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@Calderis Didn't know that one, thanks!

That does indeed raise all kinds of questions. We know or think we know about six of them (Nale and Kalak are seen, the former implies Jezrien and Ishar are both still around, Shalash has also been seen and then there's 'the man who may or may not be Taln') which leaves Chanarach, Vedel, Paliah and Battar's current whereabouts unknown. One more thing to keep our eyes peeled for in Oathvember: Hunt the Heralds.

Word of Brandon here and Khriss mentions it in Arcanum Unbounded's essay on the Threnodite System, where we also got 'Nazrilof' confirmed in book form. I know you already spotted the postscript thing, just wanted to put out those sources as alternate examples.

Hero of Ages Annotations (Chapter 62)

Just to add, the WoB where Brandon says that Hoid uses Feruchemy for his 'Hoidsense' is noted as being a paraphrase, so it's possible that Brandon's original response was more along the lines of 'he uses something like Feruchemy' which got remembered without the qualifier. Or Brandon could have changed his mind between that Q&A and now. To go to the original question, there is another way to obtain Allomantic and Feruchemical powers. Spoilers for Bands of Mourning in case you haven't read it yet:

His own religion has as a tenant 'Don't worship me!' so yes, I could imagine him specifically telling people to not call the metal by his name if it ever became a widespread thing.

@The One Who Connects Ooh, nice find there, thanks. Clearly I need to pay more attention to WoBs from Reddit.

There's also Leras' manipulations to make his '16 is important, notice this!' plan to work and Harmony doing something to reduce the snapping threshold as of Era 2.

I have a little theory that they're looking for a certain knife that Nazh loaned out and never got back.

Brandon published Mistborn: The FInal Empire in 2006 and drew heavily from at least four previously written but unpublished or unfinished works of his. Kara no Kyoukai's animated adaptation didn't come out until 2007 and English releases later still. Any similarity would have to be a coincidence. That said, while I know the name I've never actually watched it (or read the novels the animated adaptations were based on) but now I think I'm going to have to add it to my 'to do' list.

Brandon explicitly said that the unknown metal is from a Shard that we know. Meaning that it is from 1) A Shard and 2) One whose existence we knew of in October of 2015. That leaves us with Odium and Autonomy as the two most likely candidates, though it's also possible they're working together and each contributing something different to the enterprise. Somewhat less likely but still possible would be a reformed Dominion or an amalgamation with Devotion, if only because the mathematical terminology fits what we know of Dominion's Intent and the 'Faceless Immortal' resembles the Selish legends of the svrakiss. Assuming that's based on something native to Sel and not a remnant of Odium's little vacation to the planet at any rate.

That, or possibly something explosive.

Brandon has talked about Era 3 more recently and while he hasn't nailed down the equivalent date per se, we can assume from what he's said that Era 3 will be a late 20th century equivalent setting rather than an early/mid one. If he does any 1940'ish writing it would be separate from the proper trilogy. Here's one from last year where he mentions the protagonist of Era 3 will be a computer programmer And another one where he says much the same thing I don't believe he's said anything about the originally announced plot concept of 'allomantic SWAT team vs. Mistborn serial killer' in some time. It's a neat idea so I certainly hope that's still the focus, though I'm sure that if it does change whatever we get will be just as interesting. But nothing about the change to the protagonist from his initial mentions of Era 3 (back when it was 'the second trilogy') really implies anything about that one way or the other so until given specific reason to think otherwise, I'm assuming that the broad outline of the plot will follow that early announcement.

We don't know her motivations at this point. It's possible she looked at the situation the listeners were in and decided that slavery to their old gods was preferable to dying piecemeal at Alethi hands, she might have been prodded in that direction by Odium's influence (presumably through one of the Unmade), she could have some other reasons we can't necessarily understand at this point. As far as nobody remembering goes, the listeners lost a lot of their specific knowledge when they abandoned their forms of power in the first place. Eshonai didn't realize she was about to become one of those forms until it was too late to stop the process. Afterwards, while she was under whatever influences stormform parshendi, she was persuading everyone else to adopt that form as well and many followed because hey, Eshonai thinks it's a good idea and we are getting kind of desperate. And a number of the leaders who had pushed for Gavilar's asssassination years earlier stayed behind to cover the flight of the rest so there wasn't as much of a counterbalancing opinion once Eshonai had been converted to the cause.

