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Didn't Bavadin have something to do with Aona and Skai dying?

I don't think it's anchored to Scadrial. Powers are bound to a specific place on Sel, but that's just the effect of Dominion. It shouldn't be like that anywhere else.

I don't know why Brandon would say that a copper compounder could do interesting things, if it's just perfect memory. Perfect recall isn't even really doing anything; it's very passive.

That's the only explanation--that Preservation supplies the extra information. I just don't think that's consistent with how the metallic arts work, otherwise.

See, that's exactly the question: what does infinite memory mean? While other feruchemical stores are quantities of an attribute like health, weight, etc, copper isn't storing the same kind of thing. It's not memory in general; it's a specific memory. So if you compound a set of information, you're doing it from a coppermind containing a particular, finite memory set. For it to become HD--where is the extra info coming from to do that? The coppermind is a record of your memory of something, not a magical link to the event itself. That's why I'm so stuck on my magical AI idea. I'm thinking of what the information actually is made of, and I think it's a record of your brain activity as you actively picture the information to store it in copper. So you compound all of that brain activity, and it eventually becomes complex enough to be a brain (of sorts) in its own right.

So, are we assuming the bubble will stay stable on the ship, even as the ship moves? An allomancer can't move their bubble with them, but it does stay in place relative to the movement of the planet.

So, you'd have to have a cadmium bubble inside of a bendalloy bubble, right? How would you propose doing that? Spike a Slider with bendalloy?

Well, after I posted this, I found a WoB that indicated that double copper might be very interesting. That doesn't sound like extra strong memory, or just nothing, to me. And keep in mind, compounding draws its power source from feruchemy. The allomancy just provides the power boost/multiplier effect. Even with pewter, you have to burn full metalminds, and the stored strength is compounded.

No. I don't think there's any further info.

The second one is one of Straff Venture's bastards. He most likely looks familiar because he resembles both Elend and Zane (who she notices resemble each other pretty closely, despite having different mothers, so Straff's looks apparently carry strongly through the genes). EDIT:Oh, wait! No! She recognizes him because he was the Thug that Cett had in his retinue when she and Elend go to dinner to meet with him. Zane had him planted there. He later blamed the attack on Cett.

I just started this very topic, somehow missing that it was already here on the front page. Whoops. Basically, my idea was that maybe you'd Invest the memories, creating a sort of magical AI, if you compounded it enough. The simplest explanation is that you'd just fill up your coppermind with a whole bunch of copies of the same information. That's pretty lame, but being an aluminum Misting isn't exactly awesome, either. Not all of the powers on Scadrial are cool. I really like my coppermind AI idea, though.

Problem: Pulser speed bubbles and Slider speed bubbles cancel each other out. Also, in this scenario, the Pulser bubble needs to be smaller, but it's actually larger then a Slider bubble. Maybe duralumin can come into play, if there's a Mistborn (otherwise, a nicrosil Misting could help). I don't see how the bubbles could be big enough work, though. If they could be, and the Scadrians are wrong about the bendalloy/cadmium cancellation effect, then you would need a bunch of Twinborn. Their feruchemical ability would have to be zinc because they'd have to be really sharp to be able to fire off their bubbles at exactly the right time to keep the ship in a bubble constantly. A full Mistborn/Feruchemist could probably do all of that, though. Just compound a bunch of breath, food, water, and warmth, and throw themselves through space with no ship.

What on earth would compounding copper do? Can it even be done? Would it have some kind of weird effect, where it created a genius coppermind (investing it to the point that it became a sort of magical AI)? Maybe this is how the Lord Ruler's legendary perfect recall worked. I at first assumed that it was just his copperminds, and he always dumped relevant information when he thought he'd need it, giving the illusion of perfect recall. But, of course, that doesn't make much sense. Now, if compounding copper invested the coppermind such that it would automatically store everything without wiping it from one's own memory and also allow easier access than the typical feruchemical infodump, then that absolutely accounts for the Lord Ruler's alleged super memory.

Oh, yeah! I remember now.

Yeah, these are cool. Is Brandon Sanderson aware of these? I think he would appreciate them.

