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The rock room was, surprisingly, filled with potatoes.

Speaking of BotW, I just beat it yesterday. Or at least I beat the final boss. I've only done two of the divine beasts, have less than half the memories, and haven't gotten the DLC yet, so I've still got a ways to go before I've actually 'beaten' the game.

Such as poor Timmy, who was shapeshifted into Eof's avatar and let loose on the thread. It took him less than three seconds to kill Nameless' entire army of former Thaidakavatars.

Still, swallow a fair-sized chunk of the stuff and you'll have plenty of time. Aluminum is extremely quick. Not instant. Definitions of burst: a sudden issuing forth. a short, sudden, and intense effort. a sudden outbreak, typically short and often violent or noisy. Not an instant thing, it simply vastly increases the speed at which your metals burn. The more metal, the longer the burst lasts. Chromium burns stuff away at the same speed as aluminum. It's external aluminum, after all. So if Chromium isn't instant: Why is aluminum? A Mistborn can easily push off of anchors with varying strength, giving them a fine control that's difficult for a Radiant to get. Wax isn't a Mistborn, so he physically can't use A-iron. If he could, then with all the practice he has he'd be as good as or better than Kelsier in TFE. Yes, they are strong warriors. No one is contending that. However, they are not near the level of a herald. That idea is completely ludicrous. Catching a Shardblade midswing is stupid and only works when the person swinging it is an idiot and the person catching it is really really skilled. Coincidentally, that's just like this technique to overcome Atium. 2 Mistborn, Kel and Marsh, possibly 3 if Spook's still around. And Marsh has Atium. And all of them would beat almost any Radiant alive in a fight, even if only using their Mistborn powers. If we do go eras 3-4, the Mistborn has practically infinite Atium because they can distill it from Harmonium: And you can likely distill Harmonium from the mists: A Mistborn can jump without losing fine control, if there's enough metal anchors around. Well their "Give me" is way worse than the Radiants. Lasers and maybe even nukes plus tons of prep time compared to being able to use the metals that are commonly available and a some Atium? Copperclouds are completely different and work on completely different principles. But they're still the same surges. Soulcasting still works on the same basic principles, we see Raboniel use it.

This was all part of Eof's master plan. He laughed as the almighty Almights' powers were sucked out, then transferred into him. Then he crushed them under his thumb and vanished to a place where no one could find him.

Eof was of course far to omnipotent and omniscient to make a mistake, but he didn't see the point in explaining this to a lowly lifeform such as a Narrator, so instead he simply faded away.

Eof smiled. “No. Why would I need help writing about what I caused?”

That was an unimportant subplan that may or may not have been intentionally intended to fail in order for his real plan to succeed.

That's the thing: WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH STORMING DATA! We don't have conversion rates between Investiture. We don't know how a couple minutes of steel compares to stormlight. I'm guessing that Chromium will get rid of investiture extremely quickly, because that's what we've seen it do. I could be completely wrong. Maybe a few minutes of steel is equivalant to only a few chips of Stormlight. I'm just going with what would make sense, given that this is a book. It's not going to take forever, it might not be instant, but it'll be really quick. The further the future, the more it splits. The closer, the easier to predict. A Truthwatcher's Atium shadow would be unstable, yes. However, seeing a bit of your future will not fundamentally change the way you fight. It will make your decisions unpredictable, but I doubt it would completely block Atium. However, I don't really want to argue this point, as we both know all the evidence and I doubt I can convincingly change your mind. Well, surprise does give a Mistborn the advantadge, but a 'fair' fight on a battlefield gives the Radiant an advantage. Mistborn are assassins by nature, not soldiers. As I have said, a fourth ideal Radiant of any order would almost certainly win against any Mistborn without tons of Atium, assuming the combat skill levels are relatively similar. How fast does duraluminum burn. Yes it does matter. Duraluminum is not instant, just as aluminum is not instant. The rate of burning is merely accelerated drastically. Not how that works. They can't get rid of their momentum, merely accelerate themselves in any direction. We kinda do. Wax was able to see and push on a bullet as separate parts even as a child. With enough practice, any Mistborn could do it. Yeah, no. taking after the 'nature and temperament' of a herald does not mean you are just as skilled as the man with thousands of years of combat experience and the body of a supersoldier. Only problem is there's no one besides literally the heralds that's skilled enough to do that. out of the people we've seen in SA, I'd say Kaladin, Szeth, and maybe Dalinar and Adolin would be able to replicate Vin's success under the same circumstances. Probably some of the Fused too. Under normal circumstances? You know how Wax said he didn't know anyone who could react to someone drawing a pistol and outdraw them? it's like that. Not happening. I dunno, a Mistborn can move quite far in the few seconds they get. A Mistborn would have all 16 metals in era 2. You're saying they'll discover no new ways to use their powers in 300 years? What if they figure out how to keep up a speed bubble while outside it? They could trap a Radiant in slowed time. We don't know what a Mistborn with full knowledge of their powers would look like, even less than we know what a Radiant with full knowledge would. Fair. Aluminum does seem to be pretty hard to soulcast en masse, or else Fused would have done so.

This was an important facet of Eof's master plan.

Normal chromium should be enough. We've never seen chromium being anything other than instant.

But this was all part of the plan. Even the part where something had not been according to his plan. It was all part of the plan. The plan to make the Narrators think they finally had a chance to break free of his control. All so that Eof could finally. Truly. Completely control them all for all time. The culmination of nearly 2,000 pages of work was finally here.

