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Why would it being in binary matter?

Yup, that'll do it. Given that the newer WoB is 1) Newer and 2) Not-paraphrased, it wins the day.

It's a poorly-organized bookmarks folder with cryptic names for each bookmark, technically.

This is the one Spoolofwhool's referencing. *Saved as "Hoops to awaken" in my mondo-folder of WoBs. Note that it's a paraphrase; and though it's a few months before the anyone with Breath can Awaken WoB, that one is also a bit sketchy to extend out to anyone with Breath can awaken, since the statement wasn't really in a worldhopping context: it could easily be interpreted as "anyone from Nalthis can awaken".

We have. The very first time we saw anyone burn electrum was Vin during the inquisitor fight at the beginning of HoA. She burned it as a precaution against atium, but there was no indication that the fact that multiple shadows showed up was evidence of atium use; after the fight they even cut open the inquisitor to try and see if he had swallowed any atium, and concluded that he hadn't, just as none inquisitors they'd faced recently had had any atium either. That and the "how does electrum" FAQ I quoted up above mentions that you get the multiple shadows by default.

...and I finally updated the OP to v2.0. Alterations include, but are not limited to, incorporating the WoBs and book info from this thread, restructuring where the sections are, adding in a table of contents and definition of terms, getting rid of that obnoxious blue... EDIT: Added WoB: Cadmium affects time, not perceptions (paraphrase): This post serves the dual purpose of alerting my loyal followers to the v2.0 update and being an archive of the previous version of the OP, minus its citation archive since that's been retained without alteration. v1.7

Here's Brandon's most complete answer on the subject so far.

Here are the two quotes on trying allomancy through bubbles.

We've got two WoB's on it: Source: And then a newer one with a less potentially-trolly answer: Source:

Sazed being singular/dual doesn't necessarily dictate the number of perpendicularities. If the pools in the Horneater peaks are all Cultivation's perpendicularities, that's certainly quite a few for a single shard. Not to mention that Trell might have a perpendicularity or two on Scadrial.

Sadly Compounding won't do the trick here, since you compound the Feruchemical effect, not the Allomantic one. So Double-Electrum just nets you a lot of (*checks*) determination. -- That aside yes I agree Allomantic electrum has a lot more utility than we see in the books. As does Brandon. Source: Source

Oh joy. The morality debate begins.

Oof, I'm behind the times. I need to catch up on all the audio from the AU signings, it sounds like. :/ Thanks. P.S. Also I added the Fortune bit to my quote for completeness' sake.

This is pretty important, actually: Unless Fortune works in a "future vision" way, this actually rules out Hoid using Fortune to know here he needs to be; this despite the fact that we know that he uses Feruchemy for his "need to be there" sense. So either a new Feruchemical power or an unexpected use of an existing one—or it just turns out that Fortune's just weird that way.

This one from SF? Source:

Well then I'll have to take some time to scour through everything. Thanks for the reminder that I haven't seen everything from this tour yet.

Interesting. Do you know where he said this? A little word-searching isn't finding it here or on the main thread, and normally I'd stake money on that being the entirety of bubble quotes of any relevance. EDIT: Posterior-covering: Maybe I missed something from the AU tour...?

Oh boy this is a fun one. They key here is that drawing Feruchemical power at a higher ratio than 1:1 is inefficient: As an example with arbitrary numbers, if you store 10kg of weight for an hour, then later you can either be 10kg heavier for an hour or 20kg heaver for 15 minutes. There's loss as you cram together the extra energy. So let's say Wayne has 10 units of healing left, and needs to heal a paper cut. He could either tap 1 unit to heal the cut over the course of ten seconds, or 10 units to heal it over the course of 2 seconds (more random numbers, since we don't know the actual proportions). In a fight you're going to want that paper cut healed immediately, but in a low-resource or low-stress situation you'll be more careful with your feruchemical storage. EDIT: More visual example that ties into "surging" as a thing: Let's say an injury is an empty water glass, and when it's full the injury is healed. Tapping at a 1:1 ratio is you carefully positioning the glass under the tap, turning the tap on, and carefully turning the tap off just as you fill the glass. Surging at a 10:1 ratio is like grabbing a giant bucket of water and turning it upside down over the glass: faster, but more wasteful. Links: Brandon on the matter. My favorite explanation for why this makes sense. Democracy deciding that this lossy energy-compression should be called "surging".

FYI we recently got that Returned are indeed cognitive shadows, if that was a point of confusion. So yeah that sounds like Vasher had to figure out a way off-world.

The real update'll be a Christmas miracle at this point, I think... New WoB. It's pretty rambling, but the interesting thing is that mental gymnastics (presumably Vasher-style) would allow you to get the bubble moving with you. Source: So far as someone asking the "cosmere cognitive training" question before, I don't have any record/recollection of that myself. Cookie to anyone who can find it/point it out.

8 hours ago, Landis963 said: I don't think TLR ever had Resonances - he started with too many powers to get a Resonance between his feruchemic powers, and then rebuilt himself as both a Feruchemist (with all the powers) and a Mistborn (with all the powers). 1 "all the powers" crowds out Resonances to begin with (which is why neither Vin nor Sazed ever had any odd "perks" or "passives"), and TLR had two of those. I'll try and find the quote, IIRC it's a fairly recent one. You're correct about the WoB. Source:

Yup, he's method acting.

Even if the Diagram is aimed at Taravangian that doesn't necessarily rule out other people thinking "yeah it's meant to make Mr. T the king, but normal-him is going about following the Diagram's instructions all wrong; see this part really tells us to..."

One of the funnier exchanges I've seen in awhile