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You have right, just ...have we some kind of WoB about the absence of Modifiers hidden in Elantris structure (or below) ? And anyway maybe I went too far in the off Topic... Sorry

Well in the end it all depends on "how the Elantris's Aon works" because if it something like: main Elantris routine { - Drain all the avaliable Dor - Push it and change some factor in the Dor, to make it compatible only with Superuser */* - every some hours on when some event happens runs the subroutine } subroutine Shaod { - Everyday test some connected people (unknow criteria, I know) - if the they passes the test, turn them in to superuser } The missed line have the effect to made this program very less efficient but still work (maybe do the fact, that this Aon was there from millenia...some kind of "persistent effect" or maybe some influence of a Cognitive Shadow or Shardpool), just the "*/*" part suffer of this and the Elantrian recive an Amount of Dor below their need and the Superuser status was bugged. Of course I have no proofs

I don't rememeber, Did Kenton notice something strange about Eric's Abilities ? Because if Eric was so skilled also before his trip on DarkSide, we may esclude some Darkside's Magic. About his "mental's condition" I am unsure about, but I think may be also a Mundane effect, his personal history and a visit a foreign place where the society are different, give him a the possibility to change himself. PS: But in the end is possible that Eric was also influenced by some magic effect, or maybe the influence of Darkside Magic with his own Dayside's Spiritual Aspect

Well He may just burn the metalmind at low rate to save to don't waste the charge...nothing stop you from keep a metalmind inside of your body and burning only when needed

Yeah I am talking exacly of that trick but used on any other metal instead than the one whe saw. We know very little (well nothing to be honest) but in the end It has some applications... For example to prevent someone to "dirt" a Unkeyed Metalmind with some Identity-keyed Feruchemical Charge, or simply because you don't want someone to obtain something from store attributes. Ex: A "medical" Goldmind, you don't want a child get killed just because it's used a Goldmind in the wrong way. Or to prevent people to commit suicide through Feruchemy.

Well Oversleep there is a way to be able to tap but not store (but it's quite useless).

The Magic Systems are how the physical being are able to touch and use the power of creation, Kelsier in that moment has no Connection to the physical and He can't express Investiture in Allomantic Effect... In the end, also when Leras provide him a stream of Investiture. He was unable to use it in elaborate ways.

But Kelsier had the Bands... Probably himself has no powers or his original ones (and the Bands in contact with his skin will give him Steelsight also if He was no more a Mistborn). I find really unlikely that He pierced his own His to get Steel/Iron powers where there are others less invasive places to put a Spike to get that. I am still about He filled himself with some attribute that "reforge/keep" his Connection to the Physical realm

It's probably how BoM Spoiler:

If I am remember right, there is a theory about Elantris as an AonDor's Hack... The City takes the Dor and instead to spread in the same way with all the possible Connected people, "evolves some of the popolation" (the Shaod) and pushes the Dor only through them. If this is true or at least possible, would mean that before Elantris was "easier" to performe AonDor (maybe like Forgery or Bloodsealing) but of course the power output was lower, the User less Invested and the "more Invested and more you find easy to use Magic" will not applied. Then they decide to artifical boost the AonDor power through Elantris, in the whole population a genius may arise to discover more the AonDor mechanics. I probably though about Dakhor Monk as a similar "hacking" of every Magic Effect naturally present on Fjorder

I don't think Kel uses another Body because we saw his Pits' Scar. I find hard to believe He scarred his new Body to keep his distinctive mark. At the moment I immagine he manage to "replace" his Connection to the Physical Realm and after that He simply worldhopped in the Physical, like any other worldhopper

Actually Argent, I thought also about water as focus, but and I know it's meaningless... I find water like focus...wrong. Maybe just because the "water focus" doesn't explain well (or simply) the reason of Sand discharge after bein used, the whole "create water" thing (that I have to say, it's not easy to explain neither with my model), the lifeform on Taldain (they are quite anti-focus if the water is focus) and the difference between Dayside and Darkside about Magic. One but probably the best analogy I may find: I see the Sand Mastery like an End Neutral Magic System (or better Sub Magic System) that work with the same bases of Awekening with (Breath=Investiture inside the Sand's Fungus and Color=Water). Of course I may be wrong but I still have to find a better replacement to my idea

In the end is possible that the "Sand Mastery Strenght" is just "How much water you may channel in the Sand" of course this mean that someone with an huge "Strenght", for example Drile, may overcharge the Sand pushing to much Water inside and Saturated it. While someone as Kenton (untrained) is just at the point to channel a tiny amount of water in to the sand. In the end when both of them stop their mastery the sand turn dark, but the Kenton's Sand is not saturated. For the moment I have two ideas about the precise working of this (but both have some issues): - A sand Master channels water in to the algae (i keep forgetting this word XD), killing it (as many sand creatures) and releasing his power/investiture, and after with the sun, other Algae grow and refill the dead ones. (But in the end the prolongate uses of the same sand for long is some counterproof to this explaination). - The Algae are "water lover" and when a Sand Master channels water into them, they became capable of "collective work and mobility" and they keep moving while the Sand Master keeps to bait them with a little of his water. When the "Channeling" stops the Sand Master lose his "buffer of water" in the Algae. The Algae are feeded and they have no need of the Sand Master anymore. (This is more probably). @speedreader9000 I have to re-read your post some more time, but it's seems quite fascinating. At the moment here is pretty early morning and I have a test from some hours, I will read with more precision after that. In the end I am waiting the White Sand release to may begin to ask some question to Mister Sanderson

