The One Who Connects

This brings up another issue. How are you gonna differentiate between individual and combo numbers in order to get K-Z? I'm up for a codebreaker session, but if I can't differentiate between the halves(almost) of the alphabet, then we will just have an exorbitantly long string of meaningless numbers.

Heterochromia exists in real life. It can even be an acquired trait(through injury or inflammation, so not late-blooming genetics) It's quite rare, but it exists. Brandon has done something to Rosharan genetics that makes "light/dark" an inheritable trait, so it doesn't seem too out of place for someone to inherit both light and dark.

I'm fairly sure that I'm right in my prior assumption. HoA Chapter 82: His Copperminds fell next to his Rings. His Rings are on the record as having survived, as were Elend and Vin's bodies. That would mean that his Copperminds should have survived too. I'm willing to call Copperminds "bands" of a sort(armbands), so that should explain it pretty well.

Pretty sure he had one on each arm, probably for that reason. Beheading? He lives. Cut at the waist? He lives. Cut down the middle? He lives. This having been discussed multiple times in the "how to kill gold compounder" thread, I'll be quick. That requires low enough velocity for the bullet to get lodged in his brain, rather than being a through and through. Shrapnel is a game of chance on whether it'd spread to the right spots to incapacitate him. Still a better chance than most any other methods. As Weltall says, it's still currently Taldain. However, we got a WoB in Warsaw about the future of technological progress

Do you not watch/not have Jeopardy in your country/home? (The Host is named Alex Trebek)

I'm not gonna go into the rabbit hole of the logistical issues with your fueling via the wrong metals idea. It seems doable, if a little inconsistently. I'm gonna ask why nobody but me seems to think that his extraordinary strength was because he rebuilt himself to be as powerful as possible via The Well, combined with becoming a Savant to go even higher. Everybody seems to push for this(Nicrosil) or that(burning spikes) extra layer of difficulty that he might have done to make him stronger, when we have a perfectly reasonable option that we know he did to get stronger. He used that power to move a planet. It seems odd that people don't even consider that same power as the cause of his immense magical strength.

Bendalloy: pretty much frozen time outside the bubble for a moment. You aren't reversing it. You can compress time to a crawl, but you can't invert it to go backwards. Cadmium Bubbles are essentially forward time-travel anyway, this would just make it faster(only a bonus for resource purposes, less time in the bubble means less food to pack while you hibernate into the future) I'm pretty sure there is a WoB (or something) out there about Lerasium actually doing something different for Allomancers. Remember, we have only seen Lerasium used by a non Allomancer. So...there is really no way to know what D-Lerasium burn would do. We have an Annotation saying that making one a Mistborn is a side-effect of Lerasium, yes. However, we have a WoB saying that Duralumin + Lerasium would not make you any stronger of an Allomancer than if you burned the Lerasium normally. Whatever it's normal effect, we don't know, so yep. No way to know. Duralumin + Nicrosil on an Atium burner would be little different from Elend doing Duralumin+Atium. Remember that Nicrosil is just Duralumin on other people. D+Nicrosil/Chromium would be much the same as just Nicrosil/Chromium on someone, only a little bit bigger effect for Nicrosil. X amount of Nicrosil will burn Y amount of other Metal per second. Duralumin burns Z amount of Nicrosil(may as well be all, but we don't know if there is a max) per second. If you had 5 seconds worth of Nicrosil on you, then you would burn 5Y of the other person's Metal over 5 seconds. D+Nicrosil would just make that 5Y in one second instead of over 5. D+Chromium would be the exact same. X amount of Chromium drains Y amount of Investiture per second. The main value to this is that you could potentially drain a Compounder immediately, rather than having to keep holding onto them for a long while. Granted, you still run the risk of not having enough Chromium, but it's a better start.

TLR made Nobles and Skaa semi-distinct races. Nobles had few children, were taller(iirc), and a few other things. Skaa were made very fertile(to keep workforce population up), shorter, more physically built for labor, etc.. Most of these changes were partially negated by Skaa-Noble interbreeding over the centuries. Both types were altered to survive in the ashen landscape. The Southern Continent was kept unaltered, so TLR had a baseline to work from if his changes doomed the North. So he essentially made 3 races of humanity: Noble, Skaa, & Human

Why 34?

Aluminum Ferring you mean? Nicrosil stores Investiture, Aluminum stores Connection Identity. It's Aluminum. I mistyped my post the first time

I think the Tezim - Dakhor wild speculation originated from an in-world reference to the Tukari God-priest as some type of monster. Svrakiss and the Dakhor are several people's favorite scapegoat for any type of "monster/demon story." There's no real connection. Those are just the only known "monsters" that can think and lead (Koloss were a little simplistic, Rosharan's would probably recognize something like Parshendi, Lifeless can't normally talk, etc...)

With Syl pursuing Shallan as well then? That's not how squares work. (I'll take "Things I never thought I'd say" for $500 Alex) Each Corner only goes to two other corners, so if Shallan connects with Adolin and Kaladin, and Kaladin connects with Syl.. then the "square" line would connects Adolin and Syl, which is not what I think Steeldancer was going for. Shallan ---- Adolin | | Kaladin ---- Sylphrena As Stark mentioned, most fear the SA one resembles the one in Twilight and Hunger Games(which have both been very heavily trashed by 2/3rds of the internet or more) I, and several others, worry that it'll feel repetitive. We don't think that the Shardic struggle in Stormlight Archives is gonna end the same way as Mistborn Era 1 because it'd be repetitive. The variety of worlds and characters and motivations in the books prove that Brandon is quite good at keeping things different, so people don't like things that feel like "he's done this already" in X book.

