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Not sure if serious... ;p

As a heads-up, spoilers for Hajimari no Kiseki are apparently starting to circulate (including the trophy list which someone I trust tells me contains spoilers) so now would probably be a good time to mute Twitter hashtags (#黄昏 and #創の軌跡 at least) and generally be careful about browsing discussions on other sites. I'm definitely going to be going into Internet Hermit Mode until I've gotten a chance to play it for myself starting Wednesday. I may or may not post some general non-spoilery (but still tagged) thoughts as I go through and I'll definitely do a retrospective after the game.

Since futuresigt is a Spiritual thing and seems to have a lot to do with Connection, I imagine it would work exactly the same for even the most insubstantial of spren, where the atium shadow is reading the spren's Connection to everything nearby and telling the user how the next few seconds are going to go. We have this WoB and another one here that talks about the link between futuresight, Connection and the Spiritual Realm. Since A-Atium is showing you Spiritual information, I don't think that the weaker connection that most spren have to the Physical Realm would make a real difference.

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. Equip some accessories that prevent Death and you won't get one-shotted again.

Assuming that's the chest I'm thinking of, the reason you're getting one-shotted is that the boss has attacks that inflict Death. Come back with Holy Chain accessories or similar; it's an entirely winnable fight the first time.

Yeah, the 'magic recipe' in CS2 is the onigiri; you want Tricolor Onigiri to turn a profit. In general you can assume that the profit-making recipe in any given game is the one that doesn't require any enemy drops to cook.

A WoB with a very direct answer like that remains reliable until such time as Brandon says something to contradict it or the books themselves do so. You don't get to ignore a point-blank statement just because you find it inconvenient.

Swords having two-element names are extremely common in fiction (Stormbringer springs immediately to mind along with practically everything in ASoIaF) and also in mythology when you have named weapons like Quernbitr ('Stone-Biter'), Caledfwlch/Caladbolg ('Hard Cleft'), Blutgang ('Blood-taker'), Hauteclere ('High-Bright') and so on. It's just a natural way to make cool-sounding names for swords and other weapons and I wouldn't read anything into it.

There's nothing really spoilery there, no. The kind that work as a team instead of as individuals and handle matters that might be too sensitive for or are out of the jurisdiction of the local police? They do exist in the real world, you know, and not everybody who works for an intelligence service is a secret agent. Meanwhile they would have very good reasons to be involved in anything that threatens the Republic's stability. Minor spoiler for the back half of Cold Steel: You do know that the Rocksmith Agency became the CID, right? You really want to argue that a major supporting character from Sky is going to be an antagonist, one who has been actively helpful to the characters of every arc including the Erebonian ones who her country is in a cold war with, several of whom trust her implicitly? Consider too that we met one of her subordinates in CS4 as well, you really think they're antagonist material? I can definitely see Heiyue being the 'cool' criminals who oppose nastier elements in Calvard's underworld but protagonists, no. The next arc has already been revealed to take place at the same time as Hajimari, so early 1207.

You're extrapolating from one example that was designed specifically for its real-world history to a universal principle. This is not proven in the slightest and there's no evidence that there's anything special about iron such that it affects Investiture on Roshar or Sel, or copper or bronze. Directly quoting from the WoB I linked earlier.

The big thing with Dragonsteel is that being Dragonsteel it probably gives away stuff that Brandon either wants to keep quiet about right now or which he plans to change and doesn't want people to be getting the wrong impressions. We know that's the case for Liar of Partinel for example, and Brandon threw enough ]REDACTED] tags into the Dragonsteel snippets he's given us to leave the distinct impression that the book is a lot more spoilery now than Way of Kings Prime was. So yeah, I'm thinking that while Dragonsteel's literary quality is higher that doesn't guarantee anything about release timeframes and he'll probably do them whenever he feels appropriate on an individual basis.

Currently Final Empire Prime isn't available as far as I'm aware, Dragonsteel Prime is only available in its full and uncensored form if you go to BYU or can get them to loan you a circulating copy and Liar of Partinel is probably never going to be seen in its current form outside the sample chapters already released. And as mentioned, Brandon seems to be giving Mistborn Prime out but only to people who ask him directly. Given this WoB and the new 'Sanderson Curiosities' collection he started with the release of Way of Kings Prime, it's a safe bet that most of the works will eventually get released in a more formal manner whenever Brandon feels it's appropriate.

