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Healing seems to be very much a 'self-image' thing, as Brandon has specifically said with Kaladin (who sees the brands as part of him) versus Lopen (who doesn't see himself as 'the one-armed Lopen') so if Stump doesn't associate certain infirmities with her sense of self, stormlight healing would probably fix them just like it did with Renarin. That said, age has been treated as a separate thing and all examples we've seen of people slowing or even stopping the aging process require a ton of investiture. Elantrians need a direct connection to the pooled investiture of two Shards, metalborn need access to a lot of the condensed essence of a Shard, Nalthians need either a Splinter of their resident Shard or ~2000 Breaths... And none of the healing we've seen affects age. For example, gold feruchemy doesn't stop your aging or make you younger even with compounding. To the original question, I expect Stump might get mentioned offhand from time to time but I doubt she's going to be a major presence. Probably show up at some future point when we get a lot of Radiants gathering together again but Brandon mentioned in Edgedancer's postscript that Yeddaw isn't a place that has much chance of getting a focus in the main sequence, which is part of why he wrote the novella the way he did. So we probably won't be seeing Stump again for a while.

I edited that but now I'd change what I used to have there from 99.9% to 100%. It's implied the Sleepless are the ones writing the dust jacket blurbs and we know the one in WoK was talking about Kaladin.

Well, that answers one question while sumultaneously creating lots more. Classic Brandon.

The summary on the WoK dust jacket identifies Kaladin as 'The Surgeon' in the same sentence that it identifies Shallan, Dalinar and Szeth by the other titles Arclo uses so it's definitely him.

I imagine it's possible you could get a planet into the L1 position between two stars, but not keep it there because that's an unstable point. Thus, the best I can offer is 'A Shard Did It'. Or since most worlds appear to have been tinkered with pre-Shattering in various ways, 'Adonalsium Did It'. Dunno, maybe he/it got bored with doing things the 'proper' way and decided to have some fun, knowing it would make astronomers thousands of years later tie themselves in knots trying to figure it out.

I would Command it to 'Slice Perfectly' and make it the ultimate kitchen tool. Or if I were being more serious, something like the Command that Vasher gives his cloak along the lines of 'Protect what I must' and hope it works. That would (in theory at least) allow the wielder to provide some of the understanding that a sword wouldn't have on its own, while being a bit broader than Spool's suggestion.

.Ooh, both of these are neat ideas! For what it's worth, the sample chapters of Liar of Partinel claim that the Skullmoss and fain life were born from the corpses of the gods, so assuming that part stays more or less intact in canon (and Hoid talks about gods dying in Warbreaker so it seems a reasonable assumption for now) there's some connection between the two things. Which doesn't necessarily rule out any of the other ideas floating around here, since we know virtually nothing about Yolen's other 'gods' and how they and Adonalsium relate to one another.

If that was all we were meant to take away from the statement, it could have ended with just 'they used humans from Yolen as their model'. There's no reason for Khriss to have added 'and these two were human pre-Ascension' as an aside unless she intended to imply that other Vessels were not originally human.

Yeah, if all sixteen Shards were to be gathered again in a single Vessel you'd get Adonalsium's power concentrated once again but the result wouldn't be the original Adonalsium but something else. I find myself suspecting that Ym's story of 'the One who knew everything and experienced nothing' and split itself up in order to experience the world might be an in-universe recollection of Adonalsium's shattering, maybe from a long time ago by someone who knew of it and wanted to try to make sense of it. Anyhow, since almost everything about the Shattering is still a huge mystery we don't know if recreating Adonalsium's power in a single vessel would be a good thing or not but it's certainly a topic of great interest in and out of universe.

That would be distinctly odd since Ati mentions Vax and, well, he's from Yolen and probably shouldn't be confused on this point. And since Vax is mentioned in the Elantris 10th Ars Arcana and details of Yolish life are mentioned in Arcanum Unbounded, it means that Khriss knows something about both worlds. If they were one and the same, she'd probably have noticed the whole 'fain life' thing and connected the dots. But in seriousness, my current guess is that if Vax is something we've seen before (ie, that it's not a co\mpletely new concept to us) then it's more likely to be a new name for the setting of the 'unpublished but Brandon has suggested he'll do something with it eventually; Aether of Night. We know some concepts from that were lifted and placed into Mistborn so it would be funny if Leras and Ati wound up having something to do with that setting in the ultimately published story, bringing the borrowing full circle.

