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The amount the percentage can be off is never stated. However, as a chemist, I did some speculation on the matter (would be too long to find old thread, faster to just do it again) - iron with 0% carbon is iron. iron over 4% carbon is cast iron. carbon must be between 0 and 4% to have steel, so the amount of carbon in steel must be accurate within a 2% at most - there are a lot of other impurities that are found in metal, and with final empire technology it is virtually impossible to get a 98% purity on most metals, so a 2% contamination in many cases is not too bad That lead (no pun intended) to the conclusion that different metals and different impurities can be off in different ways. steel would be ruined by 1% more carbon, but 1% nichel would do little harm. So my speculation is that it depends on the cognitive identity of the metal. if the impurity is enough to change the identity of the metal, it will not be allomantically good. And cognitive identity of a metal would likely have to do with its behaviour: if a small difference in composition do not alter much its properties, then the metal is congitively the same. that fits with the previous assertions: 1% of carbon in steel make a big difference, while other metals commonly found in iron don't affect greatly its properties iin small concentration.

I also got a bit sad after finishing, cause there was no more wot to read. but just a bit. I never became *really* sad for finishing a book. So yes, there will be no more wheel of time books, and this sucks. on the other hand, the stormlight archive promise to be even better. I call it a deal. Yes, but addiction to books is harmless. It's not like drug or smoke. books don't metl our brain, don't cause cancer. at worst they'll hurt our foot if we drop them. Some people say they are bad for social life. I used to feel guilty about that, back when I was younger and less wise. Now I believe one has to embrace one's passions* to find fulfillment. So if you have more fun reading books than going to parties, you will be happier accepting your nerdyness and all it entails than doing stuff you don't actually enjoy just because society tell you that you are supposed to enjoy it. Worked wonders for me. So, embrace Sandersonoholicism. A scoop of addiction with a glass of perdition, thanks. * Obviously, as long as they're harmless for others. if you like hurting people, i am in no way encouraging you to become a serial killer

oh, i was forgetting: it was said the number of rithmatists is fixed, and one cannot be incepted before an old one dies. so it appears there must be a fixed number of shadowblazes, at least a fixed numbers available for bonding. maybe joel was supposed to be bound but the quota was already filled.

My best explanation is that it actually is harmful, but prof also pass around healing powers, so it doesn't matter. After all, every person exposed to tensor dust is also living close to prof, so he get the chance to sneakily heal them.

Yes, I know that rithmatist is not cosmere. it's just an analogy. Still, i think it's a good explanation for a lot of stuff. rithmatists see the sort of graffiti man, the shadowblaze, when they are incepted. regular people do not. 4everything indicates that joel should have been a rithmatist, and he sees the shadowblaze, but it run away from him, so joel do not become a rithmatist. I'm drawing the following conclusions: 1) shadowblazes are some kind of creatures, possibly similar in some way to the spren (call it convergent evolution) 2) they can bond humans, giving them the power of rithmatics 3) for some reason, the binding can only happen in the chamber of inception (or almost only; gregory III got his rithmaticcs from somewhere else). there the children are brought, and the shadowblazes decide whom they want to bind 4) there is something about joel that is scaring away the shafdowblazes. maybe some kind of possession, maybe he's already bound to something else (how does he get so good at math anyway? the kind of calculations he performs should at least take some time; maybe it's a supernatural influence like shallan's memories?) I further predict that in the sequel, joel will either discover some new power, or find a way to become a rithmatist.

Can I use stromlight to increase my physical abilities (particularly increased healing) , and store those inside a metalmind? If so, I'd pick the jasnah brand of radiant and full feruchemist. Soulcasting, teleportation, and the next best thing to being a compounder in all 16 metals.

The way I understand it is that any object has a single blue line, but you can push or pull different parts of an object if you're skilled. I also believe the steel-transmuting power was only because sanderson wanted to set the book into a city carved into steel like swiss cheese. and epic power was the most convenient way to turn a city to steel. If I understand correctly his writing mechanism, he first think of what would make a good story, and then seeks a way to make it happen.

when you play League of Legends and keep misreading Kassadin as Kaladin

Well, the diagram states that taravangian must eliminate all the other heroes because all those people trying to save the world are going to clash into each other. You can't trust your plan to work if something unpredictable may happen at any time as a result of someone else's plan. the flaw with this line of reasoning is of course that 1) it removes from the scene many other plans, which may as well have worked, and 2) it inimicates all the other heroes, who will start fighting you instead of the voidbringers. Such a plan only works everything goes according to it. you must absolutely be sure in yourself. you'll need to defeat not just the bad guys, but also the other good guys, and if you fail at some of that everything will go wrong and there is no chance for a backup plan. But it was implied that for taravangian, with greater intelligence comes greater self confidence. when he wrote the diagram, he was absolutely confident he could pull it out. and afterwards, he trusted the advice of the diagram. so the chances of it working are quite slim, and if it does, it probably wasn't necessary anyway.

