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  1. NameIess
    Why not have another character die to do this though? A Dalinar death would make so much more sense. What exactly would his arc be after KoW? Kaladin has his mental health thing, as well as potentially becoming a trainer for new Radiants. even an Adolin death would make more sense that killing Kaladin off. Adolin has mostly fulfilled his arc. What little is left for him to do, figuring out how to help deadeyes, can be completed in KoW via the release of Ba-Ado-Misram. A heroic sacrifice holding off the enemy while Shallan releases Ba-Ado-Mishram makes much more sense than Kaladin dying heroically. Killing Kaladin would be like WoT spoilers:
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    Everything is a choice by Brandon to continue the plot. This one made sense and has been set up since book one. Brandon pulled this off well, in my opinion. Kaladin's depression continued to be a problem even during the occupation. Let's say you're right. SA 5 has Kaladin travel to Shinovar to try and fix Ishar, but he can't because Spiritual madness isn't something you fix in a normal way. He dies a failure. Lirin is sad, but knows that Kaladin got himself into this by fighting. Everyone is shocked that "Kaladin Stormblessed" died. Syl is really sad. All the readers are really sad. The state of current mental health treatment remains the same, as no one with authority cares about it. SA 6 comes around and we find that Syl has chosen a new radiant. SA 7, 8, 9, and 10 come around and Kaladin has been turned into a legendary figure. A valiant hero who died fighting the shellheads. Helping to support and justify the system of hatred and fear that is the uneasy truce between singer and humankind. Bridge four no longer exists, almost all of its members having died in the war. The few remaining feel sad that Kaladin died. That's not a good ending. That's an awful ending and a let down.
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    If that was true, then when Dalinar told Kaladin that he had been wrong to dismiss him from duty, Kaladin would have gone "Storms yes you were! I'm gonna grab my spear and get back out onto that battlefield before Sigzil makes the Windrunners too bureaucratic!". Kaladin's arc after KoW will probably involve less stabby-stabby and more stichy-stichy. He's going to be a surgeon and a mental health expert, not a battlefield commander.
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    Yeah. Not having many viewpoints doesn't mean he won't have any narrative importance ever. Killing Kaladin off would make his entire mental health arc in RoW useless.
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    And that's fine. Why can't characters retire?
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    Was considering the nature of pancakes.
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    I really doubt that Brandon is almost done with Kaladin. What was the point of setting up his surgeon arc in RoW, if there will be no payoff to it? What's the point of Kaladin realizing that Roshar need a mental healthcare revolution if he's just going to die and nothing happens? That is demonstrably untrue. Brandon doesn't often kill PoV characters, but he has done so before. That said, I think we already had this argument.
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    except for the Ghanderflaffle weather expert. He was very happy to not have to worry about clouds anymore.
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    Why can't Adolin bond an honorspren and become a Windrunner? Because a big part of his character, and his story arc (especially in RoW) is about feeling useless and insecure in a world filled with gods. He's an incredible soldier who within a year went from being one of the most powerful and important people on the planet, an essential part of every battlefield he fought on, to being outclassed in basically every way by hundreds of people. He's the "normal person" in the group. If he simply gains radiant powers, it would feel cheap. That's not to say that Brandon couldn't write Adolin gaining Radiant powers or Kaladin sacrificing himself well, because I don't doubt that he could. I'm just saying that given the characterization Kaladin has now, his arc is leading towards him surviving, not dying heroically.
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    I think that I'd rather be an Elantrian. That way, I'm not required to eat breaths to live. I also get more freedom, although I probably am stuck in a city for the most part. WYR learn about Cosmere history from Khriss or Hoid?
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    And a wot of wealy wealy scawy noises.
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    The thing is, someone would have noticed that, particularly on Roshar, where cognitive entities such as spren are extremely common. Considering that scholars like Raboniel have searched for a way to kill spren, the ancient Radiants doubtless tried to figure out how to kill the fused, and Honor thought that the oathpact was a good solution, I think that it is highly unlikely that silver affects every cognitive shade. If not for that WoB, I would have said that silver affecting shades was just a quirk of Threnody's magic system, and maybe it is. If shades or threnodite magic systems have Cosmere roles, then silver will probably be part of that.
