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Dalinar's Boon and Bane. Hoid's name is less important than the rest of him. Would you rather: drain into a goldmind, or drain into a bronzemind?

Shu-Dereth is built around the idea of compressing people into roles and boxes, and is thus uniquely suited to force such absorption of cultures into the whole. Admittedly, we don't know how long Hrovell remained free of Fjorden's control (if it ever was), nor how its culture is integrated into the rest of Fjordell, which makes such speculation murky at best.

They're all different motivations, though. Nan Balat was doing it to vent feelings of frustration regarding his (really, really shitty) home life. Tonk Fah was doing it for fun. Forch, however, is doing it for curiosity, to "see what's inside." Beyond the actions themselves, there's no real connection we could draw. Endowment certainly wasn't pushing on Tonk to cause pain, so unless Odium decided to go to Nalthis just to sow a crop of psychopaths, and then left directly after, there's no Shardic connection. (At least not for him. Balat would have been a prime target for Odium, and Forch might have been as well)

Fjordell seems to be 1) an attempt at precisely this, and 2) one that does not appear to affect magic systems. Note that ChayShan still exists despite Jindo's subsumation into the empire, and that Hrovell and Dakhor have their own magic systems.

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Chouta. It's seafood in secret sauce, depending on the sauce, what's not to like? (assuming of course that Herdazians don't have chicken) Would you rather be a Radiant right after the Recreance, or a post-Reod Elantrian?

And this is why Referees are Lurchers/Seekers/etc.

Short answer: no. Long answer: The Shards - especially those that Invest themselves into a planet- don't have a physical form, per se. The closest we get are the avatars they create when they want to talk with people in the Cognitive Realm (and even then they are only present in the Cognitive Realm). I only imagine the same would be true of Adonalsium.

Oh good. Will do.

So I was browsing the Coppermind and I clicked on the page for "Nalthis," as part of my quest to distract myself from my life for as long as possible by clicking on all the Shardworlds' pages. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I found the following error message: So... What the flip happened? Searching the deletion log as the message suggests returns no useful entries (nor, indeed, any entries at all).

Mad scientists are emotionally unstable and scientifically brilliant. Zinc, which implants emotional stability into the victim, would not produce such. No, to create such a chimera, you'd need to steal their emotional stability (possibly in several places) and shove charged copper spikes into those holes (essentially replacing their emotional stability with expanded capacity for knowledge). Possibly with a couple tin spikes to enhance their ability to glean information. In addition, you'd need to give them the drive to create, and we don't even know if human creativity is transferable via Hemalurgy. (it probably is, but it feels like it'd be more complicated than stab-em-and-go).

Nightblood, especially when fully drawn, draws Investiture from everything in the general vicinity.

Seems rather complex to set up, and difficult to play casually (although of course we are talking Metalborn players, there's a minority of them to start with). In addition, depending on the size of the field, the maze-like home bases and the misty areas, much of play could be visually impeded by those obstacles. (hard to develop a pro scene for it when spectators can't see play)

My first thought is: there's no confirmation of Hoid causing the Reod (which seems rather unlikely). Further thoughts: I like the theory, but I'm of the opinion that the Worldsingers/Worldbringers/Enefel travellers are at best a side project while Hoid works on things that will shake the heavens, as he put it.

My mistake. You understand my point, though, yes? There's no application for every single type of Misting (let alone every type of Metalborn) in pro sports.

And even if they did, are they a large enough section of the populace to alter how any given body of water looks in the Cognitive Realm? (Also of note: Kelsier could still find the solid canals of the Final Empire, even after they had been completely buried by the ash).

I believe Marasi spoke "ancient Terris", in the graveyard. And did so to say that she "didn't speak skaa." So there's two languages from the Final Empire right there. (Also there's Spook's cant, but that only rose to prominence after the Catacendre) RE: tapping Connection in Elantris: What do you want to bet that this was Hoid's experiment in the 10th anniversary edition of Elantris? Which failed, IIRC, so there's more to it than just filling something with blank Connection, and then tapping it in a specific place on Sel. Re: Amount of heat in metalminds: If there was anything in the Cosmere that could be described by the phrase "size matters not", it would be metalminds.

Infamous had a lot of cool ways to get around. You had Cole's electricity stunts, you had Kuo's ability to make an icy launchpad and create a glider from frost crystals, you had Nix's rocket-powered flight, Fetch's neon-blinking, Gene's hard light wing things, the concrete slide thing... The list goes on and on.

As mentioned in the linked thread (by yours truly), Lightsong remembered Nalthis' Cognitive Realm a few moments before his heroic sacrifice. It was a brilliant wave of colors. In addition, physical realm bodies of water are always raised sections of land in the cognitive. The problem with predicting Cognitive Realm geography is that there seems to be no real pattern. Is it the most commonly available form of Investiture, as with Roshar's spheres and Nalthis' colors? Then why isn't Scadrial's Cognitive Realm built of metal? Is it the most powerful Physical form of Investiture on that planet? Then why isn't Roshar's Cognitive Realm engulfed in a constant highstorm? I guess it could be "the key to unlocking Investiture already present in the Physical Realm," which fits with Stormlight collecting in spheres and Breath being used with a loss of color, and arguably even with Scadrial's mists (which are physically present and not the doorways to Investiture like the metals are). In that vein, then, Taldain could either be a giant sand pit (which doesn't seem unique enough to my mind, and doesn't take into account what Darkside's magic system is if anything) or an actual ocean (given that Sand Mastery drains water from the practitioner). Pre-Splintering Sel is in such a murky period of Cognitive Realm history that we have literally nothing on it, and all the minor shardworlds are in a similar predicament.

And how would Rioters/Soothers be useful in such a context, pray tell? Connectors? Augurs?EDIT: I quoted the wrong post, sorry. I meant to do the one just above yours, Shade.

Not... originally, no. But now that you mention it...

Oh, right. Whoops. I'll fix the original post.

Infiltrate Wax's kitchens and wreak havoc while Steris is trying to micromanage. As long as Wayne stays out of Steris' direct sight, and concentrates on the normal servants, he can get up to quite a lot.

Pure lerasium, when burned, grants Mistborn powers to the burner.

Huh, that sparked me on a similar idea. We know from BoM that having access to a ton of Allomantic and Feruchemic power allows you to see Investiture passively in the world, up to and including people's souls glowing. What if having a ton of BioChroma does the same?