There was one when someone asked him 'Were all sixteen original Vessels human' and he replied that Yolen had three sentient races, wthout answering the direct question. The implication was that some of them were not human, otherwise that umprompted response wouldn't have made much sense. I'm almost certain we will. Brandon has implied that Bavadin was one of his favorites among the original Vessels when someone asked, though he couldn't/wouldn't explain why. So between that and the specific mention in The Letter in WoK I'm pretty certain we'll see Bavadin eventually. And I'm certain someone will ask about this on the tour. I'll be attending the San Francisco signing (one of the first) and if I don't see it asked before then, I'll be happy to add it to my own list of questions.

Since we know Mistborn Era 4 is supposed to be the big Cosmeric crossover, I could definitely see FTL explorers reaching Yolen to be a major development in the story. We actually have indirect WoB that it is still inhabited. Implication: There's still thinking life there. And on top of that Brandon has said that Frost is from Yolen (dragon, natch) and isn't considered a Worldhopper, implying that he at least is still there.

I thought Vax was what happened when a Discworld vampire tried to pronounce Waxillium's nickname.

Ahh, but would it be an Invested library cart? Because I'd totally pay for that. And now I'm trying to imagine just how much space the complete Cosmere collection will take up once it's done. Even if you strip out 'redundant' things like an original edition of Elantris in favor of the 10th anniversary one or the anthologies including short stories now contained in Arcanum Unbounded, that still works out to...eleven books so far, many suitable as emergency doorstops or amnesia inducers (thank you, Alcatraz) in a pinch. Now add all the books we know Brandon intends to write and that's going to triple, not considering anything else that he might write that we don't know about yet, and maybe he doesn't either. Forget a cart, it's going to need its own special mobile library aisle.

Not to mention that Brandon has suggested there are potential applications for aluminum allomancy purging all investiture from the body, not just wiping out your allomantic metals. The more Scadrial gets involved with the wider Cosmere, the more important the metal is likely to become. Especially since it's been confirmed that the Forgery-proof ralkalest from The Emperor's Soul is actually aluminum and that the metal has potential effects on all forms of investiture.

I'm not sure on Frost being a Vessel or not either (leaning towards the latter) but the point I was trying to make was more along the lines of 'we know non-human sentients exist so it's very likely at least some of the original sixteen weren't human'. Especially given the way Brandon answered that one question. Now whether we'll see any non-human Vessels prior to the Dragonsteel arc or we'll just hear about them is another question, since he might be saving their first 'on-camera' appearance for those stories.

There is at least a conceptual similarity in how Lift uses Wyndle to help climb and how D'Naa used her aether to become a wall-climbing ninja. Whether that's relevant in the long term or not is another thing, since Aether of Night is likely to be so heavily rewritten if/when Brandon gets around to doing somethng with it that it's hard to predict what will remain and what won't. Given its appearance in the Liar of Partinel sample chapters and possiblly in Mraize's collection, I imagine it's a safe bet Amberite will be retained in some form but who knows for the rest? Though seeing Ferrous further explored/expanded upon would be pretty cool, not to mention how it would work in terms of realmantics, so I'm all in favor of that being retained. Actually, I remember Peter said there was a specific reason that Brandon cannibalized aethers for Liar of Partinel so whether they show up in that book's final form or not, there's something about them that Brandon wants as part of the Cosmere.

Enough examples of Blades have gone missing that I'm not surprised a lot of Plate is unaccounted for as well. Some could for example have been lost in the early days of the Recreance if people who took up the armor were killed fighting over the shards and didn't understand how to repair it or didn't have access to enough stormlight. Others could be lost as randuir suggests (I mean, if you can lose an entire city under crem... ) or they might have been lost somewhere they couldn't be recovered from even by people who knew where to look. Say, the bottom of an ocean somewhere if there were any naval battles fought involving shardbearers.

