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I don't remember what you are talking about, but if Kelsier made the temple maybe it's a writing from a planet he worldhopped to.

I think it is because you aren't meant to notice the Kelsier foreshadowing until the final reveal. You're meant to assume for the entire book that the Sovereign is TLR, and when the reveal comes only then do you realise there were big hints.

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r4u4t0SH_O-uEkaMwE9Iqjbrzem2e9xXRjFLvGWd7HI/edit) We also found out that Roshar was based on a 2D shadow of a 3D slice of a 4D Julia set. Brandon has commented on this saying it was meant to show that the planet was indeed designed (presumably by Adonalsium) rather than being naturally occurring.

The way I see the development of technology in the South is: - The Excisors are stated to be gifts from the Sovereign. Allik states that with a Metalborn and an Excisor you can create a medallion. I suppose for now this involves storing their Metalborn ability into a special nicrosilmind everyone can store into. - Their attempt to store several Metalborn abilities into one Excisor for simultaneous use repeatedly fail. Problem of incompatible Identities, since Allik say it would work easily if a single person with alll the powers stored their powers into the Excisor rather than pass it to different people which is what gives them trouble. - They discover the trick of storing Identity to create unkeyed metalminds. This allows them to create metalminds that can be shared among ferrings of the metalmind's metal. However, this does not allow them to create Excisors, which they can't reproduce. But with the Identity discovery, they can now have Metalborn tap an Excisor stored with Trueself powers, and then store their Metalborn power into a second Excisor. A second Metalborn does the same thing into the same Excisor and, for the first time, the Southerners created a medallion that grants two powers! However, they cannot store enough Identity to create Excisors or three-power medallions (which are said to be rare. Maybe creating those involve one Twinborn and one regular Metalborn...??? This idea raises some problems though...).

I'm not convinced that there's evidence for Honor having a hand in Sel's Splinterings, but I like the idea that Honor and Odium were buddies. It really does provide an explanation for Honor's "I should have known Odium would come for me" and the "three of sixteen" quote.

Maybe he worldhopped from the hypothetical Southern Scadrian pool to the Northern Scadrial pool.

Emotional allomancy!

So Bands and SH have revealed to us how translation magic is used with the attribute Connection. Now, we can assume we know how Hoid, despite living everything through a magic translator, has an understanding of linguistics sufficient to make puns or question the etymology of axehound. With how much Connection the Southerners tape they still have an accent though... while Hoid and "Taln" do not. Would it be theoretically possible for a southerner to tap at a faster rate, fast enough to remove their accent? Or maybe one would have to store a slightly different kind of Connection in the metalmind, one that would take care of the accent problem... Anyway, now we know that many of our worldhoppers have access to some magic system letting them not only be immortal but also change their Connection.

WoR spoilers

Hello! In the past, Brandon has said that the Lord Ruler had taken a bead of Lerasium for himself. He has also said that the Lord Ruler, although confirmed to have taken one bead for himself, did not use it to grant himself allomancer powers. Another relevant WoB: So, I was expecting Bands to have new information on Lerasium, since Brandon's word suggests the Lord Ruler might have used Lerasium feruchemically or hemalurgically. (And, you know, since we know that it's possible to make a metalmind that can store any attribute, maybe you can store anything in Lerasium, and just like anyone can burn it, anyone can tap it later. Wild theories...) I wonder when we are going to learn more about the properties of Lerasium. Especially since we still do not know what happened to the real Lord Ruler's bracers in the first place, which seem likely to have contained lerasium. (On the other hand, we have been given no indication that "Kelsier's" bands of mourning contain Lerasium.)

Honestly, I would like it more if this belief was just a poetic/pretty belief system with no basis in in-universe magic. It seems to address questions greater than the cosmere and the shards and I feel that it is more efficient as a piece of worldbuilding with no Chekhov's gun involved. You are the universe experiencing itself. Someone in the cosmere must have realised it, Adonalsium or no Adonalsium.

http://www.tor.com/2014/08/06/stormlight-archive-scene-after-words-of-radiance/ (WoR spoilers.)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/38550.Brandon_Sanderson/questions : Some relevant WoBs. It's a good point that Spook/Kelsier's experiments led them to a deep understanding of the Metallic Arts possibly allowing them to return Kelsier. Maybe the solution involvers kandra Blessings. Since mistwraiths are people with a blockage between the Physical and Cognitive, which sounds a little similar to Kelsier's predicament.

This is what is suggested by Kelsier destroying the geodes ruining the pits, but we have WoB that there were also pools under/in the pits.

https://twitter.com/audible_com/status/694179719693082624 I think I'll try and choose one question to ask him...

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/33044-is-the-cosmere-a-universe-or-a-galaxy/#entry287697 (You can get the source by clicking on the little arrow to the right of my quote. TYL.)

Oh, you meant Shadows of SELF, I thought you meant Shadows for Silence.

Me too, but Sazed doesn't.

Hoid has importance within the Worldsingers and is hypothesised to have had a hand in their creation, as well as that of the Worldbringers.

Where does it say so?

Regarding distance.

Here is another relevant WoB:

Kelsier just found out about the cosmere and Hoid, and you're asking him to move on? MAAATE, I'm 100% with Kel on this one.

Since Scadrial wasn't all burned at the time of Trelagism I suspect Nelazan was somewhere where The Final Empire was.