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I'm confused is that talking about the chest piece or bits in each of the armor pieces

My wife figures that to be considered light eyes you would need to be able to have a clear distinction in shade at 20 feet of iris and Pupil.

Agreed

Brandon Sanderson is very careful with his answers if hoid wanted to become an allowmancer that does not mean he did and I thought the item he was keeping safe mentioned in the letter was the lerasium. It is possible he shaved a bit off to be able to use allowmancy. I agree with the fact that maybe he saw pattern he might have ability similar to rock and can see spren who knows what he can do with shadesmar

So your saying that it is crystalline in nature then not a superheated amorphous solid like Patrick star

Ya I could be a superheated form like he said I miss read that earlier we are basically talking about the same thing I just described it wrong. As for god metal defying that well a it Could. Anyways I agree with your speculation Patrick star sorry for the confusion

That is true but I will say this I'm fairly certain the answer to why it grows back is magic. It would however make sense if the cognitive image it maintains is fixed and as such it attempts rebuild itself using storm light but that theory is predicated on the armor not being made of storm light. If it is just a piece of storm light fixed into shape by spren then it cant be a superheated meterial. It's hard to say just whether it is highly invested meterial like night blood or made of investiture

Right, but i'm not talking about glass i'm talking about an element that is imaginary and trying to describe its property. Also i never said liquid nitrogen is super cool its is just happens to be a liquid and boils off at room temp. Glass or crystal crack and fracture under stress the armor is clearly not glass or crystal as we know it. Next time I will make sure to just say really really really cold thing.

It's also a imaginary element that I'm try to describe forgive me if have a hard time trying to describe it. I was saying it is like a crystal in composition but when it breaks it burns up like something that is super cooled evaporating into nothing instantly. Think liquid nitrogen reacting with anything room temp.

OK I came into this late so much to talk about. I'm going to start with material. I think shard plate is a kind of crystallized form of storm light similar to like a super cooled solid. As it takes damage is chips away and cracks until its cohesion is to damaged and shatters melting away into stormlight. It being make from condensed stormlight accounts for its change in size from user to user It can't just be an advanced fabrial because it regenerates from any piece if all you had was a hand and the rest had been crushed you could regrown the whole suit. Fabrials are based on what the radients did not necessarily what the Radiants did. Its has to have a greater cognitive presence then any normal object because it is all linked otherwise people would be growing plate from pieces all the time. As it sits plate if feed stormlight the armor will break down the old pieces. If regenerated from the chest piece it overrides the others. It being formed from spren that are non intelligent has sound footing. Armor does have a mental link to the wearer maybe even when not powered I believe that they can disengage the armor. Dalinar mentally releases his glove after the for-brace is broken leaving it unable to function properly. As for gem hearts I am certain that they are exclusively emerald because they talk about the problem with the influx of money into the market making the rarest gem so common. Each gem is connected to an essence that ties it to soul casting for what can be. That is why Jasnah asks for a garnet to heal shallan she had gems just not a garnet to make blood. I don't think the type of gem matters in armor. it is possible that the chest pieces responded to the wearers desire to power it with gems and created the place for them to hold the gems. That also works well for why Szeth has problems with the armor effecting his surges without the bond in place for the armor it does not work like it would and blocks his ability to infuse things. Infact he may not have the same control of storm light the Shallan shows with moving stormlight from gem to gem. He may only be able to use the surges and draw it in.

I believe the WoB is that hoid did not eat the bead of laresium so i do not believe that he is an allowmancer nor do I think that would allow him to sense anything from her. It is possible that he has the breath needed to see something different or even be able to see a change in her SDNA for some other reason.

Shardblades and Nightblood are similar is in that they are both highly invested objects. Shardblades are able to communicate telepathically but only do so when being touched and only react to surge binders. Nightblood is able to talk to everyone he chooses. Spren are thoughts and feelings entities of pure consciousness but at the same time tiny pieces of a shard. Nightblood is first a physical and second a conscious entity created by large investiture. He is similar in that his mind is centered around one idea. I don't think he could bond in the same way and provide them with anything It has to do with thought patterns I don't know that Nightblood has the that kind of ability to grow and change. He would have to decide to make a bond like the spren. Spren, Higher Spren that is, forced themselfs into the physical world and created the bond emulate what Honor did to the Hearlds. As a side effect of that when formed into a blade they actually have mass and are fixed to this realm. Nightblood can not be free from the physical realm without being destroyed. I understand where you are coming from, good theory.