Brandon has said that Steel Inquisitors could have children but there might be 'complications' when it comes to their sDNA. Presumably this would apply to anyone with a particularly odd spiritweb (for example, Returned) but allomantic savants would probably be on the low end of the scale as far as potential complications go. We know for example that most Seekers become savants without even realizing it and we'd presumably have heard something if their children always turned out to have sDNA weirdness. TLDR: Yes, though it's apparently a sliding scale.

Brandon has mentioned before that Yolen has/had three sentient races, one being dragons. Via WoB we know that one of the two parties writing the Letters in Stormlight Archive's epigraphs is a dragon. We don't know if he's a Vessel or not but it seems reasonable to assume that with sixteen Shards to go around, at least one of the things went to someone who wasn't human. When someone directly asked Brandon if all sixteen original Vessels were human they got a RAFO and a comment about Yolen's three races so the implication was fairly obvious. This discussion has some of the WoB and speculation.

It's possible that when Brandon said Miles was 'influenced by something' it was as simple as him knowing something we don't, some tiny detail about the Set's plans that he figured out, and he was trying to warn people what was coming. His last words fit neatly into what we later learn about how the Set is working on behalf of Trell in a plan that they expect to take decades or centuries. 'Worship Trell and wait' fits with that and the possibility of being influenced by something leaves a lot of wiggle room for what Brandon actually means. Now, the 'men of gold and red' bit is rather less clear, as is the 'final metal'. The latter could be Harmonium which was later revealed to be A Thing, ot ir could somehow relate to the mystery godmetal seen in Paalm's spikes.

Yeah, Brandon has said that we can now think of Mistborn as having four eras, with Era 3 being the 1980's one and Era 4 being the sci-fi one with huge crossover potential. His most recent statement is that the Era 3 protagonist will be 'a code monkey involved in Scadrial's nerd culture' and elsewhere said she's planned to be a Terriswoman but that doesn't mean the teaser idea he's already given us about an 'allomantic SWAT team' isn't still perfectly valid, just that the planned protagonist has gone through a revision. Previously I think he'd said it was going to be a nicrosil misting.

Brandon mentioned that Hoid has difficulty hurting people, in the context of a 'if all your characters fought who would win?' hypothetical. We also have evidence for this from Words of Radiance, where he mentions to Shallan in a flashback sequence that he's terribly ineffective at hurting people and 'blames his upbringing' and Rock recognizes him as a Horneater deity who is forbidden by their other gods from hurting people. So the idea that Hoid is for some reason unable/unwilling to harm others isn't new in and of itself, though the fact that he can harm Kelsier (sort of) gives us a slight sense of how this might operate. And we have no real idea how or why this came to be and any questions about it are likely to get RAFO'd since we're not due to get Hoid's backstory for a long time, so unless it somehow becomes relevant to something published between now and the Liar of Partinel/Dragonsteel books, it's probably going to be one of those mysteries that we can only ponder.

Well, you could always try banging your head against a wall to snap yourself, hope that you have secret allomancer genes, then down a vial of cadmium and hope for the best*. Or you can temporarily channel that impatience for SA3 into impatience for next week to arrive so we can read Arcanum Unbounded and take some of the edge off our cravings for more Sanderson. And then keep doing it in all future instances until whatever book you're most looking forward to arrives. I know I'll be doing it for the next, oh, seven or so years until the stars are aligned and Cthulhu is pleased everything necessary vis a vis Elantris is done and we can start looking forward to Mistborn Era 3, which is probably my most anticipated known project right now. Not to imply that I'm not eagerly awaiting everything between now and then because I am, but you know what I mean. xD *Poster takes no responsibility for headaches, damaged furniture or heavy metal poisoning. Always attempt to become an allomancer responsibly.

Ahh, so there is WoB on the 'Breath decay' subject. Thanks to both of you for clearing that up for me.