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Yes, because the transfer of magical abilities is only one of the applications of hemalurgy. You can transform people or mistwraiths. That transformation is fueled by charging the spike in the form of killing somebody.

Exactly. And that destroys a lot of the incentive to build better microscopes, to develop biochemistry, to understand immunology or to build an MRI scanner. Even a good X-ray machine. Likewise, why would you develop good batteries on Scadrial or Roshar?

James Olmos or Chow-Yun Fat. If they are too old or expensive Jerome Flynn.

That has already happened. If you have a heating fabrial, you can run a steam turbine, likewise an Awakener could tell a generatior to turn. AonDor gives you so many possibilities it is not even funny to list them. I suppose none of them will develop a fossile fuel technology or nuclear technology to the point we do. Medical science will suffer a lot.

Suppose we have a laser beam that is split and one half is sent through a speed bubble. Does any pulse sent on the accelerated route arrive earlier? If not, why? Does a speed bubble change the speed of light? That is a question we can actually answer in the negative. Electrons in atoms are pretty fast in the case of the heavier elements. So fast that their chemical properties are altered by relativistic effects. If you lowered the speed of light by an order of magnitude, it would affect the iron, zinc and cobalt in your enzymes. You would be dead within seconds. Clearly it does not expand space correspondingly, or Wayne couldn't use it to move faster from place to place.

Yes, but we can make some conclusions. We can know which things Sazed had no access to or which would be untypical for him. Sazed was limited to Scadrial - anything connected to systems found on other planets was impossible Sazed lived in a technologically retarded environment - anything connected with electricity, advanced chemistry or nuclear forces is unavailable Sazed was a enuch - arousal or fertility wouldn't work for him. Little to store. Sazed was unlikely to get drunk or high (after all gold stores health, so some attribute related to health would make sense)

Look at allomancy. A shard decided to build the system. Afterwards it functions everywhere. On Taldain, Roshar and Nalthis shards provide the Investiture themselves. That causes teh specific issue of Yolen. Who decided to power Lightweaving? Well, the Nahel bond grants the ability. But without Stormlight, you still cannot surgebind. The aviar is the equivalent of the Spren. But where is the Stormlight's equivalent? It uses the soul of the sacrificial victim as fuel. That is kind of the point of hemalurgy. You cannot just take a metal object and spike somebody. First, you need to kill or horribly mutilate with it.

Performany a magical act requires Intent Focus Investiture That brings us to Yolen, Ashyn and First of the Sun. The intent is quite clear in all cases. Focus is debateable. What is the Focus of Yolish Lightweaving? The powders Hoid was using.? But whence comes the Investiture that fuels Aviars, the Surges of Ashyn and Yolish Lightweaving? Out of the metabolism of the user or the bird? Neither of those worlds have a live shard, so the way allomancy is performed can be ruled out. There never was a shard on Yolen. Could they be end-neutral? That very much collides with the idea of gaining power simply by infection.

But they did. Voidspren in human form look Shin. Sylphrena does not. It is not shared by the Lightweavers. But they do share the first oath. It seems to me that the idea that all oaths have the same source needs to be reexamined. That would make the Nahel bond different to the bond to Seons, Aviars and Ashynite germs. I would say the simpler assumption is that bonds are fundamental to the Cosmere. No. At least not physically. We know there are sentient spren which do not form bonds. Becoming Radiant Spren was a cultural innovation, not a change in nature. Exactly. How else would you explain the stela? Humans were then still on the side of Odium, yet they used Surges. They can also animate rock. This requires you to assume two methods of reincarnation. Windspren, who cannot swear oaths, use Adhesion to play tricks on people. Greatshells and skyeels perform magic with the aid of a spren not inside their gemhearts, as those spren can be seen at times with living animals, hence this is a bond, not a natural fabrial Rhyshadiums, who as horses are not native to Roshar and hence lack a gemheart, form a bond with musicspren

But you can do it the other way round, in the sense of having thousands of archivists listening to the same reader.

