Voidus

He's tried, he tends to accidentally kill people when he tries though. But yeah if he controlled himself a bit better he could do some interesting things.

I'm also beginning to create a spreadsheet that will hopefully compile all of my Epics into one document rather than being sprawled across 20 or so since I keep wanting to make new Epics when I'm on different computers or when I forget where my original document is. Hoping I'll be able to sort them a bit too.

Thankfully most of my ideas are still largely untouched by Brandon. (He said, jinxing it and guaranteeing that the next cosmere book will feature every idea I've ever had ) Although there are definitely elements of all the authors I read in there. Most notably my fondness for necromancers coming from the Old Kingdom series (Garth nix).

I was using 1.5 and rounding, there are certain other factors that come into it but that's more or less accurate yeah. If you look at the actual figures I used of still being 4-5 times average Roshar strength that's still accurate, flaring pewter is around 4.5 times regular roshar strength, or 4-5 times. There are a bunch of factors other than how many arms you use that determine how much strength you're using. Using two arms /= two times the strength of using one arm even using one arm you typically use your entire body to put in the effort, adding the second arm only adds the strength of the arm, not the strength of your whole body. Shardbearers are probably slower than thugs, Steelrunner still takes them any day of the week. I'll agree that 40% is around the maximum rate you could store it without risk of harm, and yes compounding that will slightly reduce it but the more you tap it the shorter a period of time you need to tap it for too, a trait somewhat unique to steel feruchemically, so if a fight would normally take you a minute and you tap 10x speed, you'll finish it in 6 seconds (If not even faster) this will more than offset the compounding needed. A fight with a Sharbearer is going to take perhaps a few minutes at most, lets be rather generous and say 5 full minutes of fighting at high speed, since they need to actually reach the Sharbearer too. Bleeder tended to use around 8x and pretty easily dominated most fights, but lets say it's 10x So we need 50 minutes at 100% speed or roughly 2.5 x that at 40% speed, so around 125 minutes. Now lets say the compounding is pretty brutal and takes 3/4 of it so we need 500 minutes or a little over 8 hours, that's easily doable even without relying on whatever stores they've built up.

Well there's the problem that the average strength on Scadrial is still nearly double that on Roshar, so being as strong as 2-3 Scadrians is probably around the same as 4-5 Rosharans. Also the only conclusion that Plate was 4-5 times was the hammer that takes two people to lift being used by one person, that's really only strictly speaking double strength, yes he then used one hand rather than 2 but given that it is entirely based on hyperbole it's kind of hard to say exactly how much strength it would need, as I mentioned Koloss are 5 times regular strength and Vin could still use their swords. I imagine most Steelrunners would already have a pretty good store and given their status I'm pretty sure they'd be allowed to just sit around storing when they're not fighting. Run up, stab through faceplate, run away, how is that a hard time? (And incidentally that only takes a few seconds worth of speed)

I got a rudimentary spreadsheet up, let me know what people think. Still working on it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LoKpFM9zXEzF6VEGClODqXGckcu2EOff4a-vmMSce_4/edit#gid=0

They use the heart as a bind point so I imagine so. It's probably possible to only steal part but somewhat difficult I imagine.

Well I think that one gave you electroception, but I'm sure I have a Feruchemical gold cookie around here somewhere.

I'm fine with it too.

Yup. They have four iron spikes, iron steals physical strength.

They have four human strength spikes, plus their own strength = 5 times normal human strength (Less a bit because of Hemalurgic decay but more or less 5 still)

Well we do know that they're weaker since they don't seem to be able to lift more, run faster or survive better. Because she's not wearing a suit of armour most of the time, pewter is lacking in comparable durability for sure but in terms of strength I'd say it's pretty even. And way more common. Also just caught up on the Nicro-burst + Coinshot vs. Shardbearers argument. Either the push pushes on Shardblades as much as any Nicrobursted steelpush would in which case there is a problem with staying alive but you will successfully disarm them. Or the push is not as strong due to Investiture resistance, but if it's not then the force is also not that strong on the Misting. Also, there's about 30-40 Shardbearers in the Alethi army IIRC, even if that's 30-40 full sets and the Scadrian army solely consists of the Constabulary and we assume that mistings and ferrings are no more prevalent there than anywhere else then they'd still be fighting a few hundred Metalborn. There'd also probably be a nearly equal number of Steelrunners to Shardbearers, which ends in all of the Shardbearers dying as soon as they appear.

It's also worth noting that Rashek was spiked and had to listen to Ruin for a thousand years, it's kind of hard to know that he'd keep being a reliable partner.

Ok, lots of posts here, a couple of points that have been missed: Dalinar uses a warhammer that requires the strength of two men to pick up, Vin (Who is significantly weaker) handily uses swords designed for Koloss who are twice her size and more than five times her strength. Gravity on Roshar is significantly weaker than on Scadrial, it's almost twice as easy to move something there. So even an unenhanced Scadrian soldier is going to be 1.5 times stronger than your average Rosharan soldier. Which would put Vins feat of using Koloss swords somewhere in the region of 7-8 Rosharan soldiers while Dalinars only comparable feat is a warhammer that needs 2.

Id say a wrapping could be interpreted as part of a sandwich.

I can actually sleep through pretty much any amount of light and occasionally with my eyes open Good catches though. Oh dear god! End it! Kill me now!!!!!! *Runs off cliff* *Gets stuck in hell due to... certain metallic lifestyle choices* *Discovers hell is just an endless repetition of generation 5 onwards* *Screams forever*

Or it could affect something other than his sanity. Such as yelling the joke so loudly that he becomes deaf. But I'll leave the official answer to someone else since I already did one.

Completely insane? Like if I were the head of an organization utilizing a form of magic that tears holes in your spirit and patches them up with random pieces of other souls? Or if I were a member of the Reckoners RP? Or the type of person who thought that Star Wars Episode 1 wasn't actually that bad? Well fair enough, I wouldn't want to be insane like that.

Woo! Job season on the Shard it seems, though I still can't start mine until some stupid paperwork gets processed. Hope your job works out for you and that you still drop by when you can!

A couple of fun ones here: 1) The robot is exactly the size and shape of a person, but its external casing is solid not flexible, and as per your wish, indestructible. The robot is now incapable of movement. Congratulations on your indestructible paperweight! 2) The robot is indestructible but this makes it completely impossible to repair in the event that the robots internal mechanisms malfunction. (This isn't even really twisting words, this is just something that would happen ) 3) The robot interprets its own mental wellbeing as part of its existence, it violently hates humans but is still compelled to obey their commands and not hurt them. The only logical way for the robot to guard its mental wellbeing is to remove its ability to interpret its environment and instead simulate killing humans for all eternity. 4) The robot comes functional and is ready to start following your commands, one second later it ceases to function as its battery is drained. The technology to charge or replace this battery does not yet exist. I wish to be able to see the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, not just visible light. I wish for this to be granted supernaturally, with no physical alterations to my body or the universe in general and no addition of matter or energy to the universe other than strictly that which is necessary to convey this information.

Likewise, though around half of my interesting facts are in fact false, even a few that I got from the readers digest book of facts. Slightly on topic: I use British spelling generally but I say Duralumin, I don't think it's really a british/american thing.

Someone stole one of Voidus' territories. Prepare for the Elantrian Inquisition. (Their spikes have Aons engraved in them)

Welcome to the forums! (Somewhat belatedly I see since you already have plenty of posts, but welcome nontheless) Can I interest you in a welcome-cookie?

Welcome to the forums! How much do you know about the cosmere? And would you care for a cookie?