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Thanks for the kind words, @Chaos! It was a blast getting to chat with Isaac.

He does, but Brandon's continued refusal to confirm whether he's ingested the bead is suspicious as hell (and is a major part of why I had this theory in the first place). Even getting asked straight out whether he's ingested it, Brandon won't give a straight answer.

I bet he'd be pretty happy to get his hands on Sand Mastery, too...

The Denver signing report isn't up yet on Arcanum, but my first question was pursuing my long-time theory about Hoid using the lerasium to rewrite his Spirit Web in ways other than only getting Allomancy. For the first time, though, Brandon seems to have shot it down: he said that while it's possible to alloy lerasium with another god metal and get access to other Invested Arts that way, Hoid has not done that—and that there were several things preventing him from doing so. Bummer to lose my theory, but now I'm really curious about what might have prevented him.

So I've already connected with Argent on this, but just for general interest: yes, I did get audio of the signing line. I didn't get the general Q&A, but there really weren't many questions of Cosmere import in that anyway—mostly writing questions and a few basic Cosmere ones (can you tell us a random Ideal/are there dragons in the Cosmere).

I'll be there quite early, looks like, since I get off work around 3. If anyone wants to say hi, don't hesitate. I'm super tall, wearing jeans and a tan sweater today. I'll probably be reading The Runelords while I wait.

Ah, excellent. I actually think I've seen this WoB before, now that I read it. I do think it's no surprise that he wants to be perceived as something else. When he called himself Passion in OB, it reminded me of Ruin's attempt at characterizing himself as passionate in HoA. How else are these overtly "evil" Shards supposed to get otherwise rational/"good" people to go along with them, right? Edit: Hah, this was from JordanCon. I was in the freaking audience...no clue how I managed to forget this.

Wait whoa, do we have a WoB on this? A cursory search of Arcanum doesn't pull anything up, but that would be a really nice thing to have for those arguments of Odium vs. Passion. (I am firmly on the side of "this is the Shard of hate" and Rayse is simply lying to Dalinar in an attempt to seduce him, FWIW.)

When Shallan soulcasts, she briefly enters Shadesmar. Transformation and Transportation both allow for Shadesmar access, though Transformation's seems to be a limited access. Hoid likely wants to see if he can figure out how to get around those limits.

I also think Hoid is low-key thrilled to have soulcasting under his belt: easier access to metals, and, if he can figure it/hack it someway, full access to Shadesmar for worldhopping without a perpendicularity.

And the interesting thing here is that Ash was included in the nine, implying that she may become a Dustbringer down the road (and that would make sense, since we need a Dustbringer book and we know she's getting one in the back 5).

Yeah, I got to 29 and I had to flip back and make sure I wasn't crazy. I wonder what that's all about...

Chapter 28, I assume? Lol

Even if Purity is a Shard, which is unlikely, AU came out well after SoS and the WoB that the spike was from a Shard we knew.

I finally got off my butt and got past chapter 1 this week (AoN has been sitting in my files for three years; I started four times over that time and never even got to D'Naa's first POV). I'm glad I did, though, because I'm greatly enjoying this story. THAT SAID...whoo boy, definitely an early, unpolished work. Some of my favorite recurring things: 1) "Hoard" instead of "horde" 2) "Aid" instead of "aide" 3) Great (awkward) use of "maladroit" 4) "Distinctified" instead of "distinguished" 4) But my very favorite: recurring use of "monopolized" where he meant "capitalized" Any other common typos stand out?

They're mentioned in Hoid's letter to Frost in WoK. He tells Frost that he should call off his "friends of the Seventeenth Shard" who are following Hoid.

Heh, there was a lot of discussion at JordanCon this year about Rial. Idk if Glen Vogelaar is on the Shard, but he's a big proponent of Rial=WalDo. Got a RAFO on it, as expected.

I mean, I don't remember the exact wording. It was like 2 am and, uhhh, I may have had a couple of drinks at that point. But I basically told him I had a wild pet theory, because the Stormfather's face is described as "inhuman" and Tanavast wears gold in Dalinar's vision, that Tanavast was a gold dragon. Brandon just laughed and said he wasn't a dragon.

Tanavast, at least, was not a dragon. I asked Brandon during the JordanCon Magic tournament, and he was comfortable shooting that one down. So this was pre-White Sand discussion online and before we started obsessively recording everything, but I also asked Brandon at the Denver SoS signing whether the Trell in the White Sand prose was involved in the religions on Scadrial, and he said "nice catch." For what that's worth. (Amusingly, I hadn't read SoS yet as that signing was release day, so I had no clue how important Trell would end up being in Era 2. I bet Brandon was snickering internally the whole time I talked to him.) I know it sucks to have multiple paraphrased WoBs here, but they are pertinent.

Wow, new WoB. Nice, and with some interesting implications. For all intents and purposes for Era 2, it would be atium, though. IMO.

It won't naturally regenerate, because now we have harmonium. But that extra bit of power is 100% a Chekov's Gun, and more atium is certainly a possibility from that.

Thaaat's the one. (It's also exceedingly likely that he's making new atium with it, IMO.)

Trelagism was dualistic; Trellism, as the Era 2 religion, makes no mention of duality. There's a little possibility, though, that you could be on to something. We know that Ruin and Preservation were imbalanced, due to Preservation putting a bit of himself in humanity. And I swear there's a WoB where Brandon teases us about what Sazed did with that extra bit of Ruin...I just can't find it. I really thought he said "extra bit" but that's not popping up in my Arcanum search. So if that extra bit of Ruin was splintered off and gained sapience over 300 years, it could be going after Harmony. I do think it's Autonomy, though.

I'll be there with my wife and at least one friend. Possibly more, if they can get off work in time.

Tanavast was not a dragon, we have that much confirmed. I had a crackpot theory that he was a gold dragon, but Brandon shot it down during the Magic tournament at JordanCon this year. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone was nearby recording at the time, but them's the facts. I do like Bavadin as a dragon (or at least nonhuman).