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Each book has a character who gets fleshed out with sequential flashbacks. We know Szeth is going to be the focus character for Book 5; Lift is one of the five characters slated for flashbacks in the back half along with Jasnah, Renarin, Ash and Taln.

The non-Geofront version that people have been playing for... a while now. It's one of those 'good enough to understand what's going on but not very polished' ones, and with no bells and whistles. So yeah, no reason to jump for it if you're already planning to wait for Geofront.

It's linked to an event you might have missed.

Oooh, that's a good thought.

Just wait until you play Azure and are exposed to the mortal avatar of Cuteness that is... Penguin KeA. Planning to jump right to it, or wait for the Geofront patch?

Rashek and Kelsier might have known about bendalloy thanks to Ascension-granted understanding but that doesn't mean that Final Empire-period Scadrial can actually make it, which would be required to test for bendalloy mistings/ferrings and make metalminds for someone to actually use.

Good question. This is where it gets wonky because while the object might not know what it is any more* unless there's some sort of obvious Physical change that would happen, there wouldn't be any reason for sapient thought to look at, say, a chair whose bead was destroyed and think of it differently than before. As long as external sources think of the chair in the same way there would still be that attached association of chair-ness, which is why I think the Cognitive aspect would eventually repair itself to some degree. It wouldn't necessarily remember things in the way that the broken window in Shai's room remembered that it had once been a beautiful stained glass piece (or maybe it would due to Spiritual shenanigans, but only vaguely) but it would eventually sort out that 'I am a chair' and work from there. * Except for Stick of course, it always knows exactly what it is.

Based on this WoB about Nightblood and the beads, I'm guessing that if a nuclear explosion could actually destroy beads you'd see something similar happening: Every object represented by those beads would at the very least have their Cognitive identities damaged or outright destroyed and that would be Bad. I don' think it would immediately destroy them Physically like Nightblood would (since it annihilates things on all three Realms) but you'd probably end up with a bunch of things that are suddenly the equivalent of deadeye spren at the very least. You'd probably not be able to Soulcast or Forge the objects while they're in that state since there wouldn't be a Cognitive aspect to interact with. I do suspect that as long as the Physical and Spiritual aspects are intact, the Cognitive would eventually be restored to some extent, if only by people in the Physical realm thinking about the objects since that has a huge impact on how they see themselves.

She seems to know a lot more about Yolen post-Secret History with the implication that she's either been to the planet or at least had conversations with someone who's been there recently. She describes its ecology in the present tense in the Arcanum Unbounded essay on Scadrial which suggests much more direct knowledge than when she was talking to Kelsier. She also knows enough about Yolish Lightweaving to be able to say that the Rosharan variety is very similar, though for all we know she could have gotten that from Hoid. Of course, if she got knowledge of Lightweaving from Hoid she could have learned about microkinesis from him as well...

Hence the 'outside the scope' comment, but it's loosely related so I figured it was worth bringing up. We know that aside from there being bounds to how much you can store at once (like with storing speed) there are necessary secondary powers applied to magics, like Wayne not irradiating himself with redshift and tapping lots of weight not crushing you. I suspect but do not have a WoB to prove that this would also apply to (non-compounding) F-Atium usage, where you'd be prevented from storing more age than you have to give. Oh yes, on your earlier comment about using atium to measure life expectancy, I think that fits well what we're told about healing magic in the Cosmere not doing anything for aging. If there's a point when you'll simply keel over because your Spiritual aspect 'knows' that you've reached your limit, then F-Atium could be interacting with that same principle to know 'okay, here's how old you can possibly get barring something special like lots of Breath' and using that as your upper boundary.

It's not vanilla atium feruchemy and so slightly outside the scope of the question but there's a related WoB here about the dangers of compounding and duralumin: Based on this and the fact that a single bead of atium can revert you to childhood if you know what you're doing, careless compounding (with our without duralumin) resulting in you de-aging yourself out of existence seems like it could happen.

This one's curious because while it appears in both the prose and graphic novel and there must be some explanation for it, Khriss' essay on Taldain in Arcanum Unbounded notes that for years the assumption was that Autonomy only Invested the Dayside of Taldain, not Darkside. It's funny that she wouldn't at least put in a footnote that oh yes, there is/was this immortal emperor on that half of the planet and that really should have been a hint, or something. Especially since Brandon has confirmed that there's actual magic on Darkside, even if it's not as 'explosive or obvious' as Sand Mastery. But yeah, now I'm wondering how none of us remembered to bring up that one before.