Well you could have power ups that allow you to automatically push things away like flying coins and such. As for lashings they would have to be much more like button commands maybe press X and a direction on the D pad to were gravity is orientated. You would have to have general movement separate from flying and such. Also a skyrim mod would basically have to be a complete overhaul using their engine. I still miss my gaming computer

Each desolation tends to leave the world reset to basic with very little industry and knowledge being retained. But remember Taln is delirious this time he is probably saying things he has said before typically. We know that each desolation does not mean everything gets set back to stone age from Nohadon. he survived one and kept his kingdom from falling apart. Its clear that at least the last desolation even thought i think only 1 in 10 survived they were able to function still with the Radients helping they kept things going. But with out the Radients maybe only 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 survived. But during the heraldic epochs most of the population lived in the stone age even with the Radients. As for the bronze well its fairly easy to work with unlike iron which typically needs to be twice as hot to smelt from ore. It takes a lot to get iron to the right temp safely. As for when desolation start heralds are released before a desolation I would guess years before to prepare the world how ever not this time. As for how long the heralds our on Roshar I don't think that really has anything to due with it. At least not that I have seen.

So as i understand the cognitive realm everything regardless of shardic influence appears in there. A stick will always be represented in the cognitive realms no matter where it is or where it came from. However things like spren may not exist depending on the world and shard. However it is entirely possible that as long as intelligent life exists on a world that intelligent entities may appear in the cognitive realm near them even without shards being around. As for Broken sky = Braize + Ashyn, I'm not so sure but that is because they are referred to as an expanse which leads me to believe that it is talking about a star system not other planets in the system. As I think about this does anyone know what the makeup of the space between worlds is or have any solid facts on movement between worlds. Also any ideas what the nexuses do/are?

At the end of WoR they do say it is on the main continent towards the middle if my understanding was right, they hedge on the exact location but it is identifiable enough that Kaladin is able to find his way to his home village again with little trouble. I'm not sure your quote was really implying that. Not to mention that Nohadon is able to walk there if it was on some other island long forgotten that would be a little hard to do.

That screaming voice is only after she bonds with the anger spren whatever it was. It overtakes her mind.

Bigger would be my guess by maybe a hand span or so.

True like I said they I'm sure some people did know but that still does not change how people that are unable to leave their single continent might think about the world. Even Radients are not going to be able to circumnavigate the globe and by all accounts the shadow days were not a scientifically inclined. remember all of the Radients at one time were normal people carrying a thought pattern on into their new life. My point is not that they don't know the world is round but that people don't think about how far something is when they cant see it. Westward could just be an indication as to were they ended up building it not why. It all hinges on what is meant by "closest to Honor". During the shadow days it may well have been common knowledge where it was and according to Dalinar's Vision they told people where to go. In the mountains like it is why try and hide its location, it was simply lost.

I get what you are saying and until I thought of this I thought the same thing. How ever it is important to take into the acount the type of mind set the people of Roshar. The people of Roshar don't actively think of them selves as on a sphere. you can tell by how they refer to the origin. The high storm is not created but continuosly going around never stopping. I'm sure scientist and even others my know and understand this I don't think they would factor in orbital distance when building if honor was based on the moon. I think moon in sky build it high would be the logic, not well if we build it on a mountain during the day when the moon is gone it will be even further away. Also I don't know if brandon has even confirmed that there is a shard pool for honor, he has said that not all shards have one. As to him living in space the human body gets placed in a kind of suspended state. if you have read Mist Born then you would see evidence of that. Ati and Leras existed for 2 thousand years with Leras functionally brain dead and existing as vapor. Their is no reason to think they need air or even food, the shard sustains them. It is more likely that it is honor is based on Roshar not a moon. Heck for all I know the moons are splinters of honor overlooking the planet not even true moons. Giant glowing spren in the sky.

That would be interesting, but most defiantly have some kind of investiture active in their biology.

I thought they had fur.

I was not saying it was on the moon just high up so as to be close to the moon. Urithiru is clearly not on the moon but is in fact high on a mountain that is why no roads lead to it.

Well the implication is that shin animals are normal animals and that Ryshadium are sometimes mistaken for normal horses. Although all birds are called chickens.