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    There are multiple ways to achieve agelessness in Cosmere, one of which is being a Dawnshards and giving it up (Hoid). If Ishar did that (we don't know who was a Dawnshard on Ashyn), he was basically immortal after giving it up. Plus Ishar was a Ashyn Bondsmith, capable of manipulating connections, and age is a connection thing, which he might be able to manipulate to extend their lives. I believe what kickstarted the first Singer's Desolation was humanity starting to attract more emotion sprens (Eshonai mentioned Listeners are worse at attracting those sprens than humans) and more importantly, humans attracting True Sprens (and maybe even bonding them without gaining Surgebinding - that will come after Oathpact), After all, the Songs of Secrets sings: But it happened likely during "first" human Desolation, when humanity invaded the rest of the Roshar from Shinovar, breaking the pact. But remember Nale's flashback, in which he told Jezrien that he's surprised and honored that Jezrien asked his enemy, Nale, to join the Oathpact? That's fishy for me, and makes me think that humanity was divided and fighting each other at the same time. And that really makes me think that some Fused aren't Singers turned into Cognitive Shadows, but they were originally humans (Leshwi was a Singer, so not all of them). And if that's true, this might mean that the first Desolation with Fused, was humans fighting humans, not invading Roshar, and Singers were fighting with humans against Odium. Oathpact was made, Heralds were born, Fused were bound, and Singers saw that humans were attracting their beloved True Sprens bonding them and giving them surges, and turned away from Honor towards Odium.
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    In this case I imagine that he quietly entered the house and cut the throats of their kids. Different cultures I guess. That's weird for me too. That makes no sense at all. But if they were just collateral damage Nohodon would say "he killed my Knight/guards and some of my scribes", not that he killed all scribes and only them. They were the main objective of Yelig-Nar. And that makes sense if they were the only target he could kill without getting killed in return by Radiants. The way Amaram fought with 2 Shardblades gives me little hope that Yelig-Nar would be able to face several Radiants without any Shardblade and come on top of them.
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    If a robber enters your house quietly in the night, steals your belongings and exits without you noticing, wouldn't you call it "breaking in"?
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    I don't think simple determination would allow you not to pass out from pain, that's maybe a bronze thing, but it certainly would allow you to keep cutting yourself despite your body's natural instincts pushing you to stop this. But you can store pain senses in tin, so that's no pain at all, and electrum is not needed again. Yeah, unless you combine those two together and be able to upload memories and data from your phone directly into your brain and the other way around too as well.
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    Illumination? He could just put an illusion on himself, sneaked into the palace, killed all scribes and ran away before all those Radiants shattered him into Damnation. But he did nearly kill Kaladin, but I doubt he would stand a chance against him without 2 shardblades and multiple Fused harrasing Kaladin and Dalinar whom Kaladin was protecting.
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    I've won my first day by just posting 30 memes or so. Memes are the way to go! I wonder too. I guess it first calculates reputation from all posts you got at that day, giving you a false "day won", but later it adds reputation from all different areas like from images, blogs etc, taking away your victory. But tbf I don't know even how the leaderboard works. I see on April 25 I'm 3rd with 33 points (what? how?), but clicking on that day I'm 4th with 19 points. For me this looks like Old Magic!
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    That's hilarious. Doug should be a 0 reputation points rank. Every new Sharder would be just another Doug.
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    Who would have thought Koloss likes Scadrial? They have a magical blockade in their mind, and when they overcome it with help of Blessings, they become Kandra. Each of them have a potential to become a fully capable, almost immortal Kandra, but their stuck in a mindless form. SA spoilers: Now if you think that using Mistwraiths as pets is ethically dubious, what do you think about Sazed actively denying them even the possibility of achieving full mental capabilities by granting them new Hemalurgic Blessings? Which is worse, killing one group of people to give another group of people full mental awareness, or keeping them permanently mentally disabled, but saving people from death by spiking? Is there even a good choice to be made here?
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    Oh no, this gave me the idea of using A-Bendalloy to create a 100h work day. Here you medallion with A-Bendalloy, F-Bendalloy and F-bronze, here are your 10h worth of tasks that you have to submit in 1h. And you get paid for a normal hour, not the bubble hour.
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    You can't create emotions, you can't soothe or riot emotions that a person doesn't feel. If you have freshly changed guards, full of energy, rioting tiredness won't work, because they don't feel tired yet. It really depends on the situation, because at some point rioting and soothing won't work. Like Vin in HoA ch 44 did, when sneaking into a Fadrex cave - first she created a situation for guards to feel emotions, then she manipulated those emotions.
