MrHobbes343

That's... A: Monstrous and B: Likely to kick off a slave rebellion, except that the slaves have super-powers. I think your a bit too married to the idea that the Evil Murder Spikes that contain Bits of the Souls of Other People could act as a currency. The closest you get is probably the Malwish medallions and those are also less useful as currency then as commodity. To have a currency it must ideally be produce-able in volume and if its a "hard" currency or specie then it need's to be standardized for ease of transactions. You can't really break a spike to make change or pull one out to act as collateral for a loan without reducing its value. I think instead of saying currency you might be able to say that they act as valuable commodities, but would fail as a currency.

While they might be a highly valued commodity...The spikes wouldn't work well as currency. A: They need to be immersed in living blood or flesh to stop losing power. B: They are extremely hard to create and very morally dubious. This will likely lead to a lot of people not excepting them or dealing with people who have them. And C : They are of different power levels due to decay and can't be standardized easily due to "soul-stuff". So while they will always be valuable to those with flexible enough morals to use them, the restrictions on the supply and standardization will likely make them unusable as currency. After thought: How do you value them? Recency of creation? Power type contained? (I'm not going to pay as much for Copper-Cloud powers as I would for Steel-Pushing)

His Intent at the moment he was given a piece of Honors power was to form it into a spear. Kal's a spear-man and he wanted his preferred weapon rather then a nobles sword.

I don't think the debate mattered nearly as much to the setting as it did to Jasnah specifically. For Fen this was much more Kissinger-esqu Realpolitik. As soon as T-Odium put the "Who will you trade with" card on the table it was over. Was Fen going to cause at best a civil war between the sides of Theylena who wanted what was economically right in a not starving next season kind of way, against those who want what is morally right in a not siding with the god of evil kind of way? It could be argued in a utilitarian way that Fen made the right call. Theylena will be able to trade and by extension be able to feed their island nation in the medium to long term. This wasn't a Lincoln-Douglas prepare your contentions and make a rational argument "Debate", this was a world dominating pseudo god that was coming to a small nation in time of war and saying "I will give you whatever terms you want". For Fen that is as good as it gets. Tarivangians sense of melodrama may have been Theylan City's only chance at long-term survival. For the price of burning one friend, she got to dictate terms to a god. In the calculus of nations that's as good as it gets for a nation on the other side of a superpower. For as Thucydides tells us “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”, and in the moment Jasnah was weak and had very little trade to offer and Fen was weak and was about to be locked out of trade in a trading country, but T-Odium was strong and had what Fen wanted. The conclusion would have been irrational any other way.

Shard Garrote Wire, and by extension of the silliness the Shard Bull Whip and the Shard Mono Wire Whip.

It might be the Stormfather, but he might change depending on the person hes "anchored" too. Him considering attachment to Gavalar might have made him more cynical and scheming. Then again just listening to G's surface thoughts would have made anyone feel the need to watch themselves around that kind of manipulator, But when he considered then bonded Dalinar he would have seen pain and guilt and regret, but not the same level of calculated malice and willing to sacrifice and destroy for power. Just a thought.

@Ookla the Dominion Granted, But one in twenty coins will vanish from your pockets. I wish for divine luck

The advantage is they can't scream as their eyes burn? as I believe it takes several seconded to die even by shard-blades

So dumb question, If a radiant were to ask their spren to turn into "Shard Wire" would it still have the cutting power of the blade? Would it be possible to have 50ft long hair thin shard wire and have it windmill everything in the region to slivers?

I'm just another passing through this part of the internet. I prefer the audiobooks but find them excellent. I have currently read Through Oathbringer in the SLA I need to read bands of morning on the mistborne series. and I'm currently ticking through Elantris Nothing special