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I do agree that it seems a little too naive of Honor to truly expect the Heralds to never break their word and let Odium's forces back out of Braize. But maybe it's a case of "a lock with no key is no lock at all" and so there MUST be some condition to unlock Odium's forces, or else Honor could not enforce the binding.

That's something to consider. Forch (i think that's his name... It's been a while since I read era 2, forgive me if i misremembered) seemed to still be Pushing on the casing (I recall it being described as flipping away unnaturally fast in some sense, as if Pushed), not the bullet, which would free Wax to Coinshoot the bullet that was now free of the casing, unopposed, and at least vaguely given a head start by the propellant.

Fair enough. It was a bit of an off-the-wall hypothesis, after all.

Well... then how does giving it the normal volume anti-tone as the first thing it hears out of the vacuum to make anti-light not repel it?

Right. Dampened by the vacuum, totally silenced by a quiet Anti-tone.

I'm not saying "stab a radiant with an anti-stormlight knife to cut their connection to Roshar". I'm saying, it may be possible to do what Navani did to make Anti-Voidlight but quieter, so that the investiture hears nothing when moving into the second gemstone. Perfectly antinoise the original Tone.

"THESE WORDS ARE NOT ACCEPTED." Or something like that.

technically I think the anti-tone can silence Connections based on that tone. Look at what happened to Moash when Navani used the anti-voidlight tone. His emotion suppression was neutralized.

Shattered Plains 2: Electrum Boogaloo

Sounds like a job for a far-future soulcasting expert. Making antimatter, exotic matter... damnation, if that's possible... Era 4 just got a whole lot cooler in my head.

Better idea: Exotic Investiture.

Fair enough, I'm no expert. Euh, sounds like Quantum Entanglement at that point.

Wait, what if he's just Connecting to their cognitive aspects so he can perceive their thoughts, and act in accordance to them.

you'd need negative mass, which is impossible according to general relativity. Fun fact: Particles with "imaginary mass" (like mass that's based on the square root of -1) can only move faster than light (tachyons). Hmm. Imaginary. Like... cognitive? I'm probably taking that too literally but who knows.

Connecting himself to the future? Is it that easy to explain?

This isn't any sort of hard truth answer, but my personal headcanon is that Brandon is writing this stuff as though we're (or he's) using Connection to translate what's being said, etc, so that it makes sense for Earth readers as best it can.

I guess you could say that @Iarwainiel I was wondering who Zahel that joker card was.

Some brass ferring somewhere is probably feeling mildly offended or is about to make a lot of money...

This is absurd! Take my storming upvote.

Although to go back in time properly, you still need infinite energy. Or rather, to move normal, positive mass through space faster than light, you need infinite energy. If mass could have imaginary values (square root of -1 kind of imaginary) then it would take infinite energy to make it go SLOWER than lightspeed. Those particles are the slightly famous Tachyons from sci-fi like the Tachyon Transmitter for FTL communication systems. If you could have mass with negative values, you could make a stable wormhole. Then just use relativity to speed up one opening close to lightspeed for a while, and the 2 ends desync temporally, and thus you can go backwards in time through the wormhole. If you could move a patch of space faster than light, with positive mass sitting inside it at rest, then you could move mass from point A to point B faster than light. (Alcubierre warp drive)

So basically, what you're saying is, we need to clone God.

...Just wait until Navani tells Shallan about this and she Soulcasts Antimatter.

Pretty sure he's just a master of Intent in that regard. But maybe that involves speaking at a specific pitch (the tone of Endowment).

I'm now visualizing the absolutely hilarious mental image of Kal bonking someone with a little statue Syl.