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Dalinar has. I'm talking modern day truthwatchers, not ancient ones. Because he chose not to prevent it?

It could have been more of a "I knew that disaster would happen" kind of thing. Why would this Truthwatcher see the future when no others have?

Guilt. Lots and lots of guilt.

Because they predicted either the mass murder of almost all the spren or what is basically genocide of the entire Singer race?

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I don't think that Truthwatcher actually saw the future. If you look at the previous gemstone records, they all lead up to the events of the recreance. The one directly before this one says that the enemy is pushing for Feverstone keep, the location of Dalinar's vision of the recreance. The record directly after it refers to the fourth ideal (probably of the windrunners) but that's probably due to Kaladin's breakdown in the chapter directly before it. The record after that is the very last one, and it says: Whoever made this is among the last to leave Urithiru, and also knows that the Radiants either are or will be gone. I wouldn't be surprised if the Recreance took some time for other orders, as it makes sense that the two orders who broke their bonds first would be the Windrunners and Stonewards, the two orders who are most dedicated to protecting others and sacrificing themselves respectively. It makes sense that the other orders would take more time to think about breaking their oaths. The Truthwatcher in question might have just predicted that trapping Ba-Ado-Misram would have the effect it did. Or they might have predicted that breaking the oaths would kill the spren, not just hurt them. It doesn't have to mean that the truthwatcher saw the future. In fact, considering that none of the modern truthwatchers have seen the future, I find it highly unlikely that they do. That said, I do think that Honor's death will allow modern radiants to reach levels of power previously thought impossible. Something weird is up with Kaladin.

No, we can't. And we don't even know the properties of highly invested substance #1 in the first place.

We don't even know that Marasi was making mist when she first started moving. That comparison is wrong on so many levels. We've never seen someone trying to heat up a shardblade. For all we know, it could heat up normally, but simply not melt. We don't know if shardblade mist has the same specific heat. And we don't know that Preservation's mist has the same specific heat as Shardblade mist. Seriously, what you're saying is like saying "Since titanium is really hard to melt, Helium must be really hard to heat up." Without knowing the specific heat of titatnium. Completely different forms, completely different elements, and we don't even know the specific heat of sharblades. You can't compare them like that.

How hot would air have to be to have serious negative effects on people? How much kinetic energy would that take? Surely Marasi would've noticed that the mist was at least uncomfortably hot or warm. Also, she didn't notice the mist until she started flying, meaning there wasn't enough of it initially to be immediately noticeable, meaning it couldn't have insulated her from the heat.

Not always. He sometimes clarifies it, but specifying that it would be over a short race does that fine. He gets the point, which is that A-pewter burners have a higher max speed, across, while also emphasizing that a compounder is still faster in any other situation. Mists would still have been insanely hot if she was going too fast. She didn't notice that, so no.

Yeah. And nothing he says indicates that it wouldn't take 50 decades of storing for the thug steelrunner to get enough speed to outrun the steel compounder in a short race. I don't debate that. However, Marasi didn't reach that speed, because 1. No fire, and 2. She didn't feel intense pain as her body ripped itself apart and then healed instantly.

Well, it could be an actual medallion. Brandon could've messed up and said silver instead of tin. Or it could be a silvery medallion, such as nircrosil. Or the medallion would have come into play later in the chapter, after the point at which Brandon stopped reading.

I think it's a reminder that he, Waxillium, brought them medallions and access to south Scadrial.

Okay then. Marasi can go supersonic without burning up. Therefore anyone can. She tapped metalminds, and no trait from metalminds prevents heat due to friction.

