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    Cryo panicked, knowing that the materials Nameless was using wouldn't confer structural integrity beyond the four hundred-feet mark, and Elsecalled the hell away.
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    I personally know a couple cosplayers IRL and skin painting is part of that. I also personally know people with extensive tattoos that are not regular skin colors. Does that qualify? If not idk. TPBM has unironically wondered if solipsism was true at least once while showering.
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    So, I'm gonna say something that is gonna sound a bit selfish, but is nevertheless good life advice. Yes, it IS possible that someone can be mean to you without being a bad person. It is possible that they could be having an unusually bad day, it is possible that they're generally nice but dislike you because of some unlucky coincidences, it is possible that their behavior makes sense in context for a variety of reasons. BUT, the fact of the matter is that there are BILLIONS of people on the planet. You can afford to be selective about who you interact with (or, alternatively, liberal about who you cut away from your life) and still have plenty of friends.
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    Oh, we're taking one particular boy, not teenage boys in general :). Well, can't help you there much. There are pretty accurate statements that can be made about the characteristics of groups, but individuals are... well, individual. In any case, you shouldn't expose yourself to toxicity that doesn't benefit you, so the blocking sounds like a pretty good call there.
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    Marasi
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    Cryo silently made a mental note that the Empire might not be evil after all, and to keep an open mind. At the end of the day, though, he didn't care. His job wasn't to prevent decent empires from collapsing. Let those stuck up Consuls concern themselves with matters of political stability. His job was to document.
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    I mean, it's been quite a while since I was a teenager (I'm 25) but from what I can *hazily* remember from a decade ago, I definitely felt an entitlement to other people's time. Both girls and boys, men and women, didn't matter, if I wanted to talk to someone I felt on some *internal* level that it's not fair for them to ignore me. Which made me highly annoying. I don't think I was ever mean about it, but annoyance can seem malevolent from the outside, I guess. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that I was able to teach myself how to control myself *way* before the internal entitlement went away. There was a period of my life, roughly from when I was 17 to when I was 20, when I had enough self-control to never be called needy, but on an emotional level I still felt entitled to other people's time. That was highly frustrating :))
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    While I agree that Odium involvement cannot be ruled out, I think it is very unlikely. Because we have a WoB where it is explicitly stated that Odium is afraid of Harmony because there are things about Harmony's instability that he's not aware of, and he'd be much less afraid if he found out. The Set seems to be pretty knowledgeable about Scadrial, including about Harmony himself. If Odium knew everything the Set knows, I'm not sure how that would line up with that WoB.
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    It's probably extremely hard to make Scadrian Shardblades, but only "very" hard to make Scadrian "shardblades-ish"? Like, the way Kharbranthians can make half-shards which are a weak version of shardplate using fabrials, right? I guess Scadrians could slap together something like a sword-shaped primer cube with Leeching charge as a poor imitation of a Shardblade. Although that would be one of the wonkiest and most inefficient ways to weaponize the Scadrian magics haha.
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    I also have a wacky alternate theory on Allomancer Jak. My theory is that he's not a mistborn, but a zinc misting with advanced savanthood. And that whenever he disseminates stories about himself or catches people tell his tales, he AOE enflames credulity.
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    We have two separate WoB's where Brando is asked if duralumin worked with surgebinding and said yes. (this is the other one, the first being the one in the OP) Now, yes, those things only say that the two magics positively interact, not that the interaction is explicitly very useful. However, from past WoB's, Brandon *does* have a tendency to throw us a bone and tell us when interactions are useless even if possible. It's all very hypothetical either way.
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    I sure can! It was a typo. TPBM still sleeps with one or more plushies.
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    "No publisher's gonna buy that twist." scoffed Cryo.
