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It must. Everything has a Cognitive aspect. This does mean Shai could theoretically stamp it shut if she had a lot of time on her hands.

GRAVITY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! In all seriousness, gravity is a field force and the difference between being on the surface and a mile in the air in earthlike gravity is so minimal it's usually ignored. Also, reverse lashings pull objects towards the affected object, while basic lashings change the direction gravity is pulling on the lashed object and work the way one would expect.

"Well she's persistant. Not very bright, though."

One thing we can conclude is that it is either additive or concave down relative to natural strength. Otherwise Ham would also be able to jump 7 feet in the air.

I think the reverse lashing also has to do with pressure. Szeth notes that it works better on things not touching the ground, which strikes me as not making physical sense for pure gravitational redirection. Even though Cognative aspects might interfere in redirecting it, that would only seem to make sense outside of buildings. However, pressure would be more easily able to force something inward if it's surrounded by air on all sides.

Teft's perspective seems to indicate that he was part of an organization dedicated to the Knights Radiant, but he got them all killed somehow. The organization, not the Knights.

I like it, but I liked the Simarilion when I first read it in third grade, so uh... Anyways, I think that any given plotline sometimes gets into boring parts, but generally each book has several plots in the interesting part of the cycle. The exception is Crossroads of Twilight, where most of the plots are on the downward side. Fortunately, that clears the way for Knife Of Dreams, where all of those plots cycle upwards.

Technically it's a matter of stored healing, so a normal gold ferring could theoretically survive one. They probably won't have enough, though. That being said, Inquisitors also have pewter, so headshots do less damage and they can survive normally fatal wounds.

Terminal velocity is 120 mph. Incidentally, the Mistborn falls thirty feet without pewter or steel and dies.

They need to be Savants to see the tiny lines from metal impurities. I'd guess they can't actually see metal inside people's bodies, because that would be a pretty excellent Allomancy detector and Sazed couldn't have smuggled in swallowed metalminds. They probably see sweat and dead skin to get images of people. I'd have to go with Chromium too. They've got enough power in Steel to outmatch Vin, who is stronger than Kelsier, who specializes in Iron and Steel. So using Steel against them has little future. Yeah, there's Vin's trick with the arrows, but that didn't exactly put them down for long.

He raised the Ashmounts, but Ruin intensified their activities. Scadrial was pretty messed up but stable before Ruin started meddling. They were getting thicker and cooling the planet further. The winter during The Final Empire included no snow whatsoever, while the one in Well Of Ascension had quite a lot of snow.

I think everything in the Cosmere has a spiritweb-ish thing, like how they all have cognitive aspects. Human spiritwebs definitely change over time, according to Shai, but apparently not so as to render people to have different magic or keep them from accessing metalminds absent Hemalurgy or similar influences.

I think mixed circles magnify total power, while all-female circles lose some power, and the exact extent to which power is magnified or lost varies by how close a mixed circle is to an even mix. I think the bit where a 13-member circle can shield anyone is a special exception to the rules, because there's certainly thirteen people with less power between them than Rand has, and shielding is a matter of simple brute force.

I personally found Rand's second world outright creepy. Aviendha and Elayne are not like that. Elayne seemed, well, airheaded, like a self-absorbed party girl. And I can't imagine Aviendha being up for nursery duty. If there's no one to fight and no pressing responsibilities, I'd expect her to take up mountain climbing, deep sea diving, or space exploration. They lost something other than the capacity to do evil, something much more important. Rand's first world wasn't entirely peaceful and it wasn't eternal, but the people in it were still people. Also, the bit where Elayne was sitting alone in the garden because no one needed a queen actually struck me as rather strange and ominous, hinting at something rotten in the core of the paradise. I know people like to say government only exists because humans aren't perfect, but I don't really believe that. If anything, I'd expect her (or her subordinates) to be constantly besieged by polite pairs of people saying that the boundary between their properties is unclear and could she settle that, or presenting their cases for sending resources to construction instead of food production. Sure, there wouldn't be any need for police or military, but government is more than just those.

Going to try and match all of these up:

1. Yes. They're Splinters of a Shard, and Shards have finite power, because Preservation became less powerful than Ruin by expending a finite amount of power. That being said, Shards have a lot of power. The limit may be higher than the entire population of the Cosmere. 2. The Royal Locks are somehow tied up with inheritance law. It's not purely genetic or even spiritually genetic. 3. No. Vasher's massive emergency Breath reserve can be transferred in the normal fashion. What's difficult is them actually having children. 4. I'm not entirely sure you even can. Probably more-or-less the same thing that happens if you add more Breaths to a normal awakened object, whatever that is. Note that once upon a time people needed 50 breaths to Awaken a Lifeless before the Five Scholars figured out a better Command, so I expect it wouldn't be too dramatic. 5. Sort Of. It's the same principle, but their cognitive aspect isn't being edited. Basically, instead of becoming convinced they're something different and their physical aspect changing to match, their physical aspect changes to match how they think of themselves without their self-image being altered.

I think it's partly because the Wheel Of Time suffers somewhat from a weak second act, only over a forteen book series instead of a three-hour movie.

I think the Well would have gotten weaker but never entirely failed. Ruin could have killed everyone but not physically destroyed the world.

The visons are clearly no longer accurate. The Aiel have a role now, and they didn't in the visions.

When Fain's new name showed up, I burst out laughing. Someone needs to be more careful carving her Essence Marks. Demandred and Graendal were seriously impressive in this book. It's like the entire collection of legends about the Forsaken's power and skill were secretly about the two of them. Actually, impersonating twelve other people just to provide alternate targets for people gunning for him seems exactly like something Demandred would do. Of course, there is the question of where the prophecies about the Dragonslayer came fr- He planted them, didn't he. I would not put anything past that man. I also loved how, after everyone slowly struggled to come to the realization that the Great Captains had been subverted, Mat looked at the battlefield for maybe thirty seconds and said, "Huh. Gareth Bryne is a darkfriend." I also totally called Demandred being in charge of Shara at least two books in advance. I am proud.

The only way to be able to burn two metals but not all of them is Hemalurgy. It's just how Allomancy works, people are Mistborn or single-metal Mistings.

I don't think Plate is bound to anything, at least presently. Radiants might bond to their Plate, but right now no one has done that.

Ati and Leras were humans, but their home planet was apparently destroyed.

Well, if anyone tried to steal the Plate and Blade, the other Shardbearers would probably murder him and give them back. Though it's also possible the Blade registers a distinction between giving it away and loaning it. There's a lot of magic in the Cosmere where it's important to be intending to do something for that to happen. Elantrians can't accidentally create or destroy Aons, just saying a Command doesn't automatically make it take effect unless the speaker is trying to perform Awakening, and so forth.

No. Breeze explicitly narrates that he cannot.