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I assume you mean KM/h, right? Psh. Nope. When you go 5,000 KM total, ever, you instantly get a permanent redshift. (yes ) So if I go say... 10,000 KM, does that double the redshift?

I assume you mean KM/h, right?

Thank you all for doing my homework for me! I haven't had a spare moment all weekend to be able to read up on it! That's what I thought it was, but the dastardly intarwebz led me astray.

Turns out that I might be wrong with what I originally said. I was reading a tidbit online that said that Preservation alone created life, but that doesn't explain his agreement with Ruin that he would eventually get to destroy all life. If I remember between getting off work and running to rehearsal, I'm going to skim through Hero of Ages to see how exactly it's worded so that I can confirm or deny my original claim.

My mother may be a hamster, but your father smells of elderberries!! I am hearby recruiting you as the purchaser of cheesecake. Your job will be to purchase the Almighty Dessert and bring it promptly to me for distribution.

That's not entirely correct. One Shardholder may not be enough to create life by themselves. Remember in Mistborn, Preservation couldn't create life without Ruin's hep. Although there is the possibility that there are some Shards that would be able to do it without the assistance of another, but I felt that it should be stated that at least in Scadrial's case, it took two.

Wow... I just read the two books back to back and I did not pick up on that...

I don't have a Kindle, but I do have the Kindle for Android app. I haven't really used it all that much, but it seems to be decent. I just really prefer to have the hard copy of the books. Nothing can compare to feeling the pages in your hands.

I wonder if, given enough time and experimentation, there would be a way for them to make synthetic Breath? I doubt that Brandon would work something like that into the stories, but it seems like something that the Five Scholars would have wanted to work towards. Dunno. The number of breaths you can get limits the magic pretty strongly and in interesting ways, so it's a useful thing to keep in full force, from a story viewpoint. From a philosophical viewpoint, it just doesn't seem likely given what little we know about the world of Warbreaker. Oh I don't doubt that it will never happen in the books, but it was just a fun little thought I had. It would definitely take away from the stories a lot.

I wonder if, given enough time and experimentation, there would be a way for them to make synthetic Breath? I doubt that Brandon would work something like that into the stories, but it seems like something that the Five Scholars would have wanted to work towards.

Unless you just happen to be amazingly charismatic. Like high 20's on your charisma stat.

The common uses of it aren't that expensive at all. An Awakener can retrieve his Breaths from the items he awakens. Of course, the Returned are extremely expensive to keep alive, in terms of the number of Breaths they use through their lifetime. And Nightblood of course.

I know that we don't know enough about it to make a textbook. I was just saying that I would enjoy studying the theory of BioChroma.

I just finished the book again today, and that scene still makes me shudder in amazement! Very rare for a book to be able to do that to me.

It wouldn't surprise me if they were more loosely organized with several groups working on different objectives towards the same end goal. Could even be that none of the smaller groups within the 17th Shard don't know what their buddies are up to.

But Vasher also says that they know next to nothing about it, which intrigues me greatly. They are able to do so much with it, yet they know almost nothing about the possibilities of how it could be used.

'Twas only a joke. But my contemplating of said joke has raised another question in my mind. Might the Seventeenth Shard have more than just one goal/purpose? And if they do, what might those other goals be? Definitely too early in the game to answer either of those questions definitively, but could be fun to speculate on.

I just had a silly thought... Our own collective group (forum) is called 17th Shard. There are many of us who are looking to find out what Hoid is up to. We can travel between the worlds (by reading about them). We're all certainly younger than Hoid (other than Andrew, seeing as he's undead. Hard to know how long that guy's been around ). [dramatic reverb] Maybe we're the Seventeenth Shard that (presumably) Hoid was referring to in his letter!! [/dramatic reverb]

So I'm most of the way through my third reading of Warbreaker, and I find that I'm even more fascinated with BioChroma than I was the first two times! I think that that is a little odd and amazing, seeing as there's relatively little discussion or use of it as compared to the amount of politicking that's done. I thought that it would be fun to have a thread for us to talk about what we like or didn't like about this specific magic system. I personally think it's the most interesting one that Brandon Sanderson has come up with (although so far, Allomancy has had more exciting battles). Am I the only one that thinks it would be fun to read a BioChroma textbook? One that was written by the Five Scholars?

I had just assumed that they turned into the Hoed, which didn't really die either. Realistically, them sitting in the dirt mumbling to themselves amounts to the same as them being dead, but it is slightly different. I wish I had my copy of Elantris with me so that I could skim through and read the exact words about what had happened to them.

Um... What? At the end of Elantris, the Elantrians were restored to their full power. And before that even, they weren't wiped out, they just were stuck halfway through their transformation.

I think either Undeadist or Necroist fits the best. You could always specify the type of undead that they're prejudiced against. Vampirist, Zombist, etc.

It really depends on what kind of undead they are. There are several.

That actually makes a lot of sense. I hadn't considered either the Jindo or Fjordel. It's probably something of such little consequence that it'll probably not be delved into in the sequel, but it's something that was nagging my brain.

Except that the reason they weren't working fully (the way I took it) was that they weren't complete. They needed to have the Chasm line drawn in order to function.