That could actually be a useful way to train allomancers: you give them a book with metal pages, and they have to flip the single pages allomantically. would be great to improve control. Think about words of radiance printed on metal sheets for that purpose. it would require true skill to turn the pages. and it would also require a wheelbarrow to lug it around.

Well, it's a matter of tastes. And now that you offer criticism, I'm not really sure what brings me to like it. There are several clichès, and I dislike many characters. The story is compelling at times, but in other places rambles too much. Still I love it, despite not being sure why. Maybe it's the scope of it. Maybe I like to see a huge story with all things interconnecting. Not sure. The detailed worldbuilding is certainly part of it, I like worldbuilding and I even like related info dumps, despite authors being told to avoid them. Anyway, if you don't like it, no one is focing you to, and you shouldn't feel obliged to. If you don't like it, so be it. as others pointed out, it is possibly because fantasy moved on from that. Just as I don't like tolkien, despite acknowledging that his stuff seem clichè only because he invented it and lots of people basically copied him. I certainly prefer the stormlight archive to the wheel of time (note that tsa would never have existed without wot). But wot still makes a good read.

And then, after your plan succeeds, you'll be able to gather informations from rafo, and sandoerson won't be able to hide anything, and we'll figure out all the spoilers to the yet-unwritten books, which will then be, well, spoiled. Shame on you! That's like reading the first page of a novel first. EDIT: lol, I wanted to say the last page obviously

As long as you can read it, it still works.

they look like goats, but they may actually be the first sighting of the theorized hemalurgic reindeer

Name: Lazyman Primary power: I can point to a person; that person instantly fattens by 30 kg, loses all muscle tone and physical capability, and becomes too lazy to care about anything. Effect on mind diminishes over time: at first, the person hit will be too lazy to even eat, and will likely lie down until death. if saved by other people (for example by force-feeding), the person will slowly recover, becoming almost normal after about a decade. physical effects are permanent, but can be removed by dieting and excercising. Secondary (defensive) power: everyone trying to hurt me will suddenly lack the initiative for it. They will suddenly say "screw it, who makes me do it?", put down their gun, then go home and play some videogames. I'm still vulnerable to accidental damage - if someone wasn't intending to hurt me, he will hurt me. But planning to cause me to get hurt accidentally will activate the defence. Weakness: if I care about something, and I start caring enough to put a real effort into it, I lose my powers. Evilness: I'm a relatively benign epic; I'll just stay indoor in my mansion (not very big: I'll spend most of my time in bedroom, I don't need a big house) most of the time. I'll force the people to name some servant to take care of my needs so I don't need to make any unnecessary activity, but as long as I have entertainment and a few mistresses I will be satisfied and won't have reason to unleash my power on anyone. Costume: a bathrobe, or alternatively a pijama, or a tomato-stained t-shirt and underpants.

thanks for all the cool answers. Well, I correctly spotted zahel being more than a simple ardent, but I'd never thought he was vasher; that explains nightblood probably, although now the question is shifted to how HE got there. But not surprising, he's been living 300 years already by the time in warbreaker, he was very expert in magic, he could probably figure out worldhopping eventually. and then get involved. I also figured the ardent that was sketching the tattoos was likely nazh. Is there some other easter egg I missed there?

