king of nowhere

doesn't work if they can just exit through shadesmar

another important question: how difficult it is to set up a magic transferance? can it be done on the fly, or it does require hours/days of preparatory work in a specialized lab? because in the first case, then any enchantment ccan easily be destroyed by someone making another enchantment on top of it. that would make it fairly easy to deactivate any such protection. in the opposite case, the thieves cannot just make the dontainers malleable by putting an enchantment over it once they are in. also, is there a way to shield a object so it will resist further enchantments?

there are many things that i don't llike, it's difficult to pick one. but i would say sloppyness. when a book is poorly planned, the plot is not solid, it relies on clichès too much, when there are contradictions or mistakes in scientific informations given... basically, when you see that the author has not made well the planning and research, he has not double-checked the numbers or the timelines, that sort of thing. that is not related simply to fantasy, but it is more of a problem in fantasy, because some could think they can just get away with some handwaved magic to solve inconsistencies.

diifficult to have many ideas when one doesn't know well your world and magic system. but let's see how I would go about protecting a bank with those resources. for once, if there was only one portal to access the bank, i'd have it guarded. from both inside and outside. if not by humans, at least by creatures capable of raising an alarm. if illusions are easy to come by, i'd look for something to counteract them. could be other magic, or more mundane means like smoke. aside from that, seems pretty well guarded to me, at least for a regular bank. I'd actually put most of my defensive resources into making sure the portal cannot be hijacked, but if that already happened, then that part of the defence has clearly failed already..

yes, it does, but that should not influence the vertical distribution. on earth, at low altitude the pressure decreases by around 1% per 100 meters. on roshar, that would be less, because of lower gravity affecting the air column. humans on roshar are acclimatized to the oxygen level there, so i suppose the effect of it would be the same that we experience. Although, come to think of it, oxygen at elevated concentration have euphoric effects, somewhat similar to being drunk, and the people in the lowlands are breathing it at a higher concentration that humans were meant to. So, maybe there is some truth to the whole airsickness thing...

ah, there's yet hope for humankind. nah, they are totally unrelated things. for example, sanderson books don't fry your brain. except for the part were we spend all the time reading books, maybe, and I'm sure most people would have some choice words for those putting real effort into learning aons or making cosplay, and the psychologists may find interesting the cases of those whose social life is curtailed as a result of sanderson's books. okk, so the brain fry area is a bit of a grey zone. other differences are... they are... huh, i'm not really sure right now. then there is the fact that a dose of drug, you take it, you get high for a few minutes/hours, then the dose is spent. instead you get a sanderson book (which i suppose is cheaper than most drugs, but i admit not being informed in that particular field, and most drug addicts don't seem the rich kind of people so maybe drugs are cheaper than i assumme), you get high for several days, then you put it into the shelf and you can still use it later. so sanderson books 1 - drugs 0. doing a recap, sanderson books are somewhat similar to drugs, but they are significantly better, and they are more environmental friendly.

yeah, i wonder how ruin could influence things so that those piercings could get a charge. ii mean, putting in the prophecy that the hero will get some ritual piercings is quite easy, but making sure that the ppiercings had killed a person before... unless terris society was ok with human sacrifice in the first place.

It cannot be too high, or the sick and elderly would have problems with breathing. urithiruu was made to also take in refugees. on the other hand, on earth being low enough that the sick and elderly are ok with it means being still well shy of the cloud top. maybe they have fabrials t increase the oygen pressure (unlikely, seems too contrieved) or maybe the atmosphere of roshar has a greater vertical distribution (makes sense, roshar's lower gravity would mean the atmosphere stratification would take longer). or maybe szeth was referring only to the lower clouds, so urithiru could be as low as one kilometer. not enough data to say. and we have no idea how high a storm reaches, either. so there's really no way to tell. As for the original question, i don't think it will be the case, but it was funny nonetheless. i can see kaladin suddenly starting to crave shells because he's been healed of his airsickness and now he sees that they are the best part of the animal.

