Bigmikey357

I fully acknowledge that I could be giving Brandon too much credit and he actually flubbed this one. That's possible as well. But if it was a mistake, I'm not sure it's egregious enough to break the suspension of disbelief for an average reader. For a metallugist it might though.

If I had to guess, it probably has something to do with Realmatic theory. Presumably the flakes of steel used in Allomancy are not individually forged, a flake or group of flakes at a time. Likely a bar of Steel is forged and the flakes are shaved from it. So my guess is that if that bar of Steel has the right percentages to start with then it's allomantically viable at the Cognitive level. Therefore any flakes derived from that viable bar will see itself as allomantically viable as well despite the actual chemical composition of said flake because it was a part of something that actually was. It thinks therefore it is. Like I said, only a guess.

As we all know, both from WOB's and Hessia Mythica, Moelach is the Unmade that sends Death Rattles. Now, we've been told that future sight in the Cosmere is a no-no in general and is particularly bad on Roshar since it's 'of Odium'. Obviously the being who causes the Rattles is doing a bad thing. The question is, is that the extent of its powers? If all it does is send cryptic messages to dying people then that seems pretty ineffective. I mean, Odium lives in the Spiritual Realm; any information Moelach can induce in his victims is presumably already known by the big bad. And no one on Team Honor would trust that information once the source of it becomes known. Has there been any indication that Moelach is more than what it seems or are the Death Rattles its only trick? And if that really is his only thing, does anyone wanna speculate on how that would harm Team Honor or aid Team Odium?

I was thinking more Gravitation surge as a driver in lieu of complex mechanisms. Kinda like a super slingshot. But not sure upon thought if the physics work out.

Investiture - It's everywhere you want to be. Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Allomancy. Endowment - Taste the Rainbow. Cultivation - Because change happens Don't be Evil - Nightblood Ruin - "Can you hear me now? Good." The Spiritual Realm: Connecting People

Shard Railgun. No gunpowder. If one can make a weapon that accelerates a projectile fast enough it will punch through Shardplate like toilet paper. Finding a projectile that won't break up upon firing would probably be the tricky part.

The WOR one would have been my fav, but the fake-out death and the later retcon ending kinda ruined it for me. I'm still partial to the Avengers Assemble moment in OB as one of the most cinematically perfect scenes in modern fiction. But emotional impact? Almost has to be WOK. Navani and the Justice glyph. How much is a life worth. The empty warcamp with wailing widows and empty-eyed children. The Dalinar/Sadeas staredown. The Elkohar love beatdown. The entire part 5 of WOK goes a long way in making people fans of Dalinar, so much so that people are willing to dismiss his awful past carte blanche.

Maybe Jack Sparrow is Hoid...

Join Seventeenth Shard Become a field agent Get recruited by Ghostbloods Compare Scadrian notes with Iyatil Steal Nightblood from Szeth Study Nightblood Create Hemalugic spike based on Nightblood Spike Vasher Become Awakener Hug Hoid

All the flippin' upvotes for this.

Considering the melting points of most of the metals in the Allomancy chart a person most likely dies before the metal gets to a place that it can be used.

If you feel sick the first time you come into contact with it then you pass the litmus test as to whether you can safely wield it (safely is of course a relative term, meaning that it won't kill you immediately). Nightblood then takes its definition of evil from that wielder.

That's fair, though I would like to know exactly what Azure's blade is doing Realmatically. Anyone want to speculate what any of the other Intentblades would do? If they exist I mean? And I wonder if there's an Intentblade that doesn't cut, doesn't kill, kinda like Seshomarou's sword in Inuyasha.

Wow. So what if every Shard had a blade from their essence that worked based on Intent of the Shard? We know Honorblades sever an object or person's bond to its/their Cognitive and Spiritual selves. So would a cut from a Ruinblade cause instant decay? What would an Autonomyblade do? An Endowmentblade? So many possibilities.

It probably means that tapping Identity makes one less supceptible to the effects of long term Soulcaster use. So get an unkeyed metalmind and store a large amount of Identity, tap when Soulcasting. When the reserves get low, repeat the process.

No love for Shallan aka the punniest Rosharan Redhead?

Ripheus, I feel like I'm reading the DSM-IV when looking at your post.Anyway, I'll try to respond. All Oaths are individual in nature and only really linked by a general theme. The first Ideal is the same for all yet it means something different to each Order, the Orders seperate broadly along personality traits. I once seperated the Orders based on jobs in the military, which I could expand on if anyone wants. Anyway, based on what we know of Windrunners so far, they are not the Order for which sacraficing one to save many fits into their tenants. I've actually never heard anyone suggesting that as a potential Oath for Kaladin. It is possible that one of the Orders may allign with that statement due to the flexibility of the Ideals but Windrunner ain't the one. In any case it would never be as simple as that in my opinion. My take on Kaladin and his potential 4th was always that he must accept that cannot save everyone, he must be able to allow others to protect themselves even unto death.

