Channelknight Fadran

On 1/22/2020 at 11:39 AM, Karger said:

How are you planing on dealing with spren(both capability as spies and sapient companions)?

They'd probably act in the same way as a familiar.

It's looking great! I'm a huge D&D fan myself, and I've had a lot of experience making classes. I think that it would be a good idea if you included the first oath "Life before Death, etc" in the class somewhere; it's kind of important. I like that you're making balanced assumptions about higher-leveled Radiants; that's a dangerous but brave thing to do.

One other thing: Every Radiant is different. In the "Skills" section, perhaps you could break the rules a bit and change it up a smidge? If I think that the skills should reflect the subclass, then sometimes I'll put the Skill Proficiency options in the subclasses themselves. This might be a stretch to what you've already done, but it's just an idea. Good job!

1 minute ago, Ookla the Ocelot said:

Hmm. I wonder if that relates to the mysterious black sphere gavilar has. Is voidlight red? I'm rereading Oathbringer but I don't think I'm that far yet. Also, stormlight being a plasma might explain how it condenses on shardblades whenever it is summoned. 

I imagine it's red. So many mysteries!

1 minute ago, Ookla the Ocelot said:

That is a really good point!

I wonder if the lightning is in someway connected to the stormlight? That would make a lot of sense. Also, that would make the stormlight actually connected to the storms because as far as I recall stormlight doesn't appear in the storms, but appears in the spheres.

How much detail do we have on lightning in the highstorms? Is it similar to Earthen lightning with thunderbolts? I recall strikes of thunder or at least loud rumbling associated with the storms. 

However, now that I think about... wouldn't this mean that the red lightning in Odium's storm would fill up their spheres with his own stormlight, as feared by Kaladin and the others?

42 minutes ago, Ookla the Ocelot said:

I feel like it is a gas or a plasma. But what would be good to know is if magnets or metal affect stormlight in any way. (Plasmas are affected by magnetic fields) As far as I recall, there are neither magnets nor electricity on Roshar. 

Lightning is made of plasma though. Hmmm. 

I definitely think that it could, possibly, be affected by magnets. Surges on Roshar are directly connected to the fundamental forces of nature, like Gravity (Lashings). It would make sense that the source of the surges could be affected by the very forces that they're manipulating. For every Push, their is a Pull, then? : D

Also whenever a surgebinder finds themselves in a Highstorm, their stormlight stores are constantly renewing themselves. Could this be a result of lightning in the area? My wording here is rough, but in theory could this lightning be stormlight, its own plasma? In fact, could it be that the lightning is the stormlight, which would confirm the theory that stormlight is affected by magnetic fields? I give this one final push of evidence, as Voidspren are often described as "acting like lightning."

Ah, did I put this in the wrong place? My apologies.

It's a general consensus among a lot of Sanderson fans I've met that stormlight is a gaseous investiture. This makes sense; it acts like a gas, it moves like a gas, it looks like a gas.

Only... it doesn't.

It's my own opinion that stormlight is actually a plasma. Gases, in the real world, don't tend to glow. Plasma does. Plasma also has a lot of properties similar to that of a gas.

"But Channelknight!" I hear you cry. "Plasma is a superheated gas! How could someone hold it inside of themselves without burning?"

Yeah, yeah, whatever. LIES!

Plasma is not a superheated gas, regardless of whatever your fifth grade science teacher taught you. It's true that most plasmas are, in fact, "superheated," but not all of them. The best example of plasma in everyday life is neon. It's a gas that, if in contact with an electric current, glows. This is because that current is transforming the gas into a plasma. Certainly you wouldn't want to touch this stuff, but it wouldn't shear your flesh from your bones in a matter of seconds. All elements have their own points when they become solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas. It's not ridiculous to say that stormlight simply occurs in the plasmatic phase at room temperature.

Correct me if I'm wrong, folks. Edibility is better than incredibility.

Just now, Pathfinder said:

He was not wearing shardplate when he transferred to the cognitive realm. They had needed to sneak into Kholinar, so he left it back at Urithiru.

Thanks. Been awhile.

