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We've known that Warbreaker predates The Way of Kings for years now, as Brandon stated some time back that its sequel Nightblood was planned to be the nearest book taking place before WoK and almost ten years ago we had a WoB that Brandon's Cosmere books were published in chronological order (until MB2 came along) which means that by default Warbreaker must happen before WoK.

That's more Preservation fueling Vin directly, something that we know Shards can do. He wasn't yet dead at that point, even if his mind was badly gone. We see it again when Vin fuels Elend after her own Ascension and then in Alloy of Law when Wax gets a little boost from Harmony. There's a mind directing that application of Investiture, even if it was running mostly on auto-pilot in the first instance we saw.

The most we've gotten out of Brandon is that he annotated someone's map with 'Great magic unleashed here' and an arrow pointing to the Plains. It's unlikely to be Odium's doing however, since one of the snippets of the listener's songs that we're given explicitly states that while humans blame them for it, they weren't the ones responsible. These songs were recorded around when the listeners fled during the False Desolation as a way of preserving their history after they transformed into dullform en masse and risked forgetting everything important. The song tells us that by necessity the Shattered Plains were created and Stormseat destroyed before the Recreance and before Honor's death. Likewise the humans seem to believe that Stormseat was destroyed during Aharietiam, per Navani's conversation with Shallan in WoR. While Honor's death was a protracted event, we know that he didn't finally die until after the Recreance and Honor was apparently mostly intact beforehand since we're told that previous generations of Radiants discovered the.truth and Honor was always able to talk them through it.

Somehow missed this before, but that's a great first post to lead off with. Welcome to the Shard!

Doubtful because of how Brandon has described the power working. The metal itself becomes the conduit that not only draws the power from the Spiritual Realm but tells it what to do. Just being a misting/ferring won't provide you with that because your sDNA doesn't shape the power, it simply determines which metal(s) you can use.

We already know this is possible as we saw Nale summon both his original Honorblade and a living Shardblade in Oathbringer. You can also bond multiple deadeye Blades and wield them simultaneously as Amaram does at the end if the book. In theory you could do a living/deadeye combo (but both would hate it and scream at you in different ways) or a dual living Blade combo (if you can manage to juggle two sets of oaths) but thoae are a lot more improbable. The Honorblades are pure 'Tanavastium' so they'd be just as resistant to Investiture as a regular Shardblade, ie affecting them would be really really hard.

Yeah, thatt's the ONE exception, the rest predate it. Almost all of the worlds were also inhabited before the Shards arrived, per Khriss.

The names predate the Shattering, whether the inhabitants of a world know what their planet is called in the greater Cosmere depends on the planet. Rosharans do, for example. Kelsier and Wax at least know that their planet is named Scadrial because Hoid/Khriss tell the two respectively but it's not clear the population as a whole does during Era 2. The fact that Wax doesn't get utterly confused when Khriss brings up the name suggests it is common knowledge though.

There isn't really a mechanism we know of by which the Breath could absorb the Investiture in the Stormlight, certainly not on its own at any rate. They're two completely different 'spins' of Investiture, one is Endowment-flavored and the other Honor/Cultivation. Also, Divine Breaths are Splinters of Endowment, which means there's more to them than just 'a lot of Investiture'. We know that they behave differently with regard to hemalurgy for example. Asked and answered, the Elantrian would have to open a connection to the Dor to make this work or Nightblood would just consume their own Investiture very quickly, and even that wouldn't help much because Nightblood would eventually dissolve the Aon being used as a conduit and collapse the whole thing. You might make it work by creating a whole chain of Aons for the sword to feed on but the exponential increase would eventually get ahead of your ability to draw new Aons. I think you could use the two systems together to store health without the negative effects normally associated with F-Gold storage, since you're not messing up the zero-sum nature of (non-compounded) metalminds that way and you could probably store health faster because you could afford to store right up to whatever the limits of F-Gold are and do it as long as you had Stormlight to spare, but because of the way the two systems work I don't think you could store 'stormlight healing' in a goldmind by itself. Yeah, people have wondered about this and Brandon has confirmed that it's possible.

