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Slightly different, but I like the idea of Braize containing the ruins of old cities, perhaps failed colonies of Ashyn refugees who tried to find a new home on Braize, but ended up failing. It would provide a neat mystery as a background for future exploration, help characterize both the refugees and the current residents, and add to the eerie atmosphere that Braize has.

Personally I love the theory that Sazed is a secret mastermind, and everything is going to some grand plan of his that extends through MB era 4 (or something absurd like that). I can't remember the exact rankings (if someone wants to link a previous thread on those, that would be great), but iirc preservation/ruin have some of the best future sight out of all the shards, and now Sazed (who is a well-balanced person managing a roughly balanced intent, so there would be less bias in his readings than those of the other shards) holds both of them. But the story of him being bound by by the conflicting nature of the power he holds is plausible. So personally, I think the reason Sazed is playing it so close is because he realizes that eventually, he won't be able to act to help them... and so he's got to set Scadrial up to thrive in that environment.

tbf, they already know who is/isn't an allomancer because of the mistsickness, they'd only need enough of each metal to try them out on an average of 16 people (less, since a lot of the mistings of more common metals were already tested). I think if they knew how to acquire the required metals it wouldn't be difficult.

Nale said that the afterimage is specific to Szeth and was only because he was healed so close to when his soul would move into the beyond, Tbf, Nale says a lot of things that aren't true and this seems to be the sort of thing that Ishar (the last sane Herald) would've told him.

It could be that the spike gave Paalm a connection to the shard, and with a connection the shard can get into her head and influence her thoughts that way (like how Kelsier talks to spook in secret history)

I would just like to point out that Kelsier's body being a mistwraith would be a good reason why he would only have access to steelpushing (as opposed to also having other allomantic powers via hemalurgy). He makes reference of it being an option midway through the book, despite us knowing that his his powers are limited via WoB. We know that he has a spike through the eye which serves to staple his soul back onto his body. So why not others? Well we know that he doesn't trust Sazed, as he is worried about a potential Discord; though even if he wasn't worried about Sazed growing a neckbeard and not showering (that's a joke, btw) he would probably be too paranoid to give himself up to Sazed's potential control. So getting back to my original point: Humans can have 3 spikes and on the 4th one Sazed would have potential control, but Kandra can only have 1. Since Mistrwraiths are just Kandra without spikes I'd assume that the same would apply to Kelsier if he was a cognitive shadow spiked to a Mistwraith.

small correction: They do not have nuclear weapons. They know less about radiation than we did during the equivalent time period (beyond a bright-line spectrum), or anything about alpha/beta decay (1899), not that we'd hear much about it if they were discovering it around this time. The first thing someone thought of when they realized you can split uranium was how to make a bomb and that would probably make papers (especially since the Elendel government is too weak to take steps like the Manhattan project and keep this under wraps). We can probably assume that there'll be a bomb test somewhere in the roughs within the next 5-10 years, but as of now they do not have nuclear weapons. They do have a rough equivalent in Ettmetal/Trellium bombs, but I would like to point out the difference between the equivalent and actually having atomic theory. What they do have, however, are rocket/jet engines, which were first implemented in the mid 40s (irl). Scadrial, generally, seems to be lagging behind our world in physics, at least compared to it's other advancements. But back to the prompt: That puts us to around the late 1920s (with cars becoming dominant within Elendel), which gives us 60 irl years until the 80s, which could easily be shortened to 50 with faster tech advancement. So, yeah, era 2 cast probably won't survive. Something that I think could happen, however, would be old-women Marasi making an appearance. She's quite a bit younger than Wax, and combine that with being a pulser (slows down time), she could definitely live a few years longer than she should. 50 years in the future she could also definitely be either in the tail end of her service as governor, or retired from the position (Elendel doesn't have term limits, right?). Also, side note, do we have an age for Marasi? The wiki doesn't say, and while I can assume that she went to college at around the same time as most people do irl, there's no reason she couldn't have started at 30, per say.

My 2 cents is that the fact that Trellium reacts (is that the right word?) with Ettmetal means that they're highly opposed. Which leads me to believe that Autonomy tried (or is trying, we don't really know the specifics) to create Trell as a counter to Harmony. The fact that Lerasium and Atium are byproducts signals to me that it's going for the weak point, and that the easiest way to defeat Harmony would be to split the shard back into Preservation and Ruin, which you could read quite a bit into.

Something interesting about that is that Bilming reminded me more of the Soviet Union than the United States. New construction was centrally planned (and designed), and the set functions similarly to the party in a one-party state: As a paramilitary organization with complete control over the government. Perhaps at some point the leaders of the revolution had good intentions with increasing people's individuality, but The Lost Metal, all they care about is power. When Bilming was described as Brutalist, all I could think of were the commie-blocks of the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact countries (though they don't fit the description). I know that Brutalism was also popular in the united states (and other western countries) during the early cold-war, but still. If there's any reason to think that something was lost in translation between Autonomy and the set (and that they don't really understand autonomy's ideals), I would use that difference between that and the ideals of the more United States-aligned Autonomy.

Probably relevant: At some point it was changed so that any God-metal can be burned by anyone (allomancer or no)

The epilogue actually says the opposite: (page 484 in the hardcover) Considering that he has a (steel, though now that I think about it, idk if that's been explicitly stated) spike in the same place that gives the ability to steelpush, and also gives him the ability to see the same way an inquisitor spiked in the same place sees, I think it's safe to say Kelsier's also gives the ability to steelpush. I would also like to see exactly what Brandon said because if he said Mistborn then he's def not, but "being an allomancer" might not include gaining access through hemalurgy. I couldn't find it in the Arcanum so if I'm just flat-out wrong about that then please tell me.

First of all, doesn't he have a steel spike? Perhaps that's giving him the ability to steelpush as well as tacking his soul onto the rest of him. Idk why he wouldn't have the rest of his powers, but he could be trying to avoid having too many spikes as a precaution in case Sazed flips from Harmony to Discord. Or perhaps there's something going on with his cognitive shadow only being able to use one spike, which is the one that's holding him to his body. Second of all, he could just be lying to Sazed. Sazed all but lies to him in this scene, and you can tell that Kelsier doesn't trust Sazed.

I sort of assumed from that that the battle wouldn't be a literal duel, but instead a fight for the, "hearts of men". Where Dalinar and Rayse (now Taravangian) try to convince each other and also each other's forces to switch sides. After all, both options of the deal lock Odium to Roshar, but allow the Fused and Radiants to do as they please. I think that under this format, Dalinar would be the best choice because of his ability to summon visions. <spoilers for WoT> If you want loopholes: the contract doesn't have provisions for what to do during the contest of champions, meaning that if Taravodium can find some way of prolonging it (perhaps indefinitely) he might gain more agency. There's also the fact that Cultivation things that Taravodium may be on her side -- perhaps allowing him to act directly against Dalinar (who would stand no chance against the full might of a shard). So he just elects himself as champion and wins.

My own crackpot theory when I was reading the early chapters was that Investiture was a 5th force-carrying particle, and God-metals are just atoms that interact with those particles in a special way (with the idea that the various shards effected the world through control of those particles). But VanDell's speech about matter/energy/investiture equivalence put's that one on ice.