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It's possible there isn't a "default connection"...like the Tin Feruchemy. You can store a "type of Connection" like Tin allow you to store "a kind of sense". Or maybe the "default one" is the main kind (if there is something like that) that change from person to person (it would be interesting to ask the same thing with Tin, what do you store in tinmind to default ? Because it's more easy to recive an answer)

@Edgedancer It's a WoB who say that (I will search it to report here) In your specific example, the character has another attribute that allow those Speed without damage to the body (I think that a Full Feruchemist with his Speed may be OP but a Ferring without Healing or Heat Feruchemy may push the Speed not other than a certain degree. The only strange case is about the SoS's istance, but I imagine that in this case the body isn't "standard". @Szmit as I said, probably in your example, the people will burn alive before to reach the target.

I am a bit counfused, when Did I talk about knife ? I just said that to obtain this wonderful speed you have to use Feruchemical steel with an high multiplier. For example: If it's true that Speed is one of the Attribute you can't store too much (for example 20% at best). You need to store 5 hour of Speed to get twice your speed for an hour (and to be quite pair with a Pewterarm in his regular burn rate) and 30 minutes of triple speed (like someone who Flare Pewter). Of course once you began to use higher multiplayer there is some loss of efficiency and you began to have also other problems, for example Feruchemy protects you from acceleration but not from friction or whaterever hit you may recive at high speed. This is just what I said ;-) Of course a Steel Ferring with a common use (x2 or x3) of his Speed is dangerous but it's still on the level of other physical Enchanment. Above it became OP but he still have problem to solve

It's possible, but to be honest I began to think that Stormlight is Adonalsium's Pre-Shattering Investiture left on Roshar and I find hard to remove this idea from my mind

Actually as I understood. the Soul don't reach the Beyond, it's the mind who cross the realms and go Beyond. Therefore a Shard may create an object (the Soul) who later develops a trascendental part (a Mind) who may in some aspect go out of the Creator's control EDIT: Ari replied together with me, I didn't read his post when I wrote this

Like Oversleep said you have no need to do something for storing an Attribute. Many "hard to store" attributes are hard to store because you may store only a small part of that without hurt yourself or die. For example I think (but I can't be sure without a referenceof the right number) once Brandon said that when a Feruchemist stores Strenght usually He doesn't store more than the 20% of his Strenght or he will be in some danger. I think "hard to store" Attributes have lesser implicit store limit (for example Health or Speed) and they are also Attributes who need to be used at hight multiplier to get their "wonderful" effects... For example imagine that you can't store safety only 10% of your health and to heal fast a wound you need to have (for example) ten times the standard human's healing... You will pretty fast consume all your feruchemical charge. Of course I used the example of Health but Steel is more troublesome... When you heal yourself... the wound area is heavy influenced. while when you use Speed, your whole body is faster.

Reading the prose version I came to the idea that the Sandmaster as organization seek this kind of division for a couple of reasons: - They are prideful, they want the other see there as Mystic figure who trascend mortality... This mean that "normal people" can't live with them as far is possible (they have servant after all) - They fear the spreading of Sand Masters' secret outside of the Diem. With a family in there, it's possible for a young Sand Master to say something he don't have to friends/parents/ecc... - The Dayside society is a lot Male centric... Some other jobs see in their high rank wemen because there is no explicit deny for a female to get the job. But the Sand Master are probably the more traditionalist among them and they may simply deny a chance to a yound lady to performe the test of the Sands.

As far as I understand of the Lifesense, you can't sense Invesiture uses. Or you will sense also Lifeless or Awakened Object or Object with Breath stored inside. I have the strong feel that the lifesense allows to you to sense the Connection to the near living being and the Breath improves someone's Connection to the surround. In the end this made someone with a lot of Breath more integrated with the surround. Or It's possible that the Breath's Lifesense senses the Soul's expansion generates by Investiture (like to feel "how many extra Investiture someone has"). Of course this is a raw idea but it's the better I may offer at the moment.

Ruin managed to influence Vin's mother to create a Spike from Vin's Sister and give to Vin.... If I don't remember wrong Vin (after her ascension) or Harmony talked about the Ruin's influence on the madmen

To survive on Taldain you have just to have an high UV resistence (or use the rightful protection) and of course know a bit its ecology.

Tanavast wasn't resurrected... We know his Cognitive Shadow merged with a Spren to made the Stormfather. Therefore it's impossible for him to be Mraize or any other physical being... Tanavast is already in the book as the Spren knowed as Stormfather.

