That is, except for Vin's duel against Ati. Vin and Ati repeatedly attacked each other, even bashing so hard and so long that both Vessels died. Based on precedent elsewhere, Scadrial should have been obliterated, along with the rest of the Scadrian System. Yet Scadrial was unharmed by the confrontation (granted Scadrial was far from "fine" at the moment, but that wasn't due to the Shards clashing).

Why was this event different? Is it because Preservation's power somehow contained the fallout and prevented it from hitting the planet as part of its Intent to preserve?

2. Could Lift with bendalloy compounding be able to use Nightblood for, like, a while?

3. What do you think some other Commands could be for the thousand Breath Awakening?

Also, insane idea here - Surgebinders have infinite or at least huge amounts of constantly replenishing Stormlight while within the Highstorm or near Honor's Perpendicularity. What happens if a Surgebinder burns Duraluminum and uses a surge while constantly getting their Stormlight replenished, so they cannot run out? Theoretically, could they for example make a mile-wide crater by using Division + Duraluminum in a Highstorm, or Lash the whole planet with lashings, or something else insane?

That ability sounds a lot like hemalurgy. Brandon has said a hemalurgic spike could be used to steal surgebinding ability, and that ability comes from the Nahel bond. Wouldn't that mean that a hemalurgic spike could steal a Radiant's bond to their spren? If so, wouldn't that essentially mean that Bondsmiths have abilities equivelent to hemalurgy? For example, could a Bondsmith use his powers to steal a Misting's powers and assume them himself?

My question is whether this would also apply to soulcast meat or not, since it was never a living animal.

and if it's one of those things you determine on a case by case basis, Kenton's.

Dragonsteel Prime*

White Sand

Mythwalker*

Aether of Night

Way of Kings Prime* 

Is this list correct in terms of both content and order? IE, are there any unpublished but available early works floating around that I haven't included, and is this order essentially correct? Thank you! 

6 minutes ago, 67-Pagerunner said:

What do you guys think would happen if a feruchemist uses Nicrosyl (Which stores Investiture) weilds a Shardblade because shardblades use investiture to become basically super-swords.

 

6 minutes ago, 67-Pagerunner said:

What do you guys think would happen if a feruchemist uses Nicrosyl (Which stores Investiture) weilds a Shardblade because shardblades use investiture to become basically super-swords.

 

*Nicrosil

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Shallan knew Re-Shephir at the same time the thing came to know her. The spren tugged and prodded at Shallan's bond with Pattern, seeking to rip it free and insert herself instead. 

Is it possible for anyone, radiant or even a bondsmith to bond an Unmade? 
The Unmade seem to share a lot of similarities with the Stormfather and the Sibling. 

What do you think? Is this a RAFO?

Brandon has mentioned that the distance between planets in the Cognitive Realm is gradually increasing over time as the Cosmere's inhabitants gain a greater understanding of how far apart world's really are. In other words, it would take far longer to walk through the Cognitive Realm from Scadrial to Roshar in the Space Age of the Cosmere than it would during Vin's day.

That distance increase is tied to the perceptions of the inhabitants of the worlds themselves. Considering that, would the distance from Roshar to my hypothetical undiscovered planet expand over time as well? No one knows about it, and no one is on said planet to think about it. So would the distance between Roshar and my hypothetical planet in the CR remain unchanged until someone discovered it, or would it expand like everything else?

"Sixteen people, together, killed Adonalsium, ripping it apart and dividing its essence between them, becoming the first who Ascended. [They were] a diverse group, with equally diverse motives. Some wished for the power; others saw killing Adonalsium as the only good option left to them. Together they murdered a deity, and became divine themselves."

 It should be in Mistborn Secret History part three, chapter two. And it's Khriss talking if that helps you find it easier.

So my English teacher is letting me write my essay on the Cosmere and I got this quote from the coppermind but it just says what chapter it's from and I don't have the Secret History that's on it's own, just the one in Arcanum Unbounded. I could  just use that page but I'd rather get the page number from the book alone if any of you have it. 

Thanks!

*Roshar: Surgebinding,Voidbinding and Fabrials. We've primarily seen the Allomantic metals being used in fabrials.
We've also seen aluminium and the god metals heavily interact with the story.  Does silver have any effect on Spren? 

