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Compounding by itself can't be a resonance because we know too many powers means you don't get them and Mistborn are one of Brandon's examples of 'too many'. Despite that, the Lord Ruler could compound everything. So whatever Miles had as a resonance is different and probably subtle.

Speaking of a character getting focus chapters via flashback even though they're dead, assuming that 'Taln' is really the Herald, not only will his eventual book be the perfect place to give us some deep background info but in a very 'Jedi-certain-point-of-view' sense, he's already dead. Heralds were recently confirmed to be cognitive shadows so he's effectively an undead of sorts already. And killing him off wouldn't necessarily remove him from the story permanently either. Actually, any character with Investiture could potentially die and hang around as a cognitive shadow, getting flashback chapters while still technically being dead. But if Taln really is Taln, he's already in that situation so.. Now, if I had to pick another character most likely to get a focus book despite being dead, I think it would be Jasnah. Whether Brandon would do that after not-killing her already I don't know but narratively it's easy to imagine Shallan discovering a journal Jasnah kept, reading it and imagining the important scenes vividly via some application of Lightweaving. And in a more serious answer to the original question, Nale seems like he could be on a path to dying before the first arc is done, perhaps next book. And if the universe really wants to keep kicking Kaladin, it's got a perfect opportunity to do so next book with one or both of his parents.

No doubt the Ars Arcanum for Era 3 or 4 Mistborn will have a lot more information. And maybe a margin note by Khriss that she's had to keep coming back to Scadrial for centuries because the people there keep making breakthroughs in their understanding of their Investiture and/or figure out more crazy things they can do with their powers. I imagine Khriss is drawn to Scadrial for its research potential almost as much as Hoid is because he wants those instant noodles.

More likely the use of past tense is either because Axies hasn't said that since he decided on his goal of cataloguing all the world's spren (making it something he said, not something he currently says) or because Arclo simply hasn't seen Axies in a long time and so he uses the past tense reflexively.

I have seen the future and it is with great sorrow that I have to reveal that Lopen isn't going to make it. Through an amazing sequence of events that demonstrate Brandon's mastery of the craft, Lopen and the man who calls himself Taln will meet. Then, we'll learn that Taln's real name is actually Lopen. Saddened to learn that he is no longer The Lopen, our favorite Herdazian will throw himself from a cliff.

It's going to be nice getting clarity on whether Taln is Taln so we don't have to keep adding qualifiers to his name. xD Anyhow, if the Heralds were getting their surgebinding fueled directly by Honor while keeping to the Oathpact (we know this kind of direct empowering is possible from other systems) then I would imagine that a Herald still bound to the Oathpact might be able to get that power from the largest chunk of Honor remaining the way they used to get it from Honor. The Stormfather might not grant as much power (though not having to split it ten ways, maybe he would...) but it would certainly be more efficient than needing to carry spheres around, especially as Syl implies that there's something dangerous about the amount of Stormlight required for Honorblade-granted surgebinding.

Yeah, here it is. Working from that, it's a safe assumption that Hoid has so many powers that he doesn't get any resonance perks.

I believe Brandon has said that certain things may have so much investiture already that they're basically 'full' and wouldn't have room as such, so you couldn't turn them into a spike. I believe this was in context of asking whether a shardblade or Nightblood could become a spike. As for stealing surges, I'm not so sure you could steal them independently from the spren that grant them. Surgebinding isn't hard-coded into the spiritweb like Allomancy or Feruchemy is. You need a crack in the soul, then the Nahel Bond fills that gap and you get surgebinding as a part of the deal. Since we know the powers, the spren and the Ideals are all intertwined (Kaladin starts losing the former and Syl starts losing intelligence when Kaladin stops acting in accordance with the latter) it seems like they would all come as a package, hemalurgically. We have another example of this with the Heralds and their Honorblades. The former can't use surgebinding without the latter and if someone else like Szeth took up an Honorblade, they could only surgebind for as long as they were bonded to the weapon. I doubt you could spike a surge out of someone with an Honorblade because the blade itself is the source of the surgebinding and by extension I doubt you could spike a surge out of someone independent of the spren that grants it. Now, stealing an entire bond might be possible and Brandon has confirmed that at least for a dead shardblade, stealing the bond to the blade is within the scope of Hemalurgy's powers. But I'm not sure you could steal only the 'surgebinding' aspect of a Nahel Bond without the other bits that go along with it.

