Firesong

We actually have a bit on Invention, they were a scholar that thought that the greatest and most worthy of talents is the talent to create machines and devices. Hoid mentioned them in the Way of Kings epilogue alongside Virtuosity and what is supposedly the Survival Shard (Wisdom). We also know that they did something that made them hard for Harmony to find, as they basically vanished. We also know Whimsy wouldn't have changed that much. Brandon has made sure in and out of work to push the idea of how absurdly rare it is for Shards to change hands, with each one being an incredibly notable event. We know something about Mercy worries Harmony greatly, and they were involved in the Splintering of Ambition, supposedly helping Odium.

I am working on an idea for a Shardworld right now, I will probably be able to share it in a few days. Or tomorrow, depends on how much I can focus on it.

I do wonder what exactly they are. Obviously they are some form of spren, being cognitive entities. We know that with certainty. But they way that Brandon and the books frame it seem like they are a very specific kind of Spren, one that is particularly large and twisted. Hope we get more in SA5. As they interest me greatly.

That was a character being wrong. They were called Spren in one situation, a singer in another, it is just a case that they don't know what they are. They also can exists outside of Desolations The cosmere has a lot of cases of characters having their own interpretations of things that are not necessarily correct. Not to the level of an unreliable narrators where you have to question everything, but enough that it shouldn't all be taken at completely face value.

I am not entirely sure, I wasn't saying that Odium couldn't have begun it pre-False Desolation. Just that the Sibling knowing the Tone doesn't mean that it has to have been. We do know, at least, that the Unmade and Sja-anat's corrupted Spren came before the False Desolation, though. That much is certain. Same with whatever the Thunderclasts are.

True. And we know we aren't getting Honor and the Oathpact completely resolved, that is going to keep being a big thing in Part 2. Dalinar though, we likely will.

The Sibling is they/them, not her. And on the tone of Odium, he didn't have to Invest in the planet for that. There are ways to detect a Shardic Tone in their Invested Arts (bronze pulses, the sound that Shallan heard when Jasnah soulcasted, etc), while both are examples of Shards invested into a system, the situation we saw it in could happen no matter where you are as it is part of the Invested Arts themselves. So, it doesn't necessarily mean that. Could have heard it via seeing Odium, or by observing Voidbinding.

True, true. I do remember her implying that several times, and there was also that one direct statement. I was more so wondering how she would react to having it confirmed. Hope it doesn't cause too much psychological damage, she has been improving a lot recently in her mental health. I wonder if we would be getting answers in 5, or after. As he did say that the Heralds are going to be really focused on in the second half. But also, the cause of the Desolation and the death of Shallan's mother would both tie so closely to the story of the first half that I doubt it is going to be pushed off to Era 2.

I disagree on the first, that could just be due to how they were father and daughter, so she had a lot of emotional connection with him. But on the RoW one, yeah, I forgot that only one was broken in that scene. So yeah, Chana is alive. Wonder how Shallan would react to that fact. "Hey your mother is alive, but also, you sent her to be tortured so it was actually worse than you thought. Have a lovely day."

Did anyone say that it was the first when Jezrien died? I am rereading the series so will see again later, but my thought is that Shallan somehow did permanently kill Chanarach, which made "none returned to Damnation" actually true. And it also fits with her dying in the prologue, and him feeling it. When we have only seen feeling death before when it was a permanent death. I could totally be wrong, but I do feel that Chanarach is permanently dead. Maybe Shardblades are capable of killing them.

I did manage to find it.

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I find Whimsy and Honor or Whimsy and Preservation to be an interesting combination, lack of control with complete order.

While you are right about it being impossible due to conservation of momentum, but I also remember reading something in either a WoB or Era 2 that basically said, storing mass gets harder and harder the higher the percentage of your normal mass you are storing. So, storing 80% would be harder than storing 70%, and this keeps on going. Which means that storing absurd amounts starts to get rather difficult. I also remember stuff on how, yeah, you can't store all of basically any attribute except for identity (I am still curious on how storing Identity works, like, Identity is basically haecceity, it defines the boundaries of the Spiritweb and what makes you exist as a separate and true individual. So I don't see how storing Identity doesn't make you just, dissolve away into the unifying whole and cease to be). I may be wrong about that (the stuff outside of the parenthesis, that is just a random aside) though, but I do remember that.

Didn't necessarily say it would, just said it would be a Shard that is a blade.

