Eagle of the Forest Path

Is that when you are hit by Nightblood, or when you are the one using Nightblood? Could you link a source?

The term end-positive (and end-neutral and end-negative) refers to the user of the power, not the amount of power in the system. (because investiture cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be changed from one form to another) Allomancy is end-positive because the allomancer gets power (in the form of a metal's effect) without expending an internal resource. Feruchemy is end-neutral because the feruchemist only gets as much power as he initially expended when storing. Hemalurgy is weird, because it doesn't seem like you expend anything at all when you steal an ability, even though that ability degrades inside the spike. (Also note that when you gain an allomantic ability through hemalurgy, that ability itself is still end-positive)

That actually is what Yata was saying, guys: "You have right but the Idrian Royal family had a single breath(, which is) above the average (brobably worth 2-3 standard Breaths) but nothing like the 5th Heightening required."

Stormgate? You kinda need to post a wish as well for this to work.

Might I Suggest To Break Open Rockbud Nuggets BREATH

I raise an eyebrow at your question (the left one, my right refuses to cooperate).

Yes, as stated in this WoB:

I believe Feruchemists don't need to unlock their powers, in the sense of snapping, because all of the power is internal (it comes from themselves). Snapping, the Shaod and even the Nahel bond is when there are cracks in a person's spiritweb (or soul) and something external (Preservation, the Dor, a Spren) makes use of those cracks to add something to the soul that allows the person to access external investiture. So, in the case of Feruchemy: no external investiture, means no need for cracks, means no need to unlock. For Allomancy, I'm pretty sure that the Preservation in the equation is that Allomancy uses an outside power source to create an effect, thereby allowing you to preserve your own power. (I know there's a WoB on that somewhere, but I can't be bothered trying to find it right now) You might also want to check out this thread about initiation.

If a character has a unibrow and raises both left and right at the same time, does that still count as raising a single eyebrow?

Plural Query Neutralisation EOTFP

It started well, that sentence.

You forgot to put Brandon Sanderson in your list. Edit: AND Hoid

Holy mother of... You started a parentheses but didn't end it. Close the bracket! Close it for god's sake! *Twitches violently* Also: You ended that sentence with a preposition! You barstud!

And then he fell Daorn.

I've actually considered the exact same thing, but I fell into the trap of wanting to finetune my theory before posting it here. Tried to get some feedback from someone and they shot it down. Now I have to rework the entire thing. (If anyone's interested anyway, it's here. I'm going to return to it after getting a primer course on radio-waves in January.) The easiest counterargument is that copper is a pulling metal, so it wouldn't make much sense for its effect to be broadcasting something. That's a required part of the explanation! If you make a theory where you can't get past a coppercloud no matter what, you can't explain Vin (yes, the hemalurgic earring, but that still works within the regular rules of bronze).

I mean about aluminum blocking the steel/iron-lines of metals behind it in general. So if I hold up a sheet of aluminum-foil between an allomancer and a pile of boxings, the allomancer can't push or pull on the boxings, or even know they're there based on iron/steel? Then even wrapping a sword/spear/arrow/whatever in aluminum-foil would be sufficient to block pulling/pushing, no need to make the entire thing out of it.

Rowr ahragh awf ahraroww rowh rohngr grgrff rf rf. Note: I was "Ookla the Wookiee" when I posted the above

Do we know that for sure?

Just saying that if Stennimar had returned as Lightsong within a few seconds of dying, as you suggest, he would have drowned all over again.

Some possibilities: The hack involves sending Dor to another shardworld, maybe with some sort of transmission station back on Sel. The hack involves carrying an amount of Dor with you when you worldhop, like in a nicrosilmind, for instance.(similar to a nicrosilmind anyway, since it would be extremely unlikely for an Elantrian to have an actual one) The hack involves changing where Aons draw their power from.This might be difficult, since Aons normally draw their power from the Cognitive realm: all other external sources of investiture we have seen so far (Preservation's power, Stormlight and maybe Breath*) are Spiritual in nature, not Cognitive. It wouldn't be sufficient to simply change your connection so that it's to the non-Sel planet, since that planet wouldn't have a form of Dor in its Cognitive realm. So you'd also need a way to convert the local investiture to a form that can be used in AonDor. The hack involves hemalurgy. The hack involves the Moon Scepter (stolen by Hoid), which can supposedly translate the different shapes Selish magics use to access the Dor. Though it is unknown if that extends to other worlds and/or other power sources. *I am quite sure that Breath is Spiritual in nature, it's the "external" part I'm doubting.

Maybe the time varies, but for Lightsong, at least, a few seconds wouldn't have worked, because he died at sea during a storm. They would have had to wait until the storm was over to start looking for him, and then they still had to fish him out of the drink. About the mechanics of Returning, I think it's similar to snapping or the Shaod. Trauma causes cracks in the soul and something can slip in and add stuff to the spiritweb. In the case of Allomancy and AonDor, what's added is a little bit of investiture that allows access to a lot of investiture. But on Nalthis it has to work differently, because the entire huge divine breath has to be added to a mortal soul, so the cracks have to be correspondingly huge, and probably the only thing that causes cracks that huge in a soul is dying. So a person physically dies (and their soul gets cracked, but this is just a personal theory), but it takes a little while before the soul moves on to the "next place" (heaven/paradise? the tranquiline halls? reincarnation? we don't know). Endowment uses that window to shove a giant splinter up the soul's big crack (sorry, I couldn't resist) and sends the soul back to its former body after it's had a vision of the future. Or possibly the power of the splinter allows the soul to make its own way back into the body.

That's Rayse's thing, it doesn't have anything to do with the Shard Odium itself.

First, small correction, it's the spiritweb that gets rewritten by Lerasium (and it's alloys), not sDNA IIRC. I can see this going both ways. It may depend on how Allomancy is encoded on the spiritweb in the first place. Is there a different "area" (or point) for each allomantic metal, or is there a general area for allomancy and the contents of that area determine the metal one can burn? In the latter case, I can definitely see the tin abitily getting discarded for the pewter ability. Also, Snapping: Are Scadrian children with the potential for allomancy already divided into proto-thugs and proto-soothers and so on before they snap? Or are they proto-allomancers in general, and the type of misting gets determined when Preservation fill the cracks in the spiritweb when they snap? Maybe influenced by the rest of the spiritweb but mostly random. And finally, it depends on how Lerasium works. We don't know if burning Lerasium or one of it's alloys just sticks the bit with the ability onto your spiritweb (like hemalurgy without all the blood) or if it rewrites the spiritweb from the ground up, including the allomantic power (maybe like the Shaod in Elantris, though we don't know how that works either).

Kind of like blood donation. If you're a universal donor, you can't be a universal recipient.