Alisto

I’ve always assumed Valor is the hiding shard, as “Discretion is the better part of valor.”

I think the randomness is being overemphasized. I think Whimsey is more likely joy or happiness distilled, much like Odium is essentially hatred.

When Dalinar touched Nale, he saw the 8 lines of Connection leading off, but one was still bright. Would that have been to Taln?

What effect does old age have on the Spiritual and Cognitive selves? Is there degradation? As an application, if you have an Allomancer/Feruchemist who is about to die of old age, does spiking them to take their powers have the same effect as spiking someone in their prime?

If Wayne were to impersonate Hoid, how would he describe his accent/thoughts? At the time of SoS, is Harmony in communication with any other Shards? Can he or would he reach out to other Shards for help or information? Who is the first character we have met, aside from Hoid and the Shards (Ati, Leras, etc.), who is not on their planet of origin? (Since this is probably a RAFO, alternate would be, "What is the earliest book in which we meet...") Of the characters that we have met, who would Hoid least like to run into? What does Marsh do in his downtime? Surely a man gets bored after a couple hundred years.

A few questions: Do we know what peoples were created by their Shards vs pre-existing? Do we know if the Dor predates the Splintering of Devotion and Dominion? What is the best understanding we have of a timeline for the Cosmere stories? Not just order, but actual time. I'm a little confused about the koloss. Harmony made them so they can breed on their own, but they still seem pretty bestial. I would presume that a human would not mate willingly with a koloss, but we have "koloss-blooded" people. Am I missing something here or is it as bad as it sounds? If bind points are so important to Hemalurgy, then if Wax's earring provided an ability, wouldn't it need to be the same as Vin's?

If I remember correctly, there was a WoB that said you could rip off a piece of someone's soul via Hemalurgy without killing them, but doing so would do unpleasant things. Any consideration that the "chimeras" are, at least partially, byproducts of this?

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