Oltux72

All the arcane arts we have seen are permanent. The Initations are vastly different, but your powers stay if you do nothing. You can give away your Breaths or break your oaths. But there is no need to renew them. So let's suppose there is a Shard of Decadence (just as an example - I am not saying that it exists). You power your arcane art with Joylight which you create by hedonistic acts. You can store it. Yet your exact power is determined by an act of intoxication which generates an effect for a few weeks. And then you may or may not repeat it, but you may get another power. Are there realmatic reasons Intiation needs to be permanent and this example would not work?

He does not want to win. He is looking for a loophole. You cannot risk that Dalinar will fall into his own sword.

The idea of an alliance and the Intent of Autonomy clash violently.

The future does include fulfilling the treaty, doesn't it? It seems to me that Odium also gets out of the contest if he can make the other side violate the agreement. Part of the agreement is that Dalinar serve as a Fused. For that he has to be turned into a Cognitive Shadow. What if Dalinar is killed with an anti-Stormlight weapon? Is that the reason for the rushed weapons test El had to conduct?

I cannot follow your logic. Rayse-Odium wanted to settle on a long confinement to the Rosharan system. The point in the change is that Taravangian-Odium does not want to take the deal. Hoid said it clearly. He is ready to let Roshar burn if that's what it takes. That is kind of incompatible with him truly caring about what happens on Roshar. Hoid has one overriding mid-term goal. He wants to keep Odium confined.

We already go random and permanent. On some day you wake up and can do magic for an indeterminate period of time. Why do people always use generalities in that? Dangerous to whom? Most dangerous Shard to face directly: Odium Most dangerous Shard to face indirectly: Innovation (That is a guess) Most dangerous Shard to live under: Whimsy (Just imagine a ten year old turning into a Mistborn for a week with no prior warning)

Why? Why would Autonomy meddle in this wiith the risk of setting an entity free that has killed four Shards so far? Is Autonomy suicidal?

Yes No. For Odium wants to be free. The contest affects that. This is incorrect. It is in the interest of the rest of the Cosmere as being represented by Hoid. If the Rosharans want to make peace or a truce Hoid turns into an enemy. The eternal conflict weakens Odium and keeps him contained buying the rest of the Cosmere time. Ehm. Can they? I mean it is scientifically possible, but it needs Raysium for now. Odium is not going to provide that to the Knights Radiant. Cultivation would have gone for all that trouble just to buy a few decades at most?

(Scadrial) Kalak couldn't test it in ten days. Ten days is nothing.

No, he isn't falling. He is standing, just at a 90 degrees angle.

That is simple. Flight. Exploring options for evacuation is an obvious idea under such circumstances.

The title of El's book very much suggests that something fundamental will happen in ten days.

Why is Dalinar still talking about finding Ishar? I don't get the plan behind it. Ten days in which they need to find him they need to cure him they need to learn what he has to teach they have to train to use that knowledge in combat That is not doable. So what is the point in preparing Kaladin for a new mission right now, after what that man has just been through?

We have a direct comment from Sja-anat on that: Again. Odium is, apparently, divine hatred. That is not the same as being dangerous. An amoral egotist without a shred of hatred can be supremely dangerous. A well-meaning fanatic can be horrifying, for they cannot be deterred. He was realist and clever enough to know that he needed external help. And then he did not go for wishful thinking or hope over cold understanding. Most foolish actions do not arise from insufficient intelligence but the inability to face reality. They were. They were not only stored as Investiture, for Dalinar has an organic, functional brain. But memories must basically always exist as Investiture. Otherwise Cognitive Shadows could not retain their memories. And extensive head wounds or being smashed to pulp by a Thunderclast would leave you amnesiac after healing by Stormlight or Regrowth.

Sylphrena stated that she has to stay within a few kilometers from Kaladin if she wants to retain her mind. That is obviously not the case for the Stormfather. But what about the Nightwatcher and the Sibling? What about going into Shadesmar? In particular what would happen to the Nightwatcher?

A lighteye is just another kind of noble. They are a bit better because it is easier to see whom to kill. Well, maybe not Teners, but the rest needs to go.

Gravitational Lashings are supposed to change how gravity operates on an object. So far, so good. But what is an object? Let's make a thought experiment. A Skybreaker has lashed himself to a wall and is standing at a 90 degree angle to normal gravity. (Skybreakers avoid Adhesion coming into play). Not every Skybreakers is bald. Let's assume the Skybreaker is male for a reason we will come to later. Which way will his hair hang? His clothing? And assuming it is allowed, he urinates. Where does it go?

What would prevent one of the champions to draw a sword and run the other one through? And if you could do that, why not do it yourself? You cannot rely on a judge to do that, as the rules state that nobody outside may harm the champions.

He is expecting to die. Their champion may have to face the bearer of Yelig-Nar. With him or her having a week of training. And without Dalinar to open a perpendicularity. You do not send a man into his death under these circumstances. "Do not ask a man to do what you are not willing to do yourself.".

The Surge of Adhesion has purely physical applications. The Stormfather considers those to be toys, but he is a Spren without knowledge of advanced physics. If we approach this purely as a question of physics, what happens if you forge bonds between nuclei that can undergo fusion? If you want burns from Adhesion and its applications, there you have a candidate.

But to what extent? Is the community on the other side fully alive? And I mean that literally. It seems implausible to me that a community could live besides a perpendicularity for thousands of years and not find out how to make Cognitive Shadows.

Because they are more useful to the people on the other side as Cognitive Shadows. Normal, corporal people need to eat and drink on the other side and that is a logistical problem. Besides, it makes sure that they cannot come back. Yes. And hence they may use it.

The Horneaters live on top a perpendicularity. That means you could be exactly and literally right. It is more. But it still starts with a trial and execution. What happens if you execute somebody in a perpendicularity? We saw something similar.

That being said on Roshar points to him talking about Ashyn.

Exactly. Even if you can show valor in defense, someone still has to attack. Well, the Shard is not simply Courage. So would flying a hang glider in a tornado count? It probably depends on the goal. In my eyes valor is courageously taking a personal risk in the pursuit of an external goal. Mere thrill seeking would not count. Yet others may see martial success a component of valor, like officers get a medal for winning a major battle in some militaries even if no personal danger is involved. The closest relation of the Intent of a Shard to its magic system seems to be in the Initiation. For Preservation it stays in the family. Endowment gives a small piece to everybody and to do something impressive people have to give a contribution. Everybody is potentially a Hemalurgist, as if to say that everything must end. Whereas the connection of a metallic art with Preservation is hopeless. In fact, immortality easily comes from Endowment, yet Preservation turns you into a paramillitary killer. So I suspect indeed something like gladiatorial combat to gain Valor's magic. Yes, yet we must also not see it as a Shard of War. That is organized violence. It seems to me that for Valor's planet we cannot assume that they follow the contemporary Western notion that violence has no place in private life among normal people. How would you show valor indeliberately? That would imply that you are made to fight valorously. Unless Valor's magic is only for drafted soldiers this looks contradictory. Are we sure he hasn't acquired it? Hoid rarely uses what he has except for Lightweaving. In fact, we know he met her. So can we speculate that to gain her magic you must win an arena fight to the death? Hoid's fights would always end in a draw. Or a Valorspren must be fed the blood of an enemy slain in single combat every few years. Hoid is also out.