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Neither, if we're getting technical. It's replaced by functional but distinctly "patchy" soul. Source: I doubt it, given the "new" nature of the patched piece of soul. @natc Quite. <imagine a devil-smiley here> *Goes to post. Sees Moogle posted . Posts anyway. *

Yes, but it's fair to interpret this as an effect of Kaladin being unspeakably awesome, not necessarily an effect of him just being Awesome.

In reply: Because he was (almost certainly) tapping them. So on Monday you swallow a bead of Atium and store/burn it and then store the excess in your bracers, then just tap the bracers for a week and repeat the process again next Monday. Only on Mondays will you actually be actively compounding anything: the rest of the time is just pure Feruchemy. @yurisses It's also stated by the Mistborn Adventure Game (though it's generally a dubious source at best) that atium is unique in that atium spikes don't suffer from Hemalurgic decay.

The arm bracers were Hemalurgic spikes, so it's not just the metal piercing you. This is incorrect, at least in large part. Yes, he couldn't burn anything that wasn't in his body. No, he almost certainly wasn't burning his bracers. And no Feruchemical metals don't need to be outside of you in order to charge: Sazed stores in a swallowed Pewtermind in the first Mistborn book. The general understanding is that the normal method we see for compounding is to swallow a small piece of the appropriate metal, store in it, burn it, and then store the excess in another, separate metalmind. This is how Miles almost certainly does it, at the very least (the narrative always has him just tapping metalminds for his health), and I would imagine that TLR had an interest in not actively burning away his Hemalurgic spikes.

I guess we might have to go with the "the Honorblade makes him use a lot more Light/use it less efficiently" hypothesis, if that's the coldest Kaladin's gotten, versus there being a point where Szeth literally has sheets of ice falling off his clothes after using a lot of Stormlight.

@Moogle I'm going to bet on you incorrectly extrapolating from that one. I read that very clearly as Brandon talking about Allomancy/Feruchemy, as he was making the rounds of the various magic systems.

Well they have pigs, so presumably yes. Yes. We saw Galladon, Demoux, and REDACTED in the Purelake interlude in WoK, there's a Terriswoman (probably Demoux's crush Aslydin (who's also from the Seventeenth Shard and thus probably off-worlding to begin with)) and a kandra kicking around somewhere, etc. Not to mention that the later era books will involve space travel (as seen in Sixth of Dusk), Shardbearers will be in space at some point, etc. Not to mention that several of the Ghostbloods we've seen have been worldhopping.

I... had not noticed that. Interesting...

By my reading/interpretation/understanding, yes, you have it right. Aside: Thus my belief that this is where we can get FTL from: if that bullet was going half the speed of light and the bubble sped it up x4, then so far as the rest of the world is concerned that bullet passed between points A and B at two times c.

We have (indirectly) likely already seen a high-speed exit from a time bubble by both passengers and the bubbles creator in the form of everyone falling through the floor when the butler tries to explode them, so at the very least we know nothing too too exotic happens. Regarding the general question of what happens to the speed of objects as they leave bubbles, we've also seen in the book how Wax's bullet slowed to a crawl when it exited the bubble. We also have this WoP on the matter: Loss of kinetic energy

@Curiosity I see no reason why not. Wayne uses bubbles to "teleport" across short distances absurdly fast, after all. So far as the shape of bubbles goes, I think it's kind of assumed by everyone that they're inherently spherical, though many of us (read: me) would look silly if this assumption is incorrect. Note that in the books there is a brief "cooldown period" between when Wayne is able to cast bubbles, so you couldn't quite have a constant chain of them. Not much impact in the end, but worth knowing.

Okay, updated the OP in medium blue with the Chicago WoBs.

You're halfway through? Yeah, it's about to get about 20x weirder. Stop. -Just my advice.

I regret to inform you that you are "correct" about Syl: she is quite consistently described as blue within the books.

SYL IS GREEN. I will not be persuaded otherwise.

Yup. Thanks for the find.

Regarding the mechanics of soul-healing, it looks like there's likely some high-level shennanigans going on there, as it turns out that healing is normally a spiritually-driven process. For one, healing a shardblade wound seems to result in a "patch" of entirely new soul, rather than just reestablishing some connections.

Gah, I can't find the WoB at the moment, but I distinctly recall there being an answer on why spren aren't attracted to super-packed groups, like the gamblers at the fair. If I recall correctly, it has something to do with there being too much going on, too much "pressure", for spren to be properly attracted. The answer was somewhat specific, though, and I'm not sure if I'm remembering it correctly.

Too rich for my blood, I think.

I can find no WoB supporting this, and the guard that Spiked Spook definitely did not intend to make a Spike from his friend. Making a Hemalurgic Construct (like an Inquisitor) would require intent for practical reasons. Here's the WoB you were looking for; someone involved in the process on some level needs the intent, but not necessarily the man holding the spike directly. AoL Spoiler reply:

I also recall Brandon saying that that was the inspiration. It may have been... *goes to check* Unrelated note: Weiry, do we have copies of these two Q&As? www.goodreads.com/topic/show/264132-q-a-with-brandon-sanderson -This one's locked to members of the group as of now bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Fantasy-Science-Fiction/Post-Questions-For-Brandon-Sanderson-Here/td-p/354645/page/2 -This one's just a dead link. If not, some WayBackMachining may be necessary...

Succinct and intriguing enough, but lacks immediate recognizability because it could be the sig of any Reckoners RPer. I approve of the use of formatting, though. 7/10.

Hm, an intriguing reading. I had initially had the opposite idea (Honorblades not needing a broken soul at all to work), but I think I may like yours more... To do our due diligence, though, what about that opposite reading of mine? One gets the impression that the bond to an Honorblade is much more "shallow" than most magic we've seen, so it may be the case that they simply don't need broken souls in order to do their thing. This may even tie into your own thoughts if we want, as the lack of "deep level" access to the soul might preclude Honorblades healing it... Okay, still liking your idea a bit better.

So I guess we're getting a bit more specifics on how "transcendenty" Investiture is: Old WoB: New WoB: So this "True Investiture" is purely spiritual, but I suppose it can be fairly easily mixed up in the other realms?

My apologies, it seems I linked to the interview as a whole rather than the specific WoB before. Source: I suppose he does say "seen/heard of", but at the very least it does tie them to a specific planet. And if by "you" he means "the reader of cosmere books" I think "seen" and "heard" mean basically the same thing. I think Braize would be the only other possibility besides a book-featured world, at this point? -- Also that second WoB of yours seems like it has Brandon saying "yes" to the Ones Above being from a planet we've seen before, for what it's worth.