On 1/6/2020 at 7:09 PM, Bigmikey357 said:

Someone on screen being bad chull with living Shardplate, as well as the once and for all settlement of what living Shardplate is comprised of (non sapient spren vs solid Stormlight) 

See, when they were in the Cognitive realm, Adolin's Shardblade's spren was existent, but not the one for his plate. Now, my memory's a little rusty as to whether he was even wearing his plate in there, but I think shardplate might be something a little different than sharblades.

Ah no I've read a lot of Cosmere (Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, etc). I've been in it for a little while, so when I got the book for Christmas I was a little excited.

Thanks for the advice though.

On 12/16/2019 at 7:54 PM, Fractalfire said:

 

1. Realistic Supernatural Warfare
   • Ideally, I would like to see how supernatural warfare works and how this effects things like tactics, strategy, supply-lines, goals, etc. I want to be shocked by Dalinar's military genius, horrified by Odium's countermove, and surprised when both plans fall apart. Really, the moment I'm looking for is the moment I got from the previous books where I go "OH, of course, that's how a magical war would go, why didn't I anticipate [exciting strategy/maneuver/important goal] before?!" 
   • Maps! Detailed explanations of battle strategy. How does the world adjust to technological warfare? Is it like WWI, when strategy was forced to change dramatically? 

A rule of thumb of warfare is to get the High Ground. Dalinar got the gist of this all the way back in The Way of Kings with his floaty-bridge things. The Fused can do this via lashings, and-- of course-- Kaladin and Bridge Four can do it as well..

Transportation is also incredibly important. Unless you can get supplies and troops somewhere, that somewhere is the enemy's. With the portals riddling Roshar and only accessible to the Knights Radiant... daaaaang they got an advantage!

There is one thing I have yet to analyze; the Fused being able to, basically, "come back" upon death. This leads back to the days of WWI, when we fought "Wars of Attrition," which was essentially just throwing as many men and guns at the other team as you could, with the last man standing being the winner. However, with people not actually dying... the only method for detaining these creatures is with containment. It's possible one could actually "starve out" their spren, kind of what happened to Syl back in Shadesmar aboard the ship. If the spren bonded to the Fused don't receive whatever it is they run off of, the Fused lose their power, and can possibly die normally.

Another huge factor for war is propaganda. This was Russia's huge problem during WWI. Literally nobody had any idea why they were fighting this war, so they revolted. Propaganda runs off of communications which, as we learn early on in Oathbringer, isn't that difficult for people with Lashings like Kaladin. With new members of Bridge Four becoming Knights Radiant left and right, they might actually be of more use mustering support from the general populace than fighting Odium. In fact, I see this as a possible future character arc for the Knights Radiant wanting to "do more than this."

And then there's the fact that Odium sees every possibility except one.

Don't ask me about that, all. I don't know.

-Channelknight

Thanks all! I'm a little new to this stuff, so... yeah.

The first Sanderson book I read was Skyward, and I came to find a natural liking for his protagonists as well as the mysterious race known as the Krell.

In Starsight, we learn that the KRELL are actually another race, but that's a different matter.

What bothers me is when I recently started reading Arcanum Unbounded and Sixth of the Dusk. According to The Coppermind, the krell in that story are different than those in Skyward and Starsight. However, knowing Sanderson's writing, he rarely does things just for fun. Do you think this could mean that he's trying to introduce Skyward and Starsight into the Cosmere?

Just a little further piece of evidence: The Krell in Sixth of Dusk are beach creatures, and the KRELL in Starsight turn out to be crablike things in suits of armor.

The easiest solution to this question I can imagine is if a knight radiant grabbed an honorblade (I.E. Shallan with the one Rock was carting around). It makes sense that they could, because if Sanderson's gonna hammer through a good seven or books he's going to need to introduce new abilities.

2 minutes ago, StanLemon said:

Soul Stamps aren't made out of solid Investiture, they stamp design is a conduit for the Investiture. As for Taldain, the sand is actually a covered with a microscopic organism that metabolizes Investiture and when full of Investiture they turn white. 

Well...

That was fast.

Thanks!

t's my understanding that all solid Investitures turn out to be metals. However, does that mean all soulstamps have to be made of metal? What about the sands from Taldain? I'd like some opinions, because this is a matter I'm unsure about.

A lightsaber is a super-heated gas, I.E. a plasma, but a strange force causes it to act like a solid. The blade is virtually invincible, because it's not actually a solid, but rather a gas.