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You're forgetting someone: Susebron, the God King probably has orders of magnitude more breaths than either of them. And he's Vivenna's brother-in-law...

Actually, I'm pretty sure I've seen a WOB saying you could Forge a normal person into an allomancer... *goes search* http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=forger+allomancer So I don't see any reason why you couldn't forge make a forgery to say "this person was turned into a Kolos at some time in the past."

During Lift's visit to Yeddaw, among all the other people she sees, she descibes an Alethi man in the city, towering over the people around him. For some reason this seemed to me like Brandon screaming "Look, there's something interesting to find here!" However, I can't think of an Alethi man we're aware of who might currently be hanging around in western kingdoms. Anyone have an idea?

From how the Skybreakers look at him when he's not following them into the air seems to indicate that they know or assume that he can fly, too...

From the wording that Brandon is using and his comparison to a Japanese-American, could he be implying that she (and by extension all Southern Scandrians) aren't originally from Scadrial and migrated in from somewhere else?

A Cadmium ferring is unlikely, since that would put up a speedbubble (or lack-of-speed-bubble?) that would involve everyone in the room. But some other kind of invested person could probably pull it of. Maybe a full feruchemist filling and/or draining the right metalminds at a time could simulate death enough to fool people with what seems to be medieval to renaissance level of medical knowledge. Alternately, an elantrian could probably enchant themselves or someone else to appear dead. A danger could of course be the natives removing the metalminds (incase of the feruchemist) or possibly trying to give the "dead" person a burial. (or whatever homeislanders do with dead people, if they burn them, I doubt many feruchemists have enough healing stored up to survive for long).

That really depends on how you define "you". If "you" is "your body", then no, because if your cognitive shadow does something, then by definition the body is dead. If "you" is the cognitive aspect of you that still retains all your memories, desires etc. then yes, "you" did it. The Soul is the part of you that resides on the Spiritual Realm and as I interpret it, the soul is probably still connected to the Cognitive Shadow after the body dies, so if "you" is whatever part of you is connected to your soul, then also yes, it's still "you".

Not sure if this is being discussed somewhere, but couldn't find a thread on it. In the description of Scadrial, Khriss remarks on both it's Shards having Vessels who were human before their Ascension in a tone that implies a few things: Non-humans can be Vessels (not too surprising). Non-human Vessels are common (or human Vessels are rare), or Khriss wouldn't feel the need to comment on it. Khris knows about non-human Vessels being a thing. Especially that last one is intriguing, because how would Khriss have this knowledge? It implies that she's at least as old as the Ascension of Leras and Ati.

If you mean this quote: Mistborn spoilers, emphasis mine:

That might seem obvious to us, but the medieval technology they have on Roshar probably doesn't allow for making metal string, so the option doesn't occur to them? On the subject of shard-weapon launching siege engines: take into account that those take a while to reload. I think a regular bow a broad-head arrow (and I mean really broad) firing repeatedly into a dense formation might be more effective. The only firing speed limitation are how fast the Radiant can draw and how fast his spren can get back to him (flight time to target + time to get back).

Not quite. Mistborn: SH spoiler

Yeah... as you might have noticed, it didn't happen yet. Note to self: planning to do stuff during night shifts NEVER EVER works out... If I do get around to it, you might see it pop up, but if someone else feels like doing this, feel free to.

Sorry to necro a thread, but a question for @Harakeke. I'm looking at making a Thaylen script page on the Coppermind wiki. I'm assuming it's ok if I base it on your research? I might borrow some phrasing, too.

Why not shard-leather armor?

Thanks! I just noticed there isn't a page for numerals either and the Glyphs page is missing the info from that same thread, too. Looks like work to do.

I might have a look at that if the night shifts two weeks from now turn out to be boring. I probably won't be much, though, considering I've never done that sort of thing before. For the record: I haven't figured all of that out, it was a bunch of different people and their work is just awesome. Making a wiki page based on their work sorta feels like stealing their thunder. :/

I was just thinking that as I was reading the thread. Especially male-male pairs would be a problem, since they'd have no one to read for them and would probably run into more problems along those lines.

I just realized, that over the years blades and plate must have gotten mixed up a bunch, so it's unlikely there's still a blade out there being wielded by someone with the plate the original radiant used. If the plate is an extension of the spren (and of the blade), would it grant either more power if they were re-united? I could see this tying in with the theories of Adolin possibly bringing a blade back to life.

That would be so awesome. But then, that doesn't really match the descriptions we've gotten of his wife as not being highly intelligent.

Wait, what? He left the planet? I thought the Elantrians were on Scadrial?

The problem with Electrum is still that it's a gold/silver alloy, which means it's pretty expensive, which makes it hard for someone to found out they are an Oracle (even more so in era 1 when no one knew it was possible).

It only screams whe he summons it, I'm pretty sure.

Considering Adolin is already a strong secondary character in pretty much everyone's storyline (son, commander, love interest), if he got his own flashbacks along with his occacasional own POV chapter, the Stromlight Archive would become pretty much the story of Adolin. I doubt that would enhance the story. Also, his history probably isn't all that interesting, since he's probably grown up like a standard noble kid.

I've noticed there is no page for Thaylen script, even though it's been mostly figured out. Is there a reason for that, or was there just no one to get around to it yet? It's someone annoying to have to dig up an old thread everytime I want to check something about it. (I'm aware this may be a noob question, but a search didn't give any answers )

She means the fact that if you slow/speed up stuff, you'd expect the photons flying through that bubble (i.e. light and other EM waves) to also speed up or slow down, which should affect their frequencies (red shift), which should make looking out or into a speedbubble at the very least colourshifted, but more likely change the light to somewhere completely different on the EM spectrum (and possibly turn other radiation into visible light), making bubbles possibly impossible to see out of or even kill people in or near with sudden microwave or gamma radiation. Someone with a physics degree could probably explain better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift I suspect this is Brandon hanging a lampshade on this fact. It's probably a case where he said "nevermind the actual implications for physics, light working as light needs to happen for the bubbles to work".