Father Tanner

At the end, Wayne takes a little of each metal along with the Lerastrium. He already is a gold feruchemist. Is there a specific reason he couldn't have stored a bit of health in the gold he swallowed, then burned it, compounding the effect to save himself from the blast? I know it was a huge blast and that would have only been a little gold, but compounding is crazy powerful. Don't get me wrong. I loved this book, especially Wayne's character arc at the end. Fantastic! My question is simply, could he have saved himself? Did he simply "not think about it" and Harmony didn't give it to him as a possibility because he wanted to keep Lerastrium a secret?

Let me try rephrasing the question. Storing health pulls from every aspect of his health (to my understanding). When healthy, this would result in a slightly poorer immune system, more sensitive to allergies, etc. Why would these not be affected when trying to store health when healing from a wound? Only part of that health is going toward healing the wound. Most of his health is still going towards keeping the other parts of his body functioning normally. Put to numbers: If you store 10% of your health. The health going toward healing the wound would slow to 90%, the immune system would only work at 90% capability, allergies would be 10% worse, etc. When you stopped storing and began using the health, yes the 10% of health gained from healing the wound more slowly would be a wash, but what of the rest? This is where the trade-off would come into play. Wouldn't you be able to bring your entire body down for a bit, but as result be able to heal one portion of it faster?

Not too deep, but just something I was thinking about. At the end of AoL, it mentions if Wayne is injured with no health stored, storing health and then extracting it would leave no net gain in attempts to heal faster. However, when he is storing health it impacts other parts of him (allergies, immune system, etc). If he were trying to heal faster in the affor mentioned scenario, wouldn't storing health while wounded give him allergies and other such symptoms as well as cause him to heal from his wound more slowly? If this were the case once he stopped storing, his body would return to normal (still with the wound though), then he could heal faster from his wound than he would have otherwise. In other words, couldn't he give himself allergies and such in order to heal from a wound more quickly? A "health trade-off" of sorts. I understand that when pulling from a healing investiture it considers health as a single entity, but when storing it this somewhat breaks down. If you have two equal wounds, we don't heal from them 1/2 as quickly than if we only had one.

I have young kids. Bronze compounding for wakefulness would be a wonderful wonderful thing XD If not, i would love to compound zinc. It's pretty easy to get, i would be able to think incredibly quickly (very useful in the world we live in today), and i could help others emotionally.

Why wouldn't the Set have its high up members be gold compounders? Is there something about hemelergy that interferes with the strength of compounding? Are they trying to limit the strength of their members? Why wouldn't Wax's uncle have gone double gold and made himself near invincible? I get that they would have to find blood makers and gold mistings (both rare), but i feel like if you were going to go through the process of this, you would want to make it count. On that same vain if thought, if not gold, wouldn't they want to compound a different one? Steel compounding sounds quite powerful in that you both get to become a coinshot and essentially become The Flash. I guess my question boils down to this; is there something that prohibits compounding metals through hemelergy (prohibiting an OP army), is it that they don't have the allomancers/ferucamists handy to pick and choose powers, or is the Set/Trell simply trying to limit their powers? I don't know if this is RAFO or if we have the info on this. Any thoughts?

Gotcha. There are a couple instances where Hoid alludes to the fact that he can't hurt others in the physical realm (his surprise when he fights Kelsier in SH being one example) and the fact he can't eat meat (when he mentions cows in RoW.... If that counts as a spoiler here, let me know and I'll take that out...). As such i want to trust that what the Coppermind says is true. Also, I know that Dragonsteel isn't cannon, but if it can be trusted it confirms what the Coppermind declares. (Highly recommend Dragonsteel for those who get the chance to visit BYU and can check out one of the 2 existing copies).

I don't know if i am going to far in say this yet, but isn't Hoid a savant? My understanding is that this happened while holding a dawnshard for too long, making it so he physically cannot harm any living thing in the physical realm do to the warping if his spiritual web. Correct me if I'm wrong here. Also, if this is a spoiler, mediators feel free to remove this post.

Is there a prose version of "Dark One" being distributed similar to what was done with "White Sands?" If so, how do we go about obtaining it?

My understanding was that the shard was a tool with the spiritual realm being the power source. Like electricity in a power drill. That is why the shards are never "used up." They aren't the energy itself, but the conduit of it's use. I could be wrong there though

My understanding is that the spiritual realm is a source of perpetual energy that decreases the entropy of the physical realm through certain investitures (ie. Stormlight) and shards. Do the laws of entropy apply to the spiritual realm? I studied chemical engineering in college so conservation of energy is something that i have thought a lot about while reading cosmere books. Is it possible for the energy of the spiritual realm to reach equilibrium with that of the physical realm? I guess my question boils down to: is there a finite amount of energy in the spiritual realm, or does it somehow break the laws of thermodynamics by constantly adding energy to the physical realm from an infinite source?

So in other words if you had a perfect crystal structure, it WOULD give off light perpetually given that it continuously pulls light from the spiritual realm. The amount of Stormlight pulled into the gem initially IS finite, but it continues to access energy from the spiritual realm to give off light. That is my understanding now; correct me if I'm wrong.

I assume Rayzium (the investiture conducting metal the fuzed use) is the god metal of Rayze (Odium). I also assume that given how spren both come from shards and manifest in the physical realm as metal, this metal is the god metal of the associated shard the spren came from. If this is the case, could a mistborn burn a shardblade? If so, what would that do to the spren?

So I know this is fantasy, but Brandon Sanderson always tries to base everything around actual physics (which i love!!!); so I wonder if there is an explanation for this. Light is a form of energy, which can neither be created nor destroyed. We learn in the Stormlight archives that a perfect crystal structure can pretty much hold a set amount of Stormlight indefinitely while continuously giving off light. Is not this a violation of the Conservation of Energy? Once a set amount of Stormlight is infused into the gemstone, should it not countinuously diminish in light over time given the simple fact that it shines. Unless there is a connection to the spiritual realm i don't understand yet, it could not give off light indefinitely as that would make it a perpetual energy source. My reasoning says that if a gemstone can hold Stormlight indefinitely, it would have to give off no light whatsoever. I am not trying to troll here, but am honestly curious to see if there is an explanation for this.

What form do the listeners have following the Everstorm? It isnt dull form given how easily they can speak and interact. Do they have spren in their gemhearts? If not, how can they be in an intelligent form? I could be completely misunderstanding the nature of their beings, but does someone have some insight?

If Dalinar could reforge honor, could he reforge devotion and dominion? If so, what would happen to the Seons and AonDor?