*Sel: AonDor, Forgery, Dakhor, Bloodsealing and Potions. Do the allomantic metals have any effect on any of these systems?
From what I remember aluminium does seem to block forgery. I'm assuming that it would also work for bloodsealing. 

*Nalthis: Awakening. We know that if you were to awaken different metals, the result would vary depending on the metal, the amount of breath used and the command. Have we seen any examples of this outside of Nalthian tech in Lumar, Nightblood and Azure's blade?

*Taldain: Sandmastery. I can't remember if any allomantic metals were shown in Taldain besides aluminium.
I remember there was a WOB about Silver also affecting Sandmastery. Are there any other examples? 

*Komashi: Yoki Hijo. Do the allomantic metals make an appearance?
What would happen if you were to slice a nightmare with aluminium or silver?
If you used a pulling or pushing metal on Hion, what would be effect?

*Canticle: Sunhearts. We've seen Scadrians using Scadrian technology based on the allomantic metals and we do see Nomad trying to make a spike out of a sunheart, but what other effects could we see here.
Does Aluminium/Sliver have any effect whatsoever on Sunhearts? 
Could you harvest the intense heat of canticle with an unkeyed medallion or would it just melt?
What metal is the Continuity Chain made of? Is it an an awaked metal object or something else?

*Lumar: Spores. We've seen spores interact with some metals like silver, aluminium, steel and iron.
I wonder what would happen if spores interacted with other metals like Zinc, Bronze, Copper or even Brass?

*Yolen: Microkinesis: I haven't read Dragon Steel Prime yet so I'm not aware of the metals being mentioned here. But I wonder, are the Dawnshards made of a specific metal/godmetal?

*First of the Sun. I've read the Arcanum novella but not Emberdark. Have the metals made an appearance there, if so, what were the effects?

*Threnody: Shades: We're very aware of the effects of Silver on this planet. Did aluminium or any other metal have any effect on the shades/evil?

Please let me know if I missed anything or if you've spotted something. 

 

Could they break their oaths by jaywalking, for example? Could somebody change the law to make a Skybreaker accidentally break their oaths?

Most people discuss Lightweaving as a generation of light and sound, rather than just a manipulation of it. But if the illusions are generating light, then you would be able to see through illusions from the other side, because you could just have the light shine outward without it shining inward. You also wouldn't be able to make total darkness inside a covering, because even the darkest illusions would still generate some visible light.

What I think is actually happening is that the Lightweaving illusions are more like a false ontology of an object, one that tricks ambient light and air into interacting like there's something there even when there isn't.

So, if you're making an illusion of, say, a stick, you're not generating light that shines in the form of a stick, you're using Investiture to maintain the idea of a stick, that light and air then interact with as if it where real.

If they were generating light, then the ambient light, which would normally shine through the illusion, would have to be simultaneously manipulated around the illusion, which might make some angles appear "brighter" for no particular reason, possibly making a faint but visible halo around an illusion. The same would be even more noticeable with sound, where generated sound waves would cause the need to displace or redirect ambient sound waves in odd ways. 

This even plays into the idea that Lightweavers can soulcast their illusions; they're making the illusory shape physical.

(This still works for lasers and darkness, because it's simply a less defined version of ambient light manipulation. Thinking of illusions as "fake things" is really more of a way to conceptualize it than how it actually works on a fundamental level, but the standard holds.)

So my question is this:

Does Lightweaving generate light and sound? Or can it only manipulate ambient light and sound? 

And secondarily, if they can't generate light and sound, and only manipulate it, can they then manipulate the frequency of waves, or just their direction? Light is already visually additive, so they could turn just three colors into many different hues and shades without changing wavelengths.  

(And this matters, because if they can't generate light or sound, then in Era 2 Infrared cameras could see through fake Lightweavings of living things, because biological-low-band-infrared isn't common in ambient space and couldn't be manipulated, and if they can generate light and sound, than radar waves would have strange bouncing effects when being manipulated by Lightweavers) 

So my question is, is there already a confirmed world in the Cosmere that uses the same months/calendar that we use in English/Earth, or is it possible that Hoid has actually world hopped to Earth, that Earth itself somehow exists in the Cosmere?

