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Not Odium though. Cause storm that guy. EDIT: On Hemalurgic spikes and their Invested-ness: It depends on a couple of factors. When implanted in a body, can't be pulled on. Same principle as an allomancer's metal reserves, except in this case the spike is part of the soul. When not implanted in a body (such as ReLuur's missing spike would be) I'm guessing it wouldn't be much harder to pull on than a metalmind, and getting easier the longer it spent outside a body/not immersed in blood.

That's right.

Presumably. Between Elantris and Mistborn, IIRC.

The author of the second letter is fairly confident that *as things stand*, Odium is contained, and that things in Greater Roshar are as good as they're going to get. He is also fairly confident that Hoid's going to mess *something* up, and that the consequences from said mess-up are going to make the situation worse. Also, Odium is invested in Braize, which may or may not be Damnation itself. SH tells us that Shards that are Invested in a specific planet can leave if that planet ceases to be (From Ruin's plans once Preservation was dead). Therefore, if Braize is destroyed, Odium will be free to menace the rest of the Cosmere. Pardon the random asterisks, I'm posting from my phone and can't access the full toolbar.

Odium was trapped in the Greater Roshar system... three Stormlight books before Mistborn Era 2 begins. Ample time for something in the balance to shift and Odium to escape. Also, this is the backstab method of "deal with that which frightens you" as opposed to the fair fight version.

It started with "psychic birds" and evolved from there.

Kel kinda dunked himself in a Shardpool though,and was already a highly Invested individual. It probably takes a bit more effort to become a cognitive shadow without one of those handy.

We call Invested Hemalurgy spikes "charged" spikes. I don't believe Sel has a specific term for investing someone or something.

Good question. The major use of lerasium differs from compounding atium in that it forges a new connection between the soul and Preservation, instead of stretching a preexisting one. Once the lerasium is burned, the soul thinks "I'm a Mistborn now" and, much like TLR's soul thinking he should have died by now, it's correct. The difference is mainly in that (with lerasium) the soul is working with the mind, instead of (with TLR) the two being at cross-purposes. In this way, Hoid will retain his Mistborn powers indefinitely.

I think also that a general rule of thumb for feruchemy is that you can't store everything in a metalmind. You can't kill yourself by storing health, for example. There's always a glass floor of how much you can store at any given time.

Known powers of AonDor: Healing (Aonic scripts starting with Aon Ien) Lightweaving (Aonic scripts starting with Aon Shao) Fireballs (Aon Ashe) Magic Missile (Aon Daa) Teleportation (Aonic scripts beginning with Aon Tia) Force Fields (Aon Edo) Transfiguration (mentioned in "The Hope of Elantris" - Raoden mentions that he can turn trash into corn, but doesn't mention which Aon. Presumably another use of Aon Shao) And, of course, immortality (In the Elantrian job description) However, this is only the first we've seen of AonDor, and there are numerous Aons which we have never seen used by an Elantrian. Used correctly, the powers on offer are virtually innumerable.

But tapping youth strains that connection, which wants to think that TLR is much much older than his appearance and health shows (and it's correct, which doesn't help). And the connection is to a singular point (namely, the point at which TLR's natural lifespan "should" have ended), instead of a continuum. Strengthening that connection makes it harder, not easier, to remain unchanging. EDIT: Have you read The Emperor's Soul? Whenever Shai (the protag) needs to work her magic on something she needs to comply with a couple precepts: the changes she makes to something's history 1) must be plausible (e.g. a famous painter could have stayed in a specific room long enough to paint a mural), and/or 2) must be acceptably familiar to the thing she's trying to change (e.g. someone could be temporarily induced to take on another's memories and mannerisms, so long as the other is known inside-and-out by the original person). TLR continually tapping youth is in non-compliance with the first precept, and since it's his youth being recycled and augmented with Allomancy, there's nothing for his spirit to compare it with.

The problem doesn't exist in the metalmind. The problem exists in the person. TLR's spirit "knows" that it should have died X years prior. As X gets larger, the more youth he needs to tap in order to stay in his 20s.

Have you read Bands of Mourning yet? Suffice it to say that a spiked Voidbringer was not what was being described.

I agree that Wax being completely oblivious to his previous taxi driver in Elendel being a beggar in New Seran is a little hinky, I'm just assuming that 1) Hoid was in a different disguise both times, 2) Hoid was storing Connection or something such that people wouldn't look twice at him (also note that the guy who rousted him had done so at least once before Wax showed up). Wax probably assumed that there was more than one person named "Hoid" (not an unreasonable assumption if the apparent ages don't match up).

Aslydin, I believe is who they're referring to.

Current-day Dalinar would probably be a good fit for the Knights of Blue. Not quite sure about Blackthorn Dalinar, I'm thinking one of the more aggressive PvP covenants for him (Darkwraiths?). In any event, he'd two-hand a greatsword, and wouldn't choose any miracles or anything beyond that.

Also, colorshift would have made Marasi's slow-bubble in Alloy of Law easier to see, and therefore harder to use in a trap.

Or we could just port the characters over (sans the powers) and ask ourselves "what would they choose"? That seems like it'd bear better fruit than just trying to kludge the Radiant powersets together. Kaladin, for instance, would join the Sunbros immediately, given his hero complex, and go full miracle+DSS spear. (And yes, this includes the lightning spear miracles in addition to the ones you mentioned). Shallan, on the other hand, would go sorceries, and would dump all her souls into buying out the Sorcery Merchant at Firelink's inventory. For scholarship!

Method acting happens in the mind. Therefore, Wayne's personality shifting with his disguise can (technically) be said to be happening in the Cognitive Realm. Other than that vague technicality there's no connection.

Copper has stealing human memory capacity. Also, aren't some Hemalurgic spikes supposed to work with other worlds' magics?

How would you go about this? Radiant powers don't exactly mesh with the Dark Souls magic systems already in place (Gravitation, for example, occurs precisely nowhere in Dark Souls). Of course, you could just have Kaladin the spear-wielding Dex build, and Shallan the sword and sorcery character (leaving aside that only one sorcery - Chameleon - fits with Illumination or Transformation). Elantrians would have a vastly truncated moveset, with Aon Daa (the Soul Arrow family of sorceries and hexes), Aon Ashe (Non-Chaos Fire Whip family of pyromancies), and Aon Ien (the Healing miracles) jumping out immediately.

I'm getting it on kindle when it comes out and I already have digital copies of both Sixth of the Dusk and Shadows for Silence (both standalone and their respective anthologies).

Everyone in Shadows of Self needs a god damnation hug. Everyone. Except perhaps Lord Harms, because he's kind of an oblivious twit.

I've been calling them "jailbroken" metalminds for some time now, although "unsealed" has a better ring to it.