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Originally though, we didn't. We knew that Wyndle didn't understand how it worked, and that she shouldn't be able to touch spren, but I don't think WoR outright said that most Edgedancers couldn't do that

He seems to have a closer connection to Honor and the wind than other Windrunners, and Syl does seem surprised that he could do it. He also uses windspren to do it, particularly in RoW, and we don't see any other windrunner do that. We can't say for certain that other Windrunners can't do it, but we also can't say for certain that they can do it. Even if modern radiants can do it, it doesn't confirm that ancient radiants could. Things might be different now that Honor is dead. So using it in a powerscaling argument could be like saying every Edgedancer can metabolize food into investiture. We don't know enough to verify the ubiquity of the power.

Flaring pewter will let him survive. Obviously he would have to be tapping gold heavily to survive, but either burning electrum (you would see your mangled corpse at least briefly) or tapping chromium (giving you the intuition to survive) would warn you in time. (Also, why is the osmium going to constrict? wouldn't it just absorb tons of air from around itself?) Anyways, this entire argument is kinda moot. A fullborn will always have a massive advantage in almost any encounter. A smart fullborn that constantly taps chromium might even be immune to assassination from the cognitive realm. In the end though, the best method of beating a fullborn is going to be hitting them with an extremely powerful power dampener, (you might need an effect as powerful as Urithiru at full power) and then killing them. Either that or getting an Elsecaller of the fifth ideal or a herald with soulcasting in the cognitive realm with a ton of stormlight and soulcasting the fullborn or the fullborn's metalminds. Assassination is the best method, and no magic system we've seen besides elantrians at full power or heralds back in the directly fueled by Honor days could even begin to match a fullborn in open combat.

Again, Miles survived being point-blank exploded without a problem. Wax had just about his entire body completely crushed. Neither of them got close to running out of healing. A smart fullborn will have the equivalent of decades to centuries of healing stored. Healing from being completely crushed won't be a problem.

You're right that he wouldn't have large amounts of breath stored, because F-gold replaces it. And F-gold (along with F-steel) is the attribute that a smart fullborn will have a ton of.

Initially, the fused didn't know how to use the Surges. Here's a quote from the Stormfather in OB: So they could have used the surges, but didn't know they could or didn't know how to. Maybe Odium didn't initially give them access to voidlight. If Alakavish had started a war against the Singers before the desolation, would that really have done much to the human's ability to fight off a desolation? I think the implication was that Alakavish started a war against other humans, or at least caused such a war. Also, we know from Raboniel that no other groups of Singers other than the Listeners successfully split off from Odium's side to become neutral. This implies that all or almost all of the Singers served Odium or served Honor.

They didn't initially gain the surge, so Odium might not have even told them about it originally.

Oh yeah, the event could totally have come after years of resentment and war. Maybe the humans won the war by doing something horrible. Here's the quote: It's not concrete, but it does seem to imply that there was one event that created all the fused.

We know that something happened that led to a bunch of really angry souls. That could have been the culmination of a long period of unrest between Singers and humans, maybe the humans slaughtered an entire city or something like that. The way that the event is spoken about specifically Raboniel telling Venli that after the initial event, no other fused were created, makes me think that it was a singular event.

Whatever the humans did in the first desolation, it ended in a ton (Probably thousands) of dead Singer angry enough to switch sides from Honor to Odium to get a chance at revenge. So while not every Singer fought for Odium, nor every human for Honor, I find it likely that the vast majority of Singers did. (On a side note, this got me thinking: Will we get an assassin in white prologue for the back half, only surrounding the events of the first desolation? Like, some kind of betrayal that we see from different herald and fused perspectives? Mirroring how Szeth killing Gavilar caused the Parshendi/Alethi war, except on a much grander scale.)

You're a fullborn. You could make a killing in almost any field you wanted. Medical? Sell goldminds. Science? Compound zinc. Black market? Sell steelminds goldminds, pewterminds, medallions that give allomancy, and the like. Money is not an issue.

F-nicrosil compounding? Why wouldn't you be? That's a matter of perception. Just like sphere's have two easily perceivable halves: in front of you and behind you.

