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We know that Kelsier is the subject of religious veneration, outright among the Survivorists and to limited extent among the Pathists. But what are his own convictions? I think we can safely assume that the events after his death have shattered any traces of belief in the Lord Ruler as a deity..But is there a replacement? Is he a highly unusual Survivorist? Or is he the last and only believer in Preservation? Were his promises to Leras profane or religious? In fact does Kelsier see a difference there? Is Survivorism his honest attempt to fulfill the promise he gave Leras? Did he get involved in its development after appearing to Spook?

Truthwatcher 77% Skybreaker 73% Windrunner 71% Edgedancer 63% Elsecaller 62% Stoneward 58% Willshaper 47% Bondsmith 43% Dustbringer 42% Lightweaver 39% The upper two and the lower three results are nearly unalterable. I have to deliberately tell outright lies to change them/

Can we give a definite answer on whether living Plate needs Light to be materialized and kept mobile?

Yes, but does that mean you have to accept a governemt or government at all? Tribes have laws without governments. You could likely swear to the Law of Manu or the Albanian Kanun. It is a Western positivist view that law needs to originate from legislation. A divine revelation or ancient tribal customs would work for a Skybreaker, too. In fact, the law being inalterable may be an added attraction. Such a tribal customary law may explicitely forbid the formation of a government. In fact their crusade could then be to slaughter the modernists who argue for the formation of a government.

He is a bondsmith, not a Skybreaker, Elsecaller, Truthwatcher or Dustbringer. His job is the bonds among people. His personal qualities matter as a shining example and a way to create pride and trust among his people, not as means in themselves. He hid that Adolin murdered Sadeas. And that is exactly what a Bondsmith is supposed to do. If it is unity versus justice, unity will win. There are only three Bondsmiths and they take up leading roles. Dalinar is management. And he knows that you do not single out individuals, unless you need to fire them. Evi was a failure. Now, she may not be to blame for that. She wasn't Alethi. But, to be blunt, she pretty much sucked at the role she had agreed to. She was a borderline pacifist, yet agreed to marry the Blackthorn. What did you expect? That is what is to be said objectively. Yet he was her husband. It was his task to stand by her. He was not very good at that. But you need to realize that in order to do so, he would have to act subjectively. It means that his wife would be judged by other standards than other wives. Again a Bondsmith thing. Loyalty over justice. And responsibility ultimately requires justice.

OK, so Gravitation changes the vector of gravity. So I think you can acceerate your body in every direction. However, you cannot turn it with the Surge. Hence I am afraid there is one fundamental difference in fighting while you are falling with Gravitation. You do not have a stance. Sure you can move your legs, but other than changing the shape of your body this does nothing. A stance transmits forces into the ground. But there is no ground. So every time a force would turn you, you indeed turn, until friction with the air stops you. And that is a long time. So what is to be done? Now. this may be ridiculous, but you should probably have stabilizing fins as part of your equipment, specifically on your legs. Like the fletching of an arrow, because that is what you effectively are. And you must keep moving, because for aerodynamic control surfaces to work, you need an air flow. And you likely need to change your fighting style. Forget swinging a weapon. Action equals reaction. Go for thrusts instead.

Kaladin should have died in the battle of Urithiru. The scene was screaming for a grand last stand. The way the Fused simply gave up and yielded was way too easy.

They want be moving really fast. The issue is that you are limited by mass. Do you want better armor and more Stormlight? Less ammo. A few coins won't matter. In fact the coins are your fuel, if it comes to that as a Coinshot or Mistborn. Not so for lashed weapons.

That is exactly what they cannot do due to cube/squared issues.

If you compare to a coin. But not if you compare to a human being. At those distances you might hit a ship or a building, but nothing smaller. When Kaladin played locksmith, did he touch the objects?

