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I spent the weekend stalking Brandon Sanderson (AND GOT TO DRAFT WITH HIM IT WAS AWESOME YAY! [he slaughtered me]) and will try and add anything I gleaned from his Q&A's and assorted questions I heard asked or asked myself: ~ The Soulcaster's gem arrangement was inspired by a 2-pupiled eye (not sure if will be relevant to lore or not) ~ Nicrobursts can only effect the allomantic abilities of twinborn (He followed up by saying THIS MAY CHANGE if he needs it to) ~ The prologues for the first 5 WoK books are the events of the king's death from the perspective of 5 different characters (He read the prologue to WoK 2 at the Q&A. It will be from Jasnah's perspective ~Were Odium to shatter Harmony, we would NOT get Ruin and Preservation back but instead would get smaller pieces. ~And there was a short reading from his working sequel to alloy I know people were taking videos at the con. Not sure if anyone posted to youtube. I am trying to get in contact with them again to see if I can get them posted

Hey, at work so this is quick but I think I'm onto something. Read the section of way of kings where kaladin meets Hoid. Note how he feels drawn in by the tune. I think Hoid uses music to draw people in, like a siren. A flute for kaladin, whistling for Vin. Perhaps she was protected by copper, or sensed it with bronze (it's a Will: disbelieve effect).

Thanks Soother! I was feeling all sad before To clarify the Nicroburst comment, you mean that If Nick the Nicroburster tries to Nicro Frank the Ferring (or full Feruchemist, just no allomancy), it won't do anything as of now? I can't say I'm enthused about this news on the prolouge. Granted I haven't read it yet and it is Brandon, but I do not have positive associations with retreading the same ground from different perspectives. . . Crossroads. . . *shudder* That being said, I'm willing to give it a shot, and if worst comes to worst it will only be a minute fragment of each book.

Interesting Idea. It would make some sense if copper blocked it but if that were the case she wouldn't have sensed it unless it was stronger than her copper and she felt it anyway. Bronze is more possible but I don't think that's the case. That sounds like having a similar effect to what can be accomplished with emotional allomancy. Given that people can recognize when their emotions are being effected by allomancy. By that logic a sufficiently aware person (like Vin) could potentially recognize, perhaps not how they were being manipulated, but that there was *something* strange going on.

Forgive me if I've missed a quote or passage, but why does everyone seem to be convinced that plating a metal with Aluminum would "shield" the metal from Pushes/Pulls? If that were the case, Miles could just have used electroplated weapons instead of making everything out of some solid through-and-through, rarer-than-gold aluminum alloy.

FIrst off I have to say, they were ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Love love love all 3 books and already feel like I want to read them all over again. So... the question is, where to from here? Is there somewhere to find a list of all BS's books so I can start hunting down & reading the rest? He has catapulted himself to the head of my favourite authors list... and that says a lot! Seriously stoked to have finished them & not been disappointed by a single page. *contented sigh*

If you read closely through WoK, there are several places that imply that waves/sound is magically important. When we see Jasnah soulcast the boulder, Shallan imagines that she can hear a "single, perfect note" just as it transforms. Later, she finds some books that mention that humming can facilitate soulcasting using fabrials. Also - anyone notice how a basic soulcaster, that can do one thing only, has a single gemstone (the one we see the Ghostblood use to make the wall turn into smoke), while the greater ones have three gemstones that can be swapped out? And remember how Kabsal tells Shallan that to use a soulcaster, you just touch what you want to change and tap the gemstone? Anyone else think this sounds (no pun intended) like a musical instrument? For a single note (essence) you tap a single key/gemstone. For a more complex object consisting of multiple essences you tap a combination of notes, thereby making a chord. Of note, most chords in music are made from three notes. I just had to look all this stuff up on wikipedia since I have the musical knowledge and skill of a tugboat, but I'm sure someone with more knowledge will take up the thread.

They're shattering brilliant. To attempt an imitation of how Al would respond: "Don't read these books. They might be awesomely exciting, completely true, and full of me, don't read them. Don't find out the truth about the Librarian Conspiracy, or learn the truth about Alcatraz the Hero. Just don't do it. I mean, you'd totally enjoy the talking dinosaurs, and this is WAY better than those 'poignant' books where a boy's dog kills his mother. Just don't do it. But if you're stoopid (wait, no, brave) enough to read these books... Bastille dies in Book Two."

