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But when Dalinar did this, he became a better man, he changed, he became a great father, honorable Highprice, and respectable leader who followed the Code of War. Moash on the other hand told Kal to kill himself, allowed Odium to torture and influence him, and killed their best friend. During that time Dalinar has changed for the better while Moash is descending further into darkness. This is not the same path.

I do agree that Hoid wants to fix his mistake, but Odium doesn't want to change or be influenced by another Shards: Odium was also wounded by his clashes with other Shards, so I don't know if he has enough power to rival Harmony: Hoid knows how dangerous Odium is, he probably knows what he plans to do with Cosmere, that's why he's gathering allies, to bring Odium under control, so Odium can't do more damage. But because Odium's intent is so destructive and hateful, I think Odium finds it easier to act and attack other Shards than others. It's not coming from power alone, but from intent as well.

I agree, Moash is responsible for what he does as a Vyre, he wants to be Vyre because it's easier for him. That's just cowardness as he doesn't want to face consequences of his own actions. As a character Moash is a well written anti-hero, I can see and understand why he is like this. It's a great character. I don't hate him. I do hate his actions, and what influence he has over other characters like Kaladin.

I don't want to spoil anything as well. I checked the chapter when I was writing that post, in it Kal asked Syl why there is no delay when he summons her as a blade, she answered that delay is only with dead ones. I took it as a confirmation. But If you guys think I revealed too much, please send me a private message and I will edit spoilers out. Dalinar's speech in ch 81 tells you they were fighting Voidbringers there. Stormform is a form of Voidbringers. Red eyes are their recognisable feature. Pash can take many forms, some of them, forms of powers like Stormform, are forms of Voidbringers, and when they take those forms, they become Voidbringers. Desolation is the time when Voidbringers Return. It was already all said in different parts of the books, Dalinar's visions and epigraphs. This reveal puts into a different perspective all of Shallan's flashback chapters and her father's actions. Her own mother tried to kill har, and Shallan had to defend herself. Her father took the blame and tried to hide it. He wanted to be a good father and protect her child, yet it ultimately destroyed their family and she had to kill him too to protect her brothers. Shallan went through so much trauma. Remebrer when you said Well, he died, and was resurrected! That sword is a very fun character. Here you also got explained a little why he was named Truthless, and that's basically all we know so far. Yeah, that was unexpected. So, what do you think? Was it the right thing to do? Was it morally justified? Do you agree with Adolin? I can't wait to read your reaction to it.

I don't know if there is any spiritual or cognitive image for Lifeless to heal to. There is some cognitive image, as Lifeless are aware, but I don't think this image includes soul repair and sapience. It depends on how the Breath that makes up the soul of a Lifeless perceive itself. If it feels it's complete, there is nothing to heal, if it feels that it lacks something, like a soul, it could heal the soul back. Afterall Breath is always attached to a soul, in a Lifeless that Breath might want to be with a soul again. If that's the case, which soul would it heal back? A new soul, depending on Lifeless personality? The Lifeless original soul that was with it when it was alive? The Awakener's soul? Or the person's soul who was born with this Breath?

I just stumbled across this WoB about Feruchemy: What metalmind do you think could have that effect? I think aluminum with Identity, duralumin with connection, or nicrosil with Investiture - as if Lifeless gets more invested it would expand its "soul" and gain it or something like this. I also thought about Zink with mental speed, but this would just make him think faster and I don't thnik it would be enough to make him fully sapient. Should I put this all in spoiler tag?

Yes, you can do it, you can do it with any body you get. But if you want that Lifeless to last longer, you need ichor-alcohol in his blood vessels, which also reduces the cost of Awakening, so alcohol is necessary for making Lifeless with one Breath. Alcohol and preperation of the body would still cost. I don't know how much, some people can afford Lifeless, so the middle class probably could buy one, especially when body is provided. Lifeless can't speak, and is grey, so nobody would mistake him for you anyway. Using your one Breath to make a Lifeless is probably the best use of it. However that Lifeless can only last several years, require regular maintenance, and after years of obtaining damage and body wearing off, it would require another Breath to keep it going.

You can give whatever command you want to Lifeless and change it whenever you want. That's actually very good use of a single Breath, but I think acquiring a corpse and alcohol for it might be expensive. But making Lifeless out of animals would cut the cost significantly, some ox or horse would be very useful for work and transportation. I doubt you could make yourself into a Lifeless. Your soul is still attached to your body, even for some short time after death, so Breath would not "stick" to it. Investiture of your soul would compete with the Breath and win.

