The Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon

[ScarletSabre he/him]

Would a freshly dead Feruchemist be able to tap their Metalminds from the Cognitive Realm before they passed on? If so, would they be able to tap Gold and heal themselves enough to get pulled back into their physical selves?

[Yata he/him]

1 hour ago, Rawrbert said:

Would a freshly dead Feruchemist be able to tap their Metalminds from the Cognitive Realm before they passed on? If so, would they be able to tap Gold and heal themselves enough to get pulled back into their physical selves?

Yes He may do it...it was confirmed. I avoid to say more but this happens directly in the books

[ScarletSabre he/him]

13 minutes ago, Yata said:

Yes He may do it...it was confirmed. I avoid to say more but this happens directly in the books

Ooooh? Is it in an unreleased book or do I need to reread Mistborn again? Uuuunless of course it's the end of BoM

[feldi]

In FE they say that TLR survived losing his head and being burn to a skeleton in past rebellions. Also in yoi finished AoL then you basicly know every magor healing scene in Mistborn

[Jondesu he/him]

5 minutes ago, feldi said:

In FE they say that TLR survived losing his head and being burn to a skeleton in past rebellions. Also in yoi finished AoL then you basicly know every magor healing scene in Mistborn

Except for BoM.

[Djarskublar he/him]

If a Kandra worldhopped to whatever that planet's name is and are/transformed into an Aviar, could they allow the parasites to exist in them and gain Aviar abilities?

[Yata he/him]

24 minutes ago, Djarskublar said:

If a Kandra worldhopped to whatever that planet's name is and are/transformed into an Aviar, could they allow the parasites to exist in them and gain Aviar abilities?

I think a Kandra is too invested, but maybe it may work...

 

[Dunkum he/him]

3 hours ago, Yata said:

I think a Kandra is too invested, but maybe it may work...

 

maybe, but you usually need a fairly strong connection to the invested planet in order to gain its investiture.  a Kandra would probably have to do more than just transform into an Aviar and eat the parasites.

[Landis963 he/him]

I think it's more a question of mass (Don't forget that there's a floor on how much mass a kandra can have in order to maintain sapience) than of Investiture.  Also, the parasite might not know where to latch on inside a kandra's body mass.  

[AlloyCaster]

Based on the astrology map in Arcanum Unbounded, what is the connection between Nalthis and Scadrial?

Where in the Cosmere is Yolen?

[Dunkum he/him]

4 hours ago, Landis963 said:

I think it's more a question of mass (Don't forget that there's a floor on how much mass a kandra can have in order to maintain sapience) than of Investiture.  Also, the parasite might not know where to latch on inside a kandra's body mass.  

mass is potentially an issue.  but I think that leads to this:

1. is there anything particularly special about the aviar (or birds in general) that allows them to host this parasite whereas a human or dog might not be able to?

2: could a sufficiently clever Kandra replicate those bits (if they exist) while retaining some other form (e.g. human form, but with some weirdness in the internal organs to accomodate the parasites)?

[Landis963 he/him]

4 hours ago, AlloyCaster said:

Based on the astrology map in Arcanum Unbounded, what is the connection between Nalthis and Scadrial?

Where in the Cosmere is Yolen?

The Nalthis and Scadrial connection is purely one of proximity.  (Constellations are lines drawn between points on a 2-D plane, and two stars which might look close from any given planet could be billions of light-years apart in three dimensions) With that said, however, this proximity would be pronounced in the Cognitive Realm, and the lines connecting Nalthis to Scadrial and vice versa could serve as a makeshift road map in the Cognitive.  

3 hours ago, Dunkum said:

mass is potentially an issue.  but I think that leads to this:

1. is there anything particularly special about the aviar (or birds in general) that allows them to host this parasite whereas a human or dog might not be able to?

2: could a sufficiently clever Kandra replicate those bits (if they exist) while retaining some other form (e.g. human form, but with some weirdness in the internal organs to accomodate the parasites)?

If it is a specific organ which gives the worms the safe haven they need to work their magic, then I don't see any reason why a kandra wouldn't be able to replicate that.  However, there would need to be an autopsy (or several) to find the post-bonding worms in the first place, and then some live testing to make sure nothing in the worm's environment is amiss (variables in question: nutrient feed from the host, acidity of environment, temperature of environment, pressure of environment, the list goes on).  Sure, co-opting a kandra for that kind of empirical testing would maximize efficiency greatly, but each failure state would involve the death of yet another worm.  

It strikes me that once the Ones Above got their hands on the Aviar, they wouldn't care about the deleterious effects they could have on the Pantheon's ecosystem.  

[ccstat he/him]

In light of this recent WoB:

5 hours ago, Ookla the Voidish said:

Q: Does Lift see Wyndle a different way than another Edgedancer would see their spren?

A: Yes, but only slightly. She sees a longer vine, and slightly more, but it's not a big difference.

Do spren appear to Lift the same way they do to a listener?

