Sophrosyne

281 often i wonder what lives the rest of you live that this is the past time. IK IK rich considering but in my favor is the simple fact that I work overnights and it's currently 6 AM

I think Syl says in Book 4 that she can turn into anything made of metal. So yes? Like @Returnedsaid though it's having to be rigid. believe it or not most amour is quite flexible and the sorts of thing that a Radiant could blocked are probably better tanked with Stormlight. I don't have a specific source for this, but I think it's implied a bond/connection is needed for more complex objects and it wis made clear that a clear mental image is needed so it may just be a skill issue?

For what it's worth I found in experimenting with AI in that compacity that it being so easy to mass generate mediocre content meant it became very easy for 'the writer's tool' to just become the writer and before you know it it's written 100+ pages to your 10 and. That personal experience is why I'm 100% on board with this specific policy. If someone is using it as a sanity check or to fix SPAG. Fair but otherwise? I say use your own brain and ideas it's actually rewarding in itself instead of having to lie to others passing off work as your own.

So curious as I am at your conclusions I think there's a pretty major logical leap that throws me off. you stage this as a 'challenge' and a 'cycle' and in doing so you set out to reverse engineer Sanderson's process. Unless I'm missing something and I've not read December, King Lopen, or the else caller books so I could be; I think this is a false premise as well as have huge and relevant chunks of information obscured (the names of half the Dawnshards for one.) makes me super skeptical. Your assumption that Exist is the odd shard out is interesting, but I find it odd from a meta/Doylist point of view to have the first Dawnshard we see be the 'different' one. On a lightly different note, I'm not fond of your 'switching places' of shards in your cycle as it suits you. this may honestly come from me having had a hard time following you, but it seems to me that you should present your final product and explain how you got there OR work to the solution from a blank slate and I'm under the impression you're mixing the two.

I think T is angry because T is an angry person and Odium is hyping him up. As far as I can tell the Cosmere has basic rules that all things must follow and the way I think about it is this. If I were a 3 ideal Windrunner who started taking up any other orders oaths neither would supersede the other, I'd have to live by both or lose my spren.

I think Harmony COULD have invested Wax to make him into something that was more or less an avatar, but I don't think that was necessarily the plan, even Wax (Spoiler for end of Lost Metal) was accidental. So, I concur with others. I think it's somewhat likely though that this is abit of set up for Harmony eventually doing something like this. A) splitting off chunks of ruin and investing people to Insite change and destruction. B) Respliting his shard into two more manageable and aligned intents.

Umm. just off the dome? Attack Range goes to your typical mistborn and while I’m sure you CAN fashion your plate and blade into a bow, I’m sure we all agree that’s not a normal use of the power of an unoathed. Melee goes to unoathed. Shard plate makes striking power dangerous or deadly. I'd be open to making this a tie however cause I think I recall vin cracking a guy’s skull with dura-pewter. X-Factor here goes to a Mistborn. Mind you shardplate should shield from emotional allomancy but if that’s overcome for any reason and that’s another tool, speed bubbles are terrifying if you’ve never seen them before and A-electrum is underrated. Speed I’m calling this a Mistborn. Flared pewter lets you move at above a sprit indefinitely, but plate does something pretty comparable. But steel and iron is where it’s at the most important factor to combat speed though, maneuverability and Mistborn have that in spades. Durability Unoathed. Handdown. MAYBE I'm missing some pewter feat but I think a shardbarer can walk through high storms and I’m not betting a mistborn can do that. Endurance Assuming a normal amount of metals (albeit all 16) and stormlight. It’s the unoathed. We see shard bearers fight all day without huge concern for stormlight but it’s a common issue for a mistborn to need to top off on metals. I’m saying that we set battle IQ and Intelligence to equal cause of course. This gives 3 to Mistborn and 3 to unoathed. So a tie? But in your specific scenario I’ll take the unoathed. The mistborn doesn’t know how nearly HALF of there metals work. So it’s can a peak human with A-iron & A-Steel beat a shard bearer? THe answer is no. but. If they were an era 2 mistborn. Say Wax’s mistborn 3rd child? I’ll take the mistborn. They have more tricks and could prolly speed blitz an unprepared shard barer. That said ~Written inbetween tasks @ work so hopefully it was legible!

I have the First Ideal in Women's Script on my forearm. I love the tattoo personally, but I wouldn't recommend it. The sharp lines will age really poorly, and I got it with the knowledge I'd like need to get it altered/covered. I'm sure you can get it to a point it might look better over time but that would require talking to you artist and /or altering the look of women's script. Maybe try glyphs?

I'm not sure the experts know stuff like this it's just not information to draw much of a conclusion. I hadn't considered any time aspect of it really. Though the thought that use of powers affects a resonace is kinda scary as they'd be in some level of flux all of if not most of the time if you had 3+ MoIs.

