SwordNimiForPresident

Any Elantrian. Man or woman, doesn't matter.

I actually appreciate the thoroughness. I don't disagree with any of the science that you described. I think I might be presenting my point in an unclear way. In all of the various forms of lift, the system works because it is able to interact with the atmosphere around it. The low pressure zone on top of a wing for example doesn't exist in a closed system, it is a localized low pressure area that the surrounding atmosphere will seek to find equilibrium with. It's that same on a larger scale with wind. High pressure areas interact with low pressure areas and create movement of air. With the air pockets created by surges (either low or high density) there doesn't seem to be a flow of air. If there was a flow of air, it would need an inlet or outlet for excess gas, or it would eventually create a true vacuum or a singularity. If there is an outlet, then there would be no need to combine low & high pressure areas, as the outlet would generate thrust by its self.

The geometry is how you create the pressure difference. It is the pressure difference trying to correct it’s self that actually creates the directional force. With surges the pressure is static and does not seek to equalize it’s self. It’s like putting and empty tank of air on top of a pressurized one. There is a pressure difference but no action to equalize it. Dirigibles operate on bouyancy.

I think the issue with this method is that in traditional forms of lift, it is the action of the high pressure air trying to fill the low pressure zone that creates the force. With surges, the vacuum or high pressure are sustained. The air doesn’t rush in or out, it is basically trapped as if it were in an air tank.

I have been bamboozled by a foul necromancer

Elantrian all day.

I guess I’ll throw my hat in the ring for a guess as well. Knife of Wind l’m basing it on my newly minted theory that Skybreaker’s resonance lets them summon “mindblades”. edit: just realized this one was taken. I’ll amend it to Killer on the Wind. It is appropriate for Szeth’s crusade as well as what ever the end game with Moash is.

Just to throw a wildcard out there, let’s not forget that “H” is the symmetrical letter, so that increases the pool of possible options.

The problem I have with your theory is that Rashek’s metalminds pierced his skin, but he didn’t accidentally burn them off. The quote from Brandon implies that they can’t choose what they burn, so how did Rashek do it? edit: How do Inquisitors keep from burning their spikes?

I do the same. I read the ones that have interesting stuff (like Shallan’s Hoid flashback) but otherwise skip them. I feel like their purpose is to help us learn the character, but that isn’t necessary on a reread.

While I don’t disagree, I imagine that there must be an upper limit to what they can break, otherwise they would have destroyed Elantris (by breaking the Aon) a long time ago.

Use Arelon it’s self as the base Aon. Draw a huge Aon Rao centered on the country. This way, next time someone makes a big crack in the ground, the Aon will just auto update. Only Elantrians can break Aons so it wouldn't matter that parts of it are in Fjordel territory, or that others are in the ocean.

@SzethIsBadAsHell I think the Dalinar/Shallan thing is just one of Dalinar’s powers as a Bondsmith. He has show the ability to mess with Connection at other points in the story, and I think that’s what he was doing there. Any thoughts about possible resonances would be pure speculation, but I think that Gravity and Abrasion would have some pretty cool interactions, as well as Cohesion and Illumination.

Mraize is actually the chicken. He moves between human carriers to keep tabs on all of the factions. He just scratches their faces up really bad so they all look the same.

You’re right. Don’t read any more of it. In fact never read any book ever again. They’re all secretly oceans 11.

This is not accurate. edit: I went back and checked WoBs. Seems I’m wrong. I’ll see myself out. Out of curiosity, who adds the footnotes to these? It would be great to know how they came to that conclusion.

Do you mean Nightblood? i think it will end with all of the Shards broken and all of the vessels dead.

I think you’re misunderstanding what the Dor is. It is the physical manifestation of the two Shards that Odium killed and then stuffed into the CR. The Dor is the Selish equivalent of Stormlight or BioChroma or the Mists. All magic system access the SR in one way or another, because it is the source or all Investiture and the place where the bulk of the Shards’ power lies, the only thing that is different is the path that they take to get there (Stormlight, Breath, metal, Dor).

He is part goose.

The laws of physics? Yes. The laws of the Cosmere? No. it goes without saying that magic isn’t real and therefore breaks the laws of physics.

@Weltall All of that confirms that there is in fact an afterlife. Whether it is some kind of eternal existence, or the cessation of existence, it’s is still something that happens after you die, in a place that isn’t here.

I always took that to mean that the nature of it would never be clarified. IMO, Saze outright says that there is an afterlife at the end of era one. He simply cannot see into it far enough to describe its nature.

Evil for sure. Hear me out. The Cosmere has a confirmed afterlife. This means that the only reasonable thing to do is kill everyone so that they can stop suffering in the physical realm and find peace in the spiritual. This was Ruin’s plan. Kelsier spoiled this plan. Kelsier is evil.

I guess I’m approaching the problem the wrong way anyway. If you’re going to forge something you don’t need to know its origin at an atomic level, you need to know the history of its cognitive reflection. It likely would not have ever had a reflection until it was taken out of the ground and even then, the reflection would have changed several time as it went from raw ore to molten metal to pig iron or ingots and finally to a finished product. The easiest line of attack there would be the finished product since a craftsman is involved. If you’re trying change metal types you could probably rewrite the target customer of what ever it is, and make it richer or more extravagant with lots of rare materials and ornamentation. it also occurs to me that rewriting metal in ingot form would be practically useless since you couldn’t make anything out of it without breaking the seal. edit: grammar.

I feel like they were things that she lies to everyone else about, not herself. Her opening up to Gaotona was actually a manipulation. She realized he was not the kind of person she could manipulate through greed, so she had to make an actual connection with him. This is just my take on it obviously, but thanks for the insight.