PorridgeBrick

And a trolloss may be able to grow to even greater sizes, if their anatomy is different enough. These are creatures that turn to stone in sunlight– who knows if their biology is similar enough that heart failure would occur at the same ratio to their normal size. You need armies for these things.

Who can burn Malatium? Atium Mistings? Gold Mistings? A specifically Malatium Misting? Or is it something only for Mistborn?

You have four Allomancers in a straight line, A, B, C, D. A burns tin, C burns Copper and Bronze, B and D burn Bronze. B is just inside the Coppercloud, directly between A and C. D is just outside, such that the cloud is between him and A. Who can sense A? (Yes, I know, long, confusing and wordy).

Can one purposely distort the shape of one's coppercloud/timebubble into say an ellipse? Add a deep dent or long outstretched tentacle to one side? And can one change the size of them to a certain degree?

Also, I second Kurk's question on whether Miles can heal back the loss of his Allomancy.

Edit: Forgot this one. With the Blessing of Potency, one has boundless energy and increased physical strength. What is the source of the Investiture powering this? Can it run out?

Honor likely created the creatures of Roshar; Cultivation created the plants.

Not to nitpick, since your theory is pretty accurate for the most part, but this sentence in particular is false.

Q: Are the Parshendi of Odium?

A: Not originally.

Q: Are the Parshendi of Cultivation?

A: Not originally.

Q: Are the Parshendi of Honor?

A: No.

The prevailing (read: mine) theory is that Honor, Cultivation, humanity, and all the earth-like life are actually refugees from the Tranquelline Halls, while the natives (Parshendi, Chasmfiends, all the crustacean/insectoid creatures) were created by Adonalsium, as we know from another WoB that Adonalsium created Roshar's first spren.

But back on topic. While H&C didn't create Rosharan life, I rather like the idea being applied to the Tranquelline Halls, with Honor making all the earth-like animals (explaining why Kal was called a 'Son of Honor') and Cultivation making earth-like plants (explaining why Cultivation is so big in Shinovar– it's the only place where her creations still live).

So if this is true, what does it mean? I think that it means that some of the Radiantspren (and perhaps regular spren) are more of Honor, and some are more of Cultivation. This explains why Wyndle thinks of the Nightwatcher as his mother, and why Syl identifies herself with Honor and the Stormfather.

And you are right.

BRANDON SANDERSON

So there has been dissension among them about who gets to call themselves honorspren, if that makes sense, and there is some disagreement among scholars about which ones are really, you know "This is what defines an honorspren".

But the spren you are running into are all (something) of either Honor or Cultivation, or some mixture between them. And you can usually tell the ones that are more Honor, and the ones that are more Cultivation. That should be able to be (something).

I also wonder what this means for the other 20 magic systems of Roshar. Could Voidbinding be a combination of Cultivation and Odium? In that case, what magic system is caused by Honor and Odium?

[shamelessplus]Well, if you subscribe to Intent Meshing, then the third system would actually be of Honor, Cultivation, and Odium. [/shamelessplug]

Why ever not, though? Yeah, it makes sense that you can't store all your weight or age or health. But Identity? I can't see why not. We really have no idea what is really meant by "storing identity". I mean, what is identity? The way one thinks about oneself, how one views oneself. Therefore, identity must be a Cognitive trait. You can't fully store all of your Physical traits; there would be nothing left of you, and that makes no sense. Yes, the physics (if that's even the right term) of the other Realms might not necessarily work the same way as that of the Physical Realm, but I don't see why one cannot store all of one's identity. One would be very strange after doing so, and it may be very hard to direct them to do anything, but I still don't see it as impossible.

 

The way I see it, there is no way that one could tap another's metalmind without having their identity totally at zero. Even if you had a very, very tiny bit of identity, I bet it would conflict enough with the identity signature of the other Feruchemist's metalmind. Conversely, even if you had that puny bit of identity, it would be enough to stop anyone except for one with zero identity from accessing it.

You have a point, I suppose. The WoB on this matter is much weaker here than I thought.

THOUGHTFUL SPURTS

If there's really no upper limit to feruchemy for practical reasons* , why didn't Sazed just fill steel at ridiculous levels for a few minutes in WoA, and then go back to running instead of leaving his steelminds there?Say, being some 100,000 times slower than he would normally be for about a minute. Meaning that a feruchemist should be able to fill a given metalmind in very short periods of time if you fill at a high enough rate.

