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You'd be surprised what can be achieved with the power of mathematical analysis. We have plenty of measurements refeerring to pure substances, even though there is no such thing as a pure substance. And we do all that by extrapolating data from substances of known impurity. There are plenty of indirect ways to calculate investiture. For example, heat is energy. Pushing against a force produces work, which is another kind of energy. Measuring those, you can compare how much investiture is accessing a bronze feruchemist and a coinshot. Once you get some way to calculate investiture from here (resistance of an invested object to steelpush maybe? Set up one of those southern scadrians allomantic machines to produce a standardized push, measure force applied on item), you can calculate the rest. It's not fast and it's not easy, but it is doable

Step 1: take your standard gem (a small one) Step 2: measure how long a standard weight remains lashed to a wall. This and all subsequent measures must be taken immediately after a highstorm, so that you can have fully infused gems. Step 3: take a lot of other gems and make the same measure with all of them. You'll find some gems that hold just as much stormlight as your standard gem. Step 4: Measure how long the weight remains lashed when using 2, 3, 4 times more stormlight. I expect the relation will not be proportional. Define the relation between how much stormlight you're infusing and how long the object will remain lashed. Step 5: Now wait time after highstorms and keep making time measures at different times after highstorms. See if you can figure out an equation for stormlight decay into a gem. Step 6: See if you can correlate stormlight infused with gem luminescence measurement. EDIT @Overstorm I mean that the bands were so infused that they didn't even blip on wax's alomantic senses. I douubt normal people can store that much power into so little metal.

The best system to measure investiture is stormlight: you can take a standard infuse gem as your unit of measurememnt, and calibrate any other gem by sucking the light, use it to lash a standard weight to a wall, and count how long it takes for it to fall. With feruchemy... it's much harder. The more powerful you are as a feruchemist, the more you can charge a piece of metal - see bands of mourning for that. You can't really calculate a maximum of investiture per gram of metal, and even if you can, you have no guarantee that a gram of brass can store as much as a gram of nicrosil. You'd need some way to convert a form of investiture into another to make good measures, and on scadrial we don't know yet any of those.

The three brown aes sedai are Aiden, Nyein and Zemaille, all three of the brown ajah. They are named in CoT, chapter 21. I got this information from encyclopaedia-wot.org

So now shardblades are empowered by Schroedinger's cats? Adolin befriends everyone regardless of rank, and he has shown to care for the lowly. He often acts as the voice of common reason to his father, which may not be exactly listening to the ignored, but it's fairly close.

It is a constant of science to go for further and further refining of your measuring units. Originally the human body was the reference, because it was something everyone could relate to. When there was a need for more accurate units, they started using the planet, and when they refined the universal constants, they started to use those as references (the meter and second were once defined as a fraction of the day or the earth's diameter, but now they are referred in terms of number of frequency of a specific subatomic phenomenon and distance travelled by the light in the vacuum). Unfortunately they failed to redefine the second as 1/100000 of a day, and an hour as 10000 seconds, it would have helped with time calculations. However, what I'm referring to is the general streamlining of units of measurements, in three aspects 1) Make your complex units of measurement derive from the fundamental ones. You don't define energy as the amount of heat needed to heat a specific amunt of a specific substance; rather, you define it on the basis that energy = force * lenght, and force = mass * acceleration, and acceleration is length divided time squared. So energy is mass times lenght squared divided time squared, and you define it in terms of your basic units of lenght, mass and time. It saves a lot of hassle in the conversions. Of course different planets will pick different fundamental units, but they should eventually reach the point where they start using those units to define all others. 2) Make all units and subunits multiples of the same number, generally the one you use as base for counting (10 on our planet). There are 12 inches in a feet, 3 feet for a yard, 22 yards to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile, and 3 miles to a league. All those units arose for historical reasons, hence the hapazard relations between them. All those units should become multiples of the same number, probably 10 since no planet is using a 12-based numerical system. 3) Use consistently the same unit to measure the same quantity. A lenght is a lenght, and it is always measured with the lenght's unit of measurement. Maybe those working in the field will find it more comfortable to use fathoms for depth, nautical miles for distance traveled over sea, chains and furlongs to measure farmland. It made perfect sense, as those units were born specifically to measure in those field. Unfortunately, it means that people working in a field have no idea what people working in another field are measuring. So, those are the three processes I am expecting to see in the cosmere. Especially on scadrial, which is already fairly well advanced by now.

