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Gavilar in SA 5 prologue wasn't bonded with Stormather yet. He couldn't find the right words.

I have nothing more to add as both @Firesong and @therunner explained my view on Jasnah and her atheism better than I ever could. I don't know why you're so confused by it @bmcclure7. Just because she accepts that Shards exist, that beings like Hoid or Heralds exist, doesn't mean she has faith in them, that she believes religiously in them, or that she worships them. She refuses to accept that those beings are divine, that they are supernatural and that they are Gods. That's what makes her atheist. She thinks their greater power comes from natural sources, that it can be explained and measured, and we on this forum know that's true, as investiture in Cosmere is natural, it's just energy in a different state. Their powers come from Connections and Spirit Web. They aren't supernatural in Cosmere, they can be replicated and that makes them a simple science. Jasnah calling Hoid "a god" doesn't mean she believes in him, or she accepts him as a god, any more than it makes an atheist on Earth a Christian by saying "oh God". While one can worship forces of nature as gods on Earth, it doesn't mean that acknowledging wind's existence makes you a believer in a wind deity. Those people assign divine attributes to natural phenomena, that's what makes them believers. Does Jasnah do that? No. She does the opposite. She takes divine attributes and divine beings and assigns them natural explanations. She refuses to accept that those beings are gods and worthy of being worshiped as for her they are just a part of nature, not divine at all. That's atheism. Compare it to Dalinar's position. He similarly refuses to accept that Shards are gods, despite knowing they exist and they hold greater power, he refuses to accept that Adonalsium was a god, instead he believes that there must be another, true God, one that can't be killed, can't be seen, and exists in the Beyond. He's a believer not because he believes Shards exist, but because he believes there is a different divine being out there, who isn't Honor, nor Almighty, nor Cultivation or Odium.

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It might or it might not. It's really hard to say. At least when struck by a real Shardblade it should work like a Shardblade. Yes, but in a different way you think about it. Axi is the Cosmere term because it's composed of matter, energy and investiture, while atoms are composed of matter and energy. So yes, investiture changes Axi making them more invested, not necessarily transforming it into a different element (but one could argue this can be done, like with Awakening and considering now Nightblood as a god metal) An eye patch could be too little. Coinshots are able to see steel line through walls. A piece of material isn't that much. It depends how much Breaths are in this rope. It will make it harder for sure. But this should work, it's like putting a metalmind inside the body. Dead one would block it, living one might too, because different types of investiture are involved, investiture resist investiture, it might prevent your Allomancy from working outside.

It matters in the case of Nightblood. Nightblood wouldn't work as a glass sword. Not like he works right now. As a glass sword it might work more or less like a regular Shardblade. Might, it's hard to say as apparently Nightblood can be treated as a god metal now.

I fully agree. For her Shards can't be gods as Honor was killed, Adonalsium can't be a god as he was killed as well. She doesn't have any proof for a God to exist and rejects the idea of Shards being them as they are more like forces of nature like wind or waves - a natural part of the world. They aren't worth worshipping. She accepts the idea of being with greater powers existing as there is irrefutable proof for that, accepts that people do worship those beings, but she refuses to accept them as gods, which is logical for her. I see no problem with her calling Hoid "a god" as she simply acknowledges that he is on this power level above mortals, so high that others can even worship him (and Horneaters do worship him). Even Hoid doesn't acknowledge Shards as gods (WoR epilogue).

It looks like Tanavastium might be much harder and stronger than steel. We know from TLM that Harmonium is as soft as gold, which is 2.5 on the hardness scale and steel is 4.5. Trellium has the hardness of 9, which is just below diamond at 10, but is also very brittle. It means it's far more invested than an Honorblade. That's it. In this case it's about investment nor physical properties. I will say no, because their souls are colliding (WoBs confirm significantly invested fabric can stop a Shardblade). It's different with aluminum which isn't invested and can be physically cut. Definitely much less than that. Few dozens or tens. Investiture. If that was only because of steel, Shardblades and Honorblades would have been clipped long before that as it isn't so hard to hit its side or not-sharp edge with an iron/steel mace or sword. Glass isn't a metal. Nightblood wouldn't work as glass. If it was sentient? Very likely. A club wouldn't cut so it could behave very differently than Nightblood. Investiture.

I had little time yesterday as I've just received my fresh and beautiful copy of Yumi so I was busy sniffing it being excited over it. I've checked your math and your mass is off by 0.006 - outrageous! Just kidding. But your planet's mean density is very low, lower than the Moon's density. But you've explained why this is the case so no problems here. That's a very, very, very thick crust. Impossibly large. What about the mantle? Where is it? Why does it go straight down to the core?? What happened there? I admit, the setting sounds cool. It definitely would work as well with just tectonic plates floating on the liquid mantle or something less dramatic. But: How deep do they sink? What about water and oceans? Does water drop down from the plate's edge into the core? How much tidal forces affect the rising and falling of plates? Does the core glow from in between plates? What about air currents in cracks? Shouldn't the air keep rising heated up by the core so you could just glide from plate to plate like Link? Living near the edge of one plate would be cool. I have problems with this. Rant incoming: Maybe it cleanses your soul from connections to different Shards? It stores them just like copper/aluminum does. Right, that makes sense. This explains a lot Overall this is a very fun place to live. I wonder how this rising and falling of plates would have felt like. I like it. Especially dropping criminals into the core. That sounds fun. Culture is interesting and the use of god metal has some very interesting applications. Very fun indeed. I wonder what invested art could arise on such a planet.

