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I think Shai would enjoy going on a date where you both Forge yourselves, and remember having first met and gotten there in a completely different way. edit: "Let's go on this cruise, and be secret agents spying on each other." "Ok!"

I've never tried one with a stylus; that's probably why. My phone's screen is terrible.

The books say that a lot, but I think it's POV'd and the characters are wrong. In MB-3 Ham actually comments on Vin packing an equally strong push into a smaller package by being so small, and it making her faster as a result. So he's in a position to understand the whole thing. It's ironic that a Thug comes up with better physics than an era of Mistborn, and without realizing that he's done it. edit: Dur, I didn't see Page 3 when I replied to this. It's probably already said by now. edit: Yeah it was, it's like the entire page...

I thought it took duralumin to sense which emotions were being manipulated? And it was very disorienting, and used up all her bronze. Or maybe Marsh is talking about when the emotional Allomancer is nearby, and would be included in the coppercloud.

Isn't it weird how no one tried alloying Atium before, in the first series? (Except with gold.) Maybe it's a side-effect of the tweaks Preservation did to the magic system, putting Atium and Malatium in on different Mistings, and it broke other Atium alloys. Then Harmony changed it back, so Atium alloys have only been possible since then. I can't interpret this to get any more spins on what Demoux is doing though.

I can't believe I forgot this. I remember noticing it once too, but once the "dragonwasp" posts started I stopped seeing the Darth Vader helmet.

I guess taking one photon, and bouncing it off a satellite, is a huge wave that reaches from the Earth to orbit. It's still so different from a spren though. It's so delicate, and measuring it even once destroys it. The information goes somewhere else, but the photon is gone. What really bothers me is that observation and measurement are the same thing in QM, but they're two different things in spren. You can observe a spren without changing it, but measuring it and writing it down changes it. The interesting and different interpretations of QM wouldn't happen with spren. Spren are perfectly classical, until you write down a measurement, then they do something like the Copenhagen interpretation. But for all that I dislike QM takes on spren, whatever the magical explanation for them is could still be in terms of waves and work with your theory here.

See I think of it exactly backwards, with Ruin and Cultivation's "compatibility" being in needing and benefiting from each other. Letting Cultivation be destructive would invalidate it. Agriculture starts by killing almost everything in a field. Then you cultivate one crop, while periodically coming back and killing pests. There's a lot of killing. I see the killing as something Cultivation is underequipped to do herself. I like the idea of cutting away select bits, like trimming a tree, but that would be her limit. Taking darkanimereal1's idea of the storm being a mix of three gods, say it comes in three waves. Odium is first, in the destructive stormwall. Then Honor, when it brings the Stormlight. Lastly Cultivation, with the water and crem.

The significance attached to "symmetry" could be a pre-scientific attempt to conceptualize what's really the importance of waveforms. I wonder if certain waves are only magic in certain mediums. The cynamic plate could be producing the wave in a non-magical way, while another method of creating the wave on a geological scale is what creates Dawncities. "Quantum" interpretations of spren don't work for me though. Spren are way too big. I can them as artistically inspired by interesting things in QM, but not actually having anything physically related to it going on. They're just too big. I'd feel better about spren if we learned that they don't show up in photographs. Then anything "quantum" would have something to do with the realms, not subatomic particles, and it wouldn't bother me.

I like the parallel between that and tapping iron to weigh more when pushing. In addition to making the connection stronger, tapping identity would protect the Lord Ruler from being effected just as much as the audience. A side-effect of being seen as a god could be to think of yourself as a god, with identity being the only protection.

It would be so ironic if the new Traveling weaves make Aes Sedai lazier, and channeling endurance goes down, and they don't figure out the reason for centuries. Sort of like how capturing men was breeding channeling out of the population, and they didn't notice.

I wonder if Brandon made this bit of worldbuilding going off the theory that epicanthic fold is an adaptation to high winds? The modern understanding is that it's an adaptation to cold, but back in the days before Wikipedia I heard a few times people say it was an adaptation to wind. Brandon first started on Roshar a while back, so maybe he made the decision then, and on Roshar it's an adaptation to wind. The Shin are the only people living without high wind. That Tumblr criticism .. is way too judgmental, and ignorant of Michael Whelan. He drew an anti-stereotype cover way back in the 1970s, with Elric. Elric was written in contrast to buff white guy protagonists; he's skinny, feminine, and chronically ill, and Whelan drew him that way. Of course he's albino so he's still white (sort of) but one can only break so many stereotypes at the same time. Whelan was perfectly willing and able to paint non-stereotypical heroes 35 years ago. If he failed in a sketch of Kaladin, it's only because he didn't know what Kaladin looks like. It's not easy to figure out from the book; "tan" is probably the least-descriptive word in English for skin color. Fandom didn't figure out the eyes for over a year.

Why not just play Starcraft? I haven't read anything more than the chapters Tor has online, but it seems like a lot of skill in Rithmatics is manual skill, drawing quickly and accurately. That would never translate to mobile devices. But mouse-based games can capture the same need for speed and precision and there are lots of RTS games out there.

