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    Kaladin prepared to swing up into the seat beside the carriage driver, then stopped. “You!” he said, pointing at the driver. “Me!” the King’s Wit replied from where he sat holding the reins. ... Adolin climbed out to await her, straightening his jacket, polishing the buttons on one sleeve. He glanced up towards the driver’s seat, then started. "You!" Adolin exclaimed. "Me!" Wit replied. He swung down from the top of the carriage and performed a flowery bow. ... She suddenly started, eyes widening. She pointed at Wit with her freehand. "You!" Shallan exclaimed. "Yes, yes. People certainly are very good at identifying me today. Perhaps I need to wear -" Wit cut off as Shallan lunged at him. Kaladin dropped to the ground, reaching for his side knife, then hesitated as Shallan grabbed Wit in an embrace, her head against his chest, her eyes squeezed shut. I was dying of laughter all throughout this scene. The other hilarious part was Adolin's inability to believe that Shallan hugged Wit...
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    Found the quote about Drabs having no innate investiture. Not even sure if it is relevant any more.
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    I felt it was a Devotion to a Dominion that allowed a person to access the magic systems - but I am probably wrong on that belief. The problem is that some (like Forgery and the Dakhor) are just learned and require no inherent ability like Elantrians. We don't know enough about Bloodsealing and Chayshan to know either way...
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    So I went looking for the quote which said that Breath is the Investiture of Endowment within Nalthians... But couldn't find it, so I assume that it has not been added to the Theoryland Database yet. What I was planning to say using that was that the color reflected by a being must have been from the Investiture that a Shard placed into a person (ie. Preservation on Scadrial)... This was going to then say that Shardblades were cutting the Spiritual aspect of limbs - including the investiture from a Shard - which caused the limbs to go grey... But then I found this instead. So, its not actually the lack of Breath that causes people to lose their color, but the fact that their color is used for the Awakening in passing the Breath to another person... Which really tells us, before we can determine what the link between Shardblade cut limbs and Drab is... We need to know what color is actually used for in Awakening. Interesting that it is also this piece of Endowment within Nalthians that causes a cognitive connection between the people (what causes the life sense, I would assume)... It could be that it is this cognitive connection that causes the color? The severed limb has no cognitive or spiritual connection to the rest of the body - so it loses color. A Drab has no cognitive connection to anything, due to that lack of spark of Endowment, and so it becomes dull...
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    Ok, I've hit another snag in our understanding of world hopping using Shardpools. How can one worldhop to and from Therondy? (We don't have any confirmation yet that there is a character from there - but I think it is assumed Nazh is due to his 'shadows' comment). There isn't a shardpool there - so how would it work without one?
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    Its the conversation where he tells Dalinar that he will burn down their whole planet - albeit crying - if his goals and Dalinar's don't match. Or something along those lines.
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    I had assumed that book was the one given to him by Marsh. (Especially because he is the one that has all the knowledge of Hemalurgy.
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    Love.
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    Thanks, yeah, that was a derp. For what it's worth I couldn't find any natural occurrence of that kind of set... Not that I looked incredibly hard. What do you mean by that Delightful? As in what shape it formed into originally before all the Crem built up? Or as in, it has slowly been created as per the animation? (And once it was just a square kilometre of land, where Honour and Odiums forces duked it out, and one day the entire land mass will collapse back to nothing) Or Adonalism got lazy and used a maths equation in four dimensions to create his land mass (The gods must be crazy)
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    It depends on the friend. I've started off a few with Mistborn. Others I've started on Elantris and Warbreaker, depending on the person. My little brother started with Alcatraz (and Steelheart), but I gave him The Final Empire... But because one of my other friends had the other two Mistborn books he has read... Final Empire - Warbreaker - Well of Ascention - Elantris (current) - Hero of Ages (next) I honestly wouldn't start someone off with Stormlight Archive, but that's just my opinion.
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    Ooops. I must have misread the code then. I was pretty certain it projected the intersection between the 4d object and the 3d plane onto 3d space. This is what happens when I sit up to silly hours of the morning playing with maths...
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    That's actually a really good way of putting it. Simple, and straight to the point. Only difference between the above, and the one that was used is that it was done in four dimensions rather than two. And Brandon has just taken a 2D slice out of that 4D image to make Roshar. I was (and still am) probably going about this the wrong way - trying to find out if there is any relevance to do with this particular Julia Set to Roshar. (Was hoping the origin in the time lapse sequence would end up at Urithru amongst other things. But it seems to be just a really good looking set that they found. Interestingly, the creator of the code for that particular set had an alternative z0 commented out - which if he had used instead of the existing one, Roshar may have looked like the one below. Anyway, enjoy!
