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    Or just that the photosynthetic process is more efficient, or other elements are absorbed to make the shells, or the highstorms/crem foster chemical actions trapping nitrogen, or...
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    Just use a Koloss blade that's wider than the neck, then charge it with Investiture. Maybe have a dozen Feruchemists store as much as they can in it all at once? Invested weapons - or at least Invested material obstructing the path of healing - would do the job, right?
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    Lents walked up to Forage. The man was flamboyantly announcing his wares to anyone who'd listen, but Lents bluntly ignored the salesman, administering a small shock to his forehead with a device built for the purpose. As the master merchant spluttered incoherently, Lents spoke loudly and slowly into his ear. Some compared his voice to grindstones moving in a mill. They were more or less right. "Forage, I need some parts - axels, gears, anything, sized for something big. Aluminum alloy, if you can get it and I can afford it. The heaviest steel you can find, otherwise. I don't want any allomancers interfering." The layers of mechanics covering the tinker like a second skin bristled slightly, small jagged edges rising from joints and joins. "If you don't think I can afford it, it may be the worse for you." The spines retreated, and Lents turned around and walked off as Forage scrambled backwards. A small mirror in the clockwork mask let him watch the trader carefully, keeping his elbow cannon trained on the man. Time for the next one.
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    Also, you could supply hundreds of people with healthy donated organs, and donate blood constantly...
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    That's why you have to pack lots of Stormlight. I think (in a Windrunner) Stormlight and basic insulating clothing might be enough to sustain one in space. You'd be bringing lots of gems, though.
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    Strange what the series titles translate to for the regional demographic. Is that one literally, "The War of Storms"? Different feel than "The Stormlight Archive". French is "The Rosharian Archives". Anyone care to give the direct Chinese translation? My Chinese isn't even conversational.
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    Oh god imagine fighting someone like that with any kind of bladed weapon. Gunshots healing just comes off as badass, but if your blade just passes through like a fish through water, that would be so unnerving.
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    She spent practically her whole childhood there, during which her hobby was drawing things. I'm pretty sure she did a landscape sketch or two at some point.
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    Closer to Roshar than geosynchronous orbit, eh? That's pretty close. Makes getting there much more probable, though I suppose you'd have to pack a lot of Stormlight. And I think that a few characters moving between a planet and it's moons with a strict time limit enforced by Stormlight is different enough from the Mistborn in Space setting that it'll fly. No pun intended.
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    Oooohhhh. So her hobby of collectin drawings of people and animals is gonna come in handy, is that what you're saying?
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    You can. It's not too hard. Just get an extension for your browser...
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    Because it's the King of Herdaz's daughter that Lopen will marry, and Lopen will clearly end up with Jasnah, we can extract from that Glimpse that Alethkar will annex Herdaz and execute its nobility.
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    Lents stands quietly, absorbing the information, the comforting tick of mechanics sounding in his ear. He hadn't heard of the deaths. A true mechanist's time was too valuable for details like that. Almost made Lents regretful, choosing this path. But few men who weren't allomancers could shoot a piece of metal through your throat from twenty feet, and the mechanisms wrapped around Lents' joints and limbs would do that and much else. His clockwork mask ticked, responding to tiny jaw movements, turning a complex array of sights over his eye, lining up each person in the room for a shot. He could kill them all in moments, so long as something didn't break and nobody was an Allomancer of note. Not that he would though. Not that he would.
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    And that's why I wouldn't consider Ruin, Loki, or Sazed a god in the sense of one who has moral authority.
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    Umm.. You remember the hypercanes sweeping across the continent every few days, right? And the religious zealotry, feudal system, etc.?
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    In the end, this is fantasy as opposed to hard sci-fi. Though that may change by the 3rd Mistborn trilogy.
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    We're talking about Heralds appearing on-screen, so to speak.
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    Would you say Loki has moral authority?
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    Oops. Sorry.
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    A year on Roshar is 10 months. Each month is 4 weeks of 10 days each, I believe.
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    But the explanation is probably more to do with force-rewriting Spiritual links using Stormlight as a semi-physical "scaffold" governed by the spren bond and guided by Intent, which collapses under the pressure of Roshar's own prevalent spiritual link over time, as well as evaporating naturally.
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    When the writer uses magic as just another tool used by the characters, it's harder. When the magic is the driving force behind the plot, it's softer.
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    I see spren. This is a result of a protracted disease relating to anticipation of a book. They dance around my skull with a sound like silver bells, and sometimes I try to bat them from the air. Needless to say, I am considered quite mad.
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    By that logic, Rosharians should be short and have shells.
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