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  1. I'd argue that while the influence fades, we see with Rashek and perhaps Kelsier that it doesn't necessarily disappear.
  2. Yeah I can see that interpretation, fair enough. I do think her being related to at least one would make sense, but as you pointed out it would be kind of odd if both were (though not impossible, for sure). The other option is that neither were and she was what people take as the sign of misfortune. Fun side note: When Hoid makes an illusion of a dragon to show Kaladin what they look like, it's a pearlescent one
  3. Note that the comment you're replying to is from a year and a half ago, or almost a year before the book came out, which might be why they didn't know the answer to those questions yet Also, I've moved this thread into the Sunlit Man spoiler forum.
  4. Might not even need to be a magical limitation, if you slap an unbreakable shackle around their wrist then they might not be physically able to expand into their draconic form. Then again, suppose you could just chop off her hand then heal it back with a fabrial or something, but maybe that's not widely accessible or maybe she's just behaving herself (or simply does not want her hands chopped off for any period of time, like any sane person).
  5. That's fair, I can see that interpretation as well. [Sunlit Man]
  6. Ah, I misread what you said. Thought you put Mistborn at 10 and then said First Heightening. Even going with the 40% number, 20 souls doesn't sound like "almost nothing" to me. At least as I understand the WoB, it sounds to me like he's saying "we have no Investiture and a Drab = us", which would then imply he's changed his mind and the Breath is the whole soul? [Sunlit Man]
  7. Lately Brandon's been suggesting it's the entire thing: [Sunlit Man] First Heightening is 50. To the contrary, Brandon doesn't consider them highly Invested at all, once even saying they have "almost none": How this relates to Kelsier lasting is... unclear. It's definitely not universal as an effect, but it makes sense to me that Endowment's metal would gift you its power. I don't mean "side effect" in that it primarily grants some other ability, I mean if you were to boil down the mechanic I think the primary thing would be "Invests/Connects you" and "become Allomancer" is simply a natural result of that. Last we heard the side effect thing is still true but just not very relevant anymore:
  8. I don't know that it's any less unique than lerasium. So far as I understand these things it mostly just Invests you with its power and that Investment as a side effect grants Allomancy, no? So the idea that burning edglium just Invests you with its power and as a side effect that Investiture functions the same way Breath does seems pretty comparable to me. I have to imagine this would depend on the size of the bead, just like Allomantic strength from lerasium does. Fifth Heightening is three and a half times as many Breaths as the Third, so probably a bead three and a half times the size of a Third-granting bead would give the Fifth? But I think that's probably an order of magnitude too large for a "normal"-sized one. Third Heightening is 600 people's souls; I don't think the original Allomancers were that much more Invested than the average person, and I don't see a reason to think edglium would be that much denser than lerasium personally. Alright, in that case I've moved it (and set the title back since there's no need for a special warning now).
  9. I've retitled the post to make it more clear that this contains Warbreaker spoilers, since this is in the Mistborn-only forum. @Radium have you read everything? This'll be easier if I can move the thread to the full Cosmere spoiler forum.
  10. I don't think this would explain it, because we see in the Prelude that Kalak had no idea whether any of the others were alive and none of them knew whether he was, which suggests they don't have a way to tell when fellow Heralds die. Modern-day Kalak's conviction that if the Fused have returned then Taln must have broken is also odd if he knows Chana has died and could easily be the one to have done it.
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