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I sit corrected.

Yeah, physical copies of Dawnshard and Way of Kings Prime were intended as backer rewards and aren't going to be sold separately. You'll probably be able to find them occasionally on auction sites like Ebay or sold by users on Amazon but they won't be cheap. So for now if you want to read it, go for the digital edition that's already available.

Kandra bones are mainly there to give them something to build a body around and exactly what they use is largely irrelevant. We saw a number of different True Bodies n HoA, and we see MeLaan go around with several sets including an aluminum one in BoM. I think that for purposes of feruchemical storage the type of bones you're currently using won't have that much impact. Maybe for a couple cases like weight, you'd notice a difference if your body while storing and your body while tapping are considerably different in weight, or for F-Tin you might have wonky things happen if you try to tap a sense you could use in one body but your current one doesn't have (like electroreception) but outside the Physical quadrant of powers I imagine it won't make a huge difference. By the by, it would be quite easy for a kandra to get access to powers via using spikes for some/all of their 'bones'.

Assuming all that belief were weighed equally (ie, one crew didn't only sort of believe theirs was the original and the other really passionately did), I'm guessing the same thing that would happen in the hypothetical of someone with healing being perfectly bisected: The 'soul' of the original Ship would randomly go to Ship 1 or 2 and the other would have to manifest its own over time. One thing I love about Brandon's works, we can actually have discussions about stuff like this completely straightfaced.

There is, perhaps unsurprisingly, a WoB directly on point there. Presumably if you had two ships, one that started out as the original and was replaced piece by piece and the second that was made with all the pieces taken from the first, which one would be considered the 'original' ship Cognitively would depend on what the sailors think. If they see Ship 1 as the same ship, then Ship 1 is the same Cognitive unit and Ship 2 will manifest its own over time. If they see Ship 2 as the original because it was made with all the bits of the original, then it would be the 'original' and Ship 1 would eventually manifest its own Cognitive aspect. In all likelihood you'd get the former situation and not the latter, with Ship 1 continuing to be the original ship Cognitively because that's how people tend to think and Ship 2 would be its own completely new thing, perhaps with some vague understanding that it's kin to Ship 1.

Hrathen began training at Dakhor but left after the incident mentioned and completed his training at Ghajan; that one bone is transformed like the rest of the Dakhor monks but the rest of his are normal.. Sarene speculates that the power Hrathen was able to draw from the Dor through that bone is what kept him alive long enough to kill Dilaf and in the absence of any reason to think otherwise, it's safe to assume she's probably correct. As to how Hrathen with one bone managed to kill someone with a full set of them, a couple of factors could be in play. Hrathen is much younger than Dilaf and more physically fit (I mean, he goes around wearing real armor constantly...) so he can probably exert a lot more force with that arm than Dilaf can muster. Also, we know that different bone configurations grant different powers, so it's possible that whatever was done to Hrathen's arm is simply better suited to pulling off a dramatic neck lift and snap than Dilaf's bones were suited to countering it. We know Dilaf has a rare power to resist the effects of AonDor, which may well have required trading off some measure of durability or strength. Bear in mind also that we see that scene from Raoden's perspective and he doesn't have the knowledge that the reader does. Dilaf was probably less surprised by Hrathen having a Dakhor-transformed bone (because he clearly remembers the latter's time at the monastery in some detail) and more that he was able to use it after so many years, or something along those lines. We don't really know enough about how that system works to be sure.

This... isn't really a discussion topic. Art belongs here for Brandon-related things and here for everything else. Also, welcome to the Shard!

Brandon mentioned that axehounds are easy to domesticate so it's likely that humans did it, soon enough after their arrival on Roshar that people still remembered what a 'hound' was.

In describing Rithmatics (which started out as a Cosmere magic and remains strongly influenced by it) Brandon mentions that the perceptions of the general population are what have the most influence. So in all likelihood one or two people who perceive 'life-like' to be something different than a humanoid biped wouldn't shift how Awakening functions but like Dunkum suggests, give a larger population a bit of time and it would likely shift the magic.

