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Sorry, Im not clear on what you are after. What do you mean by "reconstruct" exactly?

Agreed on all counts, but I do want to point out that there is what I consider a decent bit of evidence that the healing granted by being able to hold stormlight (ie. being a Radiant or Squire) is qualitatively different than the Progression Surge as it's been shown. A Radiant with Progression heals faster than the other orders (or at least Renarin did in OB). By contrast it also has a sharp Time Limit that does not seem to be tied to Self-Image, and expires far sooner than if a person (like Lopen) has their own Stormlight. Specifically, Rhysn went to Renarin for healing but was told it had been too long for him to heal her paralysis. But it's clear from her behavior that she has not "accepted" it as part of Self-Image, given that she repeated tries to stand up when she is distracted or surprised. Personally I think the source of the different behavior is simply the difference between healing your Self and healing someone External; that's a distinction that is significant in a number of cosmere instances.

That was my read of the WOB, he said "merely touching them with the sheath when the smoke is leaking can be deadly."

I know, I didnt mean to imply you were incorrect or anything. I mostly just wanted to add that WOB, I find it particularly interesting that even being made of Aluminum, Nightblood can exert himself through the sheath once released. Dear lord, I want to see the inevitable Vasher/Nightblood reunion.

If I recall correctly, in Warbreaker it was only partially unsheathed and still managed to be shoved into a persons chest, and WOB has it that even partially drawn his whole form, including the Aluminum Sheath become a Weapon, and that the form doesnt matter much. That being said, I believe that @RShara is correct that every time it's done the full black-smoke realmic attack that pops people it was fully drawn and shouting DESTROY!!.

No, he is not. We know from WOB that he specifically does not want to take up any additional shards, even when he has the opportunuity, because taking up a knew shard would add a new (and possibly conflicting) Intent that would Change him, which he does not want.

That is correct, by the time of the shattering he was already past his natural age. Im guessing it just means that he was extending his life at that point but the current Immortality he has now, the Super-immortality that makes him not fear shardblades, etc. is most likely something more advanced and unique.

To be honest neither have I, but Im anti-social and have always lived in relatively rural areas. I mean, my graduating class was only 130 but my old roomate's was over 3,000. I always got the impression that denser cities forced more interaction. I was setting the bar more along the lines of most people being able to say they'd met a Coinshot in some capacity, but that could be as low as having one live in the neighborhood and buy from your booth in the market or some such. In that sense one coinshot per 1,000 people isnt all that unreasonable, they could work in one boroughs and live in an other and make those numbers

That was my point, Elendel and Luthadel both (was actually swapping them in my mind) are both examples of abnormally high population densities, so it's easier to believe that the average person might cross paths with a Coinshot in such a place a lot more often than outside the major urban centers. But I was really just trying to find a logic that would reconcile the conflicting information we have.

To be fair, the statement "virtually everyone would know a coinshot" sounds a lot more reasonable in the sort of extremely dense urban population of Elendel, as opposed to a statement about the overall average population.

A couple questions on that: Allomancers as in Mistings or full Mistborn? And was the context Elendel (as the WOB above), or was it instead LTR's empire, or the whole planet? Each of those could have different ratio's.

Sweet, thanks! So we know it's coming from the Weapon, which Im guessing is the infamous gem/Topaz(?), though we still dont know what realmic mechanism it's working on (ie. time dilation vs Spiritweb Age Manipulation vs Cognitive Shadow shenanigans, etc).

There are two side to this question. On the one hand, there are and have ever been only 16 mundane metals that work with the Metallic Arts. Separately from that there exist some number of godmetals, Im not even going to commit to 16 of those, since it appears that different Vessels may create different Godmetals even for the same shard. The Godmetals of Preservation and Ruin work because they are invested in Scadrial and it's people, but the other Shards' metals dont innately work with Metallic Arts, though they can be "hacked" in ways that have mot been revealed (ie. the Trellium mystery). The reason it seems like the number of metals has changed at times is because all the Charts and lists and whatnot in the novels represent In-World Knowledge, which is not necessarily objectively correct. Also, in Era1 there were several other factors upending things: The Lord Ruler was actively misleading the populace about how Allomancy worked, he didnt want them to know about certain allomantic powers, most of ferchemy's potential and the vast majority of what Hemalurgy can truly do. Meanwhile, a mostly-crazy Leras/Perservation wanted the populace to know and use Atium and it's alloys as part of his plan to defeat Ruin, so he exerted himself shardically (ie. a godly hand-wave) because "Preservation wanted Atium and Malatium to be of use to the people, as he recognized that it would be a very powerful tool—and that using it up could help defeat Ruin. But he also recognized that sixteen was a mythological important number, and felt it would make the best sign for his followers. So he took out the most unlikely (difficult to make and use) metals for his sign to his followers [WOB]. The Other side of the question, the part about Why those Metals in particular, for the most part it was about the pattern, having a base/pure metal and an alloy, though there were a few specific tweaks we know about. We know, for example, that he originally wanted Silver to be the Realmically Inert metal, but changed it to Aluminum because the industrial extraction processes required for aluminum means it can be very rare in pre-industrial societies but far more common as the world's tech advances. There was also the fact that Brandon was originally led to believe that Pewter was an alloy of Silver, so it originally had Silver and Pewter paired as opposed to Tin.

