Qianweilian

According to Merriam-webster, “groom” as a verb can mean "to make (someone) ready for a specific objective.” Added with context (“her to take his power”), it makes sense. I think this perfectly describes the situation in a way other words don’t necessarily, such as “prepare,” “ready,” or “train.” I also agree with Treamayne.

I’ll join as Leonidas, a sixth year. Brown haired with brown eyes, he stands tall and ready to duel anyone who wishes. He has a short, trimmed beard and a thin mustache. He wears a black suit with a dark green tuxedo, cape, and tie. Edit: Ditch the cape, and the tuxedo is blue. He is enamored with wizard history, and likes to use historical facts to justify his (sometimes less than justifiable) actions. He’s aggressive and likes to fight, but not reckless or overly belligerent. He likes to stay within the letter of the rules, but not necessarily the spirit. Is very ambitious.

Aradan Liese, Underground, Unknown “Someone, please help! They’re gonna kill me soon!” Aradan’s blood ran cold. Someone else was here, trapped. The shout came from down the hallway, past the ladder into another room. I have to rescue them. Aradan dashed past the room with the ladder and found the door from which the shouts came. Quickly, he flared pewter and pulled the door off its hinges. “Are you alright?" @Steel Speedster @Through the Living Mist @Lunamor

I mean, we don’t know for sure what Wax did to split Harmonium. All everyone gets now is pikemetal.

Brandon doesn’t really grab entire cultures and just tries to create worlds about them. What he’s done far more often is taken inspiration from certain aspects and woven them together with other cultures. Dhatri isn’t going to be India, it’s going to be, at most, somewhat inspired by some aspects of Indian culture. Just because it is based on Hindu philosophy, doesn’t mean it will have castes. (Case in point, shu dereth is a mix of norse paganism and christianity) Something can be inspired without being a direct copy. I mostly agree (as much as a white American can). I don’t believe this is as clearcut as you say. While this is something than you can argue, I’m not sure that you can say it is “worse…in every metric.” That’s not going to happen. Brandon will not translate Indian society exactly, just as he doesn’t translate exactly Chinese, Russian, British, French, American, Thai, Arab, or countless other societies. You have no idea if this would be the case. India has spent huge periods divided, something China has not. India isn’t even that close to China today (19.4 trillion gdp vs 4.13 trillion gdp). China has had issues and potential before—the Song dynasty was on the verge of industrialization. If they had, we would be speaking in Chinese on this forum. Even if India developed to be a superpower, they might have to fight with a similar America, an Arab power, some country from Indochina, whatever. Maybe you are right, maybe even probably, but you cannot guarantee that. Do you want Brandon to write a novel, or a sociopolitical commentary on India? That might a valid fear, as I said before, I don’t know that much of the Indian castes. But, I do not think that Brandon, given his previous positions and bibliography, would have incredible sympathy towards caste apologists if it truly is as bad as you say.

Fun! Where do you want to go?

My character, you can see the sheet in the signup thread is you want, has “ideals,” wants “justice,” and other foolish heroic things like that. Yeah, if Aradan (my character) finds out where Eza actually is, he can attempt a rescue.

I’m currently in an escape attempt from said prison, so I’d be fine with that. (You’d still have to ask @Steel Speedster though)

Okay, that would probably work, but how would you stab them? Because afaik you can’t dismiss Azure’s sword and I doubt this fullborn with people coming after him would allow you to approach with it. After all, they’re not Rashek and they will still have all their powers in the CR. Including healing. Yeah. Those would probably work. Especially as surprise. The suppression fabrials didn’t function on 4th ideal or higher, and I suspect a fullborn would reach that level. (i.e. Marasi was emitting mist while using the bands) Also, Feruchemy is attuned to both Preservation and Ruin, so this fullborn could still use Feruchemy with all the compounded reserves they already have. Fair enough. I mean, that would work in theory, but I couldn’t our Fullborn tap brass and burn them all to death? Or just outrun them? Or tap steel/zinc and kill each of them individually? Or use a bunch of coins to kill them all at once? I think a fullborn could beat a thunderclast. Our fullborn could tap strength, weight, and speed to hit like a train, and use gold to ignore the consequences of such. As far as we know, they’re essentially just giant stone golems, which feels surmountable. While they are more durable than just stone, hammers are used to fight them many times, suggesting that if you had enough strength/weight/speed you could destroy them. All Yelig-nar grants is command of 9 surges. A fullborn could blitz the user before they can effectively use any of the surges. True, but I still think that considering compounding could have them punch through plate, chromium would drain stormlight to heal, and speed could do all of this rapidly, they would still destroy most Radiants. Windrunners, Skybreakers, and Lightweavers probably have the best chances. That would probably work as surprise, but steel can clearly travel on the pace of bullets. In SoS, steel results in bullets from four corners of the room appearing to be shot simultaneously—without compounding. Combined with zinc, as long as the fullborn can activate their powers, I think they could dodge. Our fullborn could push the taser darts or the taser itself away. Afaik, they’re required to be metal and duralumin should cover it as long even if the skin is punctured. See my response to machine gun for more. To some extent, the Shades are avoidable with simple speed, suggesting our fullborn could theoretically run circles around them. Considering how they’re only cognitive shadows, I think chromium+duralumin should wipe them out. Aluminum is fairly light, so I suspect tapping strength ought to do it. Even if they’re immobilized, messing with physical feruchemy could help. Worst comes to worst, they could tap all out brass in an attempt to melt aluminum, which does have a fairly low melting point (although that would probably trash the pewter and tin metalminds). This is probably one of the better strategies, although I wonder if something like concrete would be more effective. They could be blitzed. The only real defense say Dalinar has against it is stormlight healing, which can be swiftly remedied by chromium. Please do, I like this discussion.

