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  1. Personally I don't think it's a mistwraith. I think it's closer to cognitive being manifesting in the physical realm, like Ishar was experimenting with on Roshar. Basically the herald's already do this, which is why Kelsier is so interested in how they function
  2. I understood it to be a large amount of investiture, with metal born in the area being used to connect it to Scadrial. That's why the metal born were needed, otherwise it's just a bank of power not attached to anything. And it's why they were able to burn it
  3. Just a guess. If I had to guess at what kind of stuff Hoid could do to interfere with Bav, that sounds plausible. Especially how Sazed acted when Wax asked him to intervene
  4. Hoid helped Sazed cut Teslin off from Anatomy. That's why Sazed was not sure whether he would be able to do it or not.
  5. We already have an example of something from the cognitive realm being brought into the physical and physical....bits....being created. My guess is that Kelsier did the same thing, but because he uniquely has a connection to something in the physical realm, it actually worked for him. I don't think the kandra are involved at all.
  6. Hoid is on Scadrial because he needs to be on Scadrial. He just doesn't know why.
  7. I'm of the same opinion. I don't think men of gold necessarily means literally gold skin. Just gold armor or investiture of some sort. That quote is from super early Scadrial also, so an image of a Taldain warrior may have looked like gold skin, but it could have been armor or sand mastery
  8. I didn't think about that....does hemalurgy affect a person's genetic spirit web? I don't recall a WoB on the subject. We wouldn't have found out about it during the Lord Rulers time since all spiking resulted in the death of a person But that would also mean that spiking a person would introduce those metallic art genetics into their line And I don't know if the extra preservation investiture was for sapience, I had thought it was just to make people "good", but also resulted in Ruin having an edge over Preservation. Could be a factor in a harmony vs discord situation.
  9. Sand armor. Looks golden, and it's right up against their body, so it looks like skin.
  10. I mean....Ruin right now is being repressed...that Shard needs to have some sort of expression. It's going to be let out in one way or another
  11. Near the end of TLM we saw that there was some progress towards using hemalurgy without killing the source material...it was hinted at in Band of Mourning, but now we see it being used not just for abilities, but for possibly inert investiture too. If this gets refined to a more professional and less gory process....think getting your ears pierced....I wouldn't be surprised if we have an economy in Era 3 of people selling off their investiture/ abilities at Hem banks. Go in, get a little spike across your back, and walk out with a bandaid, a glass of orange juice/cookie, and a few hundred boxings. If you can burn a metal, and you don't really have any need for that skill, you can sell it for a large payout. Would it be any different then selling off your breaths? If Hem becomes more acceptable, then we can see an entire economy of harvesting investiture from the masses...either for commerical means or military might.
  12. I was fully expecting the bomb to go off at the end of TLM, or some kind of twist that Sazed was pushing for a disaster to jump start the basin. Either Sazed fully aware of it coming, or Ruin pushing through to act more. Ever since Alloy of Law where Harmony talked to Wax for the first time in the book and went on a rant about how things have been too easy and civilization has progressed too slowly I've been waiting for the Ruin side to poke out...but maybe we'll see more of that in Era 3. But there was no big Harmony twist that I was hoping for. That was probably my biggest disappointment for this book. In the end Harmony was just another character along for the ride trying to figure out what was going on with Autonomy. No grand plan, no deep thoughts, no real big twists. Just a dues ex machina that provided some supplies for the finale That may be the point though....Sazed is not a good Shard right now. Era 2 may have been about showing off how overwhelmed he is, and Era 3 will be about some culminations of his grand plans (Safely introducing Mistborn without the possibility of them becoming another Lord Ruler) to set up Scradial to be a force in the Cosmere to not be steamrolled
  13. Intent is going to be a deciding factor I think on whether somebody can split harmonium. Wax had put in a lot of effort into the task, and his intent on trying to split it was strong. Very similar to how investiture is split/combined on Roshar. Gotta have the right mindset
  14. I'm still gathering my thoughts regarding this prologue. I'm going to have to reread it a few times. But my initial impression of the Stormfather was that yes, he was completely different than what we've seen in the other 4 books. My first thought was that he was trying a different approach with Gavilar than with Dalinar. That he was trying to prevent another return by restoring the Oathpact and hopefully using Gavilar by baiting him with false promises. But by the end, when Gavilar dropped that he intended to allow the returns to go non-stop made me question that, especially considering how the SF nonchalantly reacted. Overall, I'm still iffy about what the "SF" was trying to get out of Gavilar. Was it more info about Heralds, by baiting him with immortality? Was it a legitimate attempt to try to get another person to swear to the oathpact? Was it trying to force the actual Stormfather into a Radiant bond by "tricking" Gavilar into swearing Radiant oaths? I'm not sure what the purpose of baiting Gavilar into searching for "Herald" oaths was supposed to accomplish. Or was it all 1 big con by voidspren to push for an earlier return or Thaidakar to get more Herald info? Also, it looks like Gavilar might have discovered a scary easy way to generate anti-light using aluminum boxes and Shadesmar, unless I am misreading that section.
  15. Every ideal ends up bringing their spren more and more into the physical world. The 5th ideal will probably allow the spren to maybe manifest additional objects, or different spren in different ways
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