Can you point me to your source on that? I was under the impression that the 'How' of Hoid's immortality had been a perpetual RAFO

Oh, Ok. So you're saying that IF Vax proves to be a region of Sel, then it would have a Dor-based magic, and since the Ethers do not appear to be Dor-esk it would mean that the Ethers are unrelated to Vax.

I feel like a missed a step in that logic. How did you get from Vax might be a place to Vax isnt the place that the Etehrs come from because crystals?

You know how the continent of Roshar is a 2D slice of a 4D Quaternion Julia Set Fractal? I think this gives us a fascinating perspective on how the continent might have looked as it was being grown.

Also worth remembering that with the timeline as long as the cosmere and immortal god-shards running around, "Vax" always could be a place/planet as well as the person/thing that the place/planet was named after. Also, Id bet actual money that whatever Vax is, it will prove somehow dragon related. Based on nothing more than DnD pop-culture.

I dont think they will get into Space Combat or interplanetary travel in the Physical Realm. For purely Doylistic reasons, I expect the interplanetary travel that will appear in the Stormlight Archive to be entirely realmic, and Space travel to wait until Era 4 (and I suspect will require the magics of more than one planet). WOB says he hasnt decided on the initial Rosharan migration being an SR vs CR mechanism, but has stated that it wasnt done spaceships. However, I do not have any real support for that stance, just a feeling on the narrative flow. I dont know how I missed this one but that's awesome, can you point me toward that?

I think the reason Moash gets so much more hate than others who are arguably as bad or worse is that Moash is more of a direct Foil of Kaladin. Moash represents Kaladin's Road Not Taken, they both have very similar motivations, hangups and personal growth arcs. But we are along for the Ride for Kaladin, specifically, so we are repeatedly faced with a dilemma and given Kaladin's internal conflict to understand why he chooses what he does, then we kept seeing Moash choose the opposite. We are made to sympathize with one Choce and then given a character that always seems to choose the opposite. All that to say I dont think Moash would get as much hate if he roles had been reversed and we'd been given his internal perspective throughout, or even if he had been his own story rather than so directly a Kaladin comparison.

Other known details include that "Leras would recognize Vax" and the fact that "Vax" was Ati's last word. Not particularly helpful but there you have it.

Agreed, but on a tangentially related question: your Healing is influenced by your Self-Image (which is distinct from realmic Identity), and Im curious how much if any of that self-image is included in the Stored Health. For example, Imagine you stored a bunch of health in a perfectly ordinary (Sealed and Keyed) Gold coppermind years ago in, then lost those metalminds. In the years that followed your Self-image had adjusted to include a distinctive Facial scar. Then you rediscover those Gold Metalminds and use them to heal. Would they heal away the Scars because they were not part of you self-image when the gold was stored, or would they heal based on your newer self-image from the time they are tapped and thus leave the scars? I lean toward the latter being the case, or else it makes UnSealed Gold metalminds more complicated. But I could see an argument either way, and Im curious what others think.

Right, I was agreeing with you. Per the WOB I posted unsheathing him is more than just a physical act, and his physical form "isn't that important" and we know he maintains a connection to his wielders, so even if they physically let go that's no guarantee that he couldnt still use them as said power source. It puffed black smoke when it landed, so it wasnt mundane. The WOB I posted said it might not need to be fully unsheathed to become dangerous, so it might not matter if it was fully drawn or just a little. Ya, definately hella-risky unless you have some reason to believe the process is going to be unusually fast.

Also, per the WOB below I get he impression taht Drawing Nightblood is more about an act of Intent than necessarily a physical act, it's described as Unchaining a monster and that Nightbloods physical form doesnt actually matter much. On top of that, we know the Connection he makes to his wielders is not reliant on physical contact/possession. Combine those two and I dont think you could let go of the sword to protect yourself without also shutting down Nightblood (Vasher threw him a couple times and he gouged the floor but then seemed to go dormant). That being said, you might be able to simply give the Unmade the Test the way Vasher liked to do: toss him over there and let their own dark natures convince them to draw and be destroyed by nightblood, though that would be hella-risky.

I completely forgot about that, you're right. If it could eat an Unmade, I would expect it should have been able to eat that Fused (rather than just drain it) and it would have eaten the spren right out of any farbial it was near. And given how the stormlight usually streams out from the gem tot he larkin's mouth, worst case would be that a larking trying might give the Unmade enough leverage to escape. I like Navani for the Sibling that reason, thought I also really like the idea of Rlain for the Sibling to be a Bridge and help Unite the two races. In that instance Navani could also for the Nightwatcher.