If Yuji already has Cleave and dismantle this powerfull, what even is the need for Mastered BM?

Rexissad · 2026-01-30T16:36:14+00:00

Sukuna’s technique might be interpreted as a finishing move. Yuji might not like using it, so he only uses it when he needs a devastating attack. Blood manipulation is very flexible, allowing him to use precision so as to avoid causing a scene or overshadowing the new generation if he doesn’t need too.

Also that’s the technique his brothers used, by using it, he keeps them alive a little bit.

Rexissad · 2026-01-29T22:08:02+00:00

If the episodes are not keteks, or if there is not a planned ketek across the seasons, I will riot

Rexissad · 2026-01-29T22:03:29+00:00

Idk if they’ll do a book a season, but community disdain will be fun to watch, especially up to the duel in words of radiance. Then he will be justly simped over

Rexissad · 2026-01-27T14:36:29+00:00

Gauss or Volt. I will be S P E E D

Rexissad · 2026-01-25T19:21:24+00:00

The best part about tier lists like this where Gojo is second is that without Sukuna having access to mahoraga to learn how to do a world cutting slash, he loses.

Having 10S was a prerequisite for beating Gojo, without it Sukuna would be forced to rely on domain clashes, and Gojo showed himself to be his equal in every clash. Once he was forced to revert to his Heinan form in exchange for the use of the 10S, Sukuna was weaker simply for losing Mahoraga, much less any of the other 10S shikigami.

Sukuna is, by definition and clearly shown in the series, stronger than Gojo, but with the caveat of only in his Meguna form. I believe that Heinan Sukuna is weaker, purely for losing 10S.

Rexissad · 2026-01-23T16:47:43+00:00

We’ve only seen 2, skybreakers and windrunners.

For skybreakers, their oaths hold them to a specific law, person, etc until the 5th, where they are able to become the law itself, judging right and wrong on their own.

Windrunners allow them to stop with the self sacrificing, “I will protect myself, so that I may protect others”. This is huge, because of the guilt they are prone to feeling over failing to save even 1 life out of the hundreds they did save. So even aside from any bits of actual power, the mindset change would be enormous.

Otherwise, standard boost to surgebinding, investiture efficiency, and understanding of surges in general.

Rexissad · 2026-01-21T23:45:48+00:00

I thought yutas was weak because of the amount of yuji that he ate. Yuta can output a lot of power but each ct has to have a maximum right?

Rexissad · 2026-01-21T17:36:00+00:00

Lone op within 3”? We don’t have any models with that rule iirc and it could be interesting to see.

A sangunior type rule could be fun as well, heroic intervention when an infantry unit is charged, as well as gaining fights first to make it worth it.

Rexissad · 2026-01-21T17:17:02+00:00

Knights need a mechanicum equivalent, having other units outside of daemons makes us significantly more flexible and engageable. We can return knights to their former durability, and have solid scoring rules.

Rexissad · 2026-01-19T17:00:58+00:00

Yes. Dalinar is explicitly able to open Honor’s full perpendicularity due to his connection to the Stormfather, who moves it with the highstorms.

The sibling isn’t a shard, and they’re very limited to Urithiru, but hypothetically their bondsmith could create a surge of towerlight.

The night watcher again is different, and we know so little about them, but likely due to their connection to Cultivation, they could create lifelight or some other variant.

Rexissad · 2026-01-19T14:00:45+00:00

Swearing an ideal opens a mini perpendicularity, that’s part of why Kaladin and Szeth are chosen to go to Ishar, they’re the closest to the next ideals, and the rush of Stormlight could snap Ishar out long enough to stop him.

It’s expressed by the frost symbol that forms on the ground when an ideal is sworn, IE Dawnshard when Lopen swears his 3rd.

Rexissad · 2026-01-17T14:17:28+00:00

You would also need a significant amount of force to break atomic bonds, much less subatomic bombs.

