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    If it's Invested, it becomes harder to Awaken than ordinary metal, which is really, really difficult.
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    Even I think that's overstated. Depends on the details. Example: Wax shoots Kaladin with two aluminum rounds. The first one punches a hole in his Shardplate. The second punches a hole in his head. Kaladin falls down dead. There's no physical or Realmatic reason that wouldn't work. It's just that Brandon wouldn't write it.
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    Of course, the answer will tend to be, "We don't know what will happen until Brandon writes it." Speculation is fun, though. Crackpot theory: Adolin replaces Taln as a Herald, and his body-of-Investiture has two legs. Taln has to get peace at some point. Both Taln and Adolin are famously skilled warriors whose greatest virtue is determination, never giving up, right?
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    I'm not at all sure he can summon Syl as a Blade any more. She's a superspren like the Stormfather now (IMO). Notice that neither Navani nor Dalinar could summon their superspren as Blades.
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    I think that's pretty much inevitable.
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    Except ... clearing Kaladin's Stormlight is moot. As a V2 Herald, he can draw unlimited Warlight from Retribution. You seem not to be counting his Herald abilities, like steelrunning-like speed. Also, he would never be fighting alone, he'd have Syl with him. Couldn't help it. Also Kaladin is now immortal, but you mean only one battle, not when Kaladin pops right back up to fight again shortly after getting killed.
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    Is Nomad a Sliver? I thought that was reserved for someone who had Ascended to a Shard, which to the best of my knowledge, he didn't. If he's a Sliver, so is Hoid, yes?
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    How about a dragon's bone (as in Tamu Keks)? Or Dragonsteel? The weird crystal from Burning Man that Sigzil uses to siphon off his excess energy? Raysium? Etc.
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    Brandon (a chemistry major once upon a time) likes to make his magic science-adjacent. The soft and strong axial connections are meant to either be, or at least bring to mind, the weak and strong nuclear forces. Keep in mind that "axi" is Cosmere for "atoms". It would seem that some Yolen people can perceive them directly.
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    @sifth, I agree with basically everything you wrote. I think the message above helps me understand why I felt WaT ended with a letdown: Brandon backed away from a lot of the dramatic stuff that he made us think had happened. People need to be dead when they die. Sorry, Brandon, but they do. You talk a lot about "stakes", but if anything can happen to reverse anything that we see on the page, there are no stakes.
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    I just came back to this because a couple of people liked my previous message. It occurs to me that Tanavast would have been a better fit with Odium, and Rayse with Honor. Think about it.
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    Post-Retribution, there is no sunlight. The True Everstorm blankets the planet. Plants will only grow through the Surge of Progression. That is: without Warlight, everyone starves. Exceptions: Azir, the floating islands, and Urithuru.
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    I hope you will, too.
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    That's the second time I've done that. Sorry about that. I don't expect it. I hope for it, because Kaladin has bored me for about 3 books now. I know I'm in the minority. Also, I'm unlikely to read the Back Five due to the Grim Reaper. (I'm older than Brandon.)
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    True, but there's no reason for Brandon to uncanonize it. The "A plot" of Dragonsteel was just canonized, as you know.
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    I'm sure that this is correct. I just think it would have an effect on Sigzil. I don't know that he could survive beheading, as Topaz does in Dragonsteel.
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    @AquaRegia is correct.
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    Several shards have already been Splintered (Dominion, Devotion, Ambition, maybe Virtuosity [but we don't know if that has happened by WaT]), but into more than two pieces. It would require some kind of god-scalpel to make a clean cut like that.
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    I disagree with you, I'm afraid, Ninth. Remember, at the end of WaT, Hoid survives being vaporized by a god ... while he isn't a Dawnshard. The lingering effects of the Dawnshard continue even after you give it up, demonstrably. I think Sig is probably harder to kill than he realizes himself.
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    I distinctly remember people looking down on the Everstorm from Urithuru.
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    It isn't especially hard to burn a diamond. (No pun intended.) You heat it up. Regular fires can turn a diamond completely into gas (carbon dioxide). Not a butane lighter, but a blow torch or very hot house fire. The molecular structure of diamond crystals does make them harder to ignite than the other crystal forms. Signed, used to teach chemistry.
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    It is said in the story that one thing Lightweavers do is inspire people to become their best selves. I think Gaz is partly there to show how that works.
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    Now that Kaladin is a god ... what does that mean in story terms? Will he spar with Vasher again? It would be way more even now that they're both gods. Will he be very uncomfortable getting worshiped? Will he finally end the stupid lighteyes dominate rule in Vorinism, thus utterly undercutting Moash by solving the actual problem Moash was obsessed with?
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    The obvious answer is Navani. Note: obvious to an older science guy who has spent his career working with engineers.
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    Spoiler for non-cipher enthusiasts below: Sigzil doesn't need to breathe because of the Dawnshard Exist's lingering effects. It's very hard to kill him. Not as hard as Wit/Hoid/Topaz, who literally can't die as long as a single living cell of him remains, but it's hard.
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