Bricks have about two times the density of a human being. And cube/square is against you. Anyway, of course, you could use a lump of lead. It is likely possible for a Windrunner to lug something around that would kill. But how many bricks can they carry? A dozen? How many coins can a coinshot carry? And that is the issue. A short range, coinshots are superior. You need to hold a thing you want to lash. Can you really hold what is heavy enough to kill while it is pulled at 10g away from you? You have to touch in order to lash. But you need not keep touching an object to keep it lashed. Once it is lashed it will happily fall in the wrong way until it runs out of Stormlight. Does the same apply for Reverse Lashings?

Well, no. The issue is terminal velocity. It goes up with the square root of gravity. Now consider that Roshar has a lower gravity and denser air than standard. What is the highest lashing we have seen? Twentyfold? Let's be generous and say 25 fold. That will give you 5 times the terminal velocity (of a lower terminal velocity). They will be useless against a target with personal armor. Yes, Windrunners can use huge boulders, but somebody has to get them to the battle field. And good luck hitting anything with it. And people will see them coming, as their acceleration is worse. Reverse Lashing, I am assume. That raises the interesting question on who can break a reverse lashing.

Anything that requires communication would make most sense. If copper clouds work similar to shrouding aviars, they will block communication between third parties. We know this because animals hide from telepathic predators under roosting trees of wild aviars. Soulcasting involves ordering the cognitive representation of an object to become something. If you cannot communicate with it, I have a hard time seeing how that would work.

Suppose Alice is a Ferring. Bob spikes her, uses the spike on himself and charges a metalmind. Charlie avenges Alice killing Bob. He rips the spike out and uses it on himself. I have found a WoB stating that Bob and Charlie could use Alice's metalminds. But can Charlie use Bob's metalmind?

He met her before he had picked up Preservation. Would a standard method even work on him now?

Can you kill yourself by old age if you do feruchemy of atium? Can it happen inadvertedly?

What happens to your mind if you recall the same memories hundreds of times with perfect clarity? In fact, can you become a savant at compounding specifically and what happens if you do?

The implication would be that Hoid could get Dalinar to choose another champion. As that does not look likely , I would say that Taravangian wants to hide that the shard has changed its holder because Taravangian can predict Hoid's action while he thinks that he is opposing a known holder, but only as long as that applies. Or, one more step of indirection, Taravangian hopes that Hoid will be forced to take a belated, hence inefficient step to react to the change of vessel. The Diagramm showed that Taravangian was well aware of the influence of chance and prepared plans for multiple options and took actions that would be beneficial in most cases.

OK, that raises a question. Hamony has a metal. Does that mean that other types of Investiture also have metals? Is there are a Towerium(Turrium?), Vitarium and Warium(Bellium?)? If you can turn Spren into metal, can you turn Breath into metal? A Shade?

Those are based on the fourth ideal of the Windrunners. You might base them on the fourth ideal of the Skybreakers, turning them into something entirely different. Like "I will overcome a specific bad habit." and "I will remove a specfic obstacle to freedom." Or you could base them on the orders attributes.

How is that possible if they were used to shatter him? Are you saying it was suicide by proxy?

Dalinar is in his fifties. Meaning in the second arc he will be pushing 70. Book#5 is his last book as an active character in the field ... unless he becomes a Fused. And what is more glorious, becoming a wise old man in the background at best or leading the army of hellfire and god's wrath out into the Cosmere? We have, just not the conventional trio.

Well, then pick a pregnant woman with a huge belly. Nasty, I know, but that is kind of the point.

That is the issue. How? A planet without a biosphere of its own, would have no soil for planting, no animals for hunting, nothing to gather, no wood for construction. How did these people live? Then how did she get people from Nalthis? The Shards seem to have migrated for quite some time after the Shattering. Did she hire advertisers and give out land grants?

Spren are made out of Investiture. Whether it can still be called Light is a question of definition. They are affected by antilight. So yes, they'd presumably react to leeching like a feruchemical store. But you are making the argument that Leechers and supressor fabrials are different. Stormlight and Spren in gems behave differently. For one, the Stormlight leaks out. Secondly is always active Investiture. If you inhale Stormlight, you will feel the effects. In fact it will heal you whether you want it to or not. In that case Roshar would have been pumped full with Investiture for millenia. That hypothesis has tremendous problems.