His own point of view rather strongly implies that he's dead and was so the instant the blade connected with him. The thing with Stormlight healing is that you need to be alive in the first place to do it. A shardblade to the spine like Ym got will kill you instantly (evidently with some small lag time before your connection to the Physical Realm is completely severed, based on the original ending of Words of Radiance) so Ym would have needed someone else to heal him very quickly before he slipped from 'mostly dead' to 'very very dead' and wouldn't have been able to do it himself. Given that Nale knows that the apparently dead can be revived within a short window of opportunity, it's likely he waited around a few minutes just to be on the safe side.

Technically it's a Nicki Savage story 'presented by Allomancer Jak'. And now for my next trick, I will split a hair four ways... xD And I might as well add that the advertisement where Khriss and Nazh are looking for metal that talks partially inspired my first propounded theory which (if correct) would also count as a wider cosmere reference on top of the fact that it involves those two. Actually, I suppose it counts as a reference whether I'm right or not, as long as the metal is talking because it's Awakened.

I'm suddenly imagining Shallan inhaling an entire highstorm and then transforming it into a rain of pew pew lasers. And to steal a line from Rodney McKay 'That's what happens when you back a brilliant scholar into a corner!'. Hey, if Tavi can do it in Codex Alera... Dammit, now I want that to happen even though I know it won't.

You mean like a list of references to the wider cosmere in Era 2? Well, let's start with 'everything to do with Trell', then move on to Wayne's mention of the God Beyond, the Red Rip is implied to be the same phenomenon Rosharans know as Taln's Scar, Khriss appears directly in Bands of Mourning and Nazh shows up in a serialized adventure story in the newspaper (and both appear in a separate advertisement) and Word of Brandon is that Hoid is especially interested in Scadrial because it's the planet in the cosmere closest to inventing instant noodles... and he's not the only worldhopper with an interest in seeing them come into existence. xD

Another point is that from the Aimians we've seen so far and the in-universe text on the dust jackets, the peoples of that kingdom were allies with the human inhabitants of Roshar for a long time. The Scouring sounds like it happens after the Recreance, meaning after all the people who remembered Aimians as allies in the fight against the Voidbringers are long dead, probably after the Vorin church started demonizing the Radiants as well. I wouldn't put it past them to have forgotten that the Aimians used to be allies and declared them to be Voidbringers or allies of them because, as noted, they're 'creepy'. Given that what the church teaches about the Radiants is demonstrably false in certain ways, I don't see it as being a stretch that the church was at least indirectly responsible for the Scouring as well. As for how they managed it given how tough the two examples of Aimians we've seen so far are, I don't think we can say at this point.

Haven't read the Unfettered sample chapters (aside from the one I already heard at a signing) so I can't comment on anything that might have been introduced in there. I like the idea that Dalinar's former shardblade sharing the name of the title book is because the sword is related to the book in some way but it's not a book about the sword. We might be able to get some insight from the fact that one of the titles previously considered for Dalinar's flashback book was Highprince of War, which sounds like a chapter or volume in a work on politics. And since the topic has come up, I wonder if we're going to see all of these proposed titles as in-universe books eventually. We know they're meant to be in-universe documents which means that for every title Brandon thinks up, he needs to find a place in the world for a text of the same name, with at least some idea of its author and content. We've seen it once with The Book of Endless Pages (an earlier idea for Shallan's flashback book title) being discussed in WoK before the appearance of the in-universe Words of Radiance in the book of the same name. So are we going to see a book about the position of Highprince of War mentioned at some point even though it's no longer the title of a SA book? Is Stones Unhallowed (one proposed title for Szeth's book) going to be a text by a Shin scholar and/or about Shin beliefs? Is Skybreaker a work by or about that Radiant order? We don't even know if either of those is going to be the ultimate title of the book so we might get a third one before everything is done. Working on Stormlight Archive must be exhausting for Brandon if he needs to 'write' a new book or two every time he needs to come up with a title for the next one.

