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The metal that falls from the sky that is like silver but lighter and can block shardblade, that's aluminum, right?

Slightly off topic, but I've been having this weird glitch where if I touch too far on the edge of the screen, it kicks me back to the table of contents. It doesn't seem to happen with other books. Has anyone else had problems like this? I'm using the Kindle App on my Android phone.

I think Goomblast's point is that his boon was to never be king. Now that it has failed, he's been refunded his "curse" (loss of memory of his wife). To expound, maybe the Nightwatcher can't actually control politics, but she can change his personality to make him less ambitious, power hungry etc, which explains his personality shift. It wasn't enough, with changed circumstances, to keep him from becoming King, so his "curse" is dissipating too.

I can say with confidence that whatever Dalinar's boon/cost was, it wasn't only forgetting his wife, simply since we wouldn't have Dalinar making that assumption if it were true. If I had to guess, it has something to do with the drastic difference we see between OG Dalinar and present-day Dalinar.

Seems like Kaladin would be reluctant to give it to anyone to use, given Syl's opinions on how dangerous it is.

“The enemy’s champion,” Dalinar said, eyes narrowing. “In the visions, Honor told me our best chance of survival involved forcing Odium to accept a contest of champions. I’ve seen the enemy’s champion—a creature in black armor, with red eyes. A parshman perhaps. It had nine shadows.” Nearby, Renarin had turned toward his father, eyes wide, jaw dropping. Nobody else seemed to notice." Any thoughts on this? I'm assuming that because Dalinar jumped to the conclusion that it was a Parshman, that it won't be a parshman. Significance of the nine shadows? One of the heralds, with the the nine shadows being the other nine? Why did Renarin gasp? something he saw in a vision, I assume?

Did they say that the Sovereign brought followers? It looked like he was alone in the flashback.

Maybe, but Allik said that they didn't have metalborn before the sovereign, not that they didn't know of their abilities. Could be same difference, I guess.

I think that BS said that kids had to do with his plot to abandon his job so they sound like they were post ascension.

They apparently have actual Feruchemists now but did not before the sovereign. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52754-metalborn-demographics-bom-spoilers/

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Where is this from? Are there new interviews up?

Wayne was reading another book (about bunnies) that was pretty clearly a reference to Watership Down. Maybe this is a reference to Blake's Seven? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%27s_7#Plot_summary

I think that Preservation created the pits specifically to channel away Ati's power. See below. INTERVIEW: Oct 30th, 2012 Hal-Con Report - Lance Alvein (Paraphrased) LANCE ALVEINYou've said that "The Pits of Hathsin were crafted by Preservation as a place to hide the chunk of Ruin's body that he had stolen away." How does one Shard steal a portion of another Shard and create a Physical outlet for it, like the Pits were for Ruin's power? BRANDON SANDERSON (PARAPHRASED)It has to do with clash between the two shards power. When pressed, he then said that it was "kind of" like splintering TAGS pits of hathsin, ruin, preservation, splintering, shards, mistborn,

So Sanderson said this in a chat. This would seem to suggest that Atium is the lost metal referred to in the title. INTERVIEW: Sep, 2012 Cosmere Q&A - 17th Shard (Verbatim) DOUGLASIn Alloy of Law, evidence is uncovered that the bad guys are attempting to breed a Mistborn. The time span of the gap between this and the original Mistborn trilogy, perhaps with the interval I vaguely remember being stated for between Alloy and the next main trilogy added, is suspiciously close to 300 years. Does the organization Wax's father is part of know the location of the Pits of Hathsin, or otherwise have access to Atium, either now (as of Alloy) or in the time period of the planned second trilogy? BRANDON SANDERSONYou are on the right track TAGS alloy of law, atium, mistborn, pits of hathsin,

I think that they will need to find some way to water it down. Given that thugs, coinshots, lurchers, soothers, and rioters are not using their metals most of the time, it would seem like it would be very easy to make yourself incredibly powerful by spending half your time storing.

I don't know if I'd read that quote as saying Adonalosium was a shard like the others or that he had a bearer/vessel. Just because he was killed doesn't mean that he had some kind of human host separate from the power. He could have been an actual divine entity who was destroyed, leaving parts of his power to be taken up by humans.

Ruin is more of a general entropy/change force rather than violence. Thus Preservation's strangulation. Or maybe he just didn't know how? Or maybe as a "kind and generous man" he never had the same synchronicity with his shard I'm curious if ghost Ati had his old personality back or had been reshaped by being Ruin. I guess the former since he isn't enraged with Kelsier or anything.

So given that Kelsier had all of the Feruchemical abilities he may have just needed an eye socket as a binding point to fit in all of the abilities or it could have had some specific relation to how he managed to enter the physical realm. Since Kelsier presumably used the pile of inquisitor spikes from Kreldik Shaw that he mentioned to Spook I am not sure why there would have been spikes for aluminum feruchemy or some of the less combat oriented abilities (heat, food, connection). It doesn't seem like the kind of power you'd want to waste a Feruchemist on.

I think that Brandon has said that Hoid is constrained in his ability to hurt/kill others. From the interview database. INTERVIEW: Mar 24th, 2014 Fantasy Faction Interview: Brandon Sanderson Stormlight Interview (Verbatim) QUESTIONFinally, and most importantly, if all your protagonists had an epic all out brawl, who would win? BRANDON SANDERSON Some of them are immortal, but that would kind of be cheating. If you let people who are immortal participate, it's going to very much favor someone like Hoid, who is really, really, really hard to kill. Of course, he would not be very good at offing anyone either, because of certain things in his past. It would be really futile when it got down to the last two. But if we take that out. You'd have to set ground rules. Do they get access to their magic? Where is it taking place? If we take away all magic and we just say people are beating up on each other, who's going to win? It's probably Kelsier because he'll fight dirty. Vasher fights really dirty, too. If Kelsier and Vasher gang up on the rest, and then it depends who's still not in pieces at the end. It'd be Kelsier or Vasher probably. TAGS hoid, kelsier, vasher,

I always inferred that Odium was good at killing other shards because the nature of his shard lent itself better to killing/fighting. Much like how Leras as preservation couldn't attack anyone and needed a recently ascended Vin, who was made partially from Ruin to destroy Ruin.

I guess it depends on whether tapping investiture rewrites your spiritual DNA temporarily. Children of inquisitors inherit their parents capacity for allomancy.

In the real world or some sort of fantasy adventure? Do other people know you have powers? Sooting/rioting would probably be the most useful real world abilities, assuming no one knew that you had them.

Maybe, though, the alloys are so specific and exacting that it might be hard for Hoid to get it made on Roshar. Assuming he was soothing her, he'd need just the right percentages of copper and zinc to make allomantic brass. That being said, I had been under the impression that the metal glowed to Vin/Ruin/Sazed because it was a gateway to the power of Ruin/Preservation, to which they were attuned. Kelsier is a Scadrialian allomancer who is residing by virtue of linking himself to the Well, so he's probably similarly attuned.