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Also, if the 17th shard didn't exist till HoA, then who wrote the Ars Arcanum for Elantris?

Are you sure about that? I don't remember that. I remember the AoL being about the same time as Warbreaker, and then AoL being about three hundred years after HoA. But I don't remember WoK being tied down to a specific time. Just after Warbreaker.

No, what it is is that when you ingest Lerasium, your body automatically burns the metal. This metal is a form of Pure Preservation. Burning this metal automatically dramatically increases your connection to Preservation. The side affect of this is that you become a Mistborn. If a Mistborn were to burn Lerasium, their powers would double.

Yep. There's a chance that happened. Or maybe they decided that they liked the afterlife better. We don't know (And Brandon isn't going to say) what the afterlife is like. Barnes and Noble Q&A HoA Q&A The quote your thinking of is actually from HoA. It's one of the very last lines of the book.

Effects of a Sliver. I don't know, but I can guess. The Lord Ruler and Vin were both Slivers because they took the Well. After the Well, Vin seemed more in control of herself. I know that it's mostly because she decided who she wanted to be when she married Elend. But I think having the Cognitive Presence of a Shard stays with you a little bit. You have a little better perspective, a little better idea of who you are in the world. I also think that it helps shape your personality. Look at The Lord Ruler. After taking the Power (and TLR really took the power rather than just holding it momentarily), he conquered the world and kept things the same. He Preserved the Land for thousands of years. I also think that being a Sliver means that your bond with that shard is stronger. It remembers you somewhat, and that is the "Attuning force" that Sazed speaks about, making Vin ready for actually taking up the Shard. Here's the full quote for a Sliver. I only did half before. Here's another intersting one:

Plus, I feel like after Elend proposed to Vin (before WoA begins), and Vin said no, things may have gotten a little tense between the two of them. But listen to Inkthinker. If you don't know, he's the guy who does a ton of the illustrations for the books (he's done most of the maps for his books for example), and so is privy to a lot of information.

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Plus the fact that he's been burning for a thousand years. Plus the fact that he had some hemalurgy spikes. Plus the fact that he was using Feruchemy. Plus the fact that he's The Lord Ruler

What's brown and sticky? A stick! A horse walks into the bar, and the bartender says "Hey. Why the long face?" What do you call cheese that isn't yours? Notch-yo cheese! (It works better if you say it out loud) A pirate walks into a bar with paper towel around his head like a hat. The bartender and the other residents of the bar are very confused. The bartender says "Hey. What's with the paper towel?" The pirate replies "Arrgh. I've a bounty on me head!" An atom walks into a bar, looking desperate. The bartender asks "What's wrong?" The proton replies "I've lost my electron!" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"

That's fantastic. Our mind control is beginning to affect him! BWAHAHAHA. I mean- Oh. That's cool. Interesting even.

I think that the Ascension of Shards is something that we're going to need some more information on. Is it because he was a Feruchemist? Is it because Preservation knew it was going to be him? (Fate of the world on his arms) Is it because he believed in Preservation and knew that Ruin was real? Or was he just the only one there at the right time? EDIT- A Problem with the "Champion theory" is that Ruin had a champion- Marsh. Maybe he wasn't a Champion, but he was Ruin's primary tool.

You know, I was actually just wondering the same thing. Are there certain numbers associated with each Shard? Like is Endowment 1, Devotion 2, etc? Or maybe there's only 10 shards left out of the Sixteen. But then again, 10 is a number that shows up a number of times in Scadrial as well. The Ten Great houses to name one. The Ten members of the crew (Sazed, Breeze, Kelsier, Ham, Clubs, Dockson, Vin, Spook, Marsh, OreSeur) Elend ends up replacing Kelsier, Cett ends up replacing Clubs, Noorden fills Dockson, and TenSoon takes OreSeur's place. The Ten basic metals (though that was false) is another example. That's just off the top of my head. EDIT- I couldn't remember Dockson's name. Or Noorden for that matter.

