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I am, on the other hand, a full fanboy of reverse-bond theory. During the trial it was Adolin who gave Maya strength and breath that made her speak. I suspect that Maya would take more and more from Adolin which would make her stronger, maybe even give her unique abilities, and create a new type of bond. In this case it would be spren who is "the Knight" and Adolin who "fills the cracks in Maya's soul".

That's what I've been waiting for! This is where Kaladin shines (literally). "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do." This means you're priceless? Yes, that was disappointing indeed. Oh you gonna love Lift's interlude! It's Awesome!

In SA5 there is no mention of it. But in RoW he did realize that Rayse is dead, he wasn't able to use that information before Taravangian wiped his memory of this and remade that conversation. So technically he did realize that, but for a very short time.

But if F-Iron didn't affect force at all, then falling on somebody would cause no damage, as this is also force. Yet it worked so many times. I still have a weird feeling there was a scene when Wax did it. Don't know where. Also Wax rarely have to fist fight.

I found english version of HoA (ch 78), just so I can quote this: This WoB still confuses me.

Gold heals, not pewter. Pewter gives strength. I think it would work similar to hypnosis. You could change your appearance with identity storing, and possibly connections (how people view you might also affect your ideal spiritual image), however you would need a lot of healing in your goldminds. But changing your center of perception would be too much. Your spirit is attached to your body, and this would most likely prevent you from changing your center of perception and doing those things - your soul is permanently stuck to your body. The same way you can't fill metalminds that you don't touch, you can't be in places, your spirit doesn't "touch". SA spoilers, WoB about hypnosis: Nice theory overall. Edit: WoB about identity and appearance

Yes, Adolin fights are just amazing. And you will get a lot of great Kaladin moments soon I beg your pardon! Remember Honor Chasm? When Kal was ready to jump? Or how she helped them to find herbs from which they made medicine? Or how she helped them find bodies when they were sent to the chasms for recovery? She did a lot. Right now she is providing more emotional and moral support, which is still important. Pattern is very helpful, but he likes lies and patterns and is good with recognising them. But that's just regular thursday for him, while Syl went out of her comfort zone, almost lost herself in the process, just to bring Kal poison leaf thinking it would help him. Yes, yes it it. And you're only halfway through.

I doubt it. It's the air resistance that stops you from reaching ludicrous speeds with F-steel, and compressed air increases air resistance. So while with brass you can igronre heat from friction and run a bit faster, friction still can cause you damage (every little particles, sand grains, insects etc would cut deep into your body like a bullet), and you still reach a moment when running through air would feel like running through water, and then further turning into feeling like running through solid concrete wall, just because there is so much air compressed in front of you. The only thing I know steel can make is makes you able to withstand G-forces from rapid acceleration. But unfortunately. you can't ignore air resistance.

No problem, no hard feelings on my side as well. I enjoyed this discussion with you, I had fun doing math. When you look at the math, the conservation of momentum is just a small moment in the whole problem which is resolved with the conservation of energy. They are issues with energy, but they can be "resolved" without breaking any laws and the discussed problem still remains logical. Yes they are broken, as seen in the math. However Cosmere has its own laws of conservation of energy and thermodynamics that aren't broken in this scenario. Also look again at WoBs you provided. It's stated multiple times that F-Iron provides only strength to uphold your new weight, not muscle strength or more endurance. This is the whole point. The only reason that Sazed or Wax is able to punch harder or withstand being punched is because the force is greater (F=Ma), Newton's 3rd law of dynamics, and inertia. They gain no strength, but because they are more massive, they are able to punch harder or be punched without being moved by it. But this doesn't apply to free fall. Overall it was fun to have this discussion with you, even if we didn't reach an agreement in the end.

Yes, I loved that as well! Well, let me just say that you won't be disappointed with what is going to happen from this point on

Yes! It finally happened! Was it worth waiting?

