The Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Do Ruin/Harmony have the power to change what type of sensation is stored within a tinmind, like with Feruchemical copper?

Does storing investiture with nicrosil allow for compounding the base investiture that Preservation gave everyone? Like what fuels Kandra Blessings?

[Kurkistan he/him]

"What happens when a Thug is shot with an aluminum bullet, or stabbed with an aluminum knife?"

[askthepaperclip he/him]

I have mentioned this question a couple times elsewhere, but I figure I should post it here if I want to have a chance of someone asking it:

In Dalinar's vision, why does Nohadon make a distinction between surgebinders and soulcasters?

[WeiryWriter he/him]

How does the "direct fueling" of hemalurgy work?

 

Is Ralkalest a metal someone from Earth would recognize?  What color is it?

 

What kind of metal is Wax's earring made of?

Edited December 13, 2013 by WeiryWriter

[Kurkistan he/him]

What kind of metal is Wax's earring made of?

 

Brandon: RAFO.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

Brandon: RAFO.

 

Ah thanks, I thought I remembered it being asked but then I neglected to double-check...  Oh well.  (although it might be worth another chance? He didn't actually say "RAFO")

Edited December 13, 2013 by WeiryWriter

[Shardbearer he/him]

I'd love to ask this question: Can I be a beta reader?

[Kadrok she/her]

Which Hemalurgic bindpoints don't result in the Hemalurgist experiencing constant pain? Is it the "non-lethal" ones, or is there another trick to it?

 

(From memory the Inquisitors feel constant pain from their spikes, were as Vin seems to have no such experience with hers)

 

Additionally, will there ever be a Hemalurgy diagram, explaining what you can stick where? If not, can you give us some more Hemalurgic bind points, and what you stick there? Maybe some for Feruchemy?

 

Lastly, what sorts of powers can you bind to the earlobes. We know about Allomantic bronze, and suspect Allomantic pewter... are there others?

Edited December 17, 2013 by Kadrok

[Oudeis he/him]

Is the constant pain of Inquisitors because they are actual hemalurgic creations, while Vin, Penrod and Spook don't feel theirs because they're simply human Hemalurgists?

[Rade]

If Allomancers learned shape metal magic, or whatever the thing that the people on the other side of the globe from the Final Empire used, could they burn a shaped Allomantically pure metal to release a stronger effect?

[Oudeis he/him]

Was "The Letter" delivered? How?

[Shardlet he/him]

Was "The Letter" delivered? How?

 

Great big text message via "the Phone Company".   

[Oudeis he/him]

Great big text message via "the Phone Company".   

 

Knighthawk Foundry!?!?! It'd make sense, as a non-cosmere world they're the only ones non-biased on the whole Adonalsium thing...

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Or the "Phone Company" that I think Shardlet was referring to from Defending Elysium. (I almost wrote Defending Adonalsium )

[Oudeis he/him]

Or the "Phone Company" that I think Shardlet was referring to from Defending Elysium. (I almost wrote Defending Adonalsium )

 

Oooooh haven't read that yet.

 

It's been established that Shardblades are bonded directly to your spiritweb, yes? Is there any consequence of using something that's an extension of your own soul to brutally destroy the soul of another?

[Shardlet he/him]

Mailliw is correct.

 

Oooooh haven't read that yet.

 

You really ought to.  It is not long, but it is quite good.

[Oudeis he/him]

It's been suggested that Adonalsium broke like a puzzle, like there are sixteen pieces that fit back together in a certain way. Is this true?

 

As an example, Ruin and Preservation seem to have been joined fairly well (Sazed even mentions as he takes them up that they feel like they belong together). Is it always that easy? Can any two Shard be joined that way, or like puzzle pieces do you have to find Shards that belong together? If one person tried to pick up both Endowment and Devotion and they happened to be two Shards that weren't originally adjacent, could you no more merge them than you could two mismatched jigsaw pieces?

 

Or was Adonalsium like a jug of water, and the Shards like sixteen puddles? Can you take a cup and put literally any two puddles into it, regardless of whether those two "measures" of water had once been adjacent?

[dj26792 he/him]

Is the spiritual damage done by a hemalurgic spike (to the donor) similar to the damage done by a shardblade?

 

and 

 

Is the spiritual damage done by a hemalurgic spike a 'clean' cut?

 

(eg: does it make a mess of the soul left behind, or leave a 'clean' edge)

 

and

 

Is a hole left in the persons spirit web or does it close up as the spike is removed?

[ccstat he/him]

Are the heralds currently working at cross purposes?

How many parties were there to the Oathpact?

Edited December 18, 2013 by ccstat

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Are metalminds invested when they are full and if so by which shard?

Are hemalurgic spikes with a charge invested or do they act like aons/allomancy by creating a link to the shard directly?

If shardblades are hard to push on because of their investiture, why can atium be push on?

[Satsuoni he/him]

Spikes are Invested:

 

Yes, Wax's earring is Invested. (Or, in other terms, it's a Hemalurgic spike.)

Scadrial has low levels of Investiture: (doesn't really answer the question, though)

 

3.) The amount of investiture is relatively low on Scadrial, whereas worlds like Sel and Roshar are pushing around "high power" according to Brandon. I interpreted this to mean that hemalurgic spikes and metalminds have low amounts of investiture compared to Shardplate and Shardblades.

[Shardbearer he/him]

When compounding health, does Miles burn the metal in his arbands while they pierce his skin, or does he burn gold that he ingested?

[Oudeis he/him]

The various times that Vin drew on the Mists, could she have burned bendalloy? Could she have burned atium? Basically, was it required that she know a metal exist before she was able to burn it? And can the mists replicate the power of the body of Ruin?

 

What would have happened if she drew in the Mists and then burned aluminum? ^^;;;

[Aether he/him]

Could she have burned atium?

 

What would have happened if she drew in the Mists and then burned aluminum? ^^;;;

Atium? No, it has been confirmed (annotations) that she couldn't provide Elend with Atium (or at least would not make the sacrifices necessary to do so) when he was fighting Marsh, so I assume this would be the case for Vin drawing upon the Mists while fighting tLR as well.

 

And although the Aluminum question proposes some hilariousness, I don't think it would have done anything, as she wasn't technically burning any metals.

[Oudeis he/him]

Atium? No, it has been confirmed (annotations) that she couldn't provide Elend with Atium (or at least would not make the sacrifices necessary to do so) when he was fighting Marsh,

 

So... I just finished my re-read of that book, including annotations, and I don't remember that part. So I just now went back to his annotations, and I read all the ones for the chapter before, the chapter of the fight, all the way through the epilogue and series wrap-up, and I don't see anything expressly saying "Preservation's power cannot fuel atium".

 

That said, I still believe it to be the case; logically it makes sense. I just wanted to throw out there that we don't technically know for sure (though the point is moot by now, since clearly the only person who could "fuel" allomancy now is Harmony, who logically should be able to fuel atium, so the point is as academic as can be.)

 

And yes, I added the aluminum thing for the lulz. The mental image just amuses me. Burn aluminum. All mists everywhere... GONE. Preservation loses, Ruin wins, end of story. Well done, Vin.