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    I have always assumed that lurchers can see ironlines, like the steel lines that coinshots see. OTOH, compounding iron would be very hard to use. "I can dramatically increase my own weight and fall through this floor!" Admittedly, Wax did use that trick once.
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    I don't think anyone, including Kaladin, has claimed that Kaladin is perfect. He only claims to be improving. Journey Before Destination. Dalinar's Third Ideal is actually a restatement of (part of) the First.
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    Is that really easier than just having food and campsites? How many Forgers are you assuming the army has? Would it be better than Forgers who can make crops grow out of barren ground by Stamping the dirt with "This was a cultivated field"? The latter would be very close to how Soulcasters feed Rosharan armies.
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    Certainly. I mentioned it because another person upthread was talking about a Fullborn combatant.
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    I gave three possibilities in the previous message?
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    No. Radiants don't heal infinitely, only to the limit of their Stormlight. If you limit the Mistborn's metals, you must impose a reasonable limit on the Radiant's Stormlight. Once you allow compounding, all bets are off. Just compounding a metal as common as steel is terrifying--see Paalm for examples.
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    Kaladin's parentage, my own crackpot theory: We learn in the discussion of Adolin's name that the "-in" ending means "son of". Kalad is one of Vasher's names, attested in Warbreaker. So Kaladin must be Vasher's son. A heretic has to be (or claim to be) a member of the religion. Someone like me, who is a member of no religion, is an infidel, not a heretic. The Catholic Inquisition could burn heretics (professed Christians who didn't follow their teachings) at the stake. Professed non-Christians would normally only be subject to exile.
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    It's odd to say the conditions are meant to be fair, then give the Unoathed hundreds of pounds of god metals (shardblades and Plate are made of god metals) and the mistborn none.
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    I already said this, but the US forces (if in a historical period where competently led) would find a local faction to support, not just try to defeat everyone. Singers vs. Ashynians? Conquered and dominated humans vs. Alethi militarists? Militarists as useful puppets to rule everyone else?
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    If I was a Coinshot and knew about Plate in advance I'd bring along some chains. They're a liability when fighting other Metalborn, but against one of the Unoathed they'd be super useful.
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    We've "heard" Radiant Plate talk, but not quite that eloquently ("Shallan!"). And note, we've never "heard" Fifth Ideal Plate. Is the dead Plate that awakened for the Unoathed maybe a remnant of a Fifth Ideal bond?
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    If you include the Unmade you kind of need to include the three Bondsmith spren: the Stormfather, the Nightwatcher, and (already mentioned) the Sibling. I put the Stormfather above most (all but one) of the Unmade. Only Ba-Ado-Mishram can (like the three Bondsmith spren) grant Light.
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    You wrote "shattered". Means the same thing in this case, but Brandon's people (in-world) refer to "splintered" for Shards and "the Shattering" for Adonalsium. Note: in my reply I originally typed "shattered" myself, but then my nitpicking reflexes kicked in and I corrected what I had typed.
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    We know that the Mistborn series after the Ghostbloods one (due out starting 2027) is the space war, between the post-Voidlight Roshar and the post-Ghostbloods Scadrial, or rather factions they lead.
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    OP posited that Odium was splintered.
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    Which time period are we talking? Wax and Wayne era, Shai does. I'm not sure (maybe I am just not remembering) whether she could do that in Emperor's Soul.
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    Finally figured it out. When Taravangian does the big reveal about Jasnah's old assassination plan, here's how it should have gone:
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    I'm referring to the belief among many (notably Jews) that the "first" fulfillment really happened, but the second "fulfillment" was just Jesus deliberately trying to match a prophecy (riding a donkey into Jerusalem) or made up by Gospel writers long after Jesus's death (notably Joseph's flight to Egypt, which really couldn't have happened as written).
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    The trouble is, you can't (in the Emperor's Soul period) make a generic "horse" fast. You'd need to craft a custom stamp for that horse.
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    That prophecy interpretation is, let's say, limited to Christians. Non-Christian (and rationalist Christians) have other interpretations.
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    1B. Killed by the ruler using a spear to the torso.
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    IIRC Syl says (in Rhythm of War?) that when Surgebinders started appearing, Honor restricted them. In one of the visions Tanavast enumerates the Radiants as a weapon he developed against Rayse.
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    As Brandon said, also StormbringerNightblood. But yes, still rare, depending on how far off-world the Investiture-sucking hordelings are.
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    ... or a Nicroburst. She could force Miles to burn all his gold in a giant burst, if she could touch him while he's healing. Again, without his allomantic powers, Miles would just be a Bloodmaker like Wayne, no longer a compounder (until he swallowed more gold). Presumably you could shoot him repeatedly while he fumbled for a metal vial.
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    Thanks, @Ookla the Married. That's a mistake, in my arrogant opinion. "Eating your Investiture and there's no way to resist" is the Cosmere's version of Kryptonite. Eventually, DC Comics realized that incredibly common Kryptonite was bad, and made it really, really rare, and also let Superman work around it in various ways (e. g. lead shielding). Brandon's well on his way to making the DC Silver Age mistake.
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