BRANDON SANDERSON

The low end is bounded. You can pull out tons--but in filling, you can only go so far. I didn't ever explicitly talk about this in the series, but the implications are there. Not all have the same bounds, but in your example, the body just can't slow beyond a certain point. Think of it this way--you can only fill a weight metalmind with as much weight as you have to give. So you can become very, very light--but you only add to a time for doubling your weight. You can't make yourself 100,000 times slower and gain 100,000 times multiplication. You can give up all of your normal speed, and so when you tap that speed out you are at 200% for an equal period. (And that's a theoretical maximum; realistically, you can only go to down around 75% slower or the like.)

Memories are weird, though. You don't store your capacity for memory. You store your actual memories. So it might be possible to put them in copperminds, one at a time.

You still probably can't store identity down to zero, however.

I consider it a bit like Breaths. With them, you do attach things to your spiritweb to gain power. I think of taking up a Shard being something like gaining a rediculously high Hightening. It's not exactly the same, but it works as an analogy.

Some support here for this.

Q: So these Ideals in the Spiritual Realm: Divine Breath, does that heal by accessing some Ideal of Human Health: so a guy who had never had a tongue and doesn't know how to speak all the sudden has a tongue and can speak?

A: You are... [LONG pause] You are, um, on the right track. Because the Breath is... eh. How can I explain this? You are, yeah... So... So each Breath is a shade of diety, right? And each Breath incorporates into it this sort of idea of being endowed by the diety Endowment, correct? And so each Breath you hold brings you one step closer to becoming like that, and so what you're saying is... is yes, kind of true, yes.

DOUGLAS

What about a Lerasium savant? Or would that require so much Lerasium that the person attempting it would ascend to become a new Shardholder?

BRANDON SANDERSON

Basically, this is what ascension is.

"Show the special lady in your life, the timelessness of your love with aluminum. Rust proof, and allomantic proof, just like your devotion."

With how easily aluminum breaks, I'm not sure that's the ideal symbol for a good marriage. (Then again, we use gold rings, which are hardly better).

While this should theoretically work, you can't actually store to 100% for any trait, including memories and identity, so you wouldn't get the full package.

Since aluminum would destroy itself, why not "protect" yourself with a friend's Nicrosil? Their metal wouldn't run out, so it could keep burning and affecting you...

You mean chromium. Nicrosil just flares things, while Chromium leeches– it's the external version of Aluminum.

Vasher/Zahel's playing a game with colored stones which may or may not be from Nalthis.

Definitely from Nalthis. It's a dead ringer for Taracin. Of course, depending on the extent of world-hopping, the game could be played on Roshar too.

I agree with Moogle here. What Shallan does is just unhook her Cognitive Aspect from her physical and spiritual (represented by the flame) aspects. So she can certainly die there– if your Cognitive dies, you're dead too– but she's not physically there. Her body and mind flame are left behind. She's just a bead moving around, a Cognitive aspect like the rest of them, except she views herself as a person and so sees herself in the Cognitive as a person still. Elsecallers have the surge of Realmatic Transition however, and can actually put a physical aspect into the Cognitive (how does that even work? Could they do the opposite– take abstract ideas and bring them into physical reality? Can they go into the Spiritual?)

On another note, I wonder if these mind flames are the "living lights" Syl describes?

{Speculation}

I think the Unmade are Odium's counterparts of the Heralds.  Some people (including me, but I don't want to take credit for plagiarized thoughts) think that humanity and the Heralds came with Honor and Cultivation came to Roshar from somewhere else (Tranquilline Halls).  If so, the Unmade could be from that other place.  The Unmade could then be beings that Odium invested and which gave up their bodies (hence the name).  They would then be investiture with consciousness, which is essentially what spren are, but with a history of having been a creature.  I do think they are what the Parshendi refer to as their gods.

{/Speculation}

I don't really think they're true counterparts. There's not ten of them, after all. I prefer the idea of them being analogues of the Stormfather– they're both spren, and seem to have the same role as rulers over the spren like Stormfather has with honorspren and the Nightwatcher with Wyndlespren.

