Honorless

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I was thinking something along the lines of... falling into ease... not laziness, not habitual either, dawdling? complacency? That's the closest word I can think of but that's not quite it. No wait, I know it... Procrastination... or akrasia! That fits even better.

Why not? They are both intelligent people who like the company of other intelligent people, they matched wits, surprisingly got along and voila, that does not go contrary to the relationship being born out of more practical matters. They seem to like each other just fine, they aren't fully trusting but that's fine, no? That kind of thing develops over time. I don't think they're wringing each other out to get what they want, just that shared circumstances brought them together, said circumstances could easily end things between them too and badly so, they're not completely on the same side, and they'd both put their purposes over any chance at romance.

2020 was hard on everyone but hey, I think a lot of people re-prioritized things in their life or got a nice long break from the hubbub, a silver lining. I think a lot of people got to read and watch a lot of things they never managed to make time for, so that's nice. Oh boy, been a while since I heard anyone mention Image or Vertigo comics! (I hope you just forgot to mention Wildstorm!) Welcome to the Shard : ) Hope you enjoy being here

Well of course they're different, they're Investiture from different Shards with different Intents, they're all integrated into their Shardworlds' ecosystem differently, and they all interact with their native Invested Arts or magic system differently (but are all capable of fuelling them) But overall, they all fit under an overarching category of being gaseous manifestations of Investiture. The Mists in particular, are particularly similar to Stormlight, both are connected to natural weather phenomena and they're reactions with Hemalurgy remind me of Navani's experiments with Lights and Anti-Lights...

I mostly agree... but I also think it's entirely possible irl that a situation happens where you have to choose the lesser evil, or where trying to abide by your morality isn't you doing good but rather simply not wanting your own hands to be dirty, as a matter of convenience & clean conscience, allowing bad things to happen via inaction, neutrality, leaving things to god or fate to decide... Though of course, this might result in situations where you're demanding that others "make their sacrifice", "do their duty", and decide which ones are "the few" that should be sacrificed for the sake of "the many"... I can just see Taravangian's side of the argument too

I agree completely for irl situations, but on Roshar, he really was facing the choice of doing evil or facing human extinction, as far as he knew.

Shame he isn't a Radiant, some Stormlight might've helped with that burn

Plenty of people aren't all that devout, they believe in god but don't care all that much for being strict about religious stuff or pondering religious philosophy, they just go about their life. Shallan probably just reflects that.

I don't ship it... Methinks it's just a relationship of convenience and mutual usefulness, nothing wrong with that but eh

Man, Kal is so awesome he's suitable for a whole lot of Orders: Windrunners, Skybreakers, Edgedancers, Stonewards, Bondsmiths! But yeah, his arc seems to be near an end. I'm not that cynical however and am hoping that he just peaceful retires or at least his story isn't as heavy a burden on him going forwards into the back 5.

Yes, they're gaseous manifestations of Investiture belonging to their respective Shards, so the Mists are the Scadrian equivalent of the Rosharan Stormlight albeit less easily accessible. It can't be just that, probably Corruption and/or weirder Spiritual stuff going on there

Hmm... on a second look-see... that doesn't seem right. It was either auto-correct or Ruin or... Ruin is auto-correct!

Oh yeah, hypothetically yes but Ferrings are a new thing in era 2 where there are no more Mistborn. Full Feruchemist Mistings might've been a rare thing in Final Empire era though

Yup, mentioned that in the first reply to OP: Also, a question: medallion is a fanbase term like Shardpool, iirc, right? We don't have a canonical name for Southern Scadrian mechanical Allomancy tech? I have no idea what that term is...

Well, it can't be a Ferring since they'd need to be able to fill a Duraluminmind and at least one other type of metalmind. And much like Mistborn and Mistings: all metals or one metal, it's the same for Feruchemists: all metals or one metal. Or you could be a Hemalurgist.

He's a very competent villain who thankfully got shanked in the very first episode. He was manipulative, narcissistic and a total egomaniac from what we've seen. How he treated Navani didn't get me nearly as hard as how he treated his own brother and his own children. His own flesh and blood. Relationships can be hard, and the Alethi society in general is pretty horrid, but to treat your own children as nothing but extensions of your legacy, that is truly heartless. He didn't care much for his own family. His brother was a tool, just like everybody else and his children were of no consideration besides how they reflected on him. He locked away Jasnah when she had some kind of mental illness probably so she couldn't embarrass him. Jasnah and Elhokar's distant, PR-approved view of their father shows how much of a relationship they had, which can be summed up as: relationship, what relationship? His discovery of anti-Voidlight and possible goal of killing Odium does not mean his intentions were pure. There is a chance that he spewed what he did to Navani to dissuade her but his actions still don't paint a pretty picture. He was a negligent father, negligent husband, negligent brother, negligent king. It's possible he saw an existential threat in Odium and had a Gilgamesh-like moment of realizing he couldn't conquer his own mortality, and that fuelled his ambitions with creating the Sons of Honor... that still paints him as manipulative and self-centred.

The first one might be possible if the person is a full Feruchemist and the other metalminds which you want to Connection-hack belong to him. Otherwise it'd need to be an Unkeyed Metalmind, which means it can be used by any Feruchemist or Ferring of the requisite ability. No, you cannot Compound to create Investiture from nothing. What happens during Compounding is that a Fullborn (Mistborn Allomancer and full Feruchemist) or a Twinborn whose Misting and Ferring abilities derive from the same metal burns their Metalminds like an Allomancer rather than tapping them like a Feruchemist to get more of the attribute stored in the Metalmind. Feruchemists take out what they store but Allomancers use metal as a key to access power directly from Preservation. So what happens during Compounding is that the Fullborn/Twinborn probably also accesses the power of Preservation and converts it into the attribute stored into the metal. So you cannot Compound away to get that much Investiture, and the Investiture you do get would be converted into the Feruchemical attribute that is stored within the Metalmind. Theoretically, yes, two Archivists could do that, but it would need to be an Unkeyed Metalmind. Unless dual Identity Metalminds are possible... they might be.

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No, I assumed it from the in-world Rhythm of War, where Raboniel talks about the chain and sand, she also talks about the latter with Navani. Oh that reminds me! Mraize also gave her the captured Lift!

He gave her the silver chain Kaladin saw in Shadesmar in Oathbringer and White Sand from Taldain

Er, no, it's canon info from the books and calculations made from the given data.

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We do get measurements for Urithiru, I'll go check the Coppermind for the data. It consists of 10 semi-circular levels, with each level being 18 stories tall, for a total of 180 floors. At approximately fifteen feet per story, the tower stands just over 2700 feet tall, that's around 823 meters, so sightly less than a kilometer. Urithiru was a mountain called Ur once upon a time.

Well, the Unmade can be Bonded The Unmade are Odium's equivalent to the Bondsmith spren in terms of power but just being a powerful unique spren doesn't make one a Bondsmith spren, otherwise Cusicesh the Protector would've been a Bondsmith spren: A Bond with an Unmade would result in something new, not exactly a Bondsmith