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Let's assume you start storing at age 20 until you reach 80 and you age yourself to 80 for an average quarter of the time. You are storing less and less with time. The exact formula is: Storage = 0.5 * ( Aged to - Starting Age) ^ 2 / Storage fraction That is 450 years squared. In other words, you can keep yourself at 80 for an additional 30 years. That is for a pure Feruchemist. The years you gain go up only with the square root. So supposing atium has a "compounding factor" of 10, you will be able to squeeze out about 100 years out of your initial metal minds, albeit as a very old person, but healthy if you are Fullborn. TLR kept himself a young man. Initially this will blow up your requirements, but over the long run it does not matter much. And the atium supply is likelier to be the limit. Your demand goes up with the square of your age, while the tapping rate increases linearly.

Well we now have an anti-surge fabrial. Then means that Elsecallers and Willshapers lose their escape option. If you want a real downer ending, have Venli being found out and Moash finish her off in front of Dalinar or Kaladin.

That is kind of the point. If the Knights Radiant keep this about human vs. Parsh, this will end bloodily. It is in their interest to make this Honor's heirs vs. Odium. That would need to include a sweet offer to the Parsh and their allies to switch sides. Like it or not, on Roshar just following orders is a perfectly valid reason. Honor even demanded it.

Why didn't the Knights Radiant suspect Dai-Gonarthis? It is quite likely that they knew what the Unmade are capable of.

In Bands of Mourning at the end Waxillium attacks his uncle, whoin turn leeches away his metals, but he still defeats him by feruchemically increasing his weight to the point they both crash through the floor.

How shall I put this? Brandon Sanderson is a butcher. He is most likely among the top 5 of bloodthirsty authors of our time. I wouldn't call him grimdark, because he does rarely show human depravation in gory detail, but it is there, make no mistake. Remember mass executions for making a political point during the Final Empire. Or bridge runs? To be told that your task is your death and there is no escape? Have you computed the death rates during the Catacendre? How many of the original Elantrians survived? What is going on in Dakhor monastries? Take Nalthis. How many Breaths were required to make the Phantoms? Do you think the original owners gave them up voluntarily? On Roshar, multiple desolations with death rates above 90%. Your chances surviving the Somne and then Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been larger than the series of desolations before Aharietiam. On Threnody, let's be real, evacuating a continent is not practical. Can you imagine the scenes in the harbors? Can you imagine the last weeks of Ashyn - the night skys turning red and smelling the burning land? I cannot; in fact I don't want to. But I can conclude that it must have happened. Every novel of the Cosmere is dripping blood. The packaging is nice, however.

Well, not really. I am sorry, I have to disagree. Aluminium works in all the Cosmere's systems. Bringing in Preservation specifically makes things harder. We have actually seen only one instance of aluminium being burned. Yet we can be pretty sure it takes all your metals. Otherwise it would be a pure choice to disarm a Mistborn. But we have seen Leechers work. In particular a Leecher cannot interfere with Feruchemy. While leeching a Threnodite weapon works. Keyed Investiture keeps working. That is important. It is not just the case that metal minds are safe from being leeched. No, you can actively use them. Brandon's explanation is that it removes alien Investiture. That raises the question, what is alien? I suspect it is no accident that aluminium stores Identity when used in feruchemy. We have no indication that aluminium works in a fabrial. That is kind of circular reasoning. The novel fabrial the Fused used may use chrome or copper or ... We have evidence that aluminium affects fabrials, but in the general blocking sense it always has. It is no different from having aluminium sheets in your soothing parlors. Because their motivation for using the metal is larger while they are being beaten.

There is. They work on your metal reserves. Those quadrants have pairs with little connection. The relationship between gold and electru is loose. As is frankly, tin and pewter. Taking steel and iron is cherry-picking. Now, if you are going for symmetry, then chromium will have to work like it does work. So you can have either chrome and aluminium work one way and duraluminium and nicrosil work another way, or you have exceptions. You recognize that an allomancer has snapped by him or her burning metals. This happened while they were beaten up. So the metal must hae been ingested before the allomantic ability arose.

Which lies? Is Moash lieing? Kaladin's reaction suggest rather that he did voice something Kaladin never dared admit. And which truth? The image Renarin generated is clearly counterfactual. Calling that a truth is stretching that concept.