They create upward force that over time decelerates their fall. It's not instantaneous, it's happening over time. And there is no 500m tall buildings in Elendel. He creates an upward force, that over time decelerates his fall. All of this is consistent with physics. The energy is still there, but it's used to decelerate the fall, it's working towards other direction. Up this time, not down. There is nothing that magic needs to fix, this's simple force vectors. Because, there is air, there is drag, there is terminal velocity. That's why. When he fell through the ceilings, he did accelerate. You know, gravity? 9,81m/s2? there was like 2m between floors, how fast would he go? 10m/s? And he was stationary, 0m/s for starting speed. And what's more, mass has no effect on gravitational acceleration. That's basic physics. It also doesn't affect drag force, only terminal velocity. Him changing mass, doesn’t change his rate of acceleration. He stores that per what? Hour? Minute? Second? Millisecond? Picosecond? It's important to evaluate how much you get. And I don't think we know the ratio of storing exept X kg per time unit - as this is the only way it was explained - your number doesn't work that way. Diminishing returns (or what it's called when you tapping more than you store ratio was) will cut this number to a fraction of what it was, and that would only work for a moment, not time period, meaning, your speed would not get affected as the moment is not continuous, it's a point. Was he falling or was he stationary after reaching the top of his ascent and having 0 m/s speed? Or, what I said above, he used all of his mass instantly - instant isn't time period, instant doesn't last in time, it's a point in time. Therefore it's not affecting his speed, as in given time frame, his mass didn't change. Edit: I was right, in AoL when he destroyed a building with Steris (ch 19), he did it, after first reducing weight midair to gain speed, and after reaching top point in his arch with 0m/s speed, he took all the weight and used it in the moment. He said it's happening, and I remember him using that principle (I think) somewhere in the books, but because he didn't launch himself into space and burn in process for no reason, you deny it? Why would he go into space? Edit - He reduced weight to gain speed when he rescued Steris in AoL. How many time do I have to say, that iron is not pewter? You're not gaining any strength, you not gaining any endurance, durability, resistance. The only thing you gain is the ability to uphold your own weight. It's not pewter. No, because I'm saying if a regular person is able to do it without harm, then increased weight won't matter, it's still the same action. The ratio of "energy absorption per 1kg" or whatever didn't change. It's still the same energy per every kilogram he has. The additional energy that he absorbs is solely provided by his mass, and won't absorb any more energy that was there before changing mass - like in the falling scenario. No, because they provide force F, that works over time T and gives you acceleration A. Like real life physics. If a coinshooter starts pushing on a coin just before impact - he's dead. Nobody in the books did that ever. They all push far away to gradually decelerate and lose energy. Like it should work. And we know from WoBs that our physics still works like it should work in Cosmere. Energy can't disappear. The 1st law of thermodynamics exists. Conservation of momentum works. Conservation of energy also must work, and this is more important than momentum. And we know that IRON IS NOT PEWTER! This is the end for me. I've shown you the math. I've shown you the energy problem. I gave you an explanation that conserves both momentum and energy without breaking 1st Law of Thermodynamics. If this can't convince you, I'm just wasting more time trying to explain why you can't have 1m fall after falling for 499m.

Because of the density. But Skimmer DOESN'T change his density, bullets affect him as normal. The only thing that changes is his weight and ability to uphold that weight. Not strength, not endurance, not density. Stop telling me about speed, and start about ENERGY! That is what kills people, not a speed. People falling transfers potential energy into kinetic energy. Skimmer falling from a sky has a lot of energy in him - where does that energy go? It can't disappear - 1st Law of Thermodynamics - Energy cannot be created or destroyed. The energy that Skimmer accumulated during fall can't just simply disappear, when he changes his mass. What is happening to conservation of energy? It MUST be conserved. That's right. If energy doesn't go anywhere, the falling Skimmer has still the same energy, as falling human. Even with mass maniupulation, the energy is still the same. If that energy is able to kill a human, it also will kill a Skimmer, even if he will be having mass of 1mil kg. It's not a speed that kills, it's energy. And Skimmer doesn't have pewter. He's still as vulnerable as normal human, he can just uphold his body with more mass. We're talking about falling people, this has nothing to do with it... btw, did you know that when you drop an elephant from a skyscraper, it explodes in contact with the ground, while a squirrel just walks away like nothing has happened? He does, he talks about it with Kriss - The Bands of Mourning chapter 12. He tells her that when he decreases his weight to half, his speed doubles. Not when they have been previously falling with terminal velocity, and accumulated a crap ton of energy due to that fall - it can't disappear, it must be still with him. And if it's with him, then he will be dead when he impacts the ground, even if it's with lower speed. How about we do some math to prove my point? Can you? That's it. This is the math. Feel free to check it out.

Investiture resists other forms of investiture. Nightblood is the most invested object in Cosemere, full of corrupted Breaths. I doubt Sja-Anat has enough investiture to break through, and Nightblood would just consume it anyway. Touching Nightblood might not end well for Sja-Anat.