If you can get Nightblood into the Cognitive Realm (which we know is possible) he wouldn't change and could be used to destroy things. So yeah, same as Vivenna's sword.

I dunno, ZeA could be the portmanteau name for KeA riding on Zeit... sorry, I think my brain just had a cuteness overload imagining that. Getting pretty close, yeah.

No, that was just Sazed doing a lot of things in short order. You might be getting your wires crossed with how Rashek had a lot of power but only a short time to use it due to the nature of the Well of Ascension, but that's not how the Shards normally work.

It could work, but that would require him to have spikes with F-Bendalloy and A-Bendalloy, neither of which were known powers during the Final Empire (except by Rashek at any rate) so the odds of him having one of those much less both are pretty much nil. The odds of him obtaining spikes from people once those powers did become known are even lower.

Most people haven't, we just know things about it from Words of Brandon and the occasional released snippet. The complete book is gonna be released with Words of Radiance leatherbound like Way of Kings Prime was for the WoK leatherbound so it's going to be widely available before too long.

You can totally ruin serious scenes with costumes

I have literally no idea what you're trying to say, so yes. therunner's theory is that Ruin wanted Kelsier to use aluminum to kill Rashek but somehow Kel ended up with malatium instead. Harmony, Preservation and Ruin all agree that Kel was specifically tricked into finding and using malatium and that's what set up Rashek's downfall. So the theory is in fact quite dead by the words of the very person who tricked Kelsier to begin with. Also, it's a flawed theory because aluminum doesn't completely prevent healing, it just keeps the area right where the metal is lodged from healing. Since F-Gold can keep you alive through the process of being shot in the face with a shotgun or splattered over the landscape like a tomato (because your Spiritual aspect is taking the reins) an aluminum knife (which is pretty much what Kel would have been limited to working with) isn't going to do much more than mildly inconvenience Rashek. Compounded Health would easily keep him alive until the aluminum could be pulled out of the wound. Brandon has mentioned that being shot with an aluminum bullet wouldn't be a huge issue for a Bloodmaker or to a lesser extent a Thug, now consider how much more dangerous Raskek is than either of those. Also (Warbreaker spoiler) So yeah, the theory doesn't work on any level.

Serious answer: Brandon has implied that Kelsier had a direct hand in how the Church of the Survivor took shape based on things he learned from Sazed. Also, that he has an overinflated opinion of himself, but we knew that. xD Given his own experiences I suspect he doesn't see any of the Shards as gods, at least in the sense of entities worthy of worship. I think he's genuinely trying to keep his promise to Leras but I don't think he sees it as a religious duty per se. Non-serious answer: Kelsier is the Cosmere's one and only practitioner of the Church of the Fist, whose sole tenant is 'Thou shalt punch gods in the face'.

No, Ruin is the one who created the 'legend' of the Eleventh Metal and he set it up to get Rashek out of the way. Sazed says as much in the epigraphs. This gets confirmed by Secret History. Preservation tells Kelsier that burning malatium was 'Ruin's influence on you' and then Ruin straight-up admits it later on:

True, but there's a difference between 'will have more Cosmere stuff' and 'will take place on other worlds'. Brandon has repeatedly said not to expect a Cosmere-styled Avengers story, and having the back half of Stormlight be all about traveling to other worlds would violate that idea. We know Roshar will eventually have genuine space travel but that's still in the future. Like, hundreds of years rather than a mere ten or twenty.

Stormlight Archive is Roshar's story, it's not going to turn into the Big Cosmere Crossover because that's what Mistborn Era 4 is for.

CS4 and Hajimari do allow you to equip a MQ to as many Sub slots as you like instead of limiting it to one person each but otherwise no, you're restricted to the first ability, which is generally the most powerful anyways.

I'm not sure about turning Stormlight into Breath or vice versa but the general idea of conversion has been confirmed because Investiture is just another state. Given how difficult it is to affect Invested objects (even non-heavily Invested ones like hemalurgic spikes), trying to convince a bunch of gaseous Honor-aligned Investiture that it's actually a bunch of gaseous Endowment-aligned Investiture would probably fall under the heading of 'far more difficult than it's worth' especially since you can hack the systems together to accomplish various tasks without directly converting X to Y.