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Well if it makes it to the point where there will be two or more exclusive dice may I suggest Single Transferable Vote? Basically every body ranks the metals in the order that they want them (first choice, second choice, etc.) In order to "win" a metal will have to get a certain percentage of the vote (if there are two exclusives this would be 50%, if there are 3 then it would be 33%, basically 100% divided by how many metals there need to be) If no metal gets at least 50% then the metal with the lowest percentage get's eliminated and those votes go that persons second choice. Repeat eliminating the lowest percentage until you end up with however many are needed. (I probably explained this badly, watch the video I linked, and the footnotes in the description, that will explain things better)

Denth was one of the Five Scholars, so he was Returned in his own right. Though he does possess the Royal Locks, which would indicate he's descended from Vo...

I would disagree. This stuff isn't /necessary/ for the plot of the book. Is it stuff that is interesting to know, yes. But I'd rather it be revealed outside of the book than shoehorned in somewhere. The annotations are where Brandon can talk about the extra stuff. And some of this probably /will/ be explained in Nightblood.

ZenBossanova shared this report over on Tor.com in the re-read:

Actually we do know that Cultivation isn't dead, there's WoB that Cultivation's holder is still alive. (scratch that misread you as "we don't" instead of "don't we") As for the Stormfather being around at the same time as Honor, there are certain things that indicate that, but it has never been satisfactorily proved, in my opinion, but I'd rather not argue about it.

Also if you re-read the prologue Vasher mentions he could have up to the fifth heightening:

So, update on this. I asked stormfather on tumblr to ask about this and according to Brandon I'm wrong. The plague was caused by worldhoppers introducing the common cold.

Yeah we've known that lerasium alloys turn you into mistings for forever. It's mentioned on the Allomancy chart as well. The double misting question is interesting because previously Brandon said there is no canonical way to burn more than one metal without being a mistborn or using Hemalurgy. The Nightwatcher/Stormfather makes no sense to me, Cultivation is still alive so she shouldn't have a Cognitive shadow like the Stormfather? Also stormfather on tumblr went to this signing and this is their report: So it looks like one of my random speculations was wrong, but a plauge of the sniffles is hilarious to make up for it.

This keeps popping up but that is /not/ what Brandon said. He said that Vasher was in the original draft of The Way of Kings, so he's been on Roshar 12 years "our time".

I don't remember him livestreaming the Rysn thing, he posted the videos but there was no chat that he was looking at, it wasn't live. It was the magic hair alien story that was livestreamed with Worldbuilders/Waygate.

There's also this, referencing the Middlefest flashback scene where Shallan notices Hoid putting something in his drink: (source)

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Actually there /were/ Allomancers before Rashek's Ascension, Alendi was a Seeker after all. The Mist was snapping people then as it did during the trilogy, but since no one had ever consumed lerasium there were only mistings, and weak ones at that.

Leinton on tumblr went and asked the following questions:

Alloy is book one of a four part series, not a standalone. Yes Brandon said that he plotted out the next three books like a trilogy, but you know what else he plotted as a trilogy? Words of Radiance. Alloy was originally meant to be a short story, not a novel (and certainly not a series) it grew as he wrote it. When he finished, and realized that there were going to be more books he sat down and made an outline for the last three books. Also Blaze is correct in saying that the "second trilogy" Brandon is referring to is the modern trilogy.

Frost is a character in Dragonsteel (which is /very/ hard to get a hold of). He's very likely a dragon, and the person Hoid is writing to in the Letter. They would have been on Yolen, the "original" shardworld, at least it is where humanity first emerged in the cosmere. Not all of the Shardworlds came into existence after the Shattering, some of them had people before hand. Adonalsium once visited Roshar.

Read And Find Out It's a phrase Brandon inherited from Robert Jordan, basically it's Brandon's default answer for questions he doesn't want to answer. Sometimes because it will spoil something in a future book, sometimes because an answer would make people focus on the wrong things. It does not always mean something will be covered in the books however.

@ Moogle I would say "Ay-don-all-see-um" would be more accurate

Yeah it's not a contradiction, Dark One is his next teen series, after the Rithmatist is done (so 2018/19 probably). Also Moogle the credit for that goes with Ash, all I did was indicate you spelled Merin correctly. And it was a good idea to ask about Dark One, we had heard about the electricity-world before but now we have a story to which it is connected.

I thought a person's Preservation/Ruin-Invesiture /was/ their innate investiture?

Here you go: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/14404-manchester-signing-august-5-2014/page-2?p=166897#entry166897

It's going to be accessible through the Cognitive Realm, because that's the nature of the Cognitive Realm. There's really no reason to think it wouldn't. (And technically Shadesmar is only a /region/ of the Cognitive Realm fyi) Actually it is decidedly /not/ clear. Brandon has talked about the differences between major and minor shardworlds and minor ones are defined by lower levels of Investiture (because they don't have a Shard) as a result they don't have a formal magic system (which First of the Sun doesn't have) but rather the magic affects nature (resulting in things like Aviar or Shades).

You know I'd be more than willing to help you on this. All I'd need is access to that internal Dragonsteel wiki, no big deal, right?

We don't know.

The chronology page is, somewhat, supported by WoB which have been decidedly imprecise. Elantris takes place "hundreds but not thousands of years" before the Mistborn trilogy. TES takes place sometime after Elantris. (Mistborn trilogy) Warbreaker takes place sometime between Hero of Ages and The Way of Kings. Stormlight takes place before Alloy of Law (though likely fairly close to it, as previously they were described as contemporaneous)