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My family has had cats, historically, and I'm planning on getting one of my own in a few months once I've settled into a new place. You sir, have a lot of cats.

Not quite. Source: (paraphrase) As for the second point, for all we know this is a general comment on Stormy's part that he doesn't want to engage with humanity at all, or somehow singling out the "Tanavast-diary" visions as different. Recall also that the Stormfather claimed to have no part in Dalinar's last "vision".

Also the lost energy from air resistance will go up as Vin's speed does, so there's some inherent inefficiency there vs. using the steel more judiciously.

I find this somewhat plausible. Interesting, at the very least.

Nice, thanks Ninch. To list, we have Scadrial, Nalthis, Sel, Roshar, and Threnody to choose from at this point. We've discussed it before, but I must say again that I think that the "dead" emissary (probably) not being dead points pretty strongly at Scadrial, especially since we now know that it's likely not some wildcard magic system that we've never seen before.

It was TenSoon masquerading as Brettin at the end. We know that the Ars Arcana are all written by the same person, so unless that's the same source as that book, than this isn't the case.

You do raise a good point, king. I hadn't considered that this might be a way to bypass the "cost of compounding" (not to be confused with Compounding) that imposes an upper limit on how much you can do at once with Feruchemy. So while normally you might waste 90% of the energy from a big surge of <attribute> because of diminishing returns, you'd potentially get it all at 100% efficiency if you used Duralumin/Nicrosil. So at the very very very upper end you might be able to achieve some novel effects. Most could be achieved just as easily by normal Compounding for a few minutes/hours/days followed by a single massive surge out of a metalmind, though, I think.

Nothing that special, I imagine. Duralumin doesn't actually add anything to the power of the metal, it just lets you burn it all a lot more quickly. So I guess you'd get a lot of that Feruchemical power at the same time, but nothing you couldn't achieve by compounding for a few minutes, storing it all in metalminds, and then surging the attribute to get all that power at once.

I feel that that would be constraining on our ability to give full answers if we had to dance around such spoilers. Vague generalities can only get us so far. I think I'm on fair ground following the site-wide spoilers policy. For my own part—and perhaps this is cosmere-elitist of me—"the cosmere" as a topic all its own isn't really meant to be accessible to anyone who hasn't read all the books: realistically it isn't accessible to anyone who hasn't read a lot of WoB and quite a few fan theories/explanations. The cosmere is only really hinted and teased at in the background of Brandon's books, so we need to look carefully at all of the books if we're to get a clear picture of it.

In the books, there are multiple instances of Vin using Duralumin multiple times in quick succession in conjunction with different metals, all without "reloading". Of particular note is her first fight with Marsh in HoA. Myself, I'd hazard that some proportionate amount of Duralumin is burned away for each "super-burn" it provokes.