So, do Artifabrians know this on Roshar? The concepts of different metals having different effects is relatively new, and soulcasted metal can be a major source of what they use for these cages, making it much easier to shape into exactly what they want.

If they aren't aware, would there be a significant change in performance from the ideal metals?

So my question is, can you physically access the Spiritual realm by reaching the Sun in Shadesmar or am I really just grasping at straws here?

There is some judgement where they decide if someone is worthy. What traits would make someone worthy? Is it some kind of procedure the human doe that impresses them? Or can Ryshadium somehow tell what kind of person you are when you are near them? 

I have this comical image in my head of the 16 shatterers somehow dropping their Dawnshards when they took up the Shards, then someone (probably Hoid, knowing him) sneaks in and makes off with the Dawnshards while no one is looking. Five minutes later, we find a baffled group of Shards looking around the room saying "wait, guys, where's the Dawnshard?" "Weren't you carrying it?" "I don't have it!" "Where did you see it last?" "It was right here! By Me, I could've sworn I set it on this table!" "Well it ain't there now!" "It's gone??!!!" "Wow, nice job bro." "It's not my fault!" etc... 

1. SA after whole era 2
2. SA between Band of Mourning and The Lost Metal
3. SA before era 2

I am leaning towards option 1 since it's the one recommended on this sub's chart. My main priority is avoiding spoilers since I know there exist some between both series. Secondary priority is understanding connections. Are there any pros and cons of these options you can explain without any spoilers? Big thanks in advance!

I coulda swore we knew like a whole lot about it, and like I had some fairly deep world building about it in my head, but I cant find anything but that its a 12-world, its based on the Indian subcontinent, and it's got the uncorrupted spores/aether's there. I thought maybe I was remembering AoN world building, but that doesn't match at all, (and I feel like AoN is gonna be pretty far off from final aether book anyway but that's irrelevant). Any idea where i'm getting all this? Am I just Crazy? Am I searching the wrong thing? 

What sort of bond does Living Shardplate have with its radiant?

It has some mental connection with the wearer, and it was hurt, albeit less severely, by the Recreance

So does it mesh with the Spiritweb, or does it do something else? Is it like, Spiritweb adjacent?

dunno

but curious

I was wondering what would happen if someone would use a God metal in fabrial? Would it be posible to create a fabrial that would show future of all items around it? Or use Lerasium an give powers of Mistborn to everyone next to it? 

who does it?

Since allomancy is a genetically granted ability (and only scadrians can be born with it), I am not sure if this is even possible. But I know there’s spirit web stuff at play beyond genetics…apologies if there’s a WoB out there on this. 

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What's the difference between avatar and Splinter?

Brandon Sanderson

These are all very weird terms that I'm just using.

*mistakenly answering for Sliver* A Sliver is a person who has held the power of a Shard, and then let go of it. A briefly held time, holding the infinite power of a Shard, but no longer does. So what does that do? That changes your soul, and leaves markers on it. It's a real physiological thing.

An avatar is... a Shard manifesting a semi-autonomous piece of themselves that is still connected to who they are. An avatar, for instance, of Autonomy - depending on how Autonomy creates that avatar - might know, might not know, but they are still an aspect, they are still part of Autonomy. And when you get down to it a part of them knows that, and it's almost a god roleplaying, but in a way that only a Shard, or a lowercase-g god in the Cosmere, can do.

Brandon Sanderson

*realizes that he answered for Sliver earlier, and clarifies*

A Splinter is a piece of a Shard that is fully autonomous, where an avatar is not. So something that is Splintered does not consider itself - and would not be considered by the definitions  - an actual piece of it [the Shard], and has free will. So once it has free will, and/or could develop free will (because some of the Splinters haven't gotten there yet), but is fully cut off from the direct control and self-identity of the Shard, then it is called a Splinter.

YouTube Spoiler Stream 2 (June 3, 2021)  

Specifically, here, we have the definition of a Splinter given as "fully cut off from the direct control and self-identity of the Shard". 

At the end of WaT, we see that Retribution would have been able to absorb all the sentient splinters that remained of Honor's Investiture in the form of the Spren (though, interestingly, this doesn't seem to apply to the Honorblades - though it's possible they would have been hit too). However, he didn't seem to be preparing to absorb the fragments of Honor that split off as Dalinar abandoned it and Odium was about to absorb it. We also know that it's possible for even lesser sources of power to prevent Shards from reabsorbing their Splinters (see the Oathpact Reforged).

