king of nowhere

Since we're talking about rock, I wonder if all the horneater warriors are trained even half as well as he is. Because the book implies that his strength is at least partially caused by his training to be a warrior since early age. In which case, if most horneater warriors are like him, I wonder why they didn't conquer the world already

i think he's closer than most to the cognitive realm. That's because he can also see spren that don't want to be seen. Shardblades cut in the cognitive realm, slicing physical objects because their very idea has suddenly become that of an object cut in half. If rock is also partially in the cognitive, it's possible it would cause blades to cut him normally. Lift is also partially in the cognitive, it would be interesting to see if it has the same effect on her

I think there are WOBs that ryshadium are originally normal horses that bonded spren, thus becoming more akin other rosharan life

No idea, but I think adonalsium would be smart enough to figure out "normal" life would not survive on roshar. Making an ecosystem that goes extinct shortly thereafter doesn't seem the kind of thing a god would make. Not only, but I think many animals and plants from our planet would manage to survive the highstorms. Moss and lichens can grow on bare rock and are hardy enough to not be affected by the wind. Mice and other small animals could wheater highstorms by hiding on the leeward side of trees. beavers would be able to chew trees and make their own shelters. Also, we should see whales and dolphins in the oceans. The complete absence of mammals except those of shin derivation is a clear sign that mammals were never made. Thinking about it, mice did manage to spread, when shallan first comes in karbranth she sees a skyheel eating hunting a mice. But mice as so hardy, they could have easily spread out of shinovar. If we assume life evolved normally, I suppose roshar landmass was colonized by plants first and later crustaceans. Some plants living in shallow pools (already adapted to be partialy exposed to highstorms) would gradually shift towards land, because they'd find no predators there. And once plants are growin on the land, some shallow-water crustaceans would learn to go on the land to eat them.

I just noticed a juicy detail on a reread, and I have to post it. Not finding a proper thread, I made one So, I started rereading aloy of law. In the prologue, vax and lassie are talking during a pause in the fight. Vax remarks that lassie shot a toe out of a bandit, so he had a good reason to hold a grudge. Lassie replies “You don’t need ten,” she said. Knowing now that she is a kandra, I realized that the four toes are horse's hooves, because a felllow kandra of her is impersonating a horse, and she does just fine, because the horse is fine with 4. Of course she looks kind of ridiculous, because she's a horse. And this is probably a reference to the short scene brandon wrote with horse!Melaan Post your own hidden gems. Or, if there is already a thread for it, point me there

Nicely spotted. this is my new favourite interpretation now

I have a really difficult time seeiing kaladin swap sides. And he's gotmuch less darkness in him than he had in the first books. wasn't eshonai one of the four who will destroy? She was involved in the return of the voidspren, after all

Looking at the twitter feed, I notice that brandon received in gift another shardblade, a porrtrait of dalinar, and who knows what else. I got wondering, by now he should have a pretty big stack of gifts from his fans. And he looks like the kind of guy who would not throw them away after a while. So I got curious about the pile of fan gifts he must have in his house somewhere. Anyone else would like some pictures of that? By now he's probably writing just to pay for more storage space to keep all the gifts

well, aluminium is a poor choice of material for a weapon because it has bad mechanical properties for it. You can counter that with some alloying. it is also very light, meaning the bullet won't have much power or range. that you can't change, unless you alloy it so much that it's no longer aluminium. the ressulting weapon is still good enough to kill, of course.

Don't get me wrong, he's a nice character and I like him. I wish we had seen more of him. But in a story, you don't add redundant characters. Especially not when you already remark that you don't have enough space to expand everything, as brandon did many times in the annotations. And so it seems to me that poor ham has no narrative role, nor a particular role in the crew. he's supposed to be the fighter, but the crew mistborn already cover that well enough. In fact, we haven't seen him fight on-screen once. Unless we count whalloping marsh on the head at the end of book 2 (why didn't they finish off the unconscious inquisitor, by the way?) He is mentioned fighting alongside soldiers somtimes, but he never does anything that soldiers could not do. He never provided much to the crew, and I can't think of a single time where he significantly affected the plot that couldn't have easily done by someone else (like in the decision to not send koloss against the city in book 3). I wonder why brandon didn't cut him out from the planning stage. He just doesn't seem the writer that would add in a redundant character just because he likes it.

