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A- a year? I have to wait an entire year for it to die? Can't it die sooner? A living set of human teeth will scare me the puppy. Granted. The nightwatcher gives you some sweet teeth. Don't ask if they're alive. I wish for a shardcontroller that works with every game system and works perfectly.

The ooklas swarmed over the sickened populace, converting all in their path to ookla.

Hello? I'd like to order a wish for *garbled static* and *high pitched whining*

Granted. Everyone ignores the standardization.

Those who knew chose one of two options: Hunker down and wait for it to end, or join the unstoppable tide of Ooklas.

Granted. Your boon is that the nightwatcher shows you. Your bane is that the Nightwatcher shows you. I wish for awesomeness.

Problem with this theory: Human and parshendi heartbeats are almost certainly different. Also, heartbeats speed up when people do strenuous work, or are under stress, and that makes shardblades summon more quickly. If your heart had to attune Honor's rhythm to summon a shardblade, you would have to calm your heart in order to do so, and people with irregular heartbeats would be unable to summon them.

I don't think this is possible, for the simple fact that it would allow literally anyone to become immortal with atium. I think that the "anyone can use it" thing only exists for allomancy, not feruchemy.

I think they could've figured it out on their own. Khriss said that they'd been researching shards and whatnot for longer than she had, and knew more than she did. And Khriss knows more than Hoid: So they could've figured it out on their own.

Heralds or characters with multiple non-interlude viewpoints count as major characters and they have to actually die. There might be other terms that I'm forgetting.

Granted. You have a banana that tastes like popcorn. Normal bananas are now extinct. I wish for a merry christmas.

While this argument was going on, an army of ooklas approached in secret.

Well, that first WoB says that the cognitive realm won't change because there won't be any minds in space to perceive it, and parts of the cognitive will change and expand. So not only is it useless, to your point that some kinds of perception are timeless, it also proves that perception is bound by space. If space, then why not time?

We don't know that. In fact, why would you need ftl travel when you have the cognitive realm? it would be completely useless.

That's assuming they don't figure out some magic method around this, like a bondsmith with a windrunner permanently increasing gravity in an area. This contradicts what we've seen. Spren change based on changing perception. If perception in the future mattered the same amount as perception in the present and past, then perception wouldn't matter, because over infinite time there would be infinite different perceptions.

They can use multiple weights, and can use weights to help recharge other weights. She perceived it as doing so after seeing it do something weird. Not before.

Nobody ever perceived that as being the case, so no. Well, giant towers will be easy enough to build in the industrial age. And it's possible you could use other methods to store energy, like springs and stuff. They already have that in Radiants, and will have a superior version in gravitation fabrials.

But WHY?!!?? why in the tenth name of the almighty does it storming change?!?!? you have provided no explanation for what causes this change, you have just said that it should be this way because it is more useful. This is a hard magic system, things don't happen for no reason. Please, just give me one in-world reason that could possibly cause this to occur. Yeah, but the fact that you need a moderation cage is a big problem. Navani mentioned using the highstorm to recharge them. You could also use gravitation fabrials in a central location such as Urithiru, easily rechargeable by a bondsmith.

If you vibrate a gem to Honor's tone, then the spren could be attracted to it enough to be captured before fading. Well, tough. On a mechanics standpoint, a gearbox shouldn't become an engine when you change the size of the gears, but you seem to think it does. 1. Okay. still way too much force to be needed. 2. Uh, did you miss the part where I said that if you linked a gemheart with a smaller gemstone you could get stuff like 36 times the acceleration of gravity? Didn't Kaladin spend like the entire book complaining that the glove had a maximum speed of one lashing? well, now you have the capability to have a 30+ lashing maximum acceleration that uses vastly less stormlight.

We don't know that it needs raysium. You just have to recapture the half-spren before it fades back to the cognitive, which I think you could probably do using a tuning fork with Honor's tune to do attract the spren to the gemstone. Because it thinks that the larger gemstone is the same size as it is. 1. We don't actually know that voidlight is more efficient, only that is does not escape from gemstones or fused as quickly or at all. 2. Under your system, the fourth bridge would rip itself to pieces, all of the gems shattering instantly, if you tried to use gravity to power it. The smaller gemstones still move at a multiplicative speed to the larger gemstones in my system.

