Usuario:Ccstat

Personal List of Questions for Brandon:

Cosmere/Crossover

1. Has the total number of perpendicularities increased since the shattering?
2. From what we've seen of Seons and other splinters, it appears that subdivided investiture has some inherent flavor analogous to a Shard's intent, if less potent in those smaller doses. Question: Is a Shard's intent an additive sum of its component parts, or is it an emergent property of the parts interacting?
   1. thought process:You've told us that twinborn, for example, get particular perks, while mistborn/full-feruchemists get the full power but no Resonances. Are intents loosely analogous to the Resonances in this way?
3. If Ruin and Preservation had picked Roshar instead of Scadrial, would magical abilities still divide into sets of 16? Would they still be based on metals?
4. You've used the term spiritual DNA. Every cell in our body has a complete copy of our physical DNA, and With the right tools a small sample of DNA can tell you a ton about the person it came from. Is the same true of sDNA? Could a forensic analysis of a piece of identity (e.g. left in a metalmind or an awakened object) paint a complete picture of the user's origins and/or spiritweb? Do such tools exist in the Cosmere?
5. Could a kandra wear the body of a Sleepless?
6. is the term Shadesmar original to Threnody?
7. Gravity appears constant between areas of the cognitive realm, regardless of their spacial relationship to a planet vs intervening space. Does it vary between planets?
8. if you operated an airplane or ticket in the CR, is there anything to reach at higher altitudes?
9. A person has their arm cut by a shardblade, making it a dead limb. Eventually they die and an awakener tries to make a Lifeless from their body. Will the Lifeless have a functional arm, or will it remain cognitively/spiritually separate?
10. If the awakener met the person while they were still alive, would they be able to awaken the limb, making a partial Lifeless? Would the arm be able to obey instructions (from someone with the command phrase) like a regular lifeless would?

Scadrial

1. A kandra obtains access to feruchemy by spiking Ferring A, and wears the body of Ferring B, both of whom had full metalminds when they died. Which of the metalminds will she be able to access?
2. Does duralumin share aluminum's allomantic shielding abilities?
3. If you use two different metals to make a spike (i.e. glued together, not alloyed) could you steal two different abilities from the same person?

Roshar

1. Sleepless are similar to Vinge's Tines from Fire Upon the Deep. Do sleepless have difficulty being close to/intermingling one another? Is membership in a horde fluid?
2. If I measure a spren, and then instead of writing the measurement down I store the memory in a coppermind, would that have the same "recording" effect?
3. We know that certain ethnicities on Roshar have Listener heritage. Are there subgroups of listeners with human heritage?
4. Wit calls his instrument a Trailman's flute. Is that associated with the Iriali Long Trail?
5. Mraize shoots a cremling with a blow gun. Sleepless?
6. Would spren look the same to Lift and Eshonai?
7. Does the double-pupiled Eye of the Almighty have a biological counterpart in Rosharan fauna?

Nalthis

1. If a Lifeless became sufficiently self aware, could it give away its animating breath?
2. Awakening is powered by breath and fueled by color. Only Nathian breaths work: what about off-world colors?
3. Would powering awakening with e.g. stormlight still drain color, or would it pull from a different physical property? (note, previously RAFO'd in 2014)
4. What proportion of a person's inherent investiture makes up a breath? 5%? 50%?
5. Assuming they could live long enough, how many Returned would fulfill their purposes?
6. Why can't you sense Breath inside an object? Life sense feels like Seeking, but in this case it seems opposite to Seeking, which can only sense kinetic investiture.

Threnody

1. According to Silence, the Forests of Hell have carried that name and been populated by shades since well before the Evil befell Homeland. Were the Deepest Ones also present prior to the Evil?
2. Would a shade on Threnody be more or less dangerous if encountered in Shadesmar? (Assuming no rules had been broken.)
3. If the shades stopped enforcing the Simple Rules, would the spread of the Evil from the Homeland be hastened?
4. On Threnody, are there different Simple Rules governing conduct when in Shadesmar as compared to the physical realm?

Non-Cosmere

1. Sunlight appears to be deleterious to wild/unbound manifestations of the magic. Do the people of Joel's era understand this and/or the reason for it?
2. David and the Dowser: simple self delusion shouldn't be able to fool the dowser. What's going on here?
3. Are Epic weaknesses still a feature of the Reckonerverse post-Calamity?
4. Do you have a canon term for the Reckoners multiverse?

Writing

1. What is the best thing you've gained from the recent season of Writing Excuses?

Thoughts on Books

Stormlight Theories

The honorblades are the heralds' souls. Rosharans swears from OB:

What in Damnation’s depths? Damnation's own

Minions in SoS

It is clear that while Paalm does many things herself (shapeshifting is good for that) she also has people working for her. Most seem to be spiked (though I'm not sure about Drim) and therefore open to her influence. (In retrospect, the scene with the first speech where the governor is telling his own assassin to hurry up and shoot him is a more interesting one.)

I've been trying to figure out what happened to the server who jumped out the window at the party. At the time, Paalm was wearing Innate so Wayne's deduction that the server was a minion is correct. They don't find a body, so he had some way to survive the fall: maybe steel allomancy, maybe iron feruchemy, maybe something else entirely.