Yeah, Noel managed to combine her love of motorbikes with her love of shooting things with way too many bullets. It's interesting that while she had two S-Crafts to pick from she isn't using either of them in Hajimari. As a guess I'd say it's probably because they already had a bunch of modeling work for her on a bike and/or because she's missing some of the component animations that went into Blast Storm and they didn't want to recreate them just for her S-Craft. Speaking of which, there's a lot of stuff to unpack from that stream and the subsequent review. Some CS4 spoilers involved. The official site also updated with the latest round of character profiles, Episode/minigame information and the final volume of Three and Nine. Someone pinch me, we're really only a week from release date.

Word of Brandon that Roshar's moons are unstable and the continent might eventually vanish, and a more specific one here. And a more detailed Word of Peter on the moons. So yeah, the system as we know it is not stable on an astronomical timeframe but on the timeframe that Brandon's working with from whenever Adonalsium created the system to the end of the saga, it's stable enough. The same is true for Taldain. Per Khriss in Arcanum Unbounded, blue-white supergiant (O-type?) and a dim white dwarf. Literally Goddidit and it's not supposed to be sustainable. Asking too many questions will probably make your head explode. Or get you a visit from one of Autonomy's avatars. See previous answer. Also, per Isaac the charts are not meant to be perfectly accurate. I'd give that one a read, it's quite interesting how he came up with them.

Ehhhh, I'm not sure it does but I approve of your Ambition all the same.

Kelsier and Vin are American-sounding? But yes, Brandon did mention that Scadrial is meant to be 'familiar' so it's broadly similar to the John Williams example. By the by, Williams had excellent taste when it came to what compositions he took cues from. Anyone who looks at Holst and Dvorak for inspiration and make extensive use of Wagnerian leitmotifs is a cool guy in my book. xD

Along with some of the other interesting unanswered questions it seems, alas. But then it was a rather long time ago and he rewrote so much of it that we can hardly blame him if he's forgotten some of the details. Especially the seventeen years thing since the magic has been so heavily reworked that whatever he did for Prime is likely to be mostly irrelevant now.

I doubt it, Vasher has worldhopped multiple times and he certainly didn't need allomancy to do it. Brandon describes this as a trick you have to learn, meaning it's unlikely to be any simple one-off application of a magic system. And we have no reason to think A-Aluminum affects Connection.

The fact that Marsh is still running around three hundred years after the events of Hero of Ages should have clued you in that yes, he did have some. Adding one of the relevant WoBs to reinforce StanLemon's post, note how old it is too. Other WoBs mention that even a single bead of atium can be used to reverse your age all the way back to childhood if you know how to use it properly.

That's not the metal affecting them, it's the magic. While there are some interesting properties of metals in the Cosmere beyond just the Metallic Arts (like what silver does to Cognitive Shadows and aluminum does across the Cosmere) metal as a whole isn't really that special. It just happens to be especially pronounced on Scadrial. By way of example, we know that what metal you use in a fabrial matters, but not that much. It didn't need to be an enormous amount, what was important is that Ruin was slightly more powerful than Preservation because the latter put a little more Investiture into humans than the former. Preservation managed to split off just enough of Ruin's power that the two were once again roughly equal. Only on Scadrial, because power from the Spiritual Realm is 'shining through' the metal. Brandon has been very clear that the metals themselves are not the source of the power. The Shards don't actually have bodies; they sublimate upon Ascension as we see with Vin and Sazed and get mixed in with all the Investiture. The fact that the Vessels had finite minds before Ascending means that they're limited in how much of their Shard's power they can perceive and use at any given time and they're limited to varying degrees in how good they are at futuresight. The Shards themselves are basically just near-infinite amounts of Investiture bound by a driving concept that came from Adonalsium; they don't technically need a body but they do need a mind to direct that power. If a Shard is left alone without a Vessel there are multiple things that can happen, one of which is that it will develop its own mind, which we know can happen to any Investiture left to its own devices. Odium stuffed the power of Devotion and Dominion into the Cognitive Realm specifically because he didn't want anyone taking them up and he didn't want the power(s) to develop sapience on its own. Adonalsium is generally assumed to have created the Cosmere by those in-universe who know he existed but we know that some things like the three Realms were there from the Cosmere equivalent of the Big Bang.

