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I am not sure the two are related. It is entirely possible that Taravangian was planning to have Dalinar killed all along, but wanted to clean up the rest of the world a little bit first.
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You assume that because the Shards - the parts - have consciousness, then the whole - Adonalsium - must also do.
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A good clarification on Shadesmar, but I think it's moot. Shadesmar's... characteristics vary in the different Expanses. We know that traveling to and from Sel is dangerous and/or difficult because of how Shadesmar was affected by the Splintering of Devotion and Dominion. So while your reminder is absolutely true, it's also a semantic one - strictly speaking, what I should've said is "the Cognitive Realm around Scadrial" or "the Cognitive Realm Expanse that corresponds to Scadrial in the Physical Realm."
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Not strictly true. Here is a quote from Chapter 5: Heretic, pg 91 (US Hardcover):
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Eh... I see the direction of your thoughts much better now, but they still feel weird to me. I am sorry, I can't explain it. What I could support is seeing a Surgebinder go out during a highstorm and pull a Vin. When Szeth inhales too much Stormlight, he talks - or thinks, rather - about feeling like it would burst through him, but never does he mention that he can't take more. The feeling he describes sounds different from, say, the feeling you get when you eat too much. In this rather mundane case, you feel like you just can't take another bite. With Szeth I feel like he could easily inhale even more Stormlight, but he prudently decides not to, since meeting an exploding end is not high on his Christmas list. Thinking about it this way, it feels more natural for people to be able to choose to burn away their Physical form by taking in too much Investiture. That still leaves their Cognitive and Spiritual aspects to wield the power - this is a recipe for gods, I think. With objects it's probably different. Objects, for the most part, don't have strong presence in all three realms. Physical, obviously yes. Cognitive, probably also yes (as you can access Shadesmar and change how objects "view" themselves, thereby turning them into other objects; this is the good ol' Soulcasting). The Spiritual Realm, however... Shai claims that all things exist in all three realms, but I don't know if even an Invested object will have a strong Spiritual presence. This being said, I think I may have argued myself into a corner... I'll revisit this with a fresher mind. -
I still feel the same way, and my knowledge of the cosmere is better than average - though not terribly close to that of the oldtime lurkers
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I wonder if a Lifeless would even be capable of "activating" Nightblood...
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I wasn't trying to imply full control. Influence works just as fine for my purposes.
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Aye. Blades are already Invested objects. But Kurk apparently has much less life than I do and regularly beats me to topics which I can respond to helpfully...
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I think I'll stand behind the general idea that the Blades changed when the Radiants abandoned them. Do we know whether the Blades severed people souls while they were still being wielded by the Knights? I am not sure if this isn't an entirely theoretical question, because of the Radiants were as good as ancient (and now corrupted) lore leads us to believe, then they probably didn't walk around killing people. But I have to wonder if the Blades aren't natively of Odium and it is the Ideals (or the Nahel bond, but the Ideals sound much more likely) that negate that effect.
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This is a fair assumption. If I recall correctly, when Vin entered the well and her Hemalurgic earing came into contact with Preservation's power/body, he felt as if the earing was burning; presumably because Ruin's and Preservation's power don't play well with each other (as seen in Vin's battle against Ruin after her ascension). So Alendi probably would've removed them as well. ... wait. This is backwards. Wouldn't Ruin want to keep control over the Hero? Or is the working theory that he wanted to control the Hero only as far as to take him or her to the Well and make sure they took the power for themselves, but then released it, thereby freeing him?
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There is something missing here. Where is all this new and juicy info coming from?
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A bit of character analysis from the flipside of the fandom...
Argent replied to FeatherWriter's topic in Stormlight Archive
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Time travel due to FTL effects is... not a very common sense friendly topic. In some ways you are, in some you aren't. Regardless of the speed I move at, I can't go and kill Hitler*. Let's not discuss theoretical science (fiction) here. * I swear, a few hundred years from now, Hitler will be more famous for being an example in a time travel thought exercise than for the Holocaust...
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Heralds & Knights have matching genders...
Argent replied to dungeonfood's topic in Stormlight Archive
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Theory threads are not only for supporting evidence
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I admit that could be a hole in my idea... But an easy solution to this is the following alternative scenario. The Parsh people do get wiped out every time - not completely, but dramatically enough to look like they are completely gone. Maybe only a few hundred of them survive somewhere. The human kingdoms rest easily, assured that the threat is gone. The Parsh kick their mating form into an overdrive. Couple of thousand years later their numbers are (once again) great enough that they do get noticed by the humans; only, since they look like people with weird skin and armor, nobody sees the Voidbringers in them. At a later point their kill switch is flipped on, a new Desolation starts, and the cycle repeats. The only people who survive long enough to make the connection are the Heralds, but since they only show up during Desolations, they never actually see what happens between them.
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I feel your pain there...
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I am not sure "closest to" a power applies to Allomancers.
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I don't think that's sufficient - I believe you need the Cognitive component, and Chaos' original theory lacks that.
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The type of spren is important - critical even - for the type of fabrial you want to create. I would imagine the type of Allomancer will matter in a similar way.
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I think this is beyond the potential Surgebinders' or Radiants' affinity for combat. As long as their Ideals don't contradict the concept of combat (and I'll go off on a limb and say that none of them do), then what the Surgebinder does with the power coming from the Nahel bond is entirely their business. It's possible, even likely, that some Surgebinders will find combat naturally attractive or unattractive, but that's more personality that spren. If one of your Ideals is "I will protect those who cannot protect themselves," chances are you'll have to do some fighting; the Ideal itself suggest conflict, struggle, confrontation - and those are often either the cause or the effect of (physical) violence. If, on the other hand, your Ideal sounds like "I will teach who lack knowledge," they you probably won't be too keen on fighting. But neither one is forcefully restrictive - a Windrunner could choose to "protect those who cannot protect themselves" by leading them away from danger, sneaking into the night; and a member of our hypothetical educational order could decide that the most valuable knowledge is the knowledge of warfare.
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Told you I was kind of pretty awesome That aside (not that it's false or unimportant), credit goes to the Ultimate Questions thread. If I ask people not to shoot the messenger, I can't really ask them to give him a raise either
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No :`(
