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Harmony has stated explicitly that he brought Wax back from the Roughs to act as his (i.e. Harmony's) tool. And in two out of the three novels (AoL and BoM), Wax works directly against the Set. If Harmony is trying to use the Set, he's got an odd way of going about it.

In order to remove allomancy from the population, you'd have to remove both men and women. That's not what's happening. As for other means - there are drawbacks with those other means. If you're referring to Hemalurgy, then apparently the members of the Set can only safely spike themselves a few times. A mistborn, with access to all of the metals, would be much more powerful. Finally, the focus of the next trilogy is supposed to be a mistborn serial killer. That sounds like the sort of thing that might be produced by lots of allomanticly-focused inbreeding, suggesting that the Set might be accidentally responsible.

In one episode of Darkwing Duck, a superhero - who bore a suspicious resemblance to Darkwing's adopted daughter Gosalyn - died after falling into a vat of her weakness - Kookie Kola. On a slightly more serious note, I suspect that Tia's had plans for quite a while about what to do if Prof turned. Prof might have even forced her to make those plans without telling him the details. And since Tia tends to monitor Prof when he's in the field, she probably knew the instant he turned, and immediately went to ground.

The Set's focus on women suggests that the goal is to use the targets for breeding. If the goal was merely hemalurgy, then males would be just as valid of a target as females. But if your goal is breeding, then women work better than men. A woman can be imprisoned, raped, and then left in confinement during her pregnancy. A man can be raped by a woman, but the rapist is the one who gets pregnant. You can't depend on the pregnancy to make it easier to keep the man imprisoned (unlike a woman, where pregnancy is a huge physical burden). And the now-pregnant female rapist is "out of action", so to speak, for the duration of her pregnancy (and likely the first year or two after the birth of the child). The focus on the upper classes is likely because the various houses were founded by powerful allomancers. Steris is a target in AoL even though she has no known abilities herself. They want her because of her ancestors. Of course, it's possible that some of the kidnapping victims are being used to make spikes. If a woman is forced to have a few children, and the results are unsatisfactory, then the Set might find another use for her. And children who show evidence of powers, but not in a way that the Set finds satisfactory, might end up serving in the same capacity. My guess is that Wax won't completely shut down the breeding program. And eventually the program will achieve its goal of producing a mistborn... who will be the serial killer in the next trilogy (assuming that the next trilogy is still intended to be about a mistborn serial killer).

Interestingly, he's also openly criticized Wax within the pages of one of his broadsheet stories as a reckless gun-toting killer.

Check the quote again. Steris indicates that it has "lemon flavoring". I'm going with Sarge's theory up above that it's an early form of 7-Up.

I could see Wayne deciding to live forever, and figuring out how to do it. Given his new girlfriend, he'd be guaranteed to have company along the way (assuming they stayed together).

While he doesn't confirm it, he does seem to indicate that it's a definite possibility.

While I don't think it's explicitly stated, I don't think so. It sounded as if Nightblood was the test piece to see whether it could be done. If they had given another tool sentience, then I suspect that the problem with creating an intelligent sword to "kill evil" would have quickly become apparent. It's also worth noting that they might not necessarily be looking for another Nightblood. Since we don't know how all of the investiture systems work, it's possible that an as yet unrevealed system can provide (possibly simulated) sentience to inanimate objects, and K&N are investigating to see if something similar is possible on Scadrial.

It's a subtle distinction, but what Wax actually says is (paraphrasing) "We don't need to have sex too much anyway." He just assumes that Steris is only interested in sex because of the wifely duty to provide an offspring. It provides an insight into Wax because it shows that he's still at least partially operating under the assumption that there isn't much real affection toward him on her part, and that she's primarily in it because she doesn't want to end up an old maid. Fortunately, by the end of the book he knows differently.

I suspect that he'll be *very* interested in the coppermind that Hoid gave Wax, assuming he finds out about it.

There would need to be two blades. In a typical helicopter, the primary blade provides propulsion and lift, while the smaller blade at the rear makes sure that the body of the chopper doesn't provide the "equal and opposite reaction" to the main blade by spinning in the opposite direction. Actually, BoM sort of had one of these. The shotgun that Ranette provides Wax in BoM has an increased kick (as Steris belatedly discovers). The idea behind it is that Wax will use his allomantic power to push against the shotgun and cancel the much heavier kick, allowing him to stay on his feet when he fires it.

There were other survivors from the Pits. Kelsier tells the man in question (Walin) that he killed most of the guards, and Walin should gather as many of the other prisoners as he can and leave. As for where Kelsier got his current body, the only thing I'm convinced of is that it's not a Kandra body. While Kandra need spikes, they don't typically need to have one of them placed through an eye. I suspect that the eye spike is important, though I can't yet guess why. I also suspect that when Spook retired as ruler of The Basin, he left with Kelsier. I don't think they're sharing bodies, though, as I can't think of any good reason why Spook would agree to do that.

I have a vague recollection of a WoB stating that Atium would be coming back. Unfortunately, I can't remember where or when that WoB might have been made. If my recollection is correct, then it's worth noting that when Kelsier destroyed the Pits of Hathsin, it was stated that his actions basically meant no more Atium for a few centuries. And the current books take place a few centuries after the Pits were destroyed.