I remember Brandon saying something to the effect that Kelsier is still around. And since he can talk to TenSoon, who still has his bones, it explains some of the reports of the Survivor appearing to independent people. EDIT- Plus, there is Bloody Tan's report of seeing Ironeyes and the Survivor. I think that there's a chance we'll see Kelsier's body, and Kelsier's influence- but not both. And not Kelsier obviously coming back.

Or "Do they have better chances of being Allomancers?"

I can show you qutoes for both of those as it happens! So for the first question, I'll let Brandon talk about Slivers: Goodreads Q&A You know how in HoA, the mist spirit (Preservation/Leras) dies after talking to Elend? Well from there, it's a good 8 chapters before Vin takes up Preservation. So who's holding the power at that time? It's Kelsier. He speaks to Spook, he's the one who says that Spook has a clue that the others need (after the fire). Hero of Ages Chapter 64: As to the second, they're referencing when Wyrn tells the old Arteth of Kae to assassinate Hrathen at a specific spot in Teod. This is what Brandon has to say about it: Tor.com Q&A Many have speculated that it's the Skaze (who are evil Seons) that are behind the future sight.

Yes it does. And here's what I've understood about sDNA. Spiritual DNA is kept in the Spiritual Realm, stores certain information about you. It says what planet you're from, what your level of connection to various Shards are, and can be passed down from generation to generation. What Lerasium does is it modifies your sDNA so that it gives you a +10 connection to Preservation, thus creating the side effect of you becoming an allomancer. Lerasium slowly is diluted as that effect is spread from generation to generation, just like one person with pink hair will only have so many descendants with pink hair. Scadrial is the only world that we know of where magic systems (Allomancy & Feruchemy) are passed through sDNA. As on the idea of Focus on Roshar, I think that Odium's Shard's Post up above is the right answer. The focus in all the other systems have been something that has determined what form the "magic" displays. Aons, Commands, and Metals all have a function. I do believe, however that there is some give in each focus. For example, Iron doesn't make you pull on all the metals around you. It instead lets you choose which metal to pull on, with how much strength. Brass gives you even more variety. You can choose someone, and soothe specific emotions. The same of Spren. Syl is Kaladin's focus. She allows him to access the Stormlight, through the gems, and use it to manipulate bonds. He can manipulate the spiritual gravitational bond like Szeth does to go flying, and make things go flying, or he can manipulate the electromagnetic forces to make things "stick". Now on to Gems. I believe that Gems on Roshar are like plants in our world. They take a raw form of energy from the Highstorm, (like the Sun), and converts it into useable energy, Stormlight (like glucose). The trouble is, only certain organisms can process Stormlight (glucose)- Spren (Mitochondria). The Spren can then fuel that power to those that they share a Nahel Bond with. (Just like a mitochondria gives energy to the cell that's hosting it.) Or, if they are instead bonded to the crystal, they perform a certain defined function, using the Stormlight as their fuel. I know that for Soulcasting, specific gems mean specific transformations, but if you change the spren inside of a gem, you presumably change the Fabrial as well. That explains the variety of things that Fabrials have been found to do. (Note that I speak of mitochondria with the theory that they were once independent bacteria that were eventually incorporated into successful cells. This may be wrong, but it's just the idea that matters for this theory).

This is what Brandon says about Pronunciation:

Hee hee hee! This is so great!

I'm going to bring another quote to you that I'm not sure people have seen yet. This is from the West Jordan Landing Barnes and Nobles Q&A in December. This seems to imply that Odium has stayed the same person the entire time.

I still don't feel completely satisfied on the "Voidbringer" account. Maybe it's just because Brandon decided to do it from a factual standpoint (something that we would likely do), then a story standpoint (having the characters realize it just before the parshmen start turning into Voidbringers). It seems that a major reveal like that should have some more questions being asked by the characters (like Shallan), so that it's a question that gets answered, rather than a connection that's just there. Does that make sense? Maybe I'm just jealous because I wanted us to figure out the Voidbringer/Parshmen connection for ourselves.