Carbonationspren

I am not qualified to check all the math, but you did successfully nerd-snipe me into creating this: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/p3plgnrdek

It's quite fun to fiddle with (though it gets a little confused on some of the degenerate cases because I'm using Desmos' regression feature instead of a closed-form solution) 

Are you going to be modifying any of the art? Also, what kind of attribution are you giving?

13 hours ago, Del-light-full said:

I don't know what that says but it looks cool so.....7/10?

Well, I'm at a loss for words. But Harry Potter. So 7/10

Mine is the First Ideal in Alethi.

12 minutes ago, Cosmernaut said:

Eleven Hemalurgic spikes.

I think that the number eleven in this case is just arbitrary. After the Collapse, when Ruin had more control of the inquisitors, he gave them more spikes. The Lord Ruler didn't give them more spikes to limit their power, not because 11 was special. 11 just gave them what they needed.

2 hours ago, Paracosmic_nomenclator said:

We can further assume that not all names have a modifying suffix, based both on the people's responses as adolin is being named, and the fact that Kaladin's base name is presumably Kalak, which we know to be the name of one of the heralds.

Actually, I'm pretty sure Kaladin's base name is "Kalad," meaning "Eternal." Thus Kaladin translates to "born of eternity."

While I am not a cultist, I can't really argue with Cthulhu. 7/10. 

I hadn't made that connection there. It definitely makes sense. 

4 hours ago, Necessary Eagle said:

When AU first came out, I probably thought it was a reference to the Heralds. But with Oathbringer's hindsight, it makes much more sense that it's talking about the Fused. Always cool to find the hints that Brandon drops.

I don't see why it can't be referring to both. The Heralds are also Cognitive Shadows, they just get physical bodies through a different method. 

On 12/6/2017 at 4:15 PM, Carbonationspren said:

Is there any canon that says that the metal inside you must be touching you to be burned? If an Allomancer swallowed, say, a copper-coated Ettmetal bead, then burned the Ettmetal before burning the copper, that seems to solve the problem. The copper would act as an insulator while the Ettmetal was used, then could be safely burned away after the Ettmetal reserves were gone.

Well, I've found a WoB to back this up:

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Lurcher

Can you burn a metal wrapped in another metal, if both are Allomantic? Like, the inner metal, could you just burn that before?

Brandon Sanderson

No, you're gonna have to work your way through the outer one.

Lurcher

And what if it was a non-Allomantic metal? The same?

Brandon Sanderson

It's gonna depend on how thick it is, and stuff. But I would say, if you wrap it in a non-Allomantic metal, that's not good for getting to the metal. It's viable, but it just depends on how thick it is, and things like that. Like, sometimes things have been plated to keep the access to the metal off, but usually you would want to do that in aluminum, to make sure.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/127-salt-lake-city-comiccon-2017/#e5124

So, looking at this, we could use a very thin plating of some Allomantically inert metal that can be digested (or a biodegradable plastic) to allow Allomancers to burn Ettmetal.

Singer Carol (to the tune of Sussex Carol)

In Everstorms, all Singers sing,
To Rhythms new the Voidspren bring;
Rhythms of Fury and Malice and Spite,
Rhythms helping the Parshmen to fight.

The Fused, for sure, are now quite glad
They have new bodies to be had.
Cognitive Shadows: they're Odium's friends,
Putting all Roshar in Parshendi hands.

The Parshmen, too, out in the storm,
Are now assuming new Voidforms.
Forms granting Lashings, and Weavings, and Sight,
Voidbindings, fueled with Odium's Voidlight.

Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains, 
How lovely are your chasms!
They're dark and deep, and full of things:
Whatever the next Highstorm brings.
Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your chasms!

Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your warcamps!
They're filled with armies, bearing shards,
O'er bridges from the lumberyards.
Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your warcamps!

Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your Greatshells!
They come above the ground to dwell;
Then killed for gems inside their shells.
Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your Greatshells!

Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your Listeners!
They fight for life, and don't succumb
To the Voidspren of Odium.
Oh Shattered Plains, oh Shattered Plains,
How lovely are your Listeners!

5 hours ago, StormingTexan said:

Basically why go to the effort to make a fabrial half shard when you can just make a shield of aluminum? The simple answer is atm they do not know aluminum will block a shardblade.

My understanding of Half-shards was that they are made out of aluminum, then reinforced with a fabrial, since even after the Investiture in nullified, a Shardblade is still a really sharp sword. 