Aluminium works on Investiture in general. It need not come from Preservation. And we have a WoB that duraluminium would also work on other forms of Investiture. It is not an ordinary metal. Because it works the same way as chromium works and duraluminium is paired with nicrosil. Well, how does a Mistborn snap under those assumptions? Kaladin's reserves were not wiped. Immediately as the fabrial is deactivated he sighs and puffs out Stormlight. His abilities were blocked but his reserves unaffected. Odium knows about it for sure. So may the Unmade. If you have Soulcasters it would be available in small quantities.

Does he need to be redeemed? If you want to end this war without a terrible slaughter, you will need to make some truly unpalpatable compromises. Among them will certainly be an agreement to leave each others forces alone for actions prior to the peace.

Isn't that exactly what the Fused are? Odium just uses new bodies. The old ones are dust anyway.

Do we agree that he actually meant what he said? That is, however malicious he was, he was also honest?

Shallan has little to no experience with non-human intelligences. Congregating to imbibe liquids contaminated with a poison? If you are an alien not sharing our psychology understanding us will be a problem. We have seen it being used to give a tree a specific shape it would not naturally assume. The issue is that we haven't seen a true master of Progression. Everybody had had the ability for a few months at most or did not know they had the ability. They may simply suck at using it. I guess he will give priority to getting Kaladin out. He is not a Windrunner or Edgedancer. His priorities are different. Indeed So did he create a Lightweaving at all? A Lightweaver (or normal Truthwatcher) creates a true picture. It would show on film. What about Renarin?

Jasnah's travels through Shadesmar How Khrissalla met Nazrilof How Warbreaker murdered his wife How the Ghostbloods were founded Allomancer Jak's completed adventures - I just love that man

Raising the question why they need to be level. Yet it raises another questions. Why do they need chulls at all? You could do the lateral movement with a pulley, too. It looks to me like we need to conclude that conjoiners react to gravity and you cannot rotate with respect to it.

Well, yes, but under the assumption that Gavilar had bonded Yelig-Nar by the time Szeth shows up, we have an almost unanswerable question on our plates. Why and how did Gavilar lose that fight? Amaram had no time at all for training, yet Kaladin had almost unlimited fuel and it took Rock's arrow. Szeth should have died in that fight, not Gavilar. That Aesudan eventually bonded Yelig-Nar suggests that Gavilar had Yelig-Nar in a gem stone, but did not know how to bond him. That is rather easy to explain. Even if Gavilar knew how to read he could not openly afford to use this ability. Thus Aesudan could do historical research more easily.

I-11 of Oathbringer. Venli gets a window cut into a storm shelter by Shard Blade at Kholinar. Apparently they like to keep them in key places they have to defend.

The Ghostbloods had their people among Sadeas troops a year ago. Why wait to finish her off? How could they predict Shallan would get to Ialai? How could they predict who of Shallan's or Adolin's people would get close enough to Ialai? And all that some weeks in advance?

Recording only the differences and giving reasons for them. Allomancer. The storing would be horrible. Allomancer. You'd actually sense the arcane. Allomancer. This is just too mystic. Ferring. This gives you a chance to really go into the depths of things. Allomancy seeing the future is true magic. Ferring. Purely based on usability Ferring. I just eat too much. You mean rather a full Feruchemist than a Mistborn? Mistborn. Just too cool.

Demonization? Sorry, if it sounded like that. Jasnah is basically honest. Remember that Dalinar was promising Kaladin that he'd negotiate? Well, he did not say what he'd do should those negotiations fail. Jasnah at least says it like it is. I have a hard time believing that all orders but one are so shocked by solving the problem once and for all. The council is quite typical. They might not actively push such a solution, but not that it has happened, well it is like it is.

Well, if they can do it quickly. Yes. But now compute the energy on impact from that. You'll get a linear relationship with acceleration, but a quadratic relationship with mass. Hence if you use a lashed missile, you'll be better off with a slow heavy missile rather than a fast light missile.

We had a thread on magical weapons. I think. In short, no way. Do the math. The acceleration gravity can provide is too low to get you a terminal velocity at which an arrow will do real damage. You need something with real mass to do damage, at least a javelin.

Look at Jasnah. Her probable reaction would be something like: Excellent. You have removed the threat of more false desolations, even without having to exterminate the Singers. Well done. People do not react that uniformly. After yet another desolation horror cannot have been the only reaction. In fact I doubt it would have been a majority reaction. Relief may have been. But there is not. They have won. Finally.

Exactly. Hardly a picture of resounding success including capturing the most important Unmade.