Fullborn are basically Miles in terms of F-gold stores, and he survived being exploded at point-blank range and still had tons of healing left. They can have massive levels of allomantic power, including A-pewter so powerful that they can bend Osmium like putty. F-chromium will likely give you a feeling that you should tap steel and run away at superspeed, flare pewter, tap gold, zinc, cadmium, and whatever. Kelsier could push on multiple parts of the same object, and he didn't have steelsight. You just have to be experienced with A-steel and iron, which a fullborn probably would be.

Eshonia was in the everstorm+highstorm thing, plus she fell into a chasm. I don't think we saw any singers get crushed by boulders, although I could be wrong.

The best bet any radiant has is to soulcast the fullborn from the cognitive realm. No radiant would win against a fullborn in open combat without a huge advantage like the fullborn being an idiot. Steel compounding is just too broken.

The weeping went on and off for a while. I'm pretty sure that Honor made some kind of pact with the ancient singers that they would be safe in the storms.

He could still kill Honor. Hightstorms might be unpredictable, but they can usually predict them correctly to the day. The one time we see the highstorm come at totally the wrong time, it messed up the weather significantly. Put it behind your enemies and they can retreat into it. And you can't control which side it comes from, unless you want it to go over your army.

I think Kaladin might have killed one of them at the end of OB by slashing his shardblade through its head. Not entirely sure. Well, there are a couple of teensy tiny problems with that. First, we don't know that Honor was in contact with the radiants like that, or that he would manipulate the storms for them. Actually, considering that Odium was unchained during that time, I doubt he could spare the focus. Second, messing with the highstorms really messes up the weather, as we saw at the beginning of OB. Third, hovering a highstorm over a place where two armies are fighting is gonna be a bad idea. Most of the soldiers aren't radiants, and singers kinda have the whole "you're safe if you go out into a storm" thing, plus stormform. It could be useful in a battle with only radiants and fused, but those kinds of battles are too small scale to be worth all the effort.

Look. I don't entirely agree with what you said here. But I'm not going to argue with you, because our discussion has gotten way off point. I feel that we are both taking each others answers in the most antagonizing way possible, so I will just ask you this again: Do you agree that Jasnah would win 9/10 times against the regrowth fused, if both used their powers and neither had the advantage of surprise? Do you agree that since the Pursuer has never been killed twice by the same person in 7,000 years, there must be a reason for that? Do you agree that the most likely explanation for Lezian's success rate is the advantages he gains from his single minded devotion to killing his prey, his knowledge of the radiant's powers and combat skills, and the survivability his particular powers give him? Do you agree that, given the fact that he had never been killed by anyone twice, the Pursuer would have succeeded against an average knight radiant in modern day? My original argument was in response to Frustration saying this: Our argument started when you replied to me bringing up Jasnah as an example of a fused giving a fourth ideal radiant a somewhat hard time by saying that Jasnah was deliberately handicapping herself. So, in our arguments, I had two main points: 1. Lezian is not a pushover. 2. Jasnah, a fourth ideal radiant, would not have had a completely one sided battle with the fused, even if she used her powers from the beginning. Now, this next part is very important, So I'll put it in bold. I am not saying that you said the opposite of either of these points. I am saying that this is what I have said, or at least meant to say, and I think you mostly agree with me.

Moni threw her hands up in the air. Fine. I'll finish this part of the story. Will that make you happy? The horneater laughed. "This is good. It is great privilege to serve a god as great as yourself." He glanced over at Facepalm, then leaned in closer to Ene. "That one, I gave them soup, and they cracked tooth on claw."

"About four years, by horneater calendar. Five by airsick lowlanders." The horneater gestured around his home. "My Daughter, Mono'tumi'sima'luka, found this place, near to window of worlds, and brought our family here shortly after the Ghanderflaffle empire invaded the peaks."

The horneaters handed her a bowl of delicious smelling stew, with some nice crab claws in it.

Why do you care, inanimate piece of paper?

A short one. That story was going to be way too long.

The horneaters happily opened the window. "Come, we have great soup! Is very good. He has hardly any shells. Perfect for airsick lowlanders."