Most systems can be made to work together but they'll generally require some form of hacking and some applications are easier than others. For example, Nightblood and the Divine Breath don't actually need to feed on Breaths and any Investiture will do and if you could hack Selish magic appropriately you could substitute something like Breaths or Stormlight and gain Dakhor monk powers without having to sacrifice people. Brandon has specifically told us that storing Stormlight in metal is hard but F-Nicrosil could theoretically provide a similar method of using Surgebinding that we've already seen it provide for allomancy. You'd either need a Stormlight supply (and it's leaky so it's hard to get) or you'd need a hack that lets you power the Surges with some other form of Investiture as fuel. Fuelling allomancy with other magics is tricky because each metal is shaping Preservation's power in specific ways so you'd need some way to tell the power what to do.

[Citation Needed] Brandon originally planned for three Eras, Wax and Wayne became the extra one which then bumped the other two up by a number each.

The most obvious way to get Breath is to have lots and lots of money and just buy as much as you need. Yes, that still requires willing donors but it's also relatively easy. Unless I'm missing something, that's the opposite of what we've been told. We know that Breath that's been used to Awaken something remains keyed to the Identity of the original person even after they're dead, such that a Returned could reclaim their own former Breath. Per that same WoB a Lifeless probably could not because they lack that Identity link but they might be able to in unusual circumstances. That doesn't mean the Breath is suddenly up for grabs, it's still locked to the original Identity and can only be claimed by that person. If you were to use hemalurgy to steal an Awakener's Identity (via H-Duralumin) you might be able to retrieve Breath from things they'd awakened and if an Awakener had blanked their Identity before using their Breaths to Awaken things you might also be able to retrieve those Breaths if you blanked your Identity, but that's a really unusual situation that's not likely to just happen. We don't actually know if F-Nicrosil can compound Breath or if it would only store something like the effects of having Breath (temporarily) or the ability to Awaken or something else entirely. We do know that if you had Breaths keyed to your Identity in metal you'd Awakened and you burned the metal you'd just get the Breaths back, this would quite likely be the case with stored Breaths as well. What we've seen of F-Nicrosil so far is more like storing the ability to do something rather than the fuel for the magic itself. The Bands contained feruchemical charges because that's how the magic works but it didn't store X amount of allomantic power, it just contained the ability to perform allomancy and its bearers still had to get metal before they could actually do it.

Even if Sliverlight somehow didn't know about them already (doubtful) she could read the easily-available Words of Founding that talk about microorganisms and genetics and build from there on biology so I'm guessing that the scholars of Silverlight generally have a good handle on the natural sciences. Khriss writes about Ashyn and its floating cities in the AU essay on the Rosharn System so she's probably studied what makes them tick and thus has a working understanding of how bacteria function. And in The Way of Kings Jasnah talks about the 'eight kinds of blood' when she tells Shallan about Soulcasting and while Brandon has confirmed that Rosharan understanding of blood types isn't as advanced as ours they're working in that direction so Khriss probably knows (or can ask people who do know) enough about blood types that she might be able to identify Initiation requirements as specific as blood type.

Depends, we know that Steelrunners have a practical upper limit on their speed and it doesn't really matter to A-Atium how fast things are moving because the secondary effect of its power is to speed up your mind so that you can process the information and act upon it. If the mistborn is burning before the Steelrunner starts moving (and the physical setup permits it) they'll know everywhere that person is going to be in advance so all they really need to do is make sure they're in a position to avoid the very first attack and have an appropriate means of counterattacking. Stick something pointy or edged in the path the Steelrunner is going to follow and their own speed will do them in, or at least hurt them and force them to slow down. Or even just throw some pocket change into the space they're going to occupy and watch the Steelrunner swiss-cheese themselves. F-Steel is powerful but it's not going to protect against a creative application of physics. Now, if they both start using their powers at the exact same time or the fight takes place in a sufficiently enclosed area, it's possible that the atium-burner simply can't reposition themselves quickly enough to make a difference and then the Steelrunner wins. Given the hypothetical though, the mistborn has a lot of atium so it's likely that they're willing to be extravagant in using it. The other unknown factor is what exactly the two are fighting with. Assuming they're not just using harsh language, the weapons are going to be important. Hand to hand combat isn't going to do the Steelrunner much good because hitting something at high speed is going to hurt them as well. Since you've specified they're a compounder, using A-Steel to launch coins or other projectiles on the other hand would be quite dangerous, as demonstrated by the beginning of Shadows of Self. It does however come down to what the atium-user has to work with, because if they can tell where the Steelrunner and their projectiles are going to be and have enough space to move around, they can still potentially counterattack very effectively.

Citation provided for future reference: So yeah, Scadrial's allomantic and feruchemical sDNA is about as dilute as it's going to get and it won't be more extreme in Era 3. Brandon has confirmed that this is a viable form of 'time travel' into the future. There have been some interesting discussions and thought experiments on the board regarding how nested bubbles could be used to further extend the effect.

