The Sovereign

My god-son was born today. He's a little fatty... 9lb 2oz

Too easy

I suspect based based on the following quotes from the Letters that he is a shardholder now and that is why he doesn't world hop. Maybe I'll ask Brandon if Frost every has world hopped at the Shadows of Self tour's stop in Boston.

This still isn't as scary as the fact he was in an Indiana Jones movie... that will haunt my dreams forever... The true face of terror:

This one is spectacular, who would have guessed that owls do such a good job at giving "I do not approve of your shenanigans" looks.

And now, this:

This is true, however we know that Demoux is a member of the 17th shard an organization that did not begin on Scadrial. I suspect that his means of Worldhopping are not native to Scadrial. I would guess he was recruited into the 17th shard and brought off planet by another Worldhopper and he used that worldhopper's method.

That is actually is a very Brandon thing to do. However, personally I think we will see that Scadrian worldhopping is more on the technology side than the Realmic side. I suspect the basis of their worldhopping will be spaceships using a combination of Steel/Iron Pushes/Pulls along with Nicrosil (or Duralumin in the case of a Mistborn) boosts to propel their engines.

There is a WoB that says Atium is not used for Scadrian worldhopping. Relevant WoB:

A couple of things regarding this question. Per WoB we know that Frost is from Yolen, we also know that he is NOT a worldhopper. As of the Stormlight Archive he is alive and therefore Yolen is still around. Relevant WoB:

Weeping Angel?

Motivation for the day ahead:

I've been contemplating doing "Shadows of Silence in the Forests of Meme" for the same reason... (I mean... no, never, I would only do that to grow the community and what not... )

Did we officially know that Frost had not world-hopped prior to this answer?

I'll just leave this here...

Memebreaker has been talked about quite a bit but I don't think anyone has actually gone about doing it [an actual tragedy... so much potential]. So... have at it?

That is an extremely reasonable criticism of RotJ, however, I would argue that the Luke/Vader/Palpatine scenes in that movie are among the best scenes in the entire franchise and for me they were enough to propel it over A New Hope (not Empire though, that movie is in my opinion perfect). With that said, A New Hope is excellent.

Truer words have never been spoken (typed?) I'd make a small amendment to the order though 1. Empire Strikes Back 2. Return of the Jedi 3. A New Hope With that said, RotJ and ANH are basically interchangeable for 2/3, both are excellent but Empire is better because of the darkness. The (arguably) greatest rant in movie history:

What does it say about me when I am finding the other Sharders' analysis of the nature of memes funnier than half of the memes in this thread?

Honestly, I had misread a part of your post before. To answer your previous question, No, we do not know that Atium has to be used to Steal Feruchemical Atium. We simply know that it CAN be used to do so, per WoB stating that an Atium spike can be used to steal any attribute. My apologies for the confusion.

Oudeis, as you mention, we have seen Atium Hemalurgy before, Marsh took his Atium spikes from dead Inquisitors (that Vin killed). WoB of Relevance: Edit: Huh, I got a downvote for a WoB... I am killing it today!

My favorite xkcd comic of all time:

This may be relevant to your interests: Way too much truth...

Oudeis, these are two excellent observations here. I agree with you on both points. From a logistical standpoint this makes a lot of sense, Brandon's magic systems for the most part work logically and these follow suit with what we know about both Preservation and Ruin. I suspect that a Lerasium spike would retain it's charge as you mentioned. I do not think that it would be that it is limited in what it would give, but rather, it would depend on which bindpoint was used (Spike placement). Also, I completely agree that it probably requires an Atium spike to steal off world magics.