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I am unsure, Shardlet. You've obviously put a great deal of thought and effort into this, so might well have answers to my concerns, but I'd like to raise a few anyway, just in case: Why not lobby for an expansion of permissions for Theoryland, rather than start a somewhat-clunky setup here? The thing is, when you've got a few hundred WoB's, you need to be able to separate them out by keyword and subject and the like, which is what Theoryland is good for. Now Theoryland does have a flaw in that it lags behind on new WoB by a fair margin, but that's the kind of thing that can be worked on within the system (admins willing). I don't see Theoryland as a challenge to "adequately mine for information", but as a challenge to the need for a separate compendium to exist. --- On that note, such a thread might be helpful as an interim step to getting stuff into Theoryland. I'd like to think that my compendium of AMA answers relating to the Cosmere was helpful to those guys, and this could serve a similar purpose. Instead of being a copy-pasting of new WoB's, you could maintain a series of links to the relevant threads/posts, to be removed as Windy, Joe, and company get to them.

@purpleness The glyph-color for the Lightweavers is reddish-purple, I'd say. Close enough. I'll give you this one. Source: So color and chemical signiatures are important. Note, though, that Brandon has said that, so far as "what powers they can fuel," all stormlight-holding gems are created equal for most surgebinders: It's just soulcasting that's weird. --- Color is still a component of it, though, so as I said I'll let it slide. If your sense of honor demands that this interpretation is too generous, though, you can just mail the cards to me rather than throwing them out.

That's what I thought was most likely as well, just double-checking. And yes, good catch: the Lightweavers are purple.

Welcome to the forums. *Does not recall that conversation*

Thanks for the report, fRR. A few small clarifications, though: -Air and Pressure? Not Gravity? -Purple? Like, the cover, or the binding, or...

Oh yes, I am a young and ill-mannered youth.

I'm not so sure on gemstones in general being special. Source: So "physical items... provide a key by which magical interaction occurs". Almost certainly. There are simply too many in circulation for any other explanation. See also the Shin and their Shin-ness about harming the rock to mine gems, if I recall correctly.

It's fairly easy. I went to my first game/draft just the other night and picked up the basics in a few minutes. More complicated stuff over the next hour or so, then I was fully aware of how bad I was. It's like Yu-Gi-Oh, but more sensible.

Here, have a quote (Mistborn spoilers). Source:

Here you go. Source:

Fixed that for ya'.

I'm fairly sure that the implication was simply that Tanavast was not going to die a natural death after his Splintering: it would kill him one way or another, but just not immediately. Hoser asked if he'd survive as a mortal, and then Brandon started indicating that he still wouldn't last very long.

It's nothing: credit where credit is due. We actually had a fairly intense theory-war based on that particular theory, now that you mention it.

Yeah, it didn't make much sense to me ether. During my epic quote-hunt, I even found a post back from 2011 where I was asking someone to ask Brandon about it.

@Claincy Not quite. He spent time old as a choice, not because he had to. He could have gotten away with compounding previously-compounded age—and probably still was, even in the hut, because he was just old, not a pile of bones, when Vin burst in on him. So he didn't need to set aside some special "old man" time just to store/compound/store a new supply of Age. P.S. That quote took a devilishly long time to track down, I must say.

Also, his bracers were spikes, they just likely provided a secondary effect unrelated to his youth: you can still store Feruchemical attributes in metals that also happen to be Hemalurgic spikes, after all.

Not to add to the assertions, but spanreeds almost certainly have a heavy Spiritual component to their function. Connections and all.

If this is the case, then we may have to consider the posibility that he mispronounced his own name as "Brian", thus leading to the aforementioned "epic fail".

I'd guess no. No pigment to drain the color out of. If you want to get more Realmatic, "red" is probably defined on a fundamental level as "red under normal viewing conditions."

Excellent question.

(Possible) scenario: Force X causes Adonalsium to shatter, Adonalsium makes it so that the shattering happens the way it does.

LOL.

Well done. It's interesting to here that not just the Metallic arts are open to FTL. Also, a quote might be in order to accompany the line about Adonalsium: Source: Note that technically the "force" could be Adonalsium itself.

True. That's just the scenario that happened in the game.