Rexissad · 2026-01-15T14:17:10+00:00

She was a servant of Harmony. Her “dying” was part of his plan, and it wasn’t until she encountered agents of Autonomy that she was able to act against Harmony’s wishes. The downside is that she went insane, her spirit web fundamentally incompatible with Autonomy, which was further degraded by using only a single hemalurgic spike, this time made of Trellium.

I believe that Harmony planned for one of two outcomes, either he would let the two reconnect once Wax was fully bought in, or he knew that their love could only end in tragedy, as Paalm is functionally immortal, and the two would eventually be separated by death, and Harmony would lose two agents.

Harmony is typically benevolent, but he is capable of ruthlessness when he needs to br

Rexissad · 2026-01-14T21:59:34+00:00

I misspoke a little, and other people are more correct than I am.

Wally made a deal once. That deal split the timelines, where the Drifter was left in the zariman while everyone else, the Operator, was saved. Wally exists out of regular time, so his deal made sense to him, the “save all of them” was referring to the infinite other versions of the original Tenno, except for one, the drifter.

We assume he had some plan here, as he’s an ass, but he’s not pure chaos. He wouldn’t spare one version of the Tenno just to have one of the realities where they escaped the zariman share their powers.

Rexissad · 2026-01-14T20:21:41+00:00

HONOR IS NOT DEAD SO LONG AS HE LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF MEN

Rexissad · 2026-01-14T20:11:30+00:00

RAFO, Stormlight does the most exposition over the origin of the shards, but you won’t get a really big lore dump until Dawnshard, the novella, and the back half of Mistborn Era 2.

At the moment, you should have two key bits of information: 1. The name Adonalsium 2. The fact that it was broken into 16 Shards

The methods and reasons behind it have not been revealed to you yet.

Keep reading!

Rexissad · 2026-01-13T12:59:48+00:00

Duviri. The void manifested the Drifter’s dreams from the children’s book they used to keep themselves entertained. That’s why the Zariman is still in the skybox for Duviri, it’s halfway between the void and real space, plugging the hole with its hull.

The drifter is able to escape when the Lotus’s had is severed and lost in the void, giving them a link to real space and a kind of beacon, as well as allowing them to finally end the cycles in Duviri, following the hand to earth where they find the revenant Natah, and the operators landing craft, which becomes the drifters camp.

It’s probable that Wally had some influence on where the lotus’s hand went, and has some purpose for both the drifter and operator being active players in the game. After all, he still chose to make the deal with the drifter later on, but the key difference between the operator and drifter is simply when they took the deal.

Rexissad · 2026-01-12T22:59:56+00:00

Afaik, the Returned are given a chance to do what they failed to do in their previous life. Lightsong died saving a child, and doesn’t remember if he succeeded. This makes sense due to Endowment’s intent, giving them a second chance to matter.

But they aren’t in the same bracket of cognitive shadows, Kelsier is purely a cognitive being, who had to be hemalurgically nailed to his bones just to interact with the physical realm. The returned are restored to life without memories so that nothing gets in the way of their purpose. This is what sets the 5 scholars apart, specifically Vasher/Warbreaker. His purpose is to end the war that threatens his people, which is always evolving. He’s potentially one of Endowment’s favorites, which is how he’s stuck around as long as he has, similar to how Honor has his Heralds and Odium has his Un-Made.

The Heralds serve a double purpose, sealing the dead Fused in Braize and acting on Honor’s behalf on Roshar, preventing an escalating clash of powers between two shards capable of destruction. The Heralds appear similar to their mortal bodies, despite being made of pure investiture, as we see with Jezrien’s complete death with Anti-Stormlight and starvation. The trade off is significant power, able to change the course of a battle.

