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Highstorms throw such a wrench into weather patterns and the jet stream that it's surprising they have identifiable seasons period.

I don't think aluminum automatically blocks allomantic effects when present in any quantity. I'd guess aluminum oxide has no blocking effect at all, because no one in the Final Empire noticed odd behavior with sapphires. Granted, they're small, but over a thousand years I'd expect someone to have noticed something funky with them, given the amount of jewelry the average noble allomancer encounters. Plus, being imbedded in a living creature supposedly prevented metal objects from being affected by allomancy, and we know for a fact that's not true. I suspect aluminum has a blocking effect proportional to thickness, if it blocks iron and steel at all. We only have confirmation of blocking emotional allomancy and being unaffected by the external physicals, after all. I suspect that if this would work, Wax would have assumed that Miles' gun was just lined with aluminum, not made from it.

I think only one person recieves visions at a time. I don't know the date system, however, so I can't be sure if the potter died before Dalinar started getting them.

I suspect darkeyes used to be in charge because lighteyes didn't exist outside of the Radiants, who weren't in the social structure. Eye color genetics certainly don't seem to work like they do on Earth, because blue is recessive. Given that mixed marriges do happen, some of the children have light eyes, and there have been no mentions of darkeyes having lighteyed children, there must be something extremely odd with the inheritance patterns. I genuinely don't know how they'd work to get those results genetically.

I think it's just amount of Stormlight. Since Shallan seems to be from the order associated with blood, a garnet should be the best for her to enter Shadesmar with. I imagine how much light is needed depends on how long they stay.

The reason gravitational acceleration is fixed is because force is proportional to mass, and acceleration is proportional to force and inversely proportional to mass. Here, the force is doubled and mass is held constant, so acceleration rises. Terminal velocity would also increase but not double, because terminal velocity is due to air resistance, which rises non-linearly with speed.

I think that Aons have to be drawn in a physical manner to be permanent. Certainly we don't see any freestanding Aons in light, even though one of the Aons Raoden experiments with is Aon Ashe, which is used on the lighting plates. If it were purely a matter of how they're drawn, he'd probably have made permanent versions of that because his base was a permanent Aon. It might also be due to complex Realmantic reasons, where drawing it physically focuses the creator's mind on permanence. Alternately, it could just be that freestanding Aons can't operate permanently in the same manner as the physical ones. Of the known physical Aons, for light and teleportation, they're activated by touching the object the Aon is written on and apparently can be used by non-Elantrians. It might be necessary to have a physical object to allow toggling.

I don't have the time to read through these posts at present, but Aons can't actually be deactivated by destroying their physical forms when they're carved into stone or similar. Only Elantrians can shut them down. That would probably be why the Elantris Aon Rao reactivated despite major collapses in the city.

Nope, the Shin in the interludes say there are currently no others like Szeth. While theoretically they could be lying, the man talking to them had no idea what Truthless meant beyond obedient and good work ethic, so there was no particular reason to lie to him.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Alloy of Law was avaliable on Nook and on a school library shelf at least a year ago. Now, street date on Emperor's Soul was broken pretty badly, but that's in a different series.

I suspect it was not the killing blow, for a couple reasons. 1. Shallan apparently obtained the Shardblade by killing her father, so she couldn't have killed him with a weapon she didn't have. 2. There was apparently a lot of blood, which is not typical of Shardblade kills.

No, he knew how to, or at least claimed he did. Her father actually had it on him.

I think that filled metalminds can't be burned except for compounding, but partially filled ones will be x% charged and 100-x% uncharged, and the uncharged parts can be burned. Regarding nicrosil on his body, note that his bracers apparently contained only a small amount of Atium. I'm not sure exactly how they were structured for that to happen, but it seems like they were too large for the amount of Atium used in them, so maybe they had a nicrosil wash or something and Vin & company assumed the covering was an inactive metal used to hide the Atium.

I expect it would have decent odds of shattering the chestplate, thus essentially immoblizing the Shardbearer.

Actually, every other metal took exactly the same amount of time to recover from. It was brought up as a sign of the supernatural nature of the event. I think it was 16 hours for regular mistings and 16 days for Atium mistings, or something like that.

In the prologue, Kalak explicitly narrates that Honorblades are weapons "beyond even Shardblades", so I'm pretty sure they're not a special type of Shardblade but something entirely different.

I think the answer to why Scadrial's magic system is weaker is that it straight-up does not have any form of supplement to the original user. AonDor has a power-boosting Aon the size of an entire city, Dakhor powers require death, as many as fifty for a counter-magic glyph and presumably dozens per monk, Awakening requires Breath, and for more powerful uses lots of it, and Surgebinding gobbles down Stormlight. For comparison, neither Allomancy nor Feruchemy have any input except metal, while with Hemalurgy killing eleven people gets a Steel Inquisitor, and killing fifty would be able to produce two Marsh-level Inquisitors.

Medieval Europe could make mundane plate mail and swords, but they were still usually passed down. I doubt more Shardplate and blades existed than there were Radiants, and because no non-Radiants apparently had Shardplate I expect they couldn't make more than that.

Durapewter probably could block a sword, it's certainly up to withstanding the force of flinging open the cache doors, which is considerable. Vin's durapewter headbutt made a Thug's head outright explode, so I expect even a Dakhor monk would go down with shattered ribs from a punch.

He believes it's unique to his particular weapon, which is certainly plausible given its differences from other Shardblades.

When a man has the capacity to cut your soul in half, one generally does what he says. And if someone were to successfully defeat that man and steal his sword, then he would become a lighteyes. Also, it's probably been 7000+ years since the first Shardblade wielders. That's plenty of time for there to be an awful lot of them. I expect the strict divide came a while later.

IIRC, it actually came from Jasnah's notebook.

Do we have a direct quote from a Herald in-book specifying 99? Not a quote from a religious text probably made a couple thousand years later? That being said, it's quite possible the number is accurate, which leads to the question of why. Since the 99th desolation ended with a choice by the Heralds, it's not as simple as a Shard saying it would be so.

I think he meant that there simply were no lighteyes before Shardblades were used. I rather suspect that the reason lighteyes are in charge is pretty simply that anyone who picks up a Shardblade becomes lighteyed. And the collective of people with Shardblades can dictate policy to everyone else.

Aona and Skai died long before Elantris was set. It is highly unlikely anything could have prevented Odium from trashing the planet after Splintering their Shards.