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Some people think terken Sandlings are Sandlings who have trace of Bauxite in their carapace. The Bauxite is mineral Alluminium and it may be assimilated by some Sandlings during their lives

Maybe you may be right, but often we see only the "high class of Alethi society" therefore an high prude popolation and much more their top class where everyone give tons of relevance to apparences....Be the "perfect orthodox Vorin" may have a weight on them. About the Adolin's sexuality, I actually can't see any clue about his possible homosexuality... As far as I may see He seems very interesting in the ladies' beauty (as shown with Shallan's case....the one we see more) and nothing in his relationship with others men seem to point into a bisexual interess.

I was on Reddit and I found a specific post on the matter:

I recently found a WoB about Roshar's Homosexuality as far as it says...On Roshar is not so problematic for the Vorin:

Well Hoid obtained Allomancy when He was almost 10000 Years old, so He can't use it to stay alive so long

I think a Shard's intent/mandate works more like a limiter than a compulsion to do something. So you can't do something aganist it but you could avoid to act as the mandate/intent want. So to say, Preservation could avoid to save someone, but He can't actually kill someone. Of course I talk of a Vessel who held the Power soo long to be completely changed by the Intent. A fresh Vessel would have still his/her mindset also if the power may refure to perfore certain tasks

For how the Basic Lash is described in the Ars Arcanum, I think you may do this, after all the Basic Lash works in two steps: 1) Removes (all or part of) your Spiritual gravitation connection to the planet 2) Links with a similar Spiritual Gravitation Connection the subject to a specific direction I think in the case of 0g you may performe both this actions, and also the 1) is quite "free" Of course my answer comes from the AA's Author interpretation of the Lash...therefore It may be not 100% sure EDIT: fix some grammar issues

It's a bit tricky question, because I think the Gravitation Lash is relative but it has yet to fight the Spiritual bond to the Planet, so for example on Scadrial a single Basic Lashing would render you weightless but expend more Stormlight...So the Relative or not relative become strictly semantic

I think channel Investiture would do nothing about re-assemble a Shard. You had to Connect once again the Splinters and it's not something so easy. On another note, we don't even know if Stormlight is Honor's Investiture to start with. But for sake of hypotetis, if we say "Stormlight is Honor's Investiture": You wait a couple of years, until the Weeping without Highstorm in the middle comes. At this point you are in the "Highstorm most Invested" scenario. You place yourself where the Highstorm starts (and this is hard because you have to travel in the ocean. Now You are in from of to the Highstorm at his full (something I honestly think no Rosharan has never see it). You have Surgebinding abilities (or at least the ability to absorb Stormlight) and you start to absorb it in the HighHighstorm, You will reach the precise point of Kaladin and Szeth at the end of WoR and discover you can't hold more than a certain amount of Investiture...The plain failed. But for hypotesis, I will add another exception and "you can hold all the Highstorm's Stormlight" (at least for a while) and: 1) You will probably ascend like using Well of Ascension for the raw amount of Investiture (but this is not what we are interesting into) 2) You didn't affect all the indipendent Splinters on whole Roshar....so no Honor here 3) Stormfather watch you, rise a Stormeyebrow and say "Impressive" (sorry I could not resist ) But in the end, Honor is still Splintered and once the Investiture leaks out of you, you fail the experiment

The A point is possible but acutally we can't find pros or contros to this. The B point is impossible, if Ambition died on FotS we well see his/her Investiture flow everywhere. It would be a Major Shardworld with at least a magic system and all the others conseguences. The Aviar can't be Splinter....A Splinter is sentient investiture, it's not a living creatures, on FotS we have nothing we could call Splinters and from the essay the Scholar didn't spot any kind of Investiture's overflow in the FotS's Cognitive...Remember also that being like Shards and Splinters have the tendence to "anchor themself" on the place they were. It would be really hard from a Shard to not invest in a place if he remain there too long. This is still true from Unheld power, without a mind to deny it from follow its standard route...It will soon bind Invest itself were it remains (and remember "the power want to be used") On a last point (but it's really meaningless about your theory) I see no reason from Ambition to suicide and no reason for Odium to lost him/her...Once they started to clash, Ambition has no way to run away from Odium....But this is actually meaningless from your point, both of Ambition's suicide or Odium murdering him/her

Yes He would be above the Allomancers and Feruchemist of that era, but not the "almighy freak" we know. Before He figure the Compound mechanics, He had only a slight better way to fill metalminds than regular Feruchemist thanks to Allomancy (something like "I burn pewter and I use the extra Strenght,Speed, endurance to store safety more than I could do usually) but this is still far from the explosive amount of the Compound

Why did you said the Mist snapped people only when the Well is full ? The Mist as far as we know Snapped people always...Simply almost all the popolation avoid the Mist during TFE and you can't discover it. Also a lot of people were already "broken" when they enter in the Mist so someone may Snap withou a real explicit effect. The only reason they discovered the "Mistsickness" in WoA is because Ruin empowered the Mist to make them last also during the day...so a lot of people had to expose themself to them