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On mobile, so less quotes than usual: @Kal Dell Not quite. While Brandon's said that decapitation would kill TLR if you got it all at the same time, I believe the general consensus just now is moreso because be doesn't have a goldmind in his head than for any deeper reason. Miles blows himself up, blows his own brain out with a shotgun, and gets headshot by surprise by Wax: this indicates rather strongly that head damage isn't a silver bullet. (So far as Miles surviving the surprise headshot goes, I think the running theory for _that_ is that the constant trickle of Health he has on all the time is enough to "keep the circuit open" for a moment so that he can quickly surge in larger increments to offset fatal damage.) EDIT: There's also some doubt as to whether the WoB about decapitation killing TLR is still valid. To highlight how powerful Feruchemical gold healing is: it's actually a valid question to ask which half of a perfectly bisected gold compounder the soul would stick to. So you can grow back at least half a head from thin air. That same WoB has Brandon implying that TLR was in fact fully decapitated, actually... -- And I just spent half an hour not finding the WoB that says that TLR being burned down to a skeleton or beheaded was an exaggeration. :\ @Voidus Sorry, "Instant speed" was a Magic: The Gathering reference to some ability that you can trigger in response to someone else's actions, in addition to just about any other time. For instance, "Regenerate" is an instant speed ability that saves a creature from being destroyed. I said that to differentiate Feruchemical gold from, say, AonDor in that it doesn't require any "healing spell" to be cast some time after the damage is done, but rather starts doing its job immediately. In fact, I'd usually say that both Feruchemical gold and Stormlight heal at "instant" speed. Stormlight is a bit odd, though, in how it requires that "effort" to heal Shardsevering: even Kaladin requires a conscious effort. ---- So far as Nalan using Stormlight to heal Szeth, that's a bundle of assumptions right there. First, for all we know his healing device was from off-world. Second, and more importantly, if Nalan's fabrial was in fact Stormlight-based, then it was almost certainly related to Regrowth, and so quite likely more powerful than internal use of Atormlight. At the very least it doesn't require that "internal effort" we saw from Kaladin. The key here, though, is that such a fabrial both isn't "instant" (acting more like AonDor or Resealing would, in terms of timing), and doesn't really seem like he kind of thing you can apply to yourself during the split second you'd be not-dead while getting Shardbladed. --- @Windy Well I'm glad you aren't surprised. http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=979#166 --- In general, we should note the similarity between the two answers Brandon's giving: the WoB cited earlier users nearly the same language of 'it heals the soul, so you're fine'. It seems to me, then, that this ability to heal the soul is all that Brandon thinks is necessary to repair being killed by a Shardblade. EDIT 2: On a computer, added in some citations.

I'd also say that the "instant speed" nature of Hoid's healing points to Gold Feruchemy as well. While it's rather heavily implied (from an ignorant perspective, but still there would be nearly 0 drama if this wasn't the case) that Stormlight won't save you from a Shardblade cut to the spine, Hoid isn't worried (“I’d be surprised if that little knife of yours poses me any real threat, Kholin.")

Also, it's best to pull the quote. Source We've no guarantee (as I've said) that this opposition caused the Shattering, or even played a real role.

Well we know, at the very least, that the "Taln" we saw at the end of WoK is the same one as we see in WoR. Source:

Nope, a lot of them had Feruchemical Gold spikes. They were in the habit of reusing them, though, and you're right that sometimes they went without. Source: ------ No again, it's just a consequence of crossing the streams. Source:

That WoB was a mistake, apparently. Here's the answer to a clarifying question: Source:

Yeah, that was Kelsier being rude just before he got chest-speared, as "tyrant" is a tad more negative than "ruler."

What pun? There's no moon on Scadrial...

It might help to delve a bit into the exact mechanism of Divine Breath healing.

On savants: I'd find it likely that a steel misting who uses it a lot would become a savant, ala bronze, and that it would have a negligible—if even extant in any meaningful sense—affect on Wax other than making his use of Allomantic steel better. --- So far as the earring goes, we know that they're from melted down Inquisitor spikes.

It does pretty much knock down your "Or helps him get into that set of mind where its impossible to miss," though, and possibly "Or guides his hands" depending on how literal you were being. Either way, I'll side with bruhsam that such a level of interference in the day-to-day seems rather un-Harmonic. @bruhsam on Bloody Tan Several people, and he wasn't.

Yeah, I would attribute it to a general increase in competence by being able to see what's going on with all his shots ("oh, that bullet landed 3 inches to the right of where I thought it would") and so be able to precisely calibrate his aim/skill, mainly, but Moogle also makes a good point that he likely has some help with targeting and spatial awareness in general from Allomantic steel. Beyond that, I wouldn't be surprised if he was in the habit of unconsciously Pushing on the bullets a bit when necessary: throw in Kelsier-level abilities to Push on different parts of the object, and you could do some pretty fine-tuned trajectory correction that way. EDIT: @Leftinch I highly doubt this, particularly because 99.9% of the time when he's fighting he likely doesn't have that earring in.

I like this cover too. --- Obnoxious thread-hijacking and sidenote: Do we know if a more "normal" hardback is coming out? Just a run-of-the-mill hardback like there was for the first Legion, I mean, rather than a $45 signed/numbered/leatherbound edition.