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This conservation of momentum contradicts a few examples from other books, where momentum is not conserved

In WOA Sazed closes a gate by leaping towards it and increasing his mass mid-jump

In AOL Wax knocks down a door by jumping towards it and increasing his mass

In the AOL building destruction scene Wax launches himself into the air and significantly increases his mass but suffers no loss in speed.

A lot of people have attributed Wax's Steel bubble to his Twinborn effect.

I think this is likely, but not complete.

I think Wax has an enhanced degree of spatial awareness.  Crashers are the ultimate Coinshots, so it makes sense that this combination of powers would contribute to that.

 

 

FWIW, the Alloy of Law edition of the mistborn RPG treats the bubble as a example of a "stunt" or specialized skill for coinshots that they can develop with enough experience. Sanderson was heavily involved in the RPG and it has a lot of background information not in the books, but I don't know if we can treat everything in there as canonical.

Right-he might have just thought it sounded cool.

I doubt that I'd have understood what "Alloy of Law" meant if not for Miles explaining it during his villain monologue.

Right, I had assumed it had to do with the main antagonist and her struggle to have her own distinctive identity and how she had been living in these kind of "shadow" variations of herself.

Except no one knew where she was. And Marsh can't find out because he's a terrifying monster who is also a mythological representation of death. He can't investigate because people will run away from him screaming.

They are musical groups that perform before noon.

I don't think the comment about the letter qualifies as big enough of a deal to cause Paalm to snap. 

 

Marsh not working for Harmony... With the number of spikes in Marsh's body, I find it hard to believe. I think Harmony's disagreement(s) with Marsh are just that. As to why he allowed Marash to give Spook's notebook to Marasi... respect would be my guess. Or trust. Trusting that Marsh knows what he is doing. 

I guess that it depends on what you mean by "working for." I think that Harmony's non-intervention principles keep him from taking over Marsh or unduly influencing him. 

Marsh says

""Harmony has particular views about how things must be done. I do not always agree with him. Oddly, his particular beliefs require that he allow that."

This sounds like they generally have common goals and purposes and are in communication but Marsh isn't necessarily doing stuff for Harmony.  Also, given Marsh's...conspicuousness, it's not really clear to me what Marsh would be doing for Harmony that he wouldn't be better off having a Kandra do.

I am not convinced necessarily that a shard is consciously involved.

It's plausible that some chaos-sowing world-hopper has found a way to use another god's investiture without their active participation. Much like Elend and the Seers could use Atium, even in opposition to Ruin.

I don't think that he took over her. Wax asks TenSoon if Harmony controlled her and he says, no, but he pressured her a lot and that caused her to snap.

I think that Harmony also tells Wax that he can/will only take over Bleeder now because she has violated her contract by killing.

Vin's describes her earring thusly. 

"it's just a small stud and the pin on the back bends down."

I have to think that there's something more going on than Wayne being good at imitation. In pretty much all of BS's books whenever someone has a strange psychological quirk or an unusual ability (Vin's obsession with the Well, Kaladin's response to shardblades, Shallan's skill at drawing)  there's something larger going on. Wayne's inability to touch a gun or bullet has something to do with this too.

Bleeder mentions that Wayne has to be killed because he belongs to Harmony. Something to do with this?

I would expect increased muscle strength to allow you to move faster. I don't see anything "speedy" about what Allomantic pewter does.

Allomantic Pewter increases speed. It's in the AA and appears a bunch of times in fight scenes.

It's possible to do this with Allomantic pewter/Feruchemical gold by WoB. I don't know if Allomantic pewter gives you extra speed, though, or just extra strength.

Can you point me to a cite for this? Just curious.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how Bleeder is able to project her thoughts into Wax? We haven't seen anything like this before, right? A quirk of her new form of Hemalurgy?

Yeah, I see what you mean about the momentum-it seems to contradict what we've seen before, particularly here. 

https://goo.gl/xjzG3v

To be honest it's never really struck me as a particularly well thought out concept in the series.

Really great, as very much expected. It was particularly fun reading about the era 1 mistborn characters.

 

Need more time to digest, but I was particularly interested in Harmony remarking about tech like radios and aviation. That he knows about them suggests someone on the planet has developed it, probably the southern civilization. So technologically superior red and gold invasion soon? >_>

 

 

I got the impression that Sazed knew about these from his harmony-powers. I think in Alloy Marasi notes that the Words of Founding foretold all of the recent technological innovation and additional future ones, like flying machines.

• Idashwy is still a mystery. She was spiked by someone, and "visited by her dead brother". They found no spike in her dead corpse - what spike was she given?

Was she spiked? I thought that they found the wounds of her having had her ability taken away. I assumed that the dead brother was Bleeder. 

 

 

• Feruchemical iron conserves momentum! Doesn't fix infinite energy exploits, but notable.

Does it? When did this happen? I thought that we'd seen some counterexamples in alloy, like when Wax breaks a door open by leaping into it and then increasing his weight.

Um, I think we know that. Not sure why you mentioned it, especially since nobody is actually talking about the AA that I can tell

How do you know that?  I mentioned it because it's in the first post.

I don't know that the author of the AA is supposed to be Rosharian. I just assumed that it was some traveler who had been TO Roshar but wasn't FROM Roshar, just like they referenced Elantrian magic in the first one.

Is it supposed to be a Parshendi?

Does anyone know who the visitors from other worlds identified in the broadsheet are supposed to be? I'm assuming that the lady found one of those shardpools like in Elantris or what Hoid used in WoR? Are the visitors something we've seen in another book? I didn't get the reference.

I'd be interested in seeing if our Hemalurgic killer is communicating with Sazed. Is he trying to exert a moderating influence? Talk him out of killing?

Here's a WoB that might interest you:

Source:

 

The WoB heavily implies modern Skybreakers can Surgebind. Taravangian thought Helaran had taught Shallan, though Helaran had a gem on his Blade, so that's weird.

 

There are arguments both for and against modern Skybreakers being the same Order as the Knights Radiant. I lean towards them being the same Order, but possibly whenever they bind a spren, they purposefully kill it so they won't bring a Desolation or something. Or perhaps they can Surgebind and Helaran did not for unknowable reasons.

Yeah, this quote seems to suggest pretty clearly that they're real Skybreakers.

So, I'd been taking for granted that the organization being led by Nalan (I am assuming that he is who he says he is) was the actual radiant order of Skybreakers. But looking at it again I'm wondering if that's the case.

First, we don't see anyone that actually has a Nahel bond. It doesn't look like any of the lackeys with Nalan can do anything with stormlight or surgebind.

Nalan himself is able to do so, but he presumably has his honorblade. Wyndle (Lift's spren) notes that there's something "wrong" with him, which I presume has something to do with his surgebinding without a Spren.

Second, when Szeth warns that he'll be facing enemies with shards and power, Nalan doesn't tell him "you'll get a Spren who will let you surgebind and be your shardblade" He just gives him Nightblood. It seems like a curious omission if he was actually going to be training Szeth at surgebinding. 

The fact that he can just induct Szeth runs contrary to what we've seen everywhere else, where the Spren themselves have decided who becomes a surgebinder.

I'm wondering if Nalan has been maintaining a military type organization that he calls "Skybreakers" but doesn't have any actual Skybreakers?

Any thoughts?