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I meant a Fullborn. I know the topic was Mistborn V. Radiant, but I think that's pretty pointless because a Radiant will definitely win in most situations. I think a Fullborn would of course win with sufficient preparation, but it's not a guaranteed thing. I think the outcome would depend on a ton of variables, the main one being availability of investiture.

No, Hoid specifically mentioned himself by name when he wrote it. There's a scene where Jasnah is concerned that Odium will strike at him when he's forced to set a time for their contest of champions, so he tells her he will add a part that protects him from that.

Is Hoid aware that you can combine investiture? Has he done it before? (probably RAFO) Could a Spren pulled into the physical by Ishar have a Nahel bond with another Spren? Are the Herald killing daggers using Feruchemy? Is the Microkinesis he mentions in the Ars Arcanum the atom splitting version he originally wrote into Dragonsteel, or is it a weaker version of that?

I don't think it's meant for storage. Burning Nicrosil allows an Alloymancer to draw all the investiture from someone they touch. I think the Nicrosil draws the investiture out, into the Raysium, which rapidly conducts all of the investiture to/from the stabee.

A thought I just had, in the preview for the Sixth of Dusk sequel:

I was partially thinking of a Practical Guide to Evil when I was picturing the setting. The Samurai in Stray Cat Strut gain their abilities that way. I feel like I've read other stories with something like that in them.

It's a combination of things, Hoid said there was only one person on Roshar as old as he is in a previous book, which one would assume is Cultivation because they're both pre-shattering beings. He also said that there's one dragon on Roshar. Brandon said that he was talking about the same person each time. Also during Todium's PoV he noted that she was hiding a true form.

Something I haven't really seen anyone talk about: Was Tanavast a dragon? If Cultivation is a dragon then it would make sense that he was one too, but we haven't heard anything about that. Though If he was just a human that married a dragon then he must have been one impressive specimen.

The best alternate theory I've heard is that Tanavast was a title. Like head of House Avast, or The Avast, or maybe even consort to Avast. Then either it was added to her name when she married into his house, or she was already named that and he went by his title.

WoB says Cultivation fought Odium alongside Honor.

So I agree with you, but when I said this in another thread the argument they used was that Raboniel said the metal was just decorative, and that it doesn't affect the functionality. I think she was either lying about that, or she just doesn't understand the purpose of Nicrosil. It makes sense that the Nicrosil would be used to draw out the investiture, and the Raysium conducts it to the gem.

Chapter 48 of Words of Radiance, Shallan tries to sell her necklace that is made of Aluminum to a store clerk and he tells her it isn't worth anything because it can only be made through Soulcasting. Idk if Brandon was saying not to trust that the necklace is Aluminum, because it pretty clearly is, or if he meant don't take the word of some store clerk. Either way, the dude thinks it's aluminum and he says that you can bring it into existence by soulcasting. It sounds like Brandon just meant that it wasn't exclusive to soulcasting.

I guess the Iriali could have come from Sel sometime after all the other humans came from Ashyn. Them being linked makes sense to me. I still think Aluminum occurs naturally on Roshar. I'd say it doesn't effect the Invested life because like here, you can't just mine it naturally, it's bound to other elements as aluminum oxide. Being mixed with something seems to have a big impact on the Spiritual nature of a material. Bronze is just tin and copper yet it acts like it's own thing.

Garnet is one of the Ten Polestones and it contains Aluminum, so it is present. Or at least it is in red Garnets, which I assume is what they mean, because it's associated with the essence of Blood. The ancient Radiants lined the walls of the bottom tunnels of Urithiru in Aluminum. That's a lot of Aluminum. I doubt they were importing that much metal from offworld when Aluminum is probably very abundant in the environment. Also Aluminum isn't rare on earth, it's the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust, it just has to be extracted from other stuff first.

Hmm I still think a full Mistborn would have a pretty good chance in those situations. In the infinite scenario they could use the Atium to make a plan to contain the Radiant rather than kill them. And Nicrosil seems like it's made for fighting Radiants. I think even without Atium a Mistborn with a plan could do pretty well.

Aluminum is available on Roshar, they use it in the fabrials that let Birdge Four fly. It's also used in Rysn's hovering wheelchair, and Kaladins flying glove. Navani never says where they source all that aluminum from as far as I can recall, but I feel like it would have been mentioned if they were importing it from offworld. The bag Mraize gave Raboniel had invested sand from Taldain in it.

Pretty much the only thing that makes me doubt the Trell = Autonomy theory is that it makes so much sense. Surely Brandon wouldn't have made it this big mystery if the answer was something you could figure out just by knowing all the available info and having a good think on the matter. I'm pretty sure that's just bias of someone who assumes the book is written for Cosmere superfans though. It's probably meant to be a mystery for people that only follow Mistborn for some reason.

I think it I like this explanation. It fits really well with all the strange stuff about Kaladin. The only part that doesn't seem to fit with this is how he used super speed to kill Helaran, because that was before people knew him.

Is the fight a Fullborn with unlimited metal VS a Radiant with unlimited Stormlight? I think in that situation a Fullborn wins every time. If they both had just an equal amount of fuel available, but the Fullborn still had an equal amount of each metal, I'd still say the Fullborn. If you take into account the rarity of each of their sources of power, then I'd say the Radiant wins, because a lot of the Alloymancy stuff would require a supply line to smelters and access to stuff that's hard to get ahold of. Radiants just need to have spheres. We haven't seen the capabilities of a Fifth Ideal Radiant though, so maybe they'd do better.

I don't think that's the case. Lot's of people for some reason want a Taravangian redemption arc or something, but he's not a good person. He's a narcissist that thinks he's the one that should be saving everyone, no matter what it costs. That's like every movie bad guy ever. Maybe he'll get to do a redemption sacrifice at the end, but I don't think he's the kind of person that ends up admitting he was wrong and working with everyone else in the end.

I choose to believe she's talking about Dalinar and she's making a little private joke at Taravangian's expense. Like he thinks she's saying he can hold the power with honor and is planning to betray her, and she's actually saying this is all part of my plan to bring up Dalinar and you think you're pulling one over on me but actually you're a sacrificial tool.

Is there a WoB where he answers this?

Why not? It should be impossible for even their corpses to exist the way we saw them exist in RoW. Or maybe a physical, living spren can use themselves as their own weapon. The idea jumped out to me because the second alien acts weird in a way that seems similar to a Highspren. Using weirdly formal language and obsessed with law. Also it never shows it's face, and I don't know if we ever get a description of what Highspren voices sound like, but I kind of imagine it as how Dusk describes the second aliens voice because it would be coming from a person shaped hole in space. Also it's supposed to fly through space without a ship, and Highspren look like they're a human shaped portal to outer space.

No, I meant a Highspren inside the Shardspacesuit. As in Ishar (or someone else) figured out how to do it without killing them, and this is a living Highspren in a Shardspacesuit.

It could be that the mechanism Nightblood uses to kill heavily invested beings is just taking Investiture from a source, inverting it into anti-Investiture and then pumping it back into it's target. Killing something with it's own power. That seems like it would be a way for it to kill any invested being.