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Hence my comment about jousting armor! A foot soldier or even mounted knight would wear armor like the kind you mentioned and pictured, with gaps behind the knee, at the elbow, loose pauldrons at the shoulder, basically everywhere you need to move to run, jump, fight. Jousting armor was made differently, for someone whos job it was to sit atop a horse and get slammed by a lance. It was usually thicker, and certainly far heavier and far harder to move around in, hence better comparison for shardplate than normal steel plate. *edit* - probably shouldve mentioned the difference more in my first comment lol Good point on it not being steel tho, I've got nothing for that point. beats me if i know the proper physical attributes of tanavastiam or koravarium XD Shardblades weigh very little, less than a normal to a degree that people comment it feels weird to use. But we know for a fact that shardplate is extremely heavy, heavier than normal armor, so that point is kind of invalid.

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Magic aside, lets compare medieval plate armor to shardplate. Medieval plate was usually 2-3mm thick, and would sometimes weigh upwards of 60 lbs, though shardplate is probably more similar to jousting armor, which was far heavier as the wearer didnt really need to move, so we can say ~120 lbs (those poor horses, yikes, on top of their own jousting armor). Rosharans are big, really big, so we'll be generous and scale up by a third. The Rosharan equivalent plate armor would weigh around ~160 lbs. Maybe some particularly and broad shouldered shardbearers had their plate grow larger for them nearing something that would in theory weigh 200 lbs Coppermind has dead plate at 1400 lbs. 1400!!! Unless the investiture infusing the armor is adding real, gravity affected mass, I can't see it being anything but the mass of the armor by way of it being much thicker in places.

Forgot about the hug. While the plate gauntlets are def thin so you retain dexterity in your fingers, shardbearers have chests as deep as storming horses, the breastplate is certainly over a centimeter thick in places. Not sure that it rules anything out though. Maybe, since we know living plate is pretty adjustable, it scales itself back when not actively defending from things? Still leaving the outline, but one closer to Kal's actual profile. i might've drawn a few eyes at work while i had a laugh with myself at my desk XD. the opportunity was too good

not missing the point, i just did a poor job putting my thoughts down lol. more concise - its worth noting that all plate is made up of lesser spren. As I see it, the fact that living and dead plate are different means something is different in the spren that make them up, whether that be the equivalent thing the recreance did to deadeye blades happening to lesser spren, or something different. Its just a different avenue for thoughts and questions. Maybe, knowing more about the relationship between blades and deadeyes than we do living and dead plate, that could be a jumping off point for something True. Maybe they just flit around nearby, close enough that they can wink into existence at his need.

spoilered the quoted responses for size I'm with Frustration on this one. It seems to me that that is exactly what Lirin noticed, just internally; his hand touching kaladin before actual skin to skin contact is made, making Kal "bigger" by the plate aura around him. also idk if it's just me, but I feel like this discussion is shooting itself in the foot not considering that living plate is made up of spren - maybe some of the differences can be analyzed more finely in that context? I assume the windspren that make up Kal's plate just hang out around him in the CR, slipping from partially to fully in the PR as his need for plate Waxes and Waynes

I think this is my favorite interpretation of infinity here so far. Maybe a more clear analogy would be a river? holding a shard lets you dip a cup into that river. The river is effectively infinite, the only thing that matters is the size of your cup and how much water you can scoop up at one time. and sazed's got the double gulp

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Could it also have been the unnamed Unmade hovering around the Davars? No immediate thoughts that swing me either way, but a possibility. Could also have exacerbated any existing cracks caused by other things.

That makes sense to me. Making sure I'm on the same page here, you're saying that for equally sized metalminds who are being filled at the same base rate, that a work-dense attribute like Pewter would be filled quicker than a work-light attribute? Even with people having differing base fill/tap speeds, I think that should be the case. Kind of. Say person A can lift 200 lbs, and Person B can lift 100 lbs. While person A does have a greater potential to store more faster, with their fill ceiling at 200 lbs of effective strength, that does not mean that they are always filling more. Person B could walk around filling 50lbs of effective stength and person A 25 lbs. Since the effective strength is normalized, if the metalminds are the same size, B's metalmind fills faster.

honestly unsure if this points one way or another - this makes me think that it is a specific topaz being referred to as opposed to the gem generally, but I dont think it rules it out the latter

This was my thought. The topaz he was wearing was the literal name / title of "Topaz" that he used, and through this relationship and past events Topaz is now reviled or worthless in places across the cosmere (or potentially in realmatically meaningful ways if any of this lined up with his time as a dawnshard, maybe he messed around with stuff somewhow?).

I'd like to see the form a singer would take with an alespren/winespren lol. Drunkform? To get into the right mindset you've gotta go into the highstorm absolutely hammered XD

Doesn't Adolin's plate do some on-the-fly adaptation to the Stormform lightning during The Battle of Narak? IIRC before he gets hit the lightning leaves streaks in his sight, but after he gets hit, the Plate does some weird trick to cover it? or something like that. I can try and find the section if people want. Using that as an example, i think dead plate should also be able to adapt! edit: I think plate should be radiation resistant, probably impervious. Whether it is already or needs to be exposed to it first so it can adapt in some way, idk.

Yuh. I know some did follow though - I remember one scene in particular where Sadeas gets to the gemheart before the scheduled highprince and chucks it at his feet when he makes light of that lol

I think this was how it was originally, when Plateau Runs were first come first serve. iirc once Dalinar was made Highprince of War, he scheduled highprinces for each run, and gemhearts went to Elhokar who doled them out fairly.

What frustration said. People aren't the best at naming things, and tend to go for what makes immediate sense. We dont see them using Preservation-mancy or Ruin-malurgy on Scadrial, we see Allomancy (from alloy) and Hemalurgy (from blood).

We know that burning Lerasium increases your power as a Mistborn (connection to preservation, whatever, details on this to be hammered out later) - ie Vin, already mistborn, would have her raw power increased if she burned some more. It only makes sense to me that transferring whatever that is into a nicrosil-mind works the same way, being continuous rather than discrete - letting you store X amount of lerasiums worth of your strength as a mistborn.

Neither really. Odium loses a Pawn, but steals a Rook from the humans in the process. I doubt he cares much for individual fused - just net progress.

Very well could be that, I mean, you've just gone over the perfect precedent for this to be the case with the eyes and everything lol. To raise my original point though, there certainly is at least one reason the hair breeds true - its cool! Pure black + red hair would be awesome, rip shalladin Do you think the rainbow kid would have his hair grow in a pleasing gradient of colors? Or a patchwork mess lol.

Fair. Hadn't seen that WoB before. I really only meant to use eye color as another example, seems it was a poor choice by me. I maintain my point on the hair though.

What in world explanation is there for human development of violet eyes?

As unlike Brandon as it is, I always just kind of chalked this up as the Rule of Cool taking effect, just like how some other stories will have impossible eye colors taken as normal in world. Come to think of it, don't some people in Stormlight have Violet eyes? Should it work / does it have an in world justification? No. Is it cool? Hell yeah.

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I'm with you here. The differences between Kal and other Windrunners/Radiants may be minor but they have an almost prescient feel when they come up, with him alone being called "Son of Tanavast", his weird ability to shape the winds, idk. It definitely feels more important than Kal being particularly honorable