Steeldancer

Silverblade was leet thathoid can't compete yesterday

Vivenna.

I took that as he won't have a blade, not that he won't have shardplate. Anyway, I agree. I think the Heralds probably used to be just more powerful surgebinders, with the whole direct connection to honor through the honorblades thing.

steeldancer

Thats sort of what I said in the original post lol. Anyway, does anybody have any ideas how investiture might be measured? Directly?

A legitimate reason to be boring.

Look, the WoB I got (which is above) says this: they get their power directly from honor. They didn't need stormlight. that alone makes heralds much more powerful. The Knights are limited in stormlight, UNLESS my theory is correct, and Shardplate is composed of stormlight, which would allow them to retain it longer. Speaking of which, did heralds have shardplate?

I think most coinshots on Scadrial are as weak as they can be.

Or whatever. Yeah. I mean you could use Celsius or Kelvin or something sensical. Doesn't matter.

The problem with that is measuring it. How do you measure a breath?

I just realized I missed 666. I never got to see it It would have happened last night. Now I'm really sad. How did I get that many upvotes in a night anyway????!!

That was mine!!!! I got that one

Oathbringer spoilers:

Ok. So I've been thinking about this. I have some ideas on how it might be done. First, you need a universal constant. Lightspeed and Water are great ones, of which the boiling point of water is probably more useful. A firesoul may be able to help us here, with a twin with different powers. Given a body of water, and a firesoul, you could measure how much heat they put out with an hour of storing at an average rate. Another way would have a bendalloy ferring store all the calories from a particular food (with a known calorie count). Another thing that is easy to standardize is weight. As long as you can standardize a store rate, you can determine weight fairly easily with a scale. At this point, you need a way to measure investiture. My best idea is to use a standardized steelpush of some sort. Then using that, you can measure how invested an object is, by how not as far it goes. Then you could quantify heat, or calories, as a particular reduction in steelpushability. Obviously there are several issues with this, particularly standardizing a storage rate and a push rate. But if it could be done, this could be used to measure things. Other useful things to know would be the standard investiture of a soul when born, a way to measure the investiture directly in the spirit realm (I couldn't come up with any ideas for this at all. Ideas would be welcome). If you could measure investiture directly, you could then put that in proportion with the whole steel push thing to put it in an equation relating investiture to energy. Obviously, these calculations cannot be done with what information we have. But if I were in the cosmere, this is the approach I would take. An idea for a standard steel push: 1 kg of metal, a gram of steel to burn, burn until it's gone, 150 pound coinshot. Measure time and distance to determine kinetic energy imparted.

@Silverblade5 You're welcome. Idk if you'll catch it before it gets upvotes.

Dude I don't want to upvote you. Holy cow

Chana has appeared. According to my analysis, she's actually likely to be Liss. The other two, I have absolutely no idea. We know next to nothing about those two at all.

My realmatic theory in my signature holds my ideas. Essentially I believe that because the highstorms don't touch shinovar, the realms aren't as close together, and therefore spren cannot appear. This is based on the idea that the constant highstorms drive the realms closer together on Roshar.

How the frick do they stay upside down. And flying. This ain't Pandora folks!!!!!

Cooooooll. I'm an evil demon.

It's essentially a pancake lottery. Obviously I will not be able to participate (that'll be in the rule). But people can get many pancakes! It'll only last a single turn. Also I still want to get married.

Hey I can make the pancake madness rule if you guys want. To help all yall starved people.

I'm betting when we get the book we will get pictures

Thanks alias. Darkness, you may pass me your platypus if you so wish.

I'm thinking she'll be a little more obvious.