Say Wax became an Elsecaller and had access to both surges. What resonance(s) would he get? Would he get any? Would he loss anything? Resonances have been bothering me for a while. More specifically how we just don't know anything about them. We know that 16* (or 10?) abilities from being mistborn is too many to develop a resonance and we’ve only seen them a few time all in individuals with only two MOIs, Raidents and twinborn. Notably there’s no sign of them with aviar? That said, I've always just assumed that if you had 3 powers you'd get at least 3 resonances, but that’s just… That’s too many right? At one extreme a radiant twinborn gets 11 resonances. But the opposite is that the same person just loses access to their unique twinborn resonance? I suppose that Becoming Raident is worth it but it does feel weird. So since neither to me feels right I wrote this post to ask the above question.

I'd suspect you'd get base line stormlight enhancements as drawing stormlight and using surges is what spren give. but simply holing investiture is shown to give phiscal boosts. So you'd be a surgeless raident?

How many gloomspren to does it take to tell a depressed person is SUPER depressed?

One of my favorite topics! I think that finding the most dysfunctional dual shards is less to do with finding opposites and more to do with shards that don’t interact at all. Mercy & Virtuosity come to mind. Mercy The force of release and endings? And Virtuosity self-expression and creativity? They’re not opposites, they have very little interaction outside of the suffering artist which Mercy wants to help in some way and Virtuosity wants to create. And maybe artistic catharsis. Outside of that how do they blend?

So, I'm saying that Wax not doing or even really trying this is evidence his using A-Steel as much as he does weaken this evidence, but it remains none the less, even after being directly informed that this was possible, he doesn't do it or even attempt, and I don't think that should be disregarded. That said this is likely a Doylist thing in that Brandon just didn't think about it and or didn't want it in his system because it DOES step on f-Steels toes. It's also pretty granular, even for a Sanderson magic system.

I think the fact that wax does do this with A-steel & F-Iron but not any other time is evidence that you can't tap and store fast enough for it to be practical any other time. I mean when you think about it you don't spend long air born when you're running and none at all when walking or jogging by definition. I also think intent could be abit of an issue here. If you're specifically wanting to go faster while using f-Iron that might muck up the whole thing?

Oh! Neat~ that's why we haven't seen voidspren or other splinters do it then. Haven't had the right circumstances!

Is this a mistake? Cause that's a Yumi spoiler, which apparently I need to re read. I'm not sure that I follow our logic. Are you saying that because we've seen some splinters can become shardweapons, all splinters should be able to? In which case I'll again point to seons. But don't let me straw man you.

Point heard but I think you misunderstood mine. I'm saying that seeing as larger lumps of investure seem to be more sentient then smaller ones the fact that radiant spren talk is a indicator that they have more investure. I'm not sure that connection has anything to do with it. (Thinking Emoji) I'm going to hard agree here. We could debate this. Pulling out books and siting page numbers and that fact alone which makes this an opinion, a valid opinion to hold as it's clear there's something special about the honourblades, but opinion none the less. it is however a fact that all spren are slinters of one shard or another. I don't think any void spren bond. and in case you meant for Enlighted spren, I don't think anyone's sworn a high enough oath.

I don't recall seeing anywhere that they, the honourblades, are more invested then shardblades. if anything, they'd be roughly the same or LESS so due to having lesser sentience compared to radiant spren. But if we presuppose Honourblades are more invested then shardblades the effect on cutting force would be proportional to how much more invested they are. Full metalminds, shardplate, spren, etc. resist being cut because investiture resists investiture. My understanding is that it takes a large difference in investure level to overcome that resistance (or tricks). A radiant holding stomlight , or a mostly empty metalmind offer minimal resistance because they have, relative to the blade, little investiture. Sooo... I doubt that helps much but there my 12am thoughts.

Looking at the Cosmere RPG there's mention the certain Spren need certain gemstones and before I start looking through books I wanted to know if there was a list of any kind I was missing?

Have you read Stromlight 5? Because spoilers for Wind and Truth.

I've dmed a few times now and find that's it's fairly common for players to group up in this way. My first ever game DMing two players decided to be mother and daughter without skipping a beat. The only time I've not seen some level of this happening was in groups that don't focus on RP.

Pretty! Umm as far as I can remember it's pretty book accurate and very well done. She's always described as girlish and though I think of her in a silk/gossamer dress myself she's one to change outfits all that time so the outfit's fine. The closest to criticism I have is they samey coloured background may be hard to read in some senecios but that's stylistic prefence more than much else. Sorry I didn't have much helpful, but I couldn't let you go responsless!

It's a rare thing if you aren't helpful my friend!

So at some point I was told or read something to the effect that the name of a shard, say ‘Ruin’, is the same as a given shard’s intent full stop. Now I don’t know why but I was always under the impression that shardic intent had a little more to them. For example: Ruin isn’t JUST “ruin” but something like “Change things so they end.” I even have a google doc musing on these and I’m sure I'm just being semantic, but it has big implications to shard mixing and interruptions. I’d love to know more. Like is Harmony’s intent completely different to Preservation and Ruin’s? derived from it?