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I remembered seeing this WOB a while back, may answer some questions here. ParadoxicalZen How exactly is the Moon Scepter linked to the Dor? Brandon Sanderson The Moon Scepter is-- I suppose I can canonize this, now. Okay you're getting one out of me. So the big thing about the Moon Scepter that it was-- It is a Rosetta stone for the [Selish] magics. Meaning it translates them from one to another, and what the different symbols mean, does that make sense. source

Maybe she couldn't do it while Honor was around, he may have had some way of blocking her from doing that to the Radiant Spren.

This kinda makes me wonder what metal that gets burned through allomancy actually looks like when it's getting burned in someones stomach. I wonder if we'll get a scene or something where some scientists in future Mistborn books study that using x-rays or some other technology to allow them to see in the human body.

Yea, I was going to make a similar reply. I also felt at the end of WB that Susebron was going to be an actual ruler instead of just giving his Breath to another tongueless God King. Spoilers for Hero of Ages, Secret History and Mistborn Era 2 below: While I understand their story may be finished, Susebron and Siri will have had a lasting impact on Nalthis. And to any argument they wouldn't be a party to making Awakened weaponry, they already use Lifeless, nuff said.

It might also be possible that Vivenna and the God King collaborated to make her sword. He has enough breaths and the tongue to do it and Vasher might have let a few too many things slip that enabled him and Vivenna to work it out or at least to the extent to make the sword that she has, not quite Nightblood.

Maybe they become Judge Dredd when they swear the 5th ideal.

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That's an extremely good question. I seem to remember something like clocks or pocket watches but there has to be something non technological that they had in the early days of humanity on Taldain. Maybe hour glasses? They got plenty of sand.

Yea the passage of time in this one was very weird. Ais said that they can only attack Kenton every two days, but they never use anything to indicate the passage of time like "One Day Later." It feels like they skipped the days he wasn't getting attacked because it felt like he was constantly getting attacked.

I just played it through, was rather fun. I was only disappointed I couldn't lash the chull to the sky. At some point when I was killing Parshendi instead of the chasm fiend, Syl asks "Are you crazy?!" and I'm just thinking "Crazy like a Windrunner with short range teleportation abilities." Honestly, if they made a full game they can't let you teleport and have a Shardblade and/or Shardplate, it would be too cheap.

I took a look at the last chapter again and I think my opinion has been slightly modified. I think my problems have mostly been with the style of the original illustrator. I was so concentrated on how disappointed I was with most of the book that I didn't consciously notice the change in chapter 6. I think that the style, while more simplistic, is a lot more visually appealing and is exactly the change I wanted. I don't know what it is about the original style but it just seems really scratchy and tried to be more realistic and three dimensional but just ended up being distracting. If the next one is done in this new style and they do justice to the final duel between Kenton and Drile, I think this series will have been vindicated.

I don't have much to add here but I really hope Brandon doesn't do any more graphic novels for material that doesn't have an official written form published. Graphic novels are fun for telling stories and I've enjoyed quite a few before these. But, Brandon's work is done a disservice when the detail is represented in images instead of words in my opinion. It feels like Brandon's work is meant to be discussed in great detail and there's just a certain amount of detail that cannot avoid being lost in the graphic novel format. Maybe these are enjoyable to some other people, but I just felt mostly annoyed reading it. I'm really unsure what my opinion would be if I hadn't read the prose version first.

Looks like they finally put up a steam page. I never imagined when I bought a Vive about a year ago that I'd get something Brandon Sanderson related for it and I am beyond excited.

Mistborn has plenty of annotations, I believe the first trilogy and Alloy of Law have them. Way of Kings also has some that Brandon released before OB came out a few months ago. If you get Sixth of Dusk through the original format in Shadows Beneath it doesn't have annotations but Brandon does discuss the making of the story to an extent.

All of the Heralds were bonded in some way to Honor as well, that's how they got their Stormlight. There was no Stormfather as we know it back then. Ishar's blade would give you the Surges of a Bondsmith, but not the special traits that come with bonding one of the large Spren.

Kaladin had fought that Unmade back in Kholinar earlier in the book, so he probably recognized the effects.

While I don't disagree that something odd happened in Nightblood's creation, I don't think Atium is involved. I can understand how its ability to destroy and the black smoke would give that impression, I don't believe that connects it back to ruin. We don't have as much knowledge and examples to work with when it comes to the magic system on Nalthis as we do elsewhere, so I apoligize if I get something wrong in my assumptions. The way it seems to work is everyone has a Breath, which is really just Investiture. When someone "endows" something that doesn't have a living soul attached(i.e humans, animals, plants) they also "endow" an intent and purpose to that thing. The strength and viability of that "endowment" is determined by the amount of Investiture and the person who preforms the endowment. So, I think Nightblood's traits are more indicative of something odd about Shashara than the material it was made of or the Breath used to power it.

It seemed to allow a kandra to use allomancy, not sure if an allomancer had to be killed with the spikes or not(most likely). That begs the question of what specifically made it so kandra couldn't use allomancy. My guess is because they are hemalurgic creations?

I disagree with the notion the other orders won't be expanding soon. There's already a bunch of people who have been bonding spren and there will probably be more now that Nalan isn't trying to kill every surgebinder. Shallan has squires already too. I could see the Elsecallers having stalled recruitment due to the lack of charisma Jasnah displays. However, I don't see us having another book with this level of conflict with Odium having only the handful of Radiants we have now and just some extra Windrunners.

I wonder, if Nightblood destroys a Fused, does that permanently destroy it as opposed to how they're really just killing the bodies the Fused are inhabiting? If so, Nightblood would be great for removing key Fused from this Desolation and is definitely a reason to use it instead of a normal Shardblade.

Szeth swore to the Third Ideal after the fight, not before. I wondered about that before my second read through, as the first was a bit more of a sprint than a marathon. But yea, if you have a copy handy, go to the back of the book after the fight and find the page where Szeth goes to Nalan, he swears it then.

Oathbringer spoilers below!

I think balanced is a better term for it than neutral. Both shards are represented equally in feruchemy. It lets you preserve something for later use which is the Preservation side of things. However,it lets you use what you preserved at a higher rate but in a shorter period of time which is the "Ruin" part of feruchemy.