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    I would definitely be restricting push the amount of energy one can put into the push by range. Inverse square law is what I would be going for as well - just because that's how things work with normal physics... (At least with sound/light/etc. but then again, they are putting energy out in all directions - where as pushing on a single object is just one). Maybe at that distance, a lot of the energy from the push is being lost, and when someone is floating, they're simply feeding no energy to the system (but any lower and they will be pushing it back up). This could also explain Zane floating near the ground if really talented Allomancers were capable of limiting the energy the put into the system. An alternative is that the system IS converting gravitational potential into kinetic, but the Allomantic steel is adding just as much energy through the Allomantic steel link between the two objects and the energy kinda cancels itself out. Think two sound waves created by two sources doing completely the opposite at a point - resulting in no sound... But yeah, I get what you're saying, they're all hard and fast applications...
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    I may be able to help with this... (Finished my Maths major a few years ago) But it will take some reading, a textbook and some time. So I'll give a tentative "maybe" Delightful.
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    After reading the first fight between Elend and the Inquisitor in Hero of Ages, I'd like to put a question upon whether this is how Allomantic Strength alters the model. You have stated that it allows you to add more energy at a given instant... But from the scene, which I'll quote here, that isn't quite right. It seems to me that Elend's Allomantic strength, although it may have increased the amount of energy given to the system, seems to allow him to act as a better anchor. It effectively counts him as a greater mass than he is.
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    For these reasons, I am unsure about the Shardpools being the method of Worldhopping... Why not hop straight to the pool if you want to find it? But at the same time, we really only know what Preservation's Shardpool does - and only if Preservation barely has a Cognitive aspect at the time. Brandon keeps hinting that the pool in Elantris is not what we think it is (and therefore not a Shardpool?) But even then, being the Shardpool of a shattered Shard, it would behave differently again. In fact, should a shattered Shard even have a Shardpool? We've never seen a Shardpool with a whole Shard interact with anything.
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    Elastic collisions is what I was looking for - that is almost precisely how the velocity is split when steelpushing in the novels. The larger thing stays still when the smaller one moves, the person doesn't experience the same force pushing them whenever they steelpush - and for those Coinshots that exhibit fine control of their push strength... They can vary the energy put into the system rather than the force applied to objects. I really should have seen that sooner.
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    Which is interesting... Because this is what we thought when WoB said there was a big hint about Worldhopping in Elantris. But from memory, didn't Hoid head towards the Terris Dominance in Well of Ascension to look for the Well of Ascension itself? If that was the case, why didn't he just worldhop to it originally? He couldn't have worldhopped to the Well, completely missed the thing he was searching for, and then head to the North... The other option is that he hopped to Ruin's shardpool... Yeah, I don't know. The other thing Brandon had stated at one point was that the Pool in Elantris might not have been what we thought it was. EDIT: Couldn't get spoiler tags to work, so I removed one or two things, but seems the title says spoilers multiple books, I'll leave this here.
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    And Hoid is spreading it. He mentions the God Beyond in a story in WoR.
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    On the plus side, you just made me realize that the Part Names of the Stormlight Archive books correspond to the Ketek given at the end. (Gosh I am daft sometimes).
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    May I suggest we change our formal definition of Shardblade? If Nightblood is a Shardblade, Syl & Pattern (Sprenblades) are Shardblades and Honourblades are Shardblades - it would seem that Shardblades are physical weapons possessing a significant amount of Investiture.
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    I don't know if I agree with this statement completely. If we consider Stormlight as the gaseous form of a Shard's power the same way the Mists (white and black) are the gaseous form of Preservation and Ruin's power respectively - as long as a Misting could find a way to take in the Stormlight (this we have no idea about the specifics of - or even if it is possible), I do believe it could be used to fuel Allomancy.
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    Ahhh! And I thought I understood Steel-Pushing... (Until I read this thread, now I think I might beat my head against a desk until I understand it) I think our problems come back to the one simple scenario that we have seen more than a few times in the novels. If we can understand it, then we should be able to work the rest out. 1. A Coinshot pushes a coin. The coin accelerates, but they aren't overly affected by this. 2. The coin shoots through the air. 3. The coin reaches a solid object. At this point, the coin stops accelerating, and the Coinshot is hurled backwards. The very fact that the Coinshot isn't immediately hurled back as soon as he starts pushing means the Force applied to him only gets relevant when the coin reaches an anchor. This means that the Force applied to both objects changes depending on their situation... And now I need to stop and think about it. If someone can explain this situation completely, we should be able to work it out.
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    I'd presumed the hint for Hoid travelling using the Shadesmar would be where he appeared when he first came out - ie. Rock's god of mischief.
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    There was a WoB about the origin of the hurricane shape of the land mass. Would that be related?
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