. So we can speculate on the counterparts of the two “unpaired” known types. The opposite of an Attractor would be a Repeller. Could be used to keep things dry, drive away pests or mold etc., or maybe deflect arrows. The opposite of an Alerter might be something like a “Jammer”. This might not just block Alerter Fabrials, but also stuff like Spanreed communication. That leaves two types totally unknown. EDIT: By "proper" fabrials I mean the things Artifabrians make. Not the "ancient fabrials" like Soulcasters, Oathgates, Shardplate.
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    On Scadrial, the 'focus' or whatever for magic is metals. On Roshar, gems are magically significant instead. (HOA Spoiler) Since Shardblades are Splinters in physical form, why do they take the form of metal rather than gems - something like Diablo II "Crystal Swords"? It just occurred to me that they aren't - Shallan's sketches look just like regular (if large and fancy) metal swords. I had been envisioning them as blades formed from a single crystal.
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    I agree there is some link to bond or spren, since it is a KR thing. But I don't think it can be formed from the spren since there is no screaming. It may well be crystallized stormlight, but I don't think it can be just that. That is -- the material may be crystallized stormlight, but something must give it the specific form. Not just that it only regenerates one set of Plate, but the fact that it regenerates into a full set of Plate at all. The crystallized stormlight theory might not really even be in opposition to the minor spren theory. Spren are splinters, and thus basically made of Shard-stuff. It might be something like (Mistborn HOA spoilers)
  13. cometaryorbit
    "Bridge" - probably a way for Odium to exert power/influence on Roshar. He is not on the planet after all. (Though I am not really sure what that means/why it matters, since the bulk of Shards' being/Investiture is apparently in the Spiritual Realm & distance apparently doesn't matter there.) It may be the Everstorm, but might be more general. Dalinar's visions refer to "the Everstorm, the True Desolation, the Night of Sorrows". There may be more Odium manifestations coming. -- As for whether the Parshendi gods are the Unmade: the "Our gods were born splinters of a soul" one seems pretty clear that they are. But that doesn't fit with the others. I'm thinking that the Parshendi understanding of their past is probably missing some key facts - they probably lost a lot while limited to dullform/mateform. " Tis said it was warm in the land far away When Voidbringers entered our songs." - WOR Ch 30 Epigraph I'm thinking that the Listeners had their Rhythms and Forms before Odium and his Unmade ever showed up. Back then their "gods" were probably local spren, spren left by Adonalsium before any of the three Shards arrived or even existed. These were the "gods" that gave them the forms-not-of-power like warform & nimbleform, the ones referred to when the epigraph says stormform "brings the gods their night". Then the Unmade showed up and offered the Forms of Power with Odium-spren bonding, and the Listeners became Voidbringers. Then their "gods" were the Unmade.
  14. cometaryorbit
    If you're talking about the brass/electrum warmth/determination thing, wasn't that mistake made in the books and already long established by the time of the poster? Brass storing warmth is in the WOA Ars Arcanum, though electrum storing determination doesn't show up until AoL. Or is there another mistake?
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    It's not just that he has trouble in daylight - "the starlight was like daylight to him", and "the fires of the city were so bright that his flared tin made it difficult to see". Those fires would be far, far less bright than daylight.
  16. cometaryorbit
    Yeah... I think Nightblood's "broken-ness" makes him something like an Endowment-Cancer. A corrupted and twisted version of a Splinter of Endowment, one which drains away rather than Endows.
  17. cometaryorbit
    Ah, yes, then I agree.
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    Living on Scadrial, probably Allomantic copper/Feruchemical brass. Allomantic copper to keep Rioters and Soothers from messing with me, Feruchemical brass because they haven't got to air conditioning yet and I hate hot weather. In our world, probably either double Zinc or something/Feruchemical zinc. I don't think I'd really need Zinc Compounding, because it would be really easy to store mental speed when watching TV or whatever. Probably Allomantic tin/Feruchemical zinc, but maybe Allomantic electrum or Allomantic gold... I'm convinced there's way more to those powers than we've seen.
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    If the Heralds could draw directly on Honor's Investiture, rather than using Stormlight from gems the way Radiants do - and could survive using amounts of it that would damage or vaporize normal humans - that would make a huge difference. I don't know if it's enough by itself to explain why Ishi thought he could take on all the KR, though - he'd still be limited to using that nearly unlimited Stormlight in the Cohesion and Tension Surges. We don't know much about them, but IIRC they both have to do with manipulating material properties - they don't sound like good battle Surges like Gravitation or Division. However, the Heralds might be so heavily Invested that Surges couldn't be used directly against them - they couldn't be Lashed to the sky or disintegrated/burned/whatever Division does. If they could also use the drawing on Honor's Investiture to get an extreme version of Stormlight's physical benefits, that would make it work, IMO.
  20. cometaryorbit
    OK, yeah, but it seemed to me that the Stormfather was saying that Dalinar couldn't get Blade or Plate. If it was available to all of them, pre-Recreance Bondsmiths were able to get it somehow - but if it really has nothing directly to do with the main spren, why can't Dalinar?
  21. cometaryorbit
    Yeah, I know, but isn't the Allomantic Table text written by Brandon too? And it probably had more time put into it than an interview answer.
  22. cometaryorbit
    I don't believe all Atium alloys are temporal. The allomantic table says "various expanded Mental and Temporal effects" (while Lerasium alloys are "various expanded Physical and Enhancement effects. (Including the creation of Mistings.)"
  23. cometaryorbit
    Yeah, the bloodletting surgeon thing probably fits. Bleeder sees herself as doing harm to bring a greater good, as I understand it. Might also be a reference to blood in Hemalurgy.
  24. cometaryorbit
    Against 13 Inquisitors, Vin lost horribly until she started burning mists. Burning mists, she had access to essentially unlimited power, a large portion of a Shard's - Elend isn't even vaguely comparable. TLR could definitely heal Shardblade wounds - it would come down to whether Compounding Gold fills his goldminds faster than constantly healing from Shardblades stuck in him empties them. In a metal-rich environment, yeah, TLR would be able to match Gravitation-surge mobility, but not, I think, exceed it sufficiently to evade multiple opponents.
  25. cometaryorbit
    Sure, but the old Radiants got Plate somewhere. If it develops as a part of Radiants reaching the final Oath (whether from solidified Stormlight or minor spren) shouldn't Dalinar get some eventually?
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