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Minor nitpick: Preservation put more of its power into humanity than Ruin did rather than being the only one to do so, but this still resulted in the imbalance. Brandon was asked about this and implied that Sazed is doing something with that extra power, but it could just as easily be making harmonium more 'Ruin heavy' which would eventually balance out the scales. Or he could produce more atium, if for no other reason than to keep Marsh around longer. The idea of giving the power to someone isn't impossible, but it doesn't strike me as terribly likely. Kelsier might have been more naturally inclined towards that Shard's power but getting whacked with a huge amount of unfiltered Ruin would not do good things to his personality and I can't see Sazed subjecting a friend to that. It also would limit Kelsier's ability to leave the Scadrian System as noted. Cognitive Shadows are generally bound to the region associated with whatever Investiture has permeated their soul and it's difficult but not impossible for them to leave. Vasher knows how to do it for example but it's apparently the sort of trick that takes time to learn and there's likely to be an inverse relationship between the amount of Investiture involved and the ease of travelling outside the Cognitive bounds of the associated system. The total amount of 'extra Ruin' that Sazed has is probably quite a bit more Investiture.than a single Divine Breath so it would likely be much harder for a 'Splinter of Ruin' to leave the system than it was for Vasher to leave Nalthis, even if said Splinter knows how to do it.

Given that the Ghostbloods are clearly willing to enlist non-Cosmere aware natives (whether you think Mraize was born offworld via hair-splitting or not, Shallan most certainly was born on Roshar) it's entirely possible that Jin is just a native Iriali and there's no deeper connection to their past on other worlds. Though the odds are pretty good that the Ghostbloods or at least select members are aware of juicy details of the Iriali history and the Long Trail that we only wish we had. In other words, maybe yes and maybe no, but I don't think we can possibly say one way or the other at this point.

We know from WoB that Rashek learned enough from his brief time holding the Well's power to learn that Scadrial wasn't the only inhabited planet but he didn't have enough time with that power to really learn much. The implication is there that learning more was possible but that it requires time and effort. We also know from Secret History and (at least implied) Bands of Mourning that Shards can 'be' in multiple places at once, as Preservation/Harmony comforts the recently deceased. A Shard gaining information via the Spiritual Realm about locations they aren't Invested in seems like it should be possible from Rashek's example but actually appearing in the Physical or Cognitive Realms and interacting with those places is probably only possible if the Shard isn't heavily Invested in a world, tying it down in those two Realms. Which links into Odium being effectively imprisioned in the Rosharan System and unable to directly influence other planets, since something is.keeping him there and preventing him from continuing his Shardic Murder Spree.

Eh, the one I linked to confirms he's from Yolen, it just requires connecting the dots. But I think this is the one you're looking for specifically .Mind you, you still need other WoB to connect that to Frost specifically. Just the nature of our information sources on Yolen.

@Wreith This post might contain the WoB you're thinking of. We know he's from Yolen and Brandon has called him a non-worldhopper, which means he must still be there.

Just to add some details about Hoid and Shards, we've been told that if Hoid were to be tempted to take up a Shard it would be Endowment. Brandon may or may not have been considering unrevealed Shards in that response however, since Wreith's WoB above mentions that the Shard that Hoid was offered was one we haven't been shown yet.

@Aleksiel The full WoB has Brandon answering two questions and he draws a pretty clear distinction when he's answering one versus the other. When he says that the question of bonding two spren is 'also yes, but there's a harder limit on that' it's quite obvious that he's distinguishing it from bonding multiple dead Shardblades, which is easier to do. Otherwise the second half of his response would make no sense.

Here's the first WoB I was able to find

Magic systems aren't created intentionally by the Shards, though they can exercise a degree of control over a system once it's manifested.The magic is the result of an interaction between different factors including the nature of the planet that the Shard Invests (which can affect Focus and any significance to numbers) and the governing Intent. We know you can make different magic systems replicate the effects of other system to a greater or lesser extent, but not everything can be duplicated in every system and trying to do so can lead to weird results. Like Nightblood. So basically, another Shard isn't going to create a new form of allomancy unless a lot of factors happened to line up, in which case such a thing might be theoretically possible but vanishingly unlikely. Particularly from a meta standpoint as duplicating an existing system with a new Shard wouldn't be very interesting from a storytelling perspective. Especially not when there are so many other things Brandon can and will still do with the Metallic Arts.

We have Word of Peter that there's at least one bead unaccounted for and Brandon has also implied there could be more of them.

As Yata says, if the mystery creature intended for Suit to become a cognitive shadow to continue working on Trell's behalf, a harmonium bomb makes more sense than a conventional explosive because it's heavily Invested and being blown up in that way might be enough to keep him around in the Cognitive after death, or at least keep him long enough for someone/something else to 'stabilize' him on the other side. Exactly what purpose this would serve is another question since as noted, he and the Set both appear to have outlived their usefulness to Trell and it's not clear what Suit could do in the Cognitive that anyone else with access to that realm couldn't do just as well.

What's going on with future-sight is that you're peeking into the Spiritual Realm, where 'time' and 'location' are meaningless concepts. Based on Preservation's description and Kelsier's own perspective on it, peeking into the Spiritual Realm shows you every possible future, or at least every one that you have some Connection to. On extremely small timescales, the future appears to be deterministic. If you burn atium then you're peeking into the Spiritual Realm and you're seeing what will happen in the next few seconds, in your immediate vicinity. Unless someone else has a method of peeking into the Spiritual as well (atium of their own, electrum, potential other abilities) in which case the possibilities multiply. The further ahead you try to look and the further away from yourself you try to push your clairvoyance, the more things break down into an ocean of possibilities where even a Shard that we know is/was really good at it will have great difficulty sorting out more likely possibilities from the extremely unlikely ones.