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    No, conservation of momentum is conserved m1v1=m2v2, but conservation of energy on the other hand is just broken into pieces. But in the case of what you propose, increasing the mass of the projectile right before the impact would reduce the kinetic energy as we understand it - E=mv^2/2 - speed attributes much more to kinetic energy, as it is squared, than mass. Yup, the CopperWeb is a cool name, but the security would be a nightmare. Could you store a corrupt investiture in your metalminds which would be transferred to everyone else's copperminds corrupting them? A copper virus? Like melting a full bronzemind into a coppermind, which now has full bronze investiture inaccessible to anybody?
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    No, it's in the far future of the Cosmere: It's almost certainly on the First of the Sun. Talking spaceships, laptops etc. But about Aons on the picture without any chasm line, I have this feeling Brandon or Howard were talking about it on the livestream, but there is no WoB about it. However one Aon, first Aon Aon, has to have the chasm line drown, rest can be without it. It is still missing from the image, maybe they "fix" the chasm? WoB: Isn't it more surprising that both Riina and Hoid can draw Aons on another planet with full strength so far away from Elantris? Not that a painting is missing a line? TLM spoilers: And welcome to the Shard
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    This randomness is suspiciosly not random... I knew it! You lied to us! No, you would have to shuffle through every memory to find the correct one to know what move to make next - which is a very time consuming process, and professional chess is timed. You would run out of time if you try to do it during a competition. But it would help you to prepare for that competition for sure. How I imagine copperminds works is like a library. First you go to the catalog, which you yourself made, find what you're looking at, and go for those memories, tap them, write them down and store them back - repeat that with every memory that contains what you're looking for. This is the very thing that Sazed is doing. Scrolling through his catalog, tapping multiple memories, writing all of them down and then using that. And it takes time. Good when you have time to prepare, not so good when the clock is ticking. Yes, that's what I was thinking as well. Whenever you met a new person, just store everything almost immediately, so you won't forget anything, and later in the privacy of your home, analyze it to find "weak" points in that person: what enraged him, what was his reaction to what you said/done, what made him happy, sad, every slight detail in his posture, mimics etc - write it down, and create a shortened list of how to manipulate that person, and store it. With this you could be far more effective in manipulating other peoples, because you can get much more details from a single conversation with them. Probably better at reading the room. Or picking up small details in people's behavior. How about Wormtongue?
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    Or use F-steel. I can't believe you didn't think of this - RAILGUN. Just replace magnets with primar cubes charged with A-steel or A-iron and you have a railgun that doesn't need electricity at all.
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    Yes, visual memory will help more. But here is a problem, Sazed noted how hard it is to store visual memories, as they fade and change very quickly. Sazed had also in the Terris a copy of unused Keeper's copperminds, with all knowledge of Keepers, just so they can't be changed by him constantly tapping and storing back memories, Doing that makes memories fade and change. Those additional pair of copperminds were said to be used by him in case he had to recite the knowledge of Keepers to a new Keeper. Storing visual memories of fights would be very short-lived help, quickly fading and changing beyond its usefulness. Not something you can learn from. I agree, F-copper is very useful, I personally like it a lot, but it has big limitations.
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    Well, theoretically spren can bond another spren. Is that similar to attracting emotion sprens in PR? A little.
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    Shardblade cuts the current soul of a living person, Breath replaces the now missing soul of the body with itself in Lifeless. Lifeless will be fine. Mostly. There would be very minor side-effects, that's it: Yup, see the WoBs above. Yes, they will lose control over the cut off limb. Breath replaces the soul, Breath is now cut in two pieces, it's still in the arm, but is unconnected to the bigger piece, making it dead. Just like in the case of a living person. That's a good one. I don't know. Breaths are more sticky in the Physical Realm, a Shardblade cut through the spine might not sever the Breath from the Physical Realm, as it already exist largely in it, stuck here. I don't know. Adding one more thing, a Lifeless that is more invested than with a single Breath, let's say 50 Breaths, or something like a Kalad Phantom, would resist a Shardblade cut to some degree (Vasher's Awakened straw man was invested with around 25 Breaths iirc):
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    Good catch, but I would find it very anticlimactic if Todium just did what Sadeas did in WoR. Plus Dalinar and Rayse did specify earlier that the duel will take place in 10 days and this might be extended into the contract itself.
