SwordNimiForPresident

I don't define sounds. I leave it up to these people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

They are are two separate sounds. The fact that they can be represented by a single character doesn't make them one. Some languages use one symbol for entire words.

Definitely, and it drives me crazy. One letter, one sound. I'm starting a revolution. Who's with me?

One of the main characters in The Prince of Nothing series is gay, though it isn't really confirmed until the third book. He is also the most disturbing character I have ever read. In fact the entire series is disturbing. Now that I think about, don't read it unless you're ready to find a good therapist. It's seriously demented.

Juicy truths. The Survivor - in the flesh. Wax getting a steel spike in the eye (A-Iron). Clutch oath swearing (don't care, it never gets old). An Elantrian using Nightblood. I'd also like to see an Elantrian with enough Breath to get the rainbow aura. If feel like it would be really impressive with their passive glowyness.

I can't believe Kaladin is beating Vin... there isn't enough fire in the world for this poll.

To be fair, X is one of those letters that shouldn't exists anyway (I'm looking at you too Q). It is literally just a combination of K and S. It's like having a letter for ND or ST.

Nightblood has always disintegrated people and/or objects that were struck by the blade. The people that died with blackened wounds were killed with the sheath.

I bet that being a Lightweaver gives you a leg up in Awakening. You would already have a lot of practice with visualizing what you want to make happen.

It just occurred to me how ridiculously complex that command is. It's like He's is there just to make everyone else look bad.

I think that's already how it works. The Radiant says the oath, but the Spren decides whether or not to accept it.

Yes, and we have seen thousands of them die so far in the books. Unless you're implying that Adolin will die off page and in a completely irrelevant way, I fail to see how this is to the point. I'm not sure what this means because of how it's worded, but I think you mean that the Fused could not overcome Shardplate? This is obviously wrong, as the regular Parshendi were able to overcome Shardplate. If instead you mean that Someone in Shardplate could kill the Fused, I would point to the ones that can regrow their carapace as weapons. Kal hit one of them several times with Syl and they just kept regrowing their limbs. They also hit Kal several times with blows that would kill a normal person, and damage the plate of a Shardbearer. Sure, if we want to give Adolin the superpower that he literally can't be hit, that works out just fine. I don't know what you are implying here. You asked why the Heralds used suicide soldiers, I gave a real world example of why. I think Stalin probably cared a lot. Not because the conscripts died, but because they were very ineffective. I'm sure he would much rather have had fully armed soldiers to repel the invaders. He was also a first oath Radiant without a Blade. If he had Syl, he could have beaten all four by himself. Once he gets plate it would be even more onesided. I would be surprised if any number of non-Radiant Shardbearers could kill him. I also want to say that I don't want to derail the thread any further, so I will try not to respond to any further posts. As my last statement I will just say that the only way a non Radiant can stay relevant in combat going forward is if they have Batman's superpower. That is to say, they are to important to the plot to die.

He could, until they inevitably killed him. Kal took several fatal blows from the fused before he fought the Unmade. You left out the rest of my statement in the part you quoted. One stomp from a Thunderclast is game over for a Shardbearer. For the same reason the Soviets sent conscripts into battle without guns. Desperation. This statement is intentionally ignoring the point of what I said.

Sure, he would be great for fighting meaningless battles against other non powered individuals. Against enemies with access to Surges he would be killed. Look at the battle of Thaylen. If Kal didn't have access to Stormlight he would have died at several points during the battle. Adolin even recognizes how useless he is during the battle when he gives his Shardblade to someone else because they have plate on. Now you could argue that a Shardbearer is a big help even against a Thunderclast, except that it would have smashed and kill that guy if it hadn't been focused on an unkillable Renarin. Without Stormlight healing any combatant is automatically relegated to second class fighter. Kaladin went 2v1 against Shardbearers unarmed and won. If you aren't a Radiant, you don't really matter. edit: I also want to add that even if Adolin starts swearing oaths, he is still way behind in terms of progression, so he would still be a background character.

