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If there is no Kaladin is there also no Tien?

I doubt they'd be crushed, rocks is rocks. bones are porous Plus magic

I proposed Retribution as the Honour/Odium combination in advance. While it wasn't a super serious locked in prediction I was quite happy about it. Shallan having a shardblade is fairly foreshadowed IMO, she references 10 heartbeats while having a panic attack. From that moment on I expected it. Elhokar mentions funny symbol headed creatures to Kaladin, I took that to be Cryptics.

Phantoms wouldn't need ships for transport at least, they could just walk across the sea bed. But if you've got offshore weaponry that's an issue.

Pre-written Aons are a little reminiscent of Luz in Owl House - She has magic runes that she can prepare and deploy later. I have decided that an Aon landmine would be unfortunate but effective.

*Cough* kholorse I did neglect the upkeep/logistics on my evaluation. Napoleon said "amateurs discuss tactics, the professionals discuss logistics" Amateur status revealed! Direforms would need that daily upkeep and supply lines - If the Koloss or Phantom's got to the supply lines the Direforms are done.

Yes you're absolutely right! Found this elsewhere on the site after a quick search. The investment (ha) to create a Phantom is steep indeed.

We need an invested soldier bracket. I have been confusing Direforms for Magnified Ones (Yazed-im). I do wonder regarding the logistics of the creation of a 1xKalad's Phantom vs 1xKoloss vs 1xRegal So when it comes to fielding an army the speed at which numbers can be accrued and the associated investiture cost is something I would consider. Shashara developed single breath awakening which was used to create the Phantom's - But I'm quite sceptical by the written prose that a Phantom would only take a single breath. Happy to read anything that gives a clearer answer as to the cost. But could range from 50:1 (pre Manywar cost) to 1:1. It does seem that the creation of a Phantom is going to be very involved. Clean skeleton, encased in stone which doesn't seem all that quick! I would really love to read Vasher's notebooks from his time developing them. You could acquire the breath from a person and then use them to make the lifeless so that would go some way to limiting the external costs for creation. Koloss is a 4:1 but it's rapid. I envisage a stacked table like the hemurgic poster so you can create the spikes and place them immediately. I don't think there's any opportunity cost for a Regal, nothing has to be sacrificed to create a single soldier in the same way you would a Koloss or Lifeless. In terms of timing you need a Highstorm (or at least you did) - You get a spike (hehe) in production every storm. Account for no shardic intervention I think I would choose Regals, and if pressed Direforms.

Thank you That's very interesting!

That's a very interesting question - Using the same Hemalurgic method but on differently invested worlds...Identical result or would there be variance?

Let her cook

I would echo this. Also 30-40% vs The Lord Ruler (or for him) makes more sense. You're likely to be hunted and killed if you lose to you may end up fighting like hell to avoid that.

Thank you! Vin Pocket sand memory unlocked.

This made me think of a flashbang for Steel/Iron sight. Like Chaff but with metal dust. Unless that already featured in the books and I forgot?

Yes indeed, I should have been more specific as the usage of these arts do not have any metal required to put into practice (AFAIK). Surgebinding requires Investiture as fuel, and Sel arts require that appropriate symbology to access the Dor. Aluminium is just one of those things. It's the ultimate sink for Investiture - Silver would probably affect both arts as well in some form - Waiting on Brandon to put some answers into text.

I think this is also compounded by the relevance of metals Cosmere wide. We've seen it with Fabrials, the metals function similarly with these devices as they do with a Mistborn, with Tress, with the Silver whips for shades. It seems like it's so often present in some form but it's not always necessary. Sel's Invested Arts appears to be pretty metal agnostic, as does Surgebinding. The application of Hemalurgy staples a fragment of a donor spirit web onto a recipient spirit web. If a Spren not equivalent in some way to a fragment of spirit web it should be possible to attach it to someone else via an similar means (As opposed to a voluntary Nahel bond). I suspect that the gem spikes contain a spren similar to an Alerter but rather than detecting life it should detect investiture. I don't think we have a comprehensive list of what spren are used to create what effects. The metals don't set the effects, they just apply a modifier to it. Edit: An additional thought you could probably create a spike that is also a Fabrial to turn your crystal spikes from "normal visions" into telescopic vision, or tuning like an analogue television.

That's kind of the point I'm making though, he's so strong that for a protagonist character it wouldn't be a satisfying long term. Star Wars would be pretty boring if Luke defeats Darth Vader in their first encounter. "Don't worry Obi Wan - I've got this" I'm writing more because something was bothering me. Antagonists are plot devices. Further, if we wanted to be extremely reductive about the perspective we take on stories, everything could be, in some fashion, considered a plot device.

I think a happy medium allows for more interesting stories. Imagine Stormlight if Kaladin was as strong as TLR. I think Wax fits in that happy medium as a good example, prior to his final book at least. He's got some powers and he's nicely creative with application of them. Our Knight Radiants are similar, until 4th/5th Ideal at least. IMHO.

If you shoot someone with a bullet, and the intent to make a hemalurgic spike...would it?

"God made man. Sam Colt made them equal." That's a very nice highly invested spirit web. It would be a shame if something were to happen to you. So anyway I started blasting.

Brandon refutes this. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/451-tor-instagram-livestream/#e14465

I also think the manacles would prevent the arms from being injured. Anything strong enough to break through the protection is strong enough to break the manacles I suspect.

I also thought Dralumin, as it amplified the clash between Rayse and Tanavast. Assuming what we know from Mistborn holds true universally but it certainly seems to based on Navani's lectures on Fabrial Mechanics.

I would think it is the nature of Braize than stops Cognitive Shadows from leaving the Rosharan system. This would affect the Heralds as well; a rather neat solution to the question I can see being asked "Why aren't the Heralds just ending the war immediately" - They couldn't even if they wanted to.

Autonomy is deciding your own path for yourself. Dusks entire arc is finding out what he wants to do for himself after his previous life ended. He wants to preserve the autonomy of his own people within the Cosmere. It tracks for me.