The list given in the Coppermind comes from the prose version where Kenton identifies all the ranks by sash color and later in the prose version Kenton mentions that Diemfen has three ranks below it and four above it. Those numbers work out perfectly if you assume acolent is being counted as a rank, below underfen. That still leaves only eight ranks total but remember that the prose version was still a draft so it's got some typos; it's quite possible the mention of nine ranks is one of them and that the uncertainty over whether acolents constitute a rank or not could be another.

While we're not completely sure how shades work (though Arcanum Unbounded gave us rather useful information in that regard) the shades are confirmed by WoB as cognitive shadows and thus by definition must have some sort of investiture which Nightblood could feed on. So, if you ever find yourself dead on Threnody and your disembodied spirit encounters a sword asking if you'd like to destroy some evil today, float the other way unless you're trying to commit shade suicide.

We know from WoB that the Ones Above are part of some planet or group we'd already seen by the time Sixth of the Dusk came out. We've generally assumed that means they're from Scadrial since we already know that Mistborn is eventually going to have a sci-fi era with interstellar travel and most of what we see/hear about the Ones Above could be explained easily with feruchemy and/or kandra, plus some technology we haven't yet seen them develop but which is plausible given the timeframe. That said, while Scadrians are still the most likely we've certainly got other options. By the time the book came out, we'd already been introduced to characters from Silverlight (the city of worldhoppers) even if we didn't know it yet and with the release of Arcanum Unbounded we know that they take an active interest in First of the Sun. It's possible that at some time between when Khriss' essay was written and the events of the book took place, they've gotten their hands on FTL technology. Or it could be some other group that's learned to use technology to move between worlds.

Yes. Brandon was asked about this and left it as an exercise for us. Though we know that some of that 'missing' power is still condensed in the remaining atium that Marsh has.

I for one will be happy to donate my Breath to help ensure that he maintains his youthful energy for however long it takes. Now someone just has to make BioChroma a real thing...

Yes, because Stick knows that it is a stick and doesn't need anyone to call it a stick. Stick is.

Speaking of other Aethers, anyone who thinks that Duskr from Liar of Partinel was conceived as a new name for 'Night', raise the hand of your Forgotten killbot. And yeah, since he mentioned both seeds and books in the plural and I'm pretty sure he's not counting Liar in that sample, Vax is looking pretty solid as the future setting for Aether's rewrite as it's been mentioned several times and the crystal in Mraize's collection is the most obvious candidate for the second such seed. And Peter at one point said that there's a specific reason that Aethers are 'already canon' but nobody has figured it out yet. If we can get at what's so significant about Aethers that could help us predict where he's eventually going to take things. And while trying to find that quote I also found another by Brandon a couple years back where he said that Aethers may not remain in the Liar/Dragonsteel arc when they're revisited because he wasn't happy about how they turned out. Last random observation, Amberite seems to be a word looking for a worthy story. Brandon used it in Mythwalker, Liar of Partinel and Aether of Night but none of them have been published. Hopefully it will finally have its day when the rewrite is finished, whenever that might be.

Harmony is, per Word of Brandon, the most powerful thing in the Cosmere because he's holding two Shards. Once you finish the existing Era 2 books you'll have a more complete picture on how things stand. And it's not that Preservation or Ruin were missing part of a 'power set' as a result of some of their power being condensed into physical forms but a reduction in overall power that was significant insofar as the two of them were opposing each other and Preservation needed to hide as much atium as possible because he was naturally weaker than Ruin (because he put more of himself into humans than Ruin did, altering the balance between them) and that's how he enforced parity between them. All Shards have future-sight but how good they are at it varies. Relative to Preservation, Ruin wasn't particularly good at it. Welcome to the Shard!

<Munches on the head of a chocolate Santa Claus in a symbolic representation of this most glorious of days>

I think we can set aside the possibility of future-sight when it comes to Dalinar's vision of the Recreance and have to take it as a given that it's something Tanavast was still alive for, even if Brandon hadn't confirmed it for us. He admits at the end of Way of Kings when he's showing Dalinar a vision of the future that may come to pass; the unstated implication is that everything else he showed was solid knowledge.

Able doing the not, needing the having of rules of regular.