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  1. Fanghur Rahl
    Fair enough, and yeah you’re probably right. But still, I would think that it would at least be somewhat easier to resist, even if not hugely.
  2. Fanghur Rahl
    What do you mean ‘with a body’? Do you mean at the point in which the Investiture literally becomes your ‘body’? (BTW, that’s what I mean when I use the term ‘post-physical’).
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    I can think of one possible reason a Shard might do it, namely that the ‘Sharchangels’ might potentially retain more of themselves and by extension control than the full Shard. For example, Harmony finds it difficult to muster the will to do anything because of the oppositional effects of his Shards, but perhaps if he created a force of mini-Shards out of people he trusted to not abuse the power, they wouldn’t suffer from this problem as much because they wouldn’t have nearly as much Shardic intent weighing them down. I have no idea whether this would actually be the case or not, but it might be plausible.
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    I think it’s probably fair to say that by any meaningful definition Odium is certainly violating people’s Autonomy on a colossal scale. It’s just such a weird Shard...
  5. Fanghur Rahl
    I don’t see why they couldn’t though. After all, Spren aren’t ‘touching’ their Radiant when they first turn into a Shardblade. At least not physically. They’re explicitly described as forming from *mist* and then dropping into the Shardbearer’s waiting hand (I don’t know if ‘mist’ was the exact term, but something like that). Might make for an interesting question for Brandon.
  6. Fanghur Rahl
    Sword of Truth: Princess Violet. Damnation, I hated that little brat!
  7. Fanghur Rahl
    Fair enough, I hadn’t seen that WOB before. Regardless though, like you said, they still aren’t ‘ascended’ in the same sense as a Shard is. In perpetuity for this post, what I meant by ‘ascended’ in this question is specifically ascending to a post-physical entity, albeit one far less powerful than the full Shard (compare the archangels in Supernatural to God/Chuck or Amara), or the Ravers in Thomas Covenant to the Despiser. That’s the type of relationship I have in mind in terms of power-level difference. Whether that qualifies as ‘in the vicinity of a Shard’ is, I suppose, largely semantics.
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    Could the Spren change shape into something much larger the instant the arrow enters the target? Effectively bisecting them from the inside?
  9. Fanghur Rahl
    The Heralds would have been more equivalent to prophets in my opinion; from what we’ve been able to see, even a full Radiant rivalled if not exceeded the Heralds, at least potentially, in terms of raw power. As I’ve said several times now, I’m thinking more along the lines of permanent ascension to post-physical status. The heralds are still human and physical (or at the very least that’s how they manifest), and I doubt they could even stand up against a moderately powerful Splinter, much less anything more powerful. So yeah, I’m unless we’re also going to consider Elantrians, Radiants, Mistborn, and Returned as equivalent to archangels, the Heralds simply aren’t anywhere near powerful enough to qualify. I think the Elantrians are actually much closer to the typical depiction of archangels in fantasy than the Heralds, since if we’re being super-pedantic they technically are able to do things like obliterate people with a gesture, emit light, fly, teleport, heal with a touch, etc. But again, they’re still completely physical beings.
  10. Fanghur Rahl
    The whole problem with the Shards is that they embody only a single attribute (and I guess all closely related attributes) and no others, which means that their attributes have no context. Adonalsium would have been a complete being, whereas the Shards are basically single-aspect savants. Adonalsium would have been far more powerful, both in terms of raw power and context with which to wield it.
  11. Fanghur Rahl
    I know what Brandon would say if someone asked. lol.
  12. Fanghur Rahl
    Kaladin. Who wouldn’t like to be able to fly?
  13. Fanghur Rahl
    A Shard is 1/16th of Adonalsium. So...
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    I realize that this is over a year after this was posted, but seeing as Eragon remains one of my favourite series, I feel the need to correct you here. The magic system in Eragon is NOT vague, not at all. If anything it’s even less vague than at least a couple of the Cosmere’s, namely AonDor and Awakening. The magic in Eragon is simply the manipulation of one’s energy using either pure thought or the Ancient Language. It’s very much a type of rule-based magic, much like that of the Cosmere; I could even quite easily imagine a Shardworld having a magic system quite similar to it. Now if by ‘vague’ you simply mean that it has very few limitations in terms of what it could in principle do given enough energy, well sure. But no more so than AonDor.
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    Well, either way, no offence was intended. I just think his reaction is hilarious.
  16. Fanghur Rahl
    And to be fair, I’m sure that you’ll agree that it would’ve detracted from the humor in this case. lol.
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    Sorry about that. I tried to do that but I couldn’t figure out how to do it on my phone. And I kind of figured that the context in which it was said wasn’t all that offensive, so I figured it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. But yeah, I’ll see if I can figure out how to do that for the next time.
  18. Fanghur Rahl
    Yeah I know, my point was just that I would think that when he took up the Shards, he also took on the knowledge of both Ruin and Preservation rather than just one of them. Although thinking more about it, I'm not entirely sure that it works that way since he still needed to access his metal minds in order to know how to "fix" Scadrial. Maybe that's just a plot hole, I dunno. Do we know whether or not someone "inherits" the knowledge of a previous Shardholder once they take up the Shard?
  19. Fanghur Rahl
    Fair enough.
  20. Fanghur Rahl
    Well, to be fair Calderis, I’ve even seen it described more or less like that in some of my university textbooks, that broadly speaking a sociopath/psychopath (as opposed to someone who is borderline) is someone who is generally incapable of genuine compassion or empathy towards other people. So it’s not just the media or common parlance that portrays it that way, but actual university textbooks of psychology as well.
  21. Fanghur Rahl
    I don’t think so. As far as I know all of the Shards have pretty much the same powers and amount of raw power at their disposal, the only difference is the ‘lens’ through which that power is expressed. That said, it probably would have resulted in him acquiring even more knowledge than he otherwise would have, since he took both Shards.
  22. Fanghur Rahl
    Well be might technically fit the medical definition, and loosely at that, but he certainly doesn’t fit the colloquial definition, anymore than Batman, Robin Hood, or the Green Arrow do.
  23. Fanghur Rahl
    Like I said, I wasn’t in any way trying to belittle people who are autistic.
  24. Fanghur Rahl
    It’s a bit of a mystery then why she’s been implied to be an ally of Odium.
  25. Fanghur Rahl
    Honestly, I think if either of them is going to die, it’ll almost certainly be Szeth.
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