digitalbusker

That is outdated science, I'm afraid. Neanderthals were not dumb, as best we can tell. They were outcompeted by Cro-Magnon for reasons that probably had to do with dietary requirements, environmental changes, and hunting techniques. The fact that most humans think of parsh as lesser beings, despite the fact that there's been small but significant interbreeding, is actually a pretty good Neanderthal parallel by itself.

I see. No, I just wasn't showing my work. The Wikipedia entry for G-LOC says that somebody who is trained and fit and wearing a g-suit shouldn't start having trouble until about 9g. I figure without the g-suit we can knock off a couple, which gets us to 7g, which, coincidentally, is 10 lashings on a world with 0.7g gravity. Hence "double digit lashings". Tada!

Probably not, except in the perfect camouflage sense of putting an image in front of you that shows what's behind you, which would be too much for a mere mortal to manage in a battle situation. There might be some kind of super advanced Illumination application that bends the light around you or allows it to pass through you but then you're blind. That last part goes for @hoiditthroughthegrapevine's concealed archers, too, although making a view slot in the blind would work, and still be really hard to spot from any distance. ETA: Show up for a plateau run with what looks like twenty bridge crews, ten with full armor and ten in vests and sandals. Actually, each of the ones that look unarmored are just one guy in armor with a really big shield holding a gem. The ones that look armored aren't, but they do have an actual bridge.

You can't lash someone wearing Shardplate, but if you yourself have Shardplate (the Radiant kind, presumably, as opposed to dead plate) you can lash yourself. (The Windrunner in Dalinar's vision with the midnight essences be is wearing plate while flying.) The OP is suggesting that Shardplate might help with the G forces for Windrunners and Skybreakers.

I would imagine the original crop of Fused must all be crazy by now, so even if this theory is true it's still possible the Fused we hear from in the books are all parshpersons. If at some point we meet a Thunderclast who answers to Jeff or Linda we'll have a strong clue.

I am. What's the issue?

I imagine stormlight would help since it seems to provide full body oxygenation without needing to breathe or circulate blood, but also, with Roshar's lower gravity each lashing is only 0.7 g, and I don't think we are seeing very many Gravitation users get into double digit lashings very often.

Farscouts Spren: Starpren Surges: Transportation/Adhesion Attributes: Curious and selfless Farscouts use their powers to explore realms beyond Roshar, exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations. 2nd: I will not interfere in the natural development of less advanced cultures. 3rd: I will value life even if it is incomprehensible to me. 4th: I will investigate strange phenomena even if it's super dangerous and there's no obvious upside. 5th: I will boldly go where no one has gone before.

That thunderclast reaching down to give Nohadon some dap while he's shopping for bread makings.

Something @Isilel said over in the Nale's Story Arc thread--about Nale not being able to kill Gavilar directly (assuming that's a thing he wanted to do) because there's no way he could get local legal permission to do that--got me thinking. Are there so many Radiant Kholins because the Alethi legal system couldn't generate a document that would allow their execution without alerting somebody whose last name is Kholin?

Maybe the association between cymatic patterns and modern (albeit very long established) cities isn't as clear cut as the murderous ardent implies? It's a shame, because Kabsal was pretty reliable and trustworthy in other matters. I'd like to compare the pictures. Maybe something will jump out at me. ETA: Okay, here's the two maps side by side. According to the text on the WoK endpaper, the Thaylen City plan on the cymatics comparison page is "based on city plans found in the archives of the Palanaeum," which could make them old enough that recent construction could account for the differences you see. And if there were more recent plans available there where the symmetry was less obvious, the person making the cymatics document presumably would have cherry-picked the version that best fit their argument. In the end I don't think the differences between the maps have any bearing on cymatics. The cymatic pattern shown in that document is pretty complicated, moreso than you'd really expect to get from sand on a plate. Compare to the video clip in the Wikipedia article on cymatics, which appears to be generating this very pattern, but without the pieces that are different between the maps in the two documents.

@hoiditthroughthegrapevine oh, Ivory as a Shardnet. I should have realized. And yes, Jasnah doesn't know about plutonium. That is definitely the point at which the theory stops being plausible, yep. But you've still got your hordeling leaving Shadesmar to Soulcast. It's an extra step.

Back to @hoiditthroughthegrapevine's original Hyper-Prepared-Jasnah-Shadesmar-Strike plan: Do we know that spanreeds work across Realms? We do know that Ivory can't change his shape in the Physical Realm (not even into a razor sharp net). Why transition back into the Physical at all? Just keep grabbing beads for whatever's near your Target and turn them into plutonium. Fullborn doesn't give you a way to affect the Cognitive, so you can afford to take a little time.

Rest in Peace, Elhokar. In the end, you did your best. And it's not your fault that hereditary monarchy is a stupid idea.

Please. In Sanderson-adjusted terms, that was barely a Tweet.

Honorspren are a: pretty humanlike in their full forms (no offense), so they have pronounceable names, and b: able to speak even very soon after they transition, even before they have regained much of their memory. Those two things together make it likely that most honorspren are going to get to use their own names once bonded. (Though some might get a nickname in the interim before they remember theirs, if there isn't a transition coach there to remind them.) Timbre probably has a pronounceable name, but doesn't seem to be able to communicate it to Venli yet. We don't know much about Ivory's early experience with Jasnah. Wyndle has a pronounceable name (though we don't know if that's what he'd use in Shadesmar or if it's like picking an English-sounding name before moving to America) and the ability to communicate it to his Radiant, but he says his transition was smoother than he expected, so we don't know if that's normal at this stage. Glys definitely can communicate to Renarin in words, but doesn't seem to remember much before Sja-Anat got to him, so we don't know the origin of that name. The regular Truthwatcher spren we've seen don't seem to be able to talk early on.

She went to live on a farm. She has lots of space to run around, and the people there are very nice to her, and don't even mind when she kills their ardents or eats their dark gems.

I agree that that's a more interesting question. Also: it applies to every Radiant.

Yes. They're sometimes called "the third shard", apparently. (Coppermind says that's in OB ch10.)

I'm not convinced that Adolin would have flat out refused the throne had he not already come to terms with not being the man his father thinks he is. And the amount of debate over a supposedly straightforward character doesn't have to mean anything other than "fans can be cray".

I think we need another word for "a piece of something". Shard and sliver are all used up, and using splinter for both kinds is getting confusing.

Severely physically handicapped, member of a low status minority group, somehow assigned to a bridge crew.... Yeah, we definitely need an alternate explanation for how the Lopen could be receptive to a bond.

There ought to be a way to convert them to the intentional splinter status the honorspren had before Honor was splintered.

It's a recursive portmanteau now? I need to lie down.

Does everybody see me not quibbling about whether "relationship" + "ing" counts as a portmanteau? I think I've grown.