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Who's the second guy? I'm afraid I don't recognize him 

The first thing that popped into my mind when I saw Kaladin's outfit was "mistcoat"

@Lanny it's spelled Syl actually

Just now, Silverblade5 said:

What is the answer to the ultimate question in life, the universe, and everything?

24, obviously 

Full name: Edward LeClair 

Investiture: He is a Cognitive Shadow; specifically, a Shade 

Additional abilities: He was a prominent philosopher and mathematician in the fort cities of Threnody before his death

Nationality: Threnodite; specifically, the fort cities

Height: Around 5'9", though it can be hard to tell

Age: He is 61 years old. He died when he was 53, meaning he's spent 8 years as a shade. About half of that was spent as a normal shade, and the other half was spent as an experiment.

Hair color: Previously brown; now he has no hair/appears only as white or black

Eye color: Previously brown; now shifts depending on his mental state

Home planet: Threnody

Character's current religion, if they have one, and if not, the one they grew up in: N/A 

Spouse: N/A

Parents: Two random Threnodite cityfolk. 

Siblings: N/A

Children: N/A

History: Edward was a normal human on Threnody up until his unfortunate death while traveling. He wandered for a while as a Shade, before being abducted by the New Inquisition for use in an experiment. There he was spiked with a very strong zinc spike, which allows him to maintain a form of sentience despite his condition as a shade. 

Full name: Telar Ansel  

Investiture: Steel misting 

Additional abilities: He has excellent natural eyesight and is very observant. He's an expert firefighter and competent with knife combat and hand-to-hand combat

Nationality: Elendel Basin 

Height: 5'10"

Age: 33

Hair color: Black 

Eye color: Dark green 

Home planet: Scadrial

Character's current religion, if they have one, and if not, the one they grew up in: He grew up Survivorist but... 

Spouse: N/A 

Parents: I don't know man why would I come up with parents

Siblings: ^ 

Children: Nope

History: Telar was working as a cop in the Elendel Basin when he was recruited by the New Inquisition. He's an expert with both guns and steelpushing, though he isn't the best at the mobility aspect of a-steel. He now works as a high-ranked assassin. To help him with his job, the New Inquisition gave him five coins, each of which has a long length of ribbon running through it. When launched at an enemy, it has the capability to wrap around them and squeeze; this can be used to deadly or merely incapacitating effect; the ribbons are capable of squeezing hard enough to cause permanent damage from hypoxia, but they can also be used to simply bind the target.

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How does one post a WoB in it's complete form, not just a link? 

I was thinking more along the lines of the "cause the person to slaughter everyone around them and then commit suicide" effect Nightblood had, but both your points are valid if that effect doesn't activate.

3 hours ago, Storms! said:

Then you're left with a homicidal Fullborn bent on world domination that also wields NB, which is bad for everybody.

This is what I was talking about when I said "Nightblood would almost certainly kill TLR though if drawn."

Nightblood would almost certainly kill TLR though if drawn.

Oh he could run 

... for maybe a second until he shattered his ankles

Hmmm 

Well if TLR can find any way to kill Szeth, he wins, just by virtue of F-steel

If he can't find a way, then it's either a tie(TLR uses F-steel to get away before Szeth can even note his direction) or Szeth wins, since TLR can't actually stop him

I'm just disinclined to think he can make handholds for himself in a similar way due to the fact that a Stoneward did that exact thing in one of his visions, and the Stormfather then explicitly stated the Surge wouldn't serve him in the same manner.

Didn't the Stormfather say the Surge wouldn't work the same way for him as it does for Stonewards?

That doesn't necessarily mean he can't use it in a similar way, I suppose.

20 minutes ago, RagingTuturtle said:

Can someone find a quote or a WoB that proves the sticking to skin because I’m still a little skeptical. If it can, then I don’t see a problem with this idea, but if it can’t then the idea of using gloves bothers me because it is a bad idea to use cloth to hold your entire weight. Also with the idea of unsticking something and using it over and over, that would work if you only had two things and only used your arms. (Sticking one, placing the other while you hang on with one arm.)

It doesn't matter whether he can apply it directly to his skin, he can apply it to the surface he's climbing.

I'm planning to start working on a story this summer, and, hopefully, finish by the time I'm in college. The problem is that I can't seem to hold onto one idea long enough to really build it into book material before another, totally contradictory idea appears and I kinda lose passion for it's predecessor.

Tight gloves and shoes. Barring that, they could always use specially made gear or even rocks, but instead of forming a ladder for themselves, they use Adhesion on one item, stick it to a wall, use Adhesion on the second item, place it higher on the wall, remove the stormlight from the first and repeat the process.

