Frustration

Did you just understand me?

Awesome. Since these are dinosaurs: how many guns do you have? That's the thing, I don't believe that they conflict.

I don't like the test all that much. My biggest gripe is the letter of the law/spirit of the law question. I hate that it's an either or, you should obey both. Yes I'm a skybreaker, how could you tell?

Apparently Hey Shatter, how'd your military thing go?

That's true, but there are a few things that make Dai-Gonalthis a problem. The first is that somehow or another the Radiants managed to shield the Silver Kingdoms from her touch. So for massive areas of Roshar her powers don't work. The other part is that she can only form elsegates between massive pools of investiture to start with. On top of that Odium has to pay a price, and one that Rayse didn't like paying in order to make them. But yes, even in Hightstorms Singers are better at surviving in the Rosharan wilds. That also leaves them exposed and with no protection when the Heralds and Radiants find them. I don't think that's a good long term strategy. Additionally Rosharans just have better immune systems than we do, with the flu being introduced from off world, being really tame compared to our diseases, and then killing itself off as everyone became immune to it in, all in three years or so. Poison would be more effective, but they have Edgedanncer and Truthwatchers, so I don't think it would be as effective as you would want, not to mention the quantity you would need to poison an entire city.

I do know of a T. Rex tooth I can get access to. I am lacking a bondsmith however.

It would also be rather difficult to prove if T. Rex could breathe fire or not. So I suppose we can't rule that out.

Alternative explanation: Brandon is bad at powerscaling, and goes by whatever works best for a particular scene without deeply considering its impact on the wider narrative. This is why Lezian was a huge threat in Hearthstone, but an absolute pushover for the rest of the book. Or why all the other Husked Ones seemingly do nothing. Personally I've dismissed the Fused as threats since their underwhelming performance in OB, and was banking on there being at least a few hundred Thunderclasts to make up for them. The reveal that there were only three of them was one of my biggest disappointments in WaT. This results in what he says about Fused and desolations, and what he shows the Fused to be capable of to not match up. The Stormlight RPG is full of inaccurate information, or outright untrue restrictions, especially for Surges. In the earlier desolations the Fused didn't even have surges. What I would have done with the Fused to make them threatening I think you're underestimating Oathgates. With them the advance human forces, including high oath Radiants, can reach anywhere on the continent in both the cognitive and physical realms in a matter of hours. The Fused don't have anything that can compare to that. I think they can build up one, or even eleven or more massive unbreakable fortresses and still stop Fused attacks no matter where they are.

I'd argue otherwise. While some of the details might be different, war has a certain sameness to it. It probably doesn't, it would be built differently to withstand highstorms, but it still needs ramparts. As for maneuverability, the water isn't super deep, it's be difficult, but with Magnified Ones it should work In that case This relies quite heavily on Fused being able to use their surges like Radiants, something they either can't do, or is so rare they might as well never do it. What do you do if guards touch your face to make sure you aren't a Masked One? Personally I'd have a knife or something and everyone who enters is required to bleed. Human blood is a different color, and everyone can see it, with a regrowth fabrial to cure everyone after. Here's my thing, we know that some orders, not the knights Radiant, but some individual orders, had members in the low thousands. There were only 4,000 Fused, that's almost 2-3 Radiants per Fused. If good fortifications with a garrison are basically impervious to attack, and the humans had Heralds on top of that, along with the Fused slowly going insane I have to say it strains credibility not only that humans were almost wiped out by the Desolations, but that the Fused were ever a threat after the Radiants formed in the first place.

Oh yeah, and they were really tanky. One of them survived for years with part of its brain exposed, and multiple had infections that ate their bones from the inside and they lived years to possibly decades with those infections.

Alright, we have a few difficulties. 34 Radiants with shardblades. That's almost 70% of the total number of Windrunners with Shardblades during RoW, all in one spot. 6 of those radiants also have shardplate. Just two people with dead plate and blades with good support held off a massive invasion force for nine days. Now they did have Heralds support them once, but still something to be noted They have a total of 122 individuals who can fly. Four of them can be seen as completely untouchable by any Heavenly ones, and a full 19 have a staggering advantage. Without massive investment the Radiants will have complete air supremacy. Honor still lives, and can hurry Highstorms along so as to provide Stormlight, and information to other forces. At its greatest distance the entire purelake is within ~700 miles of either an Oathgate, or Urithiru. That means that Windrunners can easily make it to whichever point is closer and back in only 2-3 hours at most. In all probability the distance is much closer. That means that we have to hit hard and fast before reinforcements arrive. The thing is surrounded by water, so Stormforms are mostly useless I'm going to try and accomplish this with as few resources as possible, but it will be difficult First we need a way to deal with Shardplate. If we can't handle that it will be a thorn in our side for the rest of the endeavor as they can put six basically invulnerable forces of nature wherever they are the most needed. So far only a few things in our arsenal have been shown to be dangerous to shardplate. Magnified Ones, and Focused Ones will both be crucial, however they have no way to truly pose a threat in the air. For this we need the only other thing that has been shown to be dangerous to shardplate that we have access to: Midnight essence. In the Starfall vision Dalinar tells us that the midnight essense was able to crack shardplate with its claws. They weren't incredibly strong as Dalinar could wrestle with one, so I must assume that they have a natural ability to break shardplate. The Radiant also told Dalinar that someone had released the midnight essense, implying that it can be stored and transported. Likewise most spren seem to be able to fly naturally, however if need be the midnight essence can take the form of a creature with wings. Second, is we need air superiority, and badly. If we can cut off access to the fortress we can mostly isolate it, however if not they can send for and receive reinforcements before we can place a siege sufficiently long to last them out. For that we need a lot of heavenly ones. My minimum estimate is around 200, with Re-Shephir to provide the midnight essence needed to swarm the windrunners and deal with shardplate. Even then, having four Radiants with shardplate in the sky is a huge task, but I believe it to be possible. Of extra-importance is to target the third oaths so that their squires fall with them. Next is actually storming the fortress. Historical examples lead me to believe that it is unwise is to attack with less than ten times the number of the defenders. Fortunately Re-Shephir makes this significantly easier, but I'm still going to want at least 2000 direforms, given that their strength and armor effectively makes them 2-3x a human soldier or more. Next we need to prepare siege equipment, ladders, boats, preferably siege towers if we have the time to make them. I'll need some 10 Altered Ones to make them. We'll put most of our 200+ stormforms in the boats to keep them dry, though they won't be useful for some time yet. Our army will make its way towards the fortress, with some 40 Flowing Ones moving along the sides at high speeds to keep Radiants from harrying our forces on the way in. Two siege towers will be pushed along by a total of 4 Magnified Ones, and I'll have a total of 6 more ready to climb the ladder as soon at its ready, with 2 stormforms at the top of each ready to make an opening at the top. This is part of why having air superiority is so important, if the Radiants get a chance to cut these towers down in motion our attack is in big trouble. I'm going to try and do this without a Thunderclast, but a Thunderclast would be really useful here as well. On approach 6 Focused Ones, and 2 Husked Ones will jump/teleport onto the wall just as the towers arrive. Once openings are made ladders are raised and it's a rush to get every single soldier we have inside the fortress before they can be forced out. Even with all of this I'm still not certain of success, as the 5th ideal Windrunner could cut down both towers, and kill a Thunderclasts just in the approach, while still being attacked. Which is a whole lot Just for a possible chance of success.

