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The metal that falls from the sky that is like silver but lighter and can block shardblade, that's aluminum, right?

Slightly off topic, but I've been having this weird glitch where if I touch too far on the edge of the screen, it kicks me back to the table of contents. It doesn't seem to happen with other books. Has anyone else had problems like this? I'm using the Kindle App on my Android phone.

I think Goomblast's point is that his boon was to never be king. Now that it has failed, he's been refunded his "curse" (loss of memory of his wife). To expound, maybe the Nightwatcher can't actually control politics, but she can change his personality to make him less ambitious, power hungry etc, which explains his personality shift. It wasn't enough, with changed circumstances, to keep him from becoming King, so his "curse" is dissipating too.

I can say with confidence that whatever Dalinar's boon/cost was, it wasn't only forgetting his wife, simply since we wouldn't have Dalinar making that assumption if it were true. If I had to guess, it has something to do with the drastic difference we see between OG Dalinar and present-day Dalinar.

Seems like Kaladin would be reluctant to give it to anyone to use, given Syl's opinions on how dangerous it is.

“The enemy’s champion,” Dalinar said, eyes narrowing. “In the visions, Honor told me our best chance of survival involved forcing Odium to accept a contest of champions. I’ve seen the enemy’s champion—a creature in black armor, with red eyes. A parshman perhaps. It had nine shadows.” Nearby, Renarin had turned toward his father, eyes wide, jaw dropping. Nobody else seemed to notice." Any thoughts on this? I'm assuming that because Dalinar jumped to the conclusion that it was a Parshman, that it won't be a parshman. Significance of the nine shadows? One of the heralds, with the the nine shadows being the other nine? Why did Renarin gasp? something he saw in a vision, I assume?

Did they say that the Sovereign brought followers? It looked like he was alone in the flashback.

Maybe, but Allik said that they didn't have metalborn before the sovereign, not that they didn't know of their abilities. Could be same difference, I guess.

I think that BS said that kids had to do with his plot to abandon his job so they sound like they were post ascension.

They apparently have actual Feruchemists now but did not before the sovereign. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52754-metalborn-demographics-bom-spoilers/

Thanks!

Where is this from? Are there new interviews up?

Wayne was reading another book (about bunnies) that was pretty clearly a reference to Watership Down. Maybe this is a reference to Blake's Seven? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7#Plot_summary

I think that Preservation created the pits specifically to channel away Ati's power. See below. INTERVIEW: Oct 30th, 2012 Hal-Con Report - Lance Alvein (Paraphrased) LANCE ALVEINYou've said that "The Pits of Hathsin were crafted by Preservation as a place to hide the chunk of Ruin's body that he had stolen away." How does one Shard steal a portion of another Shard and create a Physical outlet for it, like the Pits were for Ruin's power? BRANDON SANDERSON (PARAPHRASED)It has to do with clash between the two shards power. When pressed, he then said that it was "kind of" like splintering TAGS pits of hathsin, ruin, preservation, splintering, shards, mistborn,

So Sanderson said this in a chat. This would seem to suggest that Atium is the lost metal referred to in the title. INTERVIEW: Sep, 2012 Cosmere Q&A - 17th Shard (Verbatim) DOUGLASIn Alloy of Law, evidence is uncovered that the bad guys are attempting to breed a Mistborn. The time span of the gap between this and the original Mistborn trilogy, perhaps with the interval I vaguely remember being stated for between Alloy and the next main trilogy added, is suspiciously close to 300 years. Does the organization Wax's father is part of know the location of the Pits of Hathsin, or otherwise have access to Atium, either now (as of Alloy) or in the time period of the planned second trilogy? BRANDON SANDERSONYou are on the right track TAGS alloy of law, atium, mistborn, pits of hathsin,