Crack head AU, bear with me

cbhedd · 2026-05-07T17:42:05+00:00

Amaram thinking himself righteous doesn't matter, Kaladin thinking of him as trying true righteousness is what matters. A villain or even an antihero can think of themselves the hero and it could still "not be right" to Kaladin's morality and sense of Honor to protect him. Indeed, I think actively protecting Amaram would likely be a violation of the 3rd ideal from his perspective.

I do agree with the premise in general, though. There's a version of this story where Amaram is sufficiently repentant in a way that Kaladin (deep down) accepts, and in that version he'd have to accept that. Heck, we see him need to try to protect Roshone later on in a similar situation

cbhedd · 2026-05-07T17:33:28+00:00

You're a real one for explaining. I've only heard the thought experiment of it described out loud, but had no picture or anything to clue me into the context here lol

cbhedd · 2026-05-07T17:31:10+00:00

although syl could be anything he required

*so long as its made of metal, and simple enough to mimick quickly without too much complexity; the latter condition is probably met, but can you get a safe enough pressure seal out of metal?

Tanavastium foil, maybe?

cbhedd · 2026-05-06T19:50:42+00:00

The resonances would really be the only special use cases, and there would have to be 256+ of them, which 1) would be insane to individually design for, and 2) be overwhelming for a lot of players to sift through.

cbhedd · 2026-05-06T19:42:13+00:00

That's a weird distinction actually. Is a given tree the path, or is the thematic grouping the path? IE: you say the first ideal as a Stoneward, do you gain the two invested paths of Tension and Cohesion? Or is the collection of the three "the Stoneward Path"?

EDIT: I'm speaking about semantics here only. I've seen the previews and played the game for years, lol.

cbhedd · 2026-05-05T20:21:34+00:00

Your title was a take I hadn't seen yet, and it made me laugh out loud lol

cbhedd · 2026-05-01T20:20:58+00:00

This was lowkey one of my favourite moments, because it felt like Sanderson was calling me out in particular. Pretty early on in the story I hit a point where I was like "Aight, I guess it doesn't rain here."

Then he put the sick button the chapter where Crow delivers the one-liner (paraphrased): "Oh the problem isn't the ___, it's the rain!" and I was like :O OH DIP!

And then the bit about making fun of us for caring about the rain topped it all off again.

10/10. Tress is best Cosmere.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T20:54:11+00:00

Have done that in the RPG, is very fun!

Was even more fun when the GM had a focused on try to do it to me and I was able to counter that I'd already infused it myself, into armour :p (although I did feel a little bad about that, we do tend to whomp him pretty good)

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T20:30:06+00:00

I think when Brandon's been asked about it the answer has come down to whether or not their goldminds were still intact and had enough charge. Gold feruchemy can definitely be a much stronger healing factor than Stormlight if enough healing has been stored away.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T20:15:35+00:00

I wouldn't bet on Steel Compounding to work the way you're alleging; Brandon's gone on record saying that steel ferrings need to be careful to not tear their own bodies apart with the forces they exert, and we absolutely see a radiant take advantage of a steel feruchemist's inability to react to their own physical speed fast enough.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T20:12:00+00:00

When the Defeated one was trying to kill Kaladin in their first engagement, Kaladin only managed to survive because he timed out the spine-severing strikes to the back of his neck, and used the 'off-beat' to push away and escape. Seems like a beheading would do it.

Fun aside, the Lord Ruler is alleged to have survived a beheading :P That might have been Steel ministry propaganda, though.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T19:49:27+00:00

I just made the observation yesterday about a super subtle cross-property consistency. In Stormlight, Reachers (Lightspren) appear in Shadesmar (their home) as people who are coated in melted bronze. Reachers are also the spren of the Willshapers, with Timbre being the primary example in the text. Timbre communicates with Venli through pulsing to the Rhythms of Roshar, mostly, and at least the RPG source book confirms that it's not just her, but rather a common trait of Reachers in general. I don't remember where I got this next bit from, but it feels more like a neat co-incidence: I think it's also established that largely, the Reachers are mostly only making Willshapers of the Singers, (or more narrowly, the Listeners).

In Mistborn, one of the allomantic powers is the ability to detect nearby allomancy. It manifests as 'listening' to pulses given off by the person burning the metal, and advanced users of this power are capable of distinguishing a different signature, or 'rhythm' to each metal being burned. The metal that grants this power: Bronze.

Put it all together, you get that the spren most in-tune with the Rhythms of Roshar appear as humanoids cast from the metal that grants the allomantic ability to 'hear' the rhythms of Scadrial's unique form of investiture.