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    Didn't we already have this one with Scadrial? You give them a Fullborn? Well, Scadrial wins. After all, a Fullborn already conquered a 1800s world in the past. WW1 tech doesn't give them anything that could harm a Fullborn. You need modern technology to achieve this, satelites, precision guided hypersonic missiles, huge explosions etc. Normal artillery won't do that. Now without a Fullborn (and without Harmonium-Trellium nukes), WW1 tech does have a significant edge over Scadrial - planes. Scadrial already have early WW1 tech, they are very close in the time frame, but they don't have planes, bombers, blimps etc. Scadrial only has AA batteries to deal with them, normal Allomancy won't help them shoot bullets up kilometers high. This is a big advantage. On top of that we don't know what Malwish warships can do, how they are armed etc. They have bombs, but do they have guns? Artillery? Machine guns? We don't even know if Malwish are on the same technological level as the Basin - I doubt so, skyscrapers and electricity seemed to be alien to them. Because of their size and slow speed, they would be sitting ducks for WW1 warplanes. Hard to bring down, but unable to fight back. Plus Earth has training and tactical advantage. Outside of artillery, dynamite thrown at a short range and nicrosil boosted coinshoters/lurchers (without pewter to enhance their body, they might not be able to damage a tank), Scadrial has no means of dealing with tanks of WW1 - they don't have tanks of their own. I could once again bring up numbers, we know Scadrial has currently an army numbered around 30k troops, but I think this is pointless, we all know millions of soldiers, tens of thousands of pieces of artillery, thousands of planes and hundreds of warships were involved in WW1. Even with Metalic Arts, Scadrial would have a hard time dealing with this. Then if you do the same thing like with Roshar vs Earth, and make one province into an Earth-like WW1 tech, with a larger population, massive artillery, planes and tanks would give them significant advantage over Scadrial. But with a Fullborn on Scadrial side? Scadrial wins.
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    He didn't learn it, he had them memorized, like a dictionary. It took him months to fully translate the book. I think he even mentioned it one time that it's not as practical as it seems. Martial arts are different. Good memory won't make you a fearsome warrior. You can learn correct stances and strikes from a book, but that would only help you train, and won't make you a fighter. You need to physically train your body to develop correct habits and muscle memory (which isn't memory). Plus a book is not that good medium for martial art learning, it can only show you a part of correct position, not the whole movement, because of that you can learn bad things, bad positions, bad stances and moves, reinforce it and be at a disadvantage when you meet a real martial artist.
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    Intent plays a big role in what you can do. And now, the spread of information is far faster and greater than it used to be under the Final Empire. Metalborn just knowing that they can do something will help them do it. Like compounding - inquisitors under Ruin's control didn't figure out compounding because they were lacking correct intent. Now there are people like Miles who just do this. Allomancy is evolving into wider power applications. With bronze people now are able to detect Feruchemy, because they know it exists and they know they can do it, even if it’s harder. Powers will get stronger, because of the spread of knowledge and intent. If some people learn on their own that they can control their burn rate in a greater range, they will pass this knowledge to other Allomancers, who would have an easier time figuring it out on their own. And after a few decades, this will be just a common thing. I'm not saying it will happen soon, but in the future. The WoBs about powers evolving over time:
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    That can't be the sole case. After WoR, during OB and RoW, people now know that Shardblades are sprens. Shardbearers are now perceiving them differently and yet only Adolin menaged to make Maya better. What Adolin did was important. He might not only change his perception of Maya, but change Maya's perception of herself, which might be another important factor. I couldn't find anything about how spren's perception influences other spren, but it might be mostly about human perception:
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    Reduced mental speed might make you to store all Feruchemical attributes at a reduced rate, as using F-steel for physical speed will change the rate at which you burn Allomantic metals. Burning metals is a physiological/physical process, so it fits that physical speed will change its rate. Similarly, storing/tapping attributes might be more of a mental process, which could change the rate at which you store them. But in the case of Feruchemy, there is no WoB on that, like in the case of Allomancy: Time bubbles will change the rate at which you're storing metals (from the outside perspective), because your personal time frame is changed. 5 minutes for you in a bendalloy bubble is like 10 seconds from someone outside the bubble (numbers aren't accurate) but for you 5 minutes has passed, and you can burn 5 minutes of metal or store 5 minutes of attribute. It's time dilation. For example, Rioter or Soother inside a bendalloy bubble could achieve a duralumin levels of emotional Allomancy, by simply burning their metals, because of time dilation: You know, i'm something of a steelrunner myself.
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    The only thing I can think of is when you're a full Feruchemist and you don't want to store attributes in metalminds because it's very uncomfortable and painful to do so. Bad sight, taste, hearing, no strength, slow as a snail, cold, ill, thinking painfully slow etc. This is a very effective discouragement from keeping your metalminds full, and a bit of determination will help you overcome that. But that's really it in terms of applications with a combination of other metalic arts. Maybe when you're a Hemalurgist who wants to gain power, but really doesn't want to kill people, extra determination will help (you, not the person you're going to kill). But that's not really a combination with other power.
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    You can do more than burn and flare, you can burn in between normal burn up to flare, and even burn less than normal burn. WoB:
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