What are you getting at? There's one from Sel, one from Scadrial, and one from Bavadin's planet (does it have a name that we know of?). Obviously, they're looking for Hoid. But I think their interlude, along with Mraize's chapter, proves that the masked man figure denotes the presence of worldhoppers.

I think we'll find that Sadeas' death won't stop the schemes he set in motion. I think Ialai will continue to mess things up for everyone (indeed, she may have be a bigger part of the Sadeas problem than we yet know). I don't know why there's so much argument over whether it was right to kill Sadeas. Of course it was right. He's guilty of high treason, as characters have explicitly pointed out, and only Elhokar's weakness allowed him to get away with it. The way it happened was not great, but. It highlights the problems in Alethi society. Sadeas had to go, and the existing justice system could only accomplish that by maneuvering him into a duel. How is that just? He died fighting Adolin, anyway. There was a struggle; it wasn't a knife in the back. What--if there had been pomp and ceremony and an audience, then it would have been okay?

Do we know for sure that that's Kalak? It seems like it very well could be, but there's precious little evidence. Is there something I missed?

I don't think we're going to see a love triangle. The way Shallan thinks about Kaladin reminds of the way Navani explained her feelings about Dalinar when they were young and she decided on Gavilar. She's attracted to him in a way that's more fulfilling than what she gets from Adolin, but he has an intensity that disturbs her. I think Adolin will die, and Kaladin will end up with Shallan later on (if, that is, they are going to end up together).

I think Nalan or Kalak are good candidates for Book 3. Kalak is perhaps less likely, since he already got the prelude. Maybe it could even be Ishar, who a lot of people seem convinced was the drunk guy in the WoK's prologue. I'm not sure what evidence there is for that, but... Anyway, I have reservations about Nalan. I think we'll learn a lot more about him in book 3 but not TOO much, and a POV might be too much. Sadeas would certainly be interesting. The aftermath of his death might be more interesting if we get to see inside his head a little more.

I don't think forgery even works outside of its dominion on Sel (you know, 'cause of Dominion), so Shai might not be as cool as you might think. Pattern would LOVE forgery, though. I'd like to see Wayne show up, myself. He's probably alive right around the time of the SA, so he would just be getting initiated into worldhopping. It could be a great vehicle for explaining how it all works, what the 17th Shard is up to, etc. As for Marsh, I suspect that he will show up on Roshar eventually, as it seems that he is to be a part of the greater Mistborn arc, and its space opera trilogy will bring all the Cosmere stories together. I bet that's why his character wasn't given as much development as it seemed to deserve: he's going to be around for centuries, while the others will soon be dead and gone and deserve the limelight during their brief stories.

Well, it does seem likely that the darts would only stun him, as it is likely the same blowgun that Mraize had earlier, and that didn't even kill a cremling. But it's obviously not clear what was going on there, so I wouldn't state that as a fact. Amaram has certainly pissed a good many people off, and I'd be surprised if the reason the Ghostbloods didn't want Shallan killing him wasn't that one of them wanted to do the job personally. We'll have to see. Oh, I checked out the Ishikk interlude and found the masked man at the head of that chapter too, so clearly, that just means that there are worldhoppers in the chapter. I had initially connected it too strongly to Hoid, and I was suspecting Mraize to be Yolish.

Okay, I just read Shadows for Silence. I'm not sure where I read about that magic system, but clearly, I was conflating two different stories. Still, they definitely use "shadows" as a curse there, so I'd say that Mraize at least spent some time on Threnody, even if he's not from there. Nothing about his scarring seems to indicate withering from a shade, so I'm out of ideas for now.

I haven't read Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, but Mraize uses "shadows" as an expletive at one point. Is it possible that there's a connection there? Isn't the magic system there somehow tied to disabilities? That could explain his severe scarring, if he was intentionally wounding himself to gain power.

It's interesting that the only time the masked man appears, instead of a Herald, in the imagery on the chapter headings is when Hoid is an important part of the chapter. There is one exception, and that is the chapter where Shallan meets Mraize. Hoid isn't there at all. That seems significant.