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I wonder what gender, if any, MeLaan identifies as...

It seems likely that the price of slaves would increase very, very fast as they become rarer and rarer, though. It depends on the total population of slaves VS the population used in the Shattered Plains. But it does seem like Sadeas' bridge runs might be a slave holocaust in the long term...

I like that Hoid can't hurt people. Sanderson's 2nd law of magic- limitations are more important than powers.

Welcome, I love Kiki's Delivery Service.

Elantris spoilers edit: Also... Soothing might technically just cure Kaladin's depression.

It could be plated. Vin's earring was, for that matter, wasn't it?

I wonder... if that earring VenDell tried to give Wax was made of Trellium, would Wax be able to tell by just looking at it?

I've been intrigued for some time by the relationship between Electrum and Atium. I'm very interested by the possibility that God metals each have the molecular structure of an existing base metal rather than a new molecular structure. So, I'm bumping this thread with a fact that supports your theory, if you haven't made the connection yet: there are 16 base metals, coincidentally also the number of Shards of Adonalsium.

This thread made me think a lot about cosmere healing. I was pondering on how damaging the spiritual ideal would make you able to soul-heal yourself into something you are not, which seems really hacky. (Although I don't deny the hackability of cosmere magic is great about it.) On the 17th shard IRC channel, Moggle pointed out that it is essentially what hemalurgy is- you wound your soul and heal it with something different from the frame of reference. This raises some questions though. If it is true that there is a wounding of the soul involved in getting spiked, then how do people seem to heal from it when the spike is removed? This aside, now using healing magic to morph a soul into whatever you want doesn't seem that implausible. I wonder how all of this healing stuff, forging and the metallic arts interact. Specifically gold/malatium allomancy, aluminum, nicrosil and duralumin feruchemy. Gold and malatium allomancy would give useful insights into soul forgery. I would have said that tapping previously-stored connection, identity or investiture might help you gold/stormlight-heal soul wounds if gold and stormlight couldn't already do it out of the box. But they might affect endeavours to heal something into what it isn't. I was proposing that (based on our shaky understanding of identity) storing identity/connection could make soul forgery easier. On IRC Moggle pointed out that based on the same understanding, storing identity might make it, counter-intuitively, harder to forge your soul: a soulstamp of Ashravan's soul only "takes" for Gaotona because Gaotona's s soul "knows" Ashravan's.

Most likely, Preservation made it so that as many Atium mistings would be born as Cadmium mistings, messing with their spiritweb at birth. ...which still raises some questions...

Child mortality was sky high, much like that of our world pre-modernisation. (in 18th century Sweden every third child died, and in 19th century Germany every second child died.) Of course, fertility was also proportionally very high to compensate. Mitchbade is probably right, as well. The nobles would have had much to lose in disallowing arrangements for the town infants to be cared for.

He didn't need to make anyone twinborn, only to give them un-keyed nicrosilminds with a few minutes' worth of full feruchemy and allomancy in them, usable by anyone. Let them acquire the further nicrosil necessary and compound the powers stored in the original gift. Most of us have assumed that Bandon meant allomantically-powered machines by this WoB but when you reread it, it is possible we've all been misled by the asker's reaction ("ferugolems?") and Brandon's non-denial to it. "Harnessing the metallurgic arts in a more mechanical method" could have meant make machines produce allomantic effects, or it could have meant all along to acquire the metallic arts, as a human, in a way that isn't genetics-based but more "mechanical" or "technological". The two words seem misleading but what adjective would you have Brandon use to underline that un-keyed nicrosilminds allow you to practice metallic arts without the appropriate genetic code?

If Aons can only draw power from the Cognitive realm, they would fail to draw Stormlight (Spiritual-based?); but maybe spren themselves might be able to fuel Aons...???

I just wanted to add that Leslie swears using the God Beyond's name, which adds to the theory.

So, I just realised, Bleeder was probably not burning steelminds but simply just tapping speed with feruchemy. If she was burning steelminds, she could have used steelpushes and steelspeed with the same spike. Which she didn't. Maybe it was because she could not burn the steelminds in the first place, perhaps she didn't think to try, or it's possible the lack of control made it just not worth it.

Theoretically, what would happen if you burned Atium, Gold, and Duralumin at the same time?

I'm a little tired to write interpretations of these quotes but I think you will find them useful for theorising about the source of Feruchemy.

Welcome! Now onto The Stormlight Archive you go!

For what it's worth: And Oathbringer is Dalinar's shardblade, the one he gave Sadeas. Though why his youth's shardblade is of great significance, we can still speculate yes.

There are forests in the Unclaimed Hills near Kholinar, apparently.

What a very comprehensive, useful and accurate resource! I had forgotten that Helaran "sought out the Skybreakers"...

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He might have used Awakening to create an Honorblade-like object. Or maybe Awakening can be used to rewrite your sDNA the same way you ca use it to rewrite your own memories.

There are many hints that surgebinders do cause Desolations. The Recreance, the coded epigraph from the diagram, Nale and minor hints, they suggest the Radiants are good for Odium, one way or another. Some people want to contain Odium (17th Shard, Nale, Taravangian), preventing him from causing more Desolations, while others want to fight him (Hoid giving a hand to surgebinders around Roshar) at the risk of setting him free so that they can defeat him completely. (Maybe to fix Roshar's afterlife)