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Bridge four manages long spears or pikes. Those could easily be a good 5 kg on their own. I don't think a couple of extra kg of gear will matter too much. Kaladin also carried several days rations while fighting during Theylen field.

Like magnetic shielding. That would jive with my theory of aluminum being conductive.

If you have not already read Brandon's advice on making a magic systems. I was wondering if all people have all these powers or if some people have only a specific number of them. How these powers are acquired, their limitations, and their uses are very interesting questions. Also what is the tec level of the setting and what kind of society is it?

Assuming a direct acquisition model where the spear's gemstone acquires all the stormlight from the radiant then the fused would have to have a larger carrying capacity then the radiant either by having a gemstone larger then all the combined radiant gemstones or would have to continuously switch out an equal supply. Either way the spear and gemstones would run out after a single use unless as @Innovation postulated they have a clever way of getting rid of the stormlight.

No spoilers necessary. We are not fully aware of the capabilities of the surges of transformation and transportation. Our understanding is speculative. Brandon has said different things about a Lightweaver's capacity to fully transition at different times but we do know from Hessi that Elsecallers were the best at navigating shadesmar.

Isn't that what killing Adolin for the sake of hurting Shallan would be doing? Is he? He is a decently important character but I think killing him for the sake of killing someone is a rotten strategy. I think Brandon has better taste.

It also makes it most likely that killing them off would be meaningless. Doing so is actually a pet peeve of mine and Brandon should(and generally does) know better. He tends to kill off more important people that we have gotten attached to in meaningful ways. Cosmere I think we have vastly different understandings of how Shallan's arc is "supposed to" work. I don't think it is a good idea for Shallan, whose arc is tide to self discovery, to be beholden to outside forces entirely when going through her character development. In my mind at least she should work by exploring the natural consequences of choices she makes not by consistently hitting her with additional trauma(that is Kaladin's thing).

Hm. A good deduction.

Theoretically maybe. In practice I kind of doubt it. The level of precision required is simply too high. Forgery might be able to do that although I think it would still be a challenge.

True. The loss of the tip could still be annoying during combat but if you can replace it then it might still make sense to use. My point was there must be some way for that dissipation to work. Otherwise while annoying the spears would not be super dangerous. A different cut would be interesting. I wonder if that is possible.

How is it exceptional? You can only kill as many radiants as you have gemstones for. Unless you have some way of removing stormlight from a gemstone a radiant could just fill it and then leave you with a normal spear.

Dawnshard at 75%!

That requires the fused to always have more gemstones then the radiants they are killing.

More like what does the fused do if it manages to defeat two windrunners? What happens if the tip gets damaged though? That happens to spears fairly frequently. Also I worry that you might compromise the integrity of the haft. Still it makes a manner of sense.

But it should probably not stay in the gem. The gem must have some kind of release or the spears would easily be overloaded by the windrunners.

Or it just might be the general weirdness of Aimia(very frustrating) but that does confirm it happens sometime during the OB timeline when the Everstorm has been around for a while and was starting to be understood. Since That is only a 96 day period and I think we can safely rule out the first 30 days or so. I am also going to be lazy and just say that it is around the middle of that period day 67. Five months from that (Rosharan months) is 250 days latter would be around four months after OB ends. They should make landfall about a month latter so this novel should take place sometime near the middle of the two SA books.

I don't think either of them are ready for the responsibility. Also maybe a bad idea during wartime. What about them both leaving to go to shadesmar(most of us think this will happen in part two)?

If you worked out with stormlight it would actually undo all the progress you make as you make it. Forgery could save you a work out certainly. Just make a stamp that said you worked out previously and exaggerate a little.

With Navani's lecture on fabrail construction I think we have some clues on what is happening when a radiant draws in stormlight. During her lecture Navani explains the Arnist Method This seems fairly similar to how a radiant sucks stormlight from gemstones. However for it to happen in an identical manner humans there would have to be some other form of displacement. Basically the radiant would have to temporarily shrink of move their soul from their body. Spren only appear fully in the PR when they don't appear fully in the cognitive. To do this radiant spren bond humans. I think when drawing in stormlight radiants are doing the reverse. The spren is drawing the radiant's soul into the cognitive and perhaps spiritual realms(more on this in a bit). The stormlight moves to inhabit the radiant's body and can be commanded by the radiant using the talents of the spren(gained through spirit web intertwining). This is supported by Kaladin catching a sight of the cognitive realm while training in the chasms. As a radiant progresses through oaths they gain increased abilities. It seems reasonable that they pull themselves further thus gaining an increased ability to draw on larger amounts of stormlight. It also explains what bondsmiths do when charging radiants. A bondsmith spren is much more powerful and spiritually oriented then a normal true spren. As such they can move a bondsmith's soul a bit into the spiritual realm thus opening a partial perpendicularity that charges the radiant. Dalinar can go the full way(because of the Stormfather's new Honor derived powers) allowing him to open a full perpendicularity. This might also explain why Jasnah say that holding too much stormlight is not good for a radiant(OB). The body and soul of the radiant could become dependent on the constant influx(we see this with savantism). It also explains why Dalinar finds opening the portal so tiring. He is straining the bond between soul and body. I worry that if he tries to hard he might break it.

Roshar does not even have roads. I don't think rail tracks are going to be a thing that you can keep around for very long.

They are probably reserving them for upper level fused. Also the fused might not want to risk using them. We don't know if they are retained on fused death.

They seem more or less standard issue. If Kaladin can ID them so easily and most of bridge four have them then they should have captured a few by now.

Not quite. Somebody did the math and Jasnah turning the bolder to smoke in WoKs would have killed everyone in the area. I was thinking you would just soulcast something out of the air. If you had nail shaped molds you could rain down nails.

You could still make iron blocks rain down by soulcasting air.

Contextually. It was because he was smiling at the waitress while on a date coupled with his reputation of being flighty that made his partners overly agressive. He also made a number of mistakes. The fact that these were not mistakes of dramatic importance but rather the more quiet sort of mistakes that plenty of people make when they are in a relationship do not make them any less important to Adolin personally. The two of them were separated for most of that book. I am assuming that their relationship still requires some work and that work is going to happen on screen. He still has to work out why he did it and come to terms with what that means for him as a person. Agreed but I don't think that is a bad thing. He was not supposed to be a major character like Kaladin or Dalinar. His job was to help us understand SA in general and help the characters understand themselves and each other. There is room for expansion if you want to go that way depending on what happens in SA4 but that does not indicate that he is either flawed or pointless.