Is it, perhaps, possible for a Splinter to fully resist absorption by it's parent Shard, should it come to that? Obviously I'm drawing off a small pool of evidence here, but considering the statement of it having free will and is fully cut off from the direct control of the shard, I'm not sure about the overall chances of the Splinter. 

I know things don’t always track one for one with the location in the physical realm vs the cognitive realm, but even accounting for that, and the fact that all the items in the physical oceans would probably appear as beads in the shadesmar oceans, it feels like there would be nowhere near enough to make a whole ocean. 
 

has anyone else had this question? Anyone have an explanation?

As an extension of this, how exactly do aluminum hats block emotional allomancy? Emotional allomancy isn't sent out in distinct lines like steel and iron, it's more of a wave/cloud. Since the head isn't completely encased in aluminum, one would think that some would still make it through. My first thought is that it doesn't make you completely immune, but it blocks enough from the average soother/rioter (like 95%) that they're basically ineffective. But if there was a sufficiently strong allomancer (either through savantism, spiking, or just stronger powers), they could riot/soothe hard enough that that little 5% that makes it through the unshielded portion is enough to affect someone. 

It could be argued that Shardblades are made of a single spren while Shardplate is a composite of multiple spren, theoretically making Shardplate more divisable. But as I understand it, each individual piece of armor in a suit of Shardplate is made up of one spren, and the books describe individual pieces of Shardplate shattering, not pieces seperating from other pieces. That would imply that each individual piece of Shardplate should be just as resilient as a Shardblade.

It could also be argued that Shardblades are constantly renewed with power from the Spiritual Realm, but we learn in WaT that living Plate is as well. Even if dead Plate is cut off from the power of the Spiritual Realm, wouldn't dead blades be the same?

So why is Shardplate less resilient and durable than Shardblades?

Premises:

Shards can form bodies that the are deeply connected to and control. These will be referred to as “Masks”. It is possible that they can only form masks of their former bodies, or you’d have masks that look like the protagonists running around and causing general havoc.

The vessel of a shard can be killed if a mask is stabbed with Nightblood.

Definitions and clarifications.

Shards can have avatars, who give up a measure of their autonomy in exchange for power by pledging themselves to a shard, which connects the avatar and the shard. The shard can use this connection to grant invested arts or control the avatar.

Masks are avatars with a deeper connection. Think of avatars as masks with their own thoughts and personalities that the shard occasionally chooses to puppeteer.If all matter is made out of equal parts of each Light, then possibly avatars are made of just one kind of light which gives them deeper connection. But avatars can be chosen simply by swearing allegiance to a shard.

Question:

Would it be possible to, using an arbitrary amount of investiture and all invested arts, create a Voodoo doll of sorts with enough connection to the shard that, when stabbed with Nightblood, could kill the Shard?

Further questions:

If Nightblood severed the connection between a mask and the shard, would the mask dissolve, die, or gain sentience?

Would this method, if technically true, be viable? A mask would theoretically have access to as much investiture as the shard chooses to give it, and is completely puppeteered by a shard. To use this method, you’d have to first create a mask. Of a shard who can see that you’re trying to kill them. See the problem?

but that's only for a few moments (consistent with duralumin's effects.
 

My second thought was Compounding, but I'm not certain if Compounding could account for it either, since I was pretty certain Compounding => amplified feruchemical abilities, not amplified allomantic abilities.

Sry if this question is rly trivial.

My question is, what is being multiplied by ten when burning a metalmind?  Is it the percentage, or the duration?  Using the typical Feruchemical example of 50% of one's strength at 1 hour, if someone compounds that, do they receive:

500% of their strength for one hour

or

50% of their strength for ten hours

or

some combination, like 250% of strength for five hours.  I personally think this gets a little too complex and is not likely to be the answer, though I could be wrong.  

In any of these cases the user modifies it from there based on their needs, just like all Feruchemy.  However, 50% of strength for ten hours does not equal 500% of strength for one hour, due to compression of investiture.  If the percentage was being multiplied, losses to compression would not be as big of an issue, and the only limit would be the amount of metal one had access to and could burn, rather than the availability of metals and loss of investiture to compression.  I personally think that the duration multiplies rather than the percentage. 