We just don't know how much stronger the Lord Ruler was than Elend. Phantom Monstrosity mentioned the possibilities, but there's so much room within them for speculation. I meant more "functionally unstoppable" than completely unstoppable. Being able to tap infinite amounts of speed really could kill entire armies, especially at night combined with all the other sneakiness of Mistborn. The few times he was injured could have been surprise, betrayal, or extremely bad luck. Or even contempt; letting himself be injured just so he could shrug it off. In general, speed alone is almost enough to make someone invincible. Then add atium, and a world without firearms.

We've seen how powerful his Soothing is, and I can believe he could kill thousands of skaa by overwhelming them with it, and using Feruchemical speed and other abilities to be unstoppable. It raises a new question of why his Soothing was so powerful though, and we aren't sure of the answer yet.

I like this, but I see it as philosophical differences that aren't really about faith or religion. I can't find the quote I'm looking for though! (It was a few weeks, maybe a month ago... I think. Brandon described the metaphysics as a mash-up between Plato's forms and "everything is alive".) So there's a conflict between very different sources of meaning, with the Spiritual being about universal principles, and the Cognitive about perception and consensus. There are purely physical theories of meaning in philosophy too, but I don't know if the cosmere would go there, or if it ignores them. What kind of entity would actually oppose Plato's forms though? Say they showed up in the real world; we discover that all war is because of a universal principle of War, and all peace is because of a principle of Peace. Why would something oppose that? I could see people taking sides, but why would someone oppose the whole system?

I'm really interested in how Szeth's motivations might change. He's already questioning Stone Shamanism after just one book. What can keep him going as an antagonist, after he realizes this part of his religion is corrupted, and his murders were senseless? (We don't know it's corrupted, but I think it's sort of obvious.) Hoid's story about the Wandersail seems especially relevant to Szeth. I like seeing Szeth as Odium's champion, so I think he'll get stuck taking the job. This has to come too soon, before he can realize the Truthless thing is no excuse for murder, otherwise he'd repent, turn himself in, and be executed. Then as Odium's champion, "I have no choice but to obey my master. Please why can't anyone kill me?" is actually true, since even Honor thought it was important someone get stuck doing it. And from there, Szeth goes on being a tortured, unwilling antagonist. Any other ideas? Maybe Stone Shamanism is actually right about the permanent death thing, but that has so many theological and moral implications that I just don't see it happening.

Strength and sensitivity have to be separate in Inquisitors, otherwise they'd be able to push and pull everything they can see. We know Vin only sees lines on the atium bracers when she's powerful enough to pull on them, but an Inquisitor might be able to see some faint image well below that power level. Kanda are really good at sneaking, so whatever method Inquisitors have to detect them has to be simple and effective. The metal sight fits. A provision in the Contract does too. I guess it depends on whether the Lord Ruler was more afraid of rogue Inquisitors or rogue Kandra. We don't even know why he came up with the Inquisitor design with the missing eyes and metal sight.

How about the entire Cognitive Realm as an opposing force? We know Ati tried to "oppose" the Ruin Shard, and failed horribly. That could be a microcosm of individual will vs. Shardic influence. Maybe the Cognitive is what imposes limitations like metal blindness, and planet-specific focuses. Also the Cognitive Realm seems outside the Shard magic system, since Preservation was able to use it to cheat and imprison Ruin without it simply being countered.

I like the interpretation of the slave brand. I never knew how to picture it. I have to wear blue-blocking glasses at night or I'll never fall asleep on time. So all the colors look like various smears of gray and yellow... I can't wait to actually see it tomorrow.

I saw the "subtle forces" as Shai's Unknown God, and thought it might have also helped Raoden, and maybe Kelsier. I wasn't going to ask about it, but Brandon actually said "God Beyond" in response to Windrunner, so I ended up asking the question there. No answer though.

Since "entropy" is off the list, and "nothingness" annoys me since even physicists can't decide if it means anything, I'm going to go with "meaninglessness". Say Adonalsium is creation by specific means, patterning physical things after the perfect ideals in the Spiritual Realm. Its opposite would be things existing just as matter without this connection.

My first thought was the Fain life in the Liar of Partinel chapters. In Warbreaker, Hoid says he came from "a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died". Adonalsium could've been the power behind one of those two lands. I actually like Odium as part of Adonalsium. I think part of the tension in the backstory is struggling with the idea of how Odium or Ruin aren't necessarily evil.

I think it's "political" differences like this. Alloy of Law compared Miles to Kelsier, and I become a lot more critical of Kelsier with that. Kelsier is a religious terrorist. Hoid may think his methods are too destructive, and that more subtle methods of cultural change through storytelling are superior.

Thug. It's useful and convenient for almost everything. I could wear t-shirts in winter without minding the cold, would almost never have a bad day with low energy, and I'd enjoy the peace of mind knowing I'm unlikely to suffer an injury. Also moving furniture and shoveling snow would be easier. I almost did the heat-storing one, because if I could have one D&D magic item, it would be a Ring of Warmth so I could wear t-shirts in the winter. That's been my top choice forever. But Ham doesn't seem to mind the cold, and pewter comes with a lot more side benefits than storing warmth.