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I guess we do have the fact that Aona and Skai were splintered before Seons exist (or the splintering caused it), and the fact that Odium went to Elantris before the Letter Writer and Receiver last met. But we don't really have a timeline for that.

Or just in terms of HoA. That's what all our other timelines are tied to.

It's probably a combination of a bunch of things. My thinking ts that there's certain cognitive walls around your mind that prevent people from getting in/influencing it. If your walls are worn down a little bit, then a Shard can talk with you. If your walls are worn down enough, than the Shard can read your mind as well. Here's the list of things that "wear down" Wax's walls in regards to Harmony. 1. He has Faith in Harmony. A s we see in HoA, this allows Preservation's shard to communicate with people (Kelsier, and Vin, to Spook and Elend). 2. He is using Hemalurgy. This creates a "hole" in the cognitive wall that allows for control, as well of insertion of though. 3. He is using Allomancy. I don't know if this is really that important, but the only Preservation-insertion thoughts were with allomancers (but then again, everyone's an allomancer in Mistborn). 4. He is using Feruchemy. There's a chance that if 3 is true, that this will be true as well. After all, if Feruchemy is the balance of Ruin and Preservation, it makes sense that it would be of Harmony. 5. He may be fuelled by Harmony. Notice how Wax says he feels "stronger in the mists?" And notice how in Marasi's time bubble he suddenly hits a wave of weariness? It sounds an awful lot like Wax may be receiving some pewter burning from Harmony. 6. He's in the mists. The mists are a sign of Harmony, and I'd imagine it makes it easier for him to communicate. A (better way of saying this is to say that the stronger the connection between Harmony and Wax, the lower the cognitive walls are.

Nope, it is the other way around. Do you have your map of Elantris? You can kind of manually see the Aon. The straight coast line, the curved mountains, and than the dot where the Lake is.

That's because there's not any that I know of. We know that the events in Elantris happen before Mistborn 1, but that's it.

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What you're looking for is actually probably in the annotations. Those will be added to the database once I'm up to date on normal interviews. Is this the one? WEAK AONS Elantris is like a massive power conduit. It focuses the Dor, strengthening its power (or, rather, the power of the Aons to release it) in Arelon. This far away from Elantris, however, the Aons are about as powerful as they were before Raoden fixed Elantris. If you consider it, it makes logical sense that the Aons would be tied to ELANTRIS and Arelon, yet would work without them. The Aons had to exist before Elantris—otherwise, the original Elantrians wouldn’t have known the shape to make the city. Their study of AonDor taught them a method for amplifying Aon power. Source As for when was the city built?

Brandon has said that he likes his magic "with one foot in science and another in wonder." Also, I know that I've been taught the dual-slit experiment in my Freshman chemistry class at BYU. Brandon attended BYU 10ish years ago and was originally a science major before changing to writing, so he would've taken a similar class when he went here. So there's a good chance that he was taught it as well. I feel like this attribute of spren (jokingly called the Geranid's Certainty Principle) is an antithesis to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. The Uncertainty Principle is simply that the more that you know about a particle's position, the less you know about its momentum. Geranid's Certainty Principle is that the more you know (and have recorded) about an object's size, the more the spren adheres to that recorded size. And personally- I believe that Geranid's Certainty Principle only definitively works for spren without a significant cognitive presence (aka they is really dumb). I believe that the act of recording the information "overrides" the cognitive mind of the spren, so that it then stays consistent to it's current action (it stays the same size as you saw it being).

It's up to you on the RPG people. But record all of the stuff Brandon says. And you are more than welcome to take a little longer. It's pretty time consuming to transcribe.

In terms of power, activity or sheer numbers? In Power, it's admins. In Activity, it's probably admins. In Sheer numbers, I'm pretty sure that it's pretty closely tied. I think the staff has more though.

Well there is that whole "ship made of smoke" thing with Kaladin. As well as his sense of where to be where he's supposed to be. And Jacob, the quote you're looking for is: This quote is ambiguous at the least. Let's see if I can find a better one.

Something that I will add as a footnote to the database right now.

Other people have picked up on the Ten Heightenings before, I'm pretty sure. I think. But I'm tired and don't want to dig it up now.

On the original topic... Afraid not. I have no recollection of any such quote. Sorry. And I agree with Chaos's explanation in regards to Feruchemy being of Preservation/Allomancy. If you read Brandon's explanation (Thanks Windrunner, I'd been looking for that one), he's not saying that you lose part of your attribute- you just aren't storing as much as you think. So this "decay" we keep talking about doesn't really exist. It's just a misconception. The reason why the decaying memory doesn't happen for Sazed when he surges Copper is because he is now in charge of 2 shards, each of which has an incredibly massive cognitive presence in the cognitive realm (aka they have a lot of memory/computing ability). So the shards remember all of the information very easily. And it's not that strange that Copper stores specific memory. Tin stores specific senses. And no, Brandon hasn't ever said that knowledge is cognitive, but the definition of cognitive relates to cognition which is mental processes. Knowledge is most certainly a mental process.

Yeah, full transcription is best. That way we won't miss anything important. The only one I don't care about is the Atomic Array one. They do some ads, and some things for other productions that I don't care about and won't be in the Database.

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Animals can be used for Hemalurgy.

"Dizziness" is more of a sense than an emotion; I don't think you can affect that (just like you can't affect how good someone's eyesight is). You could strobe them though, or riot their confusion. That could be effective.

So we've been talking in the Austre is Endowment thread, and we were talking about future sight. This is why I think various shards are "better" than other shards at seeing into the future. Now what's going on here when they look into the future? I think that Honor sums it up best: This theory is based heavily on three facts: 1. A Shardholder's interpretation of an Intent helps determine the effects on the Shardholder. 2. Cultivation is better at future sight than Honor is. (The end of Way of Kings) 3. Preservation seems to be better at future sight than Ruin is. (The prophecies) So, I'll dive right into it. The ability to see into the future is determined by a Shardholder's Intent. The more an Intent would look to the future, the better the Shardbearer would be at seeing the future. It makes sense that Honor isn't as good at future sight as Cultivation is. Honor, as an emotion, tends to look at what the honorable thing to do right now is, or remembering promises that were said before to try and keep them. Cultivation is all about helping you grow in the future. So it makes sense that she would be better at future sight than Honor. Although I don't think that this is so much because of what the Intent is, as it is the effect on the Shardholder's mind. So Cultivation isn't good at future sight because she's Cultivation- she's good at future sight because her mind is so shaped by Cultivation that it is easier to plan and see into the future. Does that make sense? In other words, If someone ascended as Cultivation, but deeply believed that Cultivation was about learning from your past, than that Cultivation wouldn't be as good at seeing into the future. This may explain why Preservation was so amazingly accurate with his prophecies, while Ruin managed to walk in seemingly blindly. It makes sense that Preservation would be very concerned with the long haul, while Ruin tends to be very passionate about the now, about what he can do now to destroy. That's not to say that Ruin doesn't plan- he does a magnificent job helping overthrow The Lord Ruler. But Ati seems to have become a being of passion, of lust after Ruin. Such people don't look into their future plans very often. Feel free to come up with more examples, or give me reasons why this doesn't work.

Just for you, I'll make it a theory so it can be espoused.

Yep. Harmony isn't a real Shard- it's just a title for the person who holds both the Shard of Ruin and the Shard of Preservation.

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In a non-ruinous topic, I would like to announce that it is KChan's Birthday today.