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Convert them, my friend! I'm forever grateful that Brandon released Warbreaker for free, cause it's my most effective tool for conversion. Almost like another free book, one that I gave to people a lot when I was a missionary... #mormonmaifalol

Thinking along those lines, you could probably make Awakened armor like deadly Shardplate. It'd have to be coated on the inside with whatever Nightblood's sheath is made of (Aluminum?) to protect you, but then you'd literally just have to walk into opposing lines and watch them all disintegrate the moment they brushed up against you. Terrifying.

Problem is I'm pretty sure his gold compounding would still keep him alive despite the molten aluminum. We know from Alloy of Law that it can keep your body running even if you can't immediately heal the injury. And the Lord Ruler has survived similar attacks before. The guy walked away from being burned alive at least twice, decapitation at least once, and a million other things besides. But if you can keep him there long enough, it might be able to melt the goldminds and then he could die. I'd say possible, if extremely difficult.

Yup, exactly this. I mean, it is the same magic system, and Brandon has quite a track record of analogous magics.

Is he/she cute? Cause that might just work out... Go for it!

We're nerds, we just love a running joke. Stick is something we can throw around that "outsiders" aren't going to get. Like a 17th Shard gang sign. Actually that's a really weird thought now that I picture it.

I'm not sure it's necessary for someone to die in order to become a cognitive shadow. The definition is "someone who has had their soul or body replaced by investiture," which doesn't presuppose death. Aona/Devotion/The Dor could be just replacing their bodies with investiture and leaving their souls the same, which isn't exactly death.

So this is a little assumption I've had in my head for a while and I'd like a second opinion (or a twentieth, no restrictions on that). I've been assuming that each of the orders, while having access to two surges, has a particular affinity toward one of them. That would be the surge that they learn most easily, or the one in which they attain greatest mastery. Upon thinking about it, I think that it's most likely that each order's "favorite" surge would be the one they share with the order counterclockwise to them on the chart. So Elsecallers own Transformation, Edgedancers are best at Friction, Windrunners at Adhesion, etcetera. The reason I thought it would be counterclockwise stems from a few examples: Lift learns friction way before progression, Kaladin's first surgebinding was sticking rocks to a wall with adhesion, Jasnah masters transformation before even attempting transportation, and Shallan picks up illumination easily while struggling to soulcast. Ym could also support this because he learns progression first, and I think there's a WoB from one of the Chicago signings confirming that he was a Truthwatcher. What makes me doubt myself is that the names of some of the orders don't seem to reflect this. Why would Elsecallers be named for their non-dominant ability, and same goes for Windrunners? Lightweavers fit the pattern, though. Anyway, I may be completely off base but what do you all think?

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That's very plausible, and it jives with the Skybreakers' supposed ability to divide the guilty from the innocent.

You beat me to the punch, I was going to mention that. Here's the link to the scene (on Tor's website) http://www.tor.com/2014/08/06/stormlight-archive-scene-after-words-of-radiance/

Couldn't we get the same benefit just by modifying the email notification feature to include an option where it sends you an email for each notification on site? That's a lot of spam but if that was the reason for asking for an app, it's nearly the same.

Dalinar stands atop a large rock, analyzing the enemy and devising a strategy. Kaladin gives a motivating speech to the troops while Shallan listens with half an hear because she's busy maintaining an illusion so that the Parshendi don't notice the ambush. Lift doesn't even bother to listen with half an ear, because, well, she's Lift. To the side, Jasnah rests, recovering from the stress of Elsecalling all of them to this place, while Szeth listens intently to Kaladin's words, fiddling with the clasp on Nightblood's sheath. The time finally comes. Kaladin finishes his speech, Dalinar gives the signal, and Shallan drops the disguise. Ten glowing sets of shardplate appear, ten glorious shardblades gleam with holy light. The time has come. The Oathpact is over. Humanity will make its final stand, and it will be victorious!

You know you're an extremely unlucky Sanderfan when you're just about to convince your friend to read Warbreaker and Brandon's website chooses precisely that time to go down. No joke, this happened to me last night. Luckily I have it saved to my laptop so I just emailed her the PDF

Kill Copper, heal Iron 1. Tin--5 2. Pewter--4 3. Iron--84. Steel--15 5. Copper--06. Bronze--612. Nicrosil--5 15. Cadmium--816. Bendalloy--1517. Atium--1918. Lerasium--10

Honestly, that's one of the things I'm looking forward to the most about the later SA books, seeing large groups of magic users in coordination. Brandon's MO so far has been solitary heroes like Vin or small groups like Vasher/Vivenna. I'm psyched to see what he would do with an entire army of surgebinders.

But a group of them working together...

How about "You Are A Stick?" Or on that note, why does it have to be a sword? Why can you awaken a Stick?

Stick is Odium's kryptonite. It will save us all and a new religion (cause Brandon just loves making new religions!) will grow up around it stressing deep introspection and self awareness. "I am" will be their mantra, as each one discovers who he or she or it truly is. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes. I am Ironeyes.

Yeah, I'm listening right now and I can't hear a word of the audience. PS. I'd love to help transcribe this but it's finals season... hopefully I can help with transcribing something next month

I can live with that. Elsecallers are my favorite order so it'd be great to find out more about them than just what we know from that one epigraph. The other question I plan to ask (In February, when Brandon comes to Boston) is whether Nightblood or an Honorblade would require more stormlight. Both are mentioned as using investiture incredibly fast.

Do you think I'd get an instant RAFO if I asked for the second oath of the Elsecallers? What if I just asked what qualities attract an Inkspren?

We need a "Deleted Scenes Compendium" like they do in the bonus sections of most movie DVDs. It would be called Arcanum Unpublished.

Hurt Zinc, heal Iron 1. Tin--62. Pewter--53. Iron--74. Steel--145. Copper--46. Bronze--67. Zinc--112. Nicrosil--515. Cadmium--616. Bendalloy--14 17. Atium--1718. Lerasium--10

That makes a lot of sense. I was assuming that it had to do with the cognitive aspect of the gem--i.e. if the gem is thought of as more perfect by people around it, it holds stormlight more perfectly. But seeing as this is light we're talking about, it's completely reasonable that the gem's capacity to "hold" light (regular kind) affects it's capacity to hold Light (the storm kind).