That's different, it's a Dawnshard thing. It was already mentioned here that you need to "think" to burn or tap metals, that is how metal arts work. So even if someone would get decapitated, with enough full goldminds in his head (golden skull!), he would regrow his entire body back, before soul leaves.

Why not just put a few small goldminds inside of your brain? Your brain would just tap them when unconscious or even dead. The brain is able to fire electrical signals many minutes after death, or even hours if preserved. So the brain would just tap them out of habit, bringing you back to life. Far easier than chip.

Windrunner with Shardplate would be immune to damage done by friction and air. Shardplate however increases cross sectional area, but can be more aerodynamic so could reduce drag coefficient. However there is still the problem of compressed air in front of WIndrunner. The faster he goes the more compressed and denser the air in front of him becomes, the harder it is to move through it and accelerate even more. There would still be a moment when terminal velocity would decrease after adding more lashings. However, Windrunners could theoretically manipulate the pressure of the air. We still didn't see much of it in the books, but it is possible that a skilled Windrunner would be able to move in air with the density he wants. Who knows, maybe he could create a vacuum around himself and move without terminal velocity at all? Well, during free fall you experience 0 g forces - weightlessness. But Kaladin changes directions of the fall, thus changing the vector of acceleration - this should create g forces as inertia doesn't want his body to change the direction of falling, especially when he changes direction of fall to the opposite (from up to down). This is when the stress on the body is coming into play. And that's what happens in the books, not when falling, but when rapidly changing directions of the fall. So I think book is consistent with physics. Nicely explained, I agree.

Four? Brandon told us there are 9 secret organisations on Roshar, and we still don't know all of them! Yes, all Shardblades are dead sprens. That's why they scream in Kal's head. You've already seen in WoK Dalinar's vision (ch 52, Feverstone Keep) the moment those sprens were killed. Now Shallan and Kaladin both have living Shardblades, but not every order gets their at the same time, for Windruners it's 3rd Ideal, for others it might be earlier. Yet it still should be confusing with Shallan. The book is still not over yet. Kaladin and Szeth fight was sooo epic. I love it. Did it satisfy your expectations? Was it worth waiting? We will have to wait to know why Szeth was Truthless for book 5. There are some hints in the books, but no full picture yet. Everstorm has come. Voidbringers are back. Desolation has started. There is plenty of problems waiting for them to solve in book 3! Remember the first ever Death Rattle in the prologue of WoK? "It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes." It was already predicted, and Death Rattle was collected around 1000 days before the finale of WoR. Something from Elantris.

For that I'm affraid we're going to wait for second half of SA, that's when we will have Taln and Ash flashback books. SA 5 is Szeth, but some mechanics of Oathpact might be expleined as Dalinar might work with Ishar in Shinovar.

No, there is a limit. Air resistance. At some point air would create a wall of densely packed air in front of you, so you would have harder and harder time accelerating in that direction - like a space shuttle entering Earth's atmosphere, friction would burn you. So at some speeds Windrunner would have to constantly heal (this would probably happen before reaching the speed of sound), and his terminal velocity would drop down, as the air he's moving in is much denser than normally. Stacking more lashings wouldn't increase his speed then. For a 80kg person falling head first, with 0.5m2 cross sectional area, it would require more than 20 Rosharian g to break the sound barrier. But I doubt it would be a pleasant experience. I think in the Highstorms speed can be higher as the winds are moving the air with greats speeds in the same direction as Windrunner is going. So those speeds can be just added up. Winds push Windrunner and give him more speed, he doesn't have to push the air in fornt of him that much. In other words there is less air in front of him, than behind him. There are g forces, but he has Stormlight that heals him, so its not affecting him. I've checked in the book. He didn't count at all. It just said as many as he could. So in WoR ch 52 (Kaladin's first flight) there is clear evidence of g forces working - his stomach rising to his throat but Stormlight healed negative effects. He still feels some discomfort. But for the changes of directions at one time he's falling with great speed into the wall, and then in the last moment he lashes himself in the opposite direction, which slows down his fall into the wall, but doesn't stop him in the instant. So that would be proof that the change of directions is gradual. But in the other moment he's falling again into the wall, and in the last moment he lashes himself in two directions at once (to the back and to the side), which changes his falling direction (to the side) very fast (the moment with g forces). This shouldn't stop him instantly, and I think it didn't, and the result should be "gradual" deceleration and arch into the direction of that side he chose, but his movement wasn't precisely described. I guess I'm confused by the words "in the last moment” which suggest to me that he does that just before hitting the wall, which shouldn't be the case if it involves deceleration, then the last moment should be far away from the wall. So I don't really know. I guess he can change directions both gradually and instantly, depending on what Brandon wants him to do.