You have right, or at least the first is easy to fix but the second case is quite troublesome. The only idea at the moment is something about the "Sand" work like a Sponge and keeps water at its inside without release in the outside world (like some fabric in our world). It's needed the powerful UV Ray of Taldain's Sunlight to make the Sand lose water (in the end it make in process the water through some biological process or simply through Heat). Now that I think about the constant need of water from a Sand Master may be needed because the Sun "discharge" the Water inside the Sand while the Master controls the Sand (it's interesting to see if using Sandmaster indoor or outdoor has some differences). But when the "bond"(yeah I know it's an unhortodox use of the word) is disturbed the Sand Master lose more water than usually and saturate the Sand (maybe as part of Sand Mastery the Master create some kind of "buffer" of water and when his control is disturbed, He discharge all the buffer in the sand). Once saturated, the Sand has not need of the Sand Master anymore to obtain water.

Yeah me too And the Well was just a tool for attuning her to the Preservation Power but she didn't become a Lerasium Savant... in the end she didn't become not even a Lerasium Mistborn (Elend was still Stronger than her)

I am unsure about this. Because we aren't sure if the Atium "targets" the Shardbearer (or any other visible being) or simply give to you a look on the Spiritual. In the last case it's worhless to be more Invested because in the end you aren't a factor. You may use the Alluminium as counter example, but we don't know what in the Alluminium give it its Anti-Investiture propriety and therefore it's possible that its "oddly ability" is caused by some Realmatic Anomaly that mask him to the Atium (for example the famous theory of Alluminium's Spiritual-Emptyness)

Yeah I remember this, but we don't know if Vasher give to her a Breath before, or in the end you may probably have right

At the moment I think that after a Sand Mastery, the Sand become black because recive the Water drained from the Sand Master. Indeed I am still thinking that the power of Taldain is about plant and water also if on Dayside seems strange to think something like that

The only reference to a Lerasium Savant was about someone who "pick up" all the Mist (becoming Preservation)

If the Breath are a discrete amount, it's impossible to split it. And I have to re-read the scene, but I remember that Vasher uses a Breath from his reserve, not the Girl's one. But in the end, we don't know if the Breath are a discrete amount, therefore is possible to move less than a single breath maybe

I have to admit I didn't read the whole post. But a bullet very heavy and fast (a tank's buller for example) will push away (out of shot line) the Allomancer (if it doesn't go perfectly long his Steelline) if He tried to push on it. In the end this mean dodge the bullet.

Maybe the Soulcast lavis testes different just because it's "pure" lavis. I mean the lavis from two different farms recive probably differente external factors (sunlight exposition, atmosfere, they are feed differently, different parassite,ecc...) while the soulcasted one are simply created as "lavis" without all the step that may leave a trace in the Lavis's flavour

Yeah is possible that Nightblood is just (without a better word) "an amount of Investiture who emulate a Splinter" (mmm in the end robot Spren works better I think XD). I rememeber a WoB where an user tried to explain his PoV about how Awakening works to Brandon and MS has quite impressed of what the user figure. It's was like "When you Awaken something, you copy your own Cognitive Aspect in to an object that tried to performe his duty" there was also a part who compare the Awekening to the Shard's creation but unless I find it again I don't want to say something wrong. In the end, the Awakening seems to be the best candidate to give mind (a real one) to Investiture. EDIT: It just came to my mind, but it's possible that the conversion PoC->Investiture and Investiture->PoC are both possible. But for the Shard is aganist their Intent (mandate) to convert Investiture to PoC. They seems to be very "setted" to spread their own essense and infuse the Cosmere (like a second nature) it's like a "hidden task". Maybe a mortal may do this (with high difficult to figure how) because he is not bound to the same "hidden task" as the Shard's Vessel

In the end...Yes. Of course is impossible to give less than a Breath, but this mean that the "extra piece of Breath" is a surplus to the Lifeless and may be "spent" in other way that the average gray lifeless. We saw on Cloud that extra Breaths give to the Lifeless more Cognitive abilities and better past life experience, maybe in the same way a White Lifeless has more of his previous skill and when hurt He may resist better and longer before He need a new Breath. Of course this is just a my Speculation, I have no proofs, just some clue based on Clod and some Denth dialogue about Lifeless (and He may be lie)

Sorry I read your previous post in the wrong way