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The title says it all.

 

I was reading tWoK, and I showed it to my friend (a recent Brandon Sanderson Convert), who wondered what surgebinder she would be, which started an argument as to whether she was more loving or protecting. It ended up in a tie, which got us wondering if two surgebinding powers were possible.

 

I realize that Dual-wielding Honorblades would be the easiest way to achieve such and effect, but would it be possible if one caught the attention of two spren by continuingly acting out two of the base traits simultaneously?

Glad to know that the ride I'm in for will be a good one (I'm almost a quarter of the way through tWoK)!

 

Welcome to the site, RadiantRachel!

 

It might be possible, but we are dealing with complex, though human shaped, metal objects (because they've never been alive). It would be easier to encase something organic (like bones) in a quasi-mechanical arm though and make use of Breathes that way... As WeiryWriter mentioned, one of the problems would be cognitive, and I think the easiest way to overcome that issue might be by making this kind of thing by encasing a skeletal arm in bones. It probably also would work for an Iron Man like suite, though that would still take a lot of breathes to accomplish...

 

What if you attached a coat-body to the inside of the armor/robot casing? That way, you would have a Breath-powered suit that cost only as much as Vasher used when he Awakened the clothing to fight for him, but it would be twice as deadly.

 

Then make them do the "My life to yours, my Breath become yours." While imagining themselves breathing out a full spectrum of light into me. I'd say its "Part of the magic. You've really got to believe!"

 

I find it a tad ironic that you have the Windrunner symbol, which essentially stands for honor, as your profile pic. :/

First off, that all sounds extraordinarily plausible, and second, is anyone else thinking that it would be really cool to do this to a suit of armor with the command "Do as I would"? It'd be a Breath-powered Iron Man!!

EDIT: Or, even better: "Protect things I would," and imagine him fighting people trying to kill you while you're inside, as well as people around you, and kinda helping out otherwise. And, assuming he'd be like Nightblood and obtain Sentience, you'd be able to explain to him what you'd protect. Slightly complicated, but definitely worth the Breath.

Choices, choices, choices. Well lets see, as a single alomantic power I would like Bendalloy, afterall nothing is as vertisaile as having extra time. 

Aaaand, you just summed up my life.  I would love to have (and realistically probably would have) Allomantic bendalloy and Feruchemical zinc in the real world, but in a fantasy situation, I'd go for Steel-on-Steel assuming I could choose. If I was going by my personality, and my life was governed by some annoying writer, I'd have Allomantic cadmium and Feruchemical chromium, which I would be constantly burning/storing until something important to my personal story was happening, in which case I'd instinctively and unknowingly switch to drawing and (maybe) stop burning.

 

Let me explain:

When I take a test in school, I will have seemingly VERY little time, and when I guess, it's always wrong, and I will almost always accidentally bubble something in wrong or make a stupid math error like 2+2=5 or something. However, If I'm hanging out in between classes with a girl I happen to like, the awkward stuff that I say will only be awkward enough to seem "cute," and any fauxpas[sp?] I make will be quickly forgiven and/or forgotten.  Or, If I'm trying to bring grades up from a 3.2 to a 4.0 within weeks of the end of the semester, I'll squeeze by with near-straight A-minuses, and the time will seem to have gone by much slower than usual.

 

Erre'bawday got dat?

Can I just say that these are all EPIC? I've been dreaming about being a steel-compounding twinborn in an RPG for ages for all of the reasons described here, and am now almost on the fence simply because of the potential for chromiumminds!

 

Chromiumind hemalurgical spike with a pure-steel twinborn? Or, just a chromium compounder!

I'm actually of the mind that the cast of this movie should be new people, not necessarily famous, but still good actors. 

 

Part of that is because I'd like to audition for Spook, but that's beside the point.   

Coolio; thank you!

I haven't read WOK yet, but it's on my list. You really should read Mistborn, though; it is downright AMAZING. Definitely my favorite fantasy series currently.

Welcome; I wish I could go (simply because of Sanderson's class), and your signature is AMAZING.

I also thought of the acid moat.  Remember though, the chalklings Morsk refers to are actually transform Rithmatists.  At the time of the book, the only chalklings known to be hazardous to people are the wild chalklings and chalklings that Rithmatist who drew them lost control of.  therefore, it stands to reason that acid is permanent against wild chalklings.

 

 

 

The scale would be challenging, but not insurmountable.  As to the chalklings filling in the moat, I wonder how it is that two-dimensional (entities?) could interact with a three-dimensional objects.  Clearly it is somehow possible since chalklings are used to wind the springs for the springrails.  But I wonder how?

 

 

 

I would expect that the wall of the line of forbiddance would be almost perpendicular to the surface upon which the line is scribed.  I say almost because if the width of the line determines the height of the wall, then I could readily envisage that the field forms an excedingly acute triangle (in cross-section) with the width of the scribed line as the side opposite the smallest angle. In other words, a field generated by a line of forbiddance has two non-parallel sides which angle towards each other until they meet (forming the top of the field) and the angle of incidence between a side of a field to the line of forbiddance is constant from line to line.  This would result in the height of the field being precisely determined by the width of the line from which it is generated.    

 

It is interesting that the scribing of lines on a portable or movable surface is unexplored in the book.  I suspect we will see it addressed in the next.

Ok, more Trig stuff. I think that that makes the most sense so far.

Ok. That means that they don't pass through the midpoints of the isosceles, nor the feet of the altitudes; just the top and the bottom.