impossible. the hystory of the rithmatist world is that korea conquered the world, a bit after england. that does not fit with a post-apocalypse. it would require all people inamerica to die, so it can be discovered again, just for start.

point taken hemalurgic love potion. it will steal your heart! now i'm wondering if you could make someone love you by hemalurgy. i don't know, spike out yoour own love for yourself and give it to the desired person, so that person will love you like you loved yourself, but you accidentally become a self-loathing emo in the process...

i haven't read osc, but there is one thing i like aboout sanderson that is lacking elsewhere and is keeping me away from most fantasy. brandon's book are well planned, welll researched, and well consistent. for all the people looking into the tiniest details in this forum, i don't remember any serious inconsistency being spotted (a few really, really minor). you take all the minutiae in his worldbuilding, do the calculations, and the numbers add up. the attention to detils, and the ramifications explored, are excellent. he can realistically portray a large array of personaities, without ever falling into strawman territory - unless it's intentional, and even then, most of the time the character is faking. atheists praise him for how he wrote jasnah, depressed people praise him for how he wrote kaladin, soldiers praised him for how he wrote about the army, people suffering from post traumatic stress disorder praised him for how he wrote people with that condition. if you are the kind of guy who won't care about the details, who will cruise through a book for a quick aand forgettable fun before throwing it away, then you won't even notice all that stuff. if you are the kind of guy who likes to think when he read a book, and to consider it in depth, and read it over and over in the future, than sanderson is your author of choice. If your friend doesn't appreciate all that stuff, you can subtly insinuate she's a literary mass consumer, the reader equivalent of homer simpson, going through scores of low quality books like he goes through cheap, industrial-made donughts (ok, I have no idea if they are good or not, but I've never seen homer refuse one, from any source, so I'd assume he's not a refined customer). Keep in mind that discriminating people for their taste or what they choose to value in entertainment is wrong, but what the hell, no one is perfect, you may as well do it

but then it would automatically ban stuff like this (\ (\ ( -.-) o_(")(")

you're not the first too come up with this idea. other people find it at least possible that some shard had directly influenced him that day. myself among them. hoowever, that does not need that the diagram is the product of a shard. it is possible that said shard simply influenced his curse/gift to cause him his extremely brilliant day, which would have been too unlikely otherwise.

I would not want a system automatically banning on using certain words, because there are many innocent ways to use them. for example, shall we ban "vashikaran", as it is used only in spambots? well, someone is going to post "hey guys, remember when we had the spam from that vashikaran black magic?" and be banned for it. I don't know any way to make such a system foolproof. furthermore, many spambots will write with grammar errors to go through most censorship systems. For the same reason I don't like automated word censors to filter out dirty talk. I remember a time when some people argued because some considered a certain term insulting and others did not, and here i wanted to talk about how the meaning of words change with time so words that were insulting are not anymore and viceversa, but it was practically impossibile with the automatic censor. And on italian forums there are even funnier instances. the war of Troy, in italian the city name is Troia, except that troia is also an insult (google translate it if you are intersted in the translation, i cannot write it here because it would be deleted), so you can't make references to the iliad without the censor stopping you from posting. I definitely do not trust automated systems telling people what they can write and what they cannot. well, i don't trust automated systems for anything that a human can do better, but in this field less than in others. as i remember, i was asked a captcha on joining the site, but not on posting the first time. although i suppose, if whoever manages the spambots can write (or have a bot recognize) a captcha on joining, he can do so on further posts.

nuke him. with a multi-megaton device, an hiroshima-level one is not enough. nah, even a smaller nuke is enough if he does not expect it and therefore does not put up a shield. if he does not use a shield, even several tonnes of conventional explosive may do the trick. so... hide a big enough bomb under the place where he walks normally? seems he'll be easier to assassinate than steelheart. of course, rule of drama dictates nothing so simple would actually work.

i am fully aware that miles can regenerate breathing and a radiant dooes not need to. i am merely stating that they will run out of gold/stormlight eventually. for that matter, i think dumping hoid into liquid metal won't be enough. enough healing power will protect even from that, not to mention the possibility of storing the heat into a metalmind. i believe to kill one of the cosmere's immortals you need to go by attrition.

