The Technovore

Granted, you become Hoid as a Fullborn. Quite honestly that is both the boon and the bane so I'll just leave it at that. I wish for a completely safe and drug-free brownie with nothing freaky in it whatsoever.

Now I'm just imagining Roshar building a fabrial railgun in the CR pointed a scadrial and just catapulting all the Unmade over there. Let it be their problem now. Makes me chuckle. Also, there is a good point about middle-age formations falling quickly to armies of coinshots and gunslingers, but I think it should be mentioned that in RoW they're already seeing significant upheaval in their tactics. If Scadrial invaded the day after RoW ends, they'd be in serious trouble, but what if it was in Books 6-10? After the spren have performed the Nahel bond en masse due to Adolin and Maya's diplomacy? After Rosharans work out how to use that Dawnshard they have? After they've had 15 years of (presumably) peace to advance both technologically and tactically? I kinda feel like when we're comparing Era 2 to RoW on a planetary, it's clear that Scadrial is still advantageous. I mean, obviously. Scadrial has 2 shards for the price of one, and Roshar is in the middle of civil war. That spells "vulnerable" for Roshar. Although, actual Twinborn/Mistborn vs Radiant matchups are somewhat even, where it could go either way depending on the Radiant order and who is best able to adapt to the other's tactics. Remember that this originally wasn't supposed to be a "who would win" between Roshar and Scadrial in a hypothetical war, this was a comparison between magic systems and their on-screen power-levels. Whatever happens to this topic, we'll likely have to take it up again after Book 5 where we know how Roshar stands (with Odium or with Honor) and after TLM so we know how Scadrial stands (Is saze okay or is Trell taking over and what's happening to their society?), and again after Book 6 and Era 3. Honestly I kinda look forward to "Roshar vs Scadrial" being the fandom meme for the next couple decades.

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Hmmm, if you look at the Skyward trilogy, they've got an intergalactic war there, and by the second book the main character has a posse of friends "from the other side". Considering how Sanderson likes "exploring both perspectives" in his stories, I could easily see Era 4 starting out with a small cast of Scadrians that end up falling in with some Rosharans (and mayhaps some worldhopping group like the 17th Shard?) and by the end of the second book we'd have a "Captain Planet"-esque cast of interplanetary diversity that goes to reforge Adonalsium/save the galaxy from Bad Shard(tm)/forge peace between planets/accidentally destroy everything all the evil (a Nightblood-approved series ending).

*deep breath* How... DARE you use logic to disparage my precious Roshar? *takes off white glove* *slaps you with it* I demand satisfaction!

The Great and Limitless Delver of the Void was demanding sacrifice!

@BenduLuke That math checks out! Forgive me for forcing you to defend your points, but honestly, the explanation of the math here really illustrates the point fantastically. Assuming a SteelTwin can survive the Newton's Third Law consequences of that interaction, that'd be fantastic to read onscreen. Your point about the twinborn combinations not being shown is very valid, and considering that there's other godmetals that would be in play in an inter-cosmere war, and all kinds of alloys that could come as a result of that, and the fact that godmetals alloy with each other--folks have calculated from 1000 to 15k possible metal powers, counting that each alloy will have different effects based on whether they're being used Allomantically, Feruchemically, Hemalurgically, or in a Fabrial. So essentially, Sanderson could write whatever the storms he wants and can make it make sense too. So I'll stop contending on "that doesn't make sense", because there's no point in making you fight tooth and nail to defend your concepts when in the end Sanderson is likely going to find a way to make us all wrong anyway XD

I'm on Team Roshar, largely for the same reason so many are Team Scadrial. It was my entry point, therefore gets my sentimentality. Also, as even Team Scadrial has said, it's likely that Roshar will be the defending side, and Roshar's moral/ideal based magic system kinda lends to them being the "good guys", of course assuming Odium doesn't take over. If he does, I'm switching to Scadrial faster than a Steeltwin.