Every direction is down for Windrunners. So when Windrunners moves north, and suddenly changes lashings to south, he would have to first lose all speed in the north direction, before gaining speed in south direction. The direction change shouldn't be instantaneous. If he wants to change direction by an angle of 90 degree while moving very fast, he should make an arch, rather than a sharp 90 degree turn. I think a skilled Windrunner, like Kaladin, would have no problem with quick direction changes in urban areas. But during fight or pursuit Kaladin isn't moving at top speeds, more like with 1-3 lashings. With lower speeds he can easily maneuver and change directions fast and smoothly. I think that's how Kaladin moves - with arches and smooth turns, not sharp angles, but I don't remember, I would have to check in books. And Windrunner, unlike Mistborn, can fly above the city and from high away follow his target. He can just avoid all buildings. No: Windrunners - 200 mph (or 360 or so with the Highstorm), f16 - 1,345 mph, Boing 747 - 660 mph. Not in the atmosphere. In space, yes.

Tbf inertia and g-forces should be involved when changing directions, as you change direction of movement. But I guess Stormlight absorbs all the effects of this. And the object would not move to you following the shortest route - it has speed in one direction, it has to lose it in order to move in opposite direction. So like orbits work. That objects would make big arches, circles and spirals around you, not straight line. The bigger the speed, the bigger the arches, so you could maneuver easily to avoid them. But @IlstrawberrySeed gives us WoB, so it can't happen.

This wouldn't be hard to calculate, it's just free fall, but we don't know the numbers. Kaladin lashed himself "as many times as he could, until his Stormlight ended". That can be 10 lashings or even 100. And we don't know the distance between them. With that many lashings the difference between 1 and 2 meters would be enormous. Terminal velocity wouldn't be reached in 2 meters fall, so we could just ignore the air resistance, like we all love to do in physics. All Windrunners do is set up undefined point in space as a source of gravity, I see no reason why they can't set it up to some object - it would be more logical to do, as that's literally how gravity works. But maybe it's harder for Windrunners who don't know what gravity is and requires training. I don't remember this happening in the books.

Mass of the golf ball doesn't match its size and density. I've calculated mass of my rock from its volume and density. You used the same numbers so its the same rock with different drag coefficient. But ignoring this fact, terminal velocity is in the same range, so for a rock it's accurate Edit: for my spherical rock, with drag coefficient of a sphere being 0.5 and Rosharian g, the terminal velocity is 241.2091 m/s. But there is one value we can't know - air density. Roshar has different air composition and most likely also different air pressure due to different gravity. We can only assume Rosharian air is as dense as Earth's.

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I did, a few years ago, It was a surprisingly good show with a dark story. I like it.

Burning it allomantically by touching it? I don't think so, it has to be inside you. And Honorblade is not "actively being burnt" so nicrosil might be just useless.

Also, what I've just realized, I didn't change Drag Coefficient value, which was 0.294, corresponding to head diving human - for a sphere it is around 0.5 to 0.7 (after quick google search, it depends on its radius), so for 0.5 drag coefficient, terminal velocity would be 288.3978 m/s. no, 19.62 in cm2 /100/100 = 0,0019635 m2. 1 m2=10,000 cm2. You need to square the conversion factor too. Edit: I'm lazy, I used the calculators in which I can choose the units of each number. There was no mistake in conversion.

No, a cross-section of a sphere is just a circle Radius and diameter were not confused by me. Oh, yeah, I seen now what you mean. I'm using metric. 2.5 cm = 0.025 m. Metric is easy. Also you won't calculate precise speed on Roshar because of different values for drag coefficient and air density, which we just don't know.

Mistborn era 2 takes place after SA5, and before SA6.

I think that part of Diagram refers to the War of Reckoning, to push Alethi to destroy Listeners to destroy them, which would force them to turn to Odium and summon Everstorm, which would form a bridge, and bring back Desolations. All of that needs to be done before one of them obtains the powers of Surgebinding and Willshapers - Eshonai is that one of them who bonded a spren, missing piece as Willshaper sprens decided not to bond with humans. If Eshonai realized that she was a Radiant, Listeners would never summon Everstorm, instead they would bond with Willshaper sprens. This idea of "forming a bridge" isn't the first one - Nale was hunting Radiants to prevent them from forming a bridge which in his mind would bring back Desolations. What's hard about using Renarin's visions in combat like Atium, is that right now they manifest as stained glass pictures that sometimes do not provide clear information - it has to be interpreted. In current form they would be more distracting in dynamic fights than helpful. But it can change when Renarin progresses in his Ideals. Still, his ability is much more useful in planning on a grand scale than Atium could ever provide in individual fights.