Again, Brandon specified a short race, and didn't say if the A-pewter steelrunner would have to store for 50 years straight in order to win. He never mentioned a top speed, just that theoretically, A-pewter F-steel would let you reach higher top speeds than a steel compounder. Every example we see points to F-steel's speed limit being way too high for anyone to react to, and no WoB contradicts that. Just because some of the examples are a bit weird doesn't mean we should ignore them just because we think F-steel would be too powerful otherwise. As for stormlight leaking once you begin breathing, Kaladin has just been talking and was breathing normally. He had to consciously banish the stormlight. They can't react to bullets, so far as I know. Marasi went supersonic. That's bullet speed. Maybe a herald could react to it, maybe, but a radiant will literally be unable to move, even if they reacted immediately. And what magic action could they take? soulcasting takes time, lashings are too slow. Best they could hope for is transferring into the cognitive realm before getting turned to pulp by and F-pewter punch or getting their powers disabled by A-chromium. The bands of mourning are only slightly less invested than a shardblade: (spoiler for length) A fullborn could simply tap some metals, burn some other metals, and become practically invincible to soulcasting. TLR in particular is a splinter and a savant. He's invested enough to survive as a cognitive shadow forever. Soulcasting him would probably be like soulcasting a herald or fused, which we don't see Jasnah do even when she had infinite stormlight. Yes, F-gold would have kept her together, but 1. she didn't feel her bones breaking and instantly reknitting and 2. F-gold is the other of the two most important traits for a fullborn to have stored. Paalm was not a compounder, and did not have access to infinite stores of speed. A compounder wouldn't have to ration stores, so would go faster, as I doubt Paalm was going at maximum speed constantly. She would have run out way before she did. F-pewter doesn't increase durability. Also, @Frustration, you seem to be leaving out steel's protective effect in your calculations. We can safely assume that F-steel protects you from harm for higher than the normal speed limit without burning up. Marasi didn't cause fire around her when she went supersonic, and I don't think that tapping any feruchemical store would prevent that, so... we can assume that supersonic without burning up is easily possible. All this said, this thread is turning into another Scadrial vs. Roshar argument. Think about this: if radiants can easily beat even a fullborn, the most powerful thing that scadrial has ever seen, why do they need power suppressors? How will any conflict between them have narrative tension if Roshar has literally every advantage?

I wasn't talking about that time. I was talking about the time directly after Kaladin swore the fourth ideal, when he summoned tons of windspren to make a tunnel in the storms to his father.

Or maybe nothing's going on that's abnormal. Brandon doesn't say how fast normal steelrunners can go, or how long an A-pewter F-steel twinborn would have to store in order to win a race, just that A-pewter lets you go faster than normal.

Right, but Marasi didn't have A-pewter. She didn't have any metals at all, so she could go supersonic without needing A-pewter to keep her together. That's probably because Rand is a Ta'Veren *cough* plot armor *cough*, but disregarding that, TLR could still sneak up behind him for the strike. Rand just has a natural advantage if they are on an even playing field. (Disregarding plot armor, of course Rand would win with that). Similarly, a Fullborn has a (much larger) natural advantage against any Radiant besides maybe a Bondsmith, and as such, although it is of course possible for the radiant to win, they would need a significant advantage such as complete surprise soulcasting from the cognitive realm, murdering a Fullborn while he's been dumb enough to fall asleep, or power suppressors to completely shut down all the metallic arts would grant them.

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Step 4: run out of stormlight and get punted three miles. Other step 4: realize your job wasn't to survive, it was to win a fight, which you didn't do. Why would you need to compound Nicrosil? Feruchemy strength only affects how quickly you can store, right? Marasi didn't even need A-pewter to survive those speeds, as she didn't have the metals to do so. Edit- Oh cool, 2,000 posts.

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Sorry, didn't see your edit. Correct. Short of something like Nightblood, shardblades are indestructible. The sides don't matter. The Fullborn could pull the ground out from beneath you with superpowered A-iron. Even if you completely surround yourself (Which I doubt you can, considering blades have a maximum size, you don't get close to winning, only temporarily surviving. They can't, or at least not without extreme levels of power that even compounding F-nicrosil might be unable to achieve. Atium is different because Brandon hadn't thought up the higher levels of investiture resist investiture yet. Being an alloy would only make it slightly less resistant, as it would still be made of mostly pure investiture. Jasnah's plate "laps up" stormlight to repair itself. Doesn't matter because the fullborn can push/pull on the trace metals in the rock or earth beneath you. Steel's cheap. No reason not to compound tons of it, particularly given how broken it is. F-steel and F-gold are the two essentials for any Fullborn that wants to stay alive, along with F-chromium or A-electrum with F-zinc.

Can the shield completely surround the radiant? No. Fullborn can superspeed around the radiant and smash them to pieces before they can even blink.

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