The White Drake

WoB 1: Everyone we see has innate Investiture. WoB 2: Innate Investiture is when someone is a conduit to the Spiritual Realm. It's clear as day. I don't know how you can argue otherwise. That's not an argument. The Investiture they have left could simply not be considered innate. What drains a battery left out for years? Investiture follows the laws of physics. If it does anything- like help people recover from sickness, or even living their day to day lives- that's expending energy, and it's finite. Drabs don't have that innate Investiture, so that point is moot. And it wouldn't help recover from a Shardblade wound, I don't know where you got that idea. It's a little like saying eating enough food will let you recover a lost arm. However they can gain some very small amount of Investiture. New Breaths don't form, but it is stated that Breaths vary in strength and healthiness. Much like the health of a person, to continue our calories analogy. But we DO see things regarding this. In the Sunlit Man, actually. They give 'heat' (Investiture) to others, but are not left permanently lessened by so doing. If you look at Breath you know it must renew itself or it would run out after a certain amount of Awakened movement. I don't know why I argue though. The WoBs spell it out exactly. If you refuse to accept that, you're not going to listen to anything I have to say. So, to be frank, I’m not going to debate it further here. We can make a new topic if you want. Sorry for derailing your topic @Nitpicking.

No. yulerule Okay, so Twinborn have [resonances], but full Mistborn don't, right? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Edit: Well… OrangeJedi Do Mistborn have resonances? Brandon Sanderson *Hesitantly* Everybody does, but they're not as pronounced. OrangeJedi Is that because they just have so many powers? Brandon Sanderson Yeah. Edit 2: Aha! They don’t contradict if you know this one. Yata There is something that recently was debated by some fans and I hope you may give some clue about the "side effect of interaction between magic" as was pointed in the Twinborn and Surgebinder cases: Are those "perks" stackable? To say if I am a Fullborn like Rashek, wil I have all the possible Twinborn's perks or a specific "Fullborn's perk"? And about the same topic, a Mistborn or Full Feruchemist has his own perk/perks? Brandon Sanderson I've worked under the premise that if you hold too many of the powers, like a Mistborn, the result is a loss of these little quirks. The mechanics of it are interesting, but I'll leave you to theorize on that sort of thing.

That's a very convenient argument. His statements on this topic are clearly well thought out, and spread across multiple WoBs. You'd need a direct contradiction, not your interpretation. The spiritweb isn't the same as a person's innate Investiture, as he said a Drab lacks that Investiture and they are still alive. But the two are doubtless connected. A person has 1-3 BEUs normally. However Investiture is, like calories, finite and expandable. We can measure the amount of calories in our bodies, but as it gets used up, we need to go get more. Similarly, having a connection to the Spiritual Realm means the Investiture a person has doesn't simply run out at some point in their life. It's a flow, technically, but you're not running 1-3 BEUs through the body each moment. You're at 1-3 BEUs and restoring that which gets used up naturally. Just as you can say a bucket holds X amount of water, but are still replacing that which evaporates in the sun.

...those are direct WoBs. You can't really argue with them. Besides, you can measure the energy in a human body, yet we still get new energy from food. I imagine being a conduit to the Spiritual Realm for a person is rather similar.

Just one? This is confirmed. Though it is not necessary for survival.

I would indeed envy your position, if you had the intellect to comprehend the concept of currency. As it is I understand the only way you receive it is from Coinshots at high velocity. While attempting to repel something so repellent as your face is understandable, it is like pouring water into the ocean. I fear your unusual body mass indicates you have already achieved an integer overflow error in this regard, and the universe is too horrified by your nature to look long enough to fix it.

It is proof to your stupidity that your insult only insults yourself, and yet your confidence is that of a uneducated drunkard trudging off a cliff believing he has found a shortcut. To deride others such as you is too easy! I must provide myself a handicap or the masses would complain of abuse against a child, if you could find a lawyer who would defend you rather than issue an insanity plea. I applaud your achievement of slapping together so many words yet believing them to be a great insult. Such a remarkable brain is of great worth, for surely many a scientist would pay much to study it, save for the fear that, against all they know and hope, stupidity is indeed contagious.

I would say there is always a bigger fool to mock, but alas, your existence is proof otherwise the greatest philosopher could not defy!

