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    The word 'hound' probably comes from their time on the Tranquelline Halls (which I'm willing to bet is Braize, though others may disagree), which is evidently a very Earthlike world, with lions, etc. Then when they moved, they dubbed their new animal best friends hounds, after their doggy pals in the Halls got wiped out by Odium (Shoot. Now I feel really sad over that. Another reason to hate Odium: he kills puppies.)
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    So the Heralds are keyblade users? Me gusta In all seriousness, however, I think 1-5 are some very interesting thoughts. Not so sure on 6-7, but it's certainly plausible.
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    @Argent Probably from this.
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    I too have been requested that. However, as the requester is the accused himself.... I'll still change my vote, though, as I'll trust that Aodan's superior info gives him good reason for his vote. Jeo, and Dyrri. @aspren Chide is probably a genuine inactive instead of a Kahl pretending to be one. If he is, then I doubt he's a Kahl, since I think a Pahn Kahl would keep more interest in the game. And even if he's an inactive Kahl, he's useless to them, so there's not much reason to bother with him.
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    I'm also voting for Jeo. I'm positive Chid is a genuine inactive, and don't feel like wasting the lynch while Pahn Kahl narrow our numbers every night.
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    I agree with this first paragraph here entirely. I think that if the Divine Breath was somehow left on its own, say, being used to Awaken, then it would become sentient on its own, and certainly be bondable. But without a mind of its own, there really shouldn't be anything to bond to. It's just some Investiture floating around. It's got nothing else, no brain, no thoughts, no sentience. It's just a really big Breath with a fancy name. The only brain it's got is yours, and you're kind of bonded to that by default.
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    Mr. T made up the missing Honorblade to keep Szeth happy. It's still there, with the Stone Shamans.
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    This is all really good here. But I'd definitely change the first sentence of your prologue."Surveying the the grim scene before him, Kyrien Ontos stepped carefully over the mutilated body in the cave's entrance." I would cut "Surveying the grim scene before him". It's unnecessary. When he describes the surroundings a few sentences later, we know he's looking around anyways. And it takes away from the interest in the next part: "Kyrien Ontos stepped carefully over the mutilated body in the cave's entrance." You want the reader to read that first. It's what pulls them in.
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    My current thoughts on this are that you probably could Awaken with Stormlight, but the objects would only follow their Commands for as long as the Stormlight took to dissipate. So a Lifeless could only be reanimated for a few minutes, maybe more with more Stormlight, and smaller objects like a scarf would only last for 30 seconds. The strength of this, of course, would be that it's also far more easy to get Stormlight, so you're much more flexible in your Awakenings.
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    http://coppermind.net/wiki/File:TWoK_Front_Endsheet.jpg Here's the Double Eye of the Almighty. You've seen it before: it's the diagram at the front of the books. It depicts the orders of the Radiants in the large circles, and their surges in the smaller ones. The surges that are connected to an order by lines are that order's surges. As you can see, every Order has two surges, each shared with one of the adjacent orders. Per WoB, these surges work the same way for both of the orders that have them: but by using them together, you can do things no other order could do. For example, Stonewards have the surges of Tension, which makes things hard or soft, and Cohesion, which can make anything perfectly malleable. So they could take glass, mold it into a sword, and make it harder than steel. The two adjacent orders each have only one of those surges, so they could only do one part of that process. Each order also has unique abilities to them and them alone: Shallan's Memories for the Lightweavers, likely Kaladin's combat abilities for the Windrunners, something about the Nahel bond for Bondsmiths, etc. Oh, and here's a labeled version of the chart, too.
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    Kalak's breath is even worse– they use it as a swear. Is the letter K cursed? Let's hope Kaladin washes his mouth.@OP While the Divine Breath is a Splinter, it doesn't seem to be sentient like Seons, Spren, or Type Nightblood Awakened Objects. All those are similar Realmatically, all Cognitive Ideas given life through Investiture, while Divine Breaths don't have, as far as we have seen, that Cognitive aspect. I don't think you could bond with it any more than I could bond to Stormlight.
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    This is probably what he's referring to. Edit: Arggghhh, rusting storming dusting ninjas!
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    I wouldn't bother with Feruchemical brass or Feruchemical electrum. The only reason they have the powers they have is because Brandon accidentally switched up the two and doesn't want to retcon the error. Try testing the theory on pairs that were meant to have their attributes, like Tin and Pewter, Aluminum and Duralumin, Copper and Bronze, etc.
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    That's a very interesting take on the design. Not at all how I imagined it, but awesome nonetheless.
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    As far as the MAG indiciates, yes.
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    It does remain Investiture. The difference is typed versus untyped. It's like a lump of clay versus a beautiful pot. Both are clay, but one is shaped into a specific task while one has yet to be shaped and can be made into anything. Or a beam of white light, containing all the spectrum, while a red light has been filtered down to one wavelength.
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    Unless the First Ideal is meaningless, just an artificial construct to give orders common purpose. In that case, they could have been fine with it even if it broke the First Ideal.
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    This sounds fun. This sounds funner.
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    Would it still be Stormlight, though, after you store it? What little we know about Nicrosil (MAG) suggests that it converts all it stores into generic Investiture. If you store the power from Allomantic steel, you don't get Allomantic steel when you tap, you get Investiture that can be used to fuel Allomantic steel. And even if it still is Stormlight inside, that doesn't mean that burning metal containing it would cause the energy to suddenly come from a different Shard. It's still Preservation's system, he fuels it. His power could easily be given the properties of Stormlight without actually coming from Honor.
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    I wouldn't assume it's the "creation" of humans on Roshar. I'm in the camp that they moved there, which is decently well supported with the Tranquelline Halls mythology and all. Being immortal, it's very plausible that Heralds predate that move.
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    Maybe I'm thinking he's nicer than he really is, but I think he wouldn't be so willing to kill them over it unless they were actively causing harm somehow. Sure, making them help is important, but I don't think he'd kill them for it so easily
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    You have me there. IDK why I didn't use my brain for that sentence. Still, I don't think that's how Ishar intended it– I think more major levels of abuse are why he's forcing everybody to comply, not just a little girl stealing from the rich.@EMTrevor Sure, it's hard to announce it to them, but it's equally hard for them to comply and organize when there is no one to organize with. He can't punish them for something they could not avoid doing. For it all to make sense you have to change his motivation to "stop Desolation no matter what" as you said, but then you can't use the epigraph quote as evidence anymore since it refers to an entirely different motive.
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    How you're reading Ishar here seems off to me. Yes, Ishar obviously wants the Surgebinders to be ordered, swear Oaths, et cetera. But notice how he's telling everyone to do this– his warning is merely a means to an end, a way to get the Radiants united. With the modern Surgebinders, they're just being hunted and killed outright on even the flimsiest of excuses. With each being so separated and isolated, there's no way for them for them to become organized, no reason to try to frighten them into unity. When Nalan is killing them, it's nothing to do with whether they're using their abilities to run amok– it's if they have those abilities at all. Ym and Lift didn't abuse their powers before they were targeted, they just happened to gave committed crimes at some point. And they're never warned or anything, like Ishar did here.
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    This applies to any compounding, really. All Allomancy uses the Shard's power, so storing that energy takes it away. You might be able to do it with one of the Selian magics, too: while we haven't seen any yet capable of storing the Dor iirc, the method of accessing power is very similar to Allomancy. But no matter what method you use, I suspect it's going to be like trying to drink the entire Atlantic Ocean: just too enormous to ever really accomplish.
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