Or there were already so many things cluttering the narrative in those chapters that there really wasn't time to introduce her. Actually, probably both.

Yeah, rereading that passage, it felt quite off from her: "roshone killed my brother and made my family suffer for years" "yeah, but your father insulted roshone, so roshone was justified" Ok, it wasn't exactly what it meant, but it read a lot like that. Still, I think laral has a better capacity than kaladin to see all sides. kaladin has been trained militarily to think in terms of "us" and "then", he even states so in the first book. He doesn't give a fair chance at his opponents. Why not go ahead and do it? you can download it for free at any time from brandon's site

Nah, it would suck. I mean, why would something like that need to happen? Seems just a gratuitous way to put a character in a bad spot. Unless kaladn's brother was totally possessed by some other entity, in which case it wouldn't be kaladin's brother anymore, and there would be no real reason to use him for that scene. well, we know the city was rioting, and they faced the everstorm. something is definitely going bad there, yes, but we don't know what still.

I said to let them out of the plains, just not in sight of the warcamps. the only problem with that was that cliff walls could not be scaled

I would have liked to see more of Laral. She obviosuly grew up into a capable woman. She still have strange ideas, though. I defnnitely want to see more of her. And I wanted to see more of kaladin's parents reaction to all the changes in kaladin. really, most of the reunion was before kaladin started pulling out reveals. And the new murder in the tower... adolin being appointed in charge of investigating himself... damnation, brandon did pull put something NOBODY predicted! That's a crazy feat, considering the number of theories that sprout in this forum. What the hell is up with the copycap murder? Also, we can start bets on how long before shallan will find out the truth, and if it will be either adolin to confess, or shallan to figure out. This also complicates matters a lot, because if adolin is now found responsible of kkillling sadeas, everyone will also assume he killed all those other guys.

A friend of mine also expressed the same idea. It is possible.

Dunno, could be. Lirin said that roshone changed for the better after kaladin left. I suppose having lost his son and having finally exacted his revenge would have made him feel hollow inside, and it could have sparked character growth. but it seems a bit off. quite anticlimatic if kaladin comes back and punches roshone and he's all like "yeah i deserved that". maybe he'll work to there. good point. roshone is elderly and invalid, and kaladin don't want to kill him.

I specificallly referred to the scene where he used stormlight to stick stones to the cliff wall to get handholds. he couldn't walk on walls, but he could climb them easily enough

I am rereading way of kings in preparation for oathbringer, and I just reached the point where kaladin discovers he can breath stormlight, and he made the armor with parshendi carapace and attached it to the bridge while climbing a chasm by sticking rocks to walls. And I just figured, it would have been the perfect escape setup. So far, they could not escape the chasms because the ones at the east would be too far, and the ones at the west would be either too close to the warcamps or too high to escape. But with kaladin capable of climbing walls, all they'd need to do would be to walk a few hours until they would be out of sight of the warcamps, then kaladin climbs the wall with stormlight, he drops a rope, lets all the bridgemen out of the chasm. then he goes back into the chasm and into sadeas' warcamp, and explains that they were attacked by a chasmfiend and he was the only survivor. he would likely be put with another bridge crew, and he could repeat the trick at the first chasm duty. Of course after he remains the only survivor three or four times in a row someone is going to suspect something is amiss, but it would have been a great way to smuggle out some bridge crews without arising any suspicion