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    I'll take 3,000 emerald broams. I don't feel like getting murdered by Moash in a duel, and I don't think that being a fourth ideal Windrunner will be enough to overcome the massive skill difference between us. So I'll take my billion dollars in gemstones, and take my chances with the IRS. WYR swallow a live frog whole, or spend a week slowly moving through the digestive system of a greatshell?
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    This was bery sad.
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    So they were stuck calling each other Brian. But at least they were only stuck in the bottle that the combined taskforce of narrators had stuck them in for another 2,000 years right? They'd be out in no time.
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    Destroyers of the world. (At a later date, they grew to regret naming themselves all the same thing)
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    I'm not surprised that it breaks normal physics considering that it's magic. I think I understand this enough to agree with it. I am not contending that Wax should be bulletproof, I'm just saying that in order to store weight you must store either mass or gravity force. And I think that mass is being stored, because Wax always falls at the same speed, not accounting for air resistance. I think that spiritual mass is the best way to go. He makes his body and gravity think that it is more massive than it physically is.
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    They are storing their body's ability to go fast, and also the ability to handle the increased speed. But what attribute are they storing to become strong enough to handle the speed? I'm not saying that density is the only thing that changes, only that it is a mix between density and weight Basically, look at it like this: how do you increase weight without increasing mass? The factors that determine your weight are gravity and mass. Storing spiritual weight would have to affect one of these factors. However, increasing gravity would make you fall faster, and increasing your mass would make you indestructible. Brandon wants neither of these side effects. So he has to improvise. If anything, storing spiritual mass would be a better solution. That way, you fool the planet into thinking you are heavier than you physically are, while also not increasing your physical mass, meaning bullets go right through you.
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    because they are storing a physical attribute that includes the strength to survive that trait. If you increase speed but not strength, then you just have mental speed. You can't move any faster. storing spiritual strength would be like giving yourself up to half a lashing upwards, or lashing yourself downwards up to hundreds of times. That effects spiritual weight. Why would storing that effect your ability to handle increased weight? You would die immediately unless you also stored something that helped you survive. Something like... density?
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    Well, yeah. He'd have to retcon all of the scenes where Wax uses his feruchemy to slow down or speed up, and there would still be the problem of skimmers crushing themselves under their own weight. If you're not storing mass, then you would have to store something else alongside spiritual weight in order to survive having such a massive weight increase.
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    I think that changing forms of investiture is more difficult than simply freezing liquid investiture or melting solid investiture. I say this mostly because Atium alloys exist, which means that Atium has to be meltable, which means that people would have noticed if you could make liquid investiture (which as you say is very different from solid investiture). I think that solid investiture will act """"normal"""" in that it will have three (technically four if you include plasma) forms. It will probably have quirks, such as Harmonium's explosiveness, but I don't think that it's properties will change too abnormally based on the temperature.
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    Yeah, but its not just weight either. And if it was, then this theory would not require savantism. Wax going around lighter than normal would effectively have the same effect as him living in a lower state of gravity: his muscles would atrophy. As it is, Wax's muscles (and presumably his bones, although that part gets fudged a little by Brandon in order to keep Wax from constantly getting broken bones or inversely becoming bulletproof) get weaker when he stores weight, which prevents them from degenerating. Quick note about savantism, Brandon hasn't said that he doesn't want Wax specifically to be an feruchemical savant, but he has said that he has no plans to make feruchemical savants in the Cosmere: and that normal feruchemists don't become savants: So I find it unlikely that Wax is going to have trouble with bone density due to savantism. He will probably have other issues related to old age and getting shot a lot, but I doubt feruchemical savantism is going to be an issue.
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    No, they are changing their density. If they weren't, then Wax wouldn't slow down or speed up when he taps or fills his metalminds.
  24. NameIess
    But after they got acidified, they decided that This. Was. SPARTA!!!! Instead.
  25. NameIess
    She decided to rule the world via acidic rain.
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