The WoB is the answer to that. It said that "the spike is keyed to identity" and you can't spike different people without blanking them first, while you can spike the same people multiple times. That means it isn't about spike not being able to hold multiple charges, it's about it not being able to properly handle multiple charges with different identities. You have to blank people before spiking them for the spike to be able to use multiple charges. Melting a spike would do the same as spiking different people with the same spike. Identity will prevent it from functioning properly. Read that WoB again. The Set was able to give Metalborn powers with it, but it stopped working soon after. The problem is most likely tied to identity as well. That's what you get at best after melting different spikes. TLM ch 47 You are right about Koloss.

Spikes are keyed to identity (the important part of that WoB). Once you have multiple identities in a single spike, what identity is this spike keyed to? It would be like a metalmind filled by two different feruchemist, they can only access one charge, not the other. There is interference that would prevent this spike from working, just like Set's experiments proved. Either only one charge would work, or it would work only for a short time, or this interference would prevent it from working at all. It wouldn't. Even Koloss in Era 1 were reusing their iron spikes and they were spiking new people with already charged spikes. Powers didn't add up, they either got overwritten or only the newest charge was working, while the rest were laying dormant. Melting two spikes would be like melting two pewterminds keyed to two different Feruchemist - each of them can access only one charge, not both. Identity is a huge problem with spikes, Set proves this, era 2 compounding as well. They need to be blanked first, then melted - that could work.

Per the WoB I've posted above and Set's experiments from TLM, I think it's confirmed that a single spike must contain only charges with the same identity or blanked identity. That's why melting spikes together won't work.

Then I would guess it would work like melting metalminds. If they are the same metal, their charge can be usable, but only one of them, because there is still a problem with identity. If every spike were identity blanked, then you would have a working spike with multiple charges adding together. If you melted different metals together they won't work at all, it would likely cause pain as misplaced spikes do.

No. Different types of spikes require different binding points. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hemalurgy#/media/File:Hemalurgy_table.jpg I also think every binding point can hold only one spike , and a welded spike isn't one, it's multiple different ones. Either only one would work and rest would cause pain, or everything would be messed up. Welding them together would likely mess up part of their charge and function too. Not in this case, it's about welding, not melting them. Welding them would just attach different metals together, only melting them in the welding point, which would create alloy and problems as well. It would weaken the charge but most of it should still function. It wouldn't work. Spike can't hold multiple charges with different identities. A welded spike would be counted as multiple spikes with different charges, not one spike.

We don't know. We don't know how the Shattering looked like and what was happening there. We don't know how strong is the relation between Dawnshards and Shards, we only know that we can group 4 Shards with 1 Dawnshard and that's it. We know that different Shards could be made and maybe even in different numbers. I doubt it looked like you said because all of the 16 Shards were created at once, and this isn't really "at once". But at this point everything is possible.

I think it's about physically feeling pain/harm. Kelsier now has a body, he can feel pain. I don't think Hoid can slap him again because of that. Hoid was about to do that in SH because he was without a body, he shouldn't feel pain at all. So I think Hoid can't physically hurt anyone that has a body, but those already dead without a body he can. He can wait for people in CR to die and slap them in their faces for fun but nothing more. He can't hurt Fused or Heralds or Returned. Maybe he can hurt Shades but that's a bit risky for him as they can hurt him back. Spren are different, they never had bodies, but they can still feel pain. They can still be hurt. Natum in RoW was wounded by physical attacks, he had wounds and his glow was diminished. I don't think Hoid can slap them. SH ch 2.1: But could Hoid remove Kel's spike and slap his CS? Maybe. Technically he wouldn't cause any harm to Kelsier, only to the body (which is most likely a Mistwraith's body), but this might still stop him from removing a spike. Why would he fight Fused? He was threatened by Odium, not Fused.

Yes. No, because you physically weren't in PR. You were in CR, which is different from PR. You physically traveled into CR and from there you just took a short walk. Because in Cosmere you have this another dimension kind of, like another layer of spacetime, you bypass this problem by using that layer (CR) to physically travel to another planet in days. But you weren't in PR at all. This problem simply doesn't apply because CR is different from PR. In CR, photons that you emitted on Scadrial already pass Roshar when you arrive there, you arrived there after those photons arrived on Rosharan subastral. Everything checks out. You have to look at photons in CR not PR, because you're in CR and you're traveling in CR, not PR.