For logistic reasons I've been unable to read words of radiance until now. So to avoid spoilers I missed all the early speculation and anything sanderson may have said about the book. I figured before posting in this subforum I should get an update, it would be pointless to start threads speculating on stuff that was already answered last month. So I'm offering a shiny upvote and a good bunch of gratitude (that's all I can offer in this forum, I'm afraid) to anyone who can sum up the current state of art on speculations; in particular to the following questions - how did jasnah survive exactly? We've seen her body being stabbed repeatedly; and if only her soul fled, how did she got a new body? What exactly does elsecalling do? - what the hell is nightblood doing on roshar anyway? did hoid bring it? did he gave it to the herald? is hoid friend with the heralds? or it was a 17th sharder? - in his pow during the interlude, zahel mentions investiture. is he more than he appears? if so, what is he? if not, does it means that roshar ardents are more cosmere aware than most? - what happened to the listeners who fled before being turned into voidbringers? are they going to be turned into voidbringers when the everstorm hit them, or is the increased intelligence from not using dullform enough to resist the transformation? - Is ehonai really dead? normally, when the villain fall off a cliff and no body is recovered, the villain survived. it would be especially ironic for her to die when in the same book a character is resurrected after being sliced in half with a shardblade and falling from the sky into a stormfront, and another comes back after being stabbed through the heart onscreen. if she survived, will she be able to reject the voidbringer and come back her real self? or all her characterization, and the scream in her head, were just going to lead to a downer ending? - was taravangian million-to-one bout of intelligence simple happenstance, or was there some unseen force wanting him to devise the diagram? Is there some occult force interfering there (besiddes hoid and oother worldhoppers, of course, since they would have no way to control mr T's gift/curse)? Did odium plan for it (meaning he can interfere that far)? How much can odium interfere anyway? - there are several mentions of elokar seeing sprens, but he said to kaladin he can't see them anymore. what happened? was he attracting an honorspren becase, while he sucked, he was really trying, and did that spren got offended when elokar tried to have kaladin executed?

I haven't posted anything in ten days, and none of my posts in the last month has been upvoted recently. Yet I gained 25 points during my absence. So yes, there's likely to be plenty of people rereading old stuff and upvoting it.

store age in an atium metalmind. swallow that metalmind. then burn duraluminium, or get a nicroburst. You just reverted to an embryo, thereby committing the most spectacular suicide ever.

This is WoT, not cosmere, but I think it still fits there, and it happened for real a few years ago. I went into a drinking dare with another guy, and after several glasses, before the next one, I greeted him with "Tai'Shar Friuli" and was a bit disappointed that he never read wot and so didn't answer "tai'Shar Veneto". Explanation: Veneto and Friuli are two regions in italy, whose inhabitants are known as heavy drinkers, as well as being an epicenter of grappa production. While this repute is mostly urban legend today, I feel like I have to defend the alcoholic honor of my ancestors. I don't like alcohol, but I take pride in having a good resistance to it nevertheless; daring me is pretty much the only way to get me drunk. And so when I start a drinking contest I really feel like it's about the honor of my land and ancestors, and I may start using related quotes. In the future I may probably say instead "I will drink stuff I don't like, as long as it's for machismo" EDIT: Now I'm thinking of the ideals of the drunkard "alcohol before water, tipsiness before sobriety, fun before hangover" "I will empty the bottles that cannot empty themselves" "I will drink stuff I hate, as long as it's for machismo" What next?

I think there's only so much mythology humans can convceive before some bits start resembling each other. I'd go for "coincidence"

I want it! And by that I mean, I'd be willing to pay a ludicrous amount of cash to get one. Marketing guys, hear me out! It goes without saying that I am a sanderfan because I would be willing to shell good money for what would basically amount to a monopoly with different text.

Not sure if the cadmium consumption would be at reasonable level. especially since i expect finding allomantic metals would be difficult in a post-apocalyptic wworld. And the people who actually were burning cadmium would only be a few seconds, from their point of view, from zombie death. But well, this gives me an idea for a coordinated team. send a pulser ahead. when the zombies are near the pulser, the pulser throws up a cadmium bubble. now, the rest of the team standing out of the bubble will see the zombies standing still. they can calmly take aim and headshot all the zombies. throw down the bubble, rinse, repeat at will. if you run out of bullets, long spears should be fine - long enough that you can stab the zombies in the head while standing out of the bubble. the important is not running out of cadmium.

actually goku is not well defined. he was shown with the capability to destroy planets already when he became a level 1 supersahyan, but much later than that, when he should be orders of magnitude more powerful, his energy balls still do surprisingly little collateral damage. And he still feels pain when he get slapped by his wife. While his son gohan, that could easily dodge bullets, get actually punched by videl before she started to train for real, and get a black sign for this - while if the world of dragonball had any coherence, videl should have broke her hand. So it's never very clear what those characters can or cannot do. cognitive chuck norris, on the other hand, counted to infinity twice, and never wears a clock because he decides what time is it; and that is something goku cannot do.

It is certainly possible, although I have troubles figuring out what could be more dangerous than a shard. On the other hand, as brandon likes to surprise his readers, maybe this timne the surprise will be that the big bad presented in book one will be exactly the big bad of all the series.