At the moment I can't find the reference, but we have a WoB on Bavadin as the only Shard on Taldain

But in the end Scadrial didn't progress much in this 341 years... A lot of changes we see in W&W's era are aviable from the Harmony's book (knowledge suppressed by TLR). I may see because Harmony is disappointed by the Northern development....Much more if we compare it with the Southern's one

I am really doubtful about the "tatoo regrow" (and a much more about the earring) but I just asked it on Mister Sanderson's Twitter...If we are lucky maybe He will answer

On Earth you have right, I just want to add something because of course on the Earth we don't have yet (and maybe never) a way to alter gravity... On Roshar (for example) the gravity's acceleration is 70% of our own (depends by the Planet's mass and your distance from it) and with the Gravity Surge you may change it. For example when Kal use 3 Lashes to an object...that object feels something like twice of Earth's gravity (and of course three times Roshar's gravity). It's interesting to see if the Gravity Surge sets itself differently in different Shardworlds or if you need simply to use more Investiture to obtain the same effect on highter gravity planet.

On Earth to create an artificial lake or canals we don't need godlike power... But I understand your point.

Hoid was in Physical's Solid ground (aka Cognitive's gassous ground)... But a Worldhopper may use Sea, Ocean, River and Lake as Cognitive's Solid ground... Many shardpools may have river who propagate from them (for example the Aviars' ones). A worldhopper may simply follow the river from/to the Shardpool... Of course there are exceptions, after all the Perpendicularities exists not for the purpose of Worldhopping, simple the Mortal may exploit them to this purpose....I don't say that every Shardpool have to be easy to use. For example if the Worldhoppers are smart, they change the area near the Resturant's Perpendicularity to have Cognitive's Solid ground and some "road" out of their planet. In the same way many perpendicularity could be changed to avoid a traveler (Rashek's of course don't want that someone from the Cognitive may simply find the Well while jogging) to use it (or at least give them a lot of extra problems).

Shallan's journey was made by someone with no knowledge of the Cognitive and in a place dangerous to her (of course she didn't choose to go there, it's not her fault). I think a skilled worldhopper would use the water to travel...On the Cognitive's water you may stay without any kind of trouble or Investiture. Probably a lot of Shardpool are within a larger waterbody or near to them.. Once you change Realm you may choose the best "road" to go where you want... Of course some places may need some extra preparation/tool (for example try to go on Sel, Taldain or Scadrial using the dangerous perpendicularity)

@Landis963 Maybe I miss something, but why ? They only need supplies and patience... I don't deny that some magical help may be useful but it isn't needed as far as I may understand.

Well if they have a perpendicularity of some kind they don't need a lot of Investiture...Just skill I presume

Yes nothing of the Vessel remains in a Shard after he dropped it (while some of the Shard remain in a Vessel, that in the end become a Sliver). A shard may continue to a certain degree to performe the task the Vessel put in place but it more a fact of habit than imprinting. Sazed as every Ascended being has a great Cognitive expansion (after all also Rashek in his seconds/minutes of deity knows how to push a planet, to create a volcano, to change the biology... It's was raw but He was capable of doing this thinks) and He may see in the Spiritual... He probably simply folloy the Connections to discover things...After all if things/being/place are connected to a Shard, that Shard is connected to them.

Well, we don't know how much active was Adonalsium. A Shard is pushed a Mind twisted by an Intent/Mandate but we don't know how Adonalsium thinks... Maybe after Cosmere's creation he began to become inactive or comatose... Maybe the Vessels tried a lot of time to kill him but he wasn't uncapable or unwilling to stop them. In the end it's possible that Adonalsium itself wanted his own death to spread further his Investiture (I have a theory about a Shard who can't Invest over a certain treeshold of his own Investiture, and once reach this point Splinters/Shatters the Shard is the only way to further spread his Investiture ... But I have no proofs)

Just the appearance is similar... everything else it hasn't other similarities. It's like to say: Mistborn Spoiler: Stormlight is a piece of raw investiture (we don't know from who) and we know for example that may be used to feed/fuel whatever Invesiture-need device/user.

Like @Oversleep kindly showed. A feruchemist has not a upper or lover bound to his Store-Tap Ability. Of course I talk about the power itself, his body may be damaged or killed by a dumb use of the Feruchemy.

sure sure the Splintering is not an automatic outcome (and indeed i didn't say nothing to that part of your post). But it's pretty easy to see this... Both Ruin and Preservation remain whole in HoA... And Preservation lost two Vessels in fast sequence.