Yes he did.

I'd pay my weight in infused spheres to see a debate between Jasnah and Wayne. Also, Jasnah and Khriss for obvious reasons of Scholarship! And I'd love to see Shai and Shallan discuss the nature of truth and lies as applied to their manifestations of Investiture and the interplay of art and magic

Have you seen this yet? https://brandonsanderson.com/alcatraz-the-big-reveal/

He probably didn't take a very long one (he's mentioned a lot how he doesn't crank out huge volumes of text per day but he's able to maintain the pace he does because he's very consistent) but I have to imagine he at least gave himself a day off to catch his breath before diving into his next project. Anyhow, I also expect Apocalypse Guard's entries will be on the shorter side a la Reckoners. The next pressing question: What will Brandon get to next: The Aztlanian or The Lost Metal? I'm good either way... Shhh, it's okay. Breathe into a paper bag and think about Oathvember. xD

Buying the book ASAP from the independant store that Brandon always visits when he's in my area but I'll probably be reading it at a slow pace in order to savor it. I've exhausted my Brandon Backlog aside from a couple short stories so I want to make this last.

Khriss had previously been mentioned by Brandon for some time as a worldhopper we should be paying attention to and has been indirectly referred to in, for example, margin notes attached to the illustrations in Words of Radiance and the tenth anniversary edition of Elantris. Bands of Mourning is significant for being the first time she's actually shown up 'onscreen' as it were. She's also the author of the essays that preface each section of Arcanum Unbounded and given her scholarly interests and vast knowledge of the cosmere, most of us would probably give an arm and a leg for a chance to meet her and ask questions. For example, here's where he mentions that she's the most knowledgeable person about the cosmere, about two years before Bands of Mourning was released.

To the extent that we can consider TenSoon part of the original crew, he's still around and is less than amused by the position he now occupies thanks to 'Sazed's little book'. Spook was a reduced-power Mistborn (per Word of Brandon) and was also the last Mistborn that Scadrial has seen* and his bloodline has been a background plot element in the books, with noble families tracing descent back to 'the Lord Mistborn' and The Set being interested in those same bloodlines. And while not at all part of the crew, since we're talking descendants we have WoB that Rashek's bloodline has survived into Era 2 as well, though he's cautioned us not to read too much into that. * We have an old WoB that at least one Mistborn will be appearing in Era 3 but that's not happened yet.

The big problem is how you'd Awaken an arrow in a way that would effectively give it some level of homing ability. There are lots of variables involved in the flight of an arrow (wind speed and direction, gravity, just how much force was imparted to the arrow when it was shot, the angle it was shot at...) such that even if you could design an arrow with the 'flexibility' needed to give it some sort of control over its trajectory, the complexity of the required Command and mental visualisation would be staggering. And I very much doubt that Awakening is able to tell gravity to storm off so at best you'd end up with a weapon that had some minimal ability to change direction in flight but it would still be pulled down at the same rate as any other arrow. It's probably telling that our stories of the Manywar that do involve projectile weapons talk about using Awakening to make better missile-throwers rather than better missiles.

Borrowing from Michael Okuda when he was asked about how a particular bit of Star Trek technology was supposed to function: Aluminum works very well, thanks for asking.

I don't have the books handy right now to check but I could swear that somewhere in SoS or BoM Wayne had something to say about 'knowing' he had an Allomantic power growing up but he couldn't get his hands on the rare metal that would prove it.

Yeah, he likes signing certain books with a phrase from the text as a sort of teaser to fans. Way of Kings got 'Bridge Four', Arcanum Unbounded got 'Are You Listening?' (from the novella Edgedancer) and there are probably more but those are the ones I know about.