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That depends. I'm in Central USA at the moment. Where do you live?

He had nails with him. He didn't know Wax would drop in, so what are the nails for? I consider it highly likely that Forch was a pawn of either Harmony (driving Wax away from the Terris compound where he was being stifled) or Trell (hoping to get a future embuggerance out of the way early).

Tapping Investiture using Roshar methods- It is the spren. Kaladin drew Stormlight from the climactic highstorm in WoR, and IIRC he didn't have any gems on him, or any time to draw it out like he would normally. Forging people - Thanks for the clarification. People generally have a greater amount of Innate Investiture in them than most objects do, so the double-Investing markup applies. Also, they have more "levers", shall we say, that a stamp needs to take into account, as opposed to an object. Those levers (which are essentially Spiritual Connections to various persons, places, things, and times) can be fiddled with to create a discount of sorts, much like Awakening becoming much cheaper with humaniform targets. (This is why "familiarity" and "plausibility" work the way they do) Awakening - I believe it goes something like this: The Color+Breath is the Spiritual aspect, the Command is the cognitive (not the physical, because one requires a mental image of the Command playing out to work correctly), and the fabric one is Awakening is the Physical. Someone please correct me on this, if I've got something wrong.

It seems the most likely option, especially if they were 1) returned to full working order by Cognitive Realm self-perception mechanics or 2) returned to full working order by Raoden back in Sel's Physical Realm.

The latter is more accurate.

Forging an Invested object - Double-Investing something will always, always be more difficult than Investing a non-Invested object. Forgery is a manifestation of Investiture, so there you go. Gemstones on Roshar - It's the color. Researching the gemstones in question reveals that a lot of them are, on the molecular level, essentially identical. Regarding the Tears of Edgli - Spiritual damage is known to drain color from something with Innate Investiture - Drabs and Returned turn greyscale when passing on their Breath, Shardblades leave a cut limb grey and unresponsive but otherwise attached to the body. So therefore, the dye from the Tears of Edgli retains its Spiritual aspect even after the flowers themselves are dead and gone.

I'm fairly certain there's some WoB that says no, she does not. (And besides, if she did, she'd have been hemalurgy fodder long before Wax could get close, and then there would we be?)

It's the amount of free-floating, mindless Investiture in a given environment. Don't forget, Roshar has all those spren leaking Investiture into the environment, and going to Shadesmar without a bright sphere or two is still suicidal. Sel is undoubtedly even worse.

The behavior of the Blessings (again, hemalurgic spikes need to have some soul to interact with, or they're just really hardcore acupuncture), and Mistwraith!MeLaan's narration (specifically that "some part of her knew this was wrong").

Of course, especially early on in his tenure when the Intents haven't taken over yet. My main point was that letting Kelsier run rampant appeases the two Intents somewhat, which allows Harmony the leeway he needs to consider the topic from all the angles.

Say what you will about Kelsier, but he never gives up without a storming good reason. And very few things constitute a storming good reason.

That WoB leads me to believe that Syl was being warned off by someone (Stormfather?), much like Kel warned off Vin from talking to Hoid.

FTFY. And that, I think, makes the most sense of that particular line.

What we had there was a failure to communicate. Brandon wrote it one way, the illustrator drew it another way, and never the twain did meet. It was fixed in the anniversary edition, both map and climactic Chasm Line run.

RAFO! No I'm not actually Brandon.

Sadly, despite the striking resemblance eezo has to Investiture, the Milky Way contains Earth, and Earth is not cosmere.

Syl's darn useful, and not in the way a fork or a kerchief is. Not to mention, of course, that Kal wouldn't "trade" Syl for anything, and Wayne can't pickpocket the nahel bond. (Unless that one theory about spiking away the nahel bond is right)

Yerp. Harmony's perfectly well aware of what Kel's doing, and either doesn't care enough to stop it or outright approves of it. (Preservation, for instance, would very much approve of Kel's efforts to save the SoScad people, while Ruin would appreciate the continued use of Hemalurgy.)

I assume it's Connection to Kelsier, plus the mental trauma of the War of Ash (lovely name for it), plus the pre-existing hole in his spiritweb from the pewter spike. And I'd be very surprised if Harmony was not aware of Kel's shenanigans on some level.

Where can we find that WoB?

The massive advance in technology caused by the Southern Scadrians allying with Elendel was enough of a disruption to the Set's plans to cause the Trell "Kandra" to change their plan from long-term (control Scadrial from the shadows for hundreds of years) to short-term (kill 'em all). I don't see why Odium or any of his servitors would care about a group of soon to be popsicles at the south pole. Even if first contact with a technologically superior nation was supposed to erupt in war, aren't there much simpler ways to cause war in Elendel? I mean, the nobility of the city have done a great job alienating the Roughs settlements, all you need to do is ratchet up the pressure in both places until war breaks out. You don't need aliens to do that (human or otherwise). Also, Marsh and Spook would definitely care about people freezing to death because of their actions. Kelsier, on the other hand, I'm not so naive as to think he'd drop everything and help the SoScads without question. He'd think up all the angles first, and think of it like any other con.

I think it's a template thing. Preservation gave of himself to make certain that the first Scadrian humans could both preserve and ruin. Likewise, when Endowment created humanity on Nalthis (as I assume she did), she made it so that whatever part of the soul they eventually called Breath could be shucked off and put back on as easily as an article of clothing. After that templating is done, maybe natural Innate Investiture collects in the mother during pregnancy, and it forms into the soul-shape set forth by whichever Shard did the templating? Sounds like a question for the Big List.

That is pronounced "Ee-ree." The Ire are the "Eye-Ree."

The act of creating a soulstamp doesn't require MaiPonese ancestry, as the Shaod does. Anyone can pick up a bit of wood and a bull point chisel and make a stamp out of it. The problem comes in when you try and activate your magic stamp. If you stray too far from MaiPon before stamping anything, it won't take. EDIT: And Galladon was eligible for the Shaod because 1) his father was Elantrian, so he had clear ties to Arelon, and 2) Duladel is within the area described by Aon Mea.

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