But, I haven't been able to find the WoB I remember reading, so it might just be my head-canon. Either way, that makes a lot of sense to me, since it would add to the secrecy of Half-shards. Jah Keved's artifabrians wouldn't want people knowing about the properties of aluminum, since that's what makes Half-shards special. Alethi artifabrians already have strengthening fabrials, so once they find out about aluminum, they can create Half-shards pretty easily. 

7 hours ago, RShara said:

A Mistborn burning atium is basically impossible to defeat.

I wonder, could Renarin defeat an Atium-burning MIstborn with his visions. When he was Seeing things at the same time as Odium, then they didn't come true, like Dalinar's denying Odium, or Jasnah's mercy towards Renarin. 

If Renarin can learn to simultaneously fight while having his visions, he could probably stand a change against someone burning Atium. 

On 12/10/2017 at 6:55 AM, A Dopey Spren said:

Shamespren manifest as falling petals,

Whoops, that's my bad. I was thinking of the Sja-anat-corrupted shamespren.

Let's see if we can identify a spren for each type of Soulcasting:

Air - Windspren

Smoke - Smokespren

Fire - Flamespren

Crystal/Glass - Shamespren? (they manifest in the Physical Realm as shards of crystal)

Plants - Cultivationspren

Blood - Angerspren? (they manifest in the Physical Realm as pools of blood)

Oil - Inkspren? (this one is kind of a stretch, but they are described as having an oil-like shimmer. But, so are the dark Oathgate spren, so that isn't exclusive to Inkspren)

Metal - (I don't think we've seen anything onscreen yet, but I'm sure there's some sort of metallic spren)

Stone - Spren in the Celebrant port

Flesh - ???

So, I'm pretty sure that that covers all the onscreen spren thus far. It seems like a reasonable correlation. The Inkspren seems out of place, since it is a more sentient spren than the rest of them.

Also, I'm wondering what the heck a Soulcaster that Soulcasts Flesh looks like. 

1 hour ago, NotBurtReynolds said:

Speaking of names, I'm guessing Cephandrius was Hoid's Yolen name? Was this known prior to OB?

Yes. You learn this in Mistborn: Secret History, when

I really like this idea. It makes sense, since Division can be used to burn things, and lightning is kind of like burning the air. Division is also called the surge of "destruction and decay." "Destruction" is a pretty general term, and it seems like lightning, again would fit pretty well with that. 

If the Skybreakers can create lightning, this would be more support for the theory that the Fused just use Surgbinding hacked with Voidlight instead of Voidbinding. If they can't, though, it could mean that creating lightning is actual Voidbinding, not hacked Surgebinding. 

2 hours ago, Ymawgat said:

(also btw if anyone could tell me how to flair my post as a theory like Feather's Renarin post that would be just swell)

When you edit your post, under the "Tags section", set the "item prefix" to whatever tag you want to flair. 

13 hours ago, NamelessThirteenth said:

Ground breaking theory: Brandon will make Shallan destory oshar in one big Chernobyl

Pun intended?

27 minutes ago, Llarimar said:

This theory doesn't totally make sense, because there have been several worldhoppers - Hoid, Vivenna, Vasher - who are not mentioned as having Shin eyes.  However, I think it's still definitely something to consider, and it might be a clue about the lineage of the Rosharan people and how their bloodlines changed after they expanded from Shinovar.  

As far as Hoid, Vivenna and Vasher go, they all have confirmed appearance-changing abilities. Hoid has Yolish (and now Rosharan) Lightweaving, in addition to whatever else he knows. Vivenna and Vasher are both Returned/have Returned blood, so they can change some of their appearance at will (like the Royal Locks on steroids).

One thing to note is that Pattern constantly changes, so you could really use any semi-intricate/fractal like design with 6+ fold symmetry.

I recently posted an image to the Gallery and since it is portrait aligned, it displays really small.

Currently, there is only one image height that is used across the entire gallery. For pictures like this one, though, I think that having a larger default size would be useful. When I scroll so that the top of my image is aligned at the top of my screen, it doesn't even take up a third of my screen height. Since this is an image page, with the specific purpose of hosting an image, I think that it would be okay for the images to take up more vertical screen space. This would allow images with a portrait orientation to display better. 

Thanks.

Can we use this feature to correct minor typos (as in, 2 or 3 characters), or is this intended for larger changes, like correcting inaudible WoB's?

