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So this is actually a thing that happened two weeks ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting it... Sorry! So on October 30 Alex Flagg from Crafty Games, the people who make the MAG, did a chat interview in the #rpgnet room over on tinychat. A transcript can be found here. Nothing super revelatory. Supplements for the skaa and the Nobles are both in the works. Alex would like to do a supplement based on the kandra but really wants his team to be prepared for doing it. Also Realmatics has a minor influence on things in that the Attributes and Standings both consist of a Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual trait. (which might have been noticed before, but it was the first I'd heard about it)

Definitely Available White Sand Aether of Night Possibly Available (I'm like 75% sure these are available, but they are unfinished or something?) Mistborn Prime Final Empire Prime (other books?) I do know that he will not send out WoK Prime (or Dragonsteel, for that you need to get the BYU copy) Anyway I would ask Peter, he should know. Or ask Brandon.

My best advice is to send another email, he's gotten a lot better at replying this year. And he does explicitly ask those he sends it out to that they not share it.

Mental Commands! One of the benefits of the Tenth Heightening is the ability to Awaken without vocalization, though it takes some training. (see chapter 58) No but their divine Breaths are splinters of Endowment.

Another curious fact is that Adolin and Renarin don't have the same ratio of Black to Blond, Renarin has more Black than Adolin.

I'm not saying he designed Allomancy, i'm saying he might have taken the existing mechanical Allomancy system (Allomantech as it were) and fiddled with its capabilities and inserted its effects into genetic code. He did not design the metal chart, it came into existence when he and Ruin Invested in Scadrial. He tweaked it in terms of the mist-Snappings because A ) he needed some way for atium to be consumed to counteract Ruin and B ) Cadmium and Bendalloy are really hard to produce so it's not like the people would have access to them in the first place.

Responses to (some) of you We really know very little about them (pretty much just that they exist). I refer to the genetic variants that way because that's what Brandon referred to them as in the original WoB. (sorry for not talking about the begining part of your post, but the whole magi-tech vs. bio-magic thing is something I have very murky thoughts on at the moment so I don't feel I can respond well at this time) I agree that the genetic manifestations were necessarily discovered first, perhaps that is why Preservation created them. He knew that he couldn't rely on them developing the mechanical manifestations before the conflict with Ruin really became a problem. I do want to be clear that I while I think the mechanical manifestations might have existed first that does not mean I think they were actually in use first. It's complicated. The conventional thought is that the mists are just bringing to light latent Allomantic genes, which is supported by the fact that the Terris are completely immune. However the mistsickness-Snappings are distinctly unnatural (by design) in that it only affects 16% of a group (or as close to 16% as is possible) and that 1/16th of those afflicted are Seers. What are the chances that at least 16% of a group /always/ have latent allomantic genes? Granted I could be wrong, but the genes have to have come from somewhere. Moogle has shared the WoB's on the subject (thank you!) but I would say the koloss-blooded are not a good example. They are a direct result of Sazed changing the koloss into a true-breeding species, not generations of hemalurgic inheritance.

I don't know if she's finished it yet but she's been liveblogging it. (It's hilarious even though I haven't read the chapters)

The funny thing is that back before we had a name for them we asked Brandon for something to refer to them as, until he revealed the canon name, and the name he gave was "truthspren".

Actually I believe technically mistwraiths are not immortal, kandra are immortal. If I remember correctly, and I don't remember where this is revealed (probably the annotations?) mistwraiths only have a 50 year lifespan.

When all of you are discussing "Bondspren" do you mean the Nahel spren or bindspren (the ones that show up when Kaldin Full Lashes something)? Because the latter should definitely be considered as natural forces-type spren. They are attracted to the use of the Adhesion Surge, which is considered by the Rosharans to be one of the fundamental forces.

Oh yeah I don't think there is anything going on with the heliodor thing, it's just a neat bit of retroactive foreshadowing. I view it in the same vein as the apothecary paying Kaladin with sapphire mark. And the double-eye thing is mentioned in the Ars Arcanum, must have missed it.

