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"Well, yes, of course. The transformative matrix is keyed to not only soulcast your mass into another substance, in this case ice cream, but to also drain heat from the substance and transform your shape into that of something like this: -[]). While this is happening, a containment field will keep you soul from escaping to the beyond, while a sustainment matrix will keep your soul health-. BLAST. You got me talking technical again. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to make people think of you as a Dark Lord when you enjoy talking about technical details? why, I had to go to great effort in order to create this persona of evil. In fact, I even found a way to make a self-sustaining aura matrix that emanates dark energy around me, strengthening negative emotions while dampening positive ones. That was quite a difficult task, I assure you. Not as hard as the voice though. I still don't think I've gotten that quite right, you know. I had to summon up twenty-five Eldritch abominations before I found one that would even admit that its voice was darkened through magic, much less explain how it did so. I discovered that most creatures of darkness cause their voices to drip darkness subconsciously, because of the nature of their souls. I attempted to do the same, but modifying your own soul is extremely difficult even if you don't care about doing it saf-BAH, STEP INTO THE CIRCLE NOW, OR I WILL SIMPLY BURN THE FLESH FROM YOUR BONES! " "(Using a highly inventive spell of my own design. It actually teleports you into the void dimension, while teleporting a pre-charred set of bones that I prepared specifically for the task.)"

"because it's keyed to your specific identity in order to create a transformative matrix. The energy required for this transformative matrix is powerful enough to level a city, and if anyone besides you were to step into the circle and summon them, the identity key would be invalid, and there is no telling what would happen."

"Ummm, it would probably hurt me."

(The sun was directly behind him)

Well, no, but they can grow one back really quickly. Shardplate will heal itself, and it can close its eyeslits in order to prevent bullets from being effective. Atium is an "IWB", but only if the Mistborn can drain the Radiant's stormlight before running out of Atium, which, with Shardplate, becomes very difficult.

No, you're still getting it confused. Rock isn't a Stoneward either.

Your wording was accurate. I'm just saying that Kaladin hasn't shown that he is overly worried about the soldiers and Windrunners under his command since he has sworn the fourth ideal. I think that swearing to let people protect themselves would be redundant, as I believe that the fourth oath has already covered it.

Actually, I think the second oath is "I will stand where others fall."

What? Kaladin has been struggling with letting people go and accepting that he cannot save everyone for that long. Now he has sworn that oath, we haven't seen him struggle with it at all. What you are saying is the same as saying that Kaladin would still allow Elhokar to die despite swearing the third ideal.

That is before he swore the fourth ideal.

It was quite painful to watch.

I feel like swearing to let people protect themselves is redundant. Kaladin has accepted that there are people he cannot save, and therefore has accepted that he has to let other people save themselves. I feel that this oath will deal with how to protect, something that Kaladin has struggled with from the beginning.

I pretty much agree, although the Mistborn would probably collapse from exhaustion before the Radiant. (Haha! You have had a heart attack and died! I am vicotorious!) I am pretty sure that Plate only uses stormlight to repair itself, and I think that living Plate is probably a lot more investiture efficient than dead, as it repairs the damage quickly rather than continuing to leak stormlight. I agree that a Mistborn could drain stormlight by damaging Plate repeatedly. Here's where I disagree with you. Lezian was one of the most deadly fighters that the Fused had, with centuries of combat experience fighting Radiants. A Mistborn would have a lot of difficulty pulling off something like that. When did Ishar use Connection like Atium? I figured that his awesomeness was just because he was a herald.

"But of course. There is a less than 0.001% chance of you being harmed."

I agree that the fifth ideal will deal with the issue of how to protect, but I do not agree that it is always "I will kill to protect". What it is will depend on the Radiants personal choice, and for some of them, it would be "I will not kill to protect" or even "I will not fight to protect".

"Don't worry, it's perfectly harmless. I promise."

It actually isn't as big of a deal as you thing. Yes, a broken spiritweb is required, but Lopen is broken enough to be a Radiant, and he is literally the opposite of depressed or emotionally unstable. Also, I'd say that people like Kaladin would be better at resisting pushes and pulls on their emotions, simply because of the experience they have fighting while depressed. A regular bloodmaker like Wayne would likely die to a Shardblade, but a fullborn or gold compounder would be fine, as long as they tapped healing as the Radiant hit them. Shardplatge doesn't give complete immunity to blunt force, a pewter compounder could probably break it. I agree that a third ideal Windrunner/Dustbringer would do well against a Mistborn, but I would also add Skybreakers and perhaps Stonewards to that list, with some of the other orders able to beat Mistborn through stealthiness or trickery (Lightweavers, Elsecallers, Willshapers maybe?). You are however hugely underestimating the power of a fullborn. They could simply speedblitz the Radiant and use their superpowered A-pewter that they got from compounding nicrosil to punch throught the Radiants chestplate, then instantly drain the Radiants powers with super-A-chromium.

"Sounds delightful. Now, if you would just step into the center of this glowing circle, we can begin."

"Excell-I mean, that sounds delic-*cough* cool"

"Well, nobody wants to be eaten, but I suppose I see your point. Out of curiosity, what flavor of popsicle were you?

"Ah, I see. So I should use black magic to turn you back into a popsicle, then eat you?"

I agree with a lot of this, but I do think that you're selling the Mistborn a little short. Against Radiants of the third ideal, I would give them a pretty big advantage. It's only when the Radiants get Shardplate that they get a big advantage.

You know, I normally have good grammar and spelling, but people messing up doesn't really bother me. You should see the scratch forums.

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