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No, mathematics rules that out. In fact that is how how they noticed. These 16% would be stochastically distributed. Random chance would make it impossible that exactly 16% in each group affected by the mists would become Allomancers.

Are they running a separate breeding program though? Or are they trying to concentrate allomancy in a subset of the general population, which they then can subsequently use?

Nazrilof most likely predates the Evil. No reason to assume that he shares the later naming conventions or culture.

The Seons and Skaze are parts of Dominion and Devotion. How would you reassemble the Shards without taking its parts?

This is Elantris. They have libraries. And they have the Aons for transportation, heating and lighting displayed on numerous public devices.

Vasher is a Returned with considerable shapeshifting capabilities.

Well, no, it does not. Kaladin was not asked to accept that he will fail protecting. That actually would be a gigantic hubris. He is not omnipotent and he knows it. His problem was that his job was to attack people who deserved to be protected.

He lost the chance to hit them in the back in case of Urithiru were attacked. Had she waited or remained undiscovered until the oathgate were opened to the Parshendi, Urithiru would have fallen. And there is the minor point of the KRs getting the gem archive. THat was a major blow to Odium. That would make her useless as an agent. Odium is not going to run the GHostbloods just to kill one Cryptic, nor to get rid of Shallan. They had an agent in the Palineum. They would have torched it.

On a tropical island I suppose.

Well, if you go by such considerations ... The feruchemist is made mostly from carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen. These elements can all release energy by fusion. Long before the feruchemist is dense enough to form an event horizon, the atoms of his body will be attracted to each other strongly enough to overcome electrostatic barriers. He will turn into a thermonuclear bomb.

Right, unless we are seeing the necessary cooling. So the cooling is not a result but a precondition.

She does not consider him Shin. And that happens to Felt. And he has a babsk. It looks like he at leat grew up in Thaylenah.

There must be some human Awakeners in Shadesmar. How else would you explain the immediate question at which heightening Kaladin is?

Vivenna has started something awful. She has brought shard blades and war to Shadesmar. Spren have weapons. Yet they are hard to kill. They do have conflict in Shadesmar, but as far as we know they lack the savagery of the PR. Compared to Roshar, Shadesmar lacks the best weapons. You cannot take a shard blade to Shadesmar and expect it to remain a blade. That was the settled state of affairs. Until Azure proved that it can be done. And now the Spren of Shadesmar are facing a new opponent. The Honorspren have a major leg up. I guess that they will survive the encounter with the Fused. Azure is too nice a protagonist to just waste in a battle off screen. I think they will start a project to get more blades. What can they sell on Nalthis?

If she were fully unarmed, I would buy that. But she carried a pistol. No, if you go armed at all, you go as heavily armed as possible.

Well, now you have deprived your gun of a propellant. What is supposed to push your bullet out of the barrel? In a chemical gun the gases generated from the powder in the charge do the job. That they are hot is helpful, but not essential. Look at an airbag. If you convert metal to nothing and heat, you will generate a vaccum behind your bullet (and heat it and your weapon). The bullet will go backwards. OK, it, being a ball, will fit loosely, so there will be some air to heat up and expand. But efficiency will suck, if it works at all. Your gun will be immensely hot after each shot. You had no friends trying to blow things up as a child? Easily solved. Use flour or sawdust as an explosive. Pack it in a dark bag Use a bursting charge made from a primed ceramic. Yes I read it. But I am a software engineer, not a gunsmith, so I have to think about such things. I believe the answer is no, as the projectile gets heavier faster than its diameter which determines how much force you can apply.

Having read this I am afraid I will have to come up with two more issues, one technical, the other one developmental.. What happens to the material you blow up? Gun barrels need to be cleaned periodically from the residue of the propellant. If you are blowing up metal fragments, your residue will be molten metal and metal oxides. The barrel is cold compared to molten metal. The residues will stick quite closely to the barrel. Your guns won't fire often before they need to be cleaned quite thoroughly. Your magic system leads straight to explosive projectiles, especially the wooden parts of arrows and crossbow bolts. That kind of magic begs for grenades launched by trebuchet.

But where would Silverlight find a Threnodian ghost? Assuming they would not just use a normal cognitive shadow. These people ought to have some ethics. On a world where a Shard is in death throes, a most dangerous Shard has been released recently after thousands of years of captivity? With the Ire reported to be around? I am afraid if there ever was an opportunity to be armed as heavily as possible, that will be it.

