Heir of the Void

I've got a name I like, I'm going with Perfecting. Thanks for the help.

"Thirty-eight days," Renarin read. "The end of all nations" He brought his fist down on the table, his shardplate making a deep impression in the wood. He had taken to wearing it whenever he coud, to make up for his natural weakness. Only 38 days before every nation left the council? Aunt Navanni's new "FabrilCom" game needed some work.

To Eri:This isn't a 'magical is mystickal' type setting. You have the idea. I like the idea of a tree of posibilites. Perfecter... Perfecting... that has potentional. So does the Idea of something with paragon, but I hit the same wall you did. As for your second point, its sort of a mix of the two. It is "Make this what it could be if it was more than natural". In this world, there is also using magic and a focus to affect things outside of yourself or objects, such as heating up a stone or taking a Fenrix's head off with a directed shockwave. That's called Kenetic Engenering, but it was discovered much latter than normal magic. I never mind brainstorm/sugestions, thanks. Also, what someone using this magic could do with a few hundred BioChromatic Breaths...

Its intended to be a world set after the Hero defeats the Big Bad (except not really), so its intended to be hopeful, but with a undertone of darkness. Allthough I'm not really sure if it matters that much. Allomancy is still a good name for what it does regardless of the setting. After all, the Final Empire and Alloy of Law have vastly different feels, but allomancy works fine as a title in both of them.

So, I'm working on developing a new magic system for a novel I'm starting. The magic works by essentially 'drawing out' the possibility in an item, allowing it to function... better. For example, a sword affected by this magic would become harder, stronger, sharper, and lighter. A person with this magic can enhance themselves, heightening their physical abilities, ability to process information, and so forth. A higher form of magic is obtained when using a 'focus', an item which, when improved, instead affects the person improving it, granting them some form of limited supernatural power. For example, one character possess a focus which enables him to manipulate air pressure (pleasedon'thitme). I would welcome suggestions for other foci. A few more things are possible with this magic, but I want a decent working name to use before I work any farther on developing it. Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?

The only thing you're missing is that I believe that it was stated that Urithuru is in the "East, in the place nearest to Honor'. It could be, however, that the gate to... there is in the East, possibly on the Shattered Plains, and it transports people to and from Shinovar. It would make sense for the Shattered Plains to be Urithuru, but that seems to be too obvious.

It would make sense, given that then desolation is refered to as the 'Everstorm'. Also, it would be an interesting twist on what happened in Mistborn, with well-meaning human action bringing about the End of All Mankind. However, Darkarma raises a good point about stormlight and higstorms. I think that the most likly expliation would be that sormform can be 'corrupted' by Odium somehow. Maybe and Odiumstorm will occur in 60ish days (35 real world days, as of this post) and Parshendi in Stormform will be exopsed to Odium's power and will turn into a Voidbringer.

Also, one other thing is possible. I know this is a streach, but given the 'Blessing and curse' nature of the Nightwatcher, I feel obliged to put it out there. Taravangian wakes up with a different INT score every day. Or he has a different I.Q. every day. The encounter with Szeth occurred at night. Perhaps there is an exception involved based on the specific wording. Just a thought.

It could also be that the Shardplate used by the Knights Radiat was powered directly by Stormlight held (or produced...) by the Radiant wearing it. After all, Szeth said his lashings interfered with the gemstones powering shardplate, not the plate itself.

Or, presenting an alternative take, Jasnah likes men. Possibly a lot. From there, assuming the take that Jasnah likes to be in control of everything around her, (or possibly feels compelled, some form of OCDesque thing may be in play) and sees that as an aspect of herself she can't control as well as her research (or other people) and thus shuts it off entirely. From this angle, the 'distraction/time wasting' thing might also come into play. As for the Amaram topic, it’s possible that she has seen him for who (or what) he truly is, i.e. a backstabber who is also involved in some form of nefarious enterprise, which could explain how she knows what the Ghostbloods are.

When a Radiant and a Spren love eachother very much...

I think those men weren't surgebinders at all. We are led to belive, given the vision from when Dalinar 'visits' the author of the in-verse Way of Kings, that suurgebinders are someting rare a special, and being one earns you some mesure of respect, which would be less likly if the Radiants can just whip up a whole comany of them for a somewhat routine investigation. I would instead propose that those men were being affected by a surgebinging of one of the radiants present, one that functions like an 'area buff' in a wargame, that distrubues stromlight to nearby alies. This would make sense as being a/the power of Illuminiation, as if that shard provided the power of litteral 'light stuff up' it would be practiaclly useless and worse, from a literary standpoint, boring, and shooting lasers would see out of character for the surgebingings and rather unlike what Brandon has done in the past.