Phantom Monstrosity

That said, it would be nice to be able to change our votes on a particular post. I'd be fine with leaving the box the same color regardless of + or -, though. And I agree that 'lamespren' is a little insulting. If we're trying for minimal changes, I'd suggest 'skaa' for the 0 to -10 range, and leave it gray for those numbers(as the +0, 17th shard trainee is now). 'Lamespren' in red for -10 and lower seems more fair. You shouldn't have anything turn red until you've shown a pattern of lameness. As an aside, listing + and - seperately instead of the sum might be interesting, not sure how feasible it would be to implement.

I'm going to guess that in context he meant 'as opposed to human bodies' and not 'as opposed to bodies that were never living'. It's possible to argue that animals include humans of course, but that doesn't make much sense.

With the right Command, those lemons will slice themselves up.

From a narrative standpoint I think having three windrunners when we haven't seen all the orders yet would be too many.

It'll come out after Alendi's unexpurgated Journal, before the Hoid Personal Diaries, and in a box set together with the Words of Founding. You can already pick up a Book of Endless Pages at your local office supply store.

I *really* dislike systems that have the ability to upvote and not downvote. It means that the amount of reputation members have serves exactly the same purpose as postcount - that is, as a rough indicator of how long the person's been around.

Once again, a study of how the blind perceive and interact with the world would not be amiss.

He was answering questions yesterday. The previous AMA was put up August 31st, and he was still answering questions in January. Have patience, grasshopper.

Most of them didn't like to take human bodies, though. If sazed provided some nice materials for skeletons, they'd probably stick with them.

The only reference I found for gold stealing gold in an interview was from here, and it's kinda indecisive. https://sites.google.com/site/brandonothology/brandonothology/part-3 Did anyone from the interview ever get a chance to ask Peter for clarification on that? Actually... *waves arms frantically* Hey Peter, do you have any comments? I mean, if pewter and gold work identically, you'd obviously want to use pewter in all your inquisitors since it's cheaper, lighter, and less malleable. There's another passage from HoA that details inquisitor spikes, but it's a little weird in that it can be read either as saying that having any pewter spikes is new, or as having spikes in the heart is new. But this is an inquisitor with feruchemical speed (which is an inquisitor feruchemical power upgrade), so who even knows. Maybe it's possible to double up on a spike and the inquisitor didn't have a fresh one handy (i.e. a feruchemist was seconds from dying while right in front of him, might as well steal the power with what you've got)? Or Ruin could be playing tricks with the system and know how to steal 'human speed' with bronze spikes or some other thing like that. Actually... in context of what it was trying to do, and what we saw of it... I think this particular inquistor might have lacked feruchemical health entirely (which makes it irrelevant to the question at hand). On a quick skim, I don't see any reference in the preceding battle to it using healing at all. Ruin knew this particular inquisitor was disposable; the point was to get Elend spiked and complacent, so having the mook die and let Elend 'win' would make sense. No reason to waste a healing spike, right?

IIRC, Adonalsium is there, but it's actually mispelled. Sazed basically just says 'I heard this name wonder what it means ', and that's all. Some moderately clever people figured out to put the spikes back in. They exist as of AoL, but at Sazed's insistance they don't take human bodies anymore. They're known as the 'faceless immortals' now.

If we're speculating wildly... Lerasium: Steals Preservation. That's right, all the preservation in a person. On the plus side, you can stick the spike in a gorilla or something, and the excess preservation would reformat them into a sapient person again, complete with allomancy.

That was the whole text of it.

Well, to start off with, I'm not sure how much he knows about the magic systems at play. From an email response I got (asking about the rule of 16 thing shortly after MB3 came out) Ruin didn't understand everything going on with Scandriel, so I doubt Sazed is going to have much more luck with stuff outside of it. He'll need time to figure stuff out From the recent Reddit AMA: So at bare minimum Sazed knows there's other stuff out there - he's got more power and longer use than the Lord Ruler, after all.

And even without voluntary shapeshifting, there's still variance in how old a Returned looks to be. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/408/warbreaker-Chapter-Thirty I really don't think they're accessing anything more external than a normal human. It's cultural, not supernatural. If you tell someone with amnesia that he's a god, and show him a bunch of other gods who look basically alike, he's probably going to end up looking like them. If he recalls what a Returned usually looks like already (as basically anybody in their country does), he'll probably take on that form the moment he comes back.

Actually, Denth DOES use that to disguise himself. http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation/400/Warbreaker-Chapter-Twenty-Two-Part-2

We don't know how much control Vasher has over his shape. I think he'd want to look like current Returned if he had a choice; otherwise everyone would be like 'why is he glowing and fat now' instead of 'oooooh, so he's a returned'.

Draw me a free body diagram.

Gravity isn't particularly magical.

When I'm just standing around not burning metals? mg downwards (gravitational force), mg upwards (normal force). Net acceleration of zero. If I have just stepped off a cliff? mg downwards (gravitational force), +irrelevant upwards (air resistance), net accleration of g minus some infinitismal factor. That's an utterly irrelevant comparison, and you know it. Draw a free body diagram and get back to me.

They push downwards with N newtons. That propels them upwards with N newtons due to action/reaction. If they were simultaneously pushing upwards and downwards with the same force, they would not move an inch. Similarly, if they were using equal amounts of iron and steel on the same object (like some jerk in House of Ashes does), nothing would happen whatsoever.

That's simply not the case, though. If I steelpush and throw 1000 Newtons east at an immobile steel girder, and 1000 Newtons west at a tiny coin, the coin's going to fly off super fast, but I personally am not going to move an inch.

Once a box is more than one armslength away, I obviously can't move it. Furthermore, with a physical arm I need to get my arm moving in the same direction so that I can keep transferring momentum to a moving object. If I shove a box and don't keep my arm moving after the initial shove, I lose physical contact. However, if I had magical arms that could push against things that were hundreds of feet away, regardless of what velocity they were travelling at, obviously that would be different.

As I understand it, the chemical composition remains the same, it's just got an added bit that takes precedence. Which makes overwriting atium really weird, since atium already has a spiritual addition that's making it magical. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2979-new-hampshire-signing/

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2383-qa-with-brandon-sanderson/page-7 Just throwing this in here.