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  1. Dunkum
    I forget wither it was Xisis, the Sorceress, Ulaam, or Hoid, but one of them specifically said something about how Xisis is studying the ecology at the bottom of the spore seas - which suggests that SOMETHING complex is going on down there.
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    that sounds about like how I felt as well, to be honest. it was fun enough, but not up to the same standards as his other books, and definitely not for the end of that particular era edit to add: Thinking on it a little it, It is probably the single weakest cosmere novel, and weaker than most if not all of the shorter works as well.
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    Were do I start?

    Dunkum replied to Ishikk's question in Cosmere Q&A

    the Coppermind is a good start. there is a link to it above. it is more or less a cosmere wiki with information on lots of thing. that said, it does have spoilers, so you may prefer to read some of the books you haven't gotten to yet before digging too much
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    same. sometimes I can see it better on a reread - but I pretty much never figure anything out the first time through
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    you're right. my bad, got them mixed up there
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    I believe we've seen Aons used on Roshar (unless that was a Skaze, but same restriction should apply either way) by the ghostbloods. presumably they use the same purified Dor stuff that we see in Secret History, but i couldn't say for sure. it's also possible that they can survive/operate on any external source, like the Returned can.
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    What to read next?

    Dunkum replied to Philip's question in Cosmere Q&A

    it also has the most direct/obvious links to Stormlight Archive. i'd go with Warbreaker for that reason too.
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    also possible the version that they had available wasn't any were close to the right mixture for ferruchemical purposes. they might have had electrum, but not ferruchemical electrum
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    Ancient Egypt had electrum - it was allegedly used s a coating on the tops of the pyramids - so they definitely could have had it during Rashek's time.
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    wasn't aware of that WoB. I'd agree if you can store the divine breath you can almost certainly store regular ones.
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    To be clear - so far with Nicrosil we haven't seen someone store just raw investiture like breaths or stormlight. we can't actually be sure that is possible. instead it seems more like Tin where what you store is a discrete ability - the allomantic or ferruchemical ability itself. so in keeping with that, it would seem like you might be able to store the capacity to awaken, rather than the breaths themselves. at least that would be closer to the uses we have already seen
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    you might be able to do it with Spren. i imagine that there would be a way to make that work pretty similar to how Kelsier himself staples his soul to a body with a spike. I don't think it would work with nightblood, though. spren have manifestations separate from their shardblade forms - and those manifestations are a LOT closer to Kelsier's cognitive shadow form. I don't get the impression that Nighblood has any such thing - he is the sword and is bound to the sword so I don't think he has a separate manifestation that could be stapled to a body the way a cognitive shadow can be.
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    We only know Atium and Lerasium at this point, and i think there is a WoB to the effect that the "Atium" we are familiar with is not properly Atium at all, sinc true Atium would be able to be burned by anyone
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    Yes that is Harmony. Era 2 happens shortly after Stormlight Archive. by a matter of a few years. we ave both of those things confirmed by WoBs i think
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    I want to highlight this because we have seena little bit about how Fabrials are made and at least a few of them use metals that are viable for allomancy and have related effects to the allomantic effects of those metals. which suggests that looking at what a metal does in allomancy (and to be honest the other metallic arts as well, i'd bet) is actually a very good way to guess at what it could be used for in Fabrial creation.
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    Maybe if you found some isolated atium and lerasium and brought them together? the implication from the book is that the two want to be together as harmonium because the shards they comprise are currently melded into that state. so it stands to reason that they might try to fuse with each other if brought into proximity. might need additional pieces, like electricity/energy and/or something like trellium to push them closer and closer together. I also wonder if there might be a godmetal out there with the opposite reaction as Trellium/Bavadinium. one that wants to merge with other investiture. possibly Ambition's godmetal. of the shards that I can think of offhand just now, it seems the most likely.
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    somehow missed that The Lost Metal was out for a full week, so just picked that up and started in on it yesterday evening
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    I'll second this. I don't think we have any reason to believe that Trell is involved at all. it isn't impossible, WOBs are only canon until they are contradicted, and maybe Brandon will decide he likes the idea that Trell has invested somewhat into Scadrial. but until we see otherwise, it is pretty safe to assume it comes just from the interaction of Ruin and Preservation and Scadrial itself.
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    pretty sure that one was suggested to me by one f my friends, but I haven't been in the right mood to try to pick it up
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    but it clearly wasn't purely incoherent, which is the impression I got from Dalinar's experience with his blade. that "I didn't kill you" response suggests that he heard actual words.
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    591-A: for a given value of "true" in a lot of cases the legend has been HEAVILY distorted by time.
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    which trilogy would that be? I get 2 results when I google it; and of course the Malazan Book of the Fallen series is 10 books not a trilogy but is also where my mind goes first on any reference to Malazan
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    Finally picked up a Switch, but I need to ration myself on games - $60 per game is a bit steep so I can't get a bunch at once. Starting things off light with Kirby and the Forgotten Land, which is pretty fun so far. planning to probably pick up Pokemon Scarlet in the next couple weeks (I read somewhere there is supposed to be a sale the week of Thanksgiving, so will probably wait until then). and BOTW2 when it comes out, for sure. beyond that, I'm not sure what all else I need to grab.
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    I think that was just relative to the feeling of flaring tin beyond the normal limits. Our main POV for it was Spook, who was pretty much flaring tin constantly at that point. I suspect that compared to that, baseline human senses would seem like nothing
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    i'd think yes, you'd keep the physical side effects of savantism, though possibly your body would eventually "heal" back to normal given enough time without allomancy.
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