Question as described in title. A Fullborn is generally defined as a Mistborn and a Full Feruchemist. According to my estimate, our Fullborn would have access to the following abilities/powers: Essentially, some rogue person figured out how to make themself a fullborn with Scadrial’s god metals. Retribution, Harmony, Autonomy, whoever have all agreed that this person is too dangerous. You can organize a strike squad to take them down. Only restrictions are: No Heralds or Honorblades No Nightblood Max 2 Elantrians As no one actually knows how to make lerasium, you can’t use it Your squad has a maximum of 15 people, with up to 10 more auxiliaries/support (can’t fight in any way) Your goal is to either kill or permanently render this fullborn unable to use their powers.

Aradan Liese, Underground, Unknown Aradan saw a man and a woman, the ones who had been in the cell earlier, dodge and sprint down the hallway at horrifying speeds. Barely hesitating, he fired again and ran down the hallway. Upon reaching the doors, Aradan tugged on the wooden one. It’s locked! Thunk. An orange-brown spike slammed into the floor behind him, chipping the stone tiles. Swiftly, Aradan flared pewter and crashed into the door, splintering it into pieces. He saw a crossroads, one hallway leading to a dimly lit room with a ladder, the other leading to what seemed to be a kitchen of sorts. Pausing for a second, Aradan began to run towards the ladder. @Steel Speedster @Mistfallen Soldier

I'll give a full response later, but IoTE spoilers

Conan the librarian. Given that Hemalurgy isn’t a separate path, I could see it being possible with lerasium (if that’s accessible to players).

I, an American, have never heard of Weetbix... I have heard of all of “North South East West,” “Never Eat Soggy Waffles,” and “Never Eat Shredded Wheat,” although the waffles definitely was the most influential.

Point taken. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It’s been over a year since I last read WaT. I still think soulcasting is going to be more profitable in the long run, as you don’t need to micromanage. It’d be easy to create a very profitable mine in a day, but a shipping company would require you to constantly set up elsegates once it takes off. I also wouldn’t be surprised if the Feds begin to get interested in how you’re transporting stuff.

My point is you’d be able to afford these dump trucks, equipment, and lawyers from the income you’ll get from starting off buying and selling mineral rights. Once you’re sitting on a property with confirmed reserves (that you create), you could probably get loans and investments if the minerals are valuable enough. Plus, you can only create elsegates to a permanent perpendicularity and it must be after a rest (according to the rpg). We have no idea what the Earth subastral would look like, but I doubt it would be significantly faster without creating a full transportation network in the CR, which would require heavy startup costs like mining would, except without soulcasting to get you there.

I mean, so is starting a shipping company. But you don’t actually have to get into mining (at first). You could purchase the mineral rights for some land in the middle of nowhere, create a deposit, and then sell the mineral rights to a large corporation. Once you do that a couple times, you could start a mining company.

I mean, you could also just soulcast rare earths. Do the Davar route and create loads of quarries and mines.

The RPG is immensely interesting in that regard. We know a lot more than we did previously. Would that help you that much? I mean, I do kinda wonder what the Earthian (Terran?) subastral looks like. Unless you can use it like a Fused.

I always read these last.

Oh dear, I think this might be going too far… Over a fifth of the active users (at the time of posting) have joined the cult.

More context is here: It makes sense, although I’m not sure it went nearly as far as Kaladin in WoR. Also worth mentioning this is in Kholinar with two Unmade.

The spiked eyes took forever to find a good image, then remove the bg.

It will never end.