People with metallic prothesis are more difficult to figure out, though. I'm imagining the paralympic games with people trying to make metalmind wheelchairs, stilts, and so on

It probably would depend on the individual. At least for an untrained person, it probably would have that effect. I know that when i exercice my breath gives up before my muscles, so cadmium would definitely let me run longer. On the other hand, I am under the impression that athletes, or even just fit people, don't have the same problem in normal conditions, and are limited only by how well their muscles can keep up, so cadmium wouldn't help them much. This one is debatable. If you are an archivist, you can be expected to have your copperminds with you in any working environment. It's an advantage you have over common people, but it's an advantage that you can reliably have at all times and that comes at no cost for anybody, so maybe your score should reflect that.

it's basically random chance, with purer bloodline giving you best chances both of being a misting instead of a regular person, and of being a mistborn instead of a regular misting

When you see this video about "conan the librarian" and you try to insert it into alcatraz story

I think both motivations are true

it seems spren can become smaller, but not bigger. As for cutting a planet in half, even if there was a way to get a spren that big, gravity would keep the two sides together, and the enormous pressure would seal them together, so it would really be pointless

I say, I imagined the chasms much more lush. The picture shows some vegetation, but it's mostly barren. It's actually fairly realistic there. I was imagining it more akin to the natural gorge depicted at this link, but then I realized it actually has the same amount of vegetation. It's just that green on grey is much more visible than red on red.

I think sanderson is becoming more comfortable writing it. Although you worded the thread title in a way that makes it look like an erotic novel

i'm also going for dockson. and ham. most of kelsier's crew, those who didn't get much spotlight.

I also think it's mostly a matter of maintenance. you can't set them free to eat grass. we saw some horses taking a few bites at grass before it could retreat, or tricking it into going out, but horses need lots of grass, so they don't get enough food that way. and horses eat a lot, especially warhorses. Still, "expensive" is relative. They are certainly more expensive than chulls, but all the highprinces have at least a few hundreds of them, so they are affordable. there is also the chance that they can't reproduce on mainland roshar, for whatever reason, but i find it hard to believe. unless the shins only sold castrated horses to keep the monopoly, in which case it would be noted.

yes, they bred allomancers and killed them young. they probably got the knowledge from trell, whoever that is

just a random thought here. half mistborn were women, and nobles had no qualms sending them to fight. Mistborn were also valuable as inquisitors, because they'd be stronger; I seem to remember it was confirmed somewhere that the inquisitor kelsier fought was made from a full mistborn, but either way I am sure it was stated they were recruited preferrably among seekers so their bronze would be stronger. So, for those practical reasons, half the inquisitors should have been recruited from women too. yet we see no mention of any inquisitrix. now that I think about it, there is no mention of women obligators either. why is that? possible reasons: - only men were obligators, and inquisitors were recruited from obligators. this shift the question as to why only men were obligators, seeing as noble society was otherwise quite open to women with power. - inquisitors turned men into the process (ewww) - there were inquisitors women, butt with the eye spikes and everything else nobody ever paid it enough attention to notice.

spices may be a worldwide export of herdaz, but I'd surmise there's a lot of local trade too. A traderoute may be important just because it passes through a lot of densely inhabited regions

but the point is, what is exactly the role of investiture in plant growth? plants have crem for nutrients and plenty of light and all the water and carbon dioxide they need, what is it that investiture give them more? does it supply lack of sunlight? does it supply lack of nutrients? does it just speed up the process as long as all other conditons are favorable? does it shield the plants from heat? cold? parasites? when trying to go into scientific details, "stormlight makes plants grow" doesn't really tell much.

I'm talking more about the chemicals needed to build biological molecules. Plants get hydrogen and oxygen from water, and carbon with photosynthesis, as well as energy. They still need nitogen, phosphorous, sulfur, sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, chloride, and a handful of other elements I'm forgetting about and I'm too lazy to look on wikipedia. that's why real plants need roots and fertilizer. No matter how much light and water and carbon dioxide they get, without phosphorous they can't make DNA, without iron they can't make a few specialized enzymes that handle oxygen. So I'm wondering if investiture can conjure those elements, or if plants are still limited by their availability.