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He literally says that he is going to have either Dalinar kill Amaram or vice versa. The fused are also going to die when he is done with them(they even say so). Honors' actually intent is tied to bonds not to honor. He never said Odium's belief that he is not the best and only option to be the only perfect god in the Cosmere was not egotistical.

This is one group of people. Not several successive groups. Remember they all(or at least the management) have to be in on the conspiracy for it to work. A leek means that the law catches up to them.

If I could make my own shard I would like an inspiration. Other then that I would say that Harmony is the best choice based solely on quality of life. Individuals on Scadrail seem to be on average the wealthiest, best educated, and least prone to violent conflicts. Sure Harmony is not the only reason but I think that an none omniscient god should be circumspect in the actions that they take/are allowed to take.

Where? I don't really think we have enough information to know anything about his powers other then that they seem to prolong life. My pet theory is that Skathan himself is actually an avatar.

Well the mind definitionally exists in the CR... But in secret history Preservation was at every dead person on Scadrial at the same time. I do not want to have to talk or even think about the idea of positioning in the SR.

But the shards are omnipresent. Stasis can't exist without Preservation for example. Shards do exist in the spiritual otherwise how did the Dor end up in the CR? Dominion and Devotion certainly did not come from the CR. Again, What do you mean by where. In HoA we saw a shard's perspective and they described it as moving a nexus. For a shard moving is more like deciding to focus on something.

I have a hard time believing that a group of people care enough about science to subjugate an entire culture over it. Money on the other hand...

You interjected in my response to Cal. I have been trying to figure out what you meant ever since. It was a bit out of left field. In my prior post I was remembering the scene incorrectly. You helpfully posted it. That lead me to change my positions. You don't need to go from the palace. Instead you could use teleportation to bypass it and all fortifications. This is a large reason why I dislike the ability so much when it does not have enough flaws. Um I don't recall ever saying that in connection with the OP willshaper attack strategy I am proposing, They are only doing one transport a fall of a few feet and then a repeat. This makes them impossible to surround or pin down. As to stormlight costs those are clearly not the primary limit on this magic system. Like none atium powered alomancy the metal is not the limiting factor since there is no material limit on how much you can have at any given time. Maybe. It depends on how velocity transfer works. However even then you have quite a few options to take out large numbers of flyers with limited problems. One of the Windrunners in the gem arcive talked about falling a good mile from the top of the tower and they obviously survived. I obviously can't do anything but say that(I think) your wrong. Think about how much of combat is about teamwork, coordination, and orientation. That one is on me. It has largely worn off. Radiant healing and bondsmith overcharging.

Granted but they don't work on any person you know anything about. I wish I could make speed bubbles.

Yes we have. Kaladin killed one in Oathbringer. 5 is an impressive guess. I don't think 6 though.

Not really. You could just get some gemstones and take more with you. Stormlight as a limiting factor is not really workable. Also I assume you have a destination in mind. Why not just go there? You are teleporting. I suggested some kind of logarithmic increase in Stormlight requirements for distance already. However distance is not the only problem. Even a half mile limit would be ridiculous in combat or espionage. How? That argument is rather silly considering that we have WoBs indicating that Oathgates go at near Light speed or faster. I meant instantaneous direct travel between two points exactly A to B is broken. Elsecalling is imperfect due to (I theorized) a lack of coordination between the two planes(they are not one to one). Hoid was clearly out of her field of vision. If she was in combat mode she would have been infused and had her blade out immediately and checked her surroundings. How inaccurate could this person be? The plagues are big enough for an army to drill on. Stormlgiht allow extremely fast movement. The Fused are flying in from outside. You should have time to get there easily. Once you hit the ground you start over. Why on earth would you stay in the air to build up velocity? That was not what I was suggesting. The Radiant moves around the battlefield by teleporting about 10 feat up. They take the fall down as time to orient and then strike once or as they are falling. In extremely unlucky cases you might have to try again 3 or four times but second ideal Kaladin managed easily to fall that kind of distance with limited stormlgiht so I don't see how SPLAT as you call it enters into anything. Meanwhile such an opponent is basically unstoppable as you can't pin them down, trap them or flank them. Assuming that a person could open a door in space time to wherever they want then everything in the book makes sense. Sorry. I got a bit of a tick eventually.

Assuming that the cost of using transportation on yourself is less then a jug that means that you can during a highstorm transport yourself for free along with as much remaining in the jug that you have. I know but it is not really relevant. We were not arguing over weather or not Elscalling is instantaneous we were trying to figure out why it is imprecise. I put forward a potential solution. Only if you know exactly where and when they are going to show up. Jasnah oriented herself almost instantaneously. Screemers can't hurt you. It takes time for people who can to find you. During that time you can open the oathgate. A visual he could actually see from where he was. One of the first things he tries in the first books is to go to a place via color photo. It does not work. He later makes a video library to record useful places to jog his memory latter. This is possible. It also does not matter. All Radiants can take a fall of 5 meters without any trouble. Shallan managed to fall for several seconds without any trouble. There is also speculation that you may actually be able to do Cent's velocity trick with Transportation(Theylen field several soldiers go flying away from Jasnah). Even if not Radiants are quite good at blunt force trauma damage and they could also just touch the ground ever now and again doing an up down transportation pattern to avoid this. It sounds quite easy actually. Also splat for a Radiant means nothing. Why does this matter at all? According to speed bubble rules a transporter can do the same. Jumper is some of the most grounded sci fi in existence. Jumping itself makes complete sense actually. What it is with you and SPLAT? IT MEANS NOTHING. Takes deep breath. OK lets go over this. Explain the splat phenomena that worries you in detail.

