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  1. NameIess
    I mean, we don't know that Endowment even cares if there's another Manywar. Maybe she wants it to happen, so that Nalthis will heavily militarize. Maybe she manipulated the events of Warbreaker in order to get Kalad's phantoms would come back into the equation.
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    Fortunately, there had been no clowns. That would've been bad.
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    Yeah, but a well-trained Radiant has multiple massive advantages over an Honorblade user. Kaladin was barely trained in his powers, but he still held his own against Szeth, fighting evenly with him. How much damage could a rogue Skybreaker do? Say one that decided to follow the pirate code? How much damage could a rogue Dustbringer do? They're the most destructive of the orders. Honorblades may grant full access to surges, but they also require impractically high amounts of stormlight. Like, they need so much stormlight that Szeth noted as a squire that he used stormlight much more efficiently than he had before. Also, Szeth is not the best measure for what someone with an Honorblade would be like. He trained with all ten surges for years, perhaps decades. In that ambush, Szeth had plenty of stormlight, was up against soldiers who had no idea how to fight surgebinders and shardbearers who had no idea how to work together. And he used hand-to-hand combat, a fighting style the soldiers were not prepared for. Half-shards counter shardblades. Honorblades, in the era of Radiants, are about equivalent to shardblades. The only advantage to an Honorblade that I can see is that they are probably immune to investiture suppressors, or at least highly resistant. Their disadvantages are more obvious, lack of stormlight efficiency, and the possibility of being unable to heal shardblade wounds. (I say possibility, because there's a WoB where Brandon implied that Szeth's inability to heal shardblade wounds may have been due to his perception). This said, I agree that the honorblades should be heavily protected, particularly the world-ending Bondsmith blade. However, I don't think that destroying them would be practical at all.
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    The priest pulled off his cloak, revealing that he was actually a steel inquisitor! the crowd gasped in shock.
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    It was traditional. The priest pulling out a hemalurgic spike and stabbing Szeth in the chest, however, was not.
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    He awoke right in the middle of his funeral, as was customary to narrators.
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    An agonizing death. It was quite sad.
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    Before remembering that he was gluten-intolerant.
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    Because he didn't have any radiants, and definitely none as powerful as Szeth. I think that the honorblades do need to be kept safe, but destroying them is not necessary. If they were stolen, there are now enough trained Radiants to defeat them. Szeth was so dangerous for two reasons. 1. There were no other surgebinders that had the training to beat him, and 2. No one was trained to fight surgebinders. Now, almost evrey soldier is trained to fight surgebinders (fused) and there are tons of radiants with experience in combat. Brandon said in his spoiler livestream last night that they're made of a very pure form of Tanavastium, so they are made out of Honor's investiture, which is stormlight. However, the Raysium in the anti-light knife was able to transfer anti-voidlight just fine, and Brandon also said that spren in physical form would be more resistant against anti-light attacks. Besides that, if Honorblades are so powerful, wouldn't it be better to just use them?
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    And much bread.
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    If I had to guess, the characters that are most likely to die would be Jasnah, Dalinar, and Szeth. Jasnah will either be killed by Todium as a threat to his plans, or manipulated by him in the back half. I actually sort of want Dalinar to die and lose the contest of champions, just because I think him serving Todium for an eternity would be awesome (and terrifying) Szeth I don't want to die, but his arc looks like it will be completed in KoW, so my guess is that he'll either die or be relegated to a few viewpoints in the back half. Of course, thinking about it more, he might also have a place keeping the peace between singers and humans. I don't think Kaladin is going to die, but I might be wrong. If he doesn't die, then he is probably going to retire from combat for the entirety of the time gap between series one and two, and might take the role of more of a mentor character. He's definitely not going to lead the Windrunners anymore. Some people who aren't on the poll that are on my most likely to die list are The Lopen (hopefully he gets to swear an ideal before going down in a blaze of glory), Moash, and maybe El.
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    Or you could have some random lunatic with a spren. Sadeas could have been a Radiant. Sure, Honorblades are easier to use, but they aren't as dangerous as you make it seem. Yeah. And with shardplate, if you feed one part, the other parts crumble away. So if you lose one particle of dust, someone could theoretically recreate the entire Honorblade from it. Meaning that turning them to dust would make it much harder to protect.
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    Whether or not TLR's weakened mental state was part of Ruin's plan has no effect on whether or not his mental state makes him less effective as a fullborn.
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    Fine. Maybe this specific method would not work, but the point remains. Rashek was in an extremely unstable mindset that was not rational, which also lead directly to his death. Almost any other person with experience using fullborn powers would be more dangerous than Rashek, as well as harder to kill.
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    That same WoB mentions that It strengthens your body, although there are limits. We don't know what those limits are.
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    Are you referencing this WoB? I think that what Brandon is saying is that A-pewter would allow for a higher maximum speed. This doesn't say anything about what that maximum speed normally is.
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    No, I mean that you could just use actual Radiants as assassins. No need to use the Honorblades. Assuming it works like shardlpate, turning the honorblades into dust would be the worst idea. If someone gets one piece of the dust, they could regrow the entire blade, assuming you aren't constantly breaking and repairing the Honorblades.
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    I don't think diminishing returns cares what amount of speed you stored. It get converted into investiture, and we get no indication that the investiture in metalminds is separated depending on what speed you stored it at. Regardless, a full minute to run up to TLR, tap pewter, and crush his head in your hands is kinda generous anyways, so I don't think diminishing returns matters all that much in this scenario. Say you go at 1,000 times speed for one minute of your time, (1,000 times less efficient) you can now run at about 6,500 miles an hour, or mach 8, and is much faster than even modern bullets travel. Sazed wasn't a faithful servant for 20 years. He joined Kelsier's crew and didn't really have any need to be connected to nobility. He could feasibly have hidden for 20 years, then had Kelsier or some other underground contacts get him as a servant to some high-ranking house like the Ventures, waited until he got into TLR's presence, and struck. Propaganda has nothing to do with it. The whole point I am trying to make is that TLR believed his own propaganda too much. He thought himself immortal, and thus neglected to cover his weaknesses. He wasn't paranoid enough.
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    Assuming you only need a minute of time, every day is 24*60=1,440 minutes. Every year is 365*1,440=525,600 minutes. Assuming you stored half of your speed for twenty years straight, you would have 5.256 million minutes of double speed. Even with diminishing returns, I think you'd have more than enough speed to kill TLR in an eyeblink.
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    Or you could just... use actual Radiants to do that? I don't think you could change their form. I imagine it would work like shardplate. You can't make shardplate grow into a different form, just repair it.
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    And what is that?
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    This resulted in the war of 57324.
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    A completely full metalmind, (The bands of mourning) let Marasi move so fast that everything around her was frozen. Including allomancers. That kind of speed cannot be reacted to. One second TLR would be talking calmly with some noblemen, the next millesecond later he's dead.
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    That is correct! Your turn.
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    The NBA's constant firing of things was annoying. It was... "fired".
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