Orchis Tower's roof, nothing important ever happens there in the series... and if you believe that I have some lovely oceanfront property in Ored that I'd love to sell you.

Much more likely is that he gave them to a (very) trusted priest with the directive to pass those Breaths to the person who became the first God King, once an appropriate candidate was found.

Since the Divine Breath is Investiture-agnostic it might not even require Connection hacking, just having a sufficient supply of the stuff in close proximity. Breaths are locked to the Identity of the user until given away via the 'My Breath to yours' Command but Stormlight isn't locked, so perhaps he really does just 'breathe it in'. That said, if Conneciton hacking is required then we know Vasher's got a way to do that too; he's using a similar hack to speak the local language (his color/flower expressions are a sign of someone using such tricks and not learning the languages the old-fashioned way) and he must have a way to manipulate Connection since he's bonded to a Splinter of Endowment and thus strongly Connected to Nalthis' Physio-Cognitive* 'zone' but has managed to worldhop multiple times. * Yes, I just made that up.

Bah, she looks good with that cap! But yes, once you get access to her equipment you can remove it.

You're reading too much into that, 'lost' just means they had a Breath but no longer do. Because, y'know, they've given it away. Nope, because Brandon specifically calls out Hoid as not having had Breath until he went and obtained some and he's been around since before the Shattering.

The amount of Investiture required to rewire someone with the Metallic Arts would short-circuit the stamp. Think how many orders of magnitude more Investiture would be involved in a Shard... Also, remember that Forgery is dependent on Cognitive plausibility. Whatever Shard it was that Hoid was offered but didn't take went to somebody else and in all likelihood they're now on a world where their presence has affected millions or billions of lives over the millennia. Even if you could somehow make a stamp function with the instructions to give that Shard to Hoid instead, it would fail due to the Cognitive aspect simply not working.

Say, how do we know Scrooge isn't secretly the one running a network of mercantile trade between worlds? We know it exists and it's the kind of thing he'd do. Also, he'd probably be both amazed at the potential of Soulcasting and aghast at the dangers of upsetting an economy by misusing that power. Last thought, Cosmere Scrooge would need to seriously update his Money Bin's security systems to be able to deal with Investiture-based intrusion attempts. Maybe he could pay Khriss for a consultation on the basic principles or something.

We have Word of Isaac actually, since Nazh is his character and he's the one who wrote the story.

We don't know how the Unmade came to exist in sufficient detail and we don't know why Cusicesh appears on such a set schedule or why people observing it feel drained afterwards so we really have no way of knowing how a hypothetically Unmade Cusicesh would act.

Brandon openly admits he sometimes does this just to keep us guessing.

It doesn't hurt to remember that the hemalurgy table is an in-universe document written by people who aren't aware of any forms of Investiture beyond the Metallic Arts, so we shouldn't take it as the final word on the topic. I suspect other metals like steel probably have hemalurgic uses beyond just targeting allomantic powers, we simply haven't had the opportunity to see it yet.

Breaths are probably not possible to steal hemalurgically.

Allomantically viable just means it can be burned, it doesn't mean it can be burned by anybody, not even a mistborn. Everyone on Scadrial has Connection to both Ruin and Preservation which is why mistborn can burn atium, lerasium and alloys thereof. Here are some more WoBs on the topic:

Except Brandon has said that a Scadrian mistborn couldn't normally burn shardblade metal because they lack the relevant Connection. They'd need to create that in some way before they coukd burn a godmetal from another Shard. He described it as hard but not impossible.

Yeah, there is. Minor musical spoilers for CS1-2 It reappears in CS4 music as well so it crosses the entire arc. There's a couple leitmotifs that span the entire arc but that one's kind of the most significant. The one that literally spans the most ground is CS1's OP theme because its main melody makes a reappearance in one of the songs that plays in CS4's ending.

The CS1 theme? Yeah, it's a great one. And if you keep your ears open you might notice that there's a leitmotif in there which gets used in several other places in Cold Steel.