(I subscribe to the theory that listeners are closer to the cognitive in the same way that Lift is, and it would be nice to have confirmation or denial.)

Edited November 30, 2016 by ccstat

[Dunkum he/him]

we know that ferruchemical aluminum can allow someone to make a metalmind that anyone with the right ferruchemical ability can access.  could it do something similar with breath?  i.e. usually you can only retrieve breaths from something that you yourself have awakened, but if someone was storing identity, and awakened something, would a different person be able to retrieve that breath?

[Oversleep]

16 minutes ago, Dunkum said:

we know that ferruchemical aluminum can allow someone to make a metalmind that anyone with the right ferruchemical ability can access.  could it do something similar with breath?  i.e. usually you can only retrieve breaths from something that you yourself have awakened, but if someone was storing identity, and awakened something, would a different person be able to retrieve that breath?

IIRC somebody asked that and it was non-answered but the person asking was told that he's thinking with portals (so along the right lines). IIRC it was @Argent.

[Dunkum he/him]

not especially surprised.  the similarity is there, especially given what we know from era 2 Mistborn.

[Argent he/him]

12 hours ago, Ookla the Sunrise Watcher said:

IIRC somebody asked that and it was non-answered but the person asking was told that he's thinking with portals (so along the right lines). IIRC it was @Argent.

'fraid I can't take the credit for that one, it was one of @Kurkistan's

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Kurkistan: Could a Feruchemist manipulate their identity such that they could make a metalmind that anyone could tap?

Brandon: Ah... RAFO.

Kurkistan: Okay; could they manipulate their identity such that they could pull Breaths out of something that somebody else Awakened?

Brandon: Ah.. ahahah, Awakened, oh yeah... That one's going to be harder, but you're thinking along-- You're thinking with portals. *smiles* Do you know what that means.

Kurkistan: Yes, I know what it means--

Brandon: You're starting to think with portals.

Kurkistan: I'm thinking with portals, okay, thank you.

Brandon: Yes. In other words you're wrapping your head around the way that the magic system is working, so.

Argent: That’s so excellent.

Still, it was from a Chicago signing.

[Kurkistan he/him]

9 minutes ago, Argent said:

'fraid I can't take the credit for that one, it was one of @Kurkistan's

Still, it was from a Chicago signing.

We also got a smidge more on this from the AU tour:

On 11/23/2016 at 10:38 AM, Djarskublar said:

In other news, during the Q&A, I asked if it would be possible to recall Breaths from an object that you had not placed there if the Awakener who did place them there had no Identity at the time. He semi-dodged the question by saying that for many powers this would work, and for almost all powers it would work if you also had no Identity at the time.

So essentially the question was coming at it from the other direction, and at the least it looks like a sufficient condition for Breath-stealing is if both parties are Identity-less.

P.S. Unrelated, but has the "Source" button always been there in the text editor? Because it's a magical thing that I love.
-Ah wait that may be a mod-only thing. If so: never mind peasants, I'll just chill along here with my arbitrary HTML. 

Edited December 1, 2016 by Kurkistan

[Argent he/him]

6 minutes ago, Kurkistan said:

P.S. Unrelated, but has the "Source" button always been there in the text editor? Because it's a magical thing that I love.
-Ah wait that may be a mod-only thing. If so: never mind peasants, I'll just chill along here with my arbitrary HTML. 

It is.

[Kurkistan he/him]

3 minutes ago, Argent said:

It is.

Ah, sorry for mentioning it, then. 
-Apparently Chaos fears the unlimited power the option would put in the hands of the masses.

Edited December 1, 2016 by Kurkistan

[marsoupial they/them]

Is there a reason that almost all the planets in the Threnodite system are named after some form of mourning? (Threnody, Elegy, and Monody are all types of poems or songs sung to mourn a death, and a coronach is a type of Scottish wake-song)

[PallonianFire he/him]

1 minute ago, bleeder said:

Is there a reason that almost all the planets in the Threnodite system are named after some form of mourning? (Threnody, Elegy, and Monody are all types of poems or songs sung to mourn a death, and a coronach is a type of Scottish wake-song)

Yes, there is. I (well, my fiancee, since I'm currently in London for work) asked this at the Fort Collins signing.

[marsoupial they/them]

1 minute ago, PallonianFire said:

Yes, there is. I (well, my fiancee, since I'm currently in London for work) asked this at the Fort Collins signing.

Oh, sweet! This an awesome list of info; thanks, Pallionian. Have fun in London. Don't get lost.

Edited December 1, 2016 by bleeder

[PallonianFire he/him]

Hah, thanks. We're actually just wrapping up the final day of the event, so I get to return to normalcy tomorrow! It was brutal having Brandon go to Fort Collins right when I was leaving for a business trip. I'm just fortunate I have awesome friends who let me bury them under a pile of questions 

[Argent he/him]

@PallonianFire's fiance for US President 2020.