What about a Dor blade where you condense all of the Dor into Dor Metal, but it is all condensed into a Shardblade size? A true Shardblade.

We need to bond a Herald, who bonded a Spren, and have that spren bond a Herald who bonded a spren. So you can make a Heraldblade holding a shardblade holding a Heraldblade holding a shardblade, and go on and on. Like when you fuse together two swords in Tears of the Kingdom. Except without the limits of only fusing two at a time.

I just thought that she sent an Avatar Trell, that was what was encroaching on the system. And through that they began to turn Telsin into an Avatar. So, I feel Trell and Telsin are different entities. Not the exact same one. I feel the idea of "ascending to Trell" is based around their own understanding of what Trell is, rather than it being the exact same thing. And also, everything that Alder said.

That is very possible, yeah.

That was my interpretation, that any spike with a hemalurgic charge gives steelsight in the eye it is put through. So, it isn't a power that has to be actively put into the spike. What I do wonder, is why his is so damn good. We see from his perspective he can see even down to the fields around atoms, which we don't see when we are in Marsh's PoV in HoA. So, something weird is going on there.

Ambition is definitely implied to be far more malicious. Brandon said that she was one of the biggest threats to Odium taking over the cosmere, and that she would be mono-black, other Shards show exhaustion with her and that they expected what happened, and the effects of her Splintering were notably far more twisted and malicious than we have seen for other Shards.

While you won't get in trouble for this once, next time try editing your comment instead of commenting twice in a row. Double posting is technically against the rules, but again, don't worry too much about this first time.

It does actually, drag reduces energy as it provides a dampening force against it, and that energy is proportional to mass and velocity. Thus, wind resistance and drag has a more notable effect on velocity when you have less mass. So while it doesn't factor into the drag formula, it does factor into the kinetic energy formula of the moving object, and thus how it is effected by the drag. So while you are right it isn't a part of the formula for drag, you forgot to take into account the kinetic energy of the object, which is what drag is reducing via converting it into heat energy. You also forgot the drag coefficient, which is a very complicated value that is determined by the shape of the object. It is why streamlined bodies are used in aircrafts, they have the lowest drag coefficient that they could achieve. 0.04 if I recall correctly. For an upright human, it is actually pretty close to 1. The density of the fluid passed through is also relevant, it is proportional to the force of drag. Given that Scadrial is meant to be basically identical to Earth in many ways, such as size, gravity, organisms, and such, we can also safely assume the average density of the atmosphere is the same as the average density of the atmosphere of Earth, so that isn't much of an issue in calculating it. mV2 - CA * (pu2 / 2) C is coefficient of drag, and u is flow velocity relative to the object. Changed velocity would be equal to mv/m+l, when m is the initial mass, and l is the amount that ones mass is increased by. The m you put into the kinetic energy formula is also, obviously, the changed mass. This formula, when you go through the efforts of simplifying it. Does come up with exactly what is depicted in the books. Decrease mass, velocity increases, but decrease too much and the velocity would begin to decrease as mass becomes too low. When mass increases, the drag decreases, but velocity also decreases due to the conservation of momentum. And also, yes, changing mass does consequently change weight, F=mg is accurate. I was just trying to define a difference between changing just weight (ergo, changing the force of gravity upon oneself), and changing mass (thus making an actually change to the object itself). Because, yeah, you are right, they are intrinsically linked concepts.

I don't think Awakening the sand would work that well, as the magical elements come from living organisms on them. And iirc, he has said it is possible for spren to bond spren. So I think it should be possible. Due to the recursive nature he mentioned, he might even change it to just be impossible. As he does say he has no plans to ever show it. He also said Nightblood could bond a spren but "the required circumstances are so specific and unlikely that it is basically impossible" (paraphrased) Found the one of the WoBs There is another one though, still looking Found it Wait, what if you have three Spren, lets call them Jane, Julie, and Jessica. What if Jane bonded Julie. But Julie Bonded Jessica, and Jessica Bonded Jane. He has said that it is possible to bond more than one Spren So, wonder what this weird Nahel polycule would do.

Sazed probably misunderstood, or it was a retcon. As the current idea is it changes mass. Brandon has talked about how it is the weirdest one that he has to be very finicky and weird with. He maybe made it as gravity, but later decided it didn't really make sense with the system. As Mass does make far more sense with how Feruchemy functions. When Sazed floated down, the idea of it being mass still works, as it would just increase wind resistance and thus slow him down. The only issue is Sazed's own perception of it.