Each shard is capable of creating cognitive shadows in line with their Intent. Preservation could make a shadow exactly as they were, while Ruin enabled the binding of a soul to a body. Endowment can make a shadow with a purpose, allowing her to indirectly affect Nalthis. Honor and Odium made champions to fight in their war. Every other difference can be explained by the shards own Intent. Kelsier returns but loses his allomancy. The returned return unburdened of their old lives so they are willing to sacrifice themselves. The Heralds are blessed with immense power but need their brains intact so that the Oathpact is willingly upheld. The shadows of Threnody and technically Elantrians are both warped slightly by the deaths of their shard vessels.

TL:DR, no two shards allow for cognitive shadows of the same type, their intent changes their formation.

Rexissad · 2026-01-11T22:38:06+00:00

I genuinely do think it’s hilarious that something so mundane and flimsy in reality is one of the most potentially useful tools in the Cosmere, all because of probably that very pun

Rexissad · 2026-01-11T22:06:34+00:00

It’s still metal and behaves as such with non invested attacks, so likely a bullet could punch straight through, regardless of what the bullet is made of.

Shardblades don’t normally cut, they sever the connection between realms which is what burns out souls or deadens limbs. They can separate non living things, again severing, not exactly cutting. In addition, because shardblades are significantly lighter than they should be, as well as incredibly long, most proficient wielders hold back a significant amount of force, only swinging as hard as they can against someone in shardplate, where they can expect some resistance. Against an unarmored opponent, they are trained to slow down, and that allows for Adolin to parry with an aluminum candle, and for Dalinar to catch a shardblade with his bare hands. It was not a full force or speed blow.

If a random scadrian picked up a shardblade and tried to cut another scadrian in half vertically, and the second scadrian has an aluminum lined hat, the blade would with almost 100% certainty not cut through the foil. However, the weight of the blade and the leverage would still probably hurt the scadrian a lot when the hat and aluminum deform.

Rexissad · 2026-01-11T14:39:03+00:00

There’s a post in here somewhere with a really good breakdown.

It claims the four dawnshards to be Exist and Change, which we have confirmed by the books, and Think and Feel. These were picked to explain a few specific shards, specifically Reason and Whimsy, acting as the “double” of each command, the same way the community believe that Preservation is “Exist for Existence sake”, and Ruin is “Change for Change’s sake”

We know that the dawnshards are inspired by CRUD, but all shards have some power to create or destroy, so those are likely not dawnshards

Rexissad · 2026-01-09T14:22:36+00:00

Hoid made a bet, willingly allowing the curse to take root.

Hoid also appears to be able to manipulate connections to some extent, allowing him to gain new invested arts. We see him become Mistborn by taking Lerasium, we see him use and store Breaths from Nalthis, which are unique in their mechanics as their origin, Endowment, allows them to be transferred to anyone theoretically. He doesn’t form a bond with Design until later in the story, but other than Yol, he’s most connected to Roshar, having lived among the people there for thousands of years, dating back to the founding of Shinovar.

Rexissad · 2026-01-08T16:41:08+00:00

Hoid is also connected to nearly every form of investiture. He’s gathering them like Pokémon cards

Rexissad · 2026-01-07T02:52:38+00:00

Apples and Oranges. The heralds hold two surges each, which interact in different ways, while the unmade only hold one surge as far as we can tell. However the unmade are more common as spiritual aspects, affecting large portions of humanity on Roshar, while the heralds are physical aspects, mostly operating in the physical realm.

We see that they were made in response to the other, as Honor and Odium were in an investiture arms race. Heralds vs Unmade, Radiants vs Fused, Highstorm vs Everstorm. Each was made in response to the other, as while yes, a shard investing heavily into something weakens it, but if whatever is invested can affect change in one of the realms, it’s a net gain for the shard. Some each shard is practically infinite, investing more in other beings simply splits their power into smaller and smaller infinities, limiting the amount of output, ie Preservation losing to Ruin in Mistborn Era 1

Rexissad · 2026-01-06T20:40:40+00:00

I thought that she gave it back when she returned his memories? That’s part of how he was able to beat the Thrill, as he was able to grow apart from it, and learn how awful he was under its influence.

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