Why is hades so evil in lore?

he don’t have an uncle.

he only has asses to kick.

and that includes morock.

So I’ve seen this Morock solos everything debate floating around the forums, and I’ve decided to throw in my two cents.

Warning unmarked spoilers for Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive ahead.

In fiction there is a type of character that could absolutely solo Morock. Any Knight Radiant from The Stormlight Archive by author Brandon Sanderson that’s of the fourth or fifth ideal would destroy Morock.

To explain, Knight Radiants are individuals who have bonded to beings of sentient investiture (Investiture: the source of energy for all magical powers in the Cosmere.) known as spren. This allows them utilize Stormlight a form of concentrated investiture that gathers in gem stones during High Storm (a meteorological feature on the planet Roshar where these Radiants are from.) to perform the arcane art of Surgebinding.

However in this case, it’s not the Surgebinding that will be the direct cause of Morock’s downfall. Instead it will be the icons of the Knights Radiant, the Shardblade and Shardplate. Both items are physical manifestions of spren, in the case of the blade it’s the radiant’s bonded spren in thr case of plate it’s lower spren related to the bonded spren.

Both blade and plate share several qualities that make them particularly effective against Morock. I shall discuss the plate first.

Shardplate is known first and foremost for being indestructible, while deadplate is able to be cracked it can be repaired quickly with infused gemstones. Living Shardplate seems to be truly indestructible, barring any use of anti-investiture tones or metals such as aluminum. However though we don’t yet know it’s interactions with other god metals, I would still think it would at least resist them. Thus if we think of Morock as using powers from a god, at the very least Shardplate could resist it long enough for the Radiant to use its weapon.

The Shardblade much like plate is seemingly indestructible again barring any anti-investiture. It’s main quality is that unlike conventional weaponry, a Shardblade attacks the soul. This is a serious problem for Morock as with how powerful the curse is all he is is effectively spirit energy glued to magic. So a single swipe through the spine, neck, heart, or head would rend his soul assunder. Scattering what little spiritual essence remained in his body, killing him as surely as contaminated sea-water.

Finally another trick the Knights Radiant has on their side, is Stormlight itself. You Investiture or certain types at least, when metabolized by the body tends to heal the body back to its ideal self based on the perception of the user’s identity. So for example if you lost an arm, but still thought of yourself as the you before you lost it Stormlight will regrow the arm.

This power has been shown to heal people from everything from explosions to even being shot in the head. So even if Morock burnt through the armor he would have to contend with the KR’s healing factor.

Overall a Knights Radiant is perfectly equipped to deal with Morock Creed, even when using his Prometheus Flame Curse.

Edit 1: before anyone says something about Morock just flying out of range. Two of the Radiant orders can fly and there are several mechanical ways of achieved personal flight that exist on Roshar itself and several more on other planets in the Cosmere.

can they solo the asskicker though?

(spoilers: no)

can i get a tldr :pleading_face:

TL;DR: they have weird metal or something and they’re fast.

Basic summary is armor that at least withstand if not completely ignore Morock’s attack. Sword that is able to cut through any inorganic object and when cutting through living matter cuts the soul not the flesh (bypassing the physical immunity that curses provide.) finally magically induced healing factor that can overcome explosions and even shots to the head. Also with certain Radiants flight.

what would happen if you had a character that hypothetically didn’t have either of these things

and got cut

does it exist?
obviously morock doesn’t unironically solo all of fiction, but i will say he is arguably the strongest character in the au aside from the gods

@skittlesnakes
You gonna take this?

Fair, but I like yapping about The Stormlight Archive and Cosmere as a whole.

i’m not debating someone who unironically thinks that :yawning_face:

He is not skittle is just successfully brainwashing you

Probably nothing, we actually see this with Spren who can be cut by the blade but soon reform. So a being without soul would presumably be unaffected, but good luck finding a being like that that isn’t dead.

Edit: or more accurately that’s sapient without just being a Spren.

whistles

oooohh tyyppp!!!

bro doesnt know about Morock’s 87th ability…

wasn’t it the 45th

okay but can he regenerate before hes burnt with fire hotter than the sun lol

he’d literally be getting the

treatment

Bro doesnt know about Morock’s 10th ability…

Actually yes, we’ve seen a Knights Radiant survive direct exposure to a planet’s sun that was quite literally a deadly laser. Granted it was only a short time he was exposed, but that was without his armor. With his armor he was able to survive no problem. Note this sun would burn people into nothing. (Nothing’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I can’t say more without spoilers.) The book is The Sunlit Man again by Brandon Sanderson.

would they survive a prismalgam though