She has avatars everywhere and exists in the spiritual realm. She is also a shard and therefor omnipresent. Her avatars make places where she is more focused on.

I theorized about something similar on another page a few months ago. Someone else pointed out that the Oathbringer reacher ship had a bunch of copper wire the the crew touched to communicate.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say my super secret theory. King Gavilar the Majestic will die in SA4! Kind of want her to live in shame for the rest of her life. Which one? There are three(I think). Giving 10 to 1 odds on at least 9 fused dying this book. 10 to 3 A bunch of different squires. 10 to 6 At least one of the new Windrunners.

Indonesia is more Oceania in my book anyway. Also the culture their is very different from the middle east or china.

That is not my issue. My point is that the cost of just transporting the self is nothing during a highstorm other then a clear idea of where you want to go. We are talking about elsecalling. Moving back and forth between the CR and physical realm. I was explaining why that WoB does not indicate that pointpoint transportation is impossible. Where does instantaneousness come into this? OK this is relevant. However Jasnah may have been expecting danger of some kind on the other side and decided to make the transition while infused. She could also imidiatly douse and find a hiding place. Yes it is. Windrunners can be shot at while dropping in. Willshapers can. The Willshaper could probably just go to the palace roof to scout the platform. Transport onto or above the platform from there. Willshaper will activate before anyone can do much of anything. Activating the gate would push the Willshaper into the CR. However willshaper can just transport out of the sea of beads or add velocity using transportation to push themselves strait up. Even if that does not work their spren could probably pull them out. Then they just wait for a highstorm and transit back or transport to the river and walk to Cultivation's perpendicularity. Not true. A Jumper needs to have actually visited a place or have a clear view of it to get there. Old videos are for jogging your memory. Cent does this by realizing that changing latitudes means she is already going at a significantly different speeds(this would also be true on Roshar or Elantris). Otherwise your willshapers are going to crash into things at extremely high velocities. That would not work. The Jumper would have to actually be on the plane. Also all teleportation breaks physics. Why are you so concerned about it when discussing magic. The same could be said for a Windrunner. Please explain what you mean by break physics when you are talking about people with MAGIC. Unless you have Stormlight in which case you should be fine. Also what kind of moving objects? Roshar does not really have cars or trains. If you carry your speed the speed of the sun will likely leave you stranded in space(the sun moves at around 200k/s around the outside of the galexy and it moves the earth with it). I fail to understand why the earth moving, the sun moving, and a train moving are all different. If we go by Mistborn bubble rules then they should be fine. You will appear a couple dozen feat up and be fine thanks to Stormlgiht.

Don't they still eat the same stuff? Is it no longer generated the same way? It is possible that some other chemical process dissolves the stomach. Remember this is an organ. Many different biological systems require extremely well done maintenance or they break down. If you store a human in the right liquid solution of acids we dissolve down to our bones. However we still drink lemonade.

What confusion?

Good luck with that. Converting heat into electricity is haaaard. If it was not we would not be having an energy crisis. I hate to be the guy who causally dismisses a cool ideas but odds are if you have the tec to make that kind of suit you are probably better off alomantically pushing on a ring and using that to generate electricity. In a similar vein what about those metalbending suits from Korra that the republic city police used but for coinshots?

It could also be some kind of Indonesian Monsoon Marketplace.

Not that much. Also what could be below them that would be that bad? But so easy as to make back five books impossible to set up conflicts? Try and make a conflict in which teleporting Willshapers could not fairly easily turn things around and win that does not involve god level stuff. Also the fused have not done any such thing despite it(for example) allowing easy access to the gemstone archive, a smart way to avoid loosing honor's drop during the battle(just teleport far away with it), an easy way into Urithiru(to for example assassinate Dalinar) or if that place has mystical defenses just have T report when he is going to leave and have a teleporting fused squadron take him out not that hard.

Saze does this in Hero of ages. It lets him doge metal by finding its trajectory.

That does not stop them from appearing a few hundred feat above wherever they want. During a highstrom you have unlimited stormlight so that kind of cost is not worth much as real costs are based on scarcity. Elsecalling is not necessarily the same thing as physical realm transportation and it is not what @pathfinder was suggesting. The likely reason that Elsecalling is so hit or miss is that the CR and PR don't have an exact one to one correlation. Again set up the Kholinar mission with one third level willshaper along. You can easily get to the oathgate platform and activate it with only a visual. You can get your man(gender neutral) into and out of the city at will. Communication stops being a problem. Sure the spren can detect the use of stormlight but you just use it once and then leave on foot. That would be really hard to pin down. Transports away nothing for those spren to find. Transports to a location. Does going to a place make a detectable pulse that the screemers can hear? The use of investiture happened on the other end. Even if it doesn't you have finished using once you get there so you can find a place to hide pretty quickly. Not really. The others could get in through the same way they did or just flown in once they got the information from the WIllshaper. Try this. Willshaper is flown most of the way there. Willshaper tries to activate the oathgate(which they can get to easily and before anyone can stop them) they realize that the oathgate is nonfunctional as it dumps them in shadesmar. They transport back report. Windrunners go in get Gavinor and leave. Willshapers are great at avoiding problems if you give them this kind of power. Just keep going strait up then. The lack of precision will actually be helpful as no flying opponent will be able to pinpoint you. Also everyone in this discussion read Jumper. You will get an idea for how dangerous teleporters can be.