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Thanks for that WoB Glubbdrubb. I've been wondering about that for a long time. I'll upvote you when my quota is back... First time I ran out...

When I realized that the Lord Ruler was really Chuck Norris and there was no way he actually died.

We're not entirely sure of how it all works, but we do know that larger gems and/or cut gems hold stormlight longer. Also, larger gems glow brighter. If we assume that emitting photons is correlated to stormlight loss (which might not be true since it's invested light) then we can take that to mean that larger gems lose light faster. Anyway, as you increase the size of the gem the volume increases faster than the surface area. If stormlight loss is proportional to surface area and stormlight capacity is proportional to volume, then the larger gems will be brighter, but also go completely dun later than smaller gems. The idea here is that when light bounces around the gem some of it will reflect back into the gem and some will pass out of it. A polished surface will reflect better, and if cut properly you can get a lot of the light to reflect back completely when it hits a given surface. The concept of storing the gems together to prevent loss is a good one, but might not improve results much. If the cut of the gem holds in more light because of total internal reflection (TIR), then that same TIR will keep light from entering at the correct angle to keep it inside. So light from one sphere probably won't get stored in the neighboring sphere, in which case it's just bouncing around your shielded container. But what is it shielded with? Metal is highly absorptive. If we had modern tools and chemistry, I wonder if it would be possible to cover the spheres in a high-reflection coating designed for their specific wavelength range. There was some work at my university where they dipped things in a solution that created self-assembling high-reflection coatings and the solution could be tuned to all visible wavelengths.

Or worse... On a date.

Well, if you really want to get into it, electrons can be represented as a wave function too...

You're probably right about it being captivity spren. He just seemed particularly bored at this point in being imprisoned - less caged animal and more mindless tedium.

I think Kaladin comes across boredom Spren while in his cell. What's more, the spren appear to be doing cats cradle.

I'm going to go with it just being assumed that he uses his right on unspecified occasions.

Funny! I thought you were going to make it a Roshar Hamlet.

Perhaps this is a threat that hasn't been put into place until now. Also, did Stormform exist before? I don't remember if it was completely new or not.

Szeth's first oath: "I will destroy evil"

It's not like spheres have anything to do with stormlight. It's the gems inside of them that contain investiture. Which tells me that it is human perception that really defines the building blocks of the cognitive realm (CR). That isn't entirely consistent since Scadrial's misty CR doesn't really involve metal. Why does the large weather pattern in Scadrial define the CR while that doesn't happen on Roshar? And what does that imply for Nalthis? Breath as a building block? Why do items on Roshar present themselves as spheres anyway? Aren't things more or less in their normal physical form in the CR for other worlds? I'm not sure we have enough info to come up with a solid theory.

Lets rule out the sun as the perpendicularity. It would be a little hard to travel to the cognitive realm from there considering the temperature...

Well, pink pinkness could should be shortened to pink.

Be prepared for an essay by FeatherWriter. She's very protective of Renarin...

I assume you can't lash a shardblade because of the investiture interference.

METAPHOR ... (1) All figures of speech that achieve their effect through association, comparison, and resemblance. Figures like antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, simile are all species of metaphor. -Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | TOM McARTHUR http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/metaphor.aspx#4 This doesn't appear to be a widely accepted belief anymore (probably because we were all taught in elementary school that they are distinct) but there are some interesting articles in this link about the history of metaphors.

I felt like a squished banana in the hands of a hungry baboon.

It's a coat of arms of the house of El

It might matter. What if someone offs Endowment? Would Nightblood take over?

THEORY: Nightblood is a quasi-sliver. According to the coppermind you have to be human first to become a sliver. However, the investiture of breath grants human properties. Nightblood was invested with a large amount of investiture at the same moment he was granted human properties and thus became a quasi-sliver.

Bridge 4. As I'm currently me and not likely to inherit surgebinding powers, the only hope is for me to become a squire.

I think it likely that when he founded the KR they were a fledgling group that built in strength and momentum over time. By the time he wrote the book they were already well established. He wrote TWoK to give them further direction and a lasting focus, but it is likely that many of the concepts in the book were things he had already introduced to them.

Oh, well... A very small pat on the back for me then.

Are they going to do a box set at the end or should I be getting the new ones individually?