So I'm not the only one to feel that different languages ring better for different things. And yes, I also feel that english is much better suited for fantasy or sci/fi over my native italian.

damnation, you're right. I was thinking on the lines of "move by a hundredth of a millionth off a turn around the planet westward", but that would mean a different line length at different latitudes. This only leaves one other possible interpretation if we don't want to call realmatics into it: the spanreeds use the center of the planet as a reference system. in that reference system, a spanreed at the equator and one at the pole are both stationary. Yes, it is an accelerated reference system, but why should that be a problem? In that frame of reference, motion would always be motion relative to the center of the planet. Consider, in fact, two writers standing at the equator at opposite sides of the planet 1 | (planet) | 2 If the spanreed moves in a cartesian rreference system, then when writer 1 lifts his spanreed (i.e. moves it towards the left in this page) then the spanreed of 2 would also move towards the left, burying itself into the page. It can onluy work if the movement is relative to the planet, i.e. when writer 1 moves his spanreed away from the planet, spanreed 2 moves away from the planet too. The first scholars to calculate the size of earth were ancient greeks, they had only traveled a small part of it, and they did it making calculations of sun's height over the horizon using the lenght of shadows. They got a surprisingly accurate result. So, I expect rosharan scholars know the size of their planet pretty well already, they do not need the everstorm.

I can't deal with waiting until novemeber 14 to start reading, and I can't deal with having kaladin's cliffhanger last until novemeber 14. I am sure I'm not the only one. I see, you are using a normal cartesian reference system. However, if you instead use a polar coordinate system centered on the planet, spanreeds work fine without needing any realmatic fix. Makes me wonder what would they do on a spaceship. It would be good closure if it will be adolin to kill moash too. Maybe while saying "must I really deal with all the lloose ties by myself??"

I've never considered that aspect of elokhar. I always condsidered the "god put me in this place, why am I screwing up so much?" side of him. Being the only average joe in his family is also something that must be weighting on him. I don't think brandon can afford to leave us with a cliffhanger like that for months. Not if he doesn't want am angry mob around his house. I think if I were a centralized government I would invest big money to ensure that every fair-sized town has a spanreed connected to the capital. earthstone is the seat of a landlord, as such it should have a way to convey messages to the capital. But the ruby is always flashing with light when the spanreed is used, so it may be that the gem needs to be infused? In that case the weeping would really suck. Imagine if all mobile phones stopped working for a couple weeks... different places on the planet will always remain in the same position compared to each other. A ship instead changes position all the time.

I am just trying to picture how kaladin can trim his nails with a knife identical to the one who killed sadeas while smiling and looking at amaram and staring at the same time. the smile+stare is really difficult to pull off. Ah, well, you can't have perfection. Either smiling or staring is already enough

It would be nice to see amaram's reaction to seeing kaladin always around him. add the mysterious circumstances of sadeas' murder, i would not be surprised if he just run away screaming at some point

We're still at chapter 6, give it time. It would be very anticlimatic if it was never discovered. And if adolin confessed now, it would risk undermining all of his father's work.

There really is no way to know. Let's look at other hemalurgical constructs we know: inquisitors live longer than humans, but they do get old and die eventually. Kandra are ageless. So, we really can't say anything about koloss lifespan from it. And the lord ruler made koloss with the heart limitation so that they will die off as a sort of failsafe trigger. Once that limitation was in place, he would have no reason to care what's their natural lifespan if their healt issues are taken into account.

I don't remember we're ever given this information. It was mentioned that darkeyes winning shards are rare enough that each one of them is remembered, but they could be a few dozens. And really, moash was pretty stupid for thinking about it. It would be like someone exposing himself to lethal doses of radiation in the offchance that he'll get superpowers instead of tumors. the first darkeye to be gifted a full set, on that we can bet for sure.

My only reason for dissatisfaction is that the chapter ended there.