If he doesn't become a Radiant, he will become irrelevant as a combatant. It could make for an interesting character journey, one that Brandon has explored a little bit in OB with the whole "I'm useless now" sentiment that he had on the Shadesmar trip, but I think I would rather see him in the fight. Reviving Maya and swearing an oath at a key moment would make for a killer scene IMO. Something similar to what Kaladin did at the end of WoR, or what Dalinar did at the end of OB. In my minds eye, I'm seeing a scene with Adolin and Shallan. Shallan is down and dying. No Stormlight around to save her. She asks Adolin to remember her. I imagine that he (along with just about everyone in their armies) has already sworn the first oath, but there isn't really anything that tells a person whether it has been accepted. Inside Adolin's head, he goes through all of the loved ones he has lost over the years (Mom, Sureblood and all of his soldiers at the tower). Adolin swears that he will remember her (internal monologue I will remember all of you), and Maya accepts it as his second oath (Edgedancer's second oath is about remembrance). Que dramatic Stormlight surge and Edgedancer healing. Curtains. edit: Just wanted to add Elhokar to the list of lost loved ones. Also, I'll raise the stakes for Adolin and say that Shallan is pregnant when all this goes down.

It's kind of a toss up between Shao, Ene and Ati

There is no evidence for a correlation between how invested Nightblood is and how powerful he is. Nightblood seems to be exactly as strong as he was in Warbreaker. People like to overinflate Nightblood's power and make him out to be some Universe ending super diety. The truth is that he couldn't kill two Radiants while they were in Honor's perpendicularity without getting drunk. The idea that he is somehow going to jump to 1000x power and eat a perpendicularity is silly IMO. If you just leave him in one unsheathed for a few year maybe it will collapse, but unless Brandon writes something to the contrary into the stories, he isn't strong enough to do it in a reasonable amount of time.

Reread what I wrote and then decide if your response makes sense.

Obviously there are limits.. that being said, at a minimum, Sazed can change what the Mists do, which metals can be burned, and what powers are available. These are all things that we saw Laras change in Era 1. edit: we also know that Sazed can change how snapping works, because of the WoB you put in your original post. How should I know? I'm not the author. Sazed said "hmmm, this snapping thing sucks a fat one. I'm gonna change it. Going out in the Mists activates their powers now" and so it was. The Mists are Lerasium. Anyone can burn it in Solid form. It powers Allomancy in vapor form. It doesn't seem like such a stretch that it can activate latent powers related to the Shard that it originates from if said Shard decided to make it do that.

Nightblood has already been inside of Honor's perpendicularity, so I don't really see that as a threat. He couldn't even eat Szeth and Lift, I can't see him threatening the Stormfather.

Which is exactly what all of my posts have implied... Sazed can change anything he wants as it relates to Allomancy, it's his magic system. This entire thread is literally about what he changed. Saying that anything is "required" is meaningless when anything can be changed. Well I already said. I think he made it so that the Mists "snap" everyone now.

How would it kill them? The line you quoted states that maybe it doesn't make them sick anymore. It's "necessary" for them to have "cracked souls". Meh. You can gain powers a bunch of ways that don't involve trauma, medallions being the obvious example. Breath and Honor blades are good second and third options. I never said anything about it making sense or how famous the author is, I simply pointed out that it was a necessary plot device that became irrelevant and has since been removed.

Given the late 19th century setting, I would guess that the child mortality rate is quite a bit higher than it is today. It could also be that Sazed changed it so that it doesn't make you sick anymore, it just activates your latent power. It could just as easily be that Allomancers are just born with their powers I guess. I think Feruchemists work that way. I guess snapping was really only necessary to further the plot in Era 1 anyway. Brandon needed a way to drop an army of Atium Mistings on the story at the right time. Now that that has been done, it servers no purpose. Edit: He also needed a reason for Kelsier to not start out with his powers, but that is also gone so yea..

I always imagined that he was using the excess Ruin to fend off what ever the redness that he shows to Wax is (presumably another Shard). I also assumed that the Mists snapped everybody now. Like Mist "sickness" was just something you got as a child if you were an Allomancer. In effect, the first time you went out into the Mists, it awakened your Allomancy.

I'm hoping that since Szeth now has a Shardblade from his oaths, that he passes Nightblood to Dalinar. The Stormfather refuses to be a blade, so Dalinar will need something to fight with. Since taking his oaths Dalinar has left all of the physical combat to other Radiants, and taken the role of leader, both Spiritual and martial as his primary duty. At some point he will need to fight a physical combatant IMO and when this happens he will need a weapon. I also think that Dalinar might be the only person that could "safely" use Nightblood given that one of his powers lets him summon a perpendicularity. Nightblood is part of Edgli's long game, so I can't help but wonder if she foresaw Dalinar using it to destroy Rayse.