Okay so as some of you may know, Worldbuilders is an annual charity drive, started by Pat Rothfuss, that centers around the Science Fiction and Fantasy community. While I was browsing the auction section looking at the Brandon related lots I came across some new information (at least new to me). While both of these items are available in Brandon's store their store pages do not reveal this information. Important bits bolded and italicized Neither of these are particularly earth-shattering, but I do think they are interesting. Especially the Heliodor bit, since that is the gem of his Order.

Just a note that we do *not* know Endowment's gender so referring to them as "she/her" is misleading.

So Brandon mentioned it again on Reddit and this time Peter has supplied some more details:

So welcome back to another of my Random Speculations, theories that don't really have enough support to be an actual Theory but that I nevertheless like the idea of. I'm not saying this is how I think things are, but I do think it is a possibility to be considered. The Three Metallic Arts consist of Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy. One of these however, is not like the other. Allomancy and Feruchemy both require certain genetic codes in order to be used, Hemalurgy does not. However we know that the Southern Scadrians have different versions of the Metallic Arts, that are mechanical rather than genetic. Why did two different manifestations of the same systems emerge? Well we know very little about the mechanical Arts so let's look at the genetic Arts. How does one become a Feruchemist? Aside from Hemalurgy the only known way is to inherit the genes for Feruchemy from a parent. So where then did the genes come from? We know they only appeared in the Terris population, and that it was given to them by Preservation long ago. How does one become an Allomancer? Again aside from Hemalurgy, one must either inherit the genes for Allomancy from a parent, get Snapped by the Mists, or burn lerasium. The later two being the source of the genes. So we have three sources: a direct gift from Preservation, a mechanism put into place by Preservation, and the physical body of Preservation. I don't know about you but that smells like Shardic meddling to me. We know Preservation can alter some things, he swapped out the external Temporal metals in the Mist-snapping mechanism. So here is my random speculation: The mechanical manifestations of the Metallic Arts are the original/natural manifestations of the Metallic Arts. The genetic manifestations are a result of Preservation meddling and inserting the abilities of Allomancy and Feruchemy directly into humans. Why would he do this? Well I don't really have a good answer for that. Perhaps with Feruchemy it was an effort to help preserve the Prophecies of the Hero of Ages, and that genetic Allomancy is better at consuming atium, to help combat Ruin. I just don't know. I could be entirely wrong about all of this, I'm not convinced by this but it is an idea to be considered. What do all of you think?

http://store.brandonsanderson.com/signed-books/ The question doesn't have to be about the book in question (I generally do that but IIRC Feather asked about Renarin in her TES for example) How specific is a hard question to answer, but I would err on the side of more specific. I've gotten two books, the first I asked whether the magic fish of the Purelake had symbiotic spren bonds and the second I asked what abilities a Cognitive shadow would have on Roshar. The first got a definitive yes, while the second got a vague "they can have to many effects to say".

Did you post about that? I don't recall it, and I'm fairly interested!

It's actually not that difficult, just incredibly time consuming, and I just haven't had the time to really work on it lately. Thank you all for being so incredibly understanding, but it will be worth the wait, I promise you. Kurkistan, keeper of bets, are you reading this? If so pay attention: If people are disappointed when it gets posted, I will eat my hat!

It's totally possible to Soulcast Allomantically-viable metals, though alloys are a bit tricky since you have to get the ratio just right. Of course the exception to this is lerasium and atium. (source) (sources)

I also think it is unlikely for there to be a Type V, the categories as they stand are just too neat, another would just be messy. I would disagree on the "Retrievability" axis, there really is no indication that the Breath could be removed from Nightblood (and I get the feeling that if Vasher could have done it he would have done it). I would say the axis is between "Corpse" and "Not-Corpse". @Outis, Lifeless aren't exclusively made from human corpses, Vasher makes a squirrel Lifeless at one point.

Aether is trunked. Aspects from it have been cannibalized from it, such as "Decay" being reworked to become "Ruin" from Mistborn.

Actually she doesn't remember it, Reen told her what happened.

Why is it terrible? It's no less arbitrary than the restoration of Elantris. Unless you mean that Harmony's Ascension is in the middle of the timeline whereas the Elantris is restored near the begining?

Yes, it can be found in the Dangerous Women anthology edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dezois.