You know, the country of Kurkistan is on Sel... Seeing as the country is shaped like a cat, could it be the Selish branch for the Caton of Inquisition? With unique cat location specific magic?

Accessing the power requires metal spikes engraved with various cat memes. For example, Nyan Cat gives the user the ability to make make rainbow-colored lasers.

Rick gives all ten votes for proposal 2. Fear the rainbow, Idrians. Fear it, for the rainbow will conquer all.

Hagrid would love Roshar.

His blast-ended skrewts would feel right at home there, too.

From the heavens

Sudden realization like apricity: when Harry's parents died, they were protecting those who could not protect themselves.

So I guess this makes Harry a Windrunner, Ron a Stoneward, and Hermione a Skybreaker.

Wouldn't that be his parents, not him? So I guess on Roshar, Harry's parents wouldn't get killed: they'd summon their sprenblades, have awesome flying battles with Voldy the Honorblade wielder, and then chop him down. Then they'd live happily ever after with their weekly hypercanes and their man-eating crustaceans.

I suspect that an Elantrian Nicrosil Ferring would lose some of the benefits of being an Elantrian while storing, though.

Oh, sorry, meant Allomantic nicrosil here, though Feruchemical nicrosil is a much safer bet. I was thinking of the Nicroburster opening the Aon's "gate" by touching it, just like they'd open the "gates" of the metalminds in an Allomancer's stomach. Only question is if they're limited to affecting stomach contents or not. Must. Read. Second. Mistborn. Trilogy.

(Sorry. I just didn't want to say it all in Imperial, so I wrote out a template.)

Explaining Thanking, PorridgeBrick. Upvoting has you.

 

Wasing the minding of slight correcting? "Explaining of the thanking, PorridgeBrick. Wasing the having of upvotes." Thinking of the needing of new rules of the adding.

4. Notting the leaving of normal verbs. Making of the verbs of the "-ing".

5. Wasing the needing much of the "of" and the "the". Doing the sentences with the forming of "-Ing verb/wasing/notting + preposition/article + another -ing verb/noun".

I don't think Brandon confused anything with that quote, PorridgeBrick. I highly doubt that there is a Shard on Ashyn. If there were a Shard, it would most likely be caught up in the same conflict as Honor, Cultivation, and Odium, and thus far we have no reason there is another factor to it. I have speculated before that Ashyn is where the Tranquiline Halls were, and that the humans there were for some reason left there when the rest were driven to Roshar. I know the arguments for Braize being the Halls, but they have never convinced me.

 

Hmm, true. I guess I've been automatically assuming that it would have a Shard, since it's likely a major Shardworld, and never thought about how strange that many Shards together would be. And it's not like we don't have precedent for magic systems without a Shard, since Sizth of the Dusk has the same deal with magical organisms as the source of power. I suppose you (and myself) have convinced me there. Still strongly convinced Braize is the Halls, but we'll have to agree to disagree there.

(Eastern Slang is what spook was speaking before he learned the common language. After the Final Ascension, Spook made it High Imperial, and it's used now in ceremony and government proceedings.)

(Wait, he did that? I totally forgot about that. That's hilarious. So Scadrian legal-speak is even more deranged and confusing than our own now.)

Notting understanding the talking of Eastern Slang(ing)

Wasing the needing of teaching? Notting the being of difficult.

1. Wasing the putting of wasing, wherever wasing thinking the needing of wasing. Example: "Wasing the wasing of wasing".

2. Making the words of "-ing". Example: " Liking the tasting of cake, but lying of tasting the cake wasing."

3. Ordering of words changing the strangeness with, liking the wasing of Yoda. Example: " Wasing doing, wasing the notting of doing or. Notting the wasing of trying."

If a Duralumin Gnat Wrote an Aon, could he Supercharge it?

 

Duralumin just widens the "gate" in the metals that provides Allomancers with access to Preservation's power. So while you could power up an Aon by increasing its access to the Dor, you'd probably have to eat it first, since Aons are powered externally while Duralumin is an internal metal. Nicrosil, however, might just work, as long as you're not restricted to stomach contents.

Or is Voldemort really Adonalsium, and each Horcrux is a Shard?

Harry Potter has seven books in the series.

Dragonsteel, the tale of the Shattering, has seven books.

Half-Life 3 confirmed.