First of all, that IS cool, and I was thinking along the same lines for the spirally thingy, but am wondering how it relates to trig functions, as everything else does. Thanks for the Sawtooth; I'll check that out.

 

EDIT: OK, so the vertical lines in the line of Revocation are asymptotes, and the line through the middle is the midpoint of all the triangles formed.

Thank you; I hadn't thought of that.

Sorry for the length in advance.

 

When I read this book, the reasoning for the nine-pointer (described via annotated depiction from what I assume is Joel's notebook on page 243) kinda blew over me, and I just wanted to experience the story for once, rather than get caught up in the world's physics. That said, I still promised myself that I would check it out after I was done. I finished the novel, then recommended it to my little brother's friend, who promptly inhaled the darn thing, then asked, "Any other suggestions?" with a huge smile on his face. After this, I finally looked it up on Wikipedia (mostly due to his own interest in Rithmatics), and the results I found then and afterwards were extremely intriguing.

 

First: The 9-point circle is an actual discovery made by Olry Terquem, and has some significance in the geometric world.

Second: (From here on out is a thought process) The 9-point circle doesn't quite work for equilateral and right triangles; what do the look like; what are their Rithmatic equivalents?

Third: Equilaterals would lend themselves to the six-point circle due to their nature of fusing together three different pairs of significant triangle points that would be fully represented in the 9-pointer (kind of shown in a picture on the top of pages 94-95; I just discovered this disproof of my originality in thought, as well as another in the history section of the aforementioned Wikipedia article).

Fourth (fittingly): If both the 9- and 6-point circles can be represented as a relationship between the circle and a single triangle, what about the 4-point circle? The four points form an inscribed square when connected, and a square is essentially two equilateral right triangles stuck together at the Hypotenuse. On a whim, I drew this on a piece of graph paper:

I noticed that all nine points were represented, and several at once in the peak (I had the hypotenuse on the bottom), and was then feeling nearly satisfied with my pursuit of Sanderson's use of Trig relations in his novel.

Fifth: What about ellipses? The first thing that came to mind was Isosceles triangles,  and thus I drew this on the same piece of graph paper:

I'm pretty sure that the points at which the ellipse passes through the sides are their midpoints. Obviously, all nine significant points are NOT represented by said ellipse, but it does pass through at least two, probably four, of them.

Sixth: This one is best described through simply showing a picture:

I was messing around with isosceles triangles, so naturally, I wanted to see what their complement circle would look like point-wise, so I essentially drew up this diagram on my graph paper.

 

That's it for the thought process, but I'm having trouble with a couple. For one, although Lines of Vigor are made from a sine or cosine graph, where did lines of revocation come from? And, I'm completely at a loss as to where the spiraling

line  comes from.

 

Comments, further proofs, or disproofs?

 

EDIT: sorry for the small pics.

(Quick note: OK, I know that this one isn't written by Sanderson, but the last few are, and I don't like reading books out of order.)

 

I'm having trouble getting through this one. I love reading, and Jordan is an extraordinarily good writer, but for some reason, I feel like I have to read it instead of like I get to read it, and thus am struggling like when I read Eldest by Christopher Paolini (which I would not recommend to those who haven't read its series; the history and magic system is well-thought-out, but the story does not have near the depth of its mechanics [which is one of the things I like Sanderson for]).

 

Basically, I'm needing a bit of encouragement, and while I'm pretty confident that just writing this will inspire me to  keep going through the wonderfully painted world, I know that if anyone can help me out with this, it's you guys.

OK, how do we get a quote to go on a new thread, or a clipboard, or onto our signature, or something? Quitecontrary, that was awesome.

Thank you!

 

Funny how we define "cool" when we're younger. I say cool is whatever makes you deliriously passionate and happy.

 

There, there..stop sniffling. You're home.

Hola, sir! I'm new too, but welcome!

 

I'll have to check out that dragon-writing lecture series... Are there any more?

I applaud you, sir! I actually got into BS with Warbreaker; my cousin was reading it on a trip to the beach, and he let me read the prologue. It was the best written thing I had ever read. I didn't get to read it then, but managed to preorder the paperback and get Elantris with a sad heart at the time that I didn't get to read the book I wanted to, but as I read "Sanderson's debut novel", I was hooked just like Warbreaker. Warbreaker was next, and the color he painted the world with was so beautiful that I nearly pulled an all-nighter every day for about a month.

Finally, someone else who appreciates Warbreaker! Everyone around here seems to cite Mistborn or Way of Kings as their favourite. It's good to not be alone.

I wouldn't say it's my favorite BS novel, but it's definitely up there; sorry to disappoint. :-)

Thanks, guys. I know that now, but then I had taken a small dosage of "cool pills," and thus was embarrassed to return. I'm just happy to find this site! The first thing I saw was the forum regarding conic wardings, and I was like, "These... These are my people... *sniffle*"

Here's a story for all y'all:

 

Once upon a time, a kid tried to get involved with an RPG site called Mistborn: the Inquisition right after he finished reading The Alloy of Law.

This kid got on, posted on a lot of topics and tried to get as connected as possible for a couple days, then was unable to get back on for around a week as life sped up again. He kept telling himself, "I'll be able to get on again soon," but never did. Thoughts of the site gradually went away as the month dragged on, until he realized that he had been a little too excited, and posted in what he felt was an embarrassing way; acting too kiddish, which was silly, because he was pretty much a teenage kid.

 

Now, here he is again, a couple years later, finding an awesome Brandon Sanderson website, and a means to blog and such in an inclusive community. The question is, will it play out the same way?