What do you all think?  Am I overthinking this?  

A detail I've noticed while reading old wobs about Hoid is that Brandon never seems to confirm that he has acctually used the lerasium bead that he gets in Secret History, only that he aquired it and that he has allomancy. In one of the letters from The Stormlight Archive he also says that "the element is safe", which I believe Brandon has confirmed to be the lerasium. Maybe it's possible that he uses the bead as a metalmind instead of burning it?

If there is no replenishment, can Scadrians burn metals imported from off-world, or does Allomancy only work on metal specifically tied to Harmony (and therefore Scadrial)?

With that is there any evidence that the number changes when a shard

or

? 

Sound is very important in Stormlight, and Navani unkeys Light by putting in a vacuum.

In WaT, they mention that every Shard has a tone - even going so far as to say that it’s linked to their intent.

Could you unkey other forms of investiture similarly?

If you can, what about Breaths or Spiritwebs?

On a separate note, do we know/think we know what happened to the Nightwatcher? Presumably she either left Roshar with Cultivation or got obliterated by Retribution (unless she was somehow able to hide)?

If I swallowed some metals, would I have any ability to convert that into Investiture? Would they be able to? Or does it just turn into a no-using-Investiture situation?

Actually, is there any way for a Mistborn to burn metals if their stomach’s outside of their body? (Say, it’s hooked up to a machine that keeps the cells alive.)

I'll put the question itself in spoilers since it includes a spoiler for the end of Wind And Truth.

It's meant to be very difficult for a normal Feruchemist to become a Savant, unlike an Allomancer, because they can't steep in their own power as much. But if they had a way to Compound or tap into Metalminds that someone else fills, then they would be able to.

Who does this exact thing? Most people in Southern Scadrial. They survived the Ice Death through using Feruchemical Medallions that certain people, known as Firemothers and Firefathers, who spent their lives storing away their body warmth for others to use.

So, would most Southern Scadrians be Feruchemical Brass Savants? 

If they are, could this form of Savantism, where it's implied that a Feruchemical Savant becomes dependent on the extra supply of attribute from the metalmind like Miles with the extra health, make their problems with their low body temperature even worse?

Also, come to think of it, I'd expect the power of the shard that embodies entropy to seep out of the Pits in the form of a gas or a plasma, the most disorderly forms of matter, but instead it seems to be the only one of all the shards to coalesce in the form of a solid, the most ordered form of matter? Perhaps one could argue that it's due to Preservation's influence since he locked Ruin away, but it doesn't seem like the various shards are usually capable of manipulating the power of the others (with the possible exception of Odium corrupting spren via the Unmade, I suppose), so I doubt that explanation is valid. What makes Ruin's power manifest as a solid metal instead of a gas? 

Is Elantris near Devotion's Perpendicularity because it was important for the city to be built in the same region as it?

Like, if Elantris was built somewhere else, or if the Perpendicularity was placed somewhere else, could Elantris exist without it? 

I know it probably doesn't make much sense, but AonDor is so far, by far the most powerful Selish Art, any practitioner literally becomes immortal the second they get it so long as they stay relatively close to the city. But does anyone think that the Perpendicularity plays some kind of role in how the city functions?

Would they still be flat on the ground like everything else? Would they be inverted so instead of a high flying island you have a deep liquid abyssal trench?

What would happen if there was a Perpendicularity off of the ground? Would that balance things out between the Realms? Make it nearly inaccessible since you'd need to swim from down below in Shadesmar?

Any ideas?

It seems like this organism is what is actually responsible for Sand Mastery via a Luhel bond with Sand Masters. So, the main question I have is.. Is this really Sand Mastery? Couldn't the lichen be used to manipulate any sufficiently small substance? Could you be Spore Master if you brought it to Lumar (assuming you found a way to keep it Invested)?

Does this mean that a seeker could locate any perpendicularity, as long as they were a really good seeker or hemalurgically spiked? why wasn't Vin drawn to the pits?

Can somebody tell me the different kind of hybrid surges and generally what different orders can do, that were not mentioned in the normal books.

Also if it is written. What the passive and active surges of the fused are.