A Mistborn isn't standing in one place. They're moving around the Radiant, creating a metal cloud like Kelsier, who, might I remind you, didn't have a lifetime of practice with his powers. He only had what, a year or two? That's not much. Given a couple years of practice with their powers, a Mistborn should be able to replicate Kelsier's feat. We know a modern-day Radiant's standard equipment. It's a bunch of spheres and their Blade/Plate. We don't know a modern-day Mistborn's equipment. I'm extrapolating from the equipment they used back in era 1, which was metals, mistcloak, coin pouch, and glass daggers. I'm guessing with the upgrade in tech, the Mistborn would get all the newly discovered metals and upgrade their daggers to some aluminum alloy. They'd probably also add guns into the loadout. Their foresight isn't going to protect them from Atium. It might make their Atium shadow a little bit unpredictable, but shouldn't cause a splitting affect unless they were currently in a vision. Atium's too focused on events that are just about to happen to be affected as much as longer-term futuresight. Because Plate spren are always there, ready to be summoned. If they were always summoned, why don't Radiants just fight with it invisible? Wouldn't that be a much better tactical advantage than the intimidation one would get from wearing it visibly? The enemy would have no way of knowing which Radiants have Plate. Any ordinary-looking Soldier could be a Radiant with Plate and Blade. For that matter, would a Radiant really want to wear Plate constantly? It gets hot, and isn't too great for sitting in chairs. Seems to me that they'd dismiss it when off duty, even if it can be completely invisible and solid. I do not believe that would work, as a Radiant cannot burn gold. Furthermore, I'm guessing that chromium will go for the investiture that is currently being used before the metal that is completely useless to the Radiant. Regardless, even if it does work like that, nicrosil will work just as well. Stormlight, unlike metals, is always being used for something, so using nicrosil and touching the radiant will instantly expend all of the Radiant's Stormlight. The Mistborn can also leech the Radiant, preventing them from summoning their Blade or Plate. (Also, where are you getting Chromium burning really fast from?) Well, Mistborn normally use flakes of metal in liquid, but for this fight, they can just eat some nice chunks of the stuff, which should give them plenty of stores, even when using duraluminum. While Windrunners can fly faster overall, depending on the amount of anchors around them they are likely less maneuverable than a Mistborn. Same with Skybreakers. And Kal's only been able to manipulate air pressure like that using Windspren, and we haven't seen anyone else doing it, so it's likely unique to him. Might I remind you that the only time we've seen someone 'overcome' Atium, it was Vin, the most skilled Mistborn of all time, chosen by Preservation as a perfect heir, who barely managed to trick the Mistborn who was merely toying with her? He could have killed her a dozen times before she figured out that trick, and any prepared Mistborn will be prepared for such a stunt. I'm seeing a big trend of you underestimating Atium, so I'll just address that here all in one go: Yes they can dodge. Also making that many plants like that would take a ton of stormlight. No, they can't. It would take somebody on the skill level of the Heralds to overcome Atium consistently. Ordinary soldiers will have no chance of pulling that off. Now, on to my other big issue: We don't know enough. You're giving Radiants powers that may not even be possible (cohesion nukes) or that they won't have till at least era 3, (lasers). Why don't the Mistborn get that same benefit? Answer: We don't know how their powers work well enough to know what will be possible in the future. For all we know, Chromium could completely negate long range surges of any kind. What if burning Chromium and touching stone that's being liquified by a Stoneward is enough of a connection to suck out all the Radiant's stormlight? What if there's a way to use time bubbles to shoot gamma rays at enemies or railgun projectiles? What if burning Duraluminum and Chromium completely leeches all investiture in a hundred-yard radius, and forces Plate and Blade to dismiss? We know more about what future Radiants might be able to do than we do future Mistborn (If they don't all just use Fullborn medallions in the future), so it's not fair to give the advantadge of knowledge. They'd need a lot of Stormlight to Soulcast a regular human, let alone a Mistborn burning metals. Jasnah, a fourth ideal Radiant who is probably the best soulcaster on Roshar outside of the fused, says that the souls of ordinary, uninvested men normally 'resist mightily'. A Mistborn burning electrum could easily see that they suddenly turn into stone or fire and start flaring all their metals, as well as just flying away so that their cognitive aspect gets away from the Elsecaller, who'll struggle to keep up with them. Not that I want to start a Fullborn argument again, but there is still no Radiant order that beats superspeed+pewter smash on the plate followed by leeching all the stormlight away. and a crushed skull. I'm not going to argue that Bondsmiths are weaker than Fullborn (because they're not), but they are still vulnerable to speedblitzing. Assassination is the only way I see to beat a Fullborn. Not really. Skybreakers don't have screamer spren as part of their moveset, and Mistborn would be able to hide from them with copper anyways.

Nameless shrugged. "I just wanted a better tan."

Nameless sighed. "You're no fun." He pulled out his Honorblade and connected the clinic to the nearest star.

All of this was part of Eof's master plan, which was completely unstoppable.

Nameless pouted. "Why'd you do that?"

Nameless grabbed the axe of sundering from Wizard and used it to sunder the foosball table.

This was all part of Eof's plan. As was the elimination of Wizard. Narrators who didn't take him seriously were extremely dangerous to his self esteem.

Nameless used Saidin to turn the grape jelly back into an Honorblade.

But in the end, Eof successfully made a plan too incredible to fail. Part of it included the mind control ray that shot out of the movie projector, bending Thaidakar to Eof's will instantly.

It was at the bottom of the Nearest Sea that he found the final guardian of the journal.

Nameless tossed Jeffery The One Ring "Everything's 'allowed' if you don't tell the staff that you have it."

Unfortunately, travelling to the farthest sea caused it to become the nearest instead.

He would have to travel all the way across the thread, till the farthest sea was nearest.