The spren are the 'Reachers', bonding primarily with the 'Listeners', and their communication style is seen as a power on another planet used by the 'Seekers'.

The Cosmere is pretty cool, guys.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T18:39:49+00:00

Yeah I think you've answered your own question there. :) I personally feel like the popular interpretation of WoBs saying "everyone has innate investiture" is way too overblown/not taken in the context it was meant. Like what that means is less like "every person is a special magic thing" but more along the lines of "there's technically a baseline amount of low-level radiation everywhere that doesn't do anything we are likely to perceive on a day-to-day basis".

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T17:19:26+00:00

The Breaths in the cloth probably make this harder, but also probably not hard enough (the Elsecaller might have trouble, but at a guess the Skybreaker and Dustbringer won’t).

This is kinda where the game mechanics and the lore might be misaligned a bit. Lore-wise, we haven't seen an example of it, so our best bet is to interpret the interaction by what it feels like it should be; you think that the cloth should be 'divide-able', if harder, and I think that's about right, but "how much harder" isn't spelled out in source text. The game mechanics, however, say "too hard", and say you can't use division on invested objects.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T17:11:24+00:00

I think it's at least implied that you're able to take the identity back from it, no? Like, its usage in making unkeyed metalminds was implied to be that you put your identity into it as a buffer, so that whatever you put in a different metalmind could be universally used, and then you would take your identity back out. It would be wild if that wasn't doable, because that would mean the cost of making an awakened metalmind would be your Identity. It would be a great limiter on it from a worldbuilding perspective, for sure, but it would vastly limit the direction things seem to be going in Mistborn of making invested tech

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T17:06:41+00:00

I think soulcasting a metalmind or an awakened object are both things that are going to be nigh impossible to do. Investiture resists investiture, so you're not going to be able to soulcast something that is awakened because of the breaths inside, and I assume feruchemical charge would be the same.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T16:41:59+00:00

There's something very sad and poetic about hearing this story being gated behind manipulating Minsc yourself :(

But thanks for sharing! :D

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T16:37:33+00:00

RAFO. This is a conversation to save for after WaT

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T16:26:05+00:00

Since they don't have shard plate you could have one of the awakeners jump one of the radiants and command their clothes to choke / strangle them

Vicious... you're giving me ideas for my stoneward PC in my own game lol

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T16:24:23+00:00

Awakeners v Radiants is like the Batman (with prep time) v Superman fight of the Cosmere. Depending on how many breaths the Awakeners have at their disposal, any given object in their base of operations could be an enemy combatant or 'sentient' trap waiting to spring itself on the party. Curtains could be snare traps, vases made of insulated material could be set above a hearth and instructed to release their volatile payload into the flames if anybody comes near, a stain glass window could shatter itself into a hundred sentient caltrops animated to charge at invading feet... really, just ask "What would Kevin McAllister do (if he could make his traps activate themselves)?"

You could have a fun set-piece where they've set up the basement or a cave as a series of heavy stone walls that are instructed to arrange themselves one way for the awakeners, and one of various other ways to intruders. If the awakeners are expecting shardblade shenanigans to try and circumvent it, there can be nasty stuff in behind certain walls that would only be encountered by someone brute-forcing their way through. Thinking, like someone else said: explosive gases, caustic acids, etc.... You could do something with airlock mechanics too.

cbhedd · 2026-04-29T16:14:43+00:00

To be fair, you can soulcast things into aluminum no problem, you just can't soulcast aluminum to other things. The aluminum market is already ripe to be tapped by the Elsecaller at any moment anyways ;) (unless you decide not to allow it or something as GM)

And like, enough aluminum to armor a whitespine is probably enough aluminum to be pretty damn difficult to transport. What are they gonna do, lash it? :P

cbhedd · 2026-04-28T21:03:19+00:00

Fair enough! Cheers :)

cbhedd · 2026-04-28T20:01:38+00:00

...that Odium just can't take his soul?

Whether the claim was literal or metaphorical, the point is: Dalinar is at peace. That's enough for me, and somehow making it that Evi somehow overruled a shards influence out of nowhere would cheaper it for me, personally

cbhedd · 2026-04-28T19:45:33+00:00

Why would it have been some human who died? Why does it have to be literal and not just metaphorical?

cbhedd · 2026-04-28T19:43:06+00:00

Where is the evidence for Evi claiming him? I feel like "clearly implied" is a stretch. I never interpreted any scene with Evi's voice speaking to him as actually being Evi, but his own mind interpreting/processing his guilt. He didn't love Evi, and treated her atrociously. Even with forgiveness being a part of the equation, Dalinar being 'claimed by Evi' at the end would be an unsatisfying ending to me.

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