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I was reading something that briefly covered gem worth, and why people thought it was the way it was. So, here is my theory, correct me if I'm wrong. When investiture flows out of an object, it creates a rush of cold. Kaladin, in the tower scene, has frost crystallize on him. This is similar to the way heat works- "cold" isn't really a thing, just the absence of heat, and getting burned or freezer burns can be caused by flow of heat in or out of an object. Similarly, investiture affects the objects it flows in or out of. Any radiant using tons of investiture are gonna freeze themselves. Gems can crack when exposed to sudden cold. Investiture flowing out rapidly causes "cold". So, the amount of investiture used in soulcasting is going to affect when the gems break, the more it flows out, the more likely a break is. [Edit: The following part is wrong] I think gems worth naturally arose based on what they were able to be used for- the ten essences are just happenstance where you get emeralds being the only gems able to store enough investiture to soulcast the complex patterns needed for food- and you can't mess up, because it's poisonous. And so, since large emeralds are used basically only for food soulcasting, only the ones that break into tiny tiny pieces are used for the money. Basically, leftover gems from soulcasting that are no longer able to hold enough investiture are turned into the money. In a soulcaster, you only get one gem to do this with. However, Radiants can use more than one sphere. When Jasnah soulcast Shallan's blood to heal her of the poison, she knew a few things. She needed a lot of stormlight to soulcast her blood multiple times and have enough to do the complexities needed to not kill her in the process. The servants aren't likely to carry small change on them, and the rich people who come on a regular basis aren't likely to bring spheres of high denominations, so she asked for the lowest possible worth of sphere she could use. This meant a garnet, which for some reason has enough stormlight as a sphere. Yeah, I dunno. Anybody else have a reasonable explanation for this? Basically- Gem stormlight holding capacity caused their worth over time. They came to be associated with the ten essences. Thus, Jasnah needed a garnet because it holds that much stormlight for blood. Also, don't use investiture too fast or you'll freeze.

I think they can hide them, though. Under moderation actions.

That's fair. This would definitely help with doing that kind of stuff. But simple kind of chess strategy sort of thing going on, except you don't have a timer, would still be possible. I don't disagree, but it is still possible to use it effectively without other powers.

Zinc. Is. Overpowered. Very. For the sake of explanation, I will be leaning on my very limited knowledge of how computers work. I know this doesn't actually apply to people's brains. It's a metaphor. Say that a Zinc Feruchemist's mind loops 60 times a second. Each "loop" is known as a frame. Now say the brain takes inputs 60 times a second as well. This will not change. The Feruchemist stores at 50 percent. They now are storing 30 frames each second, meaning there are only 30 frames left for them. For every 2 inputs, 1 frame will run. To them, the world is running 2 times faster than they can process it. It appears to speed up, and if they move, it will also appear 2 times as fast to them. However, it will take 2 times as long for them to make themself move, as the brain will take 2 times longer to send any signals to the muscles. Say the Feruchemist does this for 1 minute, meaning they stored up 60 seconds of 30 fps. this is 1800 frames in the zinc mind. Now, their mind is back at 60 frames per second. Now, they tap all of that zinc in a single frame. To them, the world stops, as their brain runs through 1800 frames. They get that much thinking done in an instant. They can't move, although they could start to send signals to their muscles. Their muscles won't move to their eyes, as they still have 1799 frames to go before they take another input through their eyes. A zinc Feruchemist could store any amount of zinc, and pull it out in an instant, with no repercussions. Now, a zinc compounder burns and stores over and over. They can just pull out however much they wish in an instant, and think as much as they need. And, mid tap, they could just put it all back in since Feruchemy functions through connection and not neurons. And then, since brains run faster than that... Zinc Compounders really could just ninja their way out of most things because they can sit there and plan for a rusting long time.

These rhymes are starting to devolve- Dissolve

Me and my entire family anytime we do anything together

I got my brother to start Mistborn but now he's on WoA and I keep starting conversations with him but then remember that spoilers are a thing. "Why is Zane so weird?" me: "Long answer or short answer?" "Uhhh short? me:"Spoilers." "Long?" Me: "More in depth spoilers."

Is Harmony's investiture still composed of Ruin and Preservation? Or is it something new?

The computer simulation becomes sentient and asks the nightwatcher to make it unsentient so it doesn't have to sit here and run humans and furrets in circles for all eternity.

Would that mean that Trell is working with the Svrakiss? Because the Set is very heavily influenced by Trell, so I would think that it is mostly Trell doing the minion stuff. Are Svrakiss related to Trell?

At the end of Bands of Mourning, Edwarn Ladrian gets blown up in a rather dramatic fashion. After finishing my re-read of it, I was thinking about the phrasing Brandon uses in that scene and decided that: The Set's Faceless Immortals are NOT Kandra. 1) Why would a Kandra effectively commit suicide when there are far better ways to do it. I highly doubt Trell, who presumably controls them, would want to waste a Kandra to blow up this dude when there are far better ways to do it. Why not make a timer bomb? Or remote control, or remote detonation? They have electricity. 2) Spikes. Blowing themselves up would almost certainly cause them to lose the spikes. The way it is described, the Kandra would be blown to literal bits and lose its spikes. The spikes would then be lying among the bloody chunks of human flesh. Wax would figure it out, with Harmony's help, that they have Kandra. 3) The way Edwarn describes the Kandra. He says that it was wearing the stolen body from a beggar. Not - it had the body of a beggar, or it was wearing the shape of a beggar, but it was the stolen body of a beggar. But if not a Kandra, what is it? A cognitive shadow body snatcher. (Do I need spoilers?) With Oathbringer, This would explain the word stolen. It also explains the red eyes. (maybe. Just going with it being stolen body stuff) The body snatcher would be willing to blow itself up. It has no spikes to lose. Its cognitive shadow will still be floating around, ready to steal another body. And the last part is the talk of other Realms. With cognitive shadows already floating around, why not make more? Kill Edwarn, who is no longer needed, and make him part of your body snatcher army.

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I can speakish it fairly well (I can make myself understood) but I have a much harder time understanding what people say. I will bring grammer through the Green Glass Door.

Protracted Luke Skywalker screams as the medal changes color to silver but then goes back

Nasty

I will bring the I will bring

But at exactly 11:46 and 4 seconds PDT on Thursday September 19th, 2019, Cadmium Compounder became the Silver Medalist for the last post on this thread and Mushroom Catalog became the Gold Medalist for Last post on this thread.

Cold

Calm

Die in ice because you go numb then pass out. Would you rather die from falling off a cliff or falling up into space?

We have a lot of work to do

Not necessarily unable to act, but unable to act to the Shatterer's liking. Revised theory: Adonalsium was the kind of person who doesn't like to do things without debating over it forever and like Harmony says, he couldn't ever do enough for the sentient species. So they killed him and tried to do it themselves.

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Granted, the entire world lives in happiness for all eternity, until they accidently overpopulate and they all die. You also get some yes depression instead. I wish for a fish, a good dish of fish that I can eat and won't kill me. (Apparently this didn't post for an hour. Sorry.)

The sharks cower in fear