Honestly it just needs infrared vision and it's the perfect terrestrial predator.

You disappoint me. T. Rex stats

Fair enough I guess. I still want to know your favorite dinosaur.

I have not. Is it funny?

Aheiriartam? Whatever the last battle of the Desolations was called

Indeed, that is correct

This is TLPW. No one knows what's going on.

On this forum

What does Wind and Truth have to do with it?

Nope This is a city This city is in the CR This city is on Roshar This place first appeared in RoW There is a sharder with the same name as this city

What is your favorite Dinosaur, and why is it T-rex?

This will probably be the largest of all of my entries here, but here we go. Digital ecosystems just like real ecosystems are interconnected applications that share data and accounts between them. On an initial look this can seem very positive, however it also means that if that account is compromised then everything associated with it is as well. It also means that if the company that owns it doesn't respect your privacy they have access to everything. The largest digital ecosystem is of course that of Google Everything you keep or put into one of these services is stored in some way by google. Also if you aren't a huge fan of AI anything you have in Google Drive/Photos/Docs/Sheets/Slides+ is being fed to Gemini. That's a lot to watch out for, but there's more Microsoft Meta I could also list Apple, but I think you all get the picture. I imagine that everyone is tied up in at least one of these ecosystems in one way or another, and while I do recommend trying to remove oneself completely, I do not think it wise or necessary to do so all at once. I recommend starting with some of the most important things, or at least the easiest and making one adjustment at a time. Additionally for most of us will have to use some of these for work/school/family. In those cases, I recommend simply doing the best you can. As for practical alternatives, I clearly cannot go through each of these one by one and give all possible alternatives, so instead I will give some things that generally everyone needs and some programs that accomplish this. I will also note that this is where privacy can begin to cost money, and I will try to list the prices as often as I can. Now one of the easiest things to do would be to simply replace one ecosystem for another, and if you want to do that I recommend Proton Proton really is trying to make a privacy focused version of almost everything Google does, and constantly adds new features or new products. Most of these products have free trials to see them for yourself, however full functionality requires a paid subscription, which with the cheapest plan for all Proton products is $120 a year($9.99/month, but it's charged once per year) for a single person, with options for couple or family plans. Proton is open source and undergoes a third party review every year which they make public at that time. They are highly reputable and if all in one is what you're looking for they are easy to use and will feel familiar to anyone accustomed to Google. Get Proton: https://proton.me/pricing#compare-plans On the other hand there are reasons that you might want to diversify what programs you use and who you trust with your data. In which case you may want to use only a single Proton product, or none at all. In that case I'll list the general things everyone needs, as well as some alternatives to the big tech ecosystems along with their varying strengths and weaknesses. Of course I can't list everything, but I'll list the products that I have at least tried or heard enough about to recommend(because I'm broke and things cost money). I won't go over VPNs or Operating Systems today, and I'll leave those for another time. Email: Alternatives to Gmail and Outlook Notes: Alternative to Google Keep and One Note. Word Processors: Alternatives to Google Docs and Microsoft Word. I have a feeling with a lot of writers here this will be popular. Spreadsheets: alternatives to Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel Slideshows: Alternative to Google Slides or PowerPoint Cloud Storage: Alternatives to Google Drive or One Drive Maps: Alternative to Google or Apple Maps Messaging and calls There are of course countless other applications that you can use for your privacy needs. I recommend looking at Privacy Guides if you are looking for something else. I find most of their recommendations to be very good, though they have some applications they ignore for not meeting some seemingly arbitrary requirements. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/ Update: found this gem of a website, it has some good ones too, but note that not everything there is privacy focused, so read up before switching: https://alternativeto.net/

Being a shard would indeed suck, but I think most cognitive entities in the Cosmere have it pretty bad. I'd probably be a Seon if I had to choose one.