Spideyninja20

Two men can be friends without being gay, just as a straight man and woman can be friends without having romantic feelings for each other.

For combat abilities, double steel is probably the best, as you can generate much greater amounts of force by increasing the speed of your movements than you can by just increasing nebulous “strength.” Double pewter would still be quite powerful, especially if tapping strength increases your body’s toughness as well as your muscle’s ability to do work. Or, if you could store toughness in a separate pewtermind, you could constantly be basically indestructible without the annoying, uncontrollable strength. Double iron could also be incredibly powerful, though probably not as much as double steel. Since you gain the strength and toughness needed to move your body normally while tapping weight, you can generate great amounts of force as force=massXaccelleration. Basically, you could punch someone with a fist that has near infinite weight and moves at the speed of a normal punch. Also you become the ultimate anchor for iron pulls, and you can use weight manipulation to focus and disperse your momentum. double chromium might be insanely powerful, depending on how spiritual fortune works in the cosmere. Double Tin would be incredibly useful, as would double bendalloy. Obviously double gold is great, if you can get past the cost. Others in this thread have already laid out the benefits of feruchemical tin, though I think they underestimate the usefulness of other combinations, especially some that directly compound. personally, I’m unsure as to what combo would be the best. If I could get a steady supply of gold, then double gold or A-pewter, F-gold would be my choice. Depending on the mechanics, double pewter might be the next best option for invulnerability. Double steel would probably be the coolest, with double iron being a close second. Edit: I forgot about double zinc. Holy crap. Double zinc is so good. Not only are you nearly infinitely smart, but you can use your rioting combined with increased mental speed to produce incredible effects.

Does anyone know if the rule of 16% of the Scadrian population being allomancers is still in effect in the later eras?

Thank you for your well wishes. I would love to have a friend on this site, even if I mostly come here to answer questions about the cosmere. Also, even though you might not have DID, it’s good to recognize and work on your own mental illness, and I’m proud of you.

Then how do you explain Nale confessing to both Lift and Szeth that he knows what he’s done is wrong? Or the fact that they don’t actually have to follow the law, as proven by Szeth when he swears to follow Dalinar? The Skybreakers are shown to be able to understand that the law is not the same as right and wrong (for instance when the order chooses to stop following human laws and start following singer laws) and are shown to circumvent and twist the law to their designs. As I said before, some Skybreakers, especially Nale, make choices they know to be morally wrong, thereby breaking the first ideal; yet they retain their bonds and their Spren are unharmed. I’m just unsure whether this is a plot hole or something Sanderson has a plan for.

Hello! I’m Spideyninja (not really). I don’t exactly know what I’m suppose to do here, but the prompt said something about introductions and discussions, so I’ll introduce myself then start a discussion. I enjoy comic books and many comic book movies, though there are many I do not enjoy. I first started reading Sanderson when I was in highschool and found The Reckoners series. At the time I didn’t even know that the author had other books or series, and I didn’t really get into Brandon’s work until I started watching Shadiversity, and read his epic fantasy book, Shadow of the Conqueror (great book btw). After hearing Shad praise the Mistborn books, I dove into that series and from there eagerly explored the rest of the Cosmere. A big reason I’m so intrigued by the Stormlight Archive is that I myself suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, and it’s fascinating to me learning about other people’s perspectives on the condition. As for the discussion I promised, I’ve recently been philosophizing about the nature of justice (probably largely due to the fact that one of my alters committed a heinous crime, and I’ve been struggling with what to think of myself since turning myself in) and I have reached a conclusion I believe to be true. However I love hearing other people’s opinions as they help me to define and strengthen my own beliefs, so I want to know; how would you define the word justice, or the concept behind it?

My argument here is quite simple. The first ideal of the Knights Radiant, shared across all orders, is “Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.” While the meaning and connotations of this oath are somewhat vague in some respects, Sanderson does try to explain the meaning somewhat in TWoK. I’m writing this off the top of my head, so I don’t have exact references, but when Kaladin is discussing this ideal with Bridge Four in the chasms, we are privy to some of his thoughts regarding the words. Essentially, what we learn is that “journey before destination” means that your goal, however noble it may be, must be achieved through means you know to be right and good. So, for instance, if your intended goal, or “destination,” is preventing another desolation, then the means, or “journey,” by which you achieve this goal must be achieved without doing something you know to be wrong, such as killing innocent radiants simply because they are forming nahel bonds. (Sorry, I’m an audiobook reader so my spelling might be wrong.) We know that Nale knows killing radiants is wrong, due to his multiple confessions of this fact throughout the series. He believes that the evil means he uses are justified by his goal of preventing the desolation. Regardless of these feelings, however, he has still broken the first ideal of the knights radiant, and yet he still retains a fifth-level bond to his highspren. In fact, all of the skybreakers retain their bonds, and I highly doubt that not a single one of them believes that killing radiants is wrong, even if they think it’s justified. I don’t know if Brandon has an explanation for this, but if not he’s written himself into quite the corner, as he has established that, by Nale’s own perception, he has broken the first ideal — a restriction placed upon nahel bonds to prevent people from using surgebunding to do the exact things that Nale and the skybreakers are doing — and yet he and his order retain their nahel bonds. Thoughts?