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It wouldn't surprise me if aetherbound function similarly to the spore eaters, but with a better measure of control. The verdant spore eater appears to be involuntary.

I think this was his most fun book in awhile. Not bogged down by expectation or necessity of fitting in to a larger narative.

You are probably right, I had it in my head that the moons are artificial and the core aether on them struck a deal to chop up the planet into sections

Not much else to add. Amazing detective, super rich, puts on a costume(mistcloack) to fight bad guys.

Is Atium invested enough that if left alone for a very long period of time it would gain sentience on its own?

Assuming the lost metal isn't Lerasium.

Hopefully we find out this book!

Yes the excess ruin was siphoned off as Atium in the past. Do the Kandra still have a large store of Atium? As far as I know we haven't seen where that is going yet correct?

This has been something that I have thought about for a long time, ever since the end of era 1. We know that there is extra Preservation put inside the people of the basin (maybe the whole world, maybe not). What if the excess Ruin lies within the southern Scadrians? Harmony knew that to be balanced he needed to dump it, it worked out well having Preservation within humans.....so why not having a population with excess Ruin? Probably crazy.

The ole dual identities. If that weren't being explored with Shallan, I could see Sanderson going this way.

I feel like Wayne owing people money isn't so much that he borrowed or messed up with some investment, but more along the lines of he just doing whatever he wants took something without paying. Like he "traded" a old meant bun for something more expensive. My initial thought too was it had to do with the little girl that Wayne was messed up over as well.

Jackal's are kind of the African/Egyptian version of a fox in mythology. They are seen as tricksters. The jackal seemed cooler than a fox?

Hoid - The Jackal.

I assume like they harvest crops, the invested sunlight can grow trees quickly as well?

Is this Hoid's normal form of "stasis" that he uses to prevent aging? How does he know when to come out of this mode?

A more maybe macabre outcome would be that Dalinar/Dalinar's Champion defeat Odium's, but don't kill them. Instead keep them in an incapacitated state for eternity binding Odium to Roshar?

I like what you are saying. My personal head canon is that they are not trying to collect all the different magic systems, but they are trying to collect Connection to all the various shards. I feel like they traveling planet to planet to in order to have offspring that will be connected enough to each shard to be able to take up the big A when the time comes.

Do the genetics of the Singer change based on what form they are in? Assuming they reproduce sexually, would the sperm and egg change depending on the form? I would tend to think no? My guess is that the Horneaters and Herdazians are different just because of divergent evolution. They probably started off pretty similar, but over years diverged.

While wearing a Duneesque sand walking suit.

Yup! It is interesting that reading this story you might learn just as much about the planet of the person that is speaking to, than the planet the story is taking place on.

I was just thinking about this while I was in the shower this morning(don't judge). I didn't realize that the kickstarter pulled in that much already. I wonder what the cost of producing that number of books is? I wonder how much money he typically will get from his typical book deals for like a Mistborn book? This method of distribution might be more lucrative than traditional distribution.

Now something to keep in mind, this is Hoid telling the story to someone from another planet who probably speaks a totally different language. While telling this story he has to adapt the references to make sense to the person he is speaking to. It is entirely possible that honey/wheat/flax don't exist on Tress' planet.

After re-reading Wax and Wayne, this is why I have an even greater appreciation for Wayne. Dude can do it all without any magical aid, just a change in hat.

I agree, it most likely is. For some reason when I was taking a shower the other day after reading chapter 1 and 2 of the Lost Metal, I was thinking about the excess of ruin out there and what it could still be doing.

Do we have confirmation that Trell is an avatar of Autonomy? Do we have confirmation where the extra bit of Ruin that Harmony is? What if Trell is that extra bit of Ruin that has been taken up by someone, or is being used in a way to cause issues? It could make sense within the story that there isn't outside shardic influences on Scadrial yet.