No doubt. Rainbow and Rubix are canon now because of AoL .

Not sure what "reverse compounding" would be, but my take on it is this - you vastly increase your Feruchemy by fueling it with Allomancy (via compounding). How do you vastly increase your Allomancy, then? Simple - you fuel it with Feruchemy. But what metalmind lets you do that, you ask? Nicrosil, the one that stores Investiture. You simply burn a metal and store the "magic" in a Nicrosilmind, rather than using it at the time. Then, when you want to Soothe the entire city of Luthadel, you tap that Nicrosilmind and put out a ginormous Soothing.

The rub is, in an attempt to forge a box filled with gold, the gold is not an integral part of the box. In the stained glass window the window glass is an intergral part of the window. In fact, when Shai tried to forge regular glass into the window, it always broke. Her forgings didn't work. In other words, the nature of the box is unchanged if it has gold in it or not. So, I doubt that you could forge contents into a container. I suspect the best you could do is forge the box to have been a chest in which gold was contained in it such that there are flakes of gold embedded into the box itself. As to the gold into gold-plated lead, I think you would have a tough time convincing that gold that it is actually lead.

I swear seeing a quote on this, or it might have been from the signing I was at in February in the Powell's at Cedar Crossing in Beaverton, OR. I'm pretty sure there is a quote, and it's not from the signing however. I do know for a fact that Kelsier is in the Cognitive Realm I've seen several sources on this as that is how he is able to take up the reigns of Preservation for the short time in between Leras and Vin. Also to clarify the part with Hoid and Kelsier hating each other, I think we can assume to mean that while travelling through Shadesmar, Kelsier and Hoid have met and they aren't very happy with what the other is doing.

We've had some fairly intense debates on the topic, but I think it's been settled (someone yell at me if I'm wrong, it's been a while) that weight affects both how much raw power you can output and, as you say, who gets thrown around at the end of the day. When Vin pushes a coin with 1 Newton of Force, she is pushed back as well. It's just that the coin is much less massive. At no point do you have an Allomancer simply "not moving": instead, the force exerted on them is simply minimal. So yes, an elephant will be able to Push and Pull a man in armor around without budging more than half an inch. Now as to how the elephant gets that much power, that's down (IIRC) to both Allomantic strength and the actual weight of the Allomancer. They're essentially "throwing their weight around", so a Vin who wasn't uber-awesome would be able to throw around fundamentally less power than an equally powerful Allomancer who's weight went into the hundreds. Put each of them up against a wall and have a "coin race" and weak!Vin's would be slower. Thus, increasing your weight (via eating or Feruchemy), besides making you more immovable, also has the effect of increasing the amount of brute power available to Iron and Steel Allomancy. He wouldn't need quite much preparation: Recall that TLR can compound every metal. A few hours or days of compounding Iron would do it. He also wouldn't have needed to tap strength, since all Feruchemy protects its user from the direct effects of tapping: brass ferrings don't burn to death and iron ferrings aren't crushed under their own weight. You might have an issue with breaking the Earth's crust, though. . . -There's a quote on this, though I can't find it just now. I'm having the hardest times finding quotes today, but, in general, you can rest easy with the knowledge that "there are A LOT of things that [TLR] knew that aren’t known to a lot of people." I would hazard that Bendalloy and Cadmium do allow for "faster" and "slower" feruchemical storage, but, again, your ideas, while interesting, aren't really necessary for TLR in particular, or any Compounder. Compounding a metal makes it end-positive, and is power-generating and fast enough that you don't really need to set aside a few days in an extra-dimensional bubble to do it properly. Overall, your thoughts on TLR are interesting, but in the specific context of the MAG, I would caution you a bit: so far as I know, conventional wisdom says that if TLR actually tries to kill or capture you, you die or end up in chains. A thousand year old, expert-savant-Lerasium-Twinawesome--especially in a world that doesn't know anything about compounding and probably doesn't know anything about feruchemy either--is simply impossible to overcome. EDIT: Welcome to the forums, by the way!