The speed of light is still the same. The only difference between CR and PR is that CR is shorter - where there is no mind, there is no space in CR. Therefore the distances between planets are literally just a few steps. But the speed of light is still the same. A person from PR would say that a person in CR traveled faster than the speed of light because of that, but the person in CR just made a few steps, definitely not even close to the speed of light. But those are different dimensions. No, just few steps as once he leave Rosharan subastral, he's in space and because in space there is no minds, CR is very contracted and doesn't represent space. So he only have to take few steps and is on Scadrial. Once you on the edge of subastral it would take you most likely minutes to get to another subastral, and in PR minutes would also pass, not years. WoB found, it takes just days to cross a space in between planets in CR. Days will also pass in PR. SH spoilers: TLM spoilers: But Shards or Stormfather can likely cause time dilation in both realms, as any massive amounts of investiture brought into PR or CR will cause time dilations. Another person stepping into the perpendicularity will get affected by the bubble in PR when he travels to PR, or a person in a bubble in PR will step out of the bubble when he goes through the perpendicularity. Just normal leaving and entering bubbles.

There is another option. It's like the First From the Sun, there is (or was) an active Avatar on this planet. And other Shards used to have Avatars too, it's possible this is one of those worlds. Don't focus too much on Invested Arts connection with a Shard. What does Allomancy has to do with Preservation? Or Sand Mastery with Autonomy? On the first glance almost nothing. Ember people's connection with this Shard might be similar. Also didn't Ember people have embers in their heart? It fits with a valiant heart and thus with Valor. But their use of embers and this world setting fits with Invention very well (they have to keep moving or they will die) and Valor too (they live in a place where sun wants to kill them).

That's a good idea However. I disagree with "we can keep a question proposal board open at all times" because as Chaos said older posts would get updated more or even people would vote for questions already answered. But a thread created, when the announcement of a new spoiler stream is released, for people to post their questions and vote, would be certainly a great idea. Brandon's team can easily pick up a few questions from there. To add more, the rule should be that a single person can post only one question. so no single person can throw dozens of questions (which we all have) at Brandon and clog the thread.

Interesting. I see no reason why it couldn't be true, because we know only this death rattle and nothing more. Hoid is trying to encourage Kaladin to tell stories, especially in WoR ch 59 Fleet. But if that's true then what does it mean? What does it mean for Kaladin to hold them in his palm and play a tune no man can hear? And why in the night? Speculations - a "tune no man can hear" might refer to Singer's rhythms or pure tones of Shards, he might learn just like Navani to hear them and play them to help people recover from mental illnesses, thus "holds us in his palm", cause as long as he plays them it helps them (most likely Heralds) recover for a moment. And it is happening in the night because my personal theory is that Stormfather will be deadeye as a result of the Contest of the Champions and it will cause perpetual Weeping with no Stormlight - thus the night. Kaladin playing the tune of Honor might protect people from Odium or even somehow make Stormlight on his own. It's a wild guess but still fun to theorize.

If the spike is already charged it won't. It depends on the intent and binding point. If your intent is to charge a spike and hit one of four points in the heart it will work, elsewhere won't.

Some Seers were killed before their Atium ran out. They charged ahead to distract Ruin and because that's multiple layers of defense - giving people inside more time to hide and in case they needed to retreat to entrance (which they did to resupply their Atium). It wasn't even about glory, Koloss were already proven to be stunned by a charge made by humans in the very first chapters of HoA. Attacking the Koloss army was to kill as many of them as possible, before they started to react and fight back. That was a tactic already proven to work. That's what Eland knew. They needed to burn all Atium as fast as possible for Ruin to not realize what's going on. That was their main goal.

The limits of electrum are yet to be explored. There is a lot you can do with it, you need to train or use it properly. When used with duralumin it can achieve the same effect as Atium burned with duralumin at the end of HoA - peer directly into the Spiritual Realm and see the future in more detail. But regularly burned electrum still can be useful in fighting, it's just very hard to master, because there are so many different shadows you see and you can react to. But you can learn to do that. Some additional powers, like feruchemical zinc (mental speed) would likely allow you to process electrum shadows faster and thus use them more effectively.

You can hang on your shirt or trousers that's why they can toss somebody around, but pummeling might be weaker, as clothes do not have a lot of mass and are squishy. Depending on the thickness of the wire. Thinner would cut, thick would toss aside. Depending on speed. Even a thick metal wire can rip flesh out if it's fast enough. Thick and fast ropes, wires or chains are deadly and brutal. Yes. I guess so. No. They're dead. Lifeless don't produce blood, urine or any other body fluids or solids. They're dead. Spiders won't produce any silk. Flexible no. Even in their size they might not be able to be big enough to lift a person up - it's still metal, heavier than fabric, you would need bigger wings for that (and Rosharan are bigger and heavier than Earth humans, but lower gravity compensate for that).

How would you ensure that the bullet will stay in the body and not pass right through it just like it does in most cases? Or that it doesn't deform on impact like it usually does? Or that it won't shatter? Bullets don’t stop in the body where you want them to. The softer material you use for bullets, like aluminum, the easier it will break and deform. That's why lead is used to make bullets, as they are super dense, but it passes through the body.