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  1. Observer
    Toss me a PM while you're at it! Bottom number for Envisager is confirmed for 415!
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    The "All if withdrawn from me" sounds a lot like Kaladin to me. His arc is all about taking things away, and it wouldn't be very easy for that to happen to Dalinar. The storm moving for him sounds like Windrunning, and we honestly don't know what other things he can do with his windy thing. Amaram is the main person who saved his life and killed his promises, so that's where I'd look. It's in line with the latest ideal, unfortunately, to protect him.
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    Thanks a ton Nep! I guess this is where we just fundamentally disagree. I could rehash points on Chromium and other metals, but I guess in the end it doesn't matter much. My favored method is still to trick them into luck-bringing their way into a corner from which no amount of luck will matter.
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    They can be made of reinforced wood if needs be, and I see nothing wrong with man-shaped weapons, so: Awaken a bunch of giant, ground-mounted flails to "Decapitate Things" and station them around your home.
  5. Observer
    Alright, pulling back from this Mistborn crap, we really need to Change tactics quickly, before we get into a Stick-y situation. Yes, yes I did.
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    Almost all of Nightwatcher's curses are mental or cognitive, though boons don't have to be. In that light, I'm almost 100% sure forgetting was his curse. Knowing how long we have until Dalinar's book, I'm willing to be his wife was crazy kinds of important. Is there a thread for who she might be, because I've been compiling quotes about who she was :/ If he was ashamed enough of going to the Nightwatched, whatever he asked for was probably pretty big. Problem is, he won't say when it was chronologically, making guessing kind of hard.
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    I've always found Hoid to be on the wrong end of the first ideal. He mentions to Dalinar that he'll gladly burn down Roshar and everyone on it to get what he wants, regardless of how he feels about it. Actually, he reminds me of Vargo in that respect.
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    Not sure if it's been mentioned but 350 or so is Artifabrian, which I was promoted to after talking about fabrial tanks, so go figure.
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    Szeth's white robes. They are a symbol of danger, power, and the unstoppable force. The Parshendi likely had no idea the kind of image they were instilling in the minds of the Alethi when the had him wear white. It's the symbol of deadliness incarnate.
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    EDIT: Okay, I just got ninja'd kind of didn't notice the next page I'll shut up now. I guess that's where my whole theory stems from I guess. I bank almost my whole thing on luck being an internal thing, if what's being stored is even actually luck at all. Still, cognitively, you should still be able to lure people to their deaths using what they believe to be favorable outcomes right up until it's too late for luck to matter. Also, totally OT, but what's the MAG say about FeruNicro?
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    Nightblood is, primarily, a thing of destruction. I'd go with a subtype of Ruinspren, or something similar.
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    Fittingly, that post has made me into an artifabrian. TIme to go change my user title I can't help but wonder if you couldn't made a mirror tower to work en tandem with Adon Dor, and cook zombies down below. Plus making food and growing plants. Okay, Aons are totally overpowered here
  13. Observer
    Obviously the solution is to equip the tank with Shardblade murder-holes and power it with Stormlight.
  14. Observer
    Yeah, Miles would just have to shove a bunch of health into a gold bead, enough to fill it, and then burn it to receive stupid amounts of health in one enormous burst. He'd quickly stash all the extra health in his metalminds, rinsing and repeating. He still needs gold to keep going, but after about five beads he probably has enough to survive being shot a couple times.
  15. Observer
    Okay, now that WoR is out, I think it's about time to do this...
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    It's crazy kinds of powerful, I won't lie. If you could set up a decent fortress, you'd be set for life. Problem is, if you ever get backed into a wall and have to work quickly, or worse yet, don't have the time to do even that, you're dead meat in the most mobile sense of the phrase.
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    I'll buy that, nice work Swim. Worth noting, I'm not overly sure if a combo of Atium and Lerasium would nearly grant Feruchemy from being burned. I suspect one owuld have to do something a little different to work it like that...
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    The thing here being that Lerasium is a massive amount of Shardic energy concentrated into a little metal bead, a spiritweb hack provided by TLR. Atium is made of small bits of Ruin, and like most solid bits of Investure, has a very specific use. In this case, it allows one to see the future, but only the immediate future in a way that is only really useful for combat, likely the same way Ruin can see the future. It's a metal that allows the user to destroy more effectively, and in turn encourages them to destroy. Shards have a million uses, and I honestly don't find it surprising that Preservation's power can be used, intentionally, to form Lerasium, while Ruin's power can, naturally and without direction, form a destruction-oriented metal.
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    Okay, bad example. Still, don't you think we would have at least heard him think about that kind of a boon when discussing the Radiants countless times, both with others and himself? He even says that he seriously doubts the visions of the KR where related to his Boon/Curse, so I don't think it's anything close to that.
  20. Observer
    This is about the point in this thread where I would make a joke about Kaladin Walking on the Sunshine. But what would be really terrible of me, so instead I'll talk about how Wax fills a criminal's ears with his lordishness, but oddly avoids melting under pressure.
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    That's was kind of the point Okay, I've spent waaaaaaaay too much time on the bad puns thread. If you could rig up a killing ground, Lightweaving would allow you to Soulcast the ground out and kill everything quickly, as well as giving you infinite food, albeit bland stuff. The illusions would be a nice bonus too, if they worked on zombies. Heck, you could use them for things other than disguise, like ruining their ability to travel anywhere near you. Just leave an illusion of a huge gorge around your fort going whenever you need it.
  22. Observer
    Welcome to the 17th Shard! We'll be happy to answer any questions you have! Since you appear to have read Mistborn, this following should be pretty much old new to you, but I'll copy-paste it all anyways: If you're not already Cosmere-aware, take a look at the Cosmere 101 thread, found here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/491-cosmere-101/ This contains minor to moderate spoilers for Mistborn, so I guess in the name of long story short, this is what you'll get out of it: (Warning, poorly-explained paragraph of stuff you may already know and that could be explained way better in the link but hey not everybody's read Mistborn and I'm not going to be inconsiderate in any way other than in grammar.) I hope you'll stick around here with us, it's always great when we get new regulars.
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    The problem with that being that he never once thinks of himself as a Knight Radiant, or even a potential one. He chooses to name Amaram the head of it, and doesn't bother joining himself or even thinking about it. If he had asked for the chance to be a KR, I imagine it'd be on his mind, especially when he starts having visions about the KR. EDIT: Somehow KR became KIA. Go figure.
  24. Observer
    Nightblood seems to be built almost identically to a Shardblade, but with different materials. Like, the difference between a very intricately and specifically crafted bastard sword made of iron, and an identical one made of steel, or some other horrible analogy like that. Nightblood has more Investure in it than a Shardblade, and sucks in "dangerous amounts of Investure" exactly like an Honorblade. It even leaves things gray when it hits them! And like an Honorblade, WoB has it that Nightblood can do some really freaky things, especially on Roshar. It's a sword with enough life-related Investure to become a splinter, given a Shardlike cognitive aspect to destroy "evil", and the powers of a Shard/Honorblade to accomplish the goal.
  25. Observer
    Sounds to me like he's saying that: 1: He can, to some extent, "evade" Odium. 2: He can die. 3: If Odium catches him, he won't just crush his heart or something. Rayse will personally take Hoid's spiritual aspect and tear it to shreds, ensuring a death that even Hoid cannot heal himself from.
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