Yes, it does. However you can get the power of multiplication up to ten thousands of times, if you use loudspeakers and microphones.

They could forget having done so using copper.

Technically the WOB leaves room open. It supposes that a muggle burn it. What if a mistborn did so? Could a misting do it? If you are an atium misting, can you burn malatium? How about gold mistings? "And" or "or"? Technically malatium grants a mental power. You see something that is not real. As the Cosmere has a distinction between animate and inanimate there may well be an alloy of atium that shows you the past of an object. The alloy of tin and atium would be a suspect. You would do so in a vacuum chamber or in an inert atmosphere (argon or SF6 for example). Era 2 Scadrial has the level of technology to liquify and distill air.

Meaning that changing your mass has no effect unless you accelerate or slow down.

Sorry, that was not intended as criticism. The relationship between feruchemy and allomancy has overlaps. Tin and pewter are very close. Zinc and aluminium show a certain similarity. If you consider how Cosmere healing actually works, even gold makes some sense. But others, like cadmium, seem totally unrelated. Thus I would love to know what malatium stores feruchemically. Is it possible that Sazed failed because it stores something Sazed did not have? Could malatium store external healing?

Yes, but that tells us nothing about its feruchemical properties. For atium itself feruchemy and allomancy show little connection. That is dubious. You may see it also like gold directing the power of atium into the past.

Yes, but there is a much easier explanation: It matters only with respect to acceleration and gravity.

Why? Roshar certainly gets a lot of volume. If we get short stories, why not some of the smaller worlds? And if Threnody and Nalthis are going to get full novels, First of the Sun is a pretty good choice.

The problem with that is the recording in the gem. It specifically talks about "wanting" to protect everybody. Not the grim acceptance of practicality to live and fight another day, but that there are people you should just not want to protect. Now this could be just imprecise phrasing on the part of the ancient Windrunner. But then we saw Kaladin's crisis and his failure to swear the 4th oath were not caused by a situation where he disregarded his own safety. It was caused by people killing each other. He wanted them to stop. Yet in a war you cannot just stop killing your enemies. If you alone do that, you lose. If both sides do it, the status quo is kept and one side loses. The Knights Radiant exist ultimately to contain and fight Odium and his forces. The Singers did not deserve to die. You cannot blame slaves for revolting, indeed they may be worthy of praise. Yet they are fighting for Odium. You can take the moral viewpoint. That is what the Skybreakers are doing. Or you can take another viewpoint. But that will require you to abandon justice as your ultimate guidance. Honor being about keeping your oath no matter what, it looks like if you swear allegiance, your orders will take priority over justice.

It isn't just Patji. The sea creatures hunt by sensing your mind. And they use Sori as a training island. That would make no sense if Patji alone had the magical beasts.

Actually the reverse is testable. Tin has a nonmetallic phase you can get to by lowering temperature to what you can find in winters of the temperate zones.

The clue we have comes from the differences among metals. An alloy of aluminium and presumably scandium (Wax calls it eka-bor) still counts as aluminium, but duraluminium with only 4% copper does behave as a different metal. That points to the difference being crystal structure.

Magic powers are ubiquitous on at least some areas of First of the Sun. Aviars are not unusual for having magical powers but for bonding with people and granting them powers. Aviars get their powers from worms. But what about the trees and animals on the other islands and in the ocean? A tree really cannot fly to Patji to pick up a worm. Do they all have symbionts of their own? Then why don't people form bonds with them? Granted, a bond with a tree may be a bit inconvinient, but a rodent which would give you telepathy - that's an easy choice. And why do the worms occur only in the eye, but magical animals and plants all over the Pantheon at least? I would draw the following conclusions: the aviars are not native to the Dromaid system the worms are an artificial life form they live in the eye because a shard or its avatar put them there the worms are specifically designed for a bond with humans

That makes sense, but we have no proof shades are the same everywhere. Shades with some intelligence retained would be terrible.

If you want Brandon to sign something do you get a new book there or bring the edition you really read?