No, because that would require splitting the soul of the spren and they really wouldn't like that.

Brandon has described the Rhythms on occasion as something coming from the Spiritual Realm that the listeners are sensing (and which A-Bronze could also pick up and Connection-manipulation could interpret) so I think that if you had a lot of Investiture in your soul you might be able to pick up on them due to how you're kind of a mini-Perpendicularity. Susebron for instance had some sense for the other Realms based on his dialogue, but we're talking lots and lots of Breath there, Dawnshard spoiler:

Yeah, it's all about the cutting since it has to get 'inside' you for the soul-damaging properties to come into play. Relatedly, a blunt shardweapon is still going to hurt you and quite possibly kill you but it's not going to have the same soul-cutting property unless you're hitting someone so hard that they kind of splatter, at which point it's largely irrelevant. But something blunt like a Shardhammer has its uses; It's not always about pure lethality.

Given that NISA has already devoted the resources to bring out Cold Steel 4 and Ys IX within about five months of each other (when they released a full year apart) this, very much this. Also, there are serious issues of continuity when it comes to releasing Hajimari without Crossbell, seeing that a third of the main story focuses on Lloyd and over half of the overall plot either takes place in Crossbell or otherwise involves it heavily. I could easily see NISA pushing Hajimari (and the next arc) back a bit to release Crossbell first. Not everything has to be about pure profit.

Brandon has talked about needing to get the metal 'into your spirit' so it would depend on if Brandon considers that 'good enough' and then if the allomancer themselves can perceive that as a metal reserve and attempt to burn it, which is probably a Cognitive trick. We do have WoBs about burning hemalurgic spikes in your body but they don't specify whether all spikes would work or if he was just thinking about things like chest spikes. I'm pretty sure we never get any indication from Vin that she sees her earring as a viable metal reserve (as a spike, it's definitely made of a burnable metal) which gets back to the perception thing; if it's possible then it must require the allomancer to first realize that it's an option.

You do realize that the Lashings aren't the only powers of a Windrunner, right? They're just the ones that we know about and which have formal names. We have a WoB that a Windrunner could create a bubble around themselves and travel through space, so the WoB you cite isn't really as definitive as you think and this sort of pressure-manipulation is very much within the Windrunner skillset.

It's actually pretty easy to figure out the mold that Selish magics fit into when you look at what all the known systems have in common and Brandon has confirmed that it's form-based. Brandon likens the magics to programming, and getting the code just right is necessary to attain the proper result. In this case, it means drawing the Aons properly, performing the right sequence of movements in ChayShan and so on. There's another couple WoBs on this which makes it clear that magic in the Rosharan system has essentially been following the mold that Adonalsium already established, which is why all three planets have similar elements even though the Shards actively involved on the worlds differ. Also that the Big A was directly involved in some of the pre-Shattering limitations. Consequently, whatever Shard(s) ended up in the Rosharan System, their magics would develop based on the 'pathway' that Adonalsium established way back when. The big contribution the specific Shards make is that they dictate how you get access to the magic, though as noted in the above WoB the lack of Adonalsium's former influence also means that Rosharan magic can now do things that generally could not be done before.

Fun fact, you get foreshadowing of this (well, more foreshadowing) if you: Related to an earlier post of oyurs, yes, that S-Craft is amazing, one of my favorites in the entire franchise. xD I'm not 100% sold on the localized name but I'll admit that the Japanese didn't make for a particularly easy translation. And congrats on finishing the game!

My guess is that an augmenter fabrial for something like this would make use of a musicspren but unless RoW has something to say on the subject (I've just barely started it) we don't know what stone(s) they might be attracted to, so there isn't likely to be any canon guidance there. However, since there's an association between the polestones and the ten Orders and we know that the Lightweavers specialize in manipulating both light and sound waves, you probably couldn't go wrong with a red stone representing their associated polestone, garnet.

Given that Wyndle basically refuses to be summoned as a blade with a sharp edge because he doesn't want to hurt people and the Stormfather refuses to be summoned as anything, I'm pretty sure that Syl could refuse to manifest as something she felt was undignified. That said, you're gonna have a bigger problem: Syl like all spren has to manifest as metal. The godmetal alloy that all spren manifest as is notably not malleable, meaning you're not going to get something capable of bending. There's a size limit and that is way above it.