The Orion books would be the UK edition while Tor is the series' US publisher. Aside from having different cover art, the content should be entirely the same. Welcome to the Shard!

Nope, Brandon himself has a digital copy presumably but given that he's not entirely comfortable with people reading the book (because of potential spoilers, or giving people ideas that won't be borne out by the final product, or just because he sees it as mediocre as it currently exists) he's not likely to give it out to anyone. He even calls the fact that the circulation copy at BYU needed to be rebound due to how many people have read it a 'dubious honor'.

Some say that he secretly lurks this board and feeds on our crazy speculation and our bitter tears. And some say that his mind is so fiendishly clever that not even a Shard can predict the next twist he'll throw at us. All we know is, he's called The Stig The Sanderson.

As mentioned, Brandon left hints in the original trilogy that Kelsier was dead but not gone. For example, the second voice that Spook hears, and which Vin hears as she Ascends. He explicitly says this was Kelsier's voice in the annotations. Brandon has been dropping additional hints to this effect for years; for example when he wrote up his idea of how a Kelsier/Moiraine fight would go he has the former drop hints that interesting things could be done with hemalurgy... So yeah, whatever might have been the case as he was in the process of writing the books, by the time we got them he had firmly decided that Kelsier was going to remain a participant in the story in some form.

For reference, here's Brandon saying that all magic on Sel is a single system that manifests in different ways, for the reasons others have mentioned.

The connection in-universe between atium and the expression 'the Lost Metal' (along with the timeline factor) is so obvious that it almost feels like a red herring, but we're not going to know until we get the last Era 2 book. As Yata says, Mistborn Era 2 happens between the first and second halves of Stormlight Archive. We still need Era 3 (with a timeskip of at least fifty years, based on the tech level jump) and then who knows how long will pass between that and Era 4 when we hit Mistborn: The Sci-Fi Story. So there's no way it's happening in time for the second half of SA and doing so would go against Brandon's intention for the series to be (largely) standalone. And as also mentioned, Honor hasn't been in a position to be making any potentially allomantically-viable metals for some time and Cultivation isn't a really likely possibility for the originator of 'Trellium'.

There's been a couple of threads on the subject, here's the big one with a spreadsheet of the various combinations.

The broadsheet stories should be taken with a pinch of salt, especially Jak and Nicki Savage. Not that there isn't useful information there (did you spot a certain worldhopper?) but there's a very good chance that the part of the story related to ancient automata is, shall we say, a Survivor-damned lie? I think the Perpendicularity reference you're thinking of was from the Shadows of Self broadsheet, where the writer describes seeing a 'figure' by a pool that's described as 'the most perfect blue'. The byline talks about visitors from other worlds, which could well be a case of a sensational headline being accidentally correct. Anyhow, it's likely to be a Perpendicularity from the description but it didn't have anything to do with the koloss, it just happened to be located in the mountains south of the Southern Roughs. Amusingly, the author of this piece was the same as the author of the 'Constructs of Antiquity' piece, just going by Nicelle Sauvage instead.

Good spots both. Cephandrius is one name that Hoid went by, but he had at least one name before that; Topaz. It's alluded to in the Words of Radiance Letter and it's been confirmed by WoB. And while we can't assume it will still be canonical when finally published, the sample chapters for Liar of Partinel that Brandon released give a third name which does appear to be Hoid's original name, ot at least what Brandon was thinking for his name when he wrote that. Senna, we definitely don't know but at this point a Vessel is as good a guess as any. Odds are we're not going to know what Leras meant until we get Dragonsteel.

There's actually been several discussions on possible Shard combination names, here's the big one.

FYI, we know that Odium has no interest in picking up other Shards. He could but he doesn't want to, it has to do with the nature of Odium being inherently selfish and Rayse's own personality combining into an entity that fears any change to its own nature. Though Brandon has said that if Odium did pick up another Shard for some reason, Ruin would have been one of the safer ones, as far as compatibility goes. Brandon has also said that any Shards could be combined in theory, but it would be easier for Shards with similar Intents, and certain combinations would put a lot of pressure on the Vessel.

Brandon didn't have creative control over the cover art. I think he was asked about this specifically at one point.

If you mean 'being in an Awakened object' by Nightblood then I think there's a fundamental difference in what the Stormlight is being asked to do. Storing it in a metalmind (or any bit of metal) implies that you want it to remain in a state that you can draw it out later and use it in Surgebinding. Feeding Stormlight to Nightblood is very different; it doesn't care about the form of Investiture and just needs some source of it when unsheathed, before turning on its weilder and nomming their lifeforce once it has no external supply. In terms of using Stormlight in place of Breath as Awakening fuel, it probably has to do with the different nature of Endowment's Investiture that lets Breath be recovered after use with limited-to-no leakage (it's end-neutral) while Stormlight gets consumed much faster while it's busy doing stuff. Even if it is possible to fuel Awakening with Stormlight, it probably wouldn't last very long. The fact that Stormlight is a regularly renewing resource while Breath is a 'one per new human life' thing might be another underlying cause of this, or just a bit of real-world logic whose Realmatic underpinnings we can only guess at.