I'd say Tin for general life(Redbishop's bomb squad example being a possible exception) because you already have years worth of practice with your senses. Someone who has had sufficient practice with their Electrum Shadow could probably use it to survive most situations with ease, but until you have that practice? Relying on it will only distract you. I feel like this is a partial reason for why Atium puts you on autopilot to the shadows, rather than having you interpret them yourself. The shadow(s) would only divide your attention until you've gotten used to them. It's gifting a sense that you haven't used before. If Medicine/Science gave an adult who was born deaf the ability to hear, he's not gonna know how to interpret that information as well as the rest of us until he gets used to it. Tin is like a hearing aid, enhancing/perfecting what's already there. Much easier to get used to improved hearing than from nothing to everything.

I imagine that a Shard could only take control of someone if their target was on the Shardworld that the Shard was Invested in. Something in the same vein of why Shards don't automatically Invest all worlds at once even though "the SR is location-independent." We know that the presence of a Shard is noticeable in the Cognitive Realm, so there's definitely something location-dependent going on. I imagine that if Harmony(or Ruin) was already controlling a Kandra/Marsh, then they would maintain that control if their target Worldhopped to say.. Roshar. But I don't see Sazed being able to "peer" at Roshar and pick Marsh out of a crowd. That brings up an interesting thought.. Say Ruin won, and was controlling Marsh as an agent off-world. He was already controlling him on Scadrial, so he stays in control when Marsh goes to Roshar. Would one of the other Shards (Honor/Odium) be able to rip control away from Ruin? For the sake of argument, lets take it to the same world. If Honor took control of Marsh while he was on Roshar, could Odium take control away from Honor or vice/versa?

If you want a very simplified version of it, I've got the shorthand: Fill Metalmind with attribute. Allomantically Burn Metalmind. Burning in Allomancy gives you power from Preservation. That power is filtered through the Metalmind into the Feruchemical Attribute. You receive a massive quantity of Feruchemical attribute and store it for later use. At it's simplest, all Compounding does is take away the time consuming aspect of Feruchemy, giving you days worth of stored attributes in minutes. There is essentially nothing "unique" that a Compounder could do that a normal Feruchemist could not. The big difference is that a Compounder has enough stored attributes to do those things sooner than a normal Feruchemist would. If I wanted to do something cool that needed five months of stored weight, I could do it(five months from now), whereas a Compounder could do it tomorrow. At it's most complex, you are hacking Allomancy to fuel Feruchemy. And all the potential implications that brings.

That still bothers me. It doesn't make sense, but I can't pin down why.

Have these two statements and draw your conclusions.

Does nobody check the Coppermind anymore? As for that [3], from the Annotations:

While they would technically be a little bit older, this would only be significant in the later ages. 1.1 of 19 is only 20.9, while 1.1 of 50 is 55. The key thing to understand is that if Brandon says that Kaladin is 19, he's gonna write him like a 19 yr old human. If he says that Dalinar is 50, he's gonna write the character as though he is 50, even if he'd be 55 Earth-Years old. I'm pretty sure that Oversleep and Yata were getting at the in-universe reason for why Brandon would do that, with the ambient Investiture and being adapted to longer years and all, but just putting my 2 cents in.

Bear in mind that the article is also 2 years old, when times may have changed. For example, he mentioned Samoa as using mph, whereas Samoa actually uses both. His statements are also simplified, as was the case in Canada. I looked up the Wikipedia entry for "Miles per Hour" earlier today, and it said that the Canadian rail system uses mph,[22] while roads do not.

It isn't. He's talking about Varangian, a user on the forums. (Now named Vissy, apparently)

Unless the spike is a lot larger than I think it is and takes the brow with it, they should have eyebrows. Marsh shaved his head, Hemalurgy didn't magically turn him bald. If you are asking whether they shave their eyebrows along with their heads... can't answer that one.

I would say that it has to in order to exist, but that's an opinion, not a fact. What is a fact is that Aluminum steals Allomantic Enhancement Abilities. This means that Aluminum spikes are capable of housing portions of someone's Spiritweb, indicating the presence of a spiritual aspect. So I would say yes.

Have my response from the last time a question like this was asked. (And a handy selection of useful links for perusing the WoBs) The Books are not necessary to understanding. They help you a lot(basic rundown of characters, magics, plot, etc..) but unless you are trying to avoid spoilers, the books are not a "100% must read" to be on here. You aren't dense, but I guarantee you missed vital information. We all did on our first few reads because we didn't know what details were "vital." No worries. If your confused about something, just ask. We can see your low post count below your icon, and we all understand what it was like to be new. You'll get answers. All else fails, just read through the older theories like I did and you'll start to catch on(because other people have been similarly confused and asked in the past) Helpful Links for Everybody to Have: The Coppermind: Wiki of all things Sanderson (already linked by Ammanas, but I'm being thorough) Theoryland: Database holding the WoBs from many Signings, Q&A's, and other events. Pagerunner's Database: Compendium of all things Brandon has posted on Reddit. Events and Signings: Topics containing audio/transcripts of all recent Signings, Q&A's, and other events. (a lot haven't made it onto Theoryland yet) WoP 2015: A collection of questions answered by Peter Ahlstrom. (Here b/c none of the rest of you seem to have it bookmarked ) WoP 2016: Small List, but it gets overlooked a lot. The Project(Title Classified): Fan-Made Database to replace Theoryland, set for release a little before Oathbringer comes out. The Annotations: Brandon's behind the scenes info-dumps about the stories, writing process, and fun tidbits.

That... would qualify. While that would certainly qualify, it is worth remembering that "List of Characters in Wheel of Time" has it's own Wikipedia page. On any level, WoT probably set records for perspective shifts. To actually answer your question, I suspect it'll be a chapter near the climax of Oathbringer.