5 minutes ago, Rainier said:

Honestly I'm more interested in radio waves as a means of communication than the weaponized uses. We've seen how much trouble it is when the spanreeds go dark, so having an invisible, unstoppable method of communicating long distances could be very valuable

Just ninja'ed me! I agree!

(Minor Mistborn Era 2 spoilers ahead)

One issue that I see with Lightweavers creating micro/radio/gamma rays is that at this point in technological development, Roshar has no idea what those are. Since the intention of the magic practitioner is important for their ability to use Investiture, it would be hard for Lightweavers to create electromagnetic radiation that they didn't even have a good concept of. Thus far in the Cosmere, the most technologically advanced people are the Scadrians, and even they don't have radio yet, since (minor Shadows of Self spoiler):

To illustrate this principle, that using Investiture requires a concept and intention, here's this WoB:

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Moogle

Compounding requires practice, according to The Hero of Age's annotations. And yet, it's apparently as easy as burning a metalmind. What was going on that meant the Inquisitors couldn't figure out how to do it (despite Ruin likely knowing how and undoubtedly wanting them to learn) for over a year? What skill did they need to practice doing, exactly?

And what happened while they were practicing burning metalminds without successfully Compounding? Did they get an Allomantic effect?

Brandon Sanderson

What I think I was getting at in the annotations was a cosmere magic rule that, perhaps, I hadn't completely refined yet. This is the idea that INTENTION is vitally important to the workings of most cosmere magics.

You can learn to burn metals instinctively over time, but it does take time--time for your body to figure out what it's doing. If you have instruction and guidance, you can pick it up in an evening, like Vin did. Same goes for most of the magics. This ties into Awakening, with the idea that you have to form a command.

During Warbreaker was where I really refined this aspect of the magic. Logically, since the beginning of the cosmere, I've wanted all three Realms to be important to the way the magics worked. The "Practice" therefore for compounding is mental practice--a barrier to overcome in understanding what is happening, and what it will do to you.

If you already know all of these things by having it explained to you, that barrier is far less high. I think that was what I was talking about in the Annotations, without really having the idea specified yet--though I'd have to look back at the annotation and re-read it to say for certain.

(emphasis added, https://wob.coppermind.net/events/98-worldbuilders-ama/#e850)

So, as of now, Lightweavers wouldn't be able to produce these kinds of radiation without someone teaching them about the electromagnetic spectrum. Who could do this? I see two options:

1. A friendly (or not friendly) Scadrian Worldhopper shows up, having freshly discovered radio and perhaps a plethora of other new technology, and teaches everyone.
2. Since Harmony seems to have gained a knowledge of scientific advancements, including an approximate timeline of when they should be discovered, it stands to reason that other Shards would have an understanding of this kind of thing and could teach the Radiants.

Item 2 brings up an interesting idea:

There are three Shards on Roshar: Honor, Cultivation, and Odium. Honor is dead, and Cultivation isn't really talking directly with anybody right now. Odium, however is alive and kicking. This gives the Dawnsingers/Listeners/parsh-whatevers a definite advantage. Assuming Odium gained the same scientific that Harmony did through Ascension, Odium could educate his Illumination-wielding Voidbinders in other forms of radiation, something that the Knights Radiant don't have access to. 

In the Cosmere, knowledge is power.

Another thing that most Voidbinders have on their side is a direct link to Odium for Voidlight (in my understanding, similar to an Allomancer's direct connection to Preservation). Since these Voidbinders don't need to rely on a supply of gemstones for Investiture, I suspect they would be more capable of brute feats requiring large quantities of Investiture.

Thus, I think that it is possible for Odium to teach his forces to wield deadly radiation in combat or another use that hasn't really been discussed here: communication. 

I would think that when someone with Illumination becomes attuned to their powers, they could sense other forms of radiation (similar to Savantism on Scadrial). This could allow Illumination Surgebinders to communicate in a Morse-like code (handy that they're bound to Cryptics) without the need for a spanreed or similar device. 

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Elephant said:

Spoiler

But we do see the plating shifting to make weapons during the thaylen city battle.

 

This seems like more evidence that Odium can't create Voidshards, for whatever reason, so he finds ways to adapt. He enhances the Singers/Fused/Royals/Parsh-whatevers so that they can grow their own biological (Investiture-enhanced) weapons. These seem kind of like a Shardplate substitute, but a Shardblade equivalent is still absent. Singers don't have access weapons that can effortlessly cut through any material besides the Shardblades they have captured from humans.