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What are the next books that we can expect to be as cosmere-relevant as this one? The Lost Metal? Elantris 3? Mistborn Era 2? Stormlight back five?

Bumping this thread for OP bein' awesome.

What are the implications?

Here are some typos I spotted reading the American edition of the ebook. I hope this helps! Ch.19 p290 - "Melaan stopped at the simple door" - should be MeLaan. Ch.22 p342 - "something she'd only seen him do that once" - either "something" or "that" should be cut off from the phrase. ("That once" turns out to be a grammatically correct way of saying "that one time". I should have known...) Ch.23 p364 - "I cannot but think they have traps" - should be "I cannot help but" (Another more formal construction I should have known.) Ch.31 p448 - "Would you mind taking over here" - should be talking (He is indeed asking MeLaan to take over. My bad.)

Shai+Vasher... sounds like a darn good chemistry. Shai+Kelsier is less interesting... but both hate Hoid...

I originally theorised that the amount of corrupted Investiture cannot decrease in the cosmere, and though it might be true Brandon told me corrupted Investiture is not entropy in the Investiture laws of thermodynamic. I do suspect the Investiture Nightblood turns black does not just simply return to its Shard of origin as with most Investiture usages- because of this WoB: So maybe the Investiture returns to the Shard but its Intent gets soiled/corrupted? Or maybe it is locked for a while until it becomes clean again (with a Spiritual mechanic similar to what forced Atium to take hundreds of years to regrow, perhaps). Or maybe corrupted Investiture is just an aesthetic thing and has no further ramifications (although the WoB above suggests otherwise).

I will just say this. The Liar of Partinel sample chapters are not canon but might help you find an answer to your question. I recommend checking them out.

WHAT! I never knew this part changed! All this time I thought it was just the way Szeth died! That's huge!

I wonder if aluminum and the weapon are related. Just looking for reasons why aluminum is sort of arbitrarily weird in the cosmere.

Covering a spike in blood averts hemalurgic decay. A spike has to go through a person's heart to become charged. And you can soulcast different blood types. Is it your blood if it isn't the same blood type?

Putting the aside the question of just how much Investiture 1000 Breath is (compared to a Blade), Awakening steel and stone requires the Awakener to have reached the Ninth Awakening which is approximately 20,000 Breath. There is probably something significant there.

I still think that the earring Marasi is looking at is Trellium plated with whatever.

It's a Wayne PoV and Wax (incorrectly) calls VenDell a "metalborn" to which the latter reacts strongly. Wax then says VenDell would be useful since he is practically unkillable and can shapeshift, leaving VenDell and the reader to assume Wax uses metalborn incorrectly... or that he tested a theory by casually calling VenDell a metalborn and VenDell's reaction confirmed it.

Yes I theorised that and I think it is true. It's heavily implied the kandra are trell-spiked and that Wax is suspecting it so it looks to me like narratively Wax dodged a bullet here by refusing the earring. It could be plated with a different metal, just like Vin's earring in trilogy 1 was.

Improper symmetry? Hmm... Does this remind anyone else of the surge glyphs on the "voidbinding" chart? I might be looking too much into that...

Since I can somewhat afford it (although I have stuck to ebooks so far- I just love e-reading so much. I'd be definitely interested in the whole Stormlight Archive all leatherbound and personalised, though.) I don't mind it. It's an elegant solution to reduce the amount of work it is taking him- raise the price, of course, but instead of getting the extra money it is donated to charity. The only thing that concerns me is that Brandon is obviously growing in popularity and his sheer accessibility, one of the things we all love about Brandon, might not be a privilege we will enjoy forever.

This thread made me think... Spren are not simply attracted to specific forces or behaviours. Spren are also sometimes, in some vague way, created from people's cognitive perception and belief of them. Remember the annotation: "Spook was the only one in the crew he could speak to. That’s because Spook truly has faith in Kelsier as a deity" So it might be possible that a condition for spren to travel to other planets is people's belief in them, which would tie in with Trellism...

This WoB makes me strongly believe the unknown metal is something native to Scadrial and not connected with any other Shard. Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/111riGqQLl2oRcdlVmnKX3tBaAlFR46Ps_ebZeftXxrY ... the answer could be interpreted several ways. "Being" on Scadrial can by some definitions have very high requirements (and the questioner might even have one of those definitions in mind when asking). Does it count as "being on Scadrial" if you send a worldhopper on your behalf, maybe with a couple of items that have your Investiture? Does sending a splinter to Scadrial count as being on it? So if Brandon meant it that way, then yeah it's possible that Trell/the unknown metal is something of a new Shard. However, this other WoB makes me believe the one I posted above does mean the unknown metal is not from another Shard: Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r4u4t0SH_O-uEkaMwE9Iqjbrzem2e9xXRjFLvGWd7HI The fact that Hoid is eavesdropping? More significant than Bavadin or Rayse messing about on Scadrial, something which, thinking of it, might be worth a dozen more eavesdropping worldhoppers? Must be a problem largely internal to Scadrial. So I think we assume it's sent by another Shard but it's actually internal and because we are expecting something else and have no idea what the heck the internal enemy could be (except Kelsier...) the answer will be earth-shattering. The only things that are making me doubt this opinion are: - it's suggested by both the kandra and our understanding of allomancy and the cosmere that this should be from another Shard. So either the kandra are wrong or lying or our understanding of what we assumed to know is about to change and drastically. - a veeery little clue that there might be a cosmeric connection in one of the unpublished novels. There's a good possibility, in my mind, that the most part of the explanation will be Scadrial-centric, but there would still be minor unanswered questions or unexplored leads just like in the Hero of Ages epigraphs. Maybe something like- I have delved and searched, and have only been able to come up with a single name: AdonalsiumOdium. Who, or what, it was, I do not yet know. That said, I really like the concept of Shards Progress and Tradition. I feel like if they didn't sound too much like a moral reverse of Ruin and Preservation it could be a really good Shard pair in the cosmere.

You know how people make a hoop with their thumb and index finger on one hand and thrust their other hand's index finger inside the hoop? Yeah, that's how I'd imagine MeLaan explaining it. Except, instead of hands...

As for Hoid's feruchemy... I'm partial to feruchemical luck + darts + cosmere maps.

That would be really cool. Or maybe he is giving his Shard(s) to another Shard. Or maybe he is giving out something else entirely and we don't have the clues to know what, haha.

On the contrary, I think that the kandra's fluid gender will take more importance than their human past lives. Mostly due to this recent WoB. ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r4u4t0SH_O-uEkaMwE9Iqjbrzem2e9xXRjFLvGWd7HI/edit )

From the Elantris 10th anniversary edition Ars Arcanum:

This is an existing theory but it has not been confirmed, and the WoB below kind of falsifies it. Maybe her hemalurgically-enhanced Bronze picked up on Hoid's use of Investiture but the beats were both very mild and alien to her. Maybe she noticed his perfect pitch?