Granted. Since canonically the nightwatcher is supposed to give a boon and a bane, rather than try to give a boon with a catch like a pedestrian genie, I grant you exactly what you wish, though all natural consequences are your own. On a completely unrelated note, your neck joint is now a hinge, instead of a socket. Have fun with that.

But Flaffle was falling.

mmmm... muzzle velocity in modern firearms hits about 1000-1200+ m/s. The speed of sound (which I'm going to say is a probably speed for a+f steel twinborn since I don't believe we've heard a twinborn make any kind of sonic boom?) hits at about 340 m/s. It's insanely fast for a human to move (0.25 miles per second) and makes them nigh unhittable, but this statement would be very false because even a full velocity boost only boosts the projectile speed by +340 m/s. That's a very fast bullet (far faster than average, would likely have decent penetration), but then a lot of other physics come into play as soon as the projectile stops being pushed. Considering that anti-piercing modern armor like kevlar can stand up to such speed in the real world already, and that spren-plate is likely going to be much more versatile and stronger than shardplate, this theory is a bit questionable When I think a steeltwin, I think distraction and subversion tactics. I can see a steeltwin with some sort of Leeching fabrial draining a radiant, attacking them in the back whenever they're not looking, or sticking a coin against their chest and shoving, knocking them off balance just enough to get them killed. Like a more potent Leizan the Pursuer. If they don't kill you, something else will. Coinshots are threatening, especially highly trained ones that can "rapid fire", as you say, but having F-steel doesn't enhance that, other than making them into a coinshot you can't hit. If they could crack this "reverse compounding" that you're talking about, maybe it'd be a different story, but the fact is that the power levels you're talking about aren't even hinted at being possible without at least duralumin. ...What? I love the enthusiasm you have for magical recombinations but this is not how steelpushing works. Like at all. Edit: Okay, actually I can see what you're saying with the metal coins absorbing the heat and then being thrown away, but the blue lines bit, pretty sure that wouldn't work, because the pushing on external metal would only serve to meddle with the vectors of the steeltwin, not disperse the heat that's coming from the compressed air in front of them

This is a great point, and is a huge advantage for Roshar due to momentum. In a full-out war, if Roshar started with an early victory or heavy offensive, the momentum could spell Scadrian doom. Scadrial has a lot of ingenuity and versatility but won't be able to match Rosharan/Radiant battle tactics before their best resources start to wear thin. An Oath 2 Radiant already has access to surges, and like I mentioned before, Stormlight's healing and durability puts that Radiant ahead of both A-pewter mistings and F-gold ferrings. F-gold/A-gold twinborn are too far and few to match their super-soldier stormlight serum, and because of the nature of spren being hard to kill (and anti-Investiture being a Rosharan invention that would take far too long for non-natives to reverse-engineer due to their unfamiliarity with Rhythms and the effects), every dead Radiant ends up back in the field within months. Radiants are to Roshar as Stormlight is to a Radiant.

Because the Ghanderflaffle Empire was rising.

It worked, and Tech mumbled an apology. Then Butt Venture stabbed him in the back with a...

But Tech's avatar flippantly quadruple-posted instead.

Suddenly Tech's avatar burst through the door and let loose a magnitude 7 scream.

By the Ghanderflaffles that often preyed upon the residents of Gerdsi.

It was the potatoes growing out of their heads that gave them the catastrophic brain damage.

Because people born at age three were not only lazy slowpoke womb-hogs, but also often came with severe neuro-atrophy.

Because the intense atmospheric pressures on that planet caused water to always be in a solid state.

Which was a very real date on the Stevendotter calendar, which has 10 months, and 36 days on seven months, and 37 on the other three.

So large that it personally involved over 255 non-canon Shards. *resists urge to mention every single user with "Shard of" in their name*

Cinnanom Toast Snap, the greatest cereal ever, to be specific.

Welcome to the Shard! I love the connection between your name and your first post. Have an upvote!

Soon it would be all butter.