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Moni blinked in surprise. Well, the it had been her first negotiation. Ah well. Boots began to fall from the sky.

A quote from someone who wasn't killed before being able to grow. Yes. Lin is evil. He did objectively wrong things. But the situation he was in, with influence from the unmade, everyone who should have supported him hating him, makes him more sympathetic than someone who did the same things just because he was always an obsessive psychopath. If Lin had killed his wife, would he be a worse person? Yes.

Moni showed up to negotiate the terms of the treaty.

TLR pulled that off by using the Well of Ascension to boost his powers to basically the maximum. He didn't need hemalurgy. Additionally, after his death his body turned to dust. There were no spikes in that dust. TLR didn't have a linchpin spike, which he would certainly have needed considering how many spikes he would have needed in order to meaningfully enhance his power. If he had that many spikes, he would certainly have been controllable by Ruin.

Nameless, meanwhile, was enjoying the feeling of existing everywhere at once in the form of boots.

Yes. Any fourth ideal or above radiant will have a big advantage over most fused. However, you assume that the fused would fight such a radiant one-on-one. I see no reason that they wouldn't swarm the radiant like they did Kaladin near the end of OB. Additionally, other fused seem to be better equipped for fighting shardbearers. Specifically, the fused with access to the surge of regrowth. They heal from shardblades quite well, are extremely strong, and can use carapace to incapacitate shardbearers. Although Jasnah isn't the most skilled of radiants in terms of combat prowess, the fact that she had to resort to taking the fused by surprise with her powers shows that Radiants don't have a completely overwhelming advantage over the fused. Also, something you seem to be overlooking is that Radiant shardplate uses the radiant's stormlight to repair itself, so hitting it enough will force the radiant to dismiss it or be drained of stormlight and let it lock up on them. Leadership... you mean the fused? Sure, you might be able to suicide mission your way into killing them, but there would be no lasting benefit to doing so. There's certainly no way that even a fifth ideal Skybreaker could pull an assassin in white on a fused stronghold and walk out alive. They'd run out of stormlight. And are you seriously using a herald with 7 thousand years of combat experience, an enhanced body, and access to an honorblade and a fifth ideal radiant bond as an example of a normal fifth ideal radiant? And Kaladin fought all the fused in Urithiru? No, he was being hunted by the pursuer, which kept most of the other fused from fighting him. Then the tower's protections were reactivated, which instantly KO'd all the fused in the tower. Additionally, There are far more regals than there are radiant squires. There were like 30,000 stormform parshendi when they summoned the everstorm, with no indication that they used all the stormform spren, and that's only one variety. Radiants had low thousands at their peak, which almost certainly includes the squires. That puts them with probably about 10-20,000 members at most, leaving them heavily outnumbered by the possible 100,000 regals. Additionally, I don't think you really appreciate exactly how valuable Dalinar is as a stormlight recharge. under normal circumstances, radiants might have an initial advantadge over the fused, but in the long run they'd run out of stormlight. Battles can last for hours, and Radiants can run out of stormlight very quickly, even without the fused's stormlight stealing tech. If I had to guess, Shardplate will use even more stormlight, particularly to repair itself. This leaves Radiants with a short-term advantage, say in the first few hours of the battle, but after that point, they'll start running out of stormlight, particularly squires. So fighting a radiant in plate might be more of an endurance battle; you keep damaging their plate until they run low on stormlight and are forced to dismiss it. And every fourth ideal radiant you kill will probably take a lot longer than a couple of fused to replace.

Everyone can change anyone. People are forged by the circumstance. I doubt Shallan used soulcasting to change her father. Even if she did, that doesn't excuse him for his later actions. Now, whether the influence of an unmade excuses him is another story.

He was still healing, but slowly. At Elantris, the Elantrians were instantly healed of all their injuries, including the ones in the flames. The only record of an Elantrian's death that we know of, as far as I know, was Galladon's father, and he died from natural causes, and was also depressed. Considering this WoB, I think Elantrians are immortal.

Era 2? They'd snap from the trauma of having a spike stuck in them as a child, and I doubt it would matter anyways. Era 1? I don't know. Maybe, but Preservation and Ruin aren't opposites, and connection to one automatically prevent connection to the other.

Nameless took offense to this. In fact, he took so much offense that he exploded in offend, showering the entire multiverse in boots.

I don't think that nightblood would work made out of bone, at least not using the same creation methods. Type IV invested entities are made out of inorganic materials, and bone is organic, so I doubt that normal type four creation methods (getting a ton of breath and using a command) would work. Maybe you could figure out a way for it to work, but it might be impossible.

Nameless revived with a *pop* and pulled out a fork. Time to make some chicken nuggets.

I agree with @Trusk'our on this one. Unchained Bondsmiths are meant to be upright terrifying. Ishar somehow caught Ashyn on fire forever by tampering with bondsmith powers. Ishar was about to casually rip away both Dalinar's bond to the Stormfather and his enmity with Odium. If Bondsmiths struggled to change normal mortal souls, I see no reason that the Stormfather and even Odium would be so nervous about the possibility. Sure, soulstamps, soulcasting, and even compounding have a hard time fooling or changing souls, but Bondsmiths are meant to be different. An unchained Bondsmith has the power of a Shard, without the restrictions that normally bind Shards.

Nameless noticed Facepalm rushing in, and decided he needed some backup. Thinking quickly, he gave Moni the powers of teleportation, quantum reversal, and kinetic manipulation. (He also noticed the universe collapsing, but elected to ignore that for the time being.)

Endowment has an association with 5? Where does that come from? Aren't there ten heightenings?

Is 16 associated with Preservation, or is Preservation associated with 16? I think that Leras saw 16 as an important number mainly because of the 16 shards. So yes, Preservation would be associated with 16, but if I had to guess, multiple other shards would be associated with 16 as well. 4 should also be an important number, given the Dawnshards.

Well, I believe that most of the radiants were killed shortly after they broke their oaths. And it's not like they kept using their dead spren as shardblades.

Nameless chose that moment to realize that the one thing that prevented him from besting Thaidakar for good was those blasted laws of physics. More specifically, it was the fact that gravity was only half as strong as it should be. He glanced around quickly to ensure none of those blasted interdimensional narratorial damage control agents were around, then doubled the force of gravity.

That WoB just says that there is no physical purpose in a gemheart. It says nothing about whether a Singer needs the gemheart's investiture functions in order to live. I would say that we don't know enough to say whether or not breaking a gemheart would kill a singer. At the very least it would put them in slaveform.

I don't think that TLR had hemalurgic spikes. At the same Q&A that Brandon claimed TLR had hemalurgic spikes, he also said this: That footnote I believe references this WoB that came much later: So it sounds to me like Brandon maybe originally had TLR as having spikes, but then realized that it wouldn't work very well from a lore perspective and decided to just say that TLR used the well to amplify his power. Or he could have just gotten confused when answering that first question.

Nameless caught the lightsaber in his hand, wincing slightly, then used it to yank Thaidakar off balance, stabbing his sword downwards towards his back.

Nameless casually caught the bullet out of the air, then kicked Thaidakar to the ground and reclaimed his sword.

Nameless pulled out his sword and stabbed Thaidakar in the back.

Nameless grumbled something about Thaidakar not wanting a war with him.

Nameless caught the pepperoni, noticing for the first time that his avatar was being attacked. He glared at Thaidakar and started considering what kind of magical powers Moni should have.