Between BoM and AoL, it's made clear that she's been a bit damaged by her interactions with other people. In AoL we learned that her father had not been faithful to her mother, and this screwed her up somewhat (which is why she inserted the provision about a mistress in the marriage contract). BoM has her bringing up that she has difficulty relating to other people, and that her lists are her way of coping. When Lady Xxxxxx approaches Steris at a party and asks her about a particular topic, Steris doesn't need to spend time thinking about how not to put her foot in her mouth when she responds, because she's already mapped out the response ahead of time. And since this method apparently worked (more or less) for social situations, Steris expanded it out to the rest of her life. It's never explicitly stated, but there are hints in SoS and BoM that one of the reasons why she enjoys spending time with Wax at parties is that Wax can (because of his noble standing and his reputation as a "Roughs lawman") more or less get away with tweaking the upper crust of society. That's spontaneity that she could never engage in as merely the daughter of her father.

Taking down the mistborn serial killer still seems like a possibility. She could maintain a website (or the Scadrial equivalent) that starts tracking information regarding the bizarre string of killings, and realizes that the government is attempting to cover up the fact that there's now a deranged super-powered murderer on the loose.

Atium does seem to be the most likely option. I was rereading Mistborn last night, and after Kelsior destroys the Pits, there's a comment that he'd cut off the supply of new Atium for a few centuries. And it has now been a few centuries since Kelsior destroyed the pits. If Atium is going to reappear, you would expect it to happen at about this time - give or take a few decades. Lerasium seems unlikely because no one was ever really aware of it. And unless the series is about to have a lot more mistborns show up, it'll remain unknown. Sazedsium might be a possibility (a godmetal based off of Harmony is the topic of one of the newspaper articles shown in BoM, which might be Sanderson's way of introducing it), but you have to have something before you can lose it. And no one's had Sazedsium to date, so it can't be a "lost" metal.

Still waiting for it to show up on B&N's site. Bleh

It's Calamity. On a more serious note... Real world police badges are made of metal, and serve as a credential. It sounds as if the police in The Basin do something similar. Steris officially joins the team in this book. There have been hints since Alloy of Law that she wasn't just the severe bland woman that she initially appeared to be. And she gets her big coming out party in this book. I was expecting the Southerners to make an appearance either in this book, or the next. I didn't expect them to be as far along technologically as they appear to be in this book. The Basin is excited about the introduction of motor cars. The South has full-blown passenger "skimmers". "Lord" Hoid provided an interesting item in this book. I'm curious where he got it from. Is it confirmed that Trell is connected to an investiture? The red eyes at the end made me think of the Parshmen and Parshendi. Is it possible that there's another group of Parsh-types that exist in the Cosmere separate from the ones we see in the WoK books? If so, then Trell might have never been human.

The original expedition - i.e. the Hunter expedition that was supposed to be an attempt to destroy the temple - was launched quite a while earlier. I don't think it's stated exactly how much earlier, but I wouldn't be surprised if at least a decade has passed since.

I'm not going to disagree about the meaning of the word. But soldiers in a pre-gunpowder army would have seen ten percent losses as quite serious. Keep in mind that in most battles, the majority of the killing didn't occur when the front lines were clashing. The two lines would clash and hammer each other until enough men in one of the lines decided that they were going to lose. Panic would then set in, and that line would collapse as everyone on that side attempted to flee. The victorious side would then attempt to run down the fleeing troops, and that's when the majority of the losses were frequently incurred. On another note, this isn't the first time that we've seen Dalinar acting in such a brutally pragmatic fashion. His actions here remind me of his actions during his confrontation with Elhokar.

Mraize tells Shallan that her brother sought out the Skybreakers.

Self-defense if you reincarnate? Sure. Absolutely. If someone's attempting to break my arm (while promising immediate medical attention afterwards to keep it from becoming life-threatening), I don't think anyone's going to complain if I try and shoot that person first. Fatal injuries don't stick on Megan. But they do tend to be extremely painful events. In this particular instance, there would have been both the gunshot wound (because having a hole blown into and possibly through you is such a pleasant experience), and the trauma that she's mentioned she experiences when she wakes up the next morning. Having said that, I think something else was going on that we're not aware of yet. Megan kept the motivator, and Regalia just happened to be watching. I don't think it was an accident that Megan and Sam ran into each other.

The only possible clue we have to what Oliteration is dreaming about is the comment he makes at the end. To paraphrase (since I don't have my book handy), the Lord calls, and he answers.

Regalia likely wouldn't have triggered the bomb until Prof was close to it. The whole point was to allow Prof to get close enough to it that his force fields would actually work to block it. If he was a ways away from it, then he wouldn't be able to do more than protect himself. He probably would have used less of his powers than he did during the fight against Steelheart. So if David had managed to persuade Prof, then it's possible that the outcome we saw could have been avoided. As for Megan - Prof wasn't going to listen. I think he'd decided that Megan was corrupted, and any actions on her part that seemed to indicate otherwise were merely subterfuge on her part to try and seduce David (and Prof believed David to be too distracted by his hormones to notice anything that indicated otherwise). He's had to deal with the corruption, along with the temptation to use his powers, for a good chunk of his life. He knows how difficult it is to resist the corruption. And so far as he knows, he's the only Epic that's managed to do so (Conflux is a bit of an unusual case, as he's managed to completely avoid using his powers by giving them away). Not only that, but he's had experience with other epics that have tried to resist the corruption, and failed miserably (one of them is why they're in the city, in fact...). Even Megan herself indicates that she's only managed to avoid using her powers for a few days prior to her second meeting with David. The problem is that the power - like a certain infamous One Ring - apparently *wants* to be used. Absent any motivation otherwise, an epic will eventually use their power "just because". Megan has a motivation; she wants to avoid the sociopathy that the powers bring. But she still finds it difficult to avoid using them. Given that, it's not really a surprise that Prof finds it difficult to believe that Megan is stringing David along.