You have indeed right for the Bloodmaker, also if I don't remember wrong the only character we know with F-Healing and Savantism is TLR and He could worked out on his Cognitive Image (the pattern with the Healing works) as we saw for example He didn't revert to old when He tapped Healing. About the Spren as Release valve, I think the only reference to that, is about the uncontrolled power left on Roshar from Honor's Splintering (as counter example of Sel, where the Seon and Skaze aren't enought to provide a release valve to the D&D's Investiture) but I maybe I simply missed the WoB

I remember this, but I actually think there was also another one...But I can be wrong

Now we talk of two different things: Szeth can't heal Spiritual Damage (because the Honorblade doesn't give this ability to the weilder) but it's meaningless because a Surgebinder is unable to avoid fathal damage (a great headblow may kill him without chance to escape). The difference is in the way the powers works, also if Healing may almost recover from any kind of damage (if you have enough fuel): F-Gold and Stormlight's passive healing has some functional differences. The F-Gold (as any other Feruchemical ability) is a power strictly of the user, indipendent by external factor...This mean a Feruchemist may be "killed" and tap his metalmind to autoresurrect himself (maybe you don't like the "autoresurrect" word, but a guy who suffer a lethal blow and restore himself, it quite resurrected). A KR who recive a fatal blow would experience a "release of the bond" he would be no more a Surgebinder and have no more the ability to use Stormlight to heal himself...In the end He dies. (Notice that Healing may also allow someone to recover from a lethal Spiritual damage as "Shardblade cutted the spine" as we saw with Szeth....but if you have no more the power, you can't recover nothing)

The more likely WoB I found is this....cites both an heavy "head trauma" (very heavy) and both the fact TLR lost his head. http://www.theoryland.com/intvsresults.php?kw=decapitated

What is the difference between the head and any other part of the body when your Mind is indipendent by your brain ? Hoid for example may regrow a new head. Miles isn't afraid of someone blow up his head and Stormlight 2 Spoiler:

Just as mnemonic/logic rule: Magic Systems arise from the interaction between Shard(s) and Shardworld they Invested into. Therefore the Magic Systems of a specific Shardworld share the focus ;-)

The Metal in allomancy works as limiter to avoid to avoid too much power. Without this, the user may tap unlimited power...destroing himself (I have to find where it was written, I remember only this quotes)

You don't see the process from a Realmatic point of view. The Mind works indipendently from the any kind of biological function (and as you may see also an item develop some rudimental mind) so if you are headless, you are still able to think and give mental commands as every Cognitive Shadow or simply recent deadmen in the Cognitive Realm may prove. Spoiler from BoM:

I mean, all the costumers cheat and this would mean (in a twisted way) a fair game....of course there is need to remove all the games Man VS machine (like Slot machines)

Yes, not absent because the Mist snapped them. The Mist snapping happened from the Preservation's sacrifice to the Final Ascension (or the Allomancer ratio in the Basin would be very very highter). Notice also that now the Snapping works differently because Harmony find the previous one horrible....so probably now it's easier to reach the treeshold without traumatic experiences

@cometaryorbit actually no The Brain is meaningless in the Realmatic. Your Mind from the Cognitive may still tap your metalmind therefore I can't actually see the problem to be without head. Also Rashek was already beheaded in his early TLR's years and He did quite fine. About the Nicrosil part (and the Allumin part as far as It's relevant): The Nicrosil isn't real istantaneous just really really fast (as Alluminium), in a normal way mundane metal may be "leeched" in an istant (so you have right) but Invested metal (and for extension Metalminds and Spikes) isn't so easy. THe Metal's Invesiture resist to the Chromium Allomancy and you need to grab for seconds a Ferring to destroy his metalmind...I can't actually imagine how long you need to grab TLR to destroy his metalminds (notice that in a context where also TLR may use Chromium He would simply win the challenge). IF (for hypotesis) you manage to remove all the mundane metals from TLR, He would still be a Full Feruchemist with quite Infinite amount of avaliable charges and he may still tap power from the metal in his stomach to turn into regular metal and burn with standard allomancy.

I don't think we will see another Surge Savant. The RK are quite immune to this, thanks to their Stormlight's healing. Other Surge Fabrial will be probably not used as frequently as the Soulcaster (with the exception of a Progression Fabrial but in this case, you may heal your soul with the Fabrial itself)

I know it's the common theory...but as we see the Aluminum to be part of the 16 Metallic Art's metals (and some other istances where the Alluminium works as normal matter), I feel the "it doesn't interact with magic" wrong. There must be a reason the aluminum may interact with some and be a black hole for others. The Spiritual blankness may be an answer, maybe it's wrong but work quite well for now. PS: I don't know, maybe it would be interesting to start a topic with the Spiritual Emptiness of Alluminium alone.