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Vivenna had her aura sense. She'd have been able to tell (especially since the girl definitely didn't have any extra Breaths before the rescue), and while she was looking did note that Denth had lied to her (which at that point was less of a shocker that it perhaps could have been). Therefore, what she saw going on during the girl's mindwipe ran counter to how Denth described having Breaths. Ergo, the only logical conclusion is that the girl only had one Breath when she spoke the command to remove her own memory of the kidnap.

Vasher told the girl that he was going to say something, and that she needed to repeat it and mean it. (Also Vivenna needed to step out of earshot)

I don't believe it is impossible to give less than a Breath. Remember, the mindwipe command Vasher gave to the little girl worked, and she only had one Breath to give.

Alternatively, depending on the state of the scalp in question, it could also be Aon Ire.

I was wondering how Brandon was going to make allomantic sports without going the pro-bending route.

So long ago now that "forever" is a viable descriptor. Long before the Manywar at least, given the inspiration for Nightblood.

Good point. Also, we're not given a scale for how much water slatrifying actually makes (Although who wants to bet Kenton will pull it off by the end of the graphic novel trilogy?). All we do know is that it produces a usable amount of water. (How much they define as "usable" is up for debate)

What moisture? Yeah, that. Unless there's some shortcut hard-coded in, some catalyst the characters are unaware of, Slatrification could need direct Shardic involvement to work.

That's it. It's the Investiture.

It'll be the same as a metal in our world, but the Rutherford experiment wouldn't pick up the Investiture that makes atium, lerasium, and harmonium "godmetals."

Although the Tenth Heightening color aura does give a nod to this, by prisming white things into a rainbow of colors.

As far as we can tell, the Investiture that Nightblood eats is expelled in the form of that black mist, where it is inert and useless to anyone.

Doesn't Gaotona mention this exact use in the book?

The Lord Ruler is referred to as a "Sliver" of Preservation, because he held the power and then gave it up. In that same definition, though, the Seons are the Splinters of Devotion, not the Aons.

Brandon's mentioned that there's a lower limit to what you can store at any given time, IIRC.

I'm fairly convinced it would not end well for the Forger who tried that. Assuming the idea is to stamp someone so they've lived out the consequences of poor decisions, on one hand you have the "you messed with my mind?!" revulsion that springs up as soon as the trick is revealed, or if you didn't conceal the trick you'd have the "this is nightmarish to think about so consider the whole process blocked out" repression, aided by the fact that emotions caused by false memories wash away as though they were a bad dream just over an hour later.

Something odd I noticed in the amazon preview: "Slatrifying" sand is turning it to water, and is supposed to be a very high-caliber technique. This fits with previously established rules, but how is it possible in the first place? The only magic system we know of that can transmute something to water is Soulcasting, which explicitly involves getting something's Identity to change form. Taldaini Dayside Sand is pumped full of Investiture (!) that comes from a heat source (!!) that hangs immobile in the sky 24/7 (!!!). How is the Identity of the sand not rock-solidly against anything and everything to do with water? (Unless the legends of previous mastrells doing so are false...)

That's a lot of effort placed into Forging someone else into making good (or poor) life choices. There's got to be a simpler way of doing that without resorting to Essence Marks (which BTW take years to produce).

It could just be Hoid being deliberately weird and troll-y, if not for the fact that he wasn't expecting to see anyone there. Also the Identity of a boat might be difficult to maintain, and a corpse is much easier.

As the cosmere generally models itself after our own universe, there is in fact an infinite expanse of space outside of the dwarf galaxy that the story of the Cosmere takes place in. Good luck reaching anything outside that dwarf galaxy, however.

I think a Nalthian's Breath is the raw Investiture, or at least the grand majority of it.

I think it's a detachable part of a normal soul, if only because if Breath was something extra, drabs wouldn't have nearly the amount of physical and mental health problems that the annotations say they do.

They wouldn't drop human bodies upon death if that were the case.

Admittedly, the latter half of my post is a bit of stream-of-consciousness conjecture that was essentially "what's the worst thing that could possibly happen, given the setup?" Planetary destruction leading to the release of a perpetually angry, perpetually malevolent god is pretty high on that scale.