If this was true then I see potential problems. Namely, false positives. Some people are naturally unlikeable. That doesn't have to be ruinous influence. But I can see people taking it all out of porportion, attributing all types of malodiois behaviors to Ruin and thus meet out punishment to otherwise innocent people.

Much in the way a child continues to carry biases and learned behavior into adulthood, the HP books started off as children's books that grew up as the audience grew yet still carried some of the biases established earlier. I believe her later books try to fix the biases many have complained about in her works. Making one of Harry's kids a Slytheryn is probably a huge example of an olive branch extended to the other side of the isle. Honestly I think it's good writing rather than bad. Based on the amount of money she's made off her artistic property, I assume many many people would agree.

All Vessels will succomb to the Shard and its Intent given an infinite time to work. While some Vessels are able to hold themselves seperate from their Shards for a time and some are better at it than others, eventually all will succumb to the constant pressure of the Shardic soul alterations.

That conversation rate is going to be crucial to our understanding once the systems begin mixing in meaningful ways. I suspect that 1 Breath is going to sustain much less than an hour's worth of Surgebinding; that would make using Breaths way more preferred as a fuel source than the native Investiture source. We know breaths are 'sticky', so using it may be quite efficient but 1 breath an hour when you consider how OP Surgebinding is seems a touch unrealistic.

Per WOB, one could power surges with Breath. The question becomes why in 16 hells would you want to? Sure in an emergency you have a scarf full of Breaths and your Stormlight gems have run out and you have the Assassin in White about to split your mug you might wanna use that stockpile. But the thing about Breaths is that it's a really sucky form of renewable Investiture. Stormlight is plentiful. Surges are therefore not fuel efficient, especially early in the bonding process. For example, in the sky fight between Kal and Szeth they used up a bunch of Stormlight. They didn't fight long but their usage rate was like an engine on continuous redline. How many Breaths would it have taken to duplicate that type of usage? 100? 200? 1000? And that number per person? A prolonged fight could drain a person from the 5th Heightening down to a drab and none of those Breaths are easily recovered if not impossible. Unless one can find a way to feed directly from Endowment's Shardpool I wouldn't use Breath to power any other magic system. Not Surgebinding, not Allomancy, not Sand Mastery. Why? Because the benefits one gets from keeping those Breaths far outweigh the effects of using them. Hell, immortality and agelessness can be had for the relatively low price of 2000 Breaths along with resistance to all disease, immunity to all toxins and all the abilities granted by the first 4 heightenings. Flying is definitely cool, no mistake. But with near eternity to work with I'm sure I could find other methods to do so.

To be fair to Autonomy, the happenings in the Threnodite system weren't entirely her fault as she was dying at the time of Investment. As we've seen from Honor, leaky Investiture from dying Shards causes outsize problems for both planetary inhabitants and their magic users. On the other hand, Uli Da was a Sho-Del. Not sure she'd have been inclined to make a paradise planet for homo sap.

An argument can be made against Endowment. All access means a larger percentage of humans can potentially do bad things with magic, much like if everyone was born with a piece of a hydrogen bomb. And as we all know, humans are the worst. A point in Endowment's favor, there's more people available to potentially oppose one crazy despot. It's harder for someone like Miles Hundredlives or the Set to dominate or rain down havoc on an Endowment-run system than one where the 1% have magic like Sel. Of course Vasher and 4 other Scholars may have something to say about that. As for my pick, I have to think about it. Are we asking which system would be more pleasant to live in? Or are we asking which planet we'd like to have magic on? Remember Shardic Intents relate to how one acquires magic. For pleasant environments obviously Ruin and Odium are out because, you know, a planet run by them alone gets broken and discarded before civilization gets started. I'm not picking Harmony either; Sazed plays favorites and I'm really unsure of his job performance so far. As long as I'm not pissing her off, Culti is probably the best bet. Whatever she makes of a place, it won't be boring. For magic, an Aona run world probably gets a better shake than most. A magic based on love seems good. Humanity being the worst means anything can be corrupted though.

Well whoever bonds Nightwatcher will have a hard time corralling Lyft. She seems to have a stronger Connection to Cultivation than a typical Edgedancer is granted, almost as if Culti is setting up a rival to the KR she helped create.