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    Alright, I had a crazy thought and need some validation or contradiction, either will work. Let's start with the facts I'm basing this off of: 1. Hoid has difficulty hurting others. (There's probably a better WoB but this will do for the time being) 2. Harmony has difficulty acting, due to the two opposing intents warring inside him. 3. This is speculation: Adolnasium was under no such intent constraint. We have no way of knowing this definitively, but it's fair to speculate that this was the case because Roshar was created by Adolnasium and a limit on his actions suggests that it would have been impossible to create Roshar otherwise. Theory: Hoid's inability to harm others comes from being overly invested by a shard. We don't know which one, but it could be any number of them. So, he is (in addition, probably, to his overarching goals) travelling around the cosmere searching for various forms of investiture in order to re-gain invested balance.
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    I could see this being a red herring, though. As a side note, vax is a very mysterious place! I hadn't registered it before.
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    Having it separate from Adolnasium would require another investiture source somewhere, which would make this a lot more interesting since Alcatraz would have a patron shard But that's not important to the discussion. I can definitely see Alcatraz winning, and somehow accidentally splitting the realms apart from each other in the process. Or something insane like that, who even knows? Maybe this is WoB worthy.
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    I've only read the first Alcatraz book (Sanderson writes pretty amazing stuff, even for kids - I loved it), but I imagine that it depends where they are fighting. Calamity is more or less a non-player, since he probably has the equivalent power of a shard, and just therefore loses to Adolnasium by default. So the real fight is Alcatraz v Adolnasium. If they're in the cosmere, Adolnasium wins, because almost by definition Alcatraz's talent would come from investiture, which would come from Adolnasium. Big A can just shut down the magic and crush Alcratraz, no problem. Outside of the cosmere... I really have no idea. But probably Alcatraz due to the above statements.
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    It would be interesting to see if this is possible, actually. More detail on how spikes work might be necessary to discuss this further. For example, at what point does the spike steal the attribute? Does it happen when removed from the flesh? Or when it is solidly lodged in the individual? There's so much we don't know that could change this up. If the spike needs to actually leave the flesh in order to 'redeploy' the bit of spiritweb, then the suggested process is worthless. But if it doesn't actually tear the soul until it's taken out, then it could work. Also, regardless of when you do it, you're tearing off a person's soul. It might be ethical while they are alive, but there is an unavoidable point where either they reject the hemalurgy and pass whole into the Beyond, or their soul gets 'stuck' and leaves a fragment behind, leaving a wholly broken soul to endure whatever happens when you pass on.
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    If you combine these two ideas, you get the planet creators from hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. I wonder if Sanderson is a fan of Douglass Adams...
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    Absolutely savage!
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    @CalderisWhoops, totally missed that.
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    Unfortunately ironic on Sanderson's part. But surely the act of giving up power isn't restricted by intent like other actions are. I refer, of course, to the impotence that vin felt when she held the power and ruin opposed her, not the 'having thoughts changed' aspect of it all.
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    I don't see why not - gems store investiture, and can store a cognitive component. There was a WoB (or maybe a post on here) that said that shards are basically just big spren that I would link if I could find the blasted thing.
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    Yeah, that's essentially the point. Though both preservation and ruin can be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands; and plus I get the feeling that Sazed, as harmony, wouldn't even want to split himself in a way that wasn't quite even. I always read harmony as the gray jedi 'both good and evil,' toe the line between light and dark kind of thing.
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    Oh, we know for sure that Sazed reigns in the possible destructive power of the shards: But I may have miscommunicated as far as giving the power. Here's what I'm imagining: Harmony chooses someone who, for whatever reason, is obedient, and unlikely to become less obedient. Harmony bestows upon them power of ruin OR preservation, not both. (I'm 99% sure that there's a WoB that at least suggests that he can do stuff like this, but I couldn't find it, sorry) He does the same thing with the opposite power, so now there is an entity with a tiny fraction of ruin, and one with a tiny fraction of preservation. They execute his will, and generally just do stuff, less limited than he is by his dual-natured intent. After a few hundred years, Harmony forces both these vessels out of their power, and reclaims it, then goes back to step one. This is important so that those vessels don't have their thoughts changed too much by the power they wield. In theory, this way of doing things would allow for super-powered individuals, almost like odium's unmade, to do stuff on Harmony's behalf while he's protecting the planet, or whatever else it is he does.
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    Well, the orders we're familiar with, right? I think at this point, there are more oaths that we don't know than ones that we do. @1stBondsmithWould you please clarify what you mean, for someone whose deepest involvement in the mormon church was a friend that was kind of mormon in high school?
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    I have to reread OB. There's a ton of little details that evaded me the first time, including this one But I would argue that any convincing use of illumination is a pretty significant act of creation/art, just in itself.
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    I disagree. While it would probably depend a lot on the vessel in question and how they interpret things, I bet harmony could get around this specific intent issue by creating them in pairs - one ruinous, one preservationist.
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    Couldn't find anything on the WoB archive. This would be a good question for the man himself.
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    How can you 'fail to find' something in the spiritual realm, where distance basically doesn't exist?
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    Of course. But either you need to find people with enough fervor as Dilaf, those who will follow your will unquestionably, or you'll need to expend your own power to force them to comply, which would kind of defeat the point. I'm imagining that you'd 'appoint' such an individual, let them serve for 300-400 years, then force them to retire, because changing over power too often could be dangerous. But on the other hand, giving someone immortality for just a few hundred years and then taking it away might result in an aggressive response. Especially if the next vessel for the sharchangel figures out what goes on, and tries to find a way to subvert your influence/power/whatever in order to not die.
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    Have you ever considered writing a romance novel? Because that was downright cute. (congrats to you, btw, if you just got through reading this massive thread!)
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    Well, since harmony has had trouble acting according to both his intents, he could theoretically make a 'sharchangel' with only ruin, or only preservation, to act for a few hundred years without that restriction. My question would be more along the lines of enforcement: how would you get them to do everything you want, and take back the power if they go against you/when their term is up?
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    'Herald of bad jokes' indeed!
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    I had never considered this before, and I think it's probably worth keeping in our back pocket of Autonomy theories, even though we know next to nothing about her. The other notable theory that I liked about this was that Autonomy is splintering her cognitive aspect, but not her body/power/investiture, in order to create avatars. So her total available power is growing, but at the cost of mental power, and also the fact that all the avatars may not agree on what to do with it.
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    Definitely this. Autonomy doesn't stand for law or chaos, just the choice to choose between them. It's the ultimate libertarian shard. I think in our world, true autonomy is pretty rare because the social contract is naturally restricting (read: a good thing), so it rarely represents chaos BECAUSE human society has been more inherently ordered than chaotic for the past 5,000 years.
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    That was my assumption as well, plus the fact that they cultivate mushrooms there (not an expert either, but would be surprised if they could grow without some humidity) led me to believe that that wouldn't be the case. Maybe that part of the cave is an unusually dry area, or the seal over the opening of the reserve is airtight. But of course, that's all speculation, and lacking evidence about atium, we probably won't see whether or not any of those factors would actually matter or not.
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    With enough science, anything is possible!
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