I also just realized that they could apply adhesion to the surface instead of their skin, which makes it irrelevant whether they can apply Adhesion to their own skin or not.

1 minute ago, RagingTuturtle said:

I still have a problem with the idea of them being “fast” sure if you had enough of a substance to attach to a wall. But that would be a hassle after a while to carry a bunch of rocks in a satchel, basing on what Kaladin experimented with before he used gravitation. It would be like rock climbing but needing to carry and stick on the hand and footholds. Possible but not extremely practical unless in extreme circumstances. 

What Kaladin did is... not what I'm talking about. For this method the only rocks you need to carry around are the ones you keep stormlight in.

It would be much easier than normal climbing though, and faster with enough practice. There's still the stormlight issue, and there aren't a ton of situations where it's necessary to climb walls anyways, so this isn't super useful, but it's still a fun thing for Bondsmiths(and Windrunners seeking a challenge) to do. 

The time it takes to use Adhesion is just the time you take to force stormlight into the material. 

27 minutes ago, RagingTuturtle said:

I feel as if this is a great idea, but with a few potential flaws. Namely I do not believe Bomdsmiths nor Windrunners would be able to move very effectively with this method. The surge  that would be used has been said to use a lot more stormlight than other surges, but the main problem is that you need to spend time infusing an object with stormlight and then sticking it on another object. (Don’t think it works on skin.) so a potential Bondsmith, who is a huge spider man fan, would need gloves and boots, and need to take time to infuse them. (And clothing is not the best thing to be holding a good deal of your weight. Kaladin using stones to climb was a much better idea.) They could certainly climb up walls with ample time and stormlight if they needed to, but it would be a tad ineffective.

Well, it doesn't really take any time to use Adhesion, so you don't really need to stop very long to do that. The problems with stormlight and being unable to apply Adhesion to yourself are valid concerns. I don't recall any scene in the books directly proving or disproving the possibility of applying Adhesion to yourself. The fact that a Windrunner or Skybreaker can use lashings on themselves suggests to me that it is possible; however, the fact that neither Dalinar nor Kaladin has attempted to do something like what I describe could be used to make an argument that they can't.

https://wob.coppermind.net/media/snippets/273/5084_13.mp3

New info has come to light; the Dark Alley has spread their sinister web even to Sanderson himself! Someone must inform him of the truth! 

Quick, at the next signing, someone must reveal the truth to disillusion Sir Sanderson!

The title is a bit of a misnomer; I know Bondsmiths can run up walls. 

I know this from two scenes in Oathbringer; the Sigzil scene where he talks to Kaladin about organizing Bridge Four, and the Dalinar scene where he breaks up a wild practice battle between the Sadeas' and Amaram troops. 

In the Dalinar scene, we see him use Adhesion to stick the front lines of the two groups of soldiers to the ground in order to get them to calm down. Once the fighting has stopped, he dismisses the stormlight, thus freeing the soldiers. 

We know it would be possible for a Bondsmith to apply Adhesion to his footwear and walk up a wall, dismissing the stormlight attaching him when he needs to move again. The main problem here is that the bondsmith's body would still be pulled towards the ground and he might even break his ankles if he is unable to resist this force. However, stormlight and training may be able to compensate. Barring that, he could always use his hands and climb in a more traditional posture, hanging by his hands or using all four limbs. With practice, he could become quite fast at the process of moving up, sticking a limb to the wall, unsticking another limb, moving up with that one, sticking it to the wall, and repeating. The problem here is that, assuming the Radiant is unable to apply Adhesion to themselves, they would need to wear tight gloves and footwear in order to prevent themselves from slipping out of the things actually holding them to the wall. If they can apply it to their own bodies, than that isn't a problem. 

True, the two things needed to assume this is possible are relatively easy to assume and most of you have probably already figured this out as a possibility. 

With this in mind I think that Windrunners should be renamed Wallrunners, since both their surges allow them to move over walls and ceilings. 

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I'll start off: 

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On 12/24/2017 at 11:12 PM, NamelessThirteenth said:

If you know she (not he) likes Cosmere books, talk to her about them, then send me her number...

Haha...

...heck no buddy

4 minutes ago, Wyndlerunner said:

Uh, would now be the proper time to say that I am in fact, employed by a library? (Although I do primarily use it as an outlet to convert others to the cosmere)

There's never a proper time to confess to such a horrendous occupation

...though I suppose the DA people confess their affiliation at times, so