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I mean, you can push and pull on the same piece of metal at the same time. I suppose if you only pushed then switched to only pulling, it would be as fast as your normal reaction. Punch your fist out and pull it back. That's how fast.

Ah, that was the WoB I was thinking of. I guess I was wrong about who it was about.

We have WoB somewhere stating that Wax and Zane were the two best steelpushers. I'm going to see if I can find it.

9 hours ago, Xero stormz said:

I would suggest Warbreaker before Storm light since Warbreaker was written for the purpose of giving an element in stormlight a strong backstory and it's free to read too.

No, its based off of Elantris, though it ended up on a different planet.

There is a difference between influence and command. Vin can command the Koloss and they have to obey (i.e. Human saying he wanted to kill her but couldn't). Anything not spiked can only be influenced (i.e. Kelsier having to spend a couple days convincing the insane guy to do what he wanted).

As a professional computer-er, that not how computers work. Also I think once you have enough investiture it becomes sentient anyway. So I'm not sure if there is a grey area where it can act computer-like.

I read it twice before I picked up the connection. Perfectly normal confusion.

Belzedar is correct. Clod is Arsteel who formerly worked with Denth, but then was killed in a duel by Vashar and made into a lifeless (named "Clod").

I was reading this post on the Blog and thought "damnation, I'd pay money to get my hands on that timeline", but unfortunately, Karen says she won't show us. I'm new here and still exploring around, and so was wondering if such a project has ever been attempted on 17th Shard. If so, could someone point me to it? If not, has it ever been discussed?

6 minutes ago, Sariel said:

I have an idea. maybe:

Ambassador - Soother + Connector

tapping connection lets her speak to people from other countries, while soothing helps her create a friendly relationship with them.

What do you think?

 Duralumin Ferrings already enhance other people's awareness and friendship of them. Though I guess Soothing or Rioting can't hurt the situation.

1 hour ago, Vortaan said:

So.... what color is lerasium?

Silvery-white presumably. That's what color the Well of Ascension was.

The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy can never decrease over time for an isolated system. So we won't lose the energy, but in a perfectly entropic system, the energy had lost all potential.

From this, we could say that Matter, Energy, and Investiture is merely different levels of Potential. The Potential added to the system through the use of Investiture is then removed from the system through entropy.

This is a slight change in approach here where instead of creasing energy, the use of Investiture is simply harnessing energy and redirecting it. 

We could take a bit further and say that like total energy can't change in the Physical Realm (merely rearrange itself), total Potential can not change change in the closed system that is all three Realms.

19 minutes ago, Alfa said:

Wasn't there also something about counterweights on the bridges? Maybe there is a WoB about it, i don't know. I think he talked somewhere about it, but I don't know anymore and I don't have access to theoryland.

I think on Dalinar's bridges there were.

The inquisitors are able to use atium, so presumably they can see all the temporal shadows.

9 hours ago, Faceless Mist-Wraith said:

Welcome to the Shard! Have an up vote!

Have you read the Wax and Wayne books? 

Thankee kindly

I have indeed. And Secret History.

Hello all. I am amflare, denizen of Science Fiction and Fantasy on the Stack Exchange network. Unfortunately we don't have a large cosmere fan base there, so I'm making my way here to check you guys out.

On a scale of 1 (what's a cosmere) to 10 (Brandon Sanderson is my pseudonym), I'd put myself around a 6-7. Most of my knowledge is in Mistborn, with a decent familiarity in Stormlight and Warbreaker. Elantris not so much, and I read White Sands for the first time today.

I look forward to many long and questionably fruitful discussions here!