Let me expand. Is this just very old technology or very new technology? Is it a relict of Threnody's original technology that got lost when the Evil struck or has there been a major breakthrough on Threnody? It would make sense for somebody going into the CR by some freak accident to be wearing his personal weapon or device that can be used as a weapon. But if Nazh gets a new device from Threnody, Threnody must have developed a way to reopen travel into the CR. That he did not draw it against Kelsier could be explained by such a weapon simply not working in the CR.

Well, weight needs an object to rest again. Hence you are weightless while in orbit. You can add centrifugal force, if you wish. F = G * (m1 + m2)/ r^2 Usually we neglect m2. In case of a macroscopic black hole, that is no longer a valid approximation. Then he would turn deaf. His altered eardrums would need to be stronger not to rupture under their own weight. Yet if they are that massive and that strong, the now ultrathin air will not make them vibrate. This is just one of the many contradictions we could come up with. A feruchemist tapping iron is truly two things at once. Heavy to the outside world, unchanged to himself. A spot that could carry a piano, a safe or many other kinds of furniture. If that breaks, so will human leg bones. Conclusion: his mass with respect to the floor is not the same as with respect to himself. Velocity with respect to what? That is the problem with all these conclusions. Himself? Scadrial? Scadrial's sun? A galactic core?

The problem is that it would produce side effects that would be immediately observable (death of the feruchemist), hence they would need to be worked around. So you can become denser by adding more atoms or by making each atom heavier. So far so good. Mechanically on a macro level the difference is unobservable. The most obvious example is that your blood would become x times denser if you become x times heavier. Your heart needs to become x times stronger. But then why does your blood pressure not go up x times and you start bleeding into your lungs? And so on. Hence it looks to me like some weird relativity like stuff is going on. You get heavier to an external observer but not to yourself. But even that is not the full truth. A Feruchemist feels lighter when storing. Wax should have broken most of his bones when he tapped the metal mind to break through the floor. So tapping and storing must be different. It is not sufficient for you to simply get stronger muscles. At some point your skin will rip free.

How do you prevent guns using compressed air? Removing gun powder will solve only a part of the problem. If you are looking at largely removing artillery, the decline of castles will never happen. Looking at military weapons from a viewpoint of stuff you are holding in your arms is not accurate. Also what is the influence of magic on transport and logistics? That is important. For example the Ottoman advances against Austria all followed the Danube. Not because the Turks were stupid enough to act predictably, but because so many supplies could be transported only by river.

TLR wanted stupid minions with a built-in self-destruct. Looking for new bind points was likely his mistake. And he had an ideological problem correcting mistakes. Look how an Inquisitor is made. They have pins, like the lynchpin spike that make no sense on their own. You cannot understand an advanced construct by adding up the spikes. They interact. Sort of. They may need living officers with mechanical aids or bonds to pull that off. Though you are raising and omitting a point. How did they get into the CR? When did he get that? He was ready to pull a knife against Kelsier. Iff they find a way to recharge their sand. Then they got a cheap form of semi-telekinesis.

No. The density does specifically not change. That would have observable effects. In particular it would make them bullet proof. That they would notice. Any object entering your body needs to move aside the part of your body that is within its path. The energy needed to do that is proportional to the mass, hence in a given volume density, of the part of the object that is entered. That is the way mass works while not under the influence of feruchemy. It cannot be used to conclude that it behaves the same way under altered circumstances. That would be circular reasoning. You need to do it the way Khriss does. You look for observable differences. If he really were more massive he would fall faster. Normally that effect is tiny. But we are talking about a black hole here. Well, here things get complicated. Wax is in free fall. He does show an effect while allomantic acceleration acts upon him. Hence the forces behave differently depending on their source. That depends on whether you define gravity as an acceleration or a force. Usually these are equivalent descriptions. No longer with feruchemy becoming active. I am afraid it won't explain everything, in particular why your heart can still pump much denser blood, why your bones don't splinter, but you still cannot punch through concrete walls. Not really. You need to counter increased mass, while volume increases much slower. In case of feruchemy it does not increase at all, while mass does increase. Your heart should stop. Now, which experiments can we run? We could observe radioactive decay in a feruchemist. In particular beta+ - decay. Where is the annihilation line?

First of all, from steel pushings we are pretty sure it is mass, not weight. So they are not manipulating gravity acting on them. Not that anybody vocally disagreed, but sometimes you need to establish the basics. Provided his gravity changes at all. There is no evidence for or against that. I really doubt that they get denser. You'd suffer an instant lethal hard attack if you got much denser. The cube/square law would strike and your heart would be unable to move your blood. Iron feruchemy seems to split up mass. You have a mass with respect to the external world in terms of acceleration and another mass with respect to yourself and for other effects.