the theory is not that difficult. while all those methods are effective, any conventional method of killing would work well, if they are prevented from recharging their powers and the killing method is repeated until they run out of charge. as miles shows, just shooting him enough times is effective. closing someone in a sealed box until they die of lack of air is another. cutting them to pieces, and keep going at it until they stop regrowing. the only problem is holding them in place while you do that. in the case of hoid, he could easily escape to shadesmar whatever you do to him, for example.

i believe that spambot prevention could be easily sidestepped by programmming spambots to post in other threads. The only effective way to stop spambots would be to require a captcha to new members for the first ten posts they make, or until they get an upvote. that would settle the issue.

When you try to get more people to read sanderso so you can have conversations like that with them. it's no satisfaction to have it ith someone who does not understand.

i know many people expected it and felt disappointed, but not me. I mean, the whole plot resolved ? that, in my opinion, would have been extremely lame. I feel it would have lacked a point. I mean, fight scenes are flashy, but ultimately, they just amount to an exchange of blows and you know the hero will eventually win. they are, in their way, eminently predictable. also quite lazy way of solving the story: the hero arrives, beats up the villain, end of the story. if the hero instead has to use the brain, it becomes more intersting because you don't know how he will do it. Fight scenes have their part in a story, but I would never want a story resolved by them.

skin cancer isn't the only possible explanation. the first summer i spent in scandinavia, the midnight sun (well, not exactly sun at my latitude, more like midnight dusk) gave me major insomnia problems. I hate the sun pretty fiercely for that.

blows to the head and falling on your head are two completely different things. if you are hit on your head, the armor absorb the blow, and it transmits it to all the rest of the body. there is no acceleration of the brain, cause your head does not change motion fast. if you fall on your head, your brain is moving and suddeny stops, and that is goinf to create problems no matter how hard the helmet is. however, a few meters would not be enough for damage if the helmet is somewhat elastic/well padded and therefore can cause the brain to decelerate gradually.

I don't see how that affects whether or not the armor is conductive. If it is made of conductive material, then it will act as a faraday cage and protect you from lightning. and given that voidbringers can shoot lightning, it makes sense for it to be. Sorry, you are spectacularly wrong in this. first of all, to reach terminal velocity you need at least a hundred meters of freefall, possibly more. renarin was falling from 3-4 meters, top. but second, and most important, gravity does matter because terminal velocity is the balance between gravity and air resitance. air resistance increases with the square of your speed, and as you accelerate for gravity air resistance increases until it becomes equal to it. to go in detailed calculation, it means m*g=k*d*v^2, where m is mass of the person, g the gravity, k the friction coefficient, d the air density, and v the terminal velocitu. on earth, for a person falling terminal velocity is about 200 km/h. rearranging, you get v=squareroot(m*g/k*d), and for earth 200=squareroot(g*R), where R is m/k*d. so, since both the mass of the person and the friction coeficient are unchanged, and as far as we know the atmospheric pressure on roshar is equal to that of earth (there is more oxygen, so there must be less nitrogen). by applying proportionality, you get that the terminal velocity on roshar is equal to the terminal velociity on earth divided by the square root of 0.7, which gives you 167 km/h. A moderate decrease. However you also have to take into account that a man in shardplate is heavier than a man without, but his friction is mostly the same, sso his terminal velocity will be greater. luckily, you don't have to take into account terminal velocity, so you don't need to figure out how much shardplate wheights.

if the plate can absorb the shock elastically, then it means that it gives way gradually instead of blocking immediately. which means that your brain decelerates more gradually, gradually enough to avoid harm. that's the principle of cushioning. that's why a motorcycle helmet is filled with some foam that can deform on impact. It just is a matter of prolonging the distance over which the motion is stopped, so that the acceleration can be smaller. As for the lightning thing, I assumed the plate is simply acting as a faraday's cage. It's not magic, it's science.

when shallan is holding an illusion, she does not glow. so there are some precedents for not glowing.