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  1. Landis963
    But how many of them point to Melhi being a girl, instead of a guy hiding behind various and sundry robotic masks? Everything about Sophie could have been a lie, once the machine was revealed, up to and including her backstory and gender. ETA: This is why Brandon was unsatisfied with how the removal of the epilogue affected Melhi's character, because while Sophie is bold, reckless, and realized, having her be merely a puppet of Melhi calls her boldness, recklessness, and her authenticity as a character in her own right into question. (Esp. since the epilogue shows that "Melphie" (that name's growing on me) was being entirely truthful with Kai, minus a few inconvenient details)
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    Mistborn takes place several hundred years after Elantris, i.e. after the Shaod was repaired. For Spanky to be an Elantrian, he would need to be a Hoed to act the way he does. The timeline just doesn't match up. (Of course, Hoid could have just nabbed the first Elantrian to be dumped into the pool and kept him moored at the Selish Shardpool, but that's a long time in a hostile environment for a Hoed) Also, for the White Robe to apply, Spanky would need to have gone Hoed within days of his exile, or at least before New Elantris was established (because otherwise he'd be in an eye-watering outfit of garish and ugly colors, thanks to Sarene).
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    If we're still talking Hemalurgically, you can be a Mistborn+Ferring or a Full Feruchemist+Misting easily. Naturally, however, is much more difficult, and has only resulted in Misting+Ferring thus far. (And of course the purebred powers)
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    Same here, only it's that my phone is too small to see the page.
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    Yeah, much of the story is geared around Kai's assumption that Melhi is a guy. However, the twist takes on foreshadowing if you've played Fallout 4's Automatron DLC, especially if you subconsciously read Melhi's lines in the Border State in the voice of the Mechanist from that same DLC. So one can see the parallel, although the Mechanist is far more benevolently motivated than Melhi is.
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    Argh, I thought for sure that had been confirmed. My bad.
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    It definitely is one of the Shardpools. The Well of Ascension, from Mistborn, is identical to the mysterious pool, apart from color. (There was a WoB to this effect in the Hero of Ages Q&A that started it all) Other Shardpools include the one in the Horneater Mountains where Rock met Hoid, and the one mentioned in the SoS broadsheet where some Cosmere-blind correspondent ran into someone with a demonic-looking red-and-black face that seemed oddly stiff in the few moments before she fainted dramatically. (This, BTW, was a fake-out from the writing team, who guessed that we the fanbase would assume that this was a Parshendi, when they had something very different in mind) Likewise, the voice that Raoden hears is has been confirmed to be a cognitive shadow of either Devotion or Dominion, again by WoB.
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    With Cat! Like! Tread! Upon our prey we steal!
  9. Landis963
    Hrm. I stand corrected. Maybe all the Investiture stuff is at the bottom and Dusk+Vathi didn't get low enough to be affected by it? Or maybe it's just a smaller concentration of Investiture, enough so one needs to really look for it and perhaps provide some Investiture of their own in order to worldhop from First of the Sun.
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    I was assuming that Pools of Investiture don't feed into rivers, as the one on First of the Sun does.
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    First of the Sun does not have a Shardpool, the pool with the grubs in it was fed by snowmelt. Likewise, the Purelake is just a lake, no worldhopping possible.
  12. Landis963
    Shardpool because although I'm inanimate, I'd have all the power. Would you rather live on Dayside or Darkside?
  13. Landis963
    With a few exceptions (Alonoe, looking at you) who'd probably bond Dominion instead.
  14. Landis963
    What? First I've heard of this.
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    Spoken like a man who has never needed a PR department.
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    I use the same username on YouTube as here, so unless someone's brought this up independently of me (in which case I'd like to think they are a rather astute individual), I am the only person to make this point. Thanks for responding, and of course I understand the position of RAFO. That will just make me work all the harder to solve the puzzle of our esteemed narrator. >:) (Pity about the art, though, I was so certain I'd picked up on some really subtle clue. Ah well, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar)
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    He's RAFO'd this and other Cognitive Realm appearance questions for ages now. In this case I can only assume he's planning to have Adien or someone visit the Cognitive Realm from Sel on-camera.
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    No stamps in Elantris is via WoB. And Dakhor/ChayShan might very well have diminished in power outside of their respective home territories, we just wouldn't know because we haven't seen the power used in Fjordell proper. (Or Jindo proper, in the case of ChayShan) And clearly the rate of how quickly the power fails differs from nation to nation, e.g. Shuden's kata in Kae was much more effective than Reoden's Aon Tia in Teod. Regardless, I am of the opinion that once the Dakhor transformation takes hold, it continues being powered by the Dor as though they were in the place where the transformation happened, i.e. Dakhor Monastery, Fjordell.
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    Aarik is Scadrian, I presume? Cognitive Realm example is a place of "darkness and mist", the name "Aarik" mimics Earth names in ways that violate the rules of the other shardworlds and minor worlds we've seen (e.g. no Aon, no Vorinist almost-palindromy, no repeated consonant sounds, etc.), mentions of "dark peaks" that could either be ashmounts or the mountain range separating the Elendel Basin from the Roughs, and the clincher: Mistborn fanart all over the video. (Fanart of the anteverdant period of TFE, WoA, and HoA, no less, which makes me consider that perhaps Aarik was from before the Catacendre).
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    That would be the temptation, yes, but if Rashek knew what all the metals did (and the Well of Ascension probably would have told him), he'd know that Ruin would take every tool he made and turn it against him. No need to give him more stuff to play with than necessary. Or try to, in the case of the kandra and the Resolution.
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    Killing Rashek isn't the problem. The problem is Ruin getting his hands on a source of Chromium. (And BTW there would still be Mistings of Chromium and Nicrosil - only cadmium and bendalloy were replaced by atium and malatium) Once those two things were found, All Ruin needed to do is bind it to a spike and give it to an inquisitor.
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    Where would he get the nicrosil? Actually, better question, where would he get the chromium? And how would he hide it from Ruin? Because if there's a single slip, hello Leecher Inquisitors.
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    I think the feruchemist would know what's in his copperminds by default (Sazed had one he habitually used for religions, in addition to the others for other types of knowledge). So strictly speaking, the note wouldn't be necessary. However, the trauma idea in general is an trauma psychologist's dream. Have a troubling case of PTSD? Hand him an unkeyed coppermind and tell him to "store it all away." If the triggers go off, the visions they would normally play would have a big sign blocking them labeled "this memory stored in coppermind."
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    Yeah, Khriss has more interesting (and more close-at-hand) variants on the Dor to analyse, like Aons. (Esp. since I suspect both the Shardpools are in Sycla).
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