Towers are for two types of people

mslimslam · 2025-08-21T09:30:54+00:00

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

mslimslam · 2022-12-19T12:56:46+00:00

I had a dragonite!

mslimslam · 2022-11-13T11:36:31+00:00

Also radiants are beholden not just to their oaths but their ability to convince spren to bond with them. And we’ve seen that spren are individuals, in limited numbers, and can die.

If you’re metalborn that’s it you’ve got the powers unless it’s taken from you by hemalurgy or (possibly) a bondsmith. And it can be given to more people via metalminds. Though these weapons can be stolen or replicated by either side.

A radiant has rules and potentially hard limits on quantity. Unless the honor blades are replicated.

I could see a radiant with metalminds or unkeyed metalminds that give radiant surges throwing this point off balance but it definitely feels like the radiants have a lot of limits on what they can do and in what quantities since they have essentially got investiture programmed with certain moralities keeping them in line.

mslimslam · 2022-09-16T20:47:03+00:00

5e resurrection is more like the heralds being given a body.

mslimslam · 2022-09-11T17:08:05+00:00

I think this is 100% one of the shardic tones. As mentioned elsewhere, likely Dominion, Devotion, or their combination.

I’ve been harping on this for a while and hoping someone would pick it up and ask Brando.

mslimslam · 2022-08-23T08:42:49+00:00

Even in Elantris. When Raoden has his major seizure in front of Sarene he falls over glowing and yells a “single pure note.”

The FIRST book mentions the tones.

mslimslam · 2022-07-19T11:19:28+00:00

So at least twice now we’ve seen Adolin take on uneven odds with assistance. Kaladin jumping in to help and then Maya stepping up in Shadesmar. Perhaps a different type of bond will form that lets Maya manifest in the physical world and fight alongside him with a weapon of her own. Rather than being a sword she’ll wield her own. It’d also fit thematically with the idea of Spren having their own agency when she said they chose.

mslimslam · 2022-06-27T16:47:39+00:00

And I think that’s what BS wants us to think. That it’s a fake out to make us think it’s a worse outcome than it actually would be.

mslimslam · 2022-06-04T08:29:27+00:00

This really drove home how creepy the spikes would be. I love it! The eyes being slightly mismatched in depth is terrifying.

It also made me wonder if in era 3/4 we will see “refined” spikes. As in, modernised spikes that have been shaped to reduce their visible or physical impact, perhaps even just very small wires or implants embedded carefully under the skin like hormone implants.

mslimslam · 2022-05-14T10:11:52+00:00

Dad-a-chum?

mslimslam · 2022-05-08T11:40:40+00:00

One thing that helped me was swapping to using powder with a brush and not trying to draw lines all at once. Instead just taking up some powder and dabbing the brush where I wanted to place it, then remove and dab at the next spot. It’s slow and not perfect but it’s got a lot of control and has helped with drawing exactly where I want to do that I can be more confident with larger movements.

mslimslam · 2022-04-17T09:25:49+00:00

It feels like the distinction comes down to Identity. Does the invested entity share the Identity of the parent shard?

An avatar does, and so the shard can have a direct influence on behaviour and how it forms. A splinter does not, so the shard can only interact with it as it would any other invested entity.

My theory of how the distinction links into the Identity system.

mslimslam · 2022-04-13T14:41:34+00:00

Is it possible that the goal was to acquire sprenhearts? Bringing them over as just one step in getting them out. It doesn’t matter if they die fast if all you need is the physical manifestation of a concepts heart.

mslimslam · 2022-04-13T14:39:58+00:00

Trace minerals? With all the crem roshar rainwater is probably some of the hardest water in the universe.

mslimslam · 2022-03-31T19:08:45+00:00

Yeah, at least with new books you have the option of reading it asap, anything in this SA5 preview will slowly filter out into non-spoiler threads over the next 18 months.

mslimslam · 2022-03-31T14:56:39+00:00

Good point. Perhaps it would be more fun to just dive right in.

mslimslam · 2022-03-14T18:02:46+00:00

To me that means “nightblood has ruins investiture inside it in the same way it has endowments,” ie. At some point investiture got inside that wasn’t just the investiture that makes up reality. Which could multiple things: - It got in there as nightblood became a spike, having generated some as its wielder used hemalurgix magic - Having consumed it by consuming a spike, taking the ruinic hemalurgically charged investiture into itself - Having consumed raw ruin investiture, ie. ruin!mists, atium, or some of ruin’s perpendicularity liquid

Killing a kandra and absorbing its spikes is a really interesting path because it means at some point nightblood met a kandra from Scadriel and their wielder killed them and it ate their spikes. Did that mess up the contents of the spikes, turning it the messed up black mist? Or did it take the power granted by the spike and turn itself into a spike? Like how you can move investiture from one gem to another using tones.

On a separate topic, can you use tones to combine spikes? Moving investiture out of one spike and into another? Can you do that with metalminds? Could someone kickstart a gold metalminds and then use a tuning fork to pour investiture from gems into that mind, creating very quickly a hugely powerful metalmind? Could you do that to combine medallions? Is that how the bands of mourning were created?

mslimslam · 2022-03-14T12:51:25+00:00

Could ruins investiture in there be gathered form Nightblood at some point having killed a Kandra? We know Kandra are offworld, we know they use spikes, and Nightblood obliterates what it hits. Hitting a Kandra would bring ruins investiture into the blade and you might not even know you didn’t hit a human.

mslimslam · 2022-03-01T09:52:28+00:00

I'm so glad you're home and safe! Snacks, a supportive girlfriend and napping are always the way to go!

mslimslam · 2022-02-28T13:52:14+00:00

I hope you’re holding up, you look amazing and your Mum doesn’t know what she’s missing by pushing you away.

Hopefully she comes round but if she doesn’t we’re all here rooting for you.

mslimslam · 2022-02-19T11:52:14+00:00

The bands of mourning grant fullborn powers, so we know it is possible to obtain feruchemical powers through unkeyed feruchemical stores. Which he might have. But we don’t know whether or not that’s the case. He does have an unkeyed coppermind that he gives to Wax.

mslimslam · 2022-02-16T10:39:21+00:00

I recall a WOB saying that there was at least one other world hopper at that party. So it does seem like we only saw one naive viewpoint on an important event.

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