Kendelian

On 8/31/2023 at 9:36 AM, Quantus said:

It's still an interesting Question.  You cannot "Heal" savantism because it's part of a new Spiritual Definition instead of Damage.

But you could almost certainly Forge the Savantism away, since that's making an external modification (and a likely one at that, just the timeline where you Didnt overuse the power). 

And if you are skilled and realmically aware enough, you can likely Soulcast it away too, because when an Elsecaller offensively Soulcasts a person into Fire, for example, it's pretty much just a hostilely inflicted Savantism, where the Platonic self has been re-defined as fire (or smoke or whatever).  

I’ve never thought of soulcasting a person as forceful savantism, but it makes sense

Compelling theory, but how does pewter enhance healing

I think part of it was remnants of the damage she sustained when her first Radiant died.

18 hours ago, Authorspren said:

This makes a lot of sense. The only problem with this theory that I can think of is that Talenel wasn't affected by the Shaod, meaning that his body's natural healing probably wouldn't be stopped. He'd be able to recover from any physical pain then.

Maybe his condition is more of a "mental Hoed", where instead of his body and mind being broken by the pain, it's just his mind. That would explain why he acts like a madman but his body isn't affected (except for stuff like uncleanliness, which could fit with insanity).

Yeah, that’s what I’m getting at

Both Talenel and the Hoed tend to repeat the same phrase or sentence without any real thought behind it. But Talenel speaks a full monologue of what he would say to a broken society. I feel like this theory fits too well for it to be just a coincidence. In addition, when Raoden used Aon-Dor in front of one of the older Hoed, that temporarily brought him out of his stupor. A similar thing happened when Dalinar opened Honor’s Perpendicularity, something that either reminded him of his true self or gave him a more solid mental standing.

It takes untold levels of strength to restrain myself from becoming a spoiler dispenser.

My initial reaction was dead listener spren, but that doesn’t seem likely because the spren abandoned the listeners pre-Recreance. But the possibility of the listeners finding them out in the wild, dropped by some unfortunate Shardbearer, seems unlikely but possible. The theory of Radiants directly giving them to the listeners or just abandoning the Shards in their territory is one I like.

My guess would be that it could be possible if you tamper with Connection, which may be possible with Shardic influence or hemalurgy

I think it might be possible to survive having part of your soul ripped out of you with the help of someone who can bind the surge of Progression. I think this because in interlude I-19 isn’t WoR, we read about someone revive someone who was mortally wounded via Regrowth. I think that something similar could be applied to someone stabbed in the heart by a hemalurgic spike. I’m unsure if the spiritweb can be mended in a similar fashion, however.

Interesting idea. However, we should keep in mind that the Radiants get their power from the Nahel bond, which I believe used the Surge of Adhesion. The problem is that Odium cannot bind that Surge, so these orders would likely arise from either a modification to how Odium makes Fused and gives them their powers or it would originate from corrupted Radiant spren. The first one could arise from developments with the Shard of Odium in RoW that I won’t go into details over due to spoilers.

On 8/19/2023 at 11:41 PM, Awakened rock stacker said:

Just checked way of kings and your right it's windrunners, skybreakers,dustbringers skybreakers, windrunners.

If there is 3 in every book how does it work since there is only 10 orders

 

It works because there is overlap

6 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Against Amaram where Syl talked him out of it but his powers functioned as normal?

Or against Elhokar where Syl explicately states that the problem is his conflicting oaths to Dalinar and Moash, not any particular action on his part?

They cannot break the law they swear to, they can easily swear to a religious law, or to the pirate code or any other system. Nothing binds them to the laws of the land they are in unless they swear to be bound in such a way.

But they could do it.

10 minutes ago, bmcclure7 said:

 Kalidin tried to be an assassin,  Look what happened. 

 

Skybreakers literally cannot break the law, making assassin impossible in are current political system. 

Egdedancer could probably only assinate  under specific circumstances.  Making it not a viable profession for them. 

14 minutes ago, Frustration said:

No, basically all of them could.

Windrunners and Edgedancers are probably the ones that would struggle the most, but even they could do it.

18 minutes ago, bmcclure7 said:

Few orders would allow for assassination. Some of them sure but not all.

I’m not going to quote this whole argument, but one massive flaw with Radiant assassins is the First Ideal, specifically Life before Death. That would directly interfere with killing unless it was required for their oaths or demanded to maintain the general life and/or wellbeing of the many.

53 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Assassinations become not only viable, but laughably easy to pull off.

I'd imagine every major world leader would either have a bodyguard team made of radiants or be killed within the first few years.

Possibly both.

One problem with that is that the Radiants will still be bound by oaths, so Life Before Death would interfere with that

What do you think certain Orders of Knight Radiant would do in our society. Like, Windrunner and Skybreaker police forces and Edgedancer therapy clinics.

What effects would a corrupted spren have on a listener form?

Time to bring everyone from D-Class to 05 together on the Shard!

It is pronounced ku-tän

Honor said that he was what humans called God. He never proclaimed himself as a god. I think that, aside from Scadrial, Adanolsium (or however you spell that name) created all of the humans in the Cosmere.

13 hours ago, Stockman said:

1. Lift is already a bondsmith for cultivation
-She can enter dalinar's visions, which is only something that shards and thier bondsmiths have shown to be able to do
-She creates lifelight. She's def different from previous bondsmiths it seems like, since Raboniel and others did not recognize her as a cultivation bondsmith.

I think Lift’s ability to synthesize Lifelight and her ability to interact with Dalinar’s visions are both an intentional or unintentional result of her interactions with Cultivation. Also, I don’t think that Radiants can bond several spren.

On 3/10/2023 at 2:27 PM, Cinnamon said:

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19 hours ago, Quantus said:

Something mundane that is only a "secret society" in the cultural context, a riff on "The Masons"?

 

You'd have to give me more flavor on the magic and/or ancient culture it was from for something more focused.  

I really dont know a lot about the Masons, but i dont think it is a riff on the Masons. The cult is trying to bring back the Silver Epoch, a time when sorcerers ruled the land, a time when their society, culture, and technology are all magically enhanced. But their oracles foresaw a calamity unlike what any had seen. A calamity caused by the magic. So, in order to prevent said calamity, they destroyed their libraries. All but one that they hid so well that they forgot about its very existence. A thousand years later, a group of scholars and historians started to research ways to bring back this time of magic, and upon the discovery of the forgotten library and decoding of the dead language, they learn of a way to use magic for themselves, using a silver device, referred to as a sangumantic amulet, and a sample of a magic-born’s genetic material, typically blood, they can utilize the long lost magic.

12 hours ago, Cinnamon said:

... why did you want to troll us? Also, this is the girls thread. What did you expect? A discussion on communism?

Eh, i was bored. Didn’t really know what to expect.

On 7/31/2020 at 5:35 PM, Condensation said:

Ha! I shall defy thee! Not really tho because you guys are being nice and staying off ours

No, im or staying off of yours! *insert evil laughter*

I came here to troll a bunch of people on the internet, instead im being assaulted by makeup and girl stuff. Boring.

So, a major plot point for this story that I’m making is that there is a secret group of scholars that are trying to emulate ancient magic. The magic is hereditary, and any genetic material can be used to channel the magic into another user who wasn’t born into the magic. They plan on kidnapping a person who was born into the magic and steal their blood to help them use magic. The title of the story is going to be the name of the scholarly group. Do you have any ideas for a name on that?