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Fhey also kinda ran Luthadel for a bit with Elend before starting another empire. The other obligators would probably know.

What's wrong with Rock and Lopen? They're voidbringer spawn!

Bad[chull] actually bypassed the filter last I tried (as in, without the space. Separate them and it catches it), but people say it anyway. So yes.

Everyone on the crew was present when she finally pointed out her father to Kel, so they should all know she was the daughter of Tevidian Tekiel. One does not simply not have the surname of the Lord Prelan written somewhere. He forfeited his surname but I'm sure someone knows it.

I think it's bringing up sex at all that's weirding him out, because that is a strange adjective for this situation.

Local god? None of the shards actually have to stay in one place, they just feel like it. Odium had been getting around quite frequently until the Oathpact happened. It's paying attention to things beyond the region their power saturates that's probably difficult to impossible. Though just the Well's share can already shift orbits and mass-alter existing life, shift landforms, etc. Tracking an entire planet should be cakewalk. As far as we know everything on Scadrial is artificial as well. On the Bands issue, a metal with no precedent of being strange being impossible to compound seems like the weirdest solution to the problem ever, since it doesn't seem like spiritweb attributes are so delicately programmed that they stop working even with just minor errors in transcription (all that delicious spike decay going on all the time . . .) so I'm of the belief nicrosil compounding probably should work. It's a loophole hack to begin with, it doesn't have to be entirely fair when double steel is already nigh unstoppable. Now since the Inquisitors don't really ever compound steel for some vague "never fully learned it" esque reason, I'm all for something like it taking some actual fiddling to pull off . . . Now the mural photo of some guy wearing the bands is bothering me . . . it'd be odd if the bands have ever been used. Unless they're still attached to the guy and there's atium floating around somewhere, nobody will be stupid enough to put the power back in unless they can reproduce it. Or maybe the Bands are empty now. Wouldn't that be anticlimactic.

You did it first. Chocolate cookies are great stuff . . . It's to feed Lift-like awesomeness powers.

They can definitely die, for sure. Though they do seem to survive more than a human would, they're fairly killable. Maybe it's just on the level of basic general healing being pumped in at all times? That's always proven to be terribly inefficient.

Thanks for undermining the purpose of the Cosmere Theories board Not entirely sure why that is brought up as an issue. The entirety of Mistborn exists because of magic.

Coppermind actually does say they heal quickly. Which I would expect; Reod Elantrians have the same condition as that woman from a certain botched healing job in the records, so without other evidence it's probable that some form of regeneration system is built into the Shaod? Plus I haven't read Hope of Elantris myself, but I believe someone does get impaled in the chest.

Nothing makes me think that. Neither does anything make me think the opposite so far either. You do realize the points you're making concern things we don't actually know anything about that will potentially become clear in this very book . . . That's why speculation on possibilities occurs. And why I said "I hope VenDell is wrong about something" because this is the last thing I want to see happen in an era with relatively not-broken characters. Being potentially temporary isn't much of a hindrance if it temporarily gives you the ability to compound anything, including the power that gave you the compounding and allomancy in the first place. Would really suck if it worked that way, though considering just how much more powerful Rashek was than Elend in allomancy any conceivable power buff makes sense for him to have.

Did VenDell ever actually say Nicrosil storage was permanent loss? I don't believe he actually said anything about that. Considering a lot of other abilities innate investiture is clearly capable of regenerating.

Nonsense. Instant noodles were the best thing since sliced bread and cookies!

Scadrial, apparently. Going off Kurk's links. The third one. They apparently "almost have instant noodles", though not quite. Hoid is interested in Scadrial for that but isn't getting involved. But there are forces at work trying to help along the development of instant noodles for some reason . . .

Ruin wasn't evil really. Ruin was an inevitability, a force of nature, trying to fulfill itself as quickly as possible. And it hijacked Ati's mind and sapience to help make that happen. Even if the Shard did not exist the world would end with everyone dead. Ruin was only evil from the perspective of the cast because he was making an effort to infringe on people's right to life while in a personified form people can project moral judgments and blame on. People are "killed" by time itself all the, well, time (no pun intended), but nobody says anything because it's pointless to bother. It's not Ati that is "evil" here, it's not even the intent of Ruining; it's the prematurity of the end they wanted. Adonalsium is 1/16 Ruin, so surely he/she/it destroyed, but it likely had reasons for any of it's actions. Ruin by itself tries to destroy for destruction's sake, and wants it now for lack if better things to do. With a complete disregard for morality basically out of apathy. (Ruin confirmed Epic ). If Ruin was weak and Preservation was strong Scadrial would have been a very different but equally miserable place to live.

Instant ramen is completely different from instant noodles in general A man needs to enjoy quick lunches while making fun of people and watching worlds burn.

Human souls in the cosmere are made of the same stuff magic is. That's how their universe works really, and people study the stuff. It has its own rules; it might as well just be science our world doesn't have, so the way it bends physics should matter.

Assuming dead blades don't simply shift back to blade form automatically.

Well assuming he did create the Bands in the way VenDell theorizes he clearly doesn't mind. Even if you're only at half power or something you can presumably just tap it twice as fast and compound off of that level. Like I said in the first place, there better be a flaw in some part of VenDell's theory or everyone is doomed.

Is it weird that the biggest thing I picked up from that stuff is Hoid's apparent interest in instant noodles?

There's actually little reason Odium would need or want a sword actually . . . he could probably replicate it somehow if he tried hard enough. It's just a shardblade on crack.

Well if you've ever tried to look at old English . . . it's hard to read, and that's the latin alphabet version. Don't bother trying to read English written in runes . . . it also actually sounds like elvish apparently. There will be noticeable grammar and syntax parallels though, surely, at least to an actual linguists expert. It'll be a completely new language otherwise. A Cryptic will probably recognize both as the same immediately.

That or the name will be let slip by a character in the near future anyway.

IIRC, if it is their body at all it will burn. Apparently an Inquisitor can just burn his spikes, though it will hurt like hell. I think the main reason is that the simplest and most traditional way to put metal into yourself is to gulp it down, so it's probably going to be in your stomach anyway. I'm sure if you were crazy enough to inject metal into your blood it will work. Meaning you can burn a shardblade by stabbing yourself with i-oh wait. That's no good.

But the issue is it's the power set of the Lord Ruler that created those Bands. And the Bands grant those very powers. There's no reason you can't make more using the original set, and you'll end up with a small army of invincible demigods on your hands. Each strong enough to probably conquer nations with little help.