That's an arbitrary exception. The larger gemstone has the force of gravity on it, so it multiplies that force by 5 and sends it to the smaller gemstone. The smaller gemstone gets affected by gravity on it's own. Actually the smaller gem would have less force due to gravity because of its lesser mass, but still a bit over 5 times as heavy as much force as the large gem. Of course they can. All I'm saying is that thematically, it would make no sense for Navani to be wrong on that point. No, it really doesn't. It assumes that they are two parts of one object that assume they are exactly half of the whole object. they are one object, but they think they are part of a larger (or smaller) object that they actually are. Yes, the larger gemstone is harder to move, or rather it takes more energy to move. The smaller gemstone gives the larger one half the energy it has, meaning the larger one moves less than the smaller one. No need for energy to be turned into investiture or anything like that. Not really. Force multiplication may give perpetual motion, but the stormlight use would be vastly less efficient. Why do you think they didn't lash the fourth bridge? because it would've fallen out of the sky before getting a tenth of the way to wherever they wanted to go. Think of the difference in stormlight use between a full lashing (binding something to a wall) and a basic lashing (changing gravity). There is a massive difference in stormlight efficiency. Now think about the difference between basic lashings and Kaladin's glove device. That thing never ran out of voidlight in a fight.

But only if you were stupid enough to eat it. Which obviously, no one was. Right?

The whiske caused a revolution in the food industry. Finally, a healthy food that tasted good!

It was super good for you

I dunno. I know that they move differently, so there must be something strange about the energy transfer. My explanation seems more reasonable than the spren being connected to its other half via the spiritual realm somehow causes investiture to convert into kinetic energy when the gems are different sizes. Navani said that moving the larger gemstone would take more force in proportion to the extra work done by the smaller gemstone, so it will feel like moving more than 15. your system might sustain mass, but what about gravity? a 1/5 gemstone would always have 6x gravity on it. 5x from the other gemstone, and 1x from itself. So the mass might feel the same, but it would be dramatically harder to lift the smaller gemstone. You would also have 6x friction if you tried to slide the gems across a table. Also, your mass wouldn't line up either. moving the larger gemstone would feel like moving just the larger gemstone, because all the force applied to the smaller gemstone would come from investiture. Not relevant here. (MB) Actually, the inertia does not change. In fact, inertia is why my system works. larger objects require more force to move, and smaller objects require less force to move. Thus, when the larger gemstone is moved, it gives the same amount of energy to the smaller gemstone that it would have given to the larger gemstone. The smaller gemstone has less inertia, causing it to move more. I am aware that investiture is recycled. I should have said that I don't know that all of the energy is converted back into investiture. Some of it might be lost to entropy and become unusable. Or Brandon could throw entropy out the window and say that all energy, matter, and investiture can cycles through phases, with none of it being lost. The biggest issue I have with force multiplication (and the easiest to explain) is the what and why of it. What effect causes a split spren to begin converting investiture into kinetic energy and why does this effect only occur in gemstones with a significant size differential? Why do they need this effect, when they already have lashings that do basically the same thing, only without the need for complex fabrial setups? In fact, Brandon has said that fabrials can emulate all ten surges: So force-multiplying fabrials are going to be outdated as soon as Navani or other scholars figure out how to make a fabrial that emulates gravitation. gravitation fabrials will have the same level of stormligh efficiency, and won't require difficult engineering to ensure the gemstones don't shatter or break out of their lattices, as you could simply lash an entire ship at once. Not a big deal at all. why the big reveal? On the other hand, if they do conserve energy, then the mechanics are consistent, at least in that the spren don't start having a completely different function, they will be much more stormlight efficient than gravitation fabrials and will also be able to reach similarly high speeds, meaning they won't become immediately obsolete upon the discovery of surge fabrials. That is a big deal.