I can easily see why you would be so deeply jealous of such intellectual capacity. At last, someone with the nonsense to speak gibberish! Truly, I am left in awe of your ability to perform self mockery. My humble self begs to learn how to apply such insults. Only, to other people.

How does this not exist? Make a paragraph or a couple sentences about yourself or, if you wish, an imaginary person. Be it description, RP, or anything, and let the next person do their best Hoid impersonation and insult you. (Not that stating the obvious is necessary in some cases. Oops, started early.)

Wait, is that bad? I've been doing it off and on for years.

But Elantris is, per WoB, 'far earlier', than Mistborn. So why assume they invented it before, rather than after? It's still such a vague basis. Modern cities have abandoned homes, and who knows how many were built for inhabitants, rather than things like churchs? Many medieval cities had huge population density Elantris may not share, the inhabitants living in luxury instead. For that matter, the term enormous is relative, and I've been unable to find anything on Kae's size to compare. I think we have a better foundation. That simplifies things. We don't need to include them in our calculations. So now we know. 500-600 awake Elantrians. Practically none from before the Reod around, 80-90% Hoed. We have our population number. It's between 2,500-6,000. Pre Reod may have been different, but that's all speculation, so this is the best we have.

Immensity made his path through the city, right down the middle of the road. A car inconvenienced him, and he had to walk around the wreckage left behind when it got to close. Raising a hand again, he shot another beam, sweeping it across the street and collapsing more buildings. He knew how the Reckoners had responded to Mitosis's threats. They would surely come out. Though... hadn't another Epic already dealt with them? Limelight, he thought. That would be bothersome. It would mean he was trespassing. Gunfire. Immensity turned as armored figures piled out of a side street, weapons blazing. Enforcement. At last. The bullets cracked to the ground a good ten feet away from him, and he launched a gravity beam straight into their midst, collapsing them like puppets whose strings had been cut, crushed in their armor. The armor itself broke to, cracking and shattering under it's own weight. In moments, all were fallen or dead. Immensity walked on.

I believe the reason is it's origin. It was a 'new episode every week' show originally, and they stretched scenes in order to have enough screen time. But that problem gets smaller and smaller as it goes on. Seasons two and three in particular have a different production format, and are often lauded as solving... well... all the animation problems of the first one.

Reread that WoB a bit closer. Brandon Sanderson So, that is post Elantris. But, the Ire weathered the [Reod]. Elantrians are immortal in terms of age, and the Ire refers to a group anyway. Most definitively, this WoB. I understand, and appreciate it. I recall that discussion of Elantris's suitability without AonDor. It refers to the complete lack of any attempt to access resources normally, rather than population. Can and does are different (since it's established most people don't want to live with Elantrians, and the size of the city has a practical purpose beyond population limit), and enormous is hard to quantify, so I think it best if we stick with the other source you provided that gives exact numbers. Elantrians have a habit of not dying. I assume you're using the term to refer to to the Hoed, all of whom were brought to New Elantris, and which include the pre-Reod Elantrians. All the Hoed were kept in one building, so I can't imagine there were thousands. Do you still have the book on hand, to clarify if they're counted or not? Running some quick numbers- Galladon said most people in Elantris last 'a year, maybe two', and it's been ten years. So we can assume 80-90% Hoed, plus the original population. Apparently that all fit in just one 'hall of the fallen', but assuming Sarene counted only alive Elantrians, I still come up with a total number of 'living' ones + Hoed below ten thousand. It's unsteady work though, since the original population is unknown, I've had to assume a variable that may not be accurate. This means we need to know... the original population... and we're back in a circle. We need to know the population to know the population, unless Sarene counted Hoed, as that would include those from before the Reod. If she didn't, we're running a number of some 3,000 to ??? as total population. Fortunately though (since it means if you returned the book already, neither of us needs to go get it again), the actual population is something of a tangent, since we know whatever it is, it must be close enough to the threshold they can't just go make a bunch of new Elantrians (plus the point about why your Elantrians would get to choose the new ones). I see you misunderstood me in that one then. I asked for the best unit, everything considered, including things like production costs, campaign performance, all possible context. I wasn't asking for the strongest in a 1v1 (I doubt a Bondsmith qualifies in that btw, since the Stormfather says Dalinar's powers are 'impotent' in terms of battle).