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    Haha, that is definitely a possible way supercharged Lightweaving could work. It's not what I was thinking of, though. I was rather imagining imprisoning someone's senses into a (still only light-based and intangible) illusion that lasts very long. So, basically, if Hoid burns duralumin while lightweaving a wall in front of you, I imagine you could still walk through the wall, but that walking through the wall would not make the wall dissolve, and that staying inside the wall would render you temporarily blind. But your suggestion would be even more useful-in-combat. The way I interpret those WoB's is basically that (to use D&D analogous terminology) Lightweaving involves both evocation as well as telepathy, but that it's primarily evocation. So the properties of your mind have some effect on how you see Lightweaving, but someone who is completely immune to mind-affecting magic would still see lightweaving illusions. In order to pierce Lightweaving, there has to be something special about your eyesight, not about your mind necessarily.
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    Do you cherish and respect yourself? I believe that would require a cat, two daggers, and extensive knowledge of programming.
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    "Storms." Cryo rolled his eyes, taking in some Stormlight from his massive gem pouch and peering into the Cognitive once again. "Okay bruv, you're a storming rock if you wanna be one." He then returned to the Physical and handed Nameless his pet rock, now returned to its boring, rock-shape. "Here you go. Client's always right, what a load of crem..." he muttered to himself, trailing off.
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    Yeah nvm, you're right. If Trell is an Avatar she is arguably native to wherever she was created, not native to the same place as Bavadin. Good catch!
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    Cryo peered into the Cognitive Realm, picking up the bead representing the pet rock. "I'm a rock" it whispered weakly, as if in the throes of death. "You will change, bruv" Cryo commanded, dismissively, dispassionate to the suffering of the pet rock. "I'm a rock..." it tried once more, but was too weak to resist the Soulcasting. Cryo returned his sight into the Physical realm, where the strangled rock had been replaced with happy, chittering, and notably non-strangled tiny larkin. "Thank me later. My rate is twenty five Breaths worth of Investiture per cast, but consider this a free sample."
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    So, we have this gem As of right now, we know of one person who can burn duralumin who is also a Knight Radiant. I won't keep this suspenseful, but yeah, it's Hoid. So, it is hypothetically possible to supercharge Lightweaving with duralumin. Jury's out on what that might look like, but one possible direction you can take this is that supercharging Lightweaving allows you to trap people in persistent illusions (maybe?). Here's my curiosity. If Hoid *were* able to trap people in persistent illusions, that would give him a way to be useful in combat in spite of his magical restriction against hurting people. Unless... Hoid believes that trapping people in persistent illusions hurts them in a sense? Hard to tell, but I personally lean towards Hoid seeing this as non-damaging, so, might work.
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    It's this one. So, basically, it IS possible to bring a spren offworld, and Hoid CAN leave Roshar without abandoning Design, but, chronologically speaking, at the time of the events of Rhythm of War, Hoid has no idea how to do this.
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    My biggest issue with the theory that Trell is Autonomy/an Avatar of Autonomy is this: And since Bavadin is both the current AND original Vessel of Autonomy...
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    That's the beauty of Discord with its "Proof?" and "self-evident" and "shrug" reacts. Truly a marvelous extension to written language. Also hi girls. I'm a transient visitor. Nothing to see here.
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    Here's what we know so far from WoB's: 1. Some of the ritual magic is necessary for the "coding" but a lot of it is just cultural aesthetics. 2. They don't "need" to sacrifice people. A particular Dakhor enhancement, in the abstract, simply needs as much investiture as the number of sacrifices it asks for. So, for example, an enchantment that asks for 5 souls doesn't strictly require 5 souls, it just strictly requires 5 souls worth of investiture. However, in order to use substitutions, you have to somewhat hack the system. So, for example, the soul of a mistborn probably has 5 normal souls worth of investiture in it, but that doesn't mean that any monk doing a ritual using a mistborn will know *how* to operate on that efficiency. 3. Yes, Connection to the land is needed.
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    Yup, and most importantly, it's not just that he hasn't done it, but also that he hasn't had the opportunity to do it. That's a pretty short list, all things considered.
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