Friendly reminder people, quoting a tenset paragraph post just to answer with one sentence clutters up the discussion something fierce. You can get the exact same effect by just pinging the poster and the rest of us don't have to scroll several pages down every time you wanted to say how much you enjoyed the read. But he's only Mostly Dead. Except for not doing a proper job of it with Jek at the end, which you know is going to end badly. It helps that he's not the internationally feared Assassin in White here but still, there's a Minion counterpart to the Evil Overlord handbook, doesn't anybody read it? LOL, well put, have a virtual cookie! Yeah, I wasn't fond of the ending either but I can imagine where Brandon was going for it. The thing that's emphasized is that Dalenar knows he can't reward Merin enough for everything he did but he also doesn't know if he can forgive him so it's not like Dalenar's not aware. And it's not him who demands Merin give up his Blade and title, Merin does it by choice because he thinks honor demands it. I think that decision kind of foreshadows Dalinar giving up Oathbringer at the end of WoK and would lead to some serious soul-searching on Merin's part before eventually returning. Just like I don't think that Taln would have stayed dead or Renarin stayed comatose, it's just one of those things we'll never see because the Prime continuity ends right there. And I'm pretty sure Dalenar would hold right onto that Blade and be ready to give it back to Merin if and when he returned. It was a bloody stupid thing of the queen to do but I can cut her a little slack because Ahven being a complete sociopath seems to have caught just about everyone by surprise and she (rightly or wrongly) assumed she'd be safer with her brother than with her husband who she figured would be killed in short order one way or another. And that was still less stupid than Aesudan thinking 'why yes, I will bond myself to an immortal demigod-spren, nothing can go wrong with this!'. But yes, Dalenar appealing to the realm's need for some stability and him needing an heir would have made a lot of sense. The best I can come up with is that Merin mentioned the H-word and that shut down all further discourse. But like I said, I expect that situation wouldn't have lasted beyond some part of the next book in any case. The fact that they were worried about Taln's body sublimating (thus publicly proving that he was a Herald) suggests that they have a reason to keep that fact a secret and perhaps not letting Taln know for sure ties in with that. Too many unanswered questions and too many differences to be sure that what we know from SA applies to Prime vis a vis what Taln alone dying in the last reincarnation cycle meant. Mind you, Brandon's Prime works tend to end with book-tossing finales where you'd probably be happier if the last paragraph or two just vanished into thin air instead of teasing at sequels that will never exist. I imagine that at least some of this is a reference to what would become the Ashyn exodus in SA and the Oathpact (the 'burdens taken up' part anyways but yeah, there's definitely more going on here than we know. I thought I saw a reference somewhere that the Sign's golden threads would have pointed to anyone with Stonewarding powers but upon rereading it, now I'm not so sure. The line is "He reflexively reached out to the Nahel bond within him, preparing to draw upon the life energy of the thousands who were linked to his Soul Tone. And found nothing. He cursed quietly. There would be no healings this Return until he discovered what had happened to his powers.". So it could be that he's drawing a tiny bit of power from everyone linked to him (and I assumed Stonewards because of how Soul Tones seem to operate) or it could be something more sinister. Likewise while spren aren't a thing in Prime it's clear that something is up with Shardblades since Taln thinks it's bad enough that they exist and would be worse if mankind learned the real power locked within them, whatever that is. Also he's surprised they aren't still being made which is interesting. Oooh, that's a neat thought. I like it! Yeah, I spotted that too and there's no way it's a coincidence that the war and the return of old magics happened in exactly the same year. I like the theory that Vasher is actually Jarnah and he knows (or thinks he knows) something really important that prompted his war of conquest and told Dalenar, who spared him just in case Jarnah turned out to be right.

You know Human survived, right?

It's literally called the UnForgeable metal, so no. I mean maybe if you had some huge external power source you could apply it could be done a la Forging a hemalurgic spike or the soulcasting example already quoted, but it's not something that's possible under any reasonable set of circumstances.

Yeah, the entire point of Rashek constantly tapping stored youth was to delay the Spiritual pushback that would have (and eventually did) kill him. This is why Vin ripping his bracers away did him in. He needed to tap more and more youth to avoid the pushback and eventually it would have been more than he could manage but he wasn't there yet.

What about a man o' war? It looks like a single organism but it's actually a colony of multiple specialized organisms. The Sleepless are hive-mind entities, Arclo is the personality that directs all the component hordelines and there is never a time when at least some of those hordelings aren't active. It's not that complicated a concept.