Riddlesinthedark

I think Wax made a strong case for being able to go around 3/4 weight. You'd be more graceful, and when you got in a fight--just get on top and... Rock Climbers, Dancers, basically anyone that moves for a living/hobby.

Thus why we should compare apples to apples... Aka, Marsh vs Elend vs pre-Harmony-Sazed. (High level Hemalurgist; Original Mistborn; Full, experienced Feruchemist, with abilities stored)

Wouldn't that just mean the study of 3?

Its been awhile since I read the WoA or HoA, but in MFE, I swear Marsh mentioning fatigue as being a serious factor for the Inquisitors. Or was that just because he was new? And are we comparing apples to apples here? I would think, barring Shardic intervention Marsh-level Hemalurgic Super Soldier>Lerasium Mistborn>Full Feruchemist

Just for the lulz. You know, a shoutout to "On the Origin of Species"

Anyone else want an "On" at the beginning of this thread title?

I think its Knights Radiance lineage, which is why Hoid says it makes sense that they revere light-eyes.

Do we know this? I've kinda suspected that marriages between low-lighteyes and high darkeyes might produce a mix, with cultural repercussions similar to mulatto culture in the West Indies, where the lighteyed kids would be praised and favored. Because family lines get around, especially after 4500 odd years, and likely almost everyone would have lighteyes. It would be worse than even allomancy's dispersal over a 1000 years.

Same

Yes, nomenclature wrong. IIRC, there was a WOB quote that said someone in WoK had the potential to learn Lightweaving. So when Hoid gave Kaladin the flute, I took that as an indication

The difference in world-magics does pose the question of why Kaladin can learn to light-bend, though.

Not a hard fast rule on Earth. Just a fantasy/superhero cliche

I could be wrong, but I swear there is a WoB quote running around about how not all the shards have a pairing the way Ruin/Preservation were.

Or the Hoid gambit works, were he gathers a bit/splinter of all the Shards of Adonalisium and it start to grow back together. Similar, in my mind, to how the gauntlet of Shard plate could have been cultivated into a full suit by the Parshendi, had Dalinar fallen off a cliff or been eaten by a chasmfiend or something.

I actually had a thought in reading this about the structure of Mistcloaks. That the pattern/material/etc might definitively indicate training lineage and/or origin, like military uniforms for one example.

Until they figure out to just shoot flares or fireworks from a long ways off, and then just keep up the barrage.

Windrunners and the face in the storm could definitely suggest that.

I was thinking that initially, but if that were to hold, I feel like we would have seen a lot more tribalism and societal schisms.

Atium seems more like an in-trade commodity, since it can also be purchased directly. Recall also that gold is rather easy to extract (much, much lower tech than even iron). So assuming a similar timeline to Earth where, prior to the electronic age, gold's softness inhibited lack of practical usuage (solid gold anything is incongruous outside of bullion, foil is much more effective), scarcity, and non-tarnishing encouraged its ornamental or coinage uses. Compare that with silver (solid silver being more doable), as well as copper(strong enough for some knives, strong ornaments, and leading to bronze); chemically very similar, often harvest-able together, and also easily extractable) TLDR: Gold would emerge quickly in the tech of any society, and its scarcity would probably encourage its use just like Earth. By the time tLR came around it already would have been used.

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+1 for the Sparhawk trilogies. I think they are better than the Belgariad anyday of the week. One thing about the Belgaraid is that it is a deliberate, textbook example of the hero's journey archetype. The naive farmboy, the learned sage, etc. One problem that arises, now that we are so very familiar with the tropes of that style that it seems cliched and stale.

Did anyone else look at this and first see Mongoloid? Its hard to understand how this title got green-lighted.

Which would defeat the whole Coinshot description.

Sometimes an island is just a ciga metaphor, folks. I don't see why the action would range that far, to a place only mentioned in one excellently disguised metaphor for Honor.