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No, aluminum cannot be Awakened.

We currently do not know what happened between those two points, however we do know that those three worldhoppers are part of an organization known as the "Seventeenth Shard" so likely he was recruited rather than just figuring things out. (Though it wouldn't strain credulity that he could, since he has easy access to a Shardpool, the problem being that the Cognitive Realm around Sel is incredibly dangerous due to the Dor.) It's possible they are doing both. We know at least that Hoid, while older than a human could normally get, hasn't lived through all of the years since the Shattering. The Spiritual Realm has to do with the souls of things, the Ideals they embody and their Connections to other things. The Cognitive has to do with the minds of things (as everything in the cosmere "thinks" to a certain extent, though not necessary in an "intelligent" way, see "the stick"), how the object views itself and how others view it. The Cognitive Realm is also closely tied to location in the Physical Realm, the Spiritual Realm not so much. So far the Cognitive Realm is the main method for Worldhopping that we are aware of. Yeah Brandon has mentioned that the way Rashek was prolonging his life was not perpetually viable and that he would have hit a wall at some point. He hasn't said how long it would have taken to reach that wall however. Brandon has repeatedly RAFO'd questions about this, but has implied that we will be getting an answer sooner rather than later. (I think he may have said there might be something about it in Bands, but don't quote me on that) Yeah after he died Kelsier did not "pass on" but instead stuck around as a Cognitive shadow. We know he held Preservation briefly between Leras' death and Vin's Ascension (he has two brief "cameos" in Hero of Ages, he's the voice that tells Spook to send the note about being pierced by metal and he speaks to Vin right before she Ascends about the mists, the whole "hiding you, protecting you, giving you power" bit is actually him). We don't really know definitely very much else. The Returned don't only have stillborn babies, they can conceive. Though there is some process involved that we are not aware of. Treledees was actually lying there (or at least half-lying). Brandon mentions this in the Warbreaker annotations. I believe at one point that Vasher mentions that the Royal Family has a fragment of a divine Breath within them and that it is that which gives them the Royal Locks (which is just a watered-down version of the Returned's own shapechanging ability). I don't think it would be weird at all? Because Jakamav is a jerk. Generally speaking spren aren't inherently good or evil, they are beings of nature and so such descriptors don't really apply. Why some types of spren don't like each other has more to do with philosphical differences. In WoK it is made clear that Syl really does not like lying and Cryptics are literally "liespren". It is entirely possible, but a very common theory is that the Heralds have been corrupted in some way (which is why Nale is hunting down Surgebinders in the name of "Justice" or why Shalash is going around and destroying art). Many creatures on Roshar have symbiotic bonds with spren.

The fact that it is not mentioned on the wiki is not a compelling reason. Wiki editors have the potential to fallible, just like anybody else, and the wiki is not able to include information that is not publicly available. So while I'd argue it is very likely that Abrasion could increase friction, that ability has not shown up in the books. Ergo it isn't listed in the power-set. (Though really it should go in a theory section, and be included in some way.)

If you alloy a metalmind the charge is lost. Sorry. (If you search the mistborn forum for "allotting a metalmind" there are a couple threads that have wob on this)

Eh, I just reread the trilogy and at one point in WoA, when Sazed is helping out with the refugees he mentions that he uses his copper minds to remember their names. It seems pretty much exactly like what Rashek was doing, no compounding necessary.

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Yeah I would not put much stock in those being called "void-glyphs", since that is by no means a canon name for them. They are only refered to that way on the wiki because I needed something to call them when I was uploading them.

Yeah, that isn't a reference to Brandon, but to Bandersnatch Group Inc. which is for Robert Jordan/The Wheel of Time what Dragonsteel Entertainment is for Brandon. It is the company that handles the rights for the books and any adaptations. This is why I've never been a fan of "Bandersnatch" being used as a nickname for Brandon, it's too murky.

Cool, thanks for asking this! You might find this interesting but in the past Brandon has been asked about the Voidbringers holding Stormlight perfectly and he said that Szeth was wrong.

That would make the literal essence of Preservation more powerful than the literal essence of Ruin in Ruin's own magic system. I'd find it much more likely that it has a much narrower, if powerful, effect. Much like how lerasium and atium act in Allomancy (one grants all of the Allomantic abilities, the other grants limited precognition) but opposite. Each acts like a wildcard of sorts in its own system, but has a single ability in the other.

Just merged this into the existing thread, there really didn't need to be another one.

Because unfortunately Brandon has referred to it as harmonium (though I will point out that we don't actually know whether it is an alloy or not). Ostensibly this is because "Sazed didn't like the name sazedium". I'm still not happy about it.

Excellent, glad we can finally put that discussion to rest.

Actually no her mission was not to just die in front of Lightsong. Brandon does comment on this in the annotations:

We actually do have WoB on this, the seasons aren't actually seasons, and are more just a translation quirk. From Writing Excuses Season 9 Episode 23 (link to transcript)

I just recently read this and I really, really loved it. I can't wait for the sequel! It definitely feels like some sort of parallel Earth, (Albion=England, Aurora=Spain, Olympia=Greece, etc.) but I'm curious what the rationalization behind that is. Just who were the Builders? And how do part-cat people exist? Ahh I just want more!

The actual conversion is just 1.1, Rosharan hours are a different length as ours as well.

As ScottLeft said, this has already been figured out. It was actually figured out back in April 2014. In the future it might help to do a forum search to make sure there isn't already a thread about the topic. Also I'm going to lock this thread now.

Brandon has said that Oathbringer is the name of a book in-world. That's actually the opposite of what is going on. Brandon definitely planned on all of the titles being in-world books, that is why the series is named The Stormlight Archive.

Eh I'd still email Brandon first, as ultimately it would be his decision to reveal stuff like that. And yes Isaac is the one who designed the glyphs (he actually has designed all of the various scripts and symbols so far).

My apologies, I should have been more clear that some children /could/ adapt but that not all of them would, the way I phrased it made it seem like a given when that is far from the case. I strongly disagree with your use of "never" however, it is possible (but difficult) for lefties to become proficient with their right-hand, or even ambidextrous.

Actually WoB is that Forgery is the most Spiritual of the magics we've seen.

The God Beyond is not Adonalsium, but is a belief that is starting to creep into the cosmere that there is something greater out there beyond even the Shards. Wayne also mentions it in AoL, Hoid mentions it in WoR, and Shai mentions it using the name the "Unknown God" in TES.

Forcing lefties to learn to do stuff with their right hand is actually a practice that was really common in our world until relatively recently. Particularly in cultures that write left-to-right. If they start early enough kids can adapt to pretty much anything.

I think the point Landis is trying to make is that Elantris was built in the shape of Aon Rao, but that Aon Rao is not based on Elantris. (We really don't know either way, though I'm inclined to agree).