Not all Allomancy is fueled by Preservation - Atium and it's alloys are fueled by the Atium, Ruin investiture, itself. I doubt making everyone into Mistborn would weaken Preservation - this rewrites Spiritual DNA of a person, making connections, but they are not invested with pure investiture (I think so), but they have connections in Spiritweb that allow them to use Aloomancy Investiture used by Allomancy returns to Preservation, so it isn't weakening him Also, about hemalurgy - during the final battle in HoA, when Elend fights Marsh, Elend's allomancy was fueled directly by Vin and it looked like Ruin was doing the same to Marsh. I do agree with the explanation above, but this fight makes me think that Ruin could fuel hemalurgic allomancy if needed.

Ruin care about the end result, which is death and increasing entropy. Cultivation cares about change, growth, good or bad, doesn't matter as long as it changes. Cultivation side can change in such a way, to make people more destructive, or die as the end result, thus satisfying both intents.

I've found this WoB which suggest that power didn't have to be used This doesn't however mean that someone at one point held the power of the Well, neither released it or used it, until it disappeared. One of the Ascended might use its power to create Lerasium that was placed near the Well.

Don't tell me you wouldn't want to do it? If I were on Roshar, one day I would surely face Highstrom as long as I could. I like storms. I think that it was the first time for Shallan to witness an incoming Highstorm from that close, and her scientist instincts just took over. Maybe, but he is a Highprince, and relative of the King, heir of the Kholin House. He is one of the most powerful people in Alethkar, and suddenly some girl out of nowhere is his fiancee. Maybe they don't like him (most likely all of them dated him at some point), but they like the power he has. So she is in the room with all of Adolin's exes. Probably. The Emperor's Soul. Short novel. Forger can make object look different.

Endowment seems pretty chill. For people of Scadrial it is understandable why they think that way. After all, for thousands of years Ruin wanted to kill them all, and only Preservation was stopping him from doing that. It is not known if Ambition settled on Threnody. There was a battle of 3 shards there, with chunks of Ambition being thrown into Threnody. So I wouldn't say it's a good example. I wouldn't call Roshar balanced. You know, dozens of Deslations and near human extinctions that happened there aren't really sign of "balanced" system. But you are right. No Shard is inherently evil, and no shard is good as well.

Nightblood leaks corrupted investiture, not Ruin. So I have no idea how it would behave.

It's not just the speed that matters. It's the energy! You still have that energy when impacting! Force is there. Your impact would be still very forceful. It's still deadly. Conservation of energy must also be fulfilled. Where did that energy that he already accumulated by falling went? Disappeared? It can't. Energy can't be destroyed. Where is that energy, which determines if impact with ground is deadly or survivable? This is what is important. It can't just go away. It's still with him. Edit Also tricky thing, with near instantaneous changes of speed, G forces should be involved. But this is weird physics, as falling objects in our world can't just change mass to change its speed like a Skimmer can. Deceleration is happening here - kind of. So I don't know if G forces are applied here, but if they are, G forces alone would kill him, when changing mass that drastically.

Yes, but Harmony was not the only option Sazed could have become, he could also be Discord. It is likely Discord would not have the same limitations as Harmony. Combination of two Shards can have more than one intent, depending on a Vessel.

Ruin and Cultivation, they are both about change. Maybe Devotion and Endowment also. Devotion was said to care and provide for people, and Endowment is about gifting. But those are Shards with intents which align, but it doesn't mean that Shards with opposite intent would be as unable to act as Harmony.

No, just half of Shard's investiture, it would react with the other half and annihilate completely. Like matter anti-matter reaction. But to harm it severely or maybe even splinter it, even less than half be enough, which is still an insanely large amount of anti-investiture. Shards hold near infinite power. So what is half of infinity? But just to collapse perpendicularity, if Nightblood could do it, then enough anti-investiture could also collapse it, without harming any Shard however.

We don't know what had happened to magic on Ashyn, we know however that now it is some kind of illness based system from WoBs - how it works, we don't know. Some WoBs: Singers most likely didn't have access to full Surgebinging powers, as It's sprens who mimic what Honor did with Honorblades gave first surges to humanity. Also one of Parshendi songs says Which implies, humans were the first to use full Surgebinding on Roshar. Singers